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Alright /lit/ let's play a game. Describe the basic plot

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Alright /lit/ let's play a game.
Describe the basic plot of a book as poorly as you can, see if anyone can guess it.

>Hero in a bar tells a story about how much better his life is than everyone else's.
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>>8837162
All plots are the same retard.
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>>8837235

harry potter?
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>killed because of hot sun
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>crazy storms
>muh slavery
>muh magic gem
>muh waifu?
>cool armaments
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>>8837298
Stormlight Archives
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Plane crashed by fellow of large stature
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>>8837296
The stranger

>I have money, why don't u love me??
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>>8837296
edgyman.
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>>8837296
L'Etranger
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>guy commits murder, is rewarded with faith and a qt gf
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Crime and Punishment
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>somebody catches in the rye
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>>8837305
Pride and Prejudice?

>So uh, there's, like, a lot of people with a lot of names and a lot of money and everyone is good-looking, but also sad. Except that one girl. That one's ugly.
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>>8837305
>>I have money, why don't u love me??
Sounds like a Notes From The Underground scene
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>>8837312
C&P
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A dude wanders the desert for a while. Then his name changes.
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>>8837312
>>8837313
yes, in case that was an answer for me
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>>8837300
I figured that'd be easy

>you like niggers!!
>yes
>cue predictable ending
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>muh bureaucracy
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>>8837331
To Kill a Mockingbird
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>>8837328
Dune
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>>8837344
I guess that works too. Damn.
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>Man writes journal about cucking an older woman for a younger one
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>>8837360
lolita
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>>8837303
Bane?
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>wise guy hangs out with Satan
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>>8837303
4u
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>>8837373
Dr. Faustus?
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>>8837441
Faust, but close enough.
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>>8837338
Got it
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>>8837162
The Fall
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>>8837373
faust. way too easy my friend.
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>>8837360

Men can't cuck women you retard.

>man gets rich
>gets revenge on everyone
>tfw still no gf in the end
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>>8837328
Book of Genesis. Lots of name changes. Abram -> Abraham in particular
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>>8837162
>oh boy I sure love this city
>nothing much happens
>sausages
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>>8837741
Gatsby
or
Wuthering Heights
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>>8837741
That sounds like The Count of Monte Cristo, but he does get that Greek chick in the end.
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>>8837752

Close. I'll add one more detail that I feared would make it too easy:

>escapes prison
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>>8837757


Correct. And he does, but I always felt he was bittersweet about it.
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Guy loses his job
His girl tries to kill him
He unknowingly bangs his mom
He joins the military
He becomes king
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>smartass know-it-all homo loves a handsome guy but never admits it
>everybody die
>and there is a painting
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>I am old, world is stupid, fuck everything
>fuck young girl, everything is beautiful
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>>8837757
Yeah Monte Cristo came to mind but I thought about the greek qt and figured it wouldn't count.
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>rich boy has cool dad and bitch mother
>starts getting gay with a poor boy
>War
>mother even more of a bitch
>Dad turns out to be total cuck
>the only reasonable option is to shoot my friend
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>>8837783
Swollen-foot King
>>8837791
Dorian gay
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>sexually frustrated guy finds fuckbuddy
>realized the whole world is a lie
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>>8837809
>Dorian gay
nice
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>>8837162
>nobody got this

its that faggot kvotch and hia faggot book
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a norwegian man goes to the mountains and builds his house and family
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>author tries to postpone his own inevitable suicide by writing 1200 page book about tennis
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>leftist jew secretly in love with one of the most controversial figure of our time who has the stupidest name ever
>stupid name guy bores him and drops him
>jew write revenge book telling how evil he is
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>>8837830
Infinite Jest
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>>8837824
walden
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>Young guy goes crazy because of some razors then kill his little sister, who turns out to be Jodie Foster. Best book ever.
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>>8837797
>>8837811
They both kind of sound like Steppenwolf

>>8837889
nah, that would only work if you replace 'family' with 'intimate acquaintance with home-grown beans'
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>>8837992
>>8837797
nice

>>8837992
lie is not abstract like in steppenwolf
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>>8837162
>britbong and his crew gets stranded
>becomes first weeaboo ever
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>>8837305
The Great G-man
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>>8837335
The Trial
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>entire economy and caste system of isolated tribe revolves around pigs
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>>8838054
lord of the flies
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>>8838147
Animal farm
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>>8838156
wrong
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>>8838147
Lord of Flies?
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>I'm poor and everyone is mean, so it's fine if I'm a cunt too!
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>>8838169
right

>worms are the best gasoline and can also get you pretty fucked up
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7 generations of a family have an orgy, get punished by God.
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men getting on boat then vase get raped by goat
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>>8838180
Well that just has to be Dune
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>>8838054
Show Gun
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Literally nothing happens.
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>>8837824
Growth of the Soiled
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>>8838232

Paulo Coelho: Alchimist
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dykes do their shit, let the men play, yuck
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>>8838232
Thanks for the spoiler alert for the Bible.
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Guy just wants to get to Madrid but keeps getting interrupted by tl;dr nerd lords and some ghosts who want to give him money
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Man who building a spaceship in Utopia is seduced by bald woman
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>Man wanders around villages
>quotes poets both real and fake
>sees a qt
>dies
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>>8837162
>cucked by cousin
>gutted by wife
>avenged by son
>translated by Fagles
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>>8838271

We?
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>>8837759
shawshank redemption

idk if i spelled that right
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>fucking hell this train trip takes forever, I'd rather die
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>girl accidentally becomes a teacher
>random guy in a nun outfit because why not
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>>8838272
Thus Spoke Zarathustra?
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>>8837162
paranoid schizo works with starfish and sock puppet to save 5 worlds and a moon.
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>>8838263
a shit ton of stuff happens in the bible senpai.
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>be me
>be dumb bitch little girl
>wanna be a writer real bad
>oh hey my sisters getting naked
>huh, I sure hope that dude rapes her
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>>8838614
i think its dq
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>>8838246
growth of the soil by knut hamsun, correct. wp anon
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>bald guy likes war
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He didn't apologize.
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>>8839539

Blood Meridian
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>>8837822
I thought it would have been much faster
Yeah, that's it.
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>Some dudes learn to be professional niggers
>Being niggers gets most of them killed
>Continue to be niggers except the man always tryna keep them down
>fuckin wizards
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>>8838232
Something by Becket
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>blind guy talks to some people, dies in the woods

>I'm 50 now and I'm sad as fuck, look at my drawings

>kid does a bunch of cocaine and can't stop reading billboards
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>>8838320
The Oresteia
>tfw fight brothers war for 10 years
>tfw finally home to loving wife
>tfw nope
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