/lit/ - Literature

>The Satanic Verses
>It's actually a novel

>Infinite Jest
>Finite

>Homer - The Iliad
>Homer Simpson not present

>Les Miserables
>they end up more miserable

hugo you hack

>The Picture of Dorian Gray
>it's a book
Wilde you fuckin dumbass

>>8515985
>the brothers karamazov
>they're actually half brothers

>>8515985
It says somewhere in the 10 forwards in the book that 'comedy' meant dramatic poem or some shit back then.

>God is not Great
>God is great

>>8516264
It's a story with a happy ending for the protagonist.

>Heart of a Dog
>he already has not the heart of a dog but the heart of a man
For real Bulgakov you fucked up

>'The Great Gatsby'
>Is actually the mediocre Gatsby

>Things Fall Apart
>everything remains intact

>The Seven Against Thebes
>the city was actually attacked by nine dudes

>>8516321
Except for okonkwo's windpipe l0l

>The Age of Innocence
>all the characters are guilty of something
Of course a woman wrote this

>>8515985
>The Pale King
>Not about a pale king

>>8516248
Kek

>>8515985
>Master and margherita

>No cocktails were drunk

>>8515985
>Finnegans Wake
>no apostrophe in title indicative of possession
>Finnegan is not captain of a bitchin speedboat
>nor the speedboat itself
>nor even in the book

>>8516248
Hugo was black, not hack.

>my struggle
>his life is not very hard

>>8515985
>Crime and Punishment
>no lex talionis
this revenge boner's not gonna milk itself Fyodor

>>8516248
i actually laughed out loud

>kafka on the shore
>czechoslovakia is a landlocked country

>The Catcher in The Rye
>They were never on a field

>>8515985
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>written by some german autist

>Grapes of Wrath
>Nigga these grapes ain't even mad

>>8516782
underrated post

>the Iliad
>they're in good health most of the time

>Ulysses
>There isn't any characters named Ulysses in the book

>>8515985
>The Lottery, and Other Stories
>I got an ebook, so no scratch ticket

>Midnight's Children
>no it is not, it is a time of day
should've titled it /lit/'s Children, Sal

>A Clockwork Orange
>Not fruit-making clocks

>Catcher in the Rye

>Doesn't get buttfucked

>>8515985
>Notes from Underground
>Protagonist not a subterranean mammal

>The Idiot
>Main character is the smartest

>Incredibly Loud and Extremely Close
>it's actually silent and held at a comfortable distance

>>8515985
>Finegans Wake
>put me to sleep

>>8516782
>>czechoslovakia is a landlocked country

Not according to Shakespeare

>Norwegian Wood
>Setting is Japan

>Middlemarch.
>Doesn't take place in the middle of March.
>Never has a military March halfway completed.

Wtf I hate Eliot now.

>>8515985
>Inferno
>It's cold

>The Sound and the Fury
>it's just words on a page

>Black Dahlia
>not a flower

>Infinate Jest
>reads as Infanate JUST

>>8515985
White people.

>>8517850
Also not funny.

>>8517662
Underrated post

>Harry Potter
>He has no profession, nor has he even hit puberty in the first book

>A post, >>8519131, in a thread that names titles of books and negates the content of said books based on the suggestion of said titles.
>Ignores said pattern.

>>8519153
>Hairy
>Potter (one who creates pots)

He was stretching it quite far but it does fit the pattern.

>>8519153
>The joke
>Your head

>All Quite on the Western Front
>constant shelling and machine guns

>Hopscotch
>How de fuck do i jump into this shit

>woodcutters
>not even about lumberjacks

>>8517662
You mixed up your adjectives in the title famalam

>>8516782
actually he moved to Trieste, which is on the Adriatic Sea

>>8516248
only good post ITT

>>8515985
>Hamlet
>Not a baby pig in sight

>the lost domain
>actually really easy to find

>the great gatsby
>not very great at all

>of human bondage
>not even a slave

>Fahrenheit 451
>Non-Autismos would have to read a data book to know the autoignition temperature of paper

>>8516323
kek

>The Three Musketeers
>There's actually four

More like Dumbass

>>8517820
Yours has the most mathematical value ITT

>>8516271
Yes, he is.

>>8516323
>The Three Musketeers
>There's more than three musketeers

>Don Quixote
>He's called Don Quijote

A Tale of Two Cities

Duh there are way more than two cities

>FWTBT
>does not mention Metallica

>The Hobbit
>there are several

>Contact
>I wasn't touched

>Paradise Lost
>never lost my faith

>underworld
>is actually just a normal story about baseball

>>8521250
infinite jest : tennis :: underworld : baseball?

>>8516264
Divine Comedy is called like this because is a Comedy in the sense that
"starts bad, ends well"
tragedy
"starts good end bad"
Divine because is good, not because it meddles with the divine.
Signed, Boccaccio.

>>8519722
it's not even correct iirc

>>8519755
kek'd

>Dead Souls
>dead serfs on a paper list

>>8516248
5 star post

>>8521362
>Dead Souls
>Not developed by FromSoft

>>8516009
not true btw

>>8516248

>>8516248
I wonder how many of these people actually understand why this is funny

>>8521255
don't talk to me or my don ever again

>Underworld
>no vampires or werewolves

DeLillo you almost had me

>>8515985
It's funny as Hell.

>>8516382
Lol

>>8517706
Literally this

>Lord of the Rings
>Frodo only gets one ring

>>8521831
I wonder if you do because it's a pretty simple pun

>>8522339
But he isn't the lord either

>The Return of the King
>African-Americans are still oppressed

>>8522346
Then who the hell is

>>8522380
Are you serious?

Sauron is the Lord of the Rings, as he controls all the other rings with the One Ring

>the great hunt
>they find the horn in the first book

>>8522386
WTF

>The Oven
>Doesn't mention the six million

>>8522392
You really didn't get that?
Have you read the books?

>>8522392
>>8522380
>>8522339
Dude

"[E]ven if we could [hide the Ring], soon or late the Lord of the Rings would learn of its hiding place and would bend all his power towards it."

"Hush!" said Gandalf from the shadows at the back of the porch. "Evil things do not come into this valley; but all the same we should not name them. The Lord of the Ring is not Frodo, but the master of the Dark Tower of Mordor, whose power is again stretching out over the world. We are sitting in a fortress. Outside it is getting dark."

>>8522403
>reading the anglocentric equivalent of anime

>>8522257
I Kek'd

>>8522412
>Comparing one of the most influential works of western literature to a japanese phenomenon

>>8522341
So you probably don't, for one

>>8522463
"Les", the French word, is understood as "less", the English word.

Is there more to it than that?

>>8522463
You forgot your colon caret right parenthesis face

>The Virgin Suicides
>One of the suicidals was a slut

>>8522601
Just that the "s" isn't pronounced in french, so it's not just a pun but an extremely clever "I don't know how to pronounce this" joke too, very layered, could've been served with a side of >reading translations

>>8522604
)v;

>>8522671

Jesus you are autistic, anyone who's heard them say "Les Mis" out loud knows this

>>8522671
You sound like a faggot.

>Stoner.
>The book doesn't involve drugs.

>>8516009

Kek.

>>8522410
"Truly, we are all The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," Gandalf quickly added.

>>8522724
n i c e

>>8522671
What kind of turbo retard unironically pronounces it 'less' or 'lez' Miserables?

>>8519795
r u retarded

>>8516806
I keked

>>8522671
>>8522604
>>8522463
>>8522341
>>8521831

holy shit the autism

>History of Western Philosophy
>History of Horrible Interpretations of Western Philosophy

>The Sublime Object of Ideology
>Not sublime at all

>>8516983
Oh but there is dear sir.

>>8522601
thanks i genuinely didn't understand

>death of the author
>didn't use a pseudonym or even publish anonymously

i'm not joking, he's a piece of shit

>The Apology
>Socrates doesn't apologize for anything

>>8516271
>>8519765
He's a fucking hack

>>8521264
>what is a joke

>>8522671
In the words of the immortal Matthew Mcconaughey, "You should probably kill yourself."

>>8523573
Apology means "defence" in greek.

>>8516948
The Iliad is aptly named cuz all those rhymes are ill as fuck.

>>8522359
Subtle

>>8521264
In classical lit/drama, everything was considered a comedy if it wasn't a tragedy.

>>8522443
>Phenomenon

>The Great Gatsby
>Pathetically in love AND a cuck

>restart browser
>gather none of the Yous
fuck

>an american tragedy
>asshole gets what he deserves

>>8523694
Yes.

>as I lay dying
>bitch is already dead

what the fuck faulkner

>>8524059
>already dead
try reading it again, friend

>>8517700
>George Eliot
>not even a man

>>8516806

kek

>>8517064

Yes he does, by his teacher and then he rapes his sister in that corn field. Did you even read the book you faggotron?

>Divine Comedy
>actually the most heartfelt and profound work of literature in any language, touching upon the deepest anxieties of man and allowing for a cathartic realization of our own mortality while also bringing us closer to god

>>8517643
this actually triggered me, just because it sounds like something a friend would tell me after I recommended the book to them

>>8516255
> Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
> 404 artist not found

>>8516335

>>8524880
>recommending books to friends
>having friends
Pleb

>IT
>none of the characters even use computer

>Dr. Faustus
>not a doctor and not Faustus

>Frankenstein
>the monster isn't called Frankenstein

>>8524314
>lists of italians

>>8524314
>actually a circulautist medieval Romaboo anon's deep dark fantasies

>>8522671

Everyone is laughing at you

>>8524314
>>8525527
DEEPDARKFANTASY
>V-Virgilio-sempai...

>>8524314
Are you talking about "I hate deez guys so they are in hell in my mindcanon: the book"?

>rabbit, run
>no rabbits run

>>8522359
Very nice

Didn't get it at first, checked the filename. Multilayered, some would say

>>8525397
underrated. I LOL'd

>no longer human
>after all still human
one nuke wasnt enough

>>8515985
>Divine Comedy
>not funny

>>8516295
Name a single Gatsby better than The Great Gatsby protip you can't

>>8522724
Jesus Christ really?

> Heart of Darkness
> Takes place in Africa, where the sun always shines
Joseph Conrad, more like Fucking Retarded

>>8519795
He's called Alonso Quijano, you retarded neger.

>>8522671
seriously I hate you

8/10 bait you stupid self-important faggot

>>8525718
ever heard of night?

>>8527161
No Africa is near the equator, so they get perma sun 6 months of the year

>>8516248

An omg so randum thread.

>>8527209
what the FUCK

>>8527209
subtle

>>8527209

>>8525718
>Darkness
Bruh, niggers.

>>8523800
Thats the joke

>>8515985
>Flight of the Doves
>The take a boat

>>8515985
>In Praise of Older Women
>Has nothing nice to say about older women

>>8525783
Or maybe Quijano, faggot.

>>8515985
>Trainspotting
>Not even once

>>8515985
>Young Stalin
>Contains no advice on contemporary menswear

>>8515985
>The Republic
>It's a dictatorship

>>8515985
>The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
>Is an adult

>>8515985
>Breakfast Of Champions
>Martini

>>8525694
True

>>8515985
>The Wasp Factory
>Destroys wasps

>>8515985
>Anna Karenina
>barely even cares about her own son

>>8516803
top kek

>>8516832
underrated post

>>8523170
Best post

>>8522671
That was an implicit part of >>8522601's post. Hence
>understood

This thread is for that kind of comedic ignorance (pun intended), after all.

>>8523706
Damn straight son

>>8515985
>Breakfast Of Champions
>Martini

>a christmas carol
>is actually a novel and not meant to be sung at christmas

>Our Man in Havana
>he isn't their man

>>8516295
because you didn't understand what it was about

>a good man is hard to find
>a good man is the main character

>Religion for Infidels
>postulates a form of atheism for religiously-minded people

no one will have read it but oh well

>>8529670
Well, is he good at hiding though?

>>8529688
not really
he's recognized pretty much immediately

>>8529420
Update it then /fa/ggot

>One Piece
>The treasure actually features many piece of gold

>>8529750
isnt the real treasure the friendship they find along the way or some shit
havent read this in 10 years

>>8529772

No The Hack himself confirmed it's a real treasure with gold and shit.

>Stoner
>the book isn't about geology

>>8529892
>Stoner
>Book isn't about weed lmao

>>8529866
That's a good thing.

>The Metamorphosis
>Not about how he got turned into an insect

>>8529919
>Die Verwandlung
>not about killing transformers

>>8529444
If she had a niña she would have Kared but she had a niño.

>The portrait of the artist as a young man
>Not a portrait, not depicting an artist, and not a biography

>>8529905
>Stoner
>the book isn't about biblical era capital punishment

>>8529717
was waiting for this :^)

>>8530130
But....that's a very literal title

>>8521831
I wonder if you wear velcro shoes

>The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
>Is communist propaganda

>The Immortal Game
>most of the villains die

>>8530913
there's a difference between a theoretical text and propaganda.

>Rat King
>Isn't about rats, just some fucking idiots in a Vietnamese concentration camp

>Infinite Jest
>Not fun

>The Metamorphosis
>not about someone named Verwandlung dying

>>8515985
>the Divine Comedy is not funny
>
Confirmed for not reading it
Or reading it translated or something
>some people do this

>the soft machine
>all these erections

>gravity's rainbow
>not enough gravitas

>the loser
>dude's a virtue-oso

>1984
>Wasn't even 1984

>Atlas Shrugged
>Not a single Greek God character

>>8532063
Actually, it was 1948. I suspect he was dyslexic.

>To Kill A Mockingbird
>No actual bird hunting takes place

>Something Wicked This Way Comes
>Actually a supportive good natured family

>>8532173
Well the year is never for certain. The Revolutions of the party took place in the 60's and Winston only had his age to go off of.

The book itself was finished in 1948 which is fortunate because the author would die in two years time.

>>8532236
I cant tell if you're trying draw out the joke or not.

>>8532465
He got you. He even posted a picture of a caught fish.

>>8515985
>At Swim-Two-Birds
>not about a pair of reverse flying fish