Even better than Reader's Digest canned books

[MajGenl.Meade]

[ex-khobar Andy]

Some for you to guess:

Man's house goes up in flames, so he marries the governess.
Nice-eyed sister stalks aristocrat, marries him.
Native American man breaks window with plumbing fixture, runs away. Does not marry.
Earth moves, several times. They don't marry.
Man catches fish but does not successfully land it. Likes baseball.
Flier tries to plead madness to get out of war but is declared sane.
Man claims to be minor deity, is assassinated.
Prince can't make up his mind.

[Burning Petard]

I recognized Old Man & the Sea, Catch 22, Hamlet. But the rest ? ?

[TPFKA@W]

Nice-eyed sister stalks aristocrat, marries him.

If this is supposed to be Pride and Prejudice it is woefully misrepresented by the stalking term.

[ex-khobar Andy]

Oh I think going to his house while she thinks he is out of town constitutes stalking. 4/4 so far, folks.

[TPFKA@W]

Oh I think going to his house while she thinks he is out of town constitutes stalking. 4/4 so far, folks.

She went because her aunt and uncle wanted to go. Additionally it was an attraction apparently open to the public.

[TPFKA@W]

Native American man breaks window with plumbing fixture, runs away. Does not marry.

Sounds like One flew over the Cukoo's nest, sort of, I don't recall the not marrying part though.

[Bicycle Bill]

Earth moves, several times. They don't marry.

"From Here to Eternity"?

-"BB"-

[BoSoxGal]

Man's house goes up in flames, so he marries the governess. - Jane Eyre

Man claims to be minor deity, is assassinated. -

[Joe Guy]

"Prince can't make up his mind."

Purple Rain....

[Gob]

Man claims to be minor deity, is assassinated.

Stranger in a strange land?

[Bicycle Bill]

Man claims to be minor deity, is assassinated.

Stranger in a strange land?

Weren't the Roman emperors considered to be demigods?  If so, then this one might be Shakespeare's tragedy, "Julius Caesar".

-"BB"-

[TPFKA@W]

I could only come up with Julius Caesar for that one as well, but rather doubted it.

[wesw]

yeah. I got "one flew over the cuckoo s nest"

I assumed that the "not marry" part was because he was killed, IIRC, I haven t seen it in 30 yrs, at least....

(I got "the old man and the sea" , too)

[ex-khobar Andy]

Ok I am going to have to give some hints.

The one about the minor deity might have been better phrased as a junior deity. As in Jr.

Did the earth move for thee? Robert Jordan and the guerilla fighter Maria, during the Spanish Civil War.

[MajGenl.Meade]

For Whom the Bell Tolls is the second one there. But really, not a very convincing summary since it missed the salient events (well, the public ones anyway)

[TPFKA@W]

For Whom the Bell Tolls is the second one there. But really, not a very convincing summary since it missed the salient events (well, the public ones anyway)

Go home Meade, you're drunk.

[MajGenl.Meade]

For Whom the Bell Tolls is the second one there. But really, not a very convincing summary since it missed the salient events (well, the public ones anyway)

Go home Meade, you're drunk.

No, not a drop. Why? FWTBT is the correct answer? Sorry, don't understand your banter?

[TPFKA@W]

The "second one there" is Pride and Predjudice not your offering.

I decided you were drunk.

[Econoline]

The one about the minor deity might have been better phrased as a junior deity. As in Jr.

Well, yeah, I thought of The New Testament before I thought of Julius Caesar...but I like Gob's answer, Stranger in a Strange Land, even better...