/lit/ - Literature

>>6110708
da bible

>>6110708
Your diary

Don Quixote was pretty good, so was Candide.

>>6110755
Candide is one of my favorites. I've been trying to piece together over the years why it's so great, and I think it's just because of the pacing. Voltaire's no-fucks literary method would give even DFW an enormous anxiety attack to attempt

>>6110708
don quixote. that ones good too tho. funny books are much more enjoyable that shit like infinite jest.

Breakfast of Champions

>tfw the cocktail waitress makes that joke one time too many

The humor is endless.

Most definitely this

I couldn't stop laughing for most of Catch-22.

DQ

You're moms diary

>>6111063
>you're
are you call yourself /lit/

>>6111089
>are you call yourself /lit/
fucking retard

>>6111063
I'm what?

>>6110708
Im not really into comedy and i'm reading through this right now. Pretty much every scene Ignatius is in is hilarious

Gulliver's Travels

The Crying of Lot 49

>>6111212
Really? Is that the only pomo book you read?

>>6111212
the only part i laughed at was oedipa with all the clothes on

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's one of the funniest thing's I've read, but I image that's probably the go-to answer for a lot of people.

Good Omens was pretty grand.

>>6110755
>>6110765
>>6111030
Don Quixote is considered funny when you're young.
When you are old, it's sad.

>>6111261
I don't think that's how it works.

>>6111292
You are either really, really stupid or have no idea what Don Quixote is about but felt compelled to shit out your ignorance anyway

>>6111295
Anon, calm down

Puckoon by spike milligan.

The Communist Manifesto

>>6111303
>Hurr fucking durr pointing out that you probably don't have any clue what you're talking about equals le mad

Holy shit dude why do your posts all suck. Just stop. Go read Don Quixote.

>>6110891
>>6110765
>>6111011
>>6111030
These

>>6111137
your a big guy

>>6111314
I have read it you fuck turd. It was written to be a comedy not some "le 4deep8me, das is sad sad tale". I kindly ask you to read it again and take into consideration its supposed to be a funny novel you misatropic cuck fuck

>>6111361
You're not me, go away

The one you posted OP.

Anons, you're both pretty.

>>6111295
I mean that your perception of it doesn't change merely because of your age you dunce

The Dog of the South

>>6110720
Fedora or not, the Bible is fucking hillarious.

2 Kings 2:23-24 NKJV
Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up the road, some youths came from the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” So he turned around and looked at them, and pronounced a curse on them in the name of the LORD. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.

Genesis 38:8-10 KJV
And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother. And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.

Ezekiel 23:19-20 NET
Yet she increased her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth when she engaged in prostitution in the land of Egypt. She lusted after their genitals – as large as those of donkeys, and their seminal emission was as strong as that of stallions.

Judges 3:21-22 ESV
And Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly. And the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not pull the sword out of his belly; and the dung came out.

Deuteronomy 25:11-12 NASB
If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals, then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.

Exodus 21:20-21 NAB
When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property.

Genesis 9:20-27 NRSV
Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard. He drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he lay uncovered in his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father's nakedness. When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him, he said, "Cursed be Canaan; lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers." He also said, "Blessed by the Lord my God be Shem; and let Canaan be his slave. May God make space for Japheth, and let him live in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be his slave."

>>6111407
Most of these are greatly taken out of context
Like the first one, it was a mob threatening death against a prophet of the lord, not merely innocent boys teasing a bald man
And it wasn't "youths" or "children", the most proper translation would be "young men"

>>6111407
>>>/reddit/

>>6111407
>and pronounced a curse on them in the name of the LORD. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.

>>6111261
>a book can't be both
>implying the sadness can't enhance the hilarity and vice versa

>>6111592
>forty two
>yfw God is a Douglas Adams fan

Everything is Illuminated is pretty damn funny.