/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.721640]

What if Cormac McCarthy wrote On the Road
and Jack Kerouac wrote The Road?

[Anonymous No.721645]

They would still both suck!

[Anonymous No.721649]

if you have a 50% employee discount at Half Price Books
wouldn't the book be for free?

[Anonymous No.721654]

no i think it'd be 20% or so

[Anonymous No.721655]

The two authors have pretty much nothing whatsoever in common. I literally cannot imagine what those books would look like if the authors were switched.

[Anonymous No.721660]

>>721655
thats the point

[Anonymous No.721707]

What if William Burroughs had written the Tarzan stories
and Edgar Rice Burroughs had written Naked Lunch and the rest?

[Anonymous No.721708]

>What if William Burroughs had written the Tarzan stories

[Anonymous No.721729]

What if Orwell wrote A brave new world and Huxley wrote 1984

Personally I'd think a brave new world would be a lot more pleasurable to read and the message would be wider spread.

[Anonymous No.721730]

>>721729
the suggestions are based on similar titles: on the road/the road
or names: burroughs

[Anonymous No.721897]

What if I wrote Foundation
and Isaac Asimov wrote the short story I wrote for lit class last year that I got a perfect grade on?

[Anonymous No.721903]

What if Albert Camus wrote The Outsider
and Richard Wright wrote The Outsider?

[Anonymous No.721908]

>>721903
what if Albert Camus wrote The Outsiders
and S.E. Hinton wrote The Outsider?

[Anonymous No.721913]

what if Homer wrote Ulysses
and Joyce wrote the Odyssey

[Anonymous No.721933]

Suttree isn't that different from On the Road actually

[Anonymous No.721940]

What if Aeschylus wrote Prometheus Unbound
and Shelley wrote Prometheus Bound?

[Anonymous No.721941]

>>721638

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[Anonymous No.721943]

What if your Aunty had baws? She'd be your Uncle.

Also, On The Road sucks. Selfish, petulant, self-indulgent. Only in America could it be considered any kind of classic.

Also wik, The Road is a pretty good read, read it yesterday. Not as good as the reviews suggest, though. I saw one review alone that suggested he should get the Nobel Prize for it. Ridiculous. An entertaining adventure, but rather contrived and rather a dull palette.

[Anonymous No.721953]

>>721943
On the Road is pretty self indulgent but it's also beautiful, at least this man judges it to be

[Anonymous No.721954]

>>721943
the point is the similar titles and the funny suggestion of very different writers swapping authorship

[Anonymous No.721956]

What if Gene Wolfe wrote Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
and Tom Wolfe wrote Book of the New Sun

[Anonymous No.721959]

What if HG Wells wrote Invisible Man
and Ralph Ellison wrote The Invisible Man?

[Anonymous No.721970]

What if J.K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter
and Stephanie Meyer wrote Twilight?

[Anonymous No.721971]

What if Dostoevsky wrote War and Peace
and Tolstoy wrote Crime and Punishment?

[Anonymous No.721978]

>>721970
you're not even trying
look at the original and this: >>721707 and this: >>721959 for inspiration

[Anonymous No.721985]

what if the Prophet Muhammad wrote the Bible?
and Jeebus et al wrote the Qur'an?

[Anonymous No.722000]

>>721978
BUT WHAT IF STEPHENIE MEYER WROTE TWILIGHT

[Anonymous No.721998]

What if Schiller wrote Faust and Goethe wrote Die Räuber?

[Anonymous No.722006]

What if Hitler wrote The Communist Manifesto
and Marx wrote Mein Kampf?

[Anonymous No.722024]

What if Fredric Nietzsche wrote Twilight
and Stephanie Meyer wrote Twilight of the Idols?

[Anonymous No.722025]

What if Nietzsche wrote the Bible
And Jesus wrote The Antichrist?

[Anonymous No.722026]

>>722024

[Anonymous No.722028]

what if virginia woolf wrote beowulf

[Anonymous No.722030]

i'm confused, if you swapped all these books all you'd have is some out of place items in all the author's works.
or are we assuming they rewrite them with their personal beliefs and bias?

[Anonymous No.722032]

>>722030
they would write them, what dont you understand?
can you even attempt to imagine the madness of William Burroughs writing Tarzan?

[Anonymous No.722033]

What if

Lenin wrote In his own write
and
Lennon wrote The state and the revolution

[Anonymous No.722034]

What if tripfag wrote >>722032
and Anonymous wrote >>722021 ?

[Anonymous No.722038]

What if Darwin wrote The God Delusion
and Dawkins wrote On the Origin of Species?

[Anonymous No.722047]

>>721640
>>721908
>>721913
>>721940
>>721959
>>721971
>>722024
>>722033
these are doing it right.


everyone else is doing it wrong. very wrong.


what if jd salinger wrote catch 22
and joseph heller wrote the catcher in the rye?

[Anonymous No.722050]

What if Sade had written The 120 Days of Sodom

and

Marquis de Sade had written Your love is King (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjqRPNiBQaY))

Imagine that for a second.

[Anonymous No.722053]

What if Ernest Hemingway wrote Moby Dick
and Herman Melville wrote The Old Man and the Sea?

[Anonymous No.722077]

What if Henry Miller wrote The Crucible
and Arthur Miller wrote Tropic of Cancer?

[Anonymous No.722083]

>>722050
>What if Sade had written The 120 Days of Sodom

wat?

[Anonymous No.722085]

What if Lewis Carrol wrote Narnia
and C.S. Lewis wrote Alice in Wonderland?

[Anonymous No.722087]

>>722083
in a song

[Anonymous No.722110]

>>722087
>>722050

Trying to hard.

What if Marquis de Sade had written Sodom et Gomorrah
and Marcel Proust had written 120 Days of Sodom?

[Anonymous No.722142]

just about to head to my supervision, any shakespeare questions people want answering?

inb4 'was he gay' 'why does he suck' 'he's just a plagarist'

[Anonymous No.722151]

>>722142
he sucks because in highschool people are forced to read it like its a novel
watch a good performance, different result

[Anonymous No.722192]

>>721707
>>722032

It's already been done -- by Philip José Farmer: "The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod" is Tarzan as if written by William S. Burroughs.