>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>it's a book
>and he's a writer, not an artist
if you ever meme again i'll fuck you up
Shouldn't it be A Novel About the Writer as a Young Man
or Young Guy, to make it less dry?
>>8139978
you really have to be the lowest of the lowest (or an american) to think artist means painter exclusively.
>>8139971
>A Picture of Dorian Gray
>it's a book
>>8139971
>A Song of Ice and Fire
>It's a collection of toilet paper
>infinite jest
>length is finite
>Stoner
>mc isn't a "420lmaoweed" bloke
>divine comedy
>not funny
>My Twisted World
>it's not actually my twisted world
>board called /lit/
>no actual discussions about literature
>>8140022
But the jest continues forever.
>>8140061
>board called /lit/
>not about smoking fat blunts
>moby dick
>doesn't have 'extreme ways' playing in the credits
>Red and the Black
>no commies
>no niggers
>>8140061
>boards
>on-topic discussions
>>8140061
zozzle
>>8139985
You're a young guy
>>8139998
[Inset Sansa quote]
>V.
>more than one letter is used
>>8139992
>taking the bait
>>8140449
I was specially upset at this one
> a tale of two cities
> not a single mention of J.Cole
>Atlas Shrugged
>Atlas doesn't shrug
>Lord of the Rings
>It's only about one ring
>notes from the underground
>is in the bookshelf
>>8140432
If I take that portrait off, what would happen?
>Bukowski
>he's considered as a poet
>1984
>no synthpop
>no breakdancing
>no saxophone solo
>>8141226
Explain why he isn't
>The Great Gatsby
>he's just a rich loser
>>8141056
......
>>8141257
>"haha guys why be a wageslave and have a stable life when you could be a no-life whiny alcoholic like me?"
His "poems" are pretty much complaints that life is hard and unfair. His attitude was shit and the only reason he is known is because he appeals to the lowest common denominator.
>Book of the new sun
>no made of old sun
>>8139971
It's actaully a very good title when you think about it. It's metaphorical you dunce!!
>>8139978
Writers are artists, you dunce!!!!
>>8139982
He never memed in the first place, he was just being a dunce.
>>8139985
Are you Joyce, no? so stfu, you dunce!!!!
>>8139992
Quality post.
>>8139994
You're retarded, you dunce!!!
>>8139998
Quality post :)
>>8140022
If you expected a book to actually be anything but finite then you might be retarded, you dunce!!!!
>>8140028
It's his last name, you dunce!!!!
>>8140038
It is funny tho, you dunce!!!!!
>>8140047
It is tho, you dunce!!!!
>>8140061
We do tho, you dunce!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>8140072
I don't get it.
>>8140142
What?
>>8140166
What?
>>8140170
What?
>>8140432
What?
>>8140436
uhh...
>>8140449
Of course, it's a book, you dunce!!!!!
>>8140455
That wasn't bait, he was just a dunce!!!!!
>>8140478
Of course, it's a book, you dunce!!!!!
>>8140488
foking retard
>>8141044
It's metaphorical, you dunce!!!!
>>8141056
Shit, this one is actually pretty good.
>>8141162
yeah, agreed
>>8141189
4u big guy or some shit like that, am I a memer, friends :)
>>8141226
Quality post
>>8141231
He couldn't have known since the book was written in the 40's or something, you dunce!!!!
>>8141257
yeah no
>>8141915
lol truuu
>>8141918
what?
>>8142295
good post
>>8142320
yeah, you dunce!!!!
>>8142398
2/10
>>8142398
>If you expected a book to actually be anything but finite then you might be retarded, you dunce!!!!
I think I might be able to come up with one notable infinite book.
>John Dies at the End
>John dies in the middle
really??
>Norwegian Wood
>paper isn't Norway-sourced
>pierre menard, author of the quixote
>cervantes wrote don quixote
>East of Eden
>takes place on the west coast
>>8140022
but the jest is not, it resides outside of time
>>8142785
>end
there was no specification of which end he would die at, the book? the chapter? the sentence? His life?
>>8139971
>Don Quixote
>there aren't any quick oats
>The Recognitions
>I don't know anyone in this book
>A Farewell to Arms
>He keeps his arms at the end
>>8142849
or even John(Still) Dies In The End of It All
>Grapes of Wrath
>They try to pick Peaches
>Islands in the Stream
>The Islands are all in the Ocean
>All Quiet on the Western Front
>thousands of people in the book die on the western front
>to kill a mockingbird
>the only thing that does is a dog
>the good soldier
>is a shit-tier soldier
>BIG DICK WHITE BOI NIGGA RAILS A PHAT BLACK BOOTY
>chick not wearing these
>>8142989
The Subterraneans?
>>8142398
you're really cute anon
>American Psycho
>Written by a first generation Ugandan from Ethiopia and based on a Swahili drug lord of average mental stability
>>8139971
>a character sketch
>it's prose
the sound and the fury
>no audiobook
> i aint mad
>>8142979
Im Westen nichts Neues.
