Twisted ways to describe the books

[ThinkAgain]

What are some of the more disturbing ways to describe specific books or parts of books without lying or significantly stretching the truth?

I thought of this when I described #33 to a friend unfamiliar with the series as a book where, "A homeless kid gets put in a glass box and is tortured until he tries to kill himself." I didn't consciously make it sound twisted, I just described it that way because it's what happens.

It got me thinking about how even moremessed up a lot of the scenes of the books can be when taken out of context. What are some other significant examples of this? Another one I can think of offhand is, "Rachel used her severed arm as a bludgeon to kill someone." Can't remember which book that one's from though, it's been too long.

[Semeir-Cooraf-Armaheen]

Some kids tied up another kid for three days to kill a parasite in his brain. >>;

[Phoenix004]

To be fair the Rachel's arm bludgeoning thing was in #32 and it was Mean/Psycho Rachel that did it. We also didn't witness that fight, she just told Nice Rachel about it.

[Dameg]

I don't remember for which part that was, but I also did that once, telling the story of Animorphs and making it sound weird and twisted... even without trying to. Same for Everworld and Remnants of course. Sometimes my friends look at me like O.O when I try to tell them the story...
*thinking deeply*
I think one of them was something like: "The chief of the heroes of the books ask his cousin to kill his own brother, and watch them both die."


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[wildweathel]

You have to remember this is a series in which

...a Lovecraftian horror is pitted against a "brilliant loser" and entire species are caught in the middle.

...the cuter the alien species, the more horrific its inevitable demise.

...a character wakes up, realizes that she's still got alien flesh stuck in her teeth, and there is a perfectly reasonable (if awful) explanation for all of it.

...a combination of time travel and biotechnology makes for some shocking family trees.

...chemical warfare counts as comic relief.

[ThinkAgain]

...chemical warfare counts as comic relief.

I had some of that chemical warfare for breakfast yesterday.

[warren_bearclaw]

There's this guy named David, and he's the new kid in town. But his parent's move a lot so he's always the new kid; he doesn't have any friends. Anyways, This kid's house is destroyed, and his parents get kidnapped (and killed, for all practical reasons), leaving him on the streets at the mercy of these teen-aged guerrilla soldiers who frankly, don't have time for him. He gets dragged into their crazy terrifying lives, and ends up being pushed around all the time. When he tries to get out of it and live his own life, this crazy psycho girl drives a fork into his ear, wild animals are sent to kill him, and he's tricked into being turned into a rat and trapped on a deserted island, where he's bound to be eaten by a bird.

[Serraph105]

you know there are a lot of plot points where you don't have to come up with a twisted way of describing it, because no matter what way you put it they are going to come out fairly messed up. For instance I defy you to come up with a non-twisted way of describing the time where the heroes met up with the main bad guy's brother who kept himself alive by luring strangers into his house, cracking their head open with an ax, and eating the slug inside the stranger's head turning himself into a cannibals. Oh and who knows what he did with the bodies, but I suspect a furnace was involved.

Also the animorphs let the guy live.

[tobiasthehawk]

Number 30

A ruthless teenager must figure out a way to take out his mother while taking out his worst enemy at the same time.

[Unknown User]

Number 30

A ruthless teenager must figure out a way to take out his mother while taking out his worst enemy at the same time.

I JUST read that one last night! TEC An alien is forced to endure a sic, and corrupted world where he is held as the prisoner of a giant sea sponge and forced to play games.

[Myitt]

A teenager seriously contemplates brutally killing a young child in the woods, while a leopard tries to eat the young child's broken ankle.

[tobiasthehawk]

A teenager seriously contemplates brutally killing a young child in the woods, while a leopard tries to eat the young child's broken ankle.

Marco is just so cruel

[LisaCharly]

^And of course, the interesting flip is that moments before in the book, he attacked a leopard as a frigging osprey to defend her. But once she's a threat...

I've always liked to compare #30 to a Greek tragedy. So much poetic irony! Hubris! Drama! I've always put it as "a teenage soldier realizes he'd rather kill his own mother than let her stay in enemy hands, deludes himself into thinking it's a good idea".

#8 - a lost alien teenager and his untrusting human friends, after causing mass starvation for their enemies, attempt to assassinate the enemy leader with poison. The 'good guy' aliens scapegoat a teenager for a crime he didn't commit because it's better for morale.

[Estelore]

#32.

Girl with anger issues gets chopped in half; both halves survive. Involves using severed appendages as bludgeons; issue is resolved later by electrocution of both halves.

[tobiasthehawk]

#32.

Girl with anger issues gets chopped in half; both halves survive. Involves using severed appendages as bludgeons; issue is resolved later by electrocution of both halves.

Nothing makes me smile more then reading about Rachel beating someone with her severed arm.