NEW GAME:
so /lit/ we name classic works of literature and those of us who have never read the book will try and summarise the plot/themes based on what they have heard from popular culture, the title, references, /lit/ memes etc. no googling before-hand, doesnt matter whether you are totally wrong or even mistake it for a different book.
starters:
1. anna karenina - tolstoy
2. hamlet - shakespeare
3. the heart of darkness - conrad
4. slaughterhouse 5 - vonnegut
5. republic - plato
>>8499917
Those are too hard.
>Moby Dick
>To Kill A Mockingbird
>Catcher in the Rye
>>8500469
have read all of OPs
is to kill a mocking bird about a black guy who does something wrong and then a white attorney getting him acquitted?
>>8500516
Basically, but that isn't at all what makes it so juicy.
>>8499917
Hamlet
The king of Danes discovers his wife's porcine infidelity when she gives birth to a piglet
>Somepig's ruttin in the state of denmark
>>8500469
>Moby Dick
Guy named Ishmael goes on an obsessive whale hunt, but gets caught up with extraneous details about whales, harpoons, and boats.
>>8499917
>anna karenina
Scitso girl wonders if anyone loves her or whether they're all talking behind her back until she runs under a train, then the voices go away.
Am I close?
>>8499917
>1. anna is married to an aristocrat and has an affair
>2.hamlet kills the king to become king (this might be macbeth)
>4. inspired all the saw movies
>>8499917
1. rich russian girl gets emotional trouble with her equally rich lovers
2. the lion king but with humans
3. not a clue
4. read it
5. old greek guy envisions his absurd utopia
also, the answer is 13. a=11, b=2
>>8501517
Well kinda :)) try harder
>>8500469
I've read all these books except Moby Dick.
>Some guy gets on a ship because he's sick of America and he takes a black guy with him.
>They're fruits.
>A Guy named Ahab lost his leg to a whale so everyone has to go find the thing for some reason.
>Everyone dies except the guy in the beginning who floats to land on a coffin.
Here's a couple new ones.
> Crime and Punishment- Dostoevsky.
> Don Quixote
> The Old Man and the Sea- Hemmingway
>Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
> The Ego and His Own- Stirner.
>>8500469
To kill a mockingbird
A family tries to help a black guy in a racist world and they end up fucking themselves
>>8500474
Ok then let's get others
Voltaire Candide
Proust In search of lost time
Virginia Woolf Orlando
>>8499917
The greatest beauty in Moscow loves her fallible father but finds her suitors morally remis and refuses to marry despite her father's wishes.
2 Hamlet's uncle is told by some witches that he will be king. He kills his brother and fucks his wife. Hamlets dad's ghost tells him to get revenge. Hamlet holds a skull and kills his uncle and also dies himself.
3 read it.
4 the government has a secret place where bad shit happens. Killing aliens or humans or some shit. One guy tries to fix it but it doesn't go well.
5 Plato advocates censorship and says leaders have to be good because a good chair can be sat in.
>>8501676
Orlando
>Some guy was born and has an affair with Queen Elizabeth.
>But then there's a war and he's such a pussy he literally becomes a woman.
>But woman are not taking seriously le oppressed so he's all upset again.
>Kills self.
>>8501670
Stirner
Nonsense about a world with no morality in which the individual must do everything that makes him feel whole because almost everything represents a spook in life
>>8501679
That is just so funny
>>8501696
How did I do?
>>8501714
Well i can only tell you about the first two and you didn't get them right but your versions sound just as good
>>8501670
>Don Quixote
Chivalrous old knight goes on adventures attacking windmills. A barmaid is raped, then Don Quixote dies...?
>The Ego and His Own
Stirner justifies nihilism(?) by claiming everything is a spook. Also, everything is his property.
>>8501688
You were right on the first point at least.