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>Read 12 Angry Men in High School
>Never get called for Jury Duty

Times literature has lead to you're disappointment.

>> No.1680304

>read LotR
>never get called to carry the one ring to mordor

>> No.1680307

>Read 12 Angry Men

Wait, what?

>> No.1680309

>Read Kapusckinski's The Empire
>Never get called to a Gulag

shit sucks

>> No.1680311

>>1680296
>you're

>Read Catcher In The Rye
>Have tons of neuroses but never any wacky adventures because of them.

>> No.1680313

>Read "The Sign of Four"
>Never go on scary as fuck adventures with my best bro to bring justice to the sweet woman who ends up marrying me

>> No.1680315

>>1680307
No, it's not 12 Angry Men, it's 12 Angry Men in High School

>> No.1680321

>read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
>never go on a drug-addled adventure through bat country

>> No.1680327

>Read The Castle
>Too busy working a monotonous job with no goals for the future and losing interest in my previous passions to go live out the K. dream

ohwait
;_;

>> No.1680372

>Read Bratya Karamazov
>Never fall into a sickness of the soul and meet a devil after being accused of parricide in Russia.

>> No.1680385

>read The Picture of Dorian Gray
>never fall in love with an aristocratic boy

I hate being straight ;__;

>> No.1680395

>read the invention of morel
>never escape to an island and gain pseudo-immortality

>> No.1680407
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1680407

>>1680385
>read picture of dorian gray
>fall in love with an aristocratic boy

>> No.1680414

>Read Harry Potter as a small child
>Never got my letter to Hogwarts

>> No.1680416

>Read Notes from Underground
>Never not be exactly like the man from underground

>> No.1680425
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1680425

>read jurassic park
>never get to see real dinosaurs

>> No.1680435

>Read Invisible Man
>Never try to liberate my race from mental slavery

>> No.1680439

>Read Shogun by James Clavell
>Realise I will never be Japanese

;_;

>> No.1680447

>Read the "[Twilight] and Philosophy" series
>Realise I will never make money by selling out hard integrating philosophy into popular culture

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1680452

>read If On a Winter's Night a Traveler
>never meet and marry beautiful and fascinating significant other after a globetrotting book scavenger hunt adventure

>> No.1680526

>>Read Heart of Darkness
>>Never experience "the horror".