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Give a shitty description of your favorite character and people guess what book he/she's from.

>> No.6313450

He dies.

>> No.6313466

>>6313450
The Bible.

>> No.6313474

tall dead movie director

>> No.6313476

Has her period.

>> No.6313487

He leaves home for the wild west.

>> No.6313498
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Realizes he was the problem

>> No.6313501

He likes the summer, jewelry, and horses

>> No.6313502

>>6313421
He sees everything twice then once.

>> No.6313563
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>>6313487

>> No.6313592

Pedophile

>> No.6313601

>>6313487
On the road

>> No.6313603

>>6313592
The guy from Lolita

>> No.6313607

>>6313498
Oedipus Rex

>> No.6313608

>>6313603
lel. Correct you are

>> No.6313610

Near schizophrenic priest in small town ohio. He's also really horny

>> No.6313616

obsessed with large phallic objects

>> No.6313631

He is an old man.

>> No.6313635

Deluded existential asshole who doesn't realize real world consequences

>> No.6313640

>>6313421
fucking fat autist neckbeard whos lazy af and still lives at his mom past 30


had love story with a girl who turned full SJW

>> No.6313641

Pompous manchild

>> No.6313644

>>6313641
>>6313640
Ignatius Reilly ?

>> No.6313646

>>6313635

meursault, easy

>> No.6313647

>>6313640
IGNATIUS J REILLY

>> No.6313648

>>6313631
Does he have something to do with the sea

>> No.6313653

>>6313640
Ignatius Reilly.

>> No.6313655

>>6313641
>>6313644
Let me rephrase

Pompous, power craving quirky attractive manchild who doesn't live in a contemporary piece

>> No.6313662

DUDE WEED AND PARANOIA LMAO

>> No.6313665

>>6313421
nigger tied to a tree

(I know you said it had to be a person, but make an exception).

>> No.6313666

>>6313646
Yep. How about this one?

>Deluded, angsty child who doesn't realize real world consequences

>> No.6313667

>but muh INNOCENCE

>> No.6313670

>>6313662
infinte meme

>> No.6313671

>>6313666
Your autobiography?

>> No.6313673

>>6313670
No.

>> No.6313678

Here's a fun one:


>Government outlaws music, man is imprisoned, set free years later, becomes sexually confused and attracted to appliances, then goes crazy

(Hint: This play was adapted from an album)

>> No.6313682

>>6313666
My Twisted World by Elliot Rodger.

>> No.6313684

spanish guy, crazy family, goes to war, become legendary, escapes death sometimes.

>> No.6313685

"REMOVE KEBAB"

>> No.6313687

super introverted, pathological liar, lies to himself, has a butler that hates him, tries to save prostitute, ends up being mean to her when she shows up.

>> No.6313692

>>6313687
Notes From Underground

>> No.6313695

austistic asian author stand in

>> No.6313697

Slutty white chick, had a rich boyfriend that died, has a thing for lawyers and stamps

>> No.6313699

>>6313616
OP

>> No.6313700

>>6313667
obviously Holden

>> No.6313706

>>6313695
No Longer Human

And I ain't even read the book

>> No.6313710

epileptic moralfag

>> No.6313711

>>6313695
tao lin

>> No.6313725

>>6313678
2112

>> No.6313726

>>6313710
Brothers Karamazov

>> No.6313727

Guy does a bunch of drugs in New York and Taipei.

>> No.6313729

>>6313726
nope but very close

>> No.6313730

>>6313710
the idiot

>> No.6313731

>>6313725
No. Think a non shitty album

>> No.6313734

>>6313730
yes, that was an easy one

>> No.6313748

>>6313421
>arcane and decrepit unspeakable niggers

>> No.6313750

>>6313731
2112 is good

>> No.6313763

young nameless rapist

>> No.6313804

he's a big guy

>> No.6313814

>>6313421
Boy

Has falcon

>> No.6313815

>>6313814
Kes

>> No.6313820

> hates this nigger, very manipulative and spurs a murder-suicide

>> No.6313838

starts fires

>> No.6313858

>>6313838
Tarwater, from The Violent Bear It Away

>> No.6313887

muh lute

>> No.6313906

>>6313498
Thanks for the schematic, really cool. Love Star Trek but had no idea that there was a 'captain's yacht' on the enterprise.

+1 internets to you.

>>6313727
Taipei, TaoLin

Sword wielding pizza delivery guy. Also a boss with the interwebz

>> No.6313907

>>6313838
That guy from The Prodigy

>> No.6313916
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>>6313474

>> No.6313924

>>6313421
A violent trichotillomaniac.

>> No.6313928

>>6313487
All The Pretty Horses/The Crossing

>> No.6313931

>>6313476
wittgenstein's mistriss

>> No.6313936

>>6313610
Priest from Omensetter's Luck

>> No.6313938

>>6313907
underrated post

>> No.6313941

>>6313421
Likes to make really shitty drawings

>> No.6313942

>>6313887
name of the wind, kvothe

>> No.6313962

>>6313666
I was going to say Holden Caulfield, but he does actually realize some real world consequences.

>> No.6313964

>>6313662
Oedipa Maas?

>> No.6313972

>>6313941
Engels

>> No.6313973

>>6313804
BANE

>> No.6313974

>>6313697
Oedipa Maas

>> No.6313975

>>6313941
James Joyce

>> No.6313976

>>6313662
Inherent vice?

>> No.6313979

>React to every single event in life exactly the same.

>> No.6313981

>>6313476
Anna frank

>> No.6313982

some psychiatric patients - plus a certain percentage of people who've gotten so dependent on chemicals for feelings of well-being that when the chemicals have to be abandoned they undergo a loss-trauma that reaches way down deep into the soul's core systems - these persons know first hand that there's more than one kind of so-called "depression."

>> No.6313983

>I started having sex too early and no one has heard my voice.

>> No.6313984

guy is diddled as a kid, is actually one of the few satisfying things afforded to him in his shitty adolescence

>> No.6313986

As a teacher got his face badly burnt in a car accident.

>> No.6313987

>>6313982
Sir William Bradshaw?

>> No.6313989

>>6313982
infinite lemon pledge jerk-off circle?

>> No.6313990

>>6313421
A dude eating woodchips and leather bits and asking the time to guards

>> No.6313991

>>6313906
Snow crash Chinese nigger!

>> No.6313994

>>6313748
planet of the apes?
I have no mouth and I must cream... my pants

>> No.6314001
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6314001

He was an angel.

>> No.6314002

>>6313984
Holden Caulfield?

>> No.6314008

>>6314002
wait... that ha-
NOOOOOOOO

>> No.6314030

brain dead bitch, no personality, falls for a psycho.

>> No.6314034

>>6314030
Sonya?

>> No.6314039

>>6313421

He went into the desert and died.

>> No.6314080

>>6313838
Guy Montag

>> No.6314082

>>6314001
Satan?

>> No.6314222

>he tries to convince himself that he was in the right
>fails miserably

>> No.6314225

Guy steals a loaf of bread then becomes an industrialist

>> No.6314228

>>6314222
Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov?

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>>6313972
>>6313975
Both wrong.

>> No.6314274

>>6313941

Wittgenstein

>> No.6314281

>>6313498
Man, it would fucking blow to be quartered near the phasers

>> No.6314318

A shitty man with a shitty face and a shitty arm that he attaches a weapon to. He's like a blue-collar Samus Aran, if Samus were evil and ugly.

>> No.6314325

some asshole burglar turns gay in jail and names his son after his male lover

>> No.6314327

>>6313941
The author-character from Breakfast of Champions.

>> No.6314328

Jew Boxer

>> No.6314341

Fucked over by everyone except the man she cucks over

>> No.6314342

>>6314341
Wow, that was supposed to be fucks, not cucks

>> No.6314349

Stubborn con man impersonating a land surveyor.

>> No.6314352

>>6314349
Dead soils?

>> No.6314425

>>6313502
Thats some catch

>> No.6314437

>>6314342
4chan.

>> No.6314454

>>6314349
The Castle...? I mean, not really, but.

>> No.6314463

Asexual Asian

>> No.6314467

>>6314463
buddha?

>> No.6314469

>>6314467
nope

>> No.6314487

byronic manlet shitskin

also not my favorite character

>> No.6314567

>>6314463
>>6314467
hint: look more east

>> No.6314590

>>6314567
>implying I read nippon shit

>> No.6315220

>>6313476
carrie

>> No.6315237

Cucked artist who goes insane, loses his name, goes to Spain to get away from real life like the little faggot he is.

>> No.6315253

>>6313474

That's The Mad Stork sir

>> No.6315260

>>6313667

K.

>> No.6315263

>>6313684
one hundred years of solitude?

>> No.6315271

>'FUCK CRIPPLES'

>> No.6315276

>>6313421
I don't have a favorite character but I want to play anyway.

Moody girl that lives with her mom and eventually with a brother who lives the literary lifestyle.

>> No.6315294

>>6314225
24601

>> No.6315307

>>6314240
The narrator of the little prince!

>> No.6315320

DEAD HOOKERS. Also Nazis.

>> No.6315323

>>6313450
Malone

>> No.6315399

Slicked platinum blonde hair and an outfit in dire need of a tailor.

>> No.6315413

>>6315263

>One hundred years of solitude
>Spanish

Are you fucking stupid

>> No.6315428

Dark Enlightenment enthusiast.

>> No.6315431

Gets involved in a secret sex society that no one can find online.
Google it.

>> No.6315566

>>6314463
that one japanese guy on the anubis in gravity's rainbow

>> No.6315616

>>6314463
Every Murakami protagonist.

>>6315428
Ignatius J. Reilly.

>>6315431
The dude from Choke.

>> No.6315619

>>6313421
Writes a book by order of a syphilitic, but fails to complete his task, because of what he is sentenced to stay neither in heaven, nor in hell.

>> No.6315635

>>6315619
Dude from Pale Fire.

>> No.6315637

Alligator hunter.

>> No.6315644

>>6315635
No

>> No.6315646

gets pulled into a murder because of his morbid longing for the picturesque

>> No.6315650

>>6313820
Iago

>> No.6315659

>>6315646
Raskolnikov.

>>6315637
Benny Profane.

>> No.6315662

>>6315659
nope

>> No.6315667

Knew from the beginning

>> No.6315669

>>6315659
You're right about Benny Profane.

>> No.6315673

>>6315646
Richard Papen from The Secret History. If you just look up morbid longing for the picturesque you get a million tumblr blogs that quote the author

>> No.6315681

>>6315650
You got it champ

>> No.6315683

>>6315307
<3

>> No.6315696

Fat guy walking through the woods

>> No.6315702

Gets kicked out of girlfriend's house by a dead baby

>> No.6315719

>>6313666
hamlet

>> No.6315723

>>6313678
joes garage

>> No.6315727
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>>6314001

Nice one.

>> No.6315805

>>6313421
Dr. Drag-queen-of-the-night

>>6315702
Paulie D

>>6313979
Meursault

>> No.6315818

>>6313421
She kept the body on the bed.

>> No.6315826

goes native in tahiti and paints

>> No.6315829

>>6315826
A brief biography of Gauguin?

>> No.6315838

>>6315667
Dr. james Sheppard from the murder of roger ackroyd

>> No.6315845

>>6315829
yeah close enough (his fictionalized biography by Maugham)

>> No.6315858

>>6315845
Is it any good? I liked BDSM People.

>> No.6315869

>>6315858
Its my favourite novel, The Moon and Sixpence its called... I highly recommend it

>> No.6315893

>>6313616
Anything by Nietsche

>> No.6315926

>>6314225
Rousseau

>> No.6315941

vegetable king

>> No.6315952

>>6315893
Who?

>> No.6315966

>>6315805
>Meursault
Nope.

>> No.6316019

>>6313684

Don kwee o tay

>> No.6316048

>>6313421

sci fi writer calls mirrors leaks

>> No.6316066

>>6313984
perks of being a wallflower

>> No.6316071

>>6314328
Max from that book with jews and holocaust

>> No.6316089

>>6313466
Kek.

>> No.6316095

>>6313678
Shit.

>> No.6316105

>>6313421
She's so fucking insanely in love with her step son that she kills him because he eventually denies her love.

>> No.6316112

Her grandmother was pimping her (and/or torturing her).

>> No.6316432

>>6314328
Robert Cohn

>> No.6316577

Has a stupid friend and finds a job for both of them

>> No.6316667
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>>6313498
>tfw you will never live in a post-scarcity mobile spacetown like a very wholesome galactic gypsy

>> No.6316689

>>6313631
is he in a country that isn't for him or other males of his age cohort?

>> No.6316737

An edgy faggot dressed all in black who's actually Jesus

>> No.6316744

>>6315727
Noice job.

>> No.6316973

>>6316737
Johnny Cash?
>>6316066
no, that happened? (sudden aroused interest)

>> No.6317043

Slut cheats her husband and spends her time with her two lovers, talking with coles and shit.

>> No.6318424

>>6316105
Andromaque?

>> No.6318426

>>6316105
>>6318424
Phedre, sorry

>> No.6318442

he builds a farm, has a red beard, and resists modernity

>> No.6318452

She's mute but cute.

>> No.6318468

>>6318426

once again confirming that the only people who ever read plays are the french

>> No.6318480

Is was ;_; a bit too concerned with rabbits and alfalfa.

>> No.6318546

>>6318480
Lennie :(

>> No.6318550

had a shitty wife and had an affair with a qt student

>> No.6318553

>>6318550
That guy who's high all the time

>> No.6318557

>>6317043
Poor poor Emma B?

>> No.6318562

>>6316737
Neo in Matrix?

>> No.6318565

>>6313763
I don't know but I want to know (I thought Geza Csath but probably not)

>> No.6318570

>>6316737
Tatsuya in the final ep.

>> No.6319153

Fucks a pig.

>> No.6319168

Big white babby.

>> No.6319183

Man turns into a monster but isn't a beast type.

>> No.6319513

>>6318452
Katawa Shoujo

>> No.6319712

>gets some 15 year old fuckin' wasted
>rapes her nice and hard
>cums all over her feet
>want to marry a 15 year old
>wants to cum all over her feet
>kills self instead

>> No.6319760

Turned down for being ugly and poor when young, shit leads to a lifetime of depressing meaningless sex with sluts from all ages and a good job

>> No.6319770

>>6316112
Tragic story of the candid idkwhatfuck by Marquez

>> No.6319775

Stranded orange robot alien

>> No.6319839

He has epilepsy

>> No.6319854

>>6319712
I need to read this book

>> No.6319969

>>6315818
A Rose for Emily

Rich Russian guy does absolutely jack shit.

>> No.6320099

>>6319839
Mychkine

Or any epiletic fictional character

>> No.6320421

>>6318468
Thank my middle and high school french/latin teachers

>> No.6320429

He's poor and eats oranges most of the time.

>> No.6320475

>>6319153
tyrone slothrop
>>6319183
gregor samsa

>> No.6320544

>>6313421
He's jesus if jesus was born in 19nth century Russia.

>> No.6320595

>>6320544
Mychkine

>> No.6320737

>>6319168
The judge

>> No.6320965

>>6320429
Siddhartha?

>> No.6320980

Professional scapegoat (literaly)

>> No.6321026

/lit/ if /lit/ were as smart as they pretend to be

>> No.6321042

>>6321026
Ignatius

>> No.6321106

Honest young man travels with hyperbolic companions

>> No.6321134

>>6321106
Candide?

>> No.6321135

>>6321134
not bad

>> No.6321155

>>6321042
nope, not a neet

>> No.6321206

>>6313665
Things fall apart guy

>> No.6321263

>>6316048
What is this one??? It's driving me crazy.

>> No.6321383

pubescent edgelord

>> No.6321396

>>6321263

Some shitty vonnegut novel

>> No.6321400

>>6321263
It's from Breakfast of Champs I think

>> No.6321454

>>6321383
holden caulfield

>> No.6321473

>>6314222
kafka...the idiot?

>> No.6322512

>>6314225
Jean Valjean

>> No.6322519

loves a girl, marries her, she starts to hate him

>> No.6322572

Guy stays at home and fucks hookers (and other weird people) rather than contributing to society, because society aint fancy.

>> No.6322574

>>6313687
Batman

>> No.6322576

>>6313838
Is he also a big guy for you?

>> No.6322578

>>6313684
>escapes death sometimes
Do you mean he sometimes doesn't escape death? Also, Quixote.

>> No.6322579

Guy makes fish. Guy goes to war. Guy comes back and makes fish. Guy tries to start another war. Guy makes fish. Dies.

>> No.6322581
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>>6322519
Stoner?

>> No.6322583

Can't cope with sudden and unexpected change, stops going to work and becomes somewhat of a burden on his family. After he dies, his family is much happier.

>> No.6322588

>>6315616
How are the people from 1Q84 asexual? Entire chapters are about fucking each other.

>> No.6322591

A pretty strong guy that is mean to his underlings but he can back it up with his own self-taught philosophy of egoism. Plus, the guy is fucking brutal.

>> No.6322598

>>6314328
At first I thought this was a name.

>>6316577
Biography of my friend.

>> No.6322599

>>6322583
Shrek?

>> No.6322603

>>6322581
yep

>> No.6322604

Guy marries a woman who is older than him because he thinks he needs a wife, but she is only after his money (of which he has not as much as she thinks he has.)
Spends most of his time reading and thinking about books, doesn't really get humans.

>> No.6322611

>>6322583
Metamorphosis?

>> No.6322615

>>6322611
Yep.

>>6322599
It's all ogre.

>> No.6322617

His gift was a kane.

>> No.6322623

>>6322583
Gregor, my very personal nigga.

>> No.6322628
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>>6322579
Colonél Aureliano Buendias

>> No.6322631

>>6321263
Kilgore Trout

>> No.6322654
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>>6313421
He can't read his gf mind

>> No.6322662

>>6322654
Not Charles Xavier.

>> No.6322664

>>6313421
He followed a man across the desert

>> No.6322669

>>6322654
W-wait a minute.

Mr. Grey?

>> No.6322677

>>6322669
No. Wanna hint?

>> No.6322684

>>6322677
The guy from Divergent?
The guy from the Hunger Games?

Ron Weasley?
Dracula (the coppola one)?

>> No.6322693

>>6322684
No.

>> No.6322697

>>6322693
Jacob from Twilight?

>> No.6322698

>>6322693
Wait, I could be wrong. It could be Charles Xavier...

>> No.6322703

>>6322697
No, but you are close anon.

>> No.6322708

>>6322703
Ok, let me focus really hard.


Moot?

>> No.6322714

>>6322703
Edward?

>> No.6322719

>>6315237
Salvador dali or robert pattinson who plays him in little ashes

>> No.6322721

>>6322572
The dude.

>> No.6322724

>>6322714
Yes! If only /lit/ read real literature that shapes minds of milinons you would guess faster.

>> No.6322726

>>6321106
Fox McCloud.

>> No.6322730

>>6319183
Jeckyll?

>> No.6322733

>>6318452
Hellen Keller

>> No.6322735

>>6313695
murakami

>> No.6322738

>>6322724
Well, it was a deduction from these:
>>6322703
>>6322697
I'm neither of them.

>> No.6322743

>>6322738
I'm the one who took the wild guesses, and knew it from the beginning.

Because I watch movie critics, and Twilight was among them

>> No.6322932

>>6313476
Sylvia Plath?
Oh, wait...

>> No.6322938

>>6313731
Don't talk smack about Rush, honky.

>> No.6322946

>>6322664
The man in black field across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
That'd be Roland.

>> No.6322956

His best friend has stripes.
Orange and black ones.
Also probably autistic.

>> No.6323001

>>6322956
Calvin.

>> No.6323015

>>6323001
I thought his names was Hobbes.

>> No.6323031

He's definitely going to get you killed. He raped and murdered someone once and didn't even get punished.

>> No.6323057

>>6313421
A mexican or something who drank a lot with his shitty friends.

>> No.6323066

>>6313684
COLONEL AURELIANO BUENDIA

LONG LIVE THE REBELLION

>> No.6323070

>>6314463

>>6315566
>>6315616

nope

>> No.6323096

Doesnt cry for his dead mom.

>> No.6323162

>>6323096
That guy from The Stranger?

>> No.6323166

>>6313421
the kid

>> No.6323170

>>6323162
Mersault

>> No.6323181

>>6323170
Was that a yes?

>> No.6323399

>>6313502
nausea?

>> No.6323416

>>6313421
a nogger amongst the blankards of this dastard century

(sorry jamba)

>> No.6323452

A gay, overdressed university student tormented by guilt over the actions of his friends.

>> No.6323456

>>6315276
>Moody girl that lives with her mom and eventually with a brother who lives the literary lifestyle.

>> No.6323491

>>6313421
He is Assyrian. Or at least claims so.

>> No.6324096

Teaches at a small college, expert on a man who did nothing wrong.

>> No.6324200

>>6313421
Arsonist with big head

>> No.6324209

>>6313421
agrophobic cop

>> No.6325384

Manlet mad about being cuck by superior BBC

>> No.6325409

Who are all these eggheads? Oh Christ, not another fucking PR motivational speech. Are they going to ask me to say something? Fuck it, I'mma say something. Gimme another jeroboam of beer first. This university is the shits.

>> No.6325455

>>6324209

Vertigo

>> No.6325476

>>6316737
Easy, Severian

>> No.6325556

>>6323031
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Your typical mexican.

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Yo. Ssarian