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ITT: Guess the plot of a book you've never read in one sentence.

>A rebellious teenager in a red hat goes on a coming of age journey that takes him across the American countryside.

>> No.5678691
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>Some angry fat guy who works in retail or service talks about how much he hates people while being a hypocrite. And apparently there's a MPDG?

>> No.5678693

Wrong, the whole story is about him raping his sister
kill me

>> No.5678704
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>Guy meets a whorish aristocrat at a party and romance ensures, eventually she gets hit by a train

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>>5678672
Th classiest and longest fedora ever tipped.

>> No.5678739
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The ring meets wimbledon

>> No.5678751
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5678751

>farts, le so randum and rockets

>> No.5679451

>>5678739

IJ: Wealthy Prodigious child turns into an unstable alcoholic.

A long and unfunny joke

>> No.5679511

>>5679451
not even close

>> No.5679519

What is the point of this thread? Is it just to make yourself look stupid? I don't get it

>> No.5679959

>>5678672
Except his journey was walking around new york and he was rebelling against coming of age.

>> No.5679971
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A family travels to California and faces many hardships, including the death of their young son, only to realize that they will be no better off in their new home because of some deep, dark flaw in the American psyche.

How close out of 10?

>> No.5679982

>>5678693
lol

>> No.5680002

>>5679971
You forgot the weird, porny paragraph at the end

>> No.5680025
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Some college boys from rival fraternities in 1947 exchange tense words on the steps of the Arts and Sciences Hall before going out to play football and kill a white whale.

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A guy named Portnoy complains to his therapist about society, then it gets really dull for about 300 pages before ending

>> No.5680673

>>5680470
>A guy named Portnoy masturbates to his therapist about society, then he continues doing so for about 300 pages before orgasming
FTFY

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>>5678672

Wow there are a lot of rules in a paper.

>> No.5680804

>>5680673
this could be many Roth novels and we wouldn't notice. What's with Roth's characters jacking off to everything?

>> No.5681455

>>5680804
Write what you know!

>> No.5681459

>>5680470
hey that's pretty good. the best part of that book is the last sentence, too

>> No.5681463
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there's this rich guy who talks about how great it is to be privileged