/lit/ - Literature

>>20300456
>Is it a River Runs Through It by any chance?
Nope. It's a whimsical-ish comic book. About half-way between fiction and non-fiction.

All the others are right though.

>>20272128
9 — Yep. Someone else mentioned this.
12 — Right. Luster is obsessed with the guy playing the tune on the saw (later he wanders down to the cellar to try to find a saw so he can have a go himself).
20 — Of course (maybe a bit easy).
21 — Yep. But he has several books with Seymour in so it's still not trivial to nail the work.
23 — Right.
24 — Right. The names help. Edith being a cow and disturbing WS even when he retreats to his study.
27 — Nope. Roughly the right place & time though.
28 — Right. Someone else mentioned this.
31 — Yep.
33 — Sure, but need the book for full marks. (Bond avoiding La Vie en Rose is a reference to Casino Royale, so you know it comes after that, but since that's the first one it doesn't help much...)
38 — Yep. Typical Joyce.
39 — Yep. Someone else guessed the author but didn't know the work.
46 — Right. I guess the song is a reference to The Red Flag.
55 — Right but need the work I guess. Tricky admittedly since there are about 100 Jeeves books and they are all the same.
59 — Correct. He likes comic songs.
70 — Haha, not quite. You're right it's Henry VIII talking to Thomas More. But it's not Hilary M.
71 — It's Proust yeah but not SW.
77 — Right. A minor piece from Mr. HOLD ME NIGGERMAN
79 — Right. A tough one I think since lots of people mention this book but I bet few of them have read it. I thought it was funny the way the woman is disapproving but HOW DOES SHE KNOW IT'S A DIRTY SONG? Haha
88 — Yep.
97 — Yeah, the Patrician gives it away, but which book? (The Jerry Lewis reference suggests it's the one about rock'n'roll but that will only help to a rabid fan I guess.)

>>20087463
>>20087486
Almost all correct.

Yes, 100, not 18, is Robert Burton. 18 is relatively obscure non-fiction; one of the hardest I think.

24 isn't Mill On The Floss although it is by George Eliot. The Mill On The Floss's epigraph is "In their death they were not divided" (2 Samuel).

32 is indeed The French Revolution. Yeah, Carlyle said "Close your Byron and open your Goethe" or something, didn't he?

>>19985806

6— Well, it's 7,but I assume you meant that. People who use the correct fpelling get the benefit of the doubt.
19 — Yup.
29 — Yup. I think it's called "Scotch Whiskey" or something. A plain down-to-earth title anyway.
39 — Yup. Well Proverbs anyway, whoever wrote 'em.
52 — Yes. I didn't expect this one to be got early (or at all).
67 — Yep. The Napoleon thing sticks in the mind I guess.
92 — Yup. Rhymed couplets and before they invented spelling. Gotta be Chaucer. It's the Shipman.

>>19952709

6 — Yes
63 — Yes. Maybe I should have censored Yukon", hehe.
91 — Yes, Thor getting hoodwinked by the giants. He's a fine fellow, Thor, but not too bright.

These definitely aren't three I expected to be solved early.

>>19908069
63 — Yes
89 — Yes
75 — Yes
73 — Right author, wrong book. This one is very tough.
94 — Yes. There are many that mention Dwarf Bread, but this one mentions it a lot.
61 — Children's book, yes. HP, no.
16 — Yes. This was deducible I guess.
60 — Yes. The pig gives it away I suppose.
39 — Yes. Sounds like a good guess on your part. Not as amenable to logic as 16, but I suppose the general story type is fairly obvious.

These certainly weren't the ones I thought would be solved first.

>>19795139

6 — Yep
28 — No, although the tone (murderer feels remorse) sort of fits Macbeth. Someone already got this one.
52 — Yeah. (Marlowe, not Goethe.)
69 — Yeah.
94 — Yep. (These days they say he isn't really a villain, but he seems like a villain to me.)