Books described badly

>900 page book about murder
>murder only happens around page 500

An edgy dude complains about the sun then removes kebab and goes to jail

>>8671333
How very quixotic

a day in the life of a cuck

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>>8671908
Stoner

>>8671940
thats not a day you fucking inbred

False history of people having lots of children and making lots of bad decisions repeatedly, and occasionally something cool happens, then at the end a cool guy gets murdered, another guy rants a lot and there's schizophrenia

>>8671326

TBK

>>8671947
"a day in the life of" has a more abstract meaning than an actual 24 hour period you mongloid

>>8671908

Ulysses, obviously.

>>8671955
bible?

Dude rans away from home, bangs his mom, lots of weird stuff happening, pretentious as hell

>>8671309

>everything is tedious and I just want to sleep

A discussion on how democracy requires strong leadership during crisis or it will fall to populism, anger and mysticism.

>>8671965

Yes

>>8671970
sounds an awful lot like my diary

Jew goes crazy over ex-wife when he gets cucked by his best friend, then rambles and writes lots of letters to random people

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>>8671309
There is a light and it never goes out

>>8671309
some guy kill some robots and buys a goat

>>8671967

Kafka on the Shore.

Not pretentious at all. Didn't you hear Murakami say it's a riddle, requiring many rereads, with a different answer for everyone?

>>8671962
:0
>>8671964
yee

A guy cannot into reading a book.

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>>8671970
t b h this doesn't describe a book
this just describes what we're all thinking

some guy leaves school and continues to fuck around doing nothing useful for the rest of the book.

>>8671309

>Sycophant travels around the countryside in order to pursue his get-rich-quick scheme

Space Quebec Brothel problems

>>8671990
my life 2bh

autistic art student drowns himself and wakes up in a dystopian world and pisses on a bridge or some shit

>>8672000

The Culture Series?

>>8671999
Don Quixote

>>8672108

Nah. I wouldn't characterize Panza or Quixote as sycophantic.

>>8672147
or trying to get rich for that matter, well maybe Sancho

one guy and one retard try to get themselves a farm but strangling ensues.

>>8671967
Oedipus Tyrannus

>>8671970
Hamlet

ape goes on a big adventure

>>8673005
Invisible """"Man""""

The moral is that women can't drive.

>>8671309
The answer is drive

>>8671309
It's about Russia

>>8671333
The Stranger!

>>8672190
Of Mice and Men?

>>8672016
curious, what is this one?

>>8671990
Catcher in the Rye

>>8673049
Great Gatsby

>>8673307
Demons by Dostoyevsky

>dying man in bed tells story about all his favourite "toys" getting murdered at a picnic on an island

Man hates his onii-chan, but in the final chapter he likes him after all.

>lad cucks his painter friend to death

semi-civilised niggers won't eat you but the white man they worship might

>>8671980
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

>>8671984
That one tale in Ficciones.

>>8671990
The Savage Detectives.

>>8673854
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

>>8671999
Dead Souls

>>8671979
The pope of mope does it again

>>8674087
Not even close nigga

>>8673925
Heart of Darkness

I havn't even read that shit nigga it's just obvious

Paris is 90% evil and 10% gypsy

>>8674079

> That one tale in Ficciones.

No.

>>8673863
I kinda want to say the moon and sixpence, but I don't remember the cuckold dying.

>>8674263
Hunchback of Notre Dame?

>>8674297
Nope.

>>8673325
lanark by alasdair gray

>gay autism

some dude commits a crime and gets punished

>a guy is a composer after he has been in theology courses

>muh classy lifestyle

>>8674374
The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Alternatively, any Turing biography.

>>8674397
felony and repercussion

>>8674452
Who was the autist in Dorian Gray?

Was Basil autistic?

>>8674452
Nope.

when an anon and femanon meet but theres no internet in the time they live but theyre horny so have to use themselves instead of the nsfw boards

>>8671309
dude lands on ayylmao research station but the ayylmao planet makes a clone of his dead ex gf so he gets all wierded out

>>8675364
Solyaris

God tier sci-fi.

Biggest edgelord in the world is constantly put into comedic situations.

>>8671972
The Republic?

>>8674397
debt and atonement

Two people fuck in the jungle and start a multigenerational shitstorm of cosmic proportions.

Guy got the police all up in his business but says fuck it and fucks bitches and then he dies.

Banditos discover metaphysics.

>>8675411
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote.

Edgy bitch cucks her husband to death.

>>8675493
stoner

guy likes money more then he likes girls, gets harassed by sandpeople for years, then goes home to find pirates booty. gigazillion copies sold.

Average /lit/ user acts like a dick to his mom and can't keep a job.

>>8674397
illegal act and penalty

woof woof wargle w-w-m-muh new soviet man fuck you dad woof woof woof

>>8674111

Das it mane. Also checked.

>>8672991

Nope. Further hint:
>I just want to dream all the time

>>8675411

Confederacy of Dunces.

>>8675466

100 Years of Solitude?

>>8675575
Mirror

>>8671970

malone dies

>>8675683

Nope.

guy fucks some bitches, writes a Phd and marries

>>8671970
The Book of Disquiet?

>>8675729
My Struggle?

beta yank gets cucked by a BBC (Big British Chap), who is actually a pretty emotional guy

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>Thought this was about nazis and shit? It's about aliens and time and shit. So it goes.

>>8677179
slaughterhouse 5

>>8675826

You got it famalam.

>>8671955
Mein Kampf?

Some potato nigger grows up.

>>8677299

Was there a moo cow at the beginning?

some people dont go to a perambulating beacon, then they go to the perambulating beacon

>>8675536
No.

>>8675643
>100 Years of Solitude?
Yes

>>8675564
>guy likes money more then he likes girls, gets harassed by sandpeople for years, then goes home to find pirates booty. gigazillion copies sold.
Alchemist

>>8675643
>Nope. Further hint:
>>I just want to dream all the time

The Circular Ruins? Doesn't quite fit, but my best guess.

Flamboyant academic steals a voice from the playground.

Some dudes fly a big tree to a planet home to the biggest edgelord in existence because he's made of blades.
Reverse babies, virtual sex, and parasitic crucifixion ensue.

>Halfwit in iron-age hunter-gatherer society accidentailly becomes the pope of bears.
>A revolution happens
>And is swiftly un-happened
>Bear-pope spends the last third of the book as a creepy man's slave before Bear-Ex Machina occurs and everybody lives happily ever after

>>8677322
Lol yeah.

>>8675466
The bible

>>8675575
Confederacy of Dunces

>>8677585
Hyperion

Canterbury Tales in space

>>8671908
Literally every book ever because reading is for cucks, prove me wrong.

You can't.

>>8671970
Oblomov?

dickless cuck is sad

>>8677666
The Sun Also Rises, easy.

>>8675643
Book of disquiet

>>8673005
Brave new world?

guy wakes up with anomalies on head, tries to figure out who murdered his gf.

>"underage" trap vampire meets boy, they fall in love except not really

>>8677677
momento mori?

>>8677686

no sir.

hint: quarry

There's a talking cat, but it's not Murakami.

>>8677766
Master and margarita

>>8677772
Bingo!

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>>8677598
I wanna read this

>>8671960
You're an idiot.

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>>8677598
gao gao

>>8674074
>>8673377
>>8673315
Correct

>>8677643
>The bible
No it was >>8675643

Some dipshit teenager is too busy smoking weed and having existential depersonalization crises to notice his school being subverted by terrorists

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>>8677677
>>8677677

A stoic young man embraces a life of disappointment and mediocrity to get away from his family's farm

>>8671978
Barney's version?

dude inanimate objects and hanging out with spics lmao

>>8678678
Little Brother.

>>8671333
L’Étranger, Albert Camus

>>8671333
better description:
Cool dude blasts some dune coons before getting his clock cleaned

>>8671990
The catcher in the rye

>>8674374
Ready Player One

>>8678703
stoner

whiny kike won't shut up about blonde girls

Something about being stuck in a computer

>>8673854
Ender's Game

>>8679014

The sun also rises?

>>8678678
captain underpants

Some dude is incarcerated for a vague reason, weird shit happens, and then the incarcerated dude breaks reality or some other abstract horseshit.

>>8679063
The Count of Monte Crisco

>>8679071
Nope.

>>8677658
Hyperion

Some guy realizes he hates his wife then kills his boss and runs away.

>>8677681
Let the Right One In.

>>8675564
Count of Monte Cristo

>>8671983
Hey Carlos

>>8679063
I shoot a sandnigger by Jean pal camus

>>8671309
A redneck who lives in a boat house is drinking a lot. Sometimes he is fishing, but mostly getting drunk. A lot of innocent bats get killed

I need to know the name and author of a book I read a while ago. It's about this guy who turns into an insect and he can't turn up to work and people abuse him.

>>8674398
It kinda reminds me of some Hesse thing from my teenage years.. Demian maybe?

>>8679199
That's 'The Trial', for sure.

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Guy stranded on a island, kills himself to be forever together his holographic waifu.

>>8671978
Herzog 10/10

>every character is crazy
>one crazy just wants to go home
>fuck it who needs to wear clothes anyway
>shouldn't have bought that damn Egyptian cotton

>>8679199
The metamorphosis

>>8679619
Catch 22

Down and Out in Paris and London, but better.

>>8679063
Invitation to a Beheading.

Promising young tennis player, once with a knack for optics and thesaurus quoting, become stupid because of drugs.

>>8679063
Kafka's Der Prozess

>>8679778


IJ

>>8673854
>>8673854
1984

Asshole travels the world while faithful qt waits.

Some losers wander around the globe doing shit

>>8680673
Well done!

>>8680697
>>8680737
Around The World in 80 Days?

Convicted criminal kills his father on a cross-country trip. In the thrilling conclusion, his wife breastfeeds a complete stranger.
>>8680697
The Odyssey

>>8680834
Nah.

Whole city turns jew science against a jew for keks. Women refuse access to their cunts, tho, too bad.

Hard mode: badass negro in the 17th century can't into white people and is rekt the shit out of while smoking a pipe.

>>8673863
Dorian

>>8678992
No.

>>8680935
Yup

Man giving a course with a frustrated fat fuck reflects on why they can't get laid

Junkies become increasingly paranoid

>>8680992
A Scanner Darkly

>>8680992
my diary desu

>>8680998
Yeah

>>8671309
>the book of objective moral values

>>8678144
I second this

>>8671326
2666?

>>8677598
So... what is it?

a jealous priest hallucinates while the town searches for a fox killer

>>8674263
Perfume?

>>8678880
>>8679059
wrong and wrong

i thought this one would be easier

Seraphic beings aid in a cosmetic squabble

>>8681255
>>8681222
>>8680844
>>8679733
>>8679200
>>8679199
>>8679188
>>8679100
>>8679088
>>8679077
>>8679055
>>8679044
>>8678777
>>8678344
>>8678144
>>8677766
>>8677677
>>8677666
>>8677533
>>8677322
>>8677299
>>8675466
>>8675411
>>8674622
>>8674244
>>8674111
>>8672000
>>8671999
>>8671955
>>8671899
>>8671333
FUCKING CHECK EM

>>8681800
>gets dubs also

>>8678678

INFINITE JEST BY SAINT DAVE THE FOSTERING WALRUS

Old man visits England, and gets killed just before he returns home.

>>8681035

Critique of Practical Reason, obviously.

Some lad fucks and robs some bitches with his friends and eventually tries to an hero and wakes up in a hospital where some old fart gives him a handshake and some money.

>>8673854
Brothers Karamazov

>>8680737
GR

>>8681862
Clockwork Orange.

So, there's like, a bunch of people with those really long names and everyone's young and rich and good-looking and sad. Except that one girl. That one's ugly.

>>8681837
Dracula?

>depressed guy thinking about the meaningless, absurd reality of life
>mother dies
>kills man
>gets executed

>>8683234
why would you post something so obvious that someone who hasnt read the text (me) can guess it?

these threads are cancer

>>8683244
then what is it? : ^ )

Posh people who have lots of visitors fret about going out for a picnic. It takes 10 years.

>>8683261
To the Lighthouse?

Man does nothing then complains about doing nothing

>>8684047
This could be many things. Oblomov? Hamlet?

>>8680858
>>8680863
>>8675493
>>8677542

Come on lads, none of you have guessed these yet. Are they too hard or too boring?

This one >>8675493 could also be: Don Quixote in 19th century France.

A gay autist tells you a bunch of bullshit about his favourite thing in the world which I can't say because it would make it too obvious

>>8684227
In Search of Lost Time peut-être?

>>8684231
Nah man, I could see how you get that though. I REALLY can't say what the thing is though because it would become too obvious

>>8684234
Thought maybe it was the madelaine cake. Goddamn, then I don't know.

>>8684227

Moby Dick my man.

Even bondage is depressing when you have HPV.

>>8684047

These >>8684212 or Book of Disquiet.

>>8671982
>I put all this incoherent weird shit into my book because it seemed interesting but now the book doesn't make a lick of sense. And guess what: you're supposed to find your OWN MEANING, I'm allowed to put in any goofy shit willy nilly and then put the burden on you, the reader, to make some sense of it.
sure murakami

>>8671326
Secret History?

Guy learns to stand on his own two legs, then uses them to run away from the one who taught him (by beating the crap out of him). Brain tumors ensue.

A bunch of people basically don't talk to each other properly, so no one really knows what is going on with the people around them. The main character just wants to read his books, but the woman he accidentally married kicked him out.

>>8684255
>he thinks Moby Dick is about whaling
It is about everything, my man.

Some hungry russians write letters to each other. The creepy old dude can't hide very well that he is into the girl.

Japanese Elliott Rodger realizes that Chad isn't a person, it's an idea. And a Buddhist temple.

Some faggot is really in love with himself. Some other faggot tells him why that is a good thing.

Why is this all so damn gay?

>>8684474

I know what book it is and I haven't even read it.

/lit/ osmosis

>>8684477
Dorian Gray, again.

>>8684469
White Nights.

>>8684505
Yeah, I think just the last sentence in that post would have been enough.

>>8684509
Nope.

I'll be forever haunted by the thought I may or may not be a cuck and raising my wife's son who may or may not be mine.

>>8671309
Hack comes to Paris to become a poet, ends up as a literary prostitute.
from the same author:
Dude is in love with some bitch, he gets tired of her bitching, she also gets tired of her own bitching, so she becomes a nun and then ends up as food for the fishes.
from the same author:
Sob story about some dude and how women toy with his heart, turns out he was the asshole who toyed with their heart.

>titties are power
>one lad drinks all the titty juice and basically becomes the avatar but with metal
>he's really faggy

>>8682487
>So, there's like, a bunch of people with those really long names and everyone's young and rich and good-looking and sad. Except that one girl. That one's ugly.
This feels russian to me. Haven't read that many russian books though.

Some cringy basement dweller has the epiphany that everything wrong with his life is not his own fault, but rather a bigger conspiracy.

There is also some other stuff going on with time travel and meta literature.

>>8684569
your diary desu?

>>8684572
Well, kinda.

But no.

>>8674398
The Recognitions?

children shag to escape from devil-spider-ish thing and come back years later

A bunch of some lads return a piece of jewellery.

>>8684609
Way too easy, famalamadingdong.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

>>8684615
You're wrong but good guess to be honest with you family

>>8684622
Oh, damn, missed it so closely! But of course you mean The Chronicles of Narnia, do you not?

>>8684609
tolkien

>>8684636
Don't ruin my fun like that, Anon.

>>8684636
Yeah

>>8674345

>le ulysses ripoff

yes, i read the guardian

>>8671309
Drunkard goes around Paris banging whores and using friends' finances to support his terribly toxic lifestyle

>>8684569
Sounds intetesting, would read

>>8684678
The Sun Also Rises?

>>8684465
Stoner, again?

>>8684678
Tropic of Cancer

>>8684257
Okay now I need to know

>>8684659
me too thanks

>>8671326
Crime and Punishment?

>farm

>>8684604
It

>>8685053

Willard and his Bowling Trophies

Big nigger jacks off in a movie theater and kills a girl that was totally dtf.

Man kills prostitute, drops out of art school, and becomes an alcoholic and a morphine addict all because he cannot socialize with people

>>8685881

my diary desu

>>8685575
anime farm

>>8674412
À rebours
>>8674397
Infraction and retribution
>>8685434
Crime and Punishment is about 500 pages long

Here's one: it's not very quiet at all.

>real estate transaction goes south and resulting in the serious deterioration of a handful of medical patients in 1800s London

Man gets shafted by bitches and a differently abled bastard.

>edgy contrarian decides God doesn't real
>autist breaks into a museum

Guy tips fedora while fucking a loli.

>>8681255
Curious what this is.

People do heroin in Melbourne while lady rides bike around

>>8686121
Stoner. Again. Again and again. Try yo fint some different novels guys.

>>8686298
Easy mode. Not even gonna say anything.

Man experiences an incredible trip when he combines Madeleines and tea

>>8686113
Dracula

You think it's going to be complex space politics but it's jojo-esque asspulls and jewish exploits

>>8674397
L'Étranger

Get rich or die tryin: ocean edition

>i'm a complete fucking autist, I know
>b-but at least i'm not like those simpleton normalfags! haha
>I kind of envy them tho

>>8686426
Catcher in the Rye,you phony

>>8671309
Dude recalls all his past hookups, hates his retarded kid and his daughter is turning into a whore.

>>8684636
lol

>>8681255
Omensetter's Luck

>>8684569
The tunnel

>cowboys kill some indians

Monks copy books for 1800 years and then share them

>>8687055
Something Happened

>>8680992
Stephen king novel?

The ruled becomes the ruler and the tyranny becomes worse than before

>>8687989

Marx: Das Kapital

>aspie falls in love with a woman he sees once
>Spends months and several pages fantasizing about conversing with her and sperging over painters and shit
>Muh existence sucks
>Finally spots her on the street and follows her
>he drops all of his fucking spaghetti and runs away
>She actually follows him and tells him she's in love too
>40 pages about an immature and extremely dependant relationship
>He gets jealous and kills her
>It's not like she ever liked me anyway

>>8688110
I have no idea what this is but it intrigues me.in a bad way

Fridolin's Big Night Out

Dude gets caught smuggling hash up the east coast, keeps shoes on to fight off nitetime prison rapists

>>8678777
V.

>>8687402
Blood Meridian or An Evening Redness in the West

DUDE BEFORE MY CAREER TOOK OFF I WAS A FUCKING WHITE MALE!

BASICALLY IF SOMETHING GOES TO SHIT YOU STILL HAVE THE EXPERIENCE

FITNESS IS GREAT CHECK MY EATING HABITS

ALSO I AM A MASTER MANIPULATOR AND MEME PHYCHOLOGIST LMAO

>>8680844
Grapes of Wrath? Doesn't quite fit.

>>8688994
john green

autist runs around doing horrible shit to animals so he doesn't have to think about the kid he blew up or his dick that was cut off

>>8687644
Yay

>>8689110
nah

try a recently popular non-fiction book

some dude decides to go visit spain

>>8671908

Sounds like my diary.

>>8689135
The wasp factory

>>8671955
Game of Thrones?

>>8679014
My Twisted World?

>>8689981
Art of the Deal?

A collection of 9 short stories

>>8690875
tough one

>>8690071
The Recognitions

>>8686422

To Have and Have Not

>>8690971
no

>>8686426
Is it Notes from Underground?

>>8688110
Include a jesus figure cucking him and spread those 40 pages over 600 and the answer is The Idiot

>THE BABY WAS DEAD THE WHOLE TIME

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>>8690842
kek, close enough

>>8690361
yeah