Thread 24778030

>the picture of dorian grey
>it’s a novel

>>24778030 (OP)
>Never Ending Story
>Has an ending

>infinite jest
>is finite

>Song of Achilles
>Is a novel

>divine comedy
>isnt divine nor a comedy

>>24778030 (OP)
>no country for old men
>country has multiple old men

>>24778030 (OP)
>house of leaves
has no leaves in it

>>24778030 (OP)
>the sun also rises
>protagonists member doesn't rise

>war of the worlds
>planets don't fight

>>24778030 (OP)
>anna karenina
>she's not the main character

>>24778343
>Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
>they never descend twenty thousand leagues under the sea
>they never descend even two leagues
What a hack author! What a scam!

>>24778359
>Journey to the center of the earth
>They never get to the center of the earth
Verne created clickbait

>Steal This Book
>Author still collects royalties

>Ender's Game
>Is actually a real war.

>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
>Is not a guide to any galaxy, is just a wacky adventure through it.

>>24778030 (OP)
>The Iliad
>It's about Troy

>>24778438
Ilium was part of Troy, pleb.

>>24778528
>ilium was part of troy
>they never look for kyber crystals

>>24778030 (OP)
>Naked Lunch
>I don't think there was an actual naked lunch in it
>how can lunch even enter a state of nakedness in the first place

>>24778030 (OP)
Lol

>As I Lay Dying
>is already dead

>The Odyssey
>stars a guy named Ulysses

>>24778984
Bro I was gonna say that

>One Hundred Years of Solitude
>there's actually a lot of interaction, it's basically a wild fun party if you really think about it

>harassment architecture
>its a book

>ulysses
>stars a guy named ste- i mean leopold bloom

>Finnegans Wake
>puts me to sleep

>moby dick
>natalie portman doesn't suck it

>>24778030 (OP)
>1984
>We don't actually know if it's 1984 or not

>>24778030 (OP)
>The Count of Monte Cristo
>there's only one

>invitation to a beheading
>no address is given

>The Three Musketeers
>there are 4 musketeers

>>24778365
This actually really bothered me as a kid.

>>24778155
>house of leaves
is a book

>>24780858
>the book of sand by Borges
>it's actually made of paper, paperboard, ink, and plastic

>the Tragedy of Julius Caesar
>actually the Tragedy of Marcus Brutus

>>24778343
They do though, if not quite literally
That's the twist, you think it's humans vs aliens but it was actually Earth vs wherever they came from

>The Turn of the Screw
>not about DIY

>portrait of the artist as a young man
>no drawings :<

>>24778112
>isnt divine
It is
> nor a comedy
It has an happy ending so it's indeed a comedy.

>>24779638
this one's so fucking stupid it actually made me chuckle lol

>>24778030 (OP)
>Lord of the Rings
>the """lord""" is is an incorporeal non-factor and does not possess the ring even once

>The Book Without Words
>look inside
you guys are never going to fucking guess

>>24781692
It's full of words?
ABSOLUTE INSANITY!

>>24781629
>Incorporeal non-factor
In the movies, in the book he's some dude sitting in his throne inside his tower.
>does not possess the ring even once
He did wear the ring at some point, the ring comes off of his hand when Aragorn's dad cuts off Sauron's fingers in battle.

>>24781305
>The Taming of the Shrew
>not about domesticating a wild animal

>>24782320
>play about the taming of a woman
But it is.

>>24778030 (OP)
>Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
>nobody ever calls it The Whale

>>24778030 (OP)
>Hamlet
>takes place in a Kingdom

>>24778030 (OP)
>One Hundred Years of Solitude
>they're never alone

>Dead Souls
>not a single ghost

>The Man Without Qualities
>the man exists

>>24782576
kek

>>24778030 (OP)
>A Christmas Carol
>is a prose story

>A Farewell to Arms
>no character at any point departs from their upper limbs

>Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments
>it actually is a concluding unscientific postscript to Philosophical Fragments

>>24778030 (OP)
>The Guns of Navarone
>The guns belong to the Germans

>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Fuck do I know, Dick never answer the question.

>Faust
>no one gets punched

>Poetics
>it's about theatre

>The Trial
>he does not try at all

>todos los cuentos
>I can in fact think of cuentos not included

>>24778030 (OP)
>Donkey Otie
>donkey's name is Pancho or something

>dune messiah
>worse than hitler

Diary of.a rapist, no crazy awesome rape???? Uhhh hello guys opportunity clap clap i have a boner that needs jerking off! 9am scheduled

>Les Miserables
>I actually really enjoyed it
Shit translation

>The Hunchback of Notre Dame
>He isn't even on the team
>He hasn't even got a ball
>He isn't even in America

>>24782616
That was certainly disappointing but there's no need to call him a dick over it.

>>24778984
No it doesn't. His name is Odysseus.

Most of these are incredibly unfunny, don't even make sense and the are clearly written by ESLs.

>>24786168
Which ones don't you get?

>>24786158
okay wiseguy, how do you explain the name of the main character of Ulysses?

>Shadow over Innsmouth
>About Fish people under Innsmouth

>>24786158
By Jove, you're a fool.

>>24778030 (OP)
>middlemarch
>there's no military parade

>>24779595
Underrated

>>24786341
Buck Mulligan isn't the main character, he's just stately and plump.