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>hamlet
>not about a little pig

>> No.12950811

>lolita
>not about a little girl

>> No.12950823

>>12950811
>lolita
>not about Ita telling a funny joke

>> No.12950839

>infinite jest
>book actually ends
>isnt even all that funny

>> No.12950841

>>12950774
lmao fair play

>> No.12950847 [DELETED] 

You've lost me on this on m8

>> No.12950852
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>Soft Machine
>I was hard through most of it

>> No.12950858

You've lost me on this one m8

>> No.12950882

>>12950774
>the magic mountain
>it's not magic they just all have tuberculosis

>> No.12950897

>>12950774
>A Christmas Carol
>none of the characters is called Carol

>> No.12950902

>>12950897
actually a carol is like a song you sing at Christmas bro, not trying to be mean but I think that's what he meant with he title

haha don't mention it bro always happy to help out

>> No.12950914

>>12950774
>Finnegans Wake
>he's sleeping

>> No.12950915

>Stoner
>Guy doesn't even smoke weed

>> No.12950922

>>12950774
>dante's inferno
>it's not actually *his* inferno

>> No.12950947

>Steppenwolf
>It's about a werewolf on the steppes

I was surprised, I thought the title might not be accurate.

>> No.12950958

>To Kill a Mockingbird
>They never kill a mockingbird
wtf

>> No.12950959

>>12950902
Don't ever reply to me again

>> No.12950969

>1984
>Written in 1949

>> No.12950978

>>12950959
I'll fucking reply to you as much as I want princess

What the fuck are you going to do about it?

>> No.12950981

>Fahrenheit 451
>book is actually at room temperature

>> No.12950991
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>>12950902
<- you

>> No.12950993

>>12950852
based

>> No.12951090

>>12950774
>hatchet
>nothing actually hatches

>> No.12951317

>>12950981
Not for long

>> No.12951328

>>12950914

>Finnegans Wake

>> No.12951332

>>12951090
Your joke fails because a hatchet is an actual thing faggot. Also, you’re wrong because the main guy hatches from his shell of easy, urban living.

>> No.12951337

>>12951332
imagine being the guy who tonepolices shitposts on a mongolian pottery board

>> No.12951375

>Slaughterhouse Five
>First four volumes of the Slaughterhouse series were never published

>> No.12951384

>The Fountainhead
>About some fucking ginger

>> No.12951387

>Oliver Twist
>Oliver doesn't do gymnastics

>> No.12951448
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>The Sound and the Fury
>uh what

>> No.12951483

>>12951337
Try it, it’s fun

>> No.12951491
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>>12951448

CADDUH! CADDUUUHHH!

>> No.12951497

>The Raven
>It's actually a crow

>> No.12951499

>>12951448
>”searing dicussion of race”
>white people bad

>> No.12951519

>A Clockwork Orange
That’s a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?

>> No.12951524

>>12951519
>The Wanting Seed
>MC is a cuck

damn Burgess was on a roll

>> No.12951548

>>12950902
Thank you Anon

>> No.12951573

>>12950774
>the catcher in the rye
>no mention of baseball the entire fucking book

>> No.12951626

>>12951573
Yeah but he catches a lot of pseuds who had to read him in high school apparently.

>> No.12951633
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>The Republic
>describes a fascist state

>> No.12951657

>>12951633
the real republic was the friends we made along the way

>> No.12951663

>book of the new sun
>he just refuels the old sun

>> No.12951668
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>Grapes of Wrath
>grapes have nothing to do with it

>> No.12951679

>The Picture of Dorian Gray
>it's a novel without illustrations

>> No.12951730

>10 furry monsters
>there are actually 11
Fucking bullshit.

>> No.12951735

>Watchmen
>super hero team is called The Crimebusters

>> No.12952774

>>12950959
Huh?
HUH?!

>> No.12952780

>>12950922
Why did I laugh at this. I pictured him having his own "inferno", like a little pond in the backyard, full of suffering souls.

>> No.12952782

>The Black Company
>Has like two black people in it

>> No.12952825

>>12952782
>Shadows Linger
>Shadows only become relevant a few books later. No mention of them whatsoever

>> No.12952835

>Don Quixote
>features zero coyotes

>> No.12952852

>moby Dick
>only one chapter is actually about a giant dick

>> No.12952892

>>12950774
>sneeds feed and seed
>it's actually chucks

>> No.12952905

>>12952825
>The White Rose
>Not about flowers

>> No.12953024

>>12952905
>Shadow Games
>Noone takes a break to play games with their shadows. They must be pretty frustrated

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>>12950774

>> No.12953219

>>12950897
cringe

>>12950902
Based and helpful

>> No.12953224

>>12950922
Except it's just called 'Inferno'

>> No.12953230
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>>12951328

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>>12953224

>> No.12953246
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12953246

>A portrait of the artist as a young man
>no pictures of little boys

>> No.12953247

>>12950774
>Stoner
>sober

>> No.12953251

>>12950823
actually laughed at this lmao

>> No.12953633

>>12950774
>Jack London
>is American

>> No.12953735
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>>12953246
>Ulysses
>Uly isn't in the book so we never find out what he sees

>> No.12953860

>>12951633
Republic = !monarchy

>> No.12953876

>The Stranger
>know who he ia

>> No.12953954

>>12952892
>formerly

>> No.12953959

>>12951633
It describes a technocratic state of which the fascist state is a type, yes.

>> No.12954024
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>>12953202
i don't get it

>> No.12954026

>>12950922
>dante's inferno
>is in the public domain

>> No.12954100

>ten little niggers
>all characters are white

>> No.12954815
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>>12950774
>novel
>it's old as shit
Literally every time

>> No.12954989

>>12954815
kek

>> No.12955028

>>12954024
sneed

>> No.12955031

>>12955028
i know that one
still don't get it

>> No.12955052

>>12955031
feed and seed --- formerly Shuk's (we all know we don't aktually need C in english)

>> No.12955059

>>12955052
okay
i don't understand

>> No.12955071

>>12955059
you don't need C's in english therefore you should have typed "okay
i kokn't unkerskant" even though kant is dumb i'm a khomisk you know

>> No.12955079

>>12955071
okay, that's fine

>> No.12955087

>>12955071
Loving it bro, you do you

>> No.12955099
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>the unnamable
>it's the name of the book

>> No.12955106

>>12951332
Then OP's joke doesn't work either because a hamlet is also a real thing, retard.

>> No.12955187

>>12950774
>Harry Potter
>about a hairless child who never made a ceramic pitcher in his life

>> No.12955828

>The Lord of the Rings
>Titular character is never seen and his only dialogue is recounted by another character.

>> No.12956476

>>12950774
Cute post OP

>> No.12956486

>>12950922
The title is actually Hell.

"Inferno" just means "Hell" in Italian. There's no reason not to call it by its English title
but no publisher has the balls to call it that because "Inferno" is more marketable
The books of the Divine Comedy are Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Anyone calling them by mistranslations or Italian words is a chump

>> No.12956489

>Jurassic Park
>most of the dinosaurs are from the Cretaceous

>> No.12956491

>>12950947
not bad
>>12951663
F

>> No.12956497

>>12956476
Not as cute as you bro

>> No.12956503

>>12953202
heh, nice one

>> No.12956508

>>12956489
This genuinely annoyed me when I was a kid and knew everything about dinosaurs

>> No.12956511

>>12954815
kek

>> No.12956540

>>12955187
nice

>> No.12956633

>>12956497
:3

>> No.12957904

>Crime and punishment
>True punishment was the friends he made along the way

>> No.12957989

>the Idiot
>real idiots were the friends he made along the way

>> No.12958010

>>12953024
>She is the Darkness
>She is actually rather pale

>> No.12958032

>>12950774
>Norweigan Wood
>no mention of Norwegians with erections

>> No.12958097

>Catch-22
>phrase was not even invented at publishing date
What was he thinking?

>> No.12958142

>>12950774
>1984
>read it in 2018

Orwell was a hack.

>> No.12958152

>>12950774
>The Lovely Bones
>the bones were average at best

>> No.12958160

>>12950774
>brave new world
>world is neither new nor displays any courage whatsoever

>> No.12958199

>>12950774
/cutepost/

>> No.12958349

>Epictetus
>isn't very epic at all

>> No.12958454

>No longer human
>He’s a human the entire time

>> No.12958469

>>12958454
>No longer human
>He's quite the manlet actually

>> No.12958563

>>12950774
>/lit/
>it’s not at all lit, barely anyone is here

>> No.12958589

>The Great Gatsby
>Just some posturing flyover state bootlegger with a childhood crush, nothing "great" about him
>Surname isn't even really "Gatsby"

>> No.12958759

>>12950774
>do androids dream of electric sheep?
>features no electric sheep

>> No.12958762

>>12950774
>Twilight
>mostly takes place during the day

>> No.12958784

>Diamond Age
>fabrics made out of diamonoid in the story
>not Diamonoid Age

>> No.12958831

>IT
>not about a father disgusted at his son going mtf and referring to him as "it" in his suicide/murder note

>> No.12958855

>Confession of a Mask
>it's not about The Mask confessing his sins in church

>> No.12958862

>Demons
>The real demons were the friends who recommended this shit to me

>> No.12959068

>The Prelude
>is an entire poem of 12 or more 'books,' and about 300pp

>> No.12959172

Most of these are so awful. Why does /lit/ have such a shitty sense of humor?

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>>12957904

>> No.12959794

>>12959374
Stop watching anime.

>> No.12959829

>>12958097
>Catch-22
>Catch-1 to Catch-21 were never published

>> No.12959878

>>12958097
he was a prophet, he knew that phrase would become relevant later and wanted to be the first to capitalize on it

>> No.12959912

>>12959172
Because the majority of the people that post in these threads are women

>> No.12960723

>>12958759
are you retarded?

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>>12951657
>Learn the Socratic method of cooking
>All of the recipes are questionable

>> No.12961152

i love all you guys
i wish i could give you all fellatio

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>fear and trembling
>not even fucking scary

>> No.12961566
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>ecce homo
>no gay sex to speak of

>> No.12961696

>Atlas shrugged
>Greek mythology character is mentioned but never appears

>> No.12961707

>Candy
>not about sweet food

>> No.12963131

>>12950774
>the gay science
>it's not about jizz-ics, cum-istry or guy-ology

>> No.12963271

>The Color Out of Space
>is about invisible radiation

>> No.12963969

>>12953202
sneed

>> No.12964101

>Ulysses
>It's not about Ulysses S. Grant

>> No.12965543

>>12950774
>OP
>not about a pige