/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10585778]

>book ends with its title

[Anonymous No.10585786]

>At last it truly was "The Holy Bible King James Version".
What the fuck, God.

[Anonymous No.10585795]

>>10585778
>And so at last, Oedipa had truly become The Crying of Lot 49

[Anonymous No.10585796]

>>10585778

>We are finally becoming Plato's Republic, published by Penguin

[Anonymous No.10585801]

>>10585786
Weakest entry I've ever seen in one of these threads.

[Anonymous No.10585810]

>"Ah, I really am such an The Idiot!"

[Anonymous No.10585894]

>>10585801
Glad you enjoyed it

[Anonymous No.10585913]

>>10585795

The actual ending does end with the title, though.
>Oedipa settled back, to await the crying of lot 49.

[Anonymous No.10585916]

>>10585913
That's the joke

[Anonymous No.10585946]

>Hurrah for The Brothers Karamazov!

really??

[Anonymous No.10585955]

>>10585801
t. butthurt christian

[Anonymous No.10585958]

>>10585810
>>10585946
kek

[Anonymous No.10585965]

>>10585916
No it's not. You're a pseud who tried to pretend you had read the book but got caught. No sense in backpedaling, fag, this is an anonymous board.

[Anonymous No.10586012]

>>10585778
>"That's a strange name, Kvothe. What does it mean?" Her young breasts and angelic hair jiggled softly.
>"I-It's a secret," he muttered, leaning into her succulent ear to whisper. "It's actually The Name of the Wind."
literally threw the book out at this point

[Anonymous No.10586076]

>This is my story. This... is Mein Kampf

[Anonymous No.10586141]

>>10585955
More like his post was unoriginal.

[Anonymous No.10586194]

>>10585796
Damn that caught me off guard. Not my proudest laugh.

[Anonymous No.10586221]

"... of Juliet and her Romeo"

>close, but no cigar

[Anonymous No.10586232]

>His life truly was an Infinite Jest.

[Anonymous No.10586243]

>>10585965
you need to go back

[Anonymous No.10586262]

>>10585955
As a christian i thought it was kinda funny.

[Anonymous No.10586270]

>>10585810

ha!

[Anonymous No.10586304]

HHGTTG ends "... the restaurant at the end of the universe?" which is the next book in the series.

>not exactly what OP had in mind, though.

[Anonymous No.10586377]

>>10585965
wow you are new

[Anonymous No.10586632]

>Yes Yes, Leopold has finally become the Ulysses

[Anonymous No.10586658]

>His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

[Anonymous No.10586670]

>The fox trotted away with a sly smirk on his face, insisting he had no interest in another one of Aesop's Fables.

[Anonymous No.10586672]

>>10586658

[Anonymous No.10586677]

>In the end, this book was a good Thing Explainer.

[Anonymous No.10586678]

>Whack Fol-De-Dah now dance to your partner
>Welt the floor, your trotters shake
>Wasn't it the truth I told you
>Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake

[Anonymous No.10586681]

>>10586678
>Finnegans

[Anonymous No.10586685]

>>10586678
>>10586681

[Anonymous No.10586725]

>The next day, Gregor awoke from a good night's sleep feeling rested and replenished, only to realise it had all been a dream--I mean all that stuff about The Metamorphosis.
Way to crap the bed at the end, Franzi.

[Anonymous No.10586740]

>>10586678
>>10586681
>The moment we realised we had been dreaming all that crazy shit was when we heard the banging at the door.
>"Finnegans, wake!"

[Anonymous No.10586773]

>>10585778
>book doesn't end but causes an infinite recursion where it feeds back into itself

[Anonymous No.10586779]

>In the end we had succumbed to our Inherent Vice

[Anonymous No.10586787]

>>10586670
Those fables aren't even good anyway

[Anonymous No.10586811]

Gosh darn it, I really AM a psycho...an American Psycho.

[Anonymous No.10586821]

ALERT! All of these people are lying. I looked them up. Report this thread.

[Anonymous No.10586854]

>If I was one of them writers you know what I'd call this time of the day?
>Ye.
>Some people call it sunset. You know what I'd call it?
>Ye.
>...no, you don't.
>Ye.
>Why do you keep saying that? Sometimes I wonder if you ever even listen to me.
>They rode on.
>Anyway, you know what I'd call it? I'd call it blood meridian.
>He spat as the other mumbled.
>Or, the evening redness in the west.
Why the ending seems to confuse so many people is beyond me.

[Anonymous No.10587203]

>and so, as he was arriving into Siberia, Rodion looked through the window, staring into the horizon, and, for the first time in his life, confidently said:

>"At last, after all these years, I am finally Crime and Punishment"

[Anonymous No.10587219]

>Then I woke up, and I was No Country For Old Men

What did Cormac mean by this?

[Anonymous No.10587232]

>AND SO finally I stopped being Ishmael, and became Moby Dick

[Anonymous No.10587238]

>And so at last he really was The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha

[Anonymous No.10587247]

>>10587238
>tfw the ending is literally the opposite of that

[Anonymous No.10587549]

>>10587203
A kek for me a (you) for you

[Anonymous No.10587561]

like some kinda FULL CIRCLE type of thing

[Anonymous No.10587567]

>AND SO, AFTER ALL THE MISERY HE CAUSED IN HIS FAMILY, THE TARWATER BOY FINALLY ACCEPTED HIS FATE AND FINALLY BECAME the violent bear it away.

Powerfull stuff

[Anonymous No.10587580]

>and so Charles, having refound his faith in God like Lord Marchmain at his death bed, kneeled at the chapel, and finally reached God's Grace, having at last become Brideshead Revisited

[Anonymous No.10587600]

>>10587219
A sensible chuckle

[Anonymous No.10587611]

>>10585965
it really was the joke dude, relax

[Anonymous No.10587625]

>>10587232
i chuckled

[Anonymous No.10587627]

>and so, after accepting that everybody he knew was deep throat into some form or another of hypocrisy, The Swede accepted at last that he had finally become American Pastoral

[Anonymous No.10587640]

>At this, Count Bezuhov sighed heavily and said, "I really have seen more than any man's fair share of War and Peace."

[Anonymous No.10587643]

>Haha you stupid motherfucker, I can't believe you're actually going to fucking do it! WOAH. OH MY GOD. APOLLONIUS YOU'VE DONE IT. YOU HAVE FUCKING FULFILLED YOUR SACRED PACT. OF ALL THE MATHEMATICIANS WHO HAVE EVER LIVES YOU HAVE WRITTEN On Conic Sections Book V in Arabic, translated by G.J. Toomer.

Seriously Apollonius? This is so corny it could be in the movie theaters.

[Anonymous No.10587646]

>If you're reading this...you finally found my Notes From the Underground

[Anonymous No.10587658]

>Nick found himself wondering whether he could ever again be as excited as he was during his summer with The Great Gatsby

[Anonymous No.10587660]

>Haha you stupid motherfucker, I can't believe you're actually going to fucking do it! WOAH. OH MY GOD. APOLLONIUS YOU'VE DONE IT. YOU HAVE FUCKING FULFILLED YOUR SACRED PACT. OF ALL THE MATHEMATICIANS WHO HAVE EVER LIVED THIS IS BY FAR THE GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT YOU HAVE WRITTEN Conics Books V to VII: The Arabic Translation of the Lost Greek Original in the Version of the Banu Musa: Volumes I & II Edited with Translation and Commentary by G.J.Toomer

Seriously Apollonius? This is so corny it could be in the movie theaters.

[Anonymous No.10587780]

"I don't like sand", said Mycroft while licking Saladin's face, tears in his eyes. "It's coarse and irritating and it gets everywhere. It's, dare I say it, Too Like The Lightning".

[Anonymous No.10587786]

>kvothe suddenly paused. his eyes were aflame with the fiery indignation of a raging pool that was simultaneously a burning orb and yet somehow neither at the same time. "hmph," he sneered to no one in particular. "these truly have been the kingkiller chronicles: part one - in the name of the wind"

[Anonymous No.10587803]

>>10585965
Fucking hell

[Anonymous No.10587807]

>I am legend

I liked the book but really?

[Anonymous No.10587857]

>And so we come to the end of this journey. Looking at the heap of discarded paper on my desk and thinking of the days past, I realize I'm still in search of lost time.

[Anonymous No.10587872]

the end

[Anonymous No.10587931]

>>10587857
heh this is actually plausible

[Anonymous No.10587937]

>>10585965
get a load of this guy

[Anonymous No.10587940]

>>10586012
>>10587786
you fuckers

[Anonymous No.10588020]

>Horatio pulled down the pants of his deceased friend, sighing disappointingly "i guess you really were a hamlet"

[Anonymous No.10588065]

>>10585965

[Anonymous No.10588080]

"I guess the real infinite jest is the friends we made along the way"

Kill yourself, David Fraudster Wallace.

[Anonymous No.10588133]

>>10586304
please go back to /r/eddit man

[Anonymous No.10588171]

>>10585778
>Oh god, that was amazing... You're so big... You really were a very hungry caterpillar

[Anonymous No.10588187]

>>10585965

[Anonymous No.10588218]

>A screaming comes across the sky.
Gravity's Rainbow is definitely not corny at ALL

*rolls eyes*

[Anonymous No.10588235]

>>10588218
i don't get it

[Anonymous No.10588245]

>>10588235
The point is, I was being sarcastic. Gravity's Rainbow is really corny for ending that way

[Anonymous No.10588263]

>>10588245
ALLLLLL TOGETHER NOW!

[Anonymous No.10588271]

>>10585965

[Anonymous No.10588394]

>>10588080
This is the best post in this thread

[Anonymous No.10588404]

>>10588263
AND THERE'S SOMETHING TERRIBLY SAD AND BANAL ABOUT THAT

[Anonymous No.10588798]

> At this most important juncture in his life, Rodion Rasolnikov looked back at the events of the prior years with a fond sort of sorrow, as it were, the cycles of discovery and destruction, so to speak, that has folded him into the man he was today, one who had relinquished himself in the light of the almighty, that the repetitions of his life has finally come to end, those being sin and saviour, enlightenment and disgrace, crime and punishment.

[Anonymous No.10588834]

>And thus ends the Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.10588851]

>>10588798
ayyy

[Anonymous No.10588857]

And out
Of
My hairy cunt
Spilled forth
Gently
A waterfall
Made
Of milk and honey

[Anonymous No.10588858]

>Ah, this truly has been a Metamorphoses.

[Anonymous No.10588862]

>>10585778
>"The scientist is named Frankenstein"

[Anonymous No.10588871]

>And that's the story of how I got caught in the rye.

[Anonymous No.10589031]

>But there was never a day I didnt think of her. Indeed, my most precious memories will always be the ones about that time I visited The Capital.

[Anonymous No.10589045]

>And that, my dear readers, was quite a Confession.

...THIS is the guy that wrote War and Peace?
.

[Anonymous No.10589085]

>>10585778

>You thought that story was tragically boring, did you? Well, it was the Story of Your Life, after all

[Anonymous No.10589100]

>>10585965

[Anonymous No.10589106]

>"Now *THATS* what I call a Goldfinger!
Wow Fleming became more and more of a hack with every novel.

[Anonymous No.10589126]

>I guess this has been My Diary

What the fuck, me

[Anonymous No.10589134]

>And now, as I shuffle off this mortal coil, I must conclude... my diary desu
Really, Anon?!

[Anonymous No.10589173]

>The rope swung creaking, destined to bear the weight of Shrek Forever.

[Anonymous No.10589212]

>>10589173
Deep.

[Anonymous No.10589259]

>and so ends the stories of your life and others
Ted I don't get it.

[Anonymous No.10589481]

>O'Brian put one hand of the dial and held out his other 397 hands in front of Winston with the thumb of one of his hands hidden.
>"How many fingers am I holding up?" O'Brian asked
>1984" replied Winston
>The needle of the dial shot up to 55, the pain was unimaginable
>"How many fingers, Winston?"
>"1984"
>The needle went up to 60
>How many fingers, Winston?"
>"1984! 1984! what else can I say? 1984!"

Stopped reading there desu, what was Orwell thinking?

[Anonymous No.10589501]

>>10585946
wait a sec, doesn't it actually end like that, where the kids are cheering alyosha. fuck lol

[Anonymous No.10589524]

>>10588798
>looked back at the events of the prior years with a fond sort of sorrow, as it were, the cycles of discovery and destruction, so to speak, that has folded him into the man he was today, one who had relinquished himself in the light of the almighty
Is this the ending to another book refashioned over Crime & Punishment? If not nice job breh because that sounds like it could be the end to a similar novel.

[Anonymous No.10589530]

>>10589045
>...THIS is the guy that wrote War and Peace?
kek this one got me

[Anonymous No.10589537]

>>10589481
>Stopped reading when the book ended.
really activates my almonds.

[Anonymous No.10589610]

>The trapeze artist's costume ripped along his backside with an audible crack, and a more horrible sound of wrongness accompanied what followed: A torrent of dyed diarrhoea, tracing behind the acrobat in an arc of myriad shimmering colours. The audience watched on, mesmerised by a true Gravity's Rainbow.

fucking postmodernists

[Anonymous No.10589782]

>>10585778

>Title ends with book

t. The Jungle Book

[Anonymous No.10590394]

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
....
And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.

[Anonymous No.10590409]

>>10586773
Finnegan's wake is a masterpiece

[Anonymous No.10590445]

>>10589524
cheers brah, not that i know of but i certainly might have read it somewhere and remembered without realising.

[Anonymous No.10590454]

>theyd finally found, the Blood Meridian

[Anonymous No.10590461]

>One Hundred Years of Solitude later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
Really Márquez?

[Anonymous No.10590472]

>and finally, I have finished telling the story of my The Histories

[Anonymous No.10590476]

>...and after decades of kampf, the blood and soil of our race buried for good The Myth of the Twentieth Century.

[ITT /lit/ demographics No.10590502]

>>10588871
kek

[Anonymous No.10590506]

>and that's the story of how I became the Neuromancer.

[Anonymous No.10590507]

>>10585965

[Anonymous No.10590527]

>Arriving in America they no longer were The Emigrants and instead would become
>The immigrants. Chapter one

[Anonymous No.10590544]

> The name's Martin. Daniel Martin.
Come on now Fowles

[Anonymous No.10590570]

>To this account, I, Severian the Lame, Autarch, do set my hand in what shall be called The book of the New Sun.

[Anonymous No.10590724]

>It turned out the IRS was the real Pale King all along

[Anonymous No.10591170]

>>10586243
>>10586377
>>10587611
>>10587803
newbies

[Anonymous No.10591259]

>>10590461
why is that line so memorable though

[Anonymous No.10591587]

>>10587640
Heh

[Anonymous No.10591775]

>>10588862
sensible chuckle

[Anonymous No.10591809]

>>10591170
Look at him trying to save face

[Anonymous No.10592063]

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing the Catcher in the Rye

[Anonymous No.10593116]

Home at last, it truly was an Odissey.

[Anonymous No.10593179]

>>10593116
>Homer at last, Iliad such a great time, it truly was an Odyssey

[Anonymous No.10593187]

>>10592063
>I had this dream, about being in the rye, catching people - y'know, catching people in rye, like some kind of rye-bound catch-person, or, like, a catcher from some rye - I guess all in all, after all these years, finally I became, The Catcher In The Rye.

what the fuck

[Anonymous No.10593225]

>>10586773
>>10590409

>tfw your stuck reading the insane ramblings of a schizophrenic fart-huffing paddy for the rest of your life because you're too much of an indecisive soyboy to decide where the book should actually end.

[Anonymous No.10593279]

>>10585778
When the Judge was done raping him in the jakes the man shat the red-white porridge into the shit-hole and he saw it form along the rim of the water like a little blood meridian.

[Anonymous No.10593376]

>>10586262
>yfw she actually had just misunderstood the whole "tearing your robe" thing

[Anonymous No.10593394]

>But now, dear reader, you must choose, either or.
Thanks, Kierkegaard, thanks