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Are there any books like Seinfeld?
Im thinking a pure comedy, set in everyday life, with characters just bickering and bantering

>> No.19721901
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19721901

A play about nothing.

>> No.19721937

>>19721901
no

>>19721883
confederacy of dunces is what you're looking for

>> No.19721979

>>19721937
>no
I think you mean "yes". The mistake is understandable, just try to be more careful next time.

>> No.19722007

>>19721883
Unironically Diary of a Wimpy Kid

>> No.19722012

>>19721937
Waiting For Godot was literally an influence on Seinfeld.

>> No.19722019

>>19721937
>confederacy of dunces
already read that one. fun book. couldnt stop eating hotdogs while i read it lol

>> No.19722027

Assisted Living by Nikanor Teratologen

>> No.19722036

inherent vice basically, there's a plot but it's very easy to either deliberately ignore or lose track of so that you can just enjoy the banter. also make sure to watch the first 30 minutes of the movie adaptation beforehand, phoenix and brolin are perfectly cast and the dialogue flows much better if read with them in mind

>> No.19722045

Later Pynchon, Inherit Vice and Bleeding Edge. Also Catch-22 on the dialogue front.

>> No.19722053

>>19722036
>>19722045
roger that. been meaning to pynchon

>> No.19722120

Proust has Seinfeld-like moments-- long dinner parties where everyone chats about nonsense, long sequences where he's complaining about how much he hates his girlfriend, stuff like that. obviously not as casual though

>> No.19722139

>>19721883
hunger by hamsun, just imagine george as the protag

>> No.19722160

>>19721883
Tropic of Cancer
American Psycho
Gogol

Basically any observational humor with short witty back and forth dialogue

>> No.19722183

>>19721883
Not quite the contemporary everyday vibe, but for the pure comedy, try P.G. Wodehouse.

>> No.19722215

>>19721883
>Are there any books like (((Seinfeld)))?
>Im thinking a pure kike propaganda set in everyday goy life, with goyim just bickering and bantering

>> No.19722235

person by sam pink although that's more like always sunny in some ways

>> No.19722243

>>19721883
>>19721883
Yes, there is. It's the best novel of all times.
It's called Tristram Shandy.

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>>19721883
Seinfeld has that blue-collar tinge of lowlifers.
I prefer FRIENDS because of heart warming sincerity and more realistic milieu without that black culture influence.

>> No.19722405 [DELETED] 

>>19722366
Friends is just a terrible show. I can't think of a single redeeming quality it has outside of Jennifer Aniston's hard nipples. Seinfeld is to Friends what Shakespeare is to Bukowski.

>> No.19722430

>>19722366
Seinfeld and Friends were both pretty terrible, and are mostly just evidence of how overrated the entertainment of the 1990s really was. However, Seinfeld at the very least was actually funny.

>> No.19722472

>>19722366
>friends
kys retard and/or woman

>> No.19722967

>>19722215
They were literally all very obviously New Yorke Jews. That was the point. Are you retarded?

>> No.19722975

>>19722366
Based Sex-haver
>>19722430
>>19722472
Cringe Seething incels

>> No.19723015

>>19722975
>I consume media for women because I have sex
cope of the year so far
>>19721883
wodehouse is like an english seinfeld

>> No.19723159

god emperor of dune

>> No.19723323

>>19722366
>heart-warming sincerity
Go read some chicklit,buddy. Austen and other lady writers.

>> No.19723374

>>19721883
Jerome K Jerome - Three men in a boat

>> No.19723389

>>19722366
Cool it with the racism.

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>>19722366
Based Friends-enjoyer.

>> No.19723525

>>19721883
Crime and Punishment

>> No.19724487

Check out Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock. It's a little old, but the humour stands up surprisingly well.

>> No.19724540

>>19721901
We are waiting for Godot Jerry.

>> No.19724697

Raymond Queneau's "Le Chiendent", "Zazie dans le métro", "Pierrot Mon Ami", and "Les Derniers Jours". Les Derniers Jours is pretty Seinfeld-esque. There's a running joke that one of the characters and his friends have really bad haircuts. Eventually one of them snaps a one-eyed man makes fun of his haircut at a bar. He casually walks out after paying for his drink and then comes back five minutes later. He silently walks up to the one-eyed man and gouges out his other eye. Definitely a Kramer move.

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>>19721883
Plays by George S Kaufmann
Many novels by Kingsley Amis though theyre British
As is Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome, which is also good.

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>>19721883

>> No.19725716

>>19722215
Meds