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.
>>8837162
All plots are the same retard.
>>8837235
harry potter?
>killed because of hot sun
>crazy storms
>muh slavery
>muh magic gem
>muh waifu?
>cool armaments
>>8837298
Stormlight Archives
Plane crashed by fellow of large stature
>>8837296
The stranger
>I have money, why don't u love me??
>>8837296
edgyman.
>>8837296
L'Etranger
>guy commits murder, is rewarded with faith and a qt gf
Crime and Punishment
>somebody catches in the rye
>>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.
>>8837305
>>I have money, why don't u love me??
Sounds like a Notes From The Underground scene
>>8837312
C&P
A dude wanders the desert for a while. Then his name changes.
>>8837300
I figured that'd be easy
>you like niggers!!
>yes
>cue predictable ending
>muh bureaucracy
>>8837331
To Kill a Mockingbird
>>8837328
Dune
>>8837344
I guess that works too. Damn.
>Man writes journal about cucking an older woman for a younger one
>>8837360
lolita
>>8837303
Bane?
>wise guy hangs out with Satan
>>8837373
Dr. Faustus?
>>8837441
Faust, but close enough.
>>8837338
Got it
>>8837162
The Fall
>>8837373
faust. way too easy my friend.
>>8837360
Men can't cuck women you retard.
>man gets rich
>gets revenge on everyone
>tfw still no gf in the end
>>8837328
Book of Genesis. Lots of name changes. Abram -> Abraham in particular
>>8837162
>oh boy I sure love this city
>nothing much happens
>sausages
>>8837741
Gatsby
or
Wuthering Heights
>>8837741
That sounds like The Count of Monte Cristo, but he does get that Greek chick in the end.
>>8837752
Close. I'll add one more detail that I feared would make it too easy:
>escapes prison
>>8837757
Correct. And he does, but I always felt he was bittersweet about it.
Guy loses his job
His girl tries to kill him
He unknowingly bangs his mom
He joins the military
He becomes king
>smartass know-it-all homo loves a handsome guy but never admits it
>everybody die
>and there is a painting
>I am old, world is stupid, fuck everything
>fuck young girl, everything is beautiful
>>8837757
Yeah Monte Cristo came to mind but I thought about the greek qt and figured it wouldn't count.
>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
>sexually frustrated guy finds fuckbuddy
>realized the whole world is a lie
>>8837809
>Dorian gay
nice
>>8837162
>nobody got this
its that faggot kvotch and hia faggot book
a norwegian man goes to the mountains and builds his house and family
>author tries to postpone his own inevitable suicide by writing 1200 page book about tennis
>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
>>8837830
Infinite Jest
>>8837824
walden
>Young guy goes crazy because of some razors then kill his little sister, who turns out to be Jodie Foster. Best book ever.
>>8837162
>britbong and his crew gets stranded
>becomes first weeaboo ever
>>8837305
The Great G-man
>>8837335
The Trial
>entire economy and caste system of isolated tribe revolves around pigs
>>8838054
lord of the flies
>>8838147
Animal farm
>>8838156
wrong
>>8838147
Lord of Flies?
>I'm poor and everyone is mean, so it's fine if I'm a cunt too!
>>8838169
right
>worms are the best gasoline and can also get you pretty fucked up
7 generations of a family have an orgy, get punished by God.
men getting on boat then vase get raped by goat
>>8838180
Well that just has to be Dune
>>8838054
Show Gun
Literally nothing happens.
>>8837824
Growth of the Soiled
>>8838232
Paulo Coelho: Alchimist
dykes do their shit, let the men play, yuck
>>8838232
Thanks for the spoiler alert for the Bible.
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
Man who building a spaceship in Utopia is seduced by bald woman
>Man wanders around villages
>quotes poets both real and fake
>sees a qt
>dies
>>8837162
>cucked by cousin
>gutted by wife
>avenged by son
>translated by Fagles
>>8838271
We?
>>8837759
shawshank redemption
idk if i spelled that right
>fucking hell this train trip takes forever, I'd rather die
>girl accidentally becomes a teacher
>random guy in a nun outfit because why not
>>8838272
Thus Spoke Zarathustra?
>>8837162
paranoid schizo works with starfish and sock puppet to save 5 worlds and a moon.
>>8838263
a shit ton of stuff happens in the bible senpai.
>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
>>8838614
i think its dq
>>8838246
growth of the soil by knut hamsun, correct. wp anon
Posting the first pic in this thread to spice things up, lads.
>bald guy likes war
He didn't apologize.
>>8839539
Blood Meridian
>>8837822
I thought it would have been much faster
Yeah, that's it.
>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
>>8838232
Something by Becket
>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
>>8838320
The Oresteia
>tfw fight brothers war for 10 years
>tfw finally home to loving wife
>tfw nope