"I’ve now realized for the first time in my life the vital

>>9272693
He didn't actually write this though

"Here I stand, under gravity's rainbow--- yet where's MY pot o' gold?"

Fucking seriously, Pynchon?

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>It was only after a decade and a half that I came to terms with my predicament. Following a through exploration of my current dwellings, I noticed I had been living inside the Earth. And as I scribble on these pieces of paper, I've come to understand that I am truly writing Notes From the Underground.

They call this guy a 'genius'.

>A pitiful sight these bashful bears
>These timid warrior Whalemen

>And now the time of tide has come
>The ship casts off her cables

>It is not shown on any map
>True places never are

>This lovely light it lights not me
>All loveliness is anguish.

In Bend Sinister Nabokov plays Pound to Melville's unconscious Eliot. But.. is it post-modern?

>>9272693
>Damn that whale has a huge Moby Dick
"""''''''""Great""""""""" American Novel

>>9272693
>"That's right, I had been a lot of things in my life, but now I was the Man Who was Thursday."

>>9272693
>"She kept watching him even when he had become only a mote in the distant light of the horizon. He had been her past and her future, the object and source of her hope. He had been A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings."

>My life, my life, my very old one
>My first badly healed desire,
>My first crippled love,
>You had to return.

>It was necessary to know
>What is best in our lives,
>When two bodies play at happiness,
>Unite, reborn without end.

>Entered into complete dependency,
>I know the trembling of being,
>The hesitation to disappear,
>Sunlight upon the forest’s edge

>And love, where all is easy,
>Where all is given in the instant;
>There exists in the midst of time
>The possibility of an island.

>Succumbing to frostbite and despair, our story ends with our protagonist finally forced to confront The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra.
Wow, anonymous, just wow...ok.

>>9272715

>https://www.gutenberg.org/files/844/844-h/844-h.htm
>Algernon. Cecily! [Embraces her.] At last!
>Jack. Gwendolen! [Embraces her.] At last!
>Lady Bracknell. My nephew, you seem to be displaying signs of triviality.
>Jack. On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, I’ve now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

Or am I being swindled?

>>9272693
>Men are the same in both War and Peace
Russian """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""literature"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

>>9273395
edie wharton wrote the importance of being earnest

>then quoth the Finnegans "wake up!"

Fucking hack piece of shit.

>So be it! You shall be the Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring! The Novelization. Includes a 4K Bluray/digital copy not for resale".

>>9273409

That sounds plausible, so it's probably not true.

>In the Game Of Thrones you wither win, or you die
Tolkien of America

>y-you b-baka! I hate you because you are the sailor who fell from grace with the sea! Dieee!!
wow

>>9272693
>I had Great Expectations for you
What did he mean by this?

>And so in the end, after getting the girl and saving France, Jean Valjean had become Less Miserable.
really, Hugo?

>I guess I was The Great Gatsby all along.

ugh

>Oedipa sat back, and awaited the Crying of Lot 49

stopped reading right there.

>As it turns out, love was his Inherent Vice
Why does /lit/ worship this hack?

>>9273828
this one is so simple but it fucking got me

what is this called? namedropping the title?

>>9273878
I dunno, in old movies they would namedrop the title before rolling credits. So Cinememesins has coined the phrase "Roll Credits" whenever this occurs.

>Don Gately woke up on a stretch of beach and wondered for the first time with his cashew sized brain enclosed inside of a Subaru sized dome if his life was one long Infinite Jest.
Youre really going to end the book on that you fucking hack

>>9273851
>stopped reading at the end of the book
Never gets old.

>>9272693

>"My name is Ishmael, and today we will be hunting Moby Dick, or The Whale!"

I'm honestly shocked. Is this all American shiterature has to offer?

>>9273827
underrated

>>9274319
It gets worse
>So now I done finished with the story, these adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Tom Sawyer say they warn't no good on account of there warn't any princes or knights or nothin, but I guess I'll jes let you be the judge of that.

>Undeniably, I am Ulysses by James Joyce.
Huh.

>>9274353
FUCK

>"And then my daddy, he said to me, "Son, it's about time you learned... that this is No Country for Old Men.
>"And then I woke up."

Oh for FUCK'S SAKE... truly one of America's best living authors!

This thread sucks. It's just a series of hackey stock lines with a book titled subbed in. Seriously, take any one of these and just sub the book title with a different book and it works just as well. Just as well because it's shit and you're all lame.

>Truely I had become "Book Title"
>It was then that I realized "Book Title"
>In the end "Book Title"

>>9274702
>Truely

You are too intellectual for this thread, good monsieur.

>>9274702

I don't understand.

>The year is....1984

Fucking really ORWELL U HACK POS

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>"Surely around the bend there shall be Dubliners by James Joyce"
getting real sick of your shit james

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>The ship's propulsion system inoperable, the doomed crew drifted steadily... into the gulag archipelago.

Seriously, Solzhenitsyn?

>>9274826

>"BROTHER, SHARE YOUR OATS ON THIS ANIMAL FARM!"

Indian fucking shit.

>This is The Fundamentals of Physics.
Wow. Really, David Halliday, Jearl Walker, and Robert Resnick? Fucking hacks.

>In the beginning
Wow, Genesis. No shit.

>"Hey, Deckard. Do you think Blade Runners dream of Electric Sheep?"
This author is a real Dick.

>"Tauriel, these are the little prisoners"
>"Finally I get to meet The Hobbit, or There and Back Again."
Thanks, Tolks.

>>9274987
kek

>You know, I guess it goes to show ya—it's Hard to be a God.

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>Dont pull your thang out unless you plan to bang, Bombs Over Baghdad

GOAT desu

>April is the cruelest The Wasteland

ok, WOW.

>Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme. East of the Sun and West of the Moon.
Great fukin job, Peter Christen Asbjornsen

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"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of Infinite Jest, of most excellent fancy."

Good job, David Poser Wallace.

>>9276371
A+

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>>9276371
I approve.

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>>9273851
>TFW this one is legit and everyone stops reading at that point

>'"This is where your road ends, you bastard. Die Verwandlung! Die!"

ugh

> You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.

god damnit

why cant this just be a thread of great quotes that make me want to read more books

fuck

>>9278518
you could make that thread

>>9273062
What means this? Is this post too deep for me?

> Wow, I can't believe I didn't drown, that sure was a huge The Tempest.

Dropped.

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>>9278527
no, noone every replies to any of my comments or threads

you do it anon

>>9278570
>posting for replies
pleb as fuck

>not posting on 4chan merely as a masturbatory thought-exercise

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>>9278574
I never thought about it that way

>>9273339
This fucking guy

>>9278570
Who's noone?

>>9278570
heres your (you) friend

its for posting gaki pics

>>9273339
top jej

>>9278570
You are pathetic.