/lit/ - Literature

>>21681361

>2 - George Smiley, in John Le Carre's "Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy"
>3 - Sammy, in William Golding's "Free fall"
Correct. Their other halves are still to be found, though.

>4 - Romeo, in Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet"
Correct, and someone already located his girl, I believe.

>>21616042
>28 is Hemingway short story The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber
Correct.

>>21616047
>34 is Faulkner Light in August
Right. I was worried this would legitimately apply to more than one book, since it's a pretty broad description of events.

>>21616055
>41 is Moby Dick
Correct, although someone else already got it.

>46. Lord Jim? I forget where the wreck took place
Not Lord Jim. Firstly, that's in the Red Sea IIRC. Anyway, not off the coast of Japan. Secondly that ship isn't actually wrecked; they just think it's going to sink so they sneak off in the lifeboats but it doesn't sink. (Also I don't think he's piloting it.)

>>21616064
>60 is Hardy. The Mayor of Casterbridge I think
Correct.

>>21616075
>69 is Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Right. Another pretty vague description which might apply to other things. (I guess the author list saves me from too many of these legitimate alternative answers.)

>>21616720
>15) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Correct.

>>21525597

>7)
>The Skag Boys, Jean–Claude Van Damme And Mother Superior
>This is Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting.
Correct.

>34)
>The Inconveniences Of Following A Pretty Woman Through The Streets In The Evening
>Sounds like DFW but just a wild guess.
Nope. DFW has already been found (#3, Infinite Jest) and no author is repeated.

>37)
>Speaker for the Dead
>Ender's Game? Whatever that author's name is.
Correct, Orson Scott Card. Maybe the last chapter. Another clue, IIRC, is that he used it as the title for the sequel.

>43)
>Riddles In The Dark
>Das Hobbit by JRR Tolkien.
Ja, natürlich.

>>21488774
Yes, all correct. 1 & 25 were already known but the rest are yours. (If anyone's wondering, 9 is by Julia Ward Howe & 20 by William Ernest Henley.)

Too many to quote them all but some people might not be familiar with #59, and they should be:


Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.

‘Twas about seven o’clock at night,
And the wind it blew with all its might,
And the rain came pouring down,
And the dark clouds seem’d to frown,
And the Demon of the air seem’d to say —
“I’ll blow down the Bridge of Tay.”


Marvellous.

>>21488774
Yes, all correct. 1 & 25 were already known but the rest are yours. (If anyone's wondering, 9 is by Julia Ward Howe & 20 by William Ernest Henley.)

Too many to quote them all but some people might not be familiar with #59, and they should be:

Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.

Marvellous.

>>21423727
Yes, 7/7. A fine start.

>4 is The Great Gatsby
"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."

>13 is The Catcher in the Rye
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."

>21 is A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man
"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo."

>48 is Pride and Prejudice
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

>72 is Moby Dick
"Call Me Ishmael."

>81 is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."

>98 is The Trial
"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."

>>21272642

>1 from Treasure Island?
A logical guess, but nope.

>2 is from the Bible, I think revelations
Sure is. Revelations 3:15-16. The Holy Spirit telling the Laodiceans how it is. As popularized by DDL in Gangs of New York.

>10 has to be Faulkner
Right part of the world, wrong author.

>18 Confederacy of Dunces
No, but CoD is in there.

>22 Catch-22
Catch-22 is in there, but it's not #22. It shoulda been I guess.

>67 A Christmas Carol
Correct. Scrooge trying out a joke.

>72 is fucking brutal. I have no guess I just wanted to comment.
Yeah, punches unpulled. It's a 20th-century stage play.

>76 Portrait of the Artist
Correct. Once you hear it in an Irish accent it's obvious.