/lit/ - Literature

>>11063206
What novel is that? I can't tell because the resolution is too low.

>>11063244
Falconer by John Cheever.

>>11063206
Jeeves from Jeeves and Wooster likes Crime and Punishment and Spinoza's works.

Costanza's literacy is actually super inconsistent. In early seasons he's a big fan of Henry Miller and John Cheever and apparently owns a collection of books that he loaned to an ex. In later seasons he struggles to get through Breakfast at Tiffany's and claims one of his dreams is to read a book from beginning to end "in that order".

>>11063277
There was also the episode where he read the art book on the toilet because he only liked books with pictures in them.

>>11063351
that makes me think it's an injoke that he has such contradictory tastes

>>11063206

The movie "super-villain likes classical music" meme is pretty clichéd. But if you want to give a villain an air of evil omniscience, there's no better way than implying he's read a lot.
e.g.
>Hannibal Lecter & Judge Holden
both refer to a bunch of erudite stuff and we get the definite impression they've read everything. We know a little about what Lecter actually *likes* (Suetonius, Caravaggio, Bach) but much less when it comes to the Judge. He likes dancing, I guess :)

The bit at the beginning of Catcher In The Rye is quite nice, where Holden is talking about books and saying he likes the idea you would read a book and just want to call the author up and talk to him :) Poor Holden haha. I agree with him though, I might want to talk to Isak Dinesen but I would never want to talk to Somerset Maugham.

Captain Picard of Star Trek TNG has a real hard-on for Shakespeare.

Kirk and Khan from TOS like Paradise Lost since Khan quoted "it is better to rule in hell than serve in heaven" when he was being exiled

>>11063363
There's also the whole Blake/Dolarhyde thing in Red Dragon

>>11063277
yeah but to be fair Miller is full of sex and Costanza is a horndog.

>>11063206
Third Policeman narrator loved De Selby who sadly doesn’t real, does that count?

>>11063634
Sure!

A more fun game is the following:

Someone posts a character in literature, and we have to suggest what his favourite book is.

For example

>Raskolnikov
Thus Spake Zarathustra

>Emma Bovary
50 Shades of Gray

>>11063629
Are we only going off of that episode where Jerry has an outstanding fine with the library. Because correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think there's anything in that episode to suggest that George did anything but skim the Tropic of Cancer for dirty parts on Jerry's recommendation.

>>11063648
is seinfeld genuinely funny? could you remove the laughtrack and it's still funny? t. never seen an episode of it

>>11063646
>Félicité (Un coeur simple)
The bible

>Candide
Anything by Leibnitz

>>11063672
Yes. It's basically the only tv show worth watching.

Based Cooper.

this little rascal loves the bible

>>11063793
or is it the book of mormon?

>>11063277
Didn't Jerry read Tropic of Cancer though and George never got to it? And I think he was only flipping through the Cheever book because of Susan's dad's affair. Then there's the risk management book...

Hyperion shows up multiple times in The Disappearance of Haruhi, can't remember if Yuki is explicitly shown to be reading it though.

>>11063672
It is fantastic, truly stands the test of time

>>11063206

Garp in the World According to Garp had his life altered by Marcus Aurelius's Meditations.

Ignatius in A Confederacy of Dunces had a hard-on for Boethius.

>>11063646

>>11063372

Patrick Steward's a Shakespearean actor so that's an easy interest to pull off XD I liked him in I, Claudius along with the dude from Sliders, lol.

Macmurphy
>lolita

Holden Caufield liked The Return of the Native and Out of Africa but didn’t like Hemmingway

Stephen liked Byron’s poetry and was willing to take his lumps like a man for supporting such a heretic.

>>11063206
He's only reading that because Susan's father had a gay relationship with Cheever.

>>11063672
>>is seinfeld genuinely funny? could you remove the laughtrack and it's still funny?
only the street scenes use a laugh-track. His apartment and pretty sure Monks Diner and probably all the interior sets are in front of a studio audience. For sure the apartment set (which is easily half the show) is in front of a live studio audience. The laughter is real.

But to answer your question, yes, it's funny. The worst episodes will still have a few funny bits and are super comfy if nothing else. At it's best, it was one of the finest shows ever produced.
Over the years, I've come to think of it more as George being the main character. You'll see.
Also, just avoid the two-part finale. They are somehow the worst two shows (but the final credit sequence is funny. that's it, though)

>>11064372
Absolute pleb opinion, the Puetro Rican Flag is the worst episode.

>>11064372
Absolute pleb opinion, the Puetro Rican Day is the worst episode.

>>11064065
>MINOR POET

>>11063672
it's okay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB62oaOeqR0

>>11064372
The setup and punchline of the finale is brilliant.
But a clip show was awful execution

Faster Than the Speed of Love

>>11064463
>A Farewell to Arms
>Deleted
Kek

Waht is Batmans favorite book?

>>11064463
>Hemmingway
file not found

>>11063206
Ted from HIMYM = Love in the Time of Cholera (HIMYM has basically this plot).

>>11064545
gotta love self inserts

>>11064391
watchu talkin about, maroon golf is a classic bit

The Chameleon's Song

>>11064406
lel, just like Herrick

>>11064372
in particular I have to stress how damn comfy the show is. And also agree that it is genuinely funny to this day, and that whole idea that "Seinfeld isn't funny anymore because other shows have taken what it did and made it better" is utter, utter bullshit.

>>11065098
That book is just a rumour, dude.

Besides, no way was Houghton ever going to top Time Flies Tomorrow.

>>11063672
it's the funniest and most consistent show i've ever seen. i've been watching it since i was a kid and it's always funny in new and subtle ways

>>11063708
>conservative
>businessman
>randite
>likes modern art

>>11063708
Good night sweet prince

>>11063244

>>11064483
Count of Monte Cristo

>A Day No Pigs Would Die

>>11064065
>not liking hemingway
plen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3KfnPHiTqY

>>11065366
Its less what you described and more a case of "everyone and their mother has ripped off seinfeld by this point so when somebody sees it for the first time it seems less groundbreaking than was at the time".

>>11063351
And also the episode where he can't read the book for work and has to listen to it on tape, but the voice on the tape sounds too much like his (which is why he doesn't like to read; he doesn't like the sound of his own voice in his head).

>>11063277
Also the episode where George can't name 5 books to take on a desert island, so he chooses one (3 Musketeers) and hasn't even read it yet.

>>11069579
haha thats pretty funny though

>>11063277
George is a completely different character in the first season

we /tv/ now?

>>11063672
Yes Seinfeld without a laugh track exists, it’s called “Curb Your Enthusiasm”

>>11063950
I believe it is stated at some point that Garp always liked reading Conrad best. I do remember Meditations being mentioned though.

>>11063672
>>11064372
>>11065366
>>11066533
My wife has been re-watching Seinfeld and I've been catching a lot of the episodes. It holds up, it's fucking hilarious. The writing is tremendous.

>you will never be a Library Cop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcxfc-a-xW8

>>11070956
in an interview I read, Alexander explains that when he auditioned, he assumed that he was playing a Woody Allen type, so that's what he did and he got hired, playing that type through the first season.
During that time, in working with Larry David, he realized that George was actually him, and subsequently changed his acting to reflect that.

I don't have sauce, tho.