The Dragon Reborn
Rand flees to Tear to claim Callandor while Perrin, Mat, and Egwene are drawn after him to the fallen Stone.
2,644-word summary · 12 min read
Tag: adventure
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The Clan of the Cave Bear
A Cro-Magnon girl orphaned by disaster grows up with a Neanderthal clan, learning their medicine and customs while testing their limits.
3,684-word summary · 16 min read
The City of Ember
Two twelve-year-olds trade jobs and chase a chewed-up note to save their fading underground city before its lights fail.
2,998-word summary · 13 min read
Robinson Crusoe
Shipwrecked near South America, Crusoe spends 28 years farming, building, praying, and facing who he becomes alone.
2,520-word summary · 11 min read
Leviathan Wakes
A destroyed ice hauler, a missing heiress, and an alien growth pull a crew and a tired detective toward war across the solar system.
3,653-word summary · 16 min read
Gulliver's Travels
A ship's surgeon meets tiny Lilliputians, giant Brobdingnagians, Laputa's projectors, and rational horses in Swift's 1726 satire.
2,600-word summary · 12 min read
Fairy Tale
A grieving teen cares for a recluse and his old dog, then finds a shed well leading to Empis, a fading world at war.
3,203-word summary · 14 min read
Don Quixote
A poor gentleman maddened by knight romances rides out as Don Quixote with Sancho Panza, until the world answers back.
3,785-word summary · 17 min read
Candide
Voltaire's Candide follows a sheltered boy across earthquakes, wars, and Eldorado as his tutor's sunny optimism falls apart. Short, savage, and still funny.
2,614-word summary · 12 min read
Beowulf
An anonymous Old English epic in Heaney's Norton translation: Beowulf faces Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a dragon across a lifetime of fame and cost.
2,810-word summary · 12 min read
A Wizard of Earthsea
A proud goatherd becomes the wizard Ged, looses a shadow at Roke, and must hunt it across Earthsea to name it. Le Guin's lean 1968 series opener.
2,972-word summary · 13 min read
2001: A Space Odyssey
A black slab nudges apes to tools, calls Floyd to the Moon, and pulls Bowman past HAL toward Saturn and a strange rebirth.
2,982-word summary · 13 min read
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Mortenson fails K2 builds schools in Pakistan after Korphe kindness.
2,554-word summary · 11 min read
The Three Musketeers
Young dArtagnan joins Athos, Porthos and Aramis to recover the queens diamonds and face Milady.
2,569-word summary · 11 min read
The Last Wish
Geralt hunts strigas genies and golden dragons while Law of Surprise binds Ciri.
2,598-word summary · 12 min read
The Horse and His Boy
Shasta and Bree flee Calormen to Narnia with Aravis and Hwin.
2,594-word summary · 12 min read
The Color of Magic
A failed wizard guides a tourist across a flat world on a turtle, with comic fantasy chaos.
2,032-word summary · 9 min read
The Blood of Olympus
Seven demigods stop Gaia waking while Reyna brings Athena statue.
2,196-word summary · 10 min read
The Amber Spyglass
Lyra and Will cross worlds with amber spyglass to free ghosts and kill Authority.
2,252-word summary · 10 min read
Peter Pan
Wendy, John and Michael fly to Neverland with Peter, face Hook, and learn what growing up costs.
2,502-word summary · 11 min read
I Am Number Four
Alien teen Four hides in Ohio and develops Legacies with Sam and Sarah.
2,335-word summary · 10 min read
Howl's Moving Castle
Cursed old by the Witch of the Waste, hatmaker Sophie Hatter talks her way into wizard Howl's moving castle and bargains with fire demon Calcifer to break the…
2,363-word summary · 11 min read
Greenlights
McConaughey shares outlaw stories and greenlight catching from Texas to Hollywood.
2,577-word summary · 11 min read
Dragonfly in Amber
Claire 1968 recalls Jacobite Paris with Jamie to stop Culloden.
2,530-word summary · 11 min read