/lit/ - Literature

>>10907605
For what reason?

That describes several books in the /lit/ top 100

>protagonist is a criminal
>keeps whining about the court system, even though they're treating him incredibly nicely
>insists he's done nothing wrong when literally everyone knows that he has

>>10907605
your favorite book better not be harry potter, anon

>>10907645
nope

>main guy is fucking crazy
>becomes friends with this fat dumbass
>hallucinates like he's on acid or something
>everyone thinks he's a retard and he fucks up all the time

>>10907605
Hamlet

>>10907663
Infinite Jest

>>10907674
Not, but Now that I think about it, It really sounds like that doesn't it?

>>10907605
>protagonist is a god damn super human
>keeps whining because muh I'm a mutant
>gets cucked like 6 times
>every character is a complete asshole
>Most deaths are unnecesary and kinda confusing
>important girl is a fucking brat and a degenerate. Loves dicks and pussy

>>10907689
Performance Anomalies?

>>10907689

Could be Friday (Heinlein)

>>10907698
>>10907712
Wow I thought I was pretty damn specific.
The Witcher series you fucks.

>>10907717
I was going to guess the Witcher!

>>10907717

Never heard of 'em. This sort of thread only works if everyone's read the books :(

>>10907712
You know, that book sounds pretty interesting. Brb downloading the pdf

>literal retard gets the attention of the 2 hottest bitches in town and gets none because he fucks up

>>10907724
>/lit/
>Reading books
>>10907723
Well too late anon

>>10907728
The Idiot?

>>10907728
My fucking life?

A raging drunk goes crazy because his oneitis treats him like a beta cuck.

>>10907732
ye

>>10907754
my diary desu

>>10907754
/r9k/

>>10907754
my life

>>10907605

>Benjy's a mentally retarded manchild.
>Caddy's a whore who's trying to see her daughter.
>Jason's a cynical fraud with a shitty job and contempt for his siblings and mother.
>Watch as J.C. tries desperately and pettily to keep his crumbling family together on the hit new sitcom...
>"The Compsons"
>*cut to Dilsey in the kitchen with a rolling pin*
>"Aw hell no! You have a deathwish, child!"
>Fridays on CBS

>>10907663
Don Quixote

>gay manlets only friend is autistic
>they fuck around with a bunch of depressed faggots
>thot gets rekt
>sperg fucking dies
>the end

>dude goes on and on off topic and therefore 'seemingly' about nothing for what seems like forever.
by far and away my favorite book, anons..

> author can't even spell right for the first part of the book
> Protagonist is either a winny genius or a dumbass
>A typical love triangle
> "Muh IQ"

It's like someone wrote fanfiction of the Wikipedia page for whales.

>>10907605
>start out as autistic rambling about how people don't understand him
>actually has some good criticisms of modernity
>turns out he's a real life robot who does retarded shit IRL
>he blames everyone but himself

>>10907605
Dracula?

>>10907605
Wait are you a weeb? Death Note?

>>10907874
PDG?

>>10907900
Catcher in the rye?

>>10907640
The Stranger

>>10907754
Tropic of Cancer

>>10907900
Notes

>>10907605
>A very scatter-brained man tries to write his autobiography but can't get past his fifth year in the course of six hundred pages.

>>10907915
no

>>10907843
You forgot "Quentin wants to fuck his sister"

>>10907937
nice

>>10907769
>>10907778
>>10907933
It's Brothers Karamazov

>>10907949

Quentin's dead, bruv. The Sitcom picks up from Easter 1928.

>>10907894
Well that's an obvious one. Mind you he gives plenty of love to wikipedia pages on ships too.

>Just, like, be moral man

>>10907605
Blood Meridian.

>>10908111
Man, I can't believe the producers retconned the Quentin flashbacks. What a gyp.

>>10907943
One Flew Over..?

>>10908173

Not so fast...

The first season arc is all about the mystery surrounding the family's slow demise. The two-part season finale is Caddy finally getting to have lunch with her daughter, who asks her mother whom she was named after...which beings us to season two, which will have a six-episode flashback arc with Quentin's childhood and downfall.

>>10907640
The Gulag Archipellago

>>10908336
(YOU)
I can't even kek at this bait

>>10908219
nope

>>10907874
Great Gatsby

>>10908327
Sounds like quite a Lynchian sitcom

>>10907605
>some fucking autist wanders around bitching about everyone he meets
>kind of a pompous asshole as well
>his friend is too cool for this shit but is probably bored as fuck
>won't shut the fuck up about his goddamned bitch

>>10908352
no

>>10907728
The Idiot

>>10907640
The Trial

>>10907605
man lusts after prepubescent girl

>>10908652
Faust

>>10908336
lol

>>10907890
catcher in the rye

>>10907854
got it, sorry for the late (You)

>>10907888
Has to be The Rings of Saturn.

>>10907900
Confederacy of dunces?

>guy with a clubfoot his girlfriend it's a bitch

>Kid comes from Christcuck family
>Thinks about philosophical nonsense
>Does some gay shit
>Gets terrified of holy retribution
>Wow it's fucking nothing

>>10909699
Portrait?

>>10908431
Finally someone gets it

>>10909696
no one?

>Protag has a dream
>Nobody like his dream
>Says "fuck society" and does it anyway
>Spends his entire fortune pursuing this dream
>Bank repocesses all of his shit
>Is now penniless
>Mooches off his dad for awhile
>Comes up with batshit crazy conspiracy theories to justify the fact he's penniless and ostracized from the rest of society.

>gotta breath some better air
>oh no now my lung is fucked
>let's think about time

>>10911048
The MM

>man lives in harmony
>woman ruins it

>>10907605
Hamlet?

>>10907874
Of mice and men

>>10907890
Flowers for algernon

>shipping down a long river
>The Horror, the horror

>>10911080
The beginning of the old testament

Get the fuck out of my way and let me do as I please

>it's the hare and the tortoise but in wessex
>nothing interesting happens at all

>>10909233
Like Sebald, but no. Better guess than I anticipated, though.

>>10907640
To Kill a Mockingbird

>>10911126
Heart of Darkness

>>10907941
I need to know what this is

>>10911096
Got it

>>10908652
Lolita

>>10907605

>Some old guy keeps trying to get handsy with a little girl
>He doesn't get she's not into it anymore

>an eclectic group of well meaning American gentlemen find themselves wandering through the deserts of Mexico occasionally incuring disagreements with the local populace due to cultural misunderstandings

>>10913222
The screenplay of Sicario.

>>10907941
Tristram Shady
>>10908146
Meditations

>>10908387
catcher??

A teacher cheats to help an autistic girl win a creative writing competition while a female assassin kills Jesus. The two decide to meetup to hold hands.

>>10907900
Industrial Society and it's future?

400 pages of complaining and misanthropy

>Fuckboy fantasizes about his lesbian friend
>everybody gets some except for him, naturally

>>10913723
my diary desu

>dad fucking dies
>priest fucking dies
>have a big fuck off party a few towns over
>everybody gets epilepsy, consumption or autism

>new gf has a moderate personality disorder
>also has a husband
>thinks train stations are an appropriate place to threaten suicide

>wealthy patricians leave the plebs to die to the plague
>living the literary lifestyle until they start workshopping writing to each other and all subtly realise they'd be better off sticking to YA

>>10912842
Kek

>>10907605
>a bunch of nerds get cucked by a cripple
>criminal shit going on in mexico
>apparently you didn´t get shot in ww2 if you looked scary
>the guy that invented three flavor ice cream waffles was a genius in many fieds but only got credits for the waffles

>>10913222
You can tell they're well meaning; one of them is a judge!

>protagonist isn't even the main character in most of it
>mostly just fighting scenes
>they're all dry and formulaic
>story takes forever to get anywhere

>lazy man considers doing things, eventually decides not to

>>10907605
Cats kill each other and rant about pseudophilosophy

>Literal retard gets left to die on derelict
>gets so fucking mad that he becomes a genius
>teleportation n shiet
>rapes negress and creates circus
>sees colors

>>10914344
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

>>10914344
my diary

>>10913723
Gulliver's Travels

>>10914189
AK

> psh whatever fag, I’m going to just do what I want
>*dies*

>>10907605

>a group of assholes get drunk in Europe

>>10914570
The Sun Also Rises

>>10913723
journey to the end of the night

>sheep dog fucks woman
>man pees in another womans anus
>keeping art alive, you know

>>10914344
Bartleby

>depressed poet compares the Italian landscape to his feelings

>>10915006
i wanna know

>>10915036
Opus pistorum by Henry Miller

>>10915043
Henry Miller wrote a book about that South African paralympian who killed his girlfriend?

>>10915300

>>10914344
oblomov?

>>10914741
Ye

>determined dipshit tries to create a dynasty, incest almost ensues
>literally everyone is an unreliable narrator
>unreliable narrators recount stories told to them by other unreliable narrators
>near the end characters just begin making up the rest of the story and it's "true enough"
>no one knows how to speak in simple sentences

>>10915740
"Absalom, Absalom!"?

>>10907605
Guy eats some pork chops and kills himself and his girlfriend.

Autistic Irish doctor and his buddy fuck around on a ship.

>>10916509
Scrotey McBoogerballs?

>>10916509
Master and Commander

>a real prankster kid gets bored one day and decides to create his own world
>creates a man and a woman sim and a lot of other things, laughs at them because he said they aren’t allowed to interact with any of the tempting things he created
>also creates a snake just to trick them, lul
>they inevitably do the thing they weren’t supposed to and are punished for all eternity
>the kid sadistcly lavish as he forces them to live lives of suffering and then kills them all off one by one
>creates a new sim family, says he loves them the most but never protects them from the horrible things thAt happen to them
>says it’s because they are greedy assholes , which is partially true
>one of his sims tells him to stop being a douche and that it’s better to be nice to people
>kill him on a cross
>don’t mind him it was just my faggot son
>two thousand more years of indiscriminate killing

>>10914344
hunger

>>10912869
This guy >>10913271 got it.

>>10914195
what is this I want to read it

>main character is a NEET who suffers from antisocial personality disorder

>>10917276
My
Diary
Desu

>Each of the main characters is drunk for almost the entirety of the book.
>Each of the men is in love with a girl they are all well aware is a fucking whore
>Not a whole lot happens outside of traveling and drinking and nobody really learns anything

>>10914992
You got it

>>10914195
The Decameron?

a guy looking for some bitch — possibly dead— his dad was in love with, and then another dumb fuck microwaves his balls as a contraceptive method.

>>10911907
I wanna read this

>>10913753
my diary, dang it

>>10914327
animal farm

>>10907605
>Thinks he can just ice a bitch without tripping

>>10907605
> American goes camping in European mountains
> shit blows up in his face
> at least the gypsy got the horses

>>10907605
> In the end, the guy you thought was dead wasn't dead, but then kills himself to confound everyone

>>10907605
>can't wipe his ass
>dad beats him
>hot air balloon
>use electricity to grow food

>>10919183
One of Verne's works?

>>10919328
No

>>10907605
Pigs lose their shit in a farm. Horse is pig bitch.

>>10914327
St Augustine's Confessions

>>10919435
Could it be... Animal Farm?

>Narrator somehow avoids being firebombed

>Schizo who thinks time-travelling aliens keep visiting him.

>His daughter is kind of a bitch

>>10919474
spot on.

>old robot hates jazz and spends all day on /r9k/
>meets a bum that gives him his own diary desu
>acts like an aspie to his only friend
>goes on a date
>listens to jazz and dodges a massive cucking
>gets high while listening to pumped up kicks
>dreams about shooting people with the author of the book
>wakes up and finds he murdered his gf
>kills self (?)

>>10908387
Confederacy

>>10912646
Far From The Madding Crowd

>>10914472
Stars My Destination

>>10917845
Sun Also Rises

>>10919110
Transgression & Retribution

>>10919156
Ten Little Niggers

>>10919617
Correct

>>10919491
S-H V

>>10907605
>prot is a big whiny bitch
>everyone acts like a teenager

Takeshi Kovacs?

>mad lunatic calls builder in to build extension
>builder says having foundations would be a good idea
>lunatic says there's no need, faith in God will do just fine

>>10908652
The perfume

>The king is dead
>I must die too
>Doesn't
>Everything goes wrong

>>10914327
Iliad

>>10919692
The Spire

>>10911080
Stone 'er!

>>10913121
My niece's diary, desu.

>this dude wants to govern
>doesn't know he's a rube
>gets smashed makes great speech next day
>oh shit he running things now
>wants to open hospital
>sleeps with head surgeons sister
>gets himself shot
>guess I have to marry the broad now

>>10914548
The Stranger
The Apology of Socrates

>>10919441
Fucking kekked.

>>10907605
BotNS?