Infinite Jest

>Infinite Jest
>book ends

seriously?

>Stoner
>no women are executed for adultery
Fuck's sake

>Crime and Punishment
>there's actually a crime and someone is punished for it

nice

>Moby Dick
???

>1984
>We're not sure if the year is actually 1984
What's the point? The uncertainty's just nuts.

There was no crime
Raskolnikov dindu nuffin

>Dune
>There are actually several dunes
I never asked for this.

>The Lord of The Rings
>Is actually about another Hobbit
Why you lie, Tolkien?

>Childhood's End
>Has nothing to do with childhood, and we follow fully grown men.
Rly makes you think, Arthur.

and in the end, it was life itself that provided the biggest, nay the infinite, jest.

>Hamlet
>not about a a small human settlement. In different jurisdictions and geographies, hamlets may be the size of a town, village or parish, be considered a smaller settlement or subdivision of a larger, or be treated as a satellite entity to a larger settlement. The word and concept of a hamlet have roots in the Anglo-Norman settlement of England, where the old French hemelet came to apply to small human settlements. In British geography, a hamlet is considered smaller than a village and distinctly without a church.

>catcher in the rye
>the main character is not a farmer turned baseball player
still a good book tho

>Divine Comedy
>no jokes

That's not entirely true

>The Gay Science
>Ecce Homo

Grow up, Nietzsche

>Hamlet
>not about a little ham

>Ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta
Inferno, XXI, v. 139

>Notes From Underground
>It all takes place aboveground
What an embarrassment.

...

>the color purple
>is actually about black people

Not all of it. The stairs to the whorehouse lead downwards from the street I think

>Philosophical Investigations
>there isn't even a detective in the book, just some shit about games and slabs

>Being and Time
>nothing about arriving punctually for appointments at all

>The Waste Land
>barely any english, no mad max

>the Trial
>you have to buy it, can't read it and decide afterwards

nice

>Leaves of Grass
>nothing on Poaceae, or any other Monocotyledons

>The author's name is Lovecraft
>His stories are about neither love nor crafting
Wow. Just wow.

The joke is that Comedy in italian is "Comedia", come; eat, dia; day, because book is a past time. All hapened in one day. ;)

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Thank you OP, for starting this thread. It's nice to just have a laugh every now and then.