/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12590120]

Meanwhile on r/books...

[Anonymous No.12590139]

>>12590120
Man if we're pseuds here, what the hell does that make reddit?

[Anonymous No.12590142]

nice thread, you idiot

[Anonymous No.12590158]

>>12590120
Wow guys I just read Stephen Kings advice on writing and he tells to "just write". He's a visionary plain and simple.

[Anonymous No.12590161]

>>12590120
I read books for fun, not to be a pseud

[Anonymous No.12590164]

>>12590142
*downvotes you to oblivion*

[Anonymous No.12590165]

Controversial opinion: JK Rowling is underrated

[Anonymous No.12590167]

[Anonymous No.12590175]

WTF? I love books now. Any more cool books like this?

[Anonymous No.12590178]

>>12590120
Last night I was reading Guns Germs and Steel while my wife was on a date with her boyfriend and it really made me realize that myself and fellow whites really are the product of uniquely evil genetics not exhibited by anyone else on the planet. We really do deserve to die.

[Anonymous No.12590181]

why is white people philosophy so nihilistic?

[Anonymous No.12590195]

>>12590181
Because we are the only race smart enough to grasp the metaphysical realities of existence.

[Anonymous No.12590197]

A reminder for everyone. This is a subreddit for genuine discussion:

-Don't post low effort comments like joke threads, memes, slogans, or links without context.

-Help prevent this subreddit from becoming an echo chamber. Please don't downvote comments with which you disagree.

-The downvote and report buttons are not disagree buttons. Please don't use them that way.

Violators will be fed to the bear.

[Anonymous No.12590199]

>>12590175
Wow, I'm glad I saw this post. I've been shivering and hugging my knees for five days straight without eating or drinking. None of my usual prescriptions or cartoons have worked to calm my frail womanish (male) nerves, but this book looks like it might have some advice! I think I need to learn how to never give a f*ck and just Be Happier haha!

[Anonymous No.12590200]

>>12590120
>Implying nu/lit/ is any better than Reddit at this point.
Instead of redditors constantly talking about the same dozen books, we have threads about a wide range of books that no one replies to, or immediately get derailed by off-topic pol garbage. But the daily thread about The Bell Curve gets 200+ replies.

[Anonymous No.12590209]

>>12590195
Nihlism is actually sexist. It's a male fantasy where they retreat from reallity to avoid responsibility and not care about women and pocs. All nihlists are MRA Maga manbabies

[Anonymous No.12590210]

>>12590200
Go actually visit Reddit then come back here and say that with a straight face

[Anonymous No.12590211]

>>12590120
for those who shit on /lit/, this guy compiled every r/book top books poll (11 of them) into reddits top 100. Here is a sample. r/books is incredible trash.

[Anonymous No.12590214]

>>12590195
>another white wholly impoverished of eastern thought

[Anonymous No.12590217]

>>12590211
It's a numbers game

Look how many people subscribe to it

[Anonymous No.12590225]

>>12590211
https://www.reddit.com/r/raerth/comments/cpxkq/reddits_favourite_books/c0udvs9./

link for those who care

[Anonymous No.12590228]

>>12590211
>https://www.reddit.com/r/raerth/comments/cpxkq/reddits_favourite_books/c0udvs9./

[Anonymous No.12590229]

>>12590225
>100. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler. (UP:62 | WS:140 |
Epic centrism wins again

[Anonymous No.12590230]

Hey guys I just finished this book and WOW

[Anonymous No.12590232]

>>12590175
This is my wife's son's favorite book!

[Anonymous No.12590234]

>>12590211
Literally basedboy-core

[Anonymous No.12590235]

>>12590211

some of the books near the middle are pretty decent though. how is this in any way surprising? reddit has a wide appeal and of course the books that are glorified are those that also appeal widely. esoteric tastes do not guarantee quality.

[Anonymous No.12590238]

>>12590195
i'm tired of those thin white bitches, they all fucking look the same, wtf

[Anonymous No.12590239]

>>12590211
Yaiks

[Anonymous No.12590243]

>Classic literature
>Slaughterhouse Five
I have a genuine hatred for people on that website. Between them and Goodreads I don't know who is worse.

[Anonymous No.12590247]

>>12590238
haha, totally

[Anonymous No.12590256]

>>12590211
/r/ books: genre fiction and shit they forced me to read in high school

/lit/: Hegelian transcendental materialist aceeerationists fight against Kantian Gnostic strasserist primitiveists over "what did james joyce mean by that?"

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/504662-my-sweet-little-whorish-nora-i-did-as-you-told

[Anonymous No.12590258]

>>12590211
>top 5
>all basic bitch sci-fi

>top 40
>the only books that are even moderately difficult are Dostoevsky (only there on Jody Beeperson's recommendation) and Godel Escher Bach
>almost nothing written before 1900
>no Cervantes, Shakespeare, Austen, Dickens

so this is the power of reddit...

[Anonymous No.12590261]

>>12590243
this actually makes more sense if you read it as a troll
we've surpassed poe's law

[Anonymous No.12590263]

>>12590238
hello fellow white person
yes I too despise the white goyim!
big-nosed whites ftw!

[Anonymous No.12590265]

>>12590178
Upvoted. This is a lot like that time when the minorities and their LGBTQ allies of Hogwarts banded together to defeat the white patriarchy.

[Anonymous No.12590266]

>>12590120
My wife's dog's boyfriend recommended this! I loved it, made me feel all warm and fuzzy wuzzy goo goo ga ga inside!

May the spaghetti monster bless our STEM heroes fighting in the trenches of ignorance, so that we can enjoy our enlightened interspecies polycules!

[Anonymous No.12590269]

Remember that time they talked about us?

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/aaqbov/4chan_lits_2018_top_100_books_of_all_time/

[Anonymous No.12590270]

[Anonymous No.12590278]

Looking for book recs about space kinda like the hitch hikers guide? It blows my mind how massive the universe is! Kurt Vonnegut is my favorite author so if you know of anything like him I would adore you!!

[Anonymous No.12590281]

>>12590278
I would go with Slaughterhouse Five desu. It has aliens and stuff and is kinda a deep pull by your favorite author. However I'm pretty disappointed that your favorite author is a white man. Please can we get some push back on this?

[Anonymous No.12590286]

>>12590256
>accelerationism
Could someone please explain to me what that is?

[Anonymous No.12590291]

>Today is African literature week. Let's all share out favorite African authors!
>2 comments from 3 weeks ago

[Anonymous No.12590298]

>>12590200
/lit/ is garbage, but hopefully not redditt levels of garbage yet.

[Anonymous No.12590315]

>>12590298
He's just some asshurt newfag who was told it he only uses /lit/ he will never have to see the nigger word and instead of accepting he was lied to by his fellow redditor he has decides to pretend he has been here for any length of time

[Anonymous No.12590318]

>>12590286
It pretty much means that you will do whatever is in your power to sabotage a system in order to hasten its demise so that you can replace it with something else.
e.g. in politics if you were right-wing, an accelerationist would vote for left-wing candidates as they believe that their bad policies, mainly regarding economics and immigration, would work to hasten the, already, inevitable demise of the country.

[Anonymous No.12590320]

>>12590286
Broadly, that history (or technology or capitalism, there are a few different versions) is autonomous, and humans have a very limited input in how it unfolds. The only thing they can do is "accelerate" its unfolding, by accentuating its main features and removing any "braking" mechanisms in its way.

That can be left-wing (that capitalism needs to "accelerate" so it collapses into communism) or right-wing (capitalism needs to accelerate because it's progress is inevitable anyway) and it can also be pro-tech (accelerate for AI God and Singapore racist technostates) or it can be anti-tech (accelerate to make the inherent contradictions in technology lead to its collapse and bring us back to more primitive tech--this is decelerationism)

This doesn't capture all of it but it's the main jist

[Anonymous No.12590334]

>>12590286
>>12590318
When we speak of accelrationism we speak of the movement that seeks to accelerate the process of deterotilization of the economic and social fabric of humans under capitalism in order to create an AI that will wipe out humanity

[Anonymous No.12590345]

>>12590334
That sounds really much like satanism or some biblical endtime shit

[Anonymous No.12590347]

>>12590334
Everyone sincerely wants you insufferable faggots to kill yourselves so they don't have to listen to the impotent bitching of autistic incels. And yes being an AIDs ridden faggot or mutilated tranny is still inceldom.

[Anonymous No.12590350]

>>12590345
you dont need to be religious to be eschatological. Look at Marxists and peak-oil types

[Anonymous No.12590351]

>>12590120
Reddit, what is your primary criterion for evaluating a book and why is it how strong and important the female characters are?

[Anonymous No.12590384]

>>12590211
Sure, there are some retarded books in this list, but the same would be true for /lit/. On the other hand many of these books are legitimately good. Take a look at top 10: sure harry potter is for absolute retards, but you are looking at the 2 most influential political fiction books of the 20th century, potentially the most influential scifi ever written, potentially the best comedic scifi ever written and a bunch of classics.

[Anonymous No.12590396]

[Anonymous No.12590405]

>>12590384
except that is totally not true.

[Anonymous No.12590409]

>>12590351
Honestly /r/books is anti/lit/. While /lit/ automatically starts shitting on a book for the mere offense of having a gay character and is filled with pseudointellectuals, /r/books is filled with niggerfucker SJW's who haven't read a single book in 20 years and now are bragging about finishing a children picture book.

[Anonymous No.12590432]

>>12590200
wtf reddit sounds based
never saw any race realism or fascist threads there before

[Anonymous No.12590442]

>>12590345
As technology advances, humans will get more and more useless. The accelrationist just wants to accelerate the process of what will happen anyways.

[Anonymous No.12590446]

>>12590405
I understand that having Shakespeare and Wilde on your list makes you feel smart, but maybe consider for a second that its utterly retarded to disregard fantasy and scifi, and have clear bias against modern authors, instead choosing to shill a guy whose every character he has written is an absolute retard and a guy who was clearly masturbating while he was writing?

[Anonymous No.12590455]

>>12590211
>>12590225
This is from 8 years ago.
The list would look vastly different now. A lot of that scifi would be replaced by whatever YA the women-mob on r/books read

[Anonymous No.12590456]

>>12590405
>The Stranger
yikes

[Anonymous No.12590459]

>>12590446
>guy whose every character he has written is an absolute retard
>guy who was clearly masturbating while he was writing
which writers are you referring to?

[Anonymous No.12590461]

>>12590446
Lol did someone link this thread to Reddit?

[Anonymous No.12590462]

>>12590211
Tao Te Ching is the only decent book on this list lmao

[Anonymous No.12590467]

>>12590446
oh DEAR

[Anonymous No.12590468]

>>12590446
one list has 2666 and the other has enders game
I could do that for every book on this list you coping faggot

[Anonymous No.12590479]

>>12590446
OH NONONONONONONONONONONONO

>>12590455
If you were an 18 year old trying to get mythical allusion you could do worse than Edith Hamilton

[Anonymous No.12590486]

>>12590269
bloody hell, they are actually complaining the books are too "pretentious" (i.e. they dont believe anyone actually reads books too hard for them to read) and not diverse enough (surely not related to the first issue)

[Anonymous No.12590488]

>>12590459
Shakespeare and Wilde respectively

>>12590461
No, is it so hard to deal with a different opinion on /lit/, that you must blame reddit?

[Anonymous No.12590507]

>>12590209
truth spoken in jest

[Anonymous No.12590509]

>>12590468
Different anon here, but you either think everything mainstream is shit or fail to understand that ender's game had a lot of influence to the science fiction genre whether you like it or not.

[Anonymous No.12590511]

>>12590286
It's an aesthetic movement, a bit like anti-epicureanism

[Anonymous No.12590513]

>noone has posted this yet

guess i'll have to do it then

[Anonymous No.12590517]

>>12590211

[Anonymous No.12590518]

>>12590486
https://imgur.com/gallery/ngExKHr

this one is far more triggering

[Anonymous No.12590519]

>>12590139
protuds
https://vocaroo.com/i/s0HLz1d99OED (source: /his/)

[Anonymous No.12590522]

>>12590195
That's a pretty vain photograph for a girl who's not even pretty

[Anonymous No.12590524]

>>12590509
enders game is space book for 12 year old boys. its a decent one too. The fact that it is where it is on that list shows the audience, ability, and breadth of reading of r/books

[Anonymous No.12590528]

>>12590200
We're not that bad yet. I don't think you realise how fucking grim /r/books is.

[Anonymous No.12590529]

>>12590488
>I understand that having Shakespeare and Wilde on your list makes you feel smart,
I accused you of being from Reddit, because only a Redditor would accuse someone of only putting Shakespeare and Wilde on their list of great books "to feel smart". It's vulgar armchair psychoanalysing to make yourself feel better and doesn't deserve a response beyond "okay you're from Reddit, so go back there"

[Anonymous No.12590538]

>>12590488
>different opinion
>Sure, there are some retarded books in this list, but the same would be true for /lit/.
>/lit/ list for mid aughts is completely different in scope, difficulty and aesthetics
>GUYS IM JUST OFFERING A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE

[Anonymous No.12590557]

>>12590211
Where the FUCK is Infinite Jest? Goddammit I hate reddit.

[Anonymous No.12590578]

>>12590513
These levels of autism should not be possible

[Anonymous No.12590580]

>>12590211
>top 6 are sci-fi
>Snow Crash is top 10 and beats Neuromancer
the fuck

[Anonymous No.12590585]

>>12590538
To be fair, though it is miles better than the redditor list, it's been evident time and time again that even the very same posters who shill these books haven't read them and merely wish to seem erudite.
Make a thread on any of them and get the same tired talking points, never about the book itself nor its themes or plot. It is usually just "lol this author was gay/had a fetish/did this".

[Anonymous No.12590593]

>>12590522
Cheer up, woman.
Looks aren't everything but no need to demean a beautiful girl.

[Anonymous No.12590605]

>>12590513
Not one of those replies is sincere. I know calling Reddit a hugbox is a meme, but it really is insane just how disingenuous these people are. It's a collective uncoerced delusion, that they blatantly lie to everyone else on the site by constantly praising them, then simultaneously believe that when others do the same to them they're being truthful. Disgusting

[Anonymous No.12590610]

>>12590513
While I agree that reddit's autism levels are abnormaly high across most subreddits, the writing prompt in the image is kinda cool, I guess.

[Anonymous No.12590617]

>>12590593
Why do European women look so much like men?

[Anonymous No.12590619]

>>12590256
More like:
/r/books: things they actually read
/lit/: le patrishun books pseuds pretend to have read after skimming through cliffnotes/wiki

[Anonymous No.12590622]

>>12590529
Yeah, and taking "Dune bad, Shakespeare good" as truism does not deserve criticism. I read almost everything he has ever written and it only made me feel disgust, for many of the same reasons Tolstoy outlines. It is beyond me that you can criticize reddits (admittedly bad) list and not even consider that perhaps your own list is highly questionable.

[Anonymous No.12590625]

>>12590593
I'm a guy, but doesn't that obviously imitating pose in front of a painting of the goddess of beauty kind of annoy you? Maybe I'm just over analyzing her point

[Anonymous No.12590629]

>>12590585
>>12590619

"no one reads the books they post about" is a meme. if you have gone on any of the discords or made goodreads friends on here over the years you can talk to people about them, or if you want you can talk about them on here. You cant have a real time conversation indepth about books you dont read.

[Anonymous No.12590632]

>>12590619
The "I have never read a book" cope

[Anonymous No.12590636]

>>12590139
Pretentious.

[Anonymous No.12590637]

>>12590629
>discords
>goodreads

[Anonymous No.12590638]

>>12590619
OH BOY I SURE DO LIKE READING MY YOUNG ADULT NOVEL SERIES (even though im in my mid 30s) RIGHT AFTER A LONG NIGHT OF RICK AND MORTY MARATHONS.

HA HA PICKLE RICKKKKKKKK! XD

[Anonymous No.12590639]

>>12590625
So it's the pretentiousness and shallowness of the photo that annoys you and not her actual looks?
In that case I agree with you, of course women like that are shallow.

[Anonymous No.12590648]

>>12590637
most are boomers desu. point stands tho

[Anonymous No.12590652]

>>12590315
I’ve been here since before TLOTIAT was written. /lit/ could never pull off a project like that in its current state. Popularity was the worst thing that ever happened to this board.

[Anonymous No.12590661]

>>12590617
christian witch burnings were precipitated by jealous sixes lashing out in a fury at prettier women and ended up removing the feminine white woman phenotype from existence

[Anonymous No.12590664]

>>12590619
/r/books: graphic novels, self help books, young adult novels, things they were forced to read in high school that they are told are "classic"

/LIT/: 1000 book digital library of pirated PDF's of some obscure Austrian painter who went mad and had a fart fetish and only wrote one book about the great war that was actually an allegory for being a pedophile

[Anonymous No.12590670]

is it ok to read YA fiction at 30?

[Anonymous No.12590671]

>>12590625
so what the Venus is fucking ugly

[Anonymous No.12590684]

>>12590670
to your children if it was published before 1995

[Anonymous No.12590692]

>>12590195
>>12590593
tiddies

[Anonymous No.12590701]

>>12590670
If you're a brainlet or trying to get into reading, yes. If you have any dignity at all, you'll skip the kiddy stuff.

[Anonymous No.12590702]

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[Anonymous No.12590703]

>>12590318
>how
no it doesn't, stop repeating this basic-bitch nonsense "hurr durr, acculerationizm iz wen u make fings worse 2 mak them better"
you average IQ chimp

[Anonymous No.12590705]

>>12590670
Doing something you like is always OK. On the other hand, the fact that someone in their 30's actually likes YA smut suggests that we may be better off sterilizing them.

[Anonymous No.12590706]

>>12590211
>no brandon sanderson
>no stephen king
>no terry pratchett
i don't believe that for a second
that list is actually too good for reddit

[Anonymous No.12590713]

>>12590706
Its 8 years old

[Anonymous No.12590715]

A few months ago I saw somebody on there bragging about reading 150 books or something like that and he linked his Goodreads profile. I wish I could find it because every single one of them was a generic fantasy. It was like he was reading the same exact book over and over again.

[Anonymous No.12590718]

[Anonymous No.12590719]

>>12590705
>Doing something you like is always OK

[Anonymous No.12590731]

>>12590347
what did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.12590733]

>>12590718
>974 comments

[Anonymous No.12590737]

>>12590638
>>12590664
>WE ARE VERY SPECIAL INTELLEKTUAL CLUB NOT YOUR PLEBBIREBBIT
>DO YOU EVEN KNOW THIS OBSCURE RUSSIAN INTELLECTUAL WRITER FEODOR DOSTOMEMSKI? HAHA YOU PLEB
>NO I HAVENT READ HIM BUT IM MOST CERTAINLY GOING TO AFTER FIGURING OUT WHICH TRANSLATION IS THE WORST AND LEARNING RUSSIAN ON DUOLINGO
>HAHA UR PROBABLY AN ATHEIST DORA-FEDORA TOO YOU FUCKING PLEB FEEL THE LIGHT OF LOGOS AND BECOME A REDPILLED ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN LIKE ME (((PROTESTANTS))) ARE GAY BTW
>POST YOUR SHELF RIGHT NOW I BET ITS ALL GAUDY HARDCOVERS FOR SHOW INSTEAD OF ACTUAL READ NOT LIKE ME I MAKE SURE ALL MY SPINES ARE VISIBLY VERY CREASED TO SHOW EVERYONE HOW MUCH I READ
>HAHA DAE RUPI KAUR IS LITERALLY THE WORST HOW COULD POETRY EVEN COME TO THIS PLEBSHIT I CANT BELIEVE WE LOST ARTHUR RAMBO NO I HAVENT READ HIM BUT HE WAS DEFINITELY THE BEST

[Anonymous No.12590748]

>>12590703
What is it then?

[Anonymous No.12590752]

>>12590648
You had no point. /lit/ is shit. "Some discord is good" is a wholly irrelevant statement.

[Anonymous No.12590758]

>>12590446
Since when has lit gotten so bad that here’s actual REGARD for sci-fi and fantasy. At least Wolfe is on there for Christ’s sake, now go back to your containment general

[Anonymous No.12590760]

>>12590737
Probably one of the most robust defenses of Rupi Kaur I've seen. Obviously from someone off site who was not here a mere year ago when the "write your own rupi kaur posts were every day, with inserts of real poems as a joke.

[Anonymous No.12590761]

>>12590718
3deep5me

[Anonymous No.12590767]

Music for your pleasure while you read about suicidal redditors.

https://youtu.be/NEYozyT_29I?list=RDMM0sYK2RwH5E8

[Anonymous No.12590772]

>>12590518

Ooofff

[Anonymous No.12590774]

>>12590718
>muh choices
Isn't this just an incredibly soi version of free will argument Christians make about why evil exists?

[Anonymous No.12590779]

>>12590446
scifi and modern authors suck ass and you're a dumb niggerbrained pleb if you think otherwise even ironically

[Anonymous No.12590792]

>>12590266
reddit summed up in one post

[Anonymous No.12590795]

>>12590760
>YOU SAID RUPI KAUR SO YOU WERENT HERE A YEAR AGO WHEN ME AND MY BASED POLYP FRIENDS SHAT UP THE BOARD WITH POOPI POSTS AFTER GETTING TIRED OF SPAMMING KERMIT 24/7
>DAE LE EPIC 2016 AULDFAG XD

[Anonymous No.12590808]

One of these things is not like the others

[Anonymous No.12590810]

This is currently the top non-stickied thread currently on r/books.

[Anonymous No.12590812]

>>12590795
based retard

[Anonymous No.12590820]

>>12590760
>>12590795
So why is Rupi Kaur bad (or good)? Someone spoonfeed me my opinions.

[Anonymous No.12590822]

>>12590779
>modern authors suck ass
How many have you read?

[Anonymous No.12590829]

>>12590795
upvoted! just go to walmart and flip through her pamphlet or go to her instagram!

[Anonymous No.12590833]

>>12590822
none of them because they suck dog shit off nigger balls lmao

[Anonymous No.12590834]

>>12590758
I am so fucking sure you haven't read any of the good sci-fi and fantasy works. Keep telling yourself you are so fucking patrician to bash on fantasy/scifi, but deep down you know you are acting on herd instinct without actually having read Herbert/Gibson/Keyes/Dick/Guin/Gaiman/Erikson/Asimov/Clarke/Dickinson/Wells/Jordan/Pratchett

[Anonymous No.12590842]

>>12590833
BASED BASED BASED

[Anonymous No.12590854]

>>12590833
>brainlet that mindlessly regurgitates meme opinions while posting epic frog pictures
/lit/ in a nutshell

[Anonymous No.12590862]

>>12590269
Is this supposed to be ironic or are they actually complete manchilds?

[Anonymous No.12590863]

>>12590820
her poems are tailor made for instagram thots to relate to
I don't read poetry beyond the occasional Yeats I read from a collection I have but I watched an interview with her once where she compared herself to JK Rowling so that should be enough for anyone to dismiss her

[Anonymous No.12590864]

>>12590833
based and upvoted

[Anonymous No.12590871]

>>12590808

I keep seeing this sort of sentiment coming from teachers now. It's alarming.

[Anonymous No.12590872]

>>12590120
Pretentiousness.

[Anonymous No.12590887]

>>12590871
Why is wanting to discuss more women authors alarming?

[Anonymous No.12590913]

>>12590871
Women were a mistake.

[Anonymous No.12590914]

>>12590887
Because picking works to discuss with students based on authors' personal characteristics is wrong.

[Anonymous No.12590922]

>>12590863
After all this time, I just realized that the pic related is blini

[Anonymous No.12590930]

>>12590914
What if that's the aim of the course? To read more women in warfare literature?

[Anonymous No.12590941]

>>12590887
by implicitly affirming some sort of ineliminable bias that exists immanent to the male species and can only be overcome by the magical pussy powers of the second sex, as if half of history is effectively lost to the deafened voices of superior big brained femoids whose eternal cunt-gnosis enlightenment has been purposefully precluded by patriarchal powers and this such ineliminable bias can only be overcome by reducing any and all representation to brute quantification over qualification

[Anonymous No.12590949]

>>12590808
>>12590767
>>12590810
God I thought plebbit was just a meme

[Anonymous No.12590959]

>>12590810
Sounds pretty nice and comfy t~b~h~. But listening to audio books is not reading.

[Anonymous No.12590961]

>>1259046
It's the token Eastern book that's mostly there for the "Dude, I just read the Tao Teh Ching. Eastern literature is so deep" kind of cred.

[Anonymous No.12590962]

>>12590941
Jesus Christ anon maybe some fag just wants to read a book by a woman. Chill.

[Anonymous No.12590977]

>>12590702
What did this say¿

[Anonymous No.12590985]

>>12590930
It isnt. If they taking a survey of intellectual female history its one thing. but she is clearly picking sources based not on any rigorous vetting, but the size of the hole between the scholars legs.

[Anonymous No.12590994]

>>12590509
but the scifi genre is trash so no one cares which books have lots of influence on it

[Anonymous No.12590996]

>>12590941
There are mostly only positives in understanding different well thought out perspectives

[Anonymous No.12590999]

>>12590985
No she isn't, and you're just projecting.

[Anonymous No.12591003]

>>12590211
Its literally 4chans top 100 books

[Anonymous No.12591022]

>>12590999
she is, im not, cope

[Anonymous No.12591025]

>>12590996
but why reduce perspectives to such a base dichotomy? as if there is a universal "male" perspective or a universal "female" perspective. it all just reeks of petty tribalism

[Anonymous No.12591030]

>>12590211
vs
>>12590405

yeah 1:1

[Anonymous No.12591039]

>>12590994
>but the scifi genre is trash so no one cares which books have lots of influence on it

You are thrash.

[Anonymous No.12591045]

>>12590513
>Sweet!

[Anonymous No.12591073]

>>12591022
>Why do women exist?!? Only based MEN can be authors!!!

[Anonymous No.12591089]

>>12591073
this but ironcally

[Anonymous No.12591101]

>>12590446

I hate when people act like the majorly commercial status quo genre stuff is somehow overlooked because of their own intellectual insecurity. Literature is the underdog. You are not helping.

[Anonymous No.12591111]

>>12590518
Man it ain’t a perfect list by any stretch but are these people serious?

[Anonymous No.12591136]

>>12591101
Yeah, classics are the underdog. IN /LIT/. Whenever people here actually fucking read the strugatsky brothers instead of writing it off as "mainstream genre stuff" we can have a reasonable conversation.

[Anonymous No.12591137]

>>12591111
>the fault in our Stars
yes, that is exactly what we were missing
Sign this petition to make it our number 1 book

[Anonymous No.12591140]

>>12591111
It's to be expected. Imgur is for people whose attention spans are too short to put up with reddit.

[Anonymous No.12591159]

>At least he's reading!
I hate these kind of apologetics. It comes from a lazy mentality where any alternative that's even slightly better which replaces the problem counts as a good enough solution. It's like watching an anorexic getting fat from stuffing her face with double stuffed oreos, and the only defense is "well, at least she''s eating."

[Anonymous No.12591172]

>>12591025
If you are going to reject universal eternal being you fucking better have a good positive project to replace it

[Anonymous No.12591191]

>>12590617
they got those cro-magnon genes, only the hairiest and manliest ones could survive the long winters

[Anonymous No.12591204]

>>12591159
not reading should be treated moreso like a bad habit such as smoking, where the weaning off process isn't something equally as bad as reading shitty books might be
in this metaphor reading Harry Potter would be like taking up vaping and looking like a faggot, while starting with some good fantasy like Dune or Tolkien or short stories would be a conversion to pipe smoking

[Anonymous No.12591245]

Leave this board and never return if any one of these apply to you:

>you read any form of genre fiction
>you barely know your classics
>you tend to believe that if you like a given work, it is justified on an artistic level
>you think everyone's opinion should be accepted and respected
>you speak a single language
>you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton
>you read for the plot
>you read for entertainment
>you rarely read nonfiction
>you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy
>you don't have at least have some understanding of the Three Tragedians and Homer
>you have little to no understanding of literature outside of your cultural horizon
>you have little to no understanding of literature within your own cultural horizon
>you mostly read contemporary literature
>you believe 'the author is dead'
>you make your literary analysis proceed from ideology
>you think intricate prose is 'pretentious' and that the author 'should just get to the point'
>your rarely read poetry
>you think Rhythm and Rhyme is just useless rules and laws restricting creativity
>you have a hard time explaining why you like a given work
>you have a hard time forming structured and relevant literary criticism
>you tend to refuse to judge works for yourself, rather relying on the opinions of literary authorities
>you rarely read for more than one or two hours straight

[Anonymous No.12591266]

>>12590610
It's meh, but I hate how they try so hard to be cool. If someone posted the same thing it would go like this:
>That is all? Where is the rest?
>here is that faggot again, no one cares about this shit

[Anonymous No.12591275]

>>12590513
anyone have the joyce version of this?

[Anonymous No.12591276]

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[Anonymous No.12591295]

>>12590585
>plot
lol fuck off

[Anonymous No.12591324]

But we have LOTR on our lists? How can we justify that?

[Anonymous No.12591336]

>>12591324
Downvote

[Anonymous No.12591357]

>>12591245
Based novalisposter btfoing 90% of /lit/

[Anonymous No.12591366]

>>12590211
Calvin & Hobbes and Howard Zinn above Tolkien. Reddit should be liquidated.

[Anonymous No.12591375]

>>12591366
reddit has an unhealthy obsession with calvin & hobbes.

[Anonymous No.12591391]

>>12590652
I’ve also wondered what happened to the Tundra anons. Followed Dakota Fanning into inner space I guess.

[Anonymous No.12591396]

>>12590405
Post the more recent one, more modern stuff fell off a bit now that time has passed and they are less new. IJ is 7th I believe and TPK isn't even on there anymore

[Anonymous No.12591398]

>>12590617
They get more testosterone in the womb I guess.

[Anonymous No.12591404]

How have they not banned discussion of the turbonormie canon there?
My Dear Plebbitor, I can assure you that any thought you have had after reading [1984/Brave New World/Fahrenheit 451/The Handmaid’s Tale] has already been posted 700 times by 700 different people this month

[Anonymous No.12591428]

>Only 1 enemy remained, 2 if you count God.

[Anonymous No.12591440]

This thread is bad. Why are you making fun of r/books.
Its a good place.

[Anonymous No.12591471]

Do you guys like classic literature too?

[Anonymous No.12591483]

>>12590266
Praise be.

[Anonymous No.12591486]

>>12591471
What makes S5 not classic?

[Anonymous No.12591496]

>>12590211
>Snowcrash higher than neuromancer
Like clockwork

[Anonymous No.12591498]

>>12591204
No, reading and smoking, and other bad habits and disorders are not comparable. Besides, most people consider reading to be a hobby, not a habit.

[Anonymous No.12591504]

>>12590211
Fuck me, that top 10 is pure s*y

[Anonymous No.12591508]

>>12591486
He meant classic, not modern classic.

[Anonymous No.12591511]

>>12590256
>not understanding true primitivism is accelerating into gnosis

[Anonymous No.12591520]

>>12590120
omg! i love the hitchhiker's guide to ready player one! wubba lubba dubdub!

[Anonymous No.12591525]

>>12590256
Accelerationism is reddit though.

[Anonymous No.12591528]

>>12590261
Time to start living the Costanza lifestyle.

[Anonymous No.12591529]

>>12590229
Reddit is NazBol!

[Anonymous No.12591533]

>>12590834
>I am so fucking sure you haven't read any of the good sci-fi and fantasy works.
Correct, it is all shit.

[Anonymous No.12591534]

>>12591525
What's wrong with being reddit?

[Anonymous No.12591538]

ALL YALL LIL LOL PIZZA MY DUDE

[Anonymous No.12591539]

>>12590446
what the fuck am i reading lmao

[Anonymous No.12591540]

>>12590256
That's the /lit/ of 2 years ago.

[Anonymous No.12591541]

>>12590617
Because androginy is a sign of inhérent superiority.

[Anonymous No.12591543]

>>12590834
There are only 2, maybe 3 of the authors that you listed that are worth reading.

[Anonymous No.12591548]

>>12590834
Yes, no one here has read the esoteric and hidden works of Frank Herbert and Neil Gaiman.

[Anonymous No.12591550]

>>12590519
you know, I can't imagine the word 'pseud' being said in an American accent. The only exceptions I can think of is the posh trans-Atlantic type accent and the New York Jewish accent, but listening to that word in any other American accent is weird. I even know some quite intelligent people with an American accent irl, but I just can't.

[Anonymous No.12591556]

Only good piece of scifi is RUR and thinly disguised homosexual russian literature.

[Anonymous No.12591558]

>>12590261
Whenever I see basedish gentlemen gush over slaughterhouse 5 i wonder if they read Ice-9 or Galapagos, which are so superior to that work

[Anonymous No.12591562]

>>12591556
Stanislaw Lem my negroid

[Anonymous No.12591757]

>>12591245
i don't even know who the three tragedians are lmao

[Anonymous No.12591786]

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[Anonymous No.12591880]

OMG I love reading so much #reading #books DAE speak in Harry Potter?

[Anonymous No.12591932]

>>12591245
>you think everyone's opinion should be accepted and respected
Yeah you are rigth stfu you piece of shit

[Anonymous No.12592002]

>>12590167
Hahaha upvote/good karma/i'll buttfuck you if you like, or whatever you say on reddit.

[Anonymous No.12592021]

>>12590211
is this a joke...
This must be fucking ironic!
WTF is this bullshit, yeah i like HGTTG but fuck it's not damn near no. 1... what the fuck is wrong with these people? I actually thought it was only a meme that reddit was a bunch of brainlets but FUCKING HELL MAN!

[Anonymous No.12592022]

First of all , I am desensitized to all media so usually nothing gets to me, whether it is sadness or horror or joy. I simply appreciate the good works and move on.
This being said , Pet Sematary ruined me. This is only my 3rd King novel ( I read The Shinning and Bag of Bones in highschool) so maybe it is because I am not used to reading his work, but this book to me has been so disturbing that whenever I think about continuing to it, I get uncomfortable and procrastinate. I love it but I am just not sure if I can finish it.
I read the 2/3 of the book so far. I know what is going happen. I new from the first turning point ( you know, Church the cat incident ) but still I cannot go on.
It is not fear but just pure discomfort that keeps me from finishing it. Ever since I started to read it , it always comes up on my mind randomly. I look at cute cat videos on Reddit and instantly my mind goes to the book. King ruined cats for me.
This is more of a rant because I never experienced such a thing with any kind of a media so it is really strange for me , I do not know about Stephen King fandom , but is this normal for his work or am I being crazy? Or is it special only for this book?

[Anonymous No.12592023]

>>12590999
keep reaching

[Anonymous No.12592025]

>>12590810
I will check it out I like audiobooks

[Anonymous No.12592035]

>>12592023
Are you still replying?

[Anonymous No.12592036]

>>12590446
keep coping, sweetie

[Anonymous No.12592044]

>>12592021
and this is just reaction to no. 1...
HARRY POTTER IS AT FUCKING NUMBER 10 WTF IS THIS BULLSHIT REEEEEA JNFKJBKFJBDF FUCK THIS IS AWFUL
Guys... please just place Pupi Kaur on 1 - i don't care anymore, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE! is this fun to you IS THIS FUCKING FUN just reading for fun HAHAHAHAHA

[Anonymous No.12592045]

>>12590291
yeah it's hilarious they keep publishing that shit but everyone knows deep down that niggers don't read

[Anonymous No.12592050]

>>12591136
I’m guessing he means that classics are the underdog in the wider world, not on /lit/. Just stick to reading your kiddie books, honey x

[Anonymous No.12592068]

>>12590405
A list with many great books placed in the wrong order. Shame.

[Anonymous No.12592076]

>>12590405
honestly it's barely any better than the reddit list, it's full of edgy college student shit, existential trash, there is almost no poetry etc

[Anonymous No.12592086]

nice b8 attempt reddit^

[Anonymous No.12592095]

>>12592086
I AM FUCKING BATED AND READY TO FIGHT FUCK YOU REDDIT PSEUDS

[Anonymous No.12592126]

>>12590195
>>12590263

[Anonymous No.12592145]

>>12591757
Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles

[Anonymous No.12592149]

>>12590211
His dark materials is good YA shit though

[Anonymous No.12592170]

>>12590941
I enjoyed this post

[Anonymous No.12592191]

>>12591486
it’s some american shit made in the 70s, how could it possibly be a classic

[Anonymous No.12592226]

>>12590269
Damn it looks like they hate redditors more than we do

[Anonymous No.12592247]

>>12592226
They have to deal with them every day and they are actual definite redditors not just a post you didnt like that might be

[Anonymous No.12592278]

>>12590263
Fuck off with that slavspam

[Anonymous No.12592294]

>>12591245
lol no im staying here

[Anonymous No.12592401]

>>12592145
I thought Shakespeare would be one of them.

[Anonymous No.12592408]

>>12590263
tiddies

[Anonymous No.12592479]

>>12590211
>Moby Dick not even in top 40
>Lolita is 32
Lads.

[Anonymous No.12592625]

>>12590211
>hitchhiker's guide
>snowcrash
>top 10
so this is the power of reddit

[Anonymous No.12592794]

>>12592045
>West as high literacy rates
>Africa has very low rates
What I don't understand is wouldn't forcing blacks to read, by their own logic, be a form of western cultural imperialism?

[Anonymous No.12592804]

>>12591073
>only based MEN can be GOOD authors
ftfy, nothing is stopping holes from pumping out books, but that doesn't mean I'm going to read them.

[Anonymous No.12592810]

>>12590175
A professor of mine that everyone fucking hates told us to read it, is it just some self help garbage?

[Anonymous No.12592818]

>>12590941
Accelerationism is really improving this boards shitposting - i really hope the mods will allow more of it in the future.

[Anonymous No.12592834]

>>12590209

[Anonymous No.12592876]

>>12590199
Trying to be serious for a second: is the book really about ignoring problems in your life? I always thought it was about not beign scared of trying thing/failing/annoying things that can happen to a person

[Anonymous No.12592892]

>>12590211
jesus christ

[Anonymous No.12592902]

>>12590120
so what

[Anonymous No.12592919]

reddit bad
4chan good

[Anonymous No.12592926]

>>12590446

[Anonymous No.12592981]

>>12590519
fucking lol'd

[Anonymous No.12593019]

>>12590384
im with you brudda. ignore the spazzos

[Tristram Shandy No.12593020]

>>12590446
sure sure sure brohan but consider for one milisecond that number ten (10) on the reddit list is the Harry Potter series. This is literall (LITERALLY) written for CHILDREN to have it read TO them, not to even read themselves

[Anonymous No.12593026]

>>12592876
Who fucking cares what it says when it says it in the most debased way imaginable

[Anonymous No.12593032]

>>12590139
They're far, far worse - actual intellectuals

[Anonymous No.12593041]

>>12593032
Got a laugh out of me

[Anonymous No.12593109]

>>12590808
>Shelley and Atwood on a best 100 books of all time, of every genre, country and form
>My fucking sides

[Anonymous No.12593122]

>>12591275
>>12590513

[Anonymous No.12593188]

>>12590774
harry potter is just christianity-lite

[Anonymous No.12593232]

>>12590286

drop acid, snort a fuckton of adderall, read anti-Oedipus at four am by the light of an old CRT monitor and you'll get it

[Anonymous No.12593245]

>>12593026
Maybe the title it's just the result of an editor wanting the book to be attention grabbing

[Anonymous No.12593306]

>>12590211
>16. Calvin and Hobbes

Unironically based

[Anonymous No.12593310]

>>12593122
lole'd

[Anonymous No.12593353]

>>12591245
>you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton
Who actually does that?