/lit/ - Literature

Shit, typo in the title.
And have other anons guess it*

a boi with a worm mount

>>7175287
Dune?

>>7175291
yes

Guy gets cucked by his wife and her brother, then rejects several top-tier waifus in order to get back with her.

>>7175302
He also bludgeons his brother-in-law's subconsciousness to death with a bat.

Guy is literally THE Edgelord but jk not allowed to be one, gets punished

>>7174772
>guy turns on the lights
>has a LOT of opinions
>dies
>encore

Guy writes a satire and everyone today takes it seriously

>>7175324
The Prince

tbh i'm pretty sure it wasn't satire, just incredibly self-aware.

>whales

>>7175311
the stranger.

>>7175311
Crime and punishment

Young Goodman Brown?

this fucking faggot man, get this, he goes to a clock shop. FUCKING CLOCK SHOP. Fucked up already right? Covers himself in gas and jumps off a bridge.

>>7175344
That tl;dr whale hunting manual/Pinocchio/Book of Jonah.

>eagles

>>7175356
Then he realizes the makes him become the Smoke stealer

dude doesn't feel like doing his job anymore, gets naked

This guy who might be a bit simple follows a bear around for the whole book because he thinks it's god.

>>7175377
The jungle book?

>>7174772
>>Some guy goes apeshit after tripping out in the woods
Is it the book of Exodus?

Fuck this insect in particular

So theres this girl.
And she got two brothers with mad beef.
And then one of them is kill.
And gurl is all like "gimme dat boday"
And the living brother is like "fuck no"

>>7174772

dante's le infenrno

>>7174772
See a bad billboard
It's actually a part of hell

>>7175527
The one where the lady eats a cockroach

Smoking; existential crisis. Relationship with father; existential crisis. Relationships with women; existential crisis. Career; existential crisis. War; existential crisis.

There's an incident with a dog at night

>>7175781
curious

He rapes his sister, Phoebe.

>>7175725
Easy. Lispector, The Passion Accordion to G.H.

A collection of short stories written by an arse full of farts

>>7175302
>>7175308

The Wind up Bird Chronicle

>>7175838
Correct. Great book.

>>7175810
It just has to be "The Adventures of Captain Underpants," it must.

>>7175842

Needed the second bit and then it was obvious. Agreed, great book.

>>7175810
Dubliners

>Kid runs away from home and nobody seems to care
>My or may not fuck his own mother and kill his own father
>Also talking cats

>>7175874
I just started reading this you asshat.

>>7175952

My bad, bruh.

>Guys mad he can't afford real animals
>Takes his frustration out on fake humans
>But who is the real human?

>>7175978
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

>>7175990

yeah, kinda easy I guess

>Not-Sherlock-Holmes and the mystery of the man who hated fun

>>7176010

The Hardy Boys and the mystery of the ....

>>7176027
Not even close.

Trouble-man doesn't want to be engulfed.

>you can't fuck your relatives!
>history repeats itself
>everyone dies

>>7176010

Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein

>dad, can we go?
>everyone dies
>i hate dad
>i've had my vision

>man gets sent to labour camp
>i was only trolling!!!
>cucks the man who screwed him

>>7176055
Even further from the answer.

>young man in college
>has a weird friendship with mysterious guy with a mysterious family
>becomes an artist
>has an unhappy marriage
>bangs mysterious guy's sister
>aristocracy and catholicism are the best!

>>7176121
Brideshead Revisited

Waugh must have been absolutely insufferable in person.

>farm raised pseudointeolectual
>gets into drugs
>gets into rugby

>Bram Stoker is shite
>here's an "undead" character kek
>jokes about venereal diseases

>>7176194
Yes. But I'm an unabashed lefty and an atheist and I can't help but love his novels, his prose was too fucking good.

>>7175781
American Psycho?

guy imagines his friends older brother is a superhero who gets defeated by his own daughter who turned into a supervillain.

>>7175527
Metamorphosis
>>7175874
Oedipus

some FEDORALORD gets TROLLED hard by a pup MANY TIEM then is DIE

>>7176010
confederacy?

>asian dude and his boss have wacky adventures in the desert

>also prostitutes

>he kills his best friend and fucks his sister

ya'll plebs will never get it

check em

>White kid walks over a line and black people start freaking out

>>7177772

Holden Caulfield and the Catchers in the Rye

>>7176039
100 years

>>7177778
I don't remember Holden killing anyone...

>>7177778
nope

nicememe

>>7177782

He imagined himself responsible for Allie's death

>>7177788
Oh shit, completely forgot about Allie. But wouldn't Stradlater be his best friend? That is, until he found out he was dating his crush.

>>7177772
Your diary tbh

A man drinks and drinks and drinks and drinks and drinks and drinks and then some asshole hurls a dead dog at him.

>>7175773
Hemingway

>>7177875
Kitchen Confidential?

White man discovers he's decedent from ape, goes bananas.

>>7175810
ancient greek comedy are not booqs

>>7180046

ubermench

>the hidden danger of MILF's

>>7180180
The Graduate.

a load of jews die and some dont.

>>7180185
I'm thinking of something way older

>>7180253
Oh. Ohhhhh.....

>3 books in one, symbols within symbols within symbols. Steppe niggers, ass>tits

>>7180258
...Eeeeeeee...

>>7180454
You're a retard

>>7180499
shit homeboy at least guess the book

>>7180483
It was Oedipus Rex

>>7180583
I know, I was starting to spell it out slowly, piggybacking on >>7180258, for no good reason.

>>7175527
Starship Troopers

Old guy fucks a bunch of chicks and gets drunk all the time

>>7175545
Antigone

>>7180970
Women - Bukowski

A series of aphorisms on why it is okay to be a bitter virgin

>>7175787
My diary, tbh

>>7175874
Kafka On the Shore

>Honey it's time to get up and go to work
>DEAR GOD WHAT IS THAT THING
>Thing is kill

Sad man sees ad in paper to "save the world"

A gorilla behind a glass case chews on celery and chuckles heart chuckles

Telepathy

Dude, agriculture, like like duuude the Takers & Leavers, maaaaan

> guy falls in love with qt3.14
> but he needs to leave for battle, gets lost ina woods
> friends want to rescue him but he won't come back, so they recruit a second qt3.14 to distract him
> a third qt3.14 joins them, helps them
> guy returns to his country, goes behind bars for his war crimes

Smoking, I smell gas. A lot of women remind me of my step mother.

>man runs away from productive job to be a homo with his sodomite sailor friends, is punished by god

>>7175321
Invisible Nigger?

Plot twist is literally a mother fucker figuratively blinded by revelations.

>>7181124
Moby Duck

>>7181041
The Metamorphosis

>>7174772
The Book of Mormon

>>7181141
Oedipus Rex.

ezpz

>>7181141
Oedipus Tyrannos

There's a typo on the mail... or is there?

>>7180454
Dune?

>>7179963
No

>>7181601
The crying of Lot 49?

>>7182242
Correct.

>>7175311
The Shadow of the Torturer

Guy gets jaundice while in Italy

Nerdy virgin with weird name falls in love with quirky girl who also got a weird name.

Guy becomes Satan Jr. but he's very bad at his job

Man has a bad headache, kills the guy who cures it, and feels really bad about it

also, talking cat

>>7183307
Is it Murakami? It has to be Murakami.

Guy goes to an interview, thinks about his entire life, smashes a tiny robot and gets the job.

>>7183280
Everything written by John Green.
Ever.

>>7174772

>Idealist meets world; he is crushed by the encounter

>>7175311
paradise lost

If you play with microwaves, you're going to get burnt.

>>7181022
Heraclitus fragments?

>>7183242
Farewell to Arms

>>7183511
Candide?

some Jews try and figure out how they got rich from being firemen while a bunch of retired firemen try to stop them

a fat ugly /lit/ poster gets a job

>>7177778
unlucky

>>7184477

Farenheit 451?

>>7180454
LOTR faggot 2 ez

>>7184506
confederacy of dunces

>>7184506
1984

faggot goes from sleeping in crib to aunties place to sleeping in friends house to sleeping in boarding school then goes to some sporting event like 4 books later and it all ends up being 6 books too long and not really worth the work

It's like 'Dragon' with an 'E'

>>7184541
Harry potter

>>7184550
R U A WIZARD

>>7184552
No I was corrupted I can never become a wizard

>>7184522
nope

>"tfw too poor to write"

A guy has a pretty chill time but jokes on you he was miserable the entire time because tfw no erections

here's a hint: it's not my life story :^)

>>7184522
you realise not everything with the word 'fireman' in it is Fahrenheit 451, right?

guy has a big crush on a girl. girl has a big crush on a guy. they meet and then have some great sex. best character dies (but maybe not really i don't know) at the hands of second best character in a really well written way.

Satan fucks shit up

The case of a bipolar doctor in victorian era.

>>7184831
jekyll and hyde

>>7177342
FEAR AND loathing in LAS vegas?

>>7184477
A Series of Unfortunate Events

>>7184547
Dragen

Some guy with daddy issues kills himself.

An unmarried mother does drugs while pregnant.

A bunch of assholes drive a blind man to suicide.

>>7184506
>muh valve

>uh oh, what have I done
>mum's gonna FREAK!

Hello /lit,
/fit here. I am looking for the name of a book. This thread seems suitable, since I only know a bit of the story.
The plot of the book is a man is pushing a big rock up a mountain just to see it roll down everyday. That is all i know about book. Does anybody know the name of the book?

>>7184949
You're describing the story of Sisyphus, an ancient greek legend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus

>>7184973
Ah nice. Thanks

>>7184901
Sounds interesting.

>>7184413
∞JOIst

>>7184547
Dregon

>>7184816
My diary tbh

>>7184830
Paradife loft

Native American beta fgt goes to white high school.

>>7185620
Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

>>7184816
The shit also rises

some profs head to this city where a writer really isn't likely to be, looking for that writer. also the writer was a nazi once? but it's not his fault really. meanwhile lotsa irrelevant bad stuff that altogether dwarfs everything this writer and these profs are worried about has been going on in this same city, but like i said, it's not that relevant. as it happens, the writer thinks he might pay a visit, but first, he's going to buy an icecream.

>Old guy spends whole book talking to his son
>Marrying black people is troublesome
>God is great

>>7184830
Blood Meridian tbh

>>7185489
It's Dune Messiah.

A woman argues with her suitcase.

>>7174772

Hey, these things aren't true!
for a book as opposed to a (single) story

>a woman loves a man without seeing him

>>7184830

>>7176010
...The Name of the Rose?

>>7184830
Master and Margarita

A bunch of fucking faggots get drunk and search for some magic doo-doo land.

>>7174772
Children stories' villains are actually real and I want to kill them since, matter-of-factly, they've killed my family.

>>7175311
The catcher in the rye

>>7175787
pitcher by the wheat

>>7175324
Foucault's Pendulum?
>>7175810
Joyce's love letters
>>7176039
One Hundred Years of Solitude
>>7184506
Me? Is it me?

> God dammit Marco Polo stop playing charades and tell me about our neighboring kingdoms Jesus fucking Christ

>>7185891
more like invisible shitties haha am i right lads?

>guy likes to fuck bitches and then marries one who liked to read and got sick at his house but they agreed that he still gets to fuck bitches and also her mom was a total cunt when she was a kid and then she fucks a dude and then he fucks this one chick who gets naked with his bitch one time and they later die while driving.

>>7185902
The unbearable lightness of being

>>7185676
The Savage Detectives?

>>7176067

Count of Monte Cristo

>>7175377
Eeeee Eee Eeee
?

??
?

>>7184751
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
>>7184830
Book of Job

My turn:
A dwarf pretends to be retarded and survives WW II, but maybe he is just crazy.

>>7174772
The fall of the Roman Empire, but in SPACE.

>>7185868

>>7185962
Die Blechtrommel

I'm actually searching for a book that I've forgotten the title of. It's a very comprehensive history book that basically covered everything from Egypt to the Reformation, but it is not a textbook. I believe that it also had maps and drawings, at least in the edition that I read.

>>7185968
Right. Maybe it was too easy.

Another one:
Girl is childish and asiaphobic, though there are no asians far and wide. She is bored all the time and we have to know that. She cheats on her husband and after a while she dies young. Classic.

>>7186032
The Awakening? I've never read it tho

I love my mom. I'm gay. I'm bourgeois. People around me are living their lives. Fuck it I'll be a writer.

I'm literally my author

>>7175356
Sound and the Fury

>>7181022
Beyond Good and Evil

>>7185916
No, sir, but close enough for the consolation prize - or you might try again?

>>7185965
Foundation.

>>7175787
sorry i'm new, why do you guys say he rapes her?

>>7186083
Negative Zero-Point-Zero-Zero-Recurring-One Or Fewer

>>7181052
ishmael

>>7185600
correct

>>7184925
The Invisible Landscape?

>>7176067

That would be Žert.

>>7174772
I'm a homeless furry and this rad sax man won't leave me alone

>>7174772
Orientalism in SPAAAAAAACE

>>7175311
crime and punishment

>>7174772
dante's inferno

>>7180046
on the origin of species

>>7180210
mein kampf

>>7181022
my twisted world

>insecure man is marginalized by a copy of himself

>>7186228
doon

>>7184874
correct

>>7183334
It was actually >>7185851
Good try though

>>7186261
I mean you're right but that's not the one I was thinking of

>>7186083
Things Past?

>>7186246
DA DOUBLE

Bunch of a faggots travel around with literally a giant baby, the sky looks like piss and the sun is a giant dick.

>>7186302
fuck yea!

>>7175321
Surprised no one got this.

>>7183280
Anything by murakami?

>>7186075
Nope.

>>7175321
>>7186322
The Bible?

>>7186331
Finally!

Farm boy becomes a literary expert because his English 101 professor was a dick to him.

>>7185968
I'm reading that right now. It's really neat stuff.

Working class dude has a shit life. At least he got his hole, though.

A man writes a letter to his friend and then his old senile dad throws a fit and he kills himself.

>>7186345
Notes From Underground.

>>7186356
Das Urteil

>>7186365
Yup.

>>7186364
Nah. We're talking high-school shit here, boy.

A bug ruins everything.

A man really wants to go into a certain building, but can't.

A student becomes crazy, because someone tries to sell him glasses.

A man dies on his vacation, because he is a pedophile.

>>7186403
the trial

>>7186408
Are these three different stories or all one story?

>>7186411
Three different stories.

>>7186408
>A man really wants to go into a certain building, but can't.
Before the Law?

Woo escalator rides, son!

>>7186432
Not quite, but you are close.

A sad guy with a fucked up dick drinks with his hip friends in Spain.

>>7186483
Fiesta by Hemingway

>>7186434
The Mezzanine?

>>7186408
The trial
Idk
Lolita

That fucker never showed up.

>>7186866
Waiting for Goshott

>>7186918
You Godot right.

>>7174772
The Temptation from the New Testament?

Don't tell the computer that the only other humans are dead.

>>7186942
Caaaarloossss!

Colonialism and pedophilia

>>7181055
Nobody even tried mine...

>>7186964

V.

Some fugitive buys a little child from basically the black market and has a bunch of inner crises when she becomes of age and wants to marry a rich man.

Also, there's some shit about Napolean

>>7187005
I mean Napoleon. Please forgive me.

>>7186403
Metamorphosis tbh

>>7175714
This sounds interesting. What is it?

>>7186408
How the fuck do people not know these?

ALL GOAT STORIES BY MY MAN THOMAS MANN

>>7181570
as a mormon
>top kek

>>7177988
Zeno's Conscience

>>7187895
Think its one of the short stories of stephen king. If im right you find it in everything is relative

>>7187005
Is it the passion?

>>7186408
The last one is Death in Venice

>>7186983
Nope.

A dozen of people try to keep appearances about setting a plot when they are individually against said plot.

>>7174772
The Divine Comedy?

>>7184825
lolita?

>>7175714
Hell Screen?

A bunch of bros walking

>>7186408
>>7186815
>>7187914
>>7188579
The anwers are:

1. Das Schloss / The Castle (Kafka)

2. Der Sandmann / The Sandman (E. T. A. Hoffmann)

3. Der Tod in Venedig / Death in Venice (T. Mann)

Thanks for playing.

>>7188401
No, it's French

>>7185803

the answer is Ficciones (Fictions)

>>7186980
fuck, don Quijote, Man

Some dude criticizes palaces and spurns a hooker.

>>7177342

the bible

Trifling bitches cause every problem. Everyone dies.

>Farming sucks
>What is Shakespeare saying to you across the ages?
>My wife is a crazy cunt
>lol bangin an undergrad
>Shitty book in the college library dedicated to my memory

>>7175545
Antigone, but it's Creon (Antigone's uncle) who forbids the burial of Polynices. The other brother (Eteocles) is dead too, but he can be buried because he was defending Thebes.

>>7174772
Heart of Darkness?

>>7190396
Notes from Underground?

A man and woman rise against the government only to be turned against eachother and the thing they once fought for

>>7191791
stoner

>>7192019
1984?

>>7180046
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family

>>7192021
Correctementos

>>7175373
The Metamorphosis

>>7175781
Infinite Jest

>>7177875
Under the Volcano

>>7175714
Gatsby?

>>7176057
To the Lighthouse by William Faulkner

>>7177772
Hamlet

>>7187005
Les Miserables

>>7185712
One of the Culture novels?
Use of Weapons?

>>7175377
The Beast God Forgot to Invent?

>>7186336
Stoner

>>7184825
Othello?

>>7184825
Romeo and Juliet

>tries to cheat on his wife with 3 year old girl at the beach
>girl rejects him
>goes back to his hotel room to blow his brains out afterwards

>>7187895
>>7188943
>>7192176
All wrong. It's The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

>>7192282
Correct.

>Creator of the world tells people not to do the thing
>They do the thing

>>7183297
Screwtape Letters?

>>7192947
The Bible.

>>7192189
yeh

pretentious french guy doesn't care about anything

>>7175311
1984

>>7193440
the strangler!

>>7184506
my diary tbh

>>7193440
Edgelord: the book

>>7184825
A CURSE ON BOTH YOUR HOUSES!

>>7188684

someone guess this, it sounds like a cool story premise and i want to read it

some guy is in a holiday camp in the snow against his will with a bunch of other cunts, he wakes up feeling like he's got the shits and when he goes to the doctor he gets asked bare questions. he has to eat grass paste or something for breakfast. then his boss says him and his mates have to go work building stuff n that out in the snow. then he helps out his smart buddy by standing in lines and such. the book ends with him being reminded of the values of friendship before he goes and has a sleep.

>>7195261

Man's Search for Meaning?

Everyone shits themselves because some guy wrote a book about our timeline

>>7195273

noooo, far less existential

>>7186083
portrait of the artist?

Servant boy is my only friend

Watch him get raped

To scared to do anything

Guilt haunts me so I make him leave

Feel bad about it later


Ded

>>7185676
2666

two chicks hang around too long, guy axes them, they explore reality

>>7195294
The Kite runner.