/lit/ - Literature

This isn't funny lmao

>Epic Poem
>Can't like it because reddit does.

>>5110132
>Infinite Jest
>didn't laugh once

>>5110152
Alas poor Yorick

>bildungsroman
>doesn't mention the Leaning Tower of Pisa

>ereader
>still displays the other 25 letters

>Catch 22 gets a sequel
>Sequel is called Closing Time
>Not Catch 23 or Catch 22 II

>>5110217
>Catch 22
>453 Pages
>Already caught when I bought them

>>5110217
>not catch 44

>>5110217
At least the films fixed this glaring oversight

>death of King Arthur
>alive for most of the novel

>>5110132
>short story
>none of the characters were midgets

>>5110254
>essay
>none of the characters were Hispanic

>Their Eyes Were Watching God
>written by an atheist

>>5110189
>Kindle
>not made out of easily ignited material such as short sticks or twigs

>>5110152
did you cry?

>No Longer Human
>All characters are human

>Stoner
>No-one smokes weed

>>5110132
>protagonist is a novelist
>protagonist is writing a novel about a novelist
>the protagonist's protagonist is writing a novel about a writer

> Blindsight
> Not printed in Braille

> The New Testament
> Really, really old

> One Fish, Two Fish
> References literally dozens of fish

>>5110132
>A Void
>missing the letter 'e'
>Eeeee Eee Eeee
>the one to avoid

>>5110284
At Swim Two Birds?

>>5110283
its not about that, fag

>Tolstoy novel
>neither a toy nor some novelty item

>octavo volume
>doesn't emit a 2:1 resonant frequency

>The Republic
>it's a kingdom

>Stoner
>not about an ancient executioner

>novella
>somehow shorter than a novel despite having more letters

>>5110167
There were so many better examples. The Colosseum?

> short story
> no one ever published a "regular-size story"

>>5110356
>reasonably sized story

>>5110353
The Leaning Tower adds another layer of I-don't-get-it since it's specifically not in Rome.

>>5110167
roman? it's like 12th century

>>5110500
You sound upset for some reason.

>>5110509
i'm confused

>>5110517
Not sure if serious, but...
the premise of the thread is comic misunderstanding of lit-related terms;
the rest is explained by >>5110364

>east of eden
>set entirely in the west

>>5110534
but >>5110364 would imply that the 'comic misunderstanding' is that the building is not in Rome. the actual misunderstanding is the believe that the building is roman. therefore i accuse him of believing that the building is roman but not in rome, when in reality it is neither

>>5110559
You're being way too literal, and trying too hard.

>>5110217
>catch 22
>nice dubs

>>5110316
I think he knows that sperg.

>>5110537

On a sphere, any direction can be east.

>>5110594
I think he knows that sperg.

>>5110570
the other guy was right when he said the colisseum would have been a more effective choice though

>The Brothers Karamazov
>they never karamazov'd anyone

>At the Mountains of Madness
>the mountains are not made out of madness

>The Picture of Dorian Gray
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>none of them show the picture/portrait anywhere

>The Neverending Story
>book is finite

>The Count of Monte Cristo
>Never counts Monte Cristo

>100 years of solitude
>nobody is ever alone

>three musketeers
>there's fucking four of them
This one actually gets to me

>The Hunger Games
>Well fed

>>5110679
D'Artagnan runs in to the three original ones. Makes sense to me.

>>5111063
This. He's not a Musketeer in the first novel.

>>5110316
>being THIS autistic

>>5110137

>/lit/
>talks about everything other than literature