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ITT: feels books have given you.

>tfw you will never attend one of Gatby's parties

>> No.4302842

>>4302816
Did you read the book?

Than you've attended. (Unless the book never shows any of the actual parties.. I've never read it)

>> No.4302853

>>4302842
reading something and experiencing something are not the same thing.

>> No.4302886

>tfw you will never fuck Winston Smith's whore in 1984

>> No.4302901

>>4302886
I too legitimately felt this feel

>tfw you can not have pretty much any piece of meat you want sliding up and down your dick like in Brave New World

>> No.4302906

>>4302816
>tfw you will never go on a fishing trip in Spain with Hemmingway

>> No.4302909

>tfw you will never receive an everlasting gobstopper

>> No.4302914

>>4302901

>you will never play erotic games in kindergarten

>> No.4302917

>tfw you will never meet a Hainish diplomat and be invited to join the Ekumen

>> No.4302922

>tfw you will never run off to florida with your wife's hot cousin

>> No.4302927

>>4302909
>tfw when you will never run barefoot and fancy-free down a Parisian street, sleep in an giant papier-mache elephant and be the mascot of a mini-revolution

>> No.4302929
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>>4302853
Memories are all that result from a good time at a party anyway.

>> No.4302933

>>4302929
not entirely true.. I got herpies from a whore at a party, and I know another guy who now has a child from a girl he slept with at a party.

>> No.4302937

>>4302816
>tfw you will never attend one of Edmund Dantes' parties

>> No.4302939

>>4302937
>tfw you will never get to attend a nazi party

>> No.4302944

>tfw you are too old to fly to Neverland

>> No.4302948
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4302948

>tfw you will never have sex with a 12 year old

>> No.4302955

>>4302816
>you will never be moravagine's accomplice

>> No.4302953

>tfw you will never taste lembas

>> No.4302960

>tfw you will never have sex in zero-gravity

>> No.4302965

>tfw you will never be a beautiful youth cavafy reminisces on

>> No.4302977

>tfw you will never. visit Maui-Covenant

>> No.4303005

The point of the book was that Gatsby's parties were decadent and frivolous, you retard.

>> No.4303013

>you will never be visited by monelle

>> No.4303036

>>4303005
And the point of Brave New World's socially accepted sluttiness is detrimental to society, yet someone still said >>4302901

>> No.4303067

>tfw you will never feel Edward's cold but strong embrace

>> No.4303096
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4303096

>tfw you will never go on a nihilistic tirade and ruin some prostitute's week
h-hold me, /lit/

>> No.4303115

>>4302901
>tfw you will never come across a drug as good as soma

"All of the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects."

>> No.4303141
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>tfw you will never be whisked away by your long distance gf

>> No.4303143

>>4303096
hahaha

>> No.4303161
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4303161

>tfw when you'll never have tea and go on a splendid jaunt with Sebastien and Aloysius.

>> No.4303184

>>4302960
you might.

>> No.4303187

>you will never be a elderly jewish intellectual who is accosted by a black pickpocket and shown his tumescent junk

>> No.4303206
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>>4302977
>nor God's Grove
>or Renaissance V

>> No.4303208

>you will never kill an arab

>> No.4303211

>you will never get aboard the Anubis

>> No.4303213

>tfw when you will never axe an old pawn broker and her daughter to death

>> No.4303217

>you will never get interrogated by Socrates

>> No.4303226

>tfw when you will never lose all your friends in an ill advised revolution

>> No.4303228
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4303228

>you will never see all your friends die in front of you at Stalingrad after your mother is gassed in the Ukraine

>> No.4303237

>tfw you will never step out into Diagon Alley from the back of a seedy looking place called the Leaky Cauldron with your half-giant friend to buy your supplies to attend your first year of wizarding school

>> No.4303245

>you will have to shoot your dog because he is rabid

>> No.4303254

>you will never die in a car crash with a celebrity

>> No.4303265
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4303265

>tfw you will never drink beer, play guitar, and watch a fire with midori

>> No.4303279
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4303279

>tfw you will never save Anne Frank in some sort of time machine

>> No.4303282
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>>4303237
:'(

>> No.4303306

>>4303228
Is that vassily grossman?

>> No.4303309

>You will never copulate with Oedipa Maas while listening to the Paranoids rock out

>> No.4303316
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4303316

>you will never join the German army with your childhood bros
>you will never take cover in mortal holes and bayonet French soldiers alongside them

>> No.4303320
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>>4303279
>tfw he succeeded and saved her

>> No.4303331
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4303331

>>4303320

>> No.4303334

>>4302816
What's those bitches' problems?

>> No.4303338

>>4303265
>tfw you will never save a group of young students from their abusive Yorkshire boarding school

>> No.4303344

>>4303279
>>4303320
Back to >>>/mu/

>> No.4303346

>you will never visit London Below
;_;

>> No.4303350

>tfw when al the doors between worlds are closed to save Dust

>> No.4303359

>>4303265
i'm guessing you don't mean the drink?

>> No.4303362

>tfw Danaerys' baby dies

>> No.4303365

>tfw "Peeta" or "Petyr"
Grrrrrr

>> No.4303369

>>4303362
It's a good thing I don't care about that shitty story.

>> No.4303371

>>4303344
y so insecure

>> No.4303373

>>4303344
Your meme isn't catching on
>>>/po/

>> No.4303378

>>4303369
>you will never see the glory of the Two Trees

>> No.4303382

>you will never eat onions and cheese with Ged and Tenar

>> No.4303392

>You will never be saved from death in the field by minor leg injury
>you will never get stuck with beautiful nurse
>she will never fuck you in your room

Hemingway wrote the original naughty nurse.

>> No.4303396

>you will never be hit in the eye by a baseball hit by a boy who will later become your best friend

>> No.4303398

>>4303359
Norwegian Wood?

>> No.4303401

>you will never be ravished by Dracula

>> No.4303429

>you will never have kinky sex with the cat in the hat

>> No.4303452
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>>4303429

>> No.4303514

>tfw you will never be an Indian, instantly alert, and on a racing horse, leaning against the wind, kept on quivering jerkily over the quivering ground, until one shed one’s spurs, for there needed no spurs, threw away the reins, for there needed no reins, and hardly saw that the land before one was smoothly shorn heath when horse’s neck and head would be already gone

>> No.4303521

>tfw you will never have your dick bitten off in a car crash

>> No.4303554

>>4303161
>tfw when you'll never have gheysecks with sebastian and charles

>> No.4303558
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>You will never watch your son kill the love of your life die during childbirth, and go back to a life of drinking.

>> No.4303671

>tfw you will never travel up the river in a steamboat in colonial africa

>> No.4303675

>tfw you will never join Glanton's gang and fight niggers and scalp injins

>> No.4303690
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4303690

>>4302906

>> No.4303707

>tfw you will never fight giants with your noble steed sancho panza ;_;

>> No.4303710

>>4303707
The steed's name is Rocinante.

>> No.4303711

>tfw you will never be a titular councillor
>tfw you will never diligently save up your kopecks to buy a new overcoat
>tfw you will never get mugged, lose the overcoat, then die of shock after you get told off for wanting it back
>tfw you will never become a ghost and terrorize st. petersburg

>> No.4303728

>>4303710
>tfw brain fart

>> No.4303821
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>>4302816

>you will never get wasted with your mugwump friend on toxic beverages
>you will never sodomize young arab boys
>you will never visit interzone

>> No.4303844

>you will never go on a roadtrip with a obsessive driver, a mute in the backseat and a crazy amount of jargon to go on about

>> No.4303858

> tfw you will never be quite as high as Hunter S Thompson.

>> No.4303886

>>4303858

Its not hard. Idk about pineal gland but everything else he does is pretty much readily available given a little leg work.

>> No.4303907

>tfw you will never be part of the fellowship of the ring

>> No.4303955

>>4303844
What book is this?

>> No.4303960

>you will never talk to unineteresting people on Gmail chat

>> No.4303966
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>tfw you will never fight in the shield wall alongside with Lord Uhtred.

Pic related.

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>you will never join a 19th century whaling ship

>> No.4304013

>>4302922
>You will never run off to florida with your wifes hot daughter

>> No.4304015

>>4303967
yeah this one hurts a lot

>> No.4304055

>>4302929
you still don't get the same kind of memories from reading about an event that you get from assisting it. i love reading and i love the fact that it partially lets you experience things you never actually did but lets not fool ourselves. it's still not the same

>> No.4304061

>>4303208
>the cure will never record a song about anything you do

>> No.4304065

>you will never have dinner with Tom Bombadil

>> No.4304071

>>4303514
k-afka?

>> No.4304079
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4304079

>you will never be as mad, energetic and enthusiastic as Dean Moriarty

>> No.4304081

>>4303955
Moby Dick.

>> No.4304082

>tfw you'll never get that little place and tend to the rabbits.

>> No.4304087
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>>4304082
Why do you do this to me?

>> No.4304088

>tfw you will never be emotionally destroyed by the P.G.O.A.T

>> No.4304090

>>4303967
Oh god damn it

>> No.4304186
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4304186

>tfw no qt Hermine gf to drag you out of your recluse life, teach you how to dance, show you the joys of partying, and take drugs with

>> No.4305216

>tfw you will never be a visceral realist
>tfw you will never be chased across the sonoran desert by a guy who measures his dick using a knife

>> No.4305323

>tfw you'll never ride a sandworm along with the fremen
>you'll never have spice

>> No.4305368
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>you will never know a donna hawthorne

>> No.4305386

>tfw you will never use your extensive knowledge of the Parisian sewage system

>> No.4305388

>you will never feel Thomas Pynchon's buck teeth scrape along the underside of your cock

>> No.4305414

>tfw you will never troll the editor's section so hard the paper refuses to publish any letters regarding your column- whether they are critical, laudatory, or indifferent- for fear of them being samefag.
>your country will never honour you with a stamp for doing this even if you did.

>> No.4305718

>>4303115
>implying

Give it a few years, anon.

>> No.4305733

>>4303558
Felt like deus ex machina to me. I was happy for him. The idea of that possible life is great, the reality isn't.

>> No.4305734

>you will never choke out Anne Frank while simultaneously kissing and sodomizing her

>> No.4305747
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>>4304186
That book gave me so many feels.

>> No.4305909

Notes from Underground was painfully poignant throughout.

>tfw you're deluded into thinking you're superior to everyone else
>tfw you're dying for human contact
>tfw the most exhilarating event in your life is forcing yourself to walk into a stranger

On a note guaranteed to elicit some rage, Asoiaf is one constant emotional kick in then nuts (fuck you lit, they're good books).

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>you will never be part of that Illustrious House which beats back the Papal Armies and unites all of Italy under one banner

>> No.4305983

>tfw you will never be a master forger spreading propaganda throughout Europe inevitably reaching a traumatic moment during a black mass in which you split into two personalities leading you to recount your stories in a journal that will allow you to return your memory

>> No.4305998

David Copperfield

>The relationship between David and his long time childhood friend Steerforth was exactly like a friendship I had in which I was David and a friend was Steerforth. He didn't die like Steerforth did but he did fall into a spiral of depression and poverty, and substance abuse that he ever managed to pull himself from.

>> No.4306094

>you will never walk with your droogs doing some good old ultraviolence

>> No.4306119

>>4302816
>You will never fish with Old Man Santiago while discussing baseball with him.

>> No.4306631

>tfw you will never be a poor but bright and ambitious son of a carpenter in Bourbon Restoration France

>> No.4306635

>>4306094
You can actually do it y'know. Just join a gang or some shit.

>> No.4306689

>>4303373
Go somewhere else tripfag

>> No.4306895

>all I wanna do is fuck guys and build this railroad Goddamit!

I know your feels dagny, I know your feels

>> No.4306942

>you will never be raped by a half-ape, half-man monstrosity

>> No.4306976

>you will never be transformed into a giant vermin and watch as your family grows to hate you as you die a slow painful death.

>> No.4307032

>>4306635
>you will never do so while high on moloko

>> No.4307042

>>4306976
But I already am.

>> No.4307067

>tfw you will never have amazing sex with a voluptuous librarian milf who breastfeeds you as you both discuss Dostoevsky

h-hold me lit

>> No.4307296

>you will never fuck hermione in the gryffindor common room
>you will never have sexual experiences in kindergarten with little girls
>you will never get wasted on soma
>you will never build a cathedral
>you will never fly in a spaceship to distant planets
>you will never live in rivendell
>you will never fuck your blonde sister
Killme.avi

>> No.4307312

>>4307296
>spaceship to other planets
space in general tbh

>> No.4307331
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>tfw you will never make decisions that result in a century of bloodshed and ethnic tensions
>tfw you will never fight heroically on the Marne against the unstoppable Hun advance
>tfw you will never encircle and obliterate Cossacks at Tannenberg

>> No.4307349

>>4302816
>Hunger
>reminded me of being about 21, completely socially isolated in college
>my few friends had mostly ditched me
>social paranoia
>my dorm was littered with trash, skipped class a lot and looked at pornography all day
>people treat me like the token crazy guy, like the character in hunger
>the part where he gets hit on by the random waitress and chokes up happened verbatim a lot of times
>that pomposity and feeling of frustrated impotence

I hate to say it, but that book will always mean something to me

>> No.4307356

>>4307067

>iktf.jpg

>> No.4307374

>>4304079
MY FEELS!!!

>> No.4307691

>tfw i'll never get to work shadow George Orwell for a day during his time in Paris working at the hotel

>> No.4307793

>you will never wake up one day to find yourself transformed into a monstrous vermin

>> No.4307799

>>4302816
>Song of Ice and Fire
>I will never be a prostitute at one of Little Finger's brothels.

>> No.4307994

>you will never mutilate an old man and turn yourself in

>> No.4307997
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>you will never go on a hitchhiking trip across america in an adventure with friends

>> No.4308013
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>You will never save a baby raccoon

>> No.4308014

>you will never be the youngest son in a vaguely aristocratic English family in the 1920s, alternating your days between lounging around your family's country manor throwing weekend long dinner-parties, and going into London to play cards at the club
>your life will never be a PG Woodhouse novel
hell, I'd settle for an Agatha Christe novel

>> No.4308018

>>4308013
That picture ;_;

>> No.4308024
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4308024

> you will never waste your life and not get the woman you love because you are too lazy, afraid and complacent to act on your feelings.
OH WAIT

>> No.4308041

>>4307032
yeah you can

you want 'vellocet'? - grind some opiates into your milk

'synthemesc' - just tip in some mescaline powder

'drencrom' - get your hands on some adrenochrome and add it in

>> No.4308044

>>4307997
this is the only one, apart from perhaps the loose sexual codes in bnw, that have ever got me

>> No.4308067

>>4302948
>that lolita feel

>> No.4308077

>you will never travel the Mississippi with nigger who will do what ever you say

>> No.4308079
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>you will never be Jay Gatsby

what's the point

>> No.4308085

>>4308079
>not wanting to be tom Buchanan

>> No.4308144

>>4308085
he's got the money, but that's about it

>> No.4308198

>>4302816
>tfw you would never fuck your mom brains out.
>tfw you would never have a former relationship with your 10yo daughter

>> No.4309337

>>4308085
He's a right cunt though

>> No.4309352

>>4309337

>not being able to handle the swagger that is Tom Buchanan

>> No.4309356

>>4308079
Jay Gatsby is Don Quixote. He's an autist who gets mad that the dumbass floozy he has a crush on won't be the pure woman of his dreams

>> No.4309358

>>4308079
gatsby is miserable tho

>> No.4311033
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>>4308044
iktfb
>you will never hold hands with a random mexican qt in the bus and then bang her in some cheap motel whilst drunk

>> No.4313714

>>4306942
>>4307067
What books are these?

>> No.4313721

>>4309356
>Jay Gatsby is Don Quixote

no

>> No.4313733

>tfw you will never be invited to spend a summer in Brideshead and fall in devastating love with Julia and attend dinner parties and sketch fountains

>> No.4313760

You're all awful people, and I hate you, and I really wish I had some fucking whisky right now.

>> No.4313763

>>4313760
dem bukowski feels man

>> No.4313767

>>4311033
jesus christ what a self-entitled faggot

>> No.4313770

>>4313767
shut the fuck up