/lit/ - Literature

>tfw know Murakami is absolute pleb shit but can't stop reading him

I've read 3 of his books in just over a week. What the fuck is he doing to me?

>ask bookstore clerk where the classics section is
>he says there is none it's just all in general fiction

How do stores get away with this?

>>13836967

>mfw it's directed by the man who did this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQBGmBOhQEE

OP here. I didn't write the essay so grandma took the books to goodwill. I looked for it on their shelves trying to buy them back, but they didn't have it, and when I asked if they were sold or what, they said they didn't know.

This is such fucking shit. If I was never born in the first place I wouldn't have to put up with this shit.

>just getting into reading and building up my library
>own only a bunch of sf/f like Frank Herbert, Le Guin and Tolkien
>people make fun of me and call me a pleb and tell me to expand my tastes
>add a bunch of contemporary critical favorites like Elena Ferrante, Don DeLillo and Karl Ove Knausgard
>people make fun of me for being a critic drone and tell me to get into the classics
>add a bunch of intro classics like The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird and Slaughterhouse 5
>people make fun of me for reading high school reddit shit and tell me to read something harder
>add a bunch of revered classics like Homer, Tolstoy and Shakespeare
>people make fun of me for looking like I'm just following a western canon list I found online and tell me to get my own tastes
>add a bunch of idiosyncratic cult favorites like Gaddis, Mishima and Pynchon
>people make fun of me for being a try-hard pseud who's falling for meme authors
>add a bunch of genuinely obscure authors who are idiosyncratic, difficult, have the appropriate amount of acclaim, and are not too "memey"
>people make fun of me for owning a gazillion books I'll never get to completely read in my lifetime and tell me to kill myself

What the fuck is the point of reading if no one will be happy with my library?

>>12784829

>genre shit is now part of everyman

this is worse than Morrisey getting a Penguin Classic. What's next? Norton Critical Editions for Harry Potter or Stephen King?

>coworkers keep putting Infinite Jest in my spot on the Staff Recommendations shelf

Anyone else work at a bookstore? How do you deal with your bully coworkers?

>>11007631
>my gf
ENOUGH