>and Holden really wanted to be The Catcher in the Rye
Seriously, Salinger?
>>8151081
aah? Its perfect actually.
Actually being serious Salinger?
>and after a while everyone noticed he was the man who wrote notes from underground
Come on, Dostoyevsky. You can do better than that.
Don't the publishers push a lot of the titles?
>and so Rick asked one final question; do androids dream of electric sheep?
Get your shit together, Dick.
It's a /tv/ meme. Move along, nothing to see here.
>And you say, ‘Just a moment, I’ve almost finished If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino.
Come the fuck on
The auctioneer cleared his throat. Oedipa settled back, to await the crying of lot 49.
Really, Tommy?
>>8151081
Looking up at the birds, it was A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Jesus Joyce
>Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day.
Seriously, Ishiguro?
>Look who it is, the Brothers Karamazov!
wth, dostojewski????
>Walking a long the beach, he saw a frail figure covered in stamp-ridden papers. At that moment he knew he had encountered Kafka on the shore.
Jesus Christ, Murakami. Couldn't you have put a little effort?
>>8151081
salinger never learnt the concept of mask he created holden to subconsciously vicariously live his own deep-rooted inability to creatively express himself within society.
And the approaching tide did appear to be the Irishman's favorite... It was Finnegans Wake
>rly joyce
>>8151081
>And he was always impressed by The Sound and The Fury
That's Faulkner for you.
>>8151436
He wasn't Jewish.
>>8151444
I know /lit/ like to shit on Murakami, but I love Kafka on the Shore
>>8151457
>the concept of mask
please explain
>>8151559
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masking_(personality)
> Call me Moby Dick
Melville, you hack.
>With his dick in his hand, this one was his best,
>But what should he call it? Infinite Jest!
>>8151530
?????
>>8151081
>Come on, people, I mean seriously, it's 1984!
Bravo, Orwell.
>>8151584
thats wank mate
>>8151616
you're wank that should have been
>>8151299
Underrated.
>>8151532
that book was really good
>>8151613
nice
>after Odysseus finished telling his adventures, his friend said 'that was quite an odyssey, wasn't it?'
And they say Homer is the father of Western literature.
>"Yes," I said. "The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway."
Jesus Fucking Christ
>"That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the Ham on rye and all."
...
>Walking around that place made him realize something: the trees, the earth and the birds had a familiar feeling to them. At last he understood that he was, in fact, in the Norwegian Wood.
Murakami is atrocious.
>"And you will call my word the Bible."
God was phoning it in after the New Testament.
>>8151299
>And he then knew that he had truly witnessed The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
>"Is that really him? The Great Gatsby (now on film)?
Fucking really Fitzgerald you drunken wifebeater
> - I'm dying, so you know, I'd like a good percent of sales - need to feed my family even in the grave, you know.
> - Dude, you sell well, but the absolute ceiling I can offer you is 25%.
> - Maybe a tiny bit higher, like one-fifteenth higher?
> - 26, 66? Bye, Roberto Bolano.
>We are all gathered here for Finnegan's Wake
fucking really Joyce?
>After having tea in Cambridge Russell picked up a volume that later would become Bertrand Russell's Autobiography.
Jesus Christ, Russell. Get your shit together.
>"Although I still can't come up with a title for a book about Gödel, Escher, Bach."
>>8151460
>Skidoodleing all the way raspattoidly into intruitus blababababade over the internelovision fluently abababa Finnegans Wake.
Fucking Joyce, I swear...
>this is my critique of pure reason
You can't make this stuff up
>The group there stopped on a dune crest, waited
Kill yourself, Herbert
>8151081
>"The auxiliaries will provide for the defense of The Republic, a New Translation by Christopher Rowe"
I don't understand how anyone can say all of philosophy is a footnote to this guy
>>8153424
>Pluto
>Picture is The Death of Socrates
>>8153439
>ol' Pluto