If authors 'covered' novels, the way musicians cover songs, which covered novel would you be most excited to read?
If authors 'covered' novels, the way musicians cover songs, which covered novel would you be most excited to read?
This op reads like a reddit post. I would know because I used to use reddit.
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oh I'm sorry should I have made a 15th thread where the entire point is to show off a pointless stack of books? Go fuck yourself.
>implying we both don't visit the front page of reddit on an hourly basis and are therefore well aware that is in fact an actual reddit post from today.
>mfw Veeky Forums is terrified to answer the question and look even stupider than the redditers they're making fun of
McCarthy covering everything ever written
I wished Joyce did to Metamorphoses what his did to the Odyssey
That might be hard considering he's dying next year.
I would like to see Leszek Kolakowski cover Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
Why do you think he's been practicing removing punctuation?
Man covering God's Holy Bible.
Jordan Peterson covering Man's Holy Bible
Morrissey covering Notes from the Underground
I would unironically like to read some proper epic poetry from Joyce. The glimpses of it in Ulysses make me wonder what he'd do with a full epic.
GRRM, The Bible.
Alice in Wonderland, Hunter S, Thompson
kys
Bertolt Brecht covering Les Miserables
I read somewhere that Italo Calvino thought that animation was more interesting / important than standard film productions, I'd love to see his response to some classic anime films. This wasn't really your quesiton though. Let me think.
Basically I'd like to see any of my favorite authors version of Finnegans Wake
Hemingway does Hemingway, maaaaan
kek
Celine does silver linings playbook.
Kerouac's Odyssey
wew
Otto Weininger's A Handmaid's Tale
Don Quixote has been copied(covered ) a lot.
I would want to see Bret Easton Ellis cover beloved children's stories, including but not limited to: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and Love You Forever.
Pynchon's Bible
That would be fun
Google dubtechno now
Also probably tylo be chillin
Also Samuel goatus
David Ohle covering any Kafka novel
My diary desu
Now someone has to post that Pynchon style genesis passage.
Pynchon doing Cannery Row
inb4 Vineland
Mark Twain covering the Hobbit might have been cool.
Terry Pratchetts thus spake Zarazustra also sounds hilarious.
Maybe you could make a thread about some author not named Nietzsche? I was gonna make a thread about Scandinavian literature, but I don't have time to participate myself, so I won't bother. Keep your shitty meme-threads over at leddit
I fucking hate that I can't stop coming here.
GTFO OFF MY BOARD
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Except the Bible (KJV) because it'd sound pretty much the same.
Flann O'Brian covering the Iliad (at least book 23).
Don Quixote by Pierre Menard
I'm now desperate to read this
Ovid's one.
Jim Butcher's Dune.
It's out there somewhere. Someone has to have it.
>So here's nothin', no eyes to open even to see that it's bare.
>I was gonna make a thread about scandinavian literature, but I don't have time
But now I'm genuinely interested in learning about it.
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