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6069926 No.6069926 [Reply] [Original]

Why is the /lit/ starter kit full of American garbage?

>> No.6069938

>you have read more than 4 of these books

>> No.6069940

4chan is full of Americans.

>> No.6070049

>>6069926

American literature is based and the best in the Anlgosphere. Naturally as English speakers we stick to English literature, thus American literature is common and well appreciated.

>> No.6070058

>>6069926
i've read ten of those books

>> No.6070075

>>6070058
I've read 14 and plan to read the rest of them

>> No.6070088

>>6069926
>full of American garbage
>full
>Huxley
>Burgess
>Orwell
>Wilde
>Golding
>Hesse

>> No.6070102

>>6069926
Those are pretty good books, anon

>> No.6070111

Does /lit/ really like Bradbury tho?

>> No.6070119

>>6070111

/lit/ is made up of many diverse people


I don't, personally. 451 just seems like a watered-down 1984.

>> No.6070140

>>6070119
It tackles different points, though. You can still say it's superficial and watered down (it is) but it does not have the same point as 1984.

If anything, it ressembles BNW with a few 1984 elements.

>> No.6070141

>>6070111
maybe /tv/ made the list? some of these have great movie adaptations anyway.

>> No.6070249

>>6070058
>>6070075
I've read 16 and

>>6069926
If anything it's way too narrow on genre. Do we really need 5 dystopian books? I'd replace four of them with like...Marquez, Kafka, Woolf, and Austen, and you solve some of the America-centrism too.

>> No.6070723

>>6070141
I made the list, and the 451 movie was garbage.