Reading has a way of making us believe our favorite characters are real. Sometimes we believe they breathe the same air as us, or walk the same ground. But they don’t text (besides in part one, which you can read here).

 

Some mad geniuses have somehow got into contact with some famous literary figures, though. We’ve collected a few of the funniest ones.

 

1. “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger

via Esquire

 

2. “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens

via The Poke

 

3. “The Sorrows of Young Werther” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

via Sparknotes

 

4. “The Audacity of Hope” by Barack Obama

via Esquire

 

5. “Les Misérables” by Victor Hugo

via Sparknotes

 

6. “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding

via The Poke

 

7. “Don Juan” by Lord Byron

via Sparknotes

 

Feature image courtesy of Kim Komando.