/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.8815684]

Describe the story of a [classical] book you haven't read.

[Anonymous No.8815707]

>call me Ishmael
>copious whale facts
>thinly veiled interracial gay sex

[Anonymous No.8815752]

>Plato's The Republic

[Anonymous No.8815807]

>>8815707
>thinly veiled

[Anonymous No.8815811]

>M'lady I am your gallant knight
>*tilts windmill*

[Anonymous No.8815855]

>>8815684
A story about triplets who live together and have to spend a whole year in a cabin in Siberia as a punishment for drunk driving.

[Anonymous No.8816126]

War and Peace

>Man goes to war
>leaves his sweetheart behind
>he experiences the horrors of war
>comes back a changed man
>everyone is just a stupid normie to him now
>he realises he can now only exist in a state of war
>kills himself because peace is suffering

[Anonymous No.8816131]

>>8815707
melville was such a fag, jesus christ

[Anonymous No.8816151]

Capitalism is beautiful and all the poor people should die. Also I'm a woman, which is very important for some reason.

[Anonymous No.8816173]

>>8815684
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress:
>So much Moon, so much lunatic. Wow
>So much libertarian, so much roads. Wow.

[Anonymous No.8816196]

>>8815707
pretty accurate, desu

[Anonymous No.8816215]

Ulysses

Irishman gets hammered for several years and forgets about time. Awakening from drunken stupor, he writes down what he vaguely remembers. He then says to himself, "You know what would be fucking hilarious? If I compare this shit to the Odyssey."

Thus is birthed a great classic.

Related - See Robin Williams stand-up on golf.

[Anonymous No.8816221]

>>8815684

We're tired that all the plebes don't respect us
so screw you guys we're going home

[Anonymous No.8816222]

>>8815684
>ywn worship her feet

[Anonymous No.8816238]

Gravity's rainbow

something about nukes and people eating poop.

[Anonymous No.8817386]

>aristocratic faulknerian protag comes back from ww2 and decides to become a hobo and live under a bridge
>he hangs out with a bunch of hobos
>one of them fucks watermelons
>a bunch of them get sick
>his family pays for his treatment and his hobo friends die
>he goes back to living under a bridge anyway

[Anonymous No.8817400]

>some edgy teens squat in a haunted house and get high all day
>main character goes to a party at the house and discovers something in the basement
>bunch of people die
>house was used to film snuff movies
>it's also a gateway to hell
>but it was maybe all in the protagonist's head

[Anonymous No.8817412]

>female version of leopold bloom
>one of her cafe friends is a lesbian
>she experiences casual sexism
>her father dies and she remembers childhood
>she kills herself because women are oppressed

[Anonymous No.8817584]

>>8815684
>guy is lying there
>he dies

[Anonymous No.8817649]

>>8815684
A biography of singer Celine Dion written by a guy whose name is Journey to the End of the Night.

[Anonymous No.8817652]

>>8815684
A biography of singer Celine Dion written by a guy whose name is Journey to the End of the Night

[Anonymous No.8817656]

IJ
A tennis player stumbles upon a VHS tape that makes people stop eating they like it so much

[Anonymous No.8817664]

>the story of a world inhabited by sentient buildings
>story focuses around Tö, the lighthouse
>its really boring

[Anonymous No.8817673]

>>8817656
p much

also 600 pages of people doing menial chores in alcoholics anonymous

[Anonymous No.8817677]

>>8815684
>tennis
>everything is an analogy or something
>big companies = bad
>more tennis

[Anonymous No.8817685]

>>8817664
kek I like this one

[Anonymous No.8817732]

>>8815684
That movie where Tom Cruise becomes a samurai and fucks some eastern pussy

[Anonymous No.8818260]

>>8816221
Atlas Shrugged?

[Anonymous No.8818268]

>>8815684
It's like Plato but Socrates is sarcastic in a different way
Which set of lost works are these?

[Anonymous No.8818375]

>a monk gets murdered
>all clues point to illuminati type thing
>actually it was a disgruntled priest who did an elaborate coverup using his encyclopaedic knowledge of theology, philosophy, and the esoteric arts

[Anonymous No.8818504]

>the divine comedy
The author, Dante, goes to hell with his buddy Virgil, and they go on a journey through hell and meet all kinds of characters. Apparently this is the only interesting part of the poem, because nobody ever seems to talk about purgatorio or paradiso

[Anonymous No.8818755]

>>8817652
kek

[Anonymous No.8818792]

some french guy describes walking around and lemon cake for like a thousand pages

[Anonymous No.8819714]

>>8815684
Pure hatred.

[Anonymous No.8819715]

>>8819714
/thread

[Anonymous No.8819732]

>>8815707
>thinly veiled

it's as obvious as the Village People

[Anonymous No.8819747]

>some orphan kid has great expecations of the world or something

>he encounters bad people and unfortunate circumstances which make him come of age

>in the end he triumphs

I dunno

[Anonymous No.8820156]

>>8815684
>drop out of college
>just bee youself

[Anonymous No.8820300]

>>8819732
>>8816131
>>8815807
Sure would be nice to see a powerful male friendship without the right making fun of it for being gay and the left praising it for being gay. Sure would be nice if men could be friends without everyone thinkng about their penises

[Anonymous No.8820315]

>>8816126
You're right.

[Anonymous No.8820330]

>>8820300
I'm pretty sure sleeping with another man is gay, dude.

[Anonymous No.8820444]

>>8820330
Wrong

[Anonymous No.8821774]

>slaughterhouse five
>some qtsie innocent germans get fucked in dresden
>nowadays wehraboos 10/10

[Anonymous No.8823519]

>>8818260

yup

[Anonymous No.8824626]

>>8815684
I want to sniff her feet

[Anonymous No.8824655]

Huckleberry Finn

>Huck is bad at fence painting
>Huck screws over a rich kid
>River adventures with a black man
>death maybe

[Anonymous No.8824665]

>>8824655
You've conflated Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn a little.

[Anonymous No.8824737]

>Arthur dies at the end

Shouldn't be to hard to guess.

[Anonymous No.8824835]

A guy gets locked in a prison on an island and breaks out