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ITT we describe our favorite books in the most boring way possible
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ITT we describe our favorite books in the most boring way possible while others try to guess said book.

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>mom and her kid are really good at telling at someone is lying and playing dead
>sometimes they have to drink their own sweat
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>guy revolts against a shitty ruler and gets exiled for it
>he becomes le epin trole and ruins his old ruler's pet project
>old ruler still wins in the end
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>>7434144
>man wakes up
>walks around town all day, drinks beer then goes to bed
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>>7434144
>Some guy wanders around Europe
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A writer comes to leave the asylum he was admitted to.
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I can't make The Iliad sound boring however I try, ,sorry.
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>>7434184
Candide?
>>7434169
Ulysses?
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Friends go fishing.
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>>7434210
LOTR Return of the King?
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>>7434144
some dude gets in a fight with shit that isnt there
is accompanied by fat guy who thinks he's clever.
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>>7434246
Don Quixote.
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>man is confused by tree root
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>>7434243
No.
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>>7434278
bingorino.
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>>7434284
Ermm, Don Quixote dela mancha?
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>>7434296
>>7434284
oh shit, i thought you were replying to >>7434278
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>>7434144

What movie is this parodying?
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>>7434305
>movie
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>two twin siblings live in a house
>the mom dies
>they go to a hotel
>they go to another house
>the girl dies
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Multiple generations of a family do some crazy shit
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>>7434305
>>7434312
Don't fall for the Twin Peaks meme. The mood is great, but the show itself is a terrible waste of time.
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Two blokes sit down and one prattles on endlessly about places he's visited.
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>>7434339
5/10 bait. Only the first half of the second season is a waste of time.
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>>7434330
East of Eden?
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>>7434330
100 years of Solitude.

Easy.
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An aristocrat goes to pickup up some furniture or whatever.
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>>7434339
it only went sour for a portion of the second season because other writers were stepping in for many of the episodes at that point. Thats why we had retarded sub-plots like the civil war model building and the gas station owners wife having literal super-powers. everything else (75% of the episodes)are god-tier
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A man who has no purpose in his location drinks and drinks and drink and drinks. Some asshole chucks a dead dog at him.
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>>7434210
The Sun Also Rises?
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>>7434210
Sun Also Rises obviously
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Homos go harvesting sperm at sea.
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>>7434144
how has no one guessed this yet
I'll add
>all for the sake of drugs
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>>7434384
Endless Joking?
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and
>a dude wants to fuck his nephew and grandson
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>>7434369
Under the Volcano
too easy my man
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>>7434393
meant for>>7434384


>>7434391
nope
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>>7434399
I've posted that in so many threads. You are the first to ever get the correct answer.

Great fucking book by the way.
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>>7434348

Invisible cities still sounds lovely
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A funny guy who is secretly sad and hates people
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>Man faces adversity in the south
>Police are on his ass
>Social Pressures are a boiling point
>Is portrayed by everyone around him as some kind of monster
>A love-hate relationship with a far off woman
>Only ally is an indifferent, smooth talkin' vagrant.
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>>7434393
>>7434384
>>7434144
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>>7434413
It's a beautiful lovely book.

I never tire of it.
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>dude goes places
>fucks girls
>life is shit
>fuck all of you
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>>7434406
Probably my favorite book I've read this year
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>>7434445
If it's No Longer Human I already did that
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>>7434447
Those cops at the end were like demons. Incredibly unsettling.
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>>7434452
it's not
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>>7434445
Catcher in the Rye?
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>>7434440
Here I was thinking it would be guessed damn near instantly, maybe I'm being way to vague.
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>guy wants to have sex
>doesn't
>rapes his sister instead
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>>7434459
no
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>>7434462
He Rapes his Sister, Glanton
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>>7434462

>>7434459
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Bukowski said Under the Volcano was shit, and Malcolm Lowry is a shitty writer and an even shittier drunk.
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>>7434339
Obvious bait. Other than a few episodes, the show is goat.
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>>7434425
Robin Williams? I mean, Sad Japanese Man?
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>>7434428
Light in August?
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>dude is not sad
>it's really hot
>ok, whatever
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>>7434469
>relying on the opinion of some shitty writer
awful bait
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>>7434475
it's actually Jim Carrey sorry
yes you're correct
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>>7434144
>>7434440
>>7434460
Dune?
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>>7434482
Nope.
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>fuck this
>fuck that
>omg look at this tree
>life is horrible
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>>7434502
Yeh, finally
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>>7434425
Hop-Frog?
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>boy hates legal guardians because they won't let him go to school
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>war is funny
>actually it's not
>almost everyone dies
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>>7434203
Nope, not Candide.
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>>7434540
literally any post-modern war novel
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boring guy get tired of living in Paris
then he buy a house in the middle of nowhere to decorate and be a faggot
then he returns to Paris
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>>7434540
Catch-22
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>>7434554
Ernest Hemingway irl
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>>7434552
>>7434556
yes
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guy runs some red lights and becomes an author
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>sad pervert has lots of sex while his depressed scientist brother mopes about
>everyone kills themselves apart from the sad pervert
>humanity is doomed
>the end
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>guy writes another novel in the same hotel
>a nurse won't let him leave his bed
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>>7434625
That houellebecq book
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>>7434639
Yeah, Atomised.
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>Guy wakes up
>End of the world
>Listens to shit poem
>Almost dies
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Not favourite, but...
>a woman got keked by an another woman, bitches a lot, kills some people and flies away in a chariot pulled by a dragon
Wait, this didn't really work out as it should have.

>>7434383
Moby Dick
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I told her to create a new world and she actually did it. The absolute madwoman.
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>>7434144

Hates his uncle, hates his mom, wants to fuck his mom
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>>7434906
thats a bingo
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>>7434428
A confederacy of dunces
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>>7434565
nope.
the writer is french and has a strange name.
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>>7434554
Huysmans?
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>>7434972
Huysmans?
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>>7434906
You're supposed to make Medea sound boring anon. Something like:
>Crazy woman gets mad at husband, uses children to get back at him for cheating.
Although I guess no one would have gotten it then...
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>>7434144
guy kills his father with a clock bomb.
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(wants to, but decides not)
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>>7434981
I know I failed, I pointed that out

>>7434933
It's not Hamlet because Hamlet doesn't want to fuck his mother and go to bed, Sigmund.
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>grimy peasants are coerced into leaving their village by a charlatan
>bureaucrats record the ordeal
>homunculus creature rings a bell in the meantime
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>almost 200 pages later he kills an old lady
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>>7435027
It's just fifty pages (in my 400-page edition)
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Some dude mulls about in his jail cell while awaiting his execution
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>>7434339
You're a waste of time bitch fuck you
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>>7434185
...One Flew Over the Kekoo's Nest?
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>>7435047
The Stranger
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>>7434962
Yep.
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>>7435074
Nope.
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>>7434934
Man, you were supposed to make it sound less boring than the actual book.
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>>7435016
My point was actually that, while you didn't make it boring, its almost impossible to make an actually great story boring without reducing it to something meaningless, like my example.
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>>7435027
Des Toasty's Rhyme and Puns.
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Some /pol/-tier deluded kid likes to play terrorist. Ends up commiting sudoku.
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A sad old man is dragged around town by a significantly more entertaining guy to have fun
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>>7435127
I don't know what book this is, but it still sounds interesting to me.
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>>7435133
I really did a number on the original concept, its almost unidentifiable for what it is. As a hint, it's a play
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>>7434144
>some braindead French guy kills a towelhead and gets executed
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>>7435154
The Stranger.
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A Japanese sailor likes to fish and shit and then one day he sees this hot chick and prays to the fish gods to let him fuck this hot bitch and he almost doesn't get to fuck her but in the end he does fuck her. Also the author is gay
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>the tale of a man and his ever-increasing backlog
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>>7435255
my diary tbqh
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>>7435174
dude nice meme
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a bunch of related guys think their brothers wives are hot
one of these guys doesn't shut up about Jesus
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>it's about a rocket
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