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>"Oh Jake, today was quite an adventure, but we should head back. The sun is setting."
>"You're right Brett, but the sun also rises!"

Anyone else hate when authors try to shoehorn their book titles into the text?

>> No.4693597

You're retarded.

>> No.4693606

>>4693597
Why?

>> No.4693625

>>4693606
"Why?"? Presumably you were dropped on the head as a child, or were born with too many chromosomes.
Did you mean "What makes you say that?" I'll assume you did. It wasn't that the title was shoehorned into the text, it was the title that was taken from the text. That's often the case.

>> No.4693648

Is /tv/ trying to fit in?

I think The Sun Also Rises is a very poetic title.

>> No.4693656

I thought most of Hemingway's book were given titles by editors and not by himself.

>> No.4693677

>>4693625
Read more, baby girl.
>>4693648
Hemingway actually wanted to call it Fiesta.

>> No.4693687

The original title was Fiesta. Don't know if Hemingway or his editors decided to change it.

>> No.4693705

>>4693677
You're also retarded.

>> No.4693718

>>4693587

2/10

>> No.4693725

>This is my associate, The Count of Monte Cristo

I mean, seriously?

>> No.4693729

>>4693705
What makes you say that?

>> No.4693763

>>4693729
You insulted >>4693625 then went on to confirm that what he'd said was accurate.

>> No.4693771

>>4693763
How was what he said accurate?

>> No.4695242

That line isn't in the book. Get trolled.

>> No.4695254
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4695254

>>4693725
heh

>> No.4695293

>>4693587
Lololol

>> No.4695344

>>4693587
Weak b8, m8.
And for the record, Hemmingway called it Siesta but his publisher took the title from Ecclesiastes.

>> No.4695372

>and the Lord commandeth his word be recorded in The Bible

fucking come on

>> No.4695411

>Everyone knew him as Mr. Gatsby, but for as long as I live I will always think of him as one of the greatest people I have ever met. I will think of him as the Great Gatsby.

Jesus Christ

>> No.4695423

>Hermione and Ron turned around to see Harry and Snape walking towards them. "Look," said Hermione, 'It's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!"

>> No.4695429

>ye it is true that finnegans sleep, but is it not also true of the morrow morning merry that also do finnegans wake?

>> No.4695447

>Oedepia sat and awaited the crying of lot 49
What a fucking hack

>> No.4695444

>El Sordo knew that the bell tolled for him.

>> No.4695445

>"This song is so lovely, Sir Loras," said Sansa, "It makes me feel cold like I'm home in Winterfell, but also warm like how I feel in King's Landing!"
>Sir Loras grinned. "Why, Sansa, that's why they call it a Song of Ice and Fire."

Really GRRM?

>> No.4695451

>Bilbo climbed atop the hill and thought about The Lord of the Rings, "The Two Towers, I see them!" He shouted.

>> No.4695478

Francisco d'Anconia remembered his high-school lessons in Greek mythology. "Hey Dagny, what do you think Atlas did when he found out the Titans lost their war with the Olympians?"

Dagny Taggart pondered, then said, "I would imagine that Atlas Shrugged when he found out."

>> No.4695487
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4695487

>So beware, my friends. For though the socialist means well, little does he know that his very struggle for liberty and equality can only lead... into the Road to Serfdom.

>> No.4695488

My fucking face when The Crying of Lot 49 is the last line of the book

I feel like authors don't name their book and then write it. I mean. I'm not author. But that sounds fanfic-tier.

>> No.4695490

>>4695478
It's funny because the actual namedrop in Atlas Shrugged is even cornier than that.

>> No.4695491

>To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is
the bad dream.

>> No.4695521

>Dumbledore told Professor McGonnagal and Professor Snape to follow him. "We've got to find Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone!"

>> No.4695524

>ogay helenope i'll tell you all about my travails... but idhs quide the odESsye :^-DDDDDDDD
[fade to black as odyssES recapitulates the tale just heard]

>> No.4695548

>Johnny Rico looked over his Morita Rifle. "So we're basically starship troopers, right?"

>> No.4695697

>"Isn't it beautiful," said Slothrop as he gazed into the sky, "gravity's rainbow."

>> No.4695710

>Gately looked over at the Wraith as it sat or like hovered beside his bed. "You're joking, right? This is all in jest." "Yes" replied the ghost, "infinitely."

>> No.4695787

>and throwing everything down in all directions if you didnt open the windows when general Ulysses Grant whoever he was

Fucking Joyce

>> No.4695875

>Welcome to the one hundred and twenty days of Sodom

>> No.4695919

>Last year was rather dull, but I have something more exciting planned for 2001: a space odyssey!

Seriously?

>> No.4695954

>"Shush! Don't interrupt me!" he said as he was painting A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

>> No.4695964

>Lolita

>> No.4695994

"Surely this is an infinite jest"

>> No.4696031

>thus spoke zarathustra

>> No.4696070

OP's a fucking moron, but at least the rest of the thread redeemed itself.

Good on you /lit/, you got a few chuckles out of me

>> No.4696094

>It was then that I realized, that I was just a Catcher in the Rye

>Hullo! I intoned in the night: Finnegans, wake up!

>After it was all over, I realized that this really was No Country For Old Men

BRAVO
R
A
V
O

>> No.4696097

>Who are these dead -- these victims of violence who no longer influence the tenor of Gormenghast save by a deathless repercussion?

Ugh! Why did Peake have to say the name Gormenghast?

>> No.4696417

>>4696070
Why am I a moron?

>> No.4696425

>All this time I've been living in solitude! 100 Years of Solitude!

>> No.4696429

>Her face turned fifty shades of grey as she watched him ejaculate in her hair.

>> No.4696431

>>4696094
>It was then that I realized
>I realized that

apply yourself

>> No.4696442

THE SUN ALSO RISES IS A REMINDER THE CHARACTERS SPEND THEIR NIGHTS WALLOWING IN THE HEDONISTIC VIRTUES OF POST-WAR SPLENDOUR AND WITH EACH PASSING NIGHT MISERY IS CREATED, OR AT LEAST THE REALISATION OF IT BECOMES REALISED, DESPITE THEIR UPBEAT NATURE WHICH IS SIMPLY THERE BECAUSE OF THEIR NEED TO MAINTAIN SOCIAL STANDING. THE SUN LITERALLY ALSO RISES AS OPPOSED TO GOING DOWN, BECAUSE WHEN IT GOES DOWN THEY START TO COME OUT AND THAT'S WHEN A LOT OF THE EVENTS OF THE BOOK TAKE PLACE (AT NIGHT).

>> No.4696448

>Catch 22
>That's one hell of a catch!

>> No.4696471

>>4696448

If at first you dont succeed...

>> No.4696493

>>4696429

wait? is this real?

>> No.4696543

>>4696442
so r they vampires? Im so confused

>> No.4696554
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4696554

"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy"

>> No.4696556

>-That's all well now, father, and at the end of the day, would you not say we all of us are Dubliners?

Jesus Christ, Joyce

>> No.4696566

>en todo caso habia un solo tunel, oscuro y solitario: el mio, el tunel en que habia transcurrido mi infancia, mi juventud, toda mi vida
Sabato what the fuck man.

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4696629

>Whereas real men are on the prowl, ever hunting and fighting, the lowest stay with the women. There they developed other activities, this is how the quest for knowledge began. These man without healthy instinct, they became scientists. Science itself is effeminate, you could even call it — gay!

Really Nietzsche?

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4696640

Whereas real men are on the prowl, ever hunting and fighting, the lowest stay with the women. There they developed other activities, this is how the quest for knowledge began. These man without healthy instinct, they became scientists. Science itself is effeminate, you could even call it — gay!

Really Nietzsche?

>> No.4696686

>>4695242
>>4695242
>>4695242
>>4695242
>>4695242

This. "The sun also rises" is from the bible

>> No.4696715

>>4696686
>every response in this thread has been entirely sincere and steeped in objectivity

>> No.4696725

>>4696686
>implying the Bible was around when Job was written

>> No.4696753

>Catch-22
>conversations between characters about the meaning of the title and thus the overall message of the book
So Heller basically thought it was a good idea to sum the story up in a few sentences in the story, and still write a few hundred more pages of unnecessary examples of this simple concept.

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4696766

>His words distraught with pain cried anguish loud.
>Alas, truly had they Paradise Lost

>> No.4696804

>>4693687
The version I have is called, Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises

>> No.4696831

Does anyone ever actually find these threads funny?

>> No.4696868

>>4696831
its because if you are wll-read you get all the epic reference m8 there are 2 kinds of humour
toilet humor that is what u see in modern time simpsons
and high brown humor that is what you see here
only top of the top can get all these references
u can read it online if u dont trust me

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4696909

>>4696868
>mfw most of the whining plebs itt didn't even realise the OP quote wasn't actually in the book

>> No.4697265

>>4696831
I quite enjoy them. Not hilarious, sure, but fun.

>> No.4697349

>... and so life was hard under nurse ratchet's rule, they would say, until finally, finally one flew over the cuckoo's nest

actual quote

>> No.4697358

>>4696909
its in the book bro its in the forewords a quote by ecclesiastes
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>> No.4697360

>>4696804
I got the Fiesta: Original Director's Cut Unrated Special Edition -- The Sun Will Rise Edition

>> No.4697367

>"How many women, do you suppose, have been murdered over the last year?"
>"Who can tell?" The police chief said. "100? 1,000,000? 2666? Impossible to say."

>> No.4697376

>>4697367
u no 2666 is a recurring number in bolaño's books

>> No.4697387

>>4697376
>"Alright, Savage Detective, your total comes to $26.66."
>"My god!" exclaimed the Detective.

>> No.4697399

"Yes, I killed her", said Raskolnikov tearfully.
"Well, you commited a Crime, now it's time for Punishment", said Petrovich firmly.

>> No.4697400

>>4697387
i dont remember that from los detectives salvajes and i dont have the book with me but i think you are wrong

>> No.4697406

Why everyone has blindness, asked the doctor, I don't know, There must be a reason, Who knows, this things are strange, You're right

>> No.4697412

>What's with the idiot?

>> No.4697426

"If you keep doing cocaine all night you're going to have a snow crash." Y.T. said to Hiro.

>> No.4697475

>>4693587
i dont think that authors white the book and then try make the title something in the book or related to it

>> No.4697510

>''Yes,'' they said in unison. ''We indeed are The Brothers Karamazov.''

>''Forget it, Winston, it's Nineteen Eighty-Four.''

>''It takes a whole damn lot To Kill a Mockingbird.''

>''No lawyer, no witnesses. What sort of due process is this?''
>''Your guilt has been determined... The sentence? One Hundred Years of Solitute!''

Really? Jesus Christ...

>> No.4697528

>"And then, the Nazi astronaut said: 'This is the diary of a young girl'."

>> No.4697540

>>4697358
OP's quote isn't in the book you shitleller

>> No.4697550

"Gosh, this voyage has been long."

"Tell me about it. At the rate we're going, I wouldn't be surprised if Captain Slowpoke up there took us on a journey to the end of the night."

"Say it ain't so. The itinerary states clearly, in bold, underlined, and italicized font, right here that we are to arrive at approximately 6pm. A journey to the end of the night? I didn't sign up for this. I have people waiting for me. I'm expected!"

>> No.4697597

>>4697540
i have the book and its there before the first chapter