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Describe your favorite book in 5 words, bonus points to correct answers.

>Jay your parties are lit!

>> No.11548885

>>11548815
These grapes are angry! Capitalism

>> No.11548892

>>11548815
Only torment comes from killing.

>> No.11548934

>>11548815
We can't yet understand it.

>> No.11548950

>>11548815
Labyrinths, libraries, ruins, time, dreams.

>> No.11548951

>>11548815
Some jew walks around Dublin.

>> No.11548955

>>11548885
The Grapes of Wrath

>>11548950
Ficciones

>>11548951
Ulysses

>> No.11548959

>>11548950
The Circular Ruins in particular

>> No.11548967

Man falls, dies, wakes, then

>> No.11549019

Nothing really matters to me

>> No.11549036 [DELETED] 
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>>11548815
Man finds a new home

>> No.11549057

Man gets angry in space

>> No.11549115

>>11548815
Man finds a new home

>> No.11549121

it’s bad to murder people

>> No.11549123

The Devil visits Soviet Russia

>> No.11549135

>>11549123
Master and Margarita

>> No.11549139

A whale of a tale!

>> No.11549146

Thrifty jew succeeds in Hollywood.

>> No.11549159

>>11549139
this is just my face: try not to stare by gabourey sidibe

>> No.11549186

Stolen girl gets stolen again

>> No.11549187

Axe murderer finds God

>> No.11549192

>>11548815
Rocket boners World War Two

>> No.11549193

Cuckold Hitler enthusiast gets revenge

>> No.11549198

Man on island laughs last

>> No.11549200

>>11548967
Finnegan's Wake (ending loops back, clever)

>>11549019
L’Étranger

>>11549057
The Bible

>>11549139
Moby Dick

>>11549187
Crime and Punishment

>> No.11549203

(cont.)

>>11549192
Gravity's Rainbow

>>11549193
White Noise

>> No.11549204

Everyone's dead. To Colorado!

>> No.11549205

Some guy likes to read

>> No.11549206

Painter stalks woman and reeeeeee's

>> No.11549214

Cartoonist's wife gets groped. Sad!

>> No.11549216

>>11548815
Winning coin toss in Texas.

>> No.11549217

>>11549057
>>11549200
The bible?

>> No.11549219

Local hill person terrorizes town

>> No.11549223

>>11549216
No Cuntry for Old Men

>>11549219
Child of God?

>> No.11549224

>>11549223
>Child of God

Yes!

>> No.11549232

>>11549203
>white noise

>>11549200
>crime and Punishment

Yes and yes

>> No.11549245

>>11549217
grrrrrr *pops the universe out* whew

>> No.11549251

Pilot faces logically contradictory situations

>> No.11549252

>>11548815
battle royale bitch with bow

>> No.11549255

>>11549252
fortgames hungernite

>> No.11549262

man nauseated by tree, life

>> No.11549273

Smart slave better'n Maryland white.

>> No.11549284

All in the literary canon:

1. judge indians dead baby tree
2. sensations, journeys to the past
3. suicide, serfs, adultery, farming, God
4. parody and pedophilia: travel novel
5. love, death, revenge, the moors

>> No.11549287

angry man alone in room

>> No.11549292

>>11549284
1. Blood Meridian
3. Madam Bovary?
4. Lolita

>> No.11549307

>>11548967
quality post

>> No.11549335

>>11548815
Cuck Jew Day of Everything

>> No.11549347

>>11548815
Bear attack leads to vengeance

>> No.11549358

>>11549347
The Revenant?

>> No.11549382

>>11548815
Savage finds sex utopia, suicides

>> No.11549391

>>11548815
Torturer has really good memory.

>> No.11549442
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>>11549192
was waiting for someone to post this

>> No.11549452

i want to fit in

>> No.11549478

>>11548815
A skeleton becomes a god

>> No.11549485

>>11548815
Job hunting and day drinking

>> No.11549488

Brave New World?

>> No.11549490

Stoner, but Roman and mail.

>> No.11549491

>>11549284
2. slaughterhouse 5
5. othello?

>> No.11549492

>>11549382
brave new world

>> No.11549496

>>11548815
two men wait for god.

>> No.11549498

The struggle of Aldof Hitlar

>> No.11549509

>>11548815
Some crazy German makes music

>> No.11549545

>>11549490
Augustus

>> No.11549561
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>>11548815
Check out my new coat

>> No.11549562

>>11549509
Doctor Faustus?

>> No.11549572

>>11549562
Fuck yeah man.

>> No.11549604

>>11549572
I think we might be the Super Mann bros. At least if you're the guy I'm thinking of.

>> No.11549606

>>11549604
I doubt it. But I pretty much like any and everything by him.

>> No.11549627

>>11549606
Idk, I saw some guy praising Joseph and Faustus in some thread in reply to me a day or two earlier. Othereise it's rare to see Mannposters on /lit/,in my experience. I still need to get to Buddenbrooks and MM, but I think I'll get MM first since when Mann IS posted about it's basically the only one people actually talk about.

>> No.11549650

>>11549627
Yeah definitely go with Magic Mountain. after it you should check out Joseph and His Brothers, both are great

>> No.11549733

>>11549206
El Túnel, de Sábato.

>> No.11549735

>>11549733
You sound like a snob, just use the English name.

>> No.11549752

>>11548892
Crime and Punishment?

>> No.11549763

>>11549733
Yep

>> No.11549804 [DELETED] 

>>11548815
a little puff of air

>> No.11549815

>>11548815
Rockstars kill the baby Christ

>> No.11549830

Its hot, shoots arab, dies

>> No.11549837

What about aragorns tax policy?

>> No.11549840

Sad because no penis

>> No.11549928

Mom's boyfriend fucking sucks now

>> No.11550710

>>11549498
Siege?

>> No.11550719

>Hero dead; bunny, save us

>> No.11550730

>>11548950
The Name of the Rose?
>>11549830
The Stranger

>> No.11550734

Wyatt is a faggot artist

>> No.11550744

Without God, everything is permitted.

>> No.11550765

>>11549284
3. Anna Karenina
4. Lolita.

>> No.11550970

Bros k

>> No.11551217

>>11548815
fisher dreams greater than reality

>> No.11551239

>>11549284
2. Proust?

>> No.11551253

>>11549335
Ulysses is already above.

>>11549496
Waiting for Godot

>>11549840
Atomised

>>11550734
hmmmmmm... a difficult one... does it include parties in New York?

>>11550744
The Stranger again?

>> No.11551270

>>11548815
a Singer in the south

>> No.11551272

1. Roman Emperor: stop worrying idiots

2. Roll bolder forever, be happy

3. Eating kids could help Ireland

4. Ugly males answering questions sadly

>> No.11551288

>>11551272
1. Aurelius?
3. A Modest Proposal by Swift?
4. Hideous Men by DFW?

>> No.11551296

>>11551288
Yes to all.

>> No.11551297

>>11551272
2. The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein

>> No.11551301

>>11551297
Lol nope.

>> No.11551367

>>11548815
guy BTFOs cripples and women

>> No.11551375

Some jews profits from war

>> No.11551386

Handsome faggot magically stops aging

>> No.11551408

>>11551386
Peter Pansexual

>> No.11551419

bald, glasses, sea, penis, notblack

>> No.11551420

>>11550744
>>11550970
oops didn't quote

>> No.11551427

>>11551272
Meditations
Myth of sisyphus
Modest proposel
Brief interviews with hideous men

>> No.11551437

am rational, me fuck daughter

>> No.11551443

White family degenerates, negroes endure.

>> No.11551448

>>11549287
Notes from the underground

>> No.11551453

>>11549287
My dairy desu

>> No.11551461

>>11551253
>The Stranger again?
Try again, anon.

>> No.11551465

>>11549627
Death in Venice and him wanting to fuck his own son get mentioned from time to time

>> No.11551469

>>11549840
The Wasp Factory?

>> No.11551476

>>11550744
Karamazov?

>> No.11551480

>>11550744
This’ll be Brothers Karamazov

>> No.11551521

1. Mental asylum conditions should improve

2. d3leuZe-_wAs~~®1ght(((((also+drugs!)))))

>>11551427
Got em all

>> No.11551538

>>11548934
Anything HP Lovecraft

>> No.11551547

>>11551408
No

>> No.11551548

>>11549840
The Sun Also Rises

>> No.11551555

>>11549186
The Iliad?

>> No.11551561

>>11551476
>>11551480
Yep.

>> No.11551568

>>11551521
Realms of the Unreal
Fanged Noumena

>> No.11551580

Idiot family buries their mother

>> No.11551588

1)Revenge in 1000+ pages
2) Me and my Roman husbando
3)A robot cat becomes God
4)Old people are unnatural freaks
5)Faking my death 2 times

>> No.11551592

>>11549193
The Tunnel

>> No.11551803

>>11551548
Correct

>> No.11551850

>>11551588
Monte Cristo
Divine Comedy
Final Fantasy
Lolita
My diary desu

>> No.11551877

>>11551580
As I Lay Dying

>> No.11551889

>>11551850
Only 1) and 2) are correct

Hint: 3) and 4) are sci-fi

>> No.11551898

>>11548815
angry kid have had enough

>> No.11551908
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11551908

I'm gonna describe the trilogy here, since they're all my favourites.
>everyone's going nuts over a baby being born, man climbs big castle
>Earl to the castle grows up to a young man, castle gets older
>Young man wanders around, reaches his home, then immediately leaves before seeing it, finally becoming a man

>> No.11551922

>>11551908
five words you big fucking idiot

>> No.11551925

>>11551922
That was six words dumbass

>> No.11551964

>>11551443
Sound + fury

>> No.11552013

>>11551908
I gotta rewatch that now. Thanks nerd.

>> No.11552021

finnegan's wake!

>> No.11552035

>>11552021
Someone already did it better than you

>> No.11552420

Youth steals pet, attempts exit.

>> No.11552731

Sad tennis player does drugs

>> No.11552879

Boy jacks it to Beethoven

>> No.11552942

>>11549251
Hell of a catch

>> No.11552989

Man Hitch-hikes to Alaska, starves

>> No.11552997

>11550744
Crime and Punishment?

>> No.11553000

Hot incest on alternate Earth

>> No.11553004

>>11552997
>>11550744
oopsie forgot a >

>> No.11553716

>>11549837
Gay of thrones

>>11549928
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea

>>11551386
Picture of Dorian Gray

>>11552989
Into the Wild

>>11552879
Clockwork Orange

>>11552731
Infinite Jest

>>11549198
Cat's Cradle?

>>11549262
Nausea

>> No.11553732

>>11551964
Yep

>> No.11553737

>>11553000
Game of Thrones?

>> No.11553748

>>11553716
yup my dude.

>> No.11553777

>>11551521
1. One flew over the cuckoo's nest

>> No.11553821

>>11553737
no, but it fits I guess, although mine fits more literally

>> No.11553830

>>11548815
I really fucking like madeleines

>> No.11553923

i love a little girl and she loves me back

>> No.11553966

i'll kill those windmills m'lady

>> No.11554455

>>11549478
Lord of the Flies?

>> No.11554461

>>11549485
Factotum?

>> No.11554673

>>11553716
>Picture of Dorian Gray
yup

>> No.11554918

Black twins,mongoloid,idiot,telekinesis

(I'd be really surprised if anyone know this one)

>> No.11554942

>>11549735
To be fair there is another novel named “The Tunnel”

>> No.11554946

>>11553830
In search of Lost Time

>> No.11554973

>>11548815
People... betray... rape... kill... people

>> No.11554977

>>11549840
The Second Sex

>> No.11554983

ambition made me do it

>> No.11554984

>>11553830
Did you read past the first chapter?

>> No.11554985

banana banana banana banana banana

>> No.11554990

My Dad Was A Monkey!

>> No.11555046

>>11549206
Lust for Life

>> No.11555223

Some animals are more equal

>> No.11555278

>>11553716
I was Sailor, very nicely done

>> No.11555298

we live in a society

>> No.11555311

perverted sexual escapades with eggs

>> No.11555393

wander doubt sucks rock wander

>> No.11555470

>>11549292
1 and 4 are right, +2

>>11550765
+2

>>11551239
right, +1

>> No.11555628

guy smells nice, orgy ensues

>> No.11555673

>>11554984
Yeah it’s just the most famous part of the book

>> No.11555699

Everyone dead. Wait, a nuke?

>> No.11555738

>>11554983
Macbeth
>>11554985
Gravity's Rainbow
>>11554990
The Origin Of Species
>>11555223
Animal Farm
>>11555628
Brave New World
>>11553966
Don Quixote
>>11553923
Lolita
>>11549146
Tender Is The Night?
>>11549121
Crime and Punishment
>>11555393
On The Road
>>11555298
The Republic

>> No.11556183

>>11555738
>>11555628
not brave new world heh heh

>> No.11556220

>>11556183
Das Parfum – Die Geschichte eines Mörders

Lose three fingers and friends

>> No.11556231

ancient souls and many highballs

>> No.11556235

>>11548815
Reddit. Reddit, reddit reddit - reddit

>> No.11556242

>>11555311
Story of the eye

I should have embalmed her

>> No.11556255

>>11554918
MORE THAN HUMAN

My dead friend was hairy

>> No.11556298

>>11549262
War and Peace

Evil Rasputin fucks everything up

>> No.11556311

>>11556220
Du hast recht :))

>> No.11556565

>>11549840
Gentlemen & Players

>> No.11556574

Revisiting childhood just doesn't work.

>> No.11556678

>>11548815
Fuck this town, I'm leaving.

>> No.11556688

Drawing a Line 'cross Americka

>> No.11556691

Why does this hurt me?

>> No.11556695

Sad Jap gets fucked up

>> No.11556707
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>>11556688

>> No.11556822

>>11556574
Catcher In The Rye
>>11556691
Suttree (probably wrong)
>>11551375
A Fable
>>11549273
Twelve Years A Slave
>>11556298
Nicholas and Alexandra?
>>11555699
A Canticle for Leibowitz

>> No.11556865

>>11556695
No Longer Human?

>> No.11556979

>>11555738
Not on the road

>> No.11557021

"can you see them coming?"

>> No.11557059

>>11548815
A man never gains entry.

>> No.11557162

Thinking is illegal

>> No.11557170

>>11557059
Kafka the castle

>> No.11557188

rhetoric conceals he's a pedo

>> No.11557225

>>11556822
Regarding #5, nope, not EVOOL enough

>> No.11557236

>>11557162
Is counting to 5 illegal also?
1984 (feels too obvious)

>> No.11557243

Belgian fights war and paints

>> No.11557244

>>11555628
Perfume?

>> No.11557440

>>11548815
No I can fucking not.

>> No.11557539

>>11551588
4 The Hellbound Heart

>> No.11557546

It's only smells

>> No.11557709

Greek dude gets lost at sea

>> No.11557716

Angry farm animals get political

>> No.11557724

the pleasure of being cummed inside

>> No.11557727

Madman throws people out garden

>> No.11557728

>>11557727
Genesis

>> No.11557749

Moustache man struggles at life

>> No.11557763

Retarded bakers shouldn't touch sisters.

>> No.11557921

>>11557236
Why use 5 words when 3 are enough?

>> No.11557944

>>11557727
The selfish giant?
>>11557921
Part of the exercise, I guess
Have I guessed tho?

>> No.11557951

War ain't serious. Actually is

>> No.11557960

pianist has an anxiety dream

>> No.11558017

Dude looks north and dies

>> No.11559292

Gonna do several books:
I'm a very pretty jackass.
Our dad is a jackass.
It was out of spite.
How much do beans cost?
This jew's daughter is hot.
Rich New Yorkers are cunts.
I can't remember anything, god.
I'm going to ruin myself.
Fuck sales jobs, kill me.
My friend's a dangerous retard.
Fuck Napoleon, the sky's gorgeous.
I wanna save the children.
Fuck social obligation and shit.
Everyone fucking dies; ice zombies.
Those guys fucked me over.
Books are for faggot radicals.
I'm an insufficient human being (alternative: Watched my wife get raped)
Fuck being a rural teacher
What cats actually do everyday
corn corn corn corn corn
autistic scientist destroys entire world
was sick, now gonna work
Men are puppets of Gods
Crime in japan at night
assassin wakes in alternative reality
evil wizard actually british man
mead halls, fuck monsters doe
fuck this ship taking me?

>> No.11559330

german boy refuses to grow

>> No.11559335

>>11559330
mein kampf

>> No.11559348

War of bureaucrats threatens Man

>> No.11559353

>>11559330
the tin drum

>> No.11559362

Woke up and became roach

>> No.11559437

>british knights go on adventures

>> No.11560231

>>11559292
>Fuck Napoleon, the sky's gorgeous.
War and Peace>>11559292
>evil wizard actually british man
Wizard of Oz>>11559292
>Men are puppets of Gods
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