/lit/ - Literature

rank and discuss:
Apples
Oranges
Grapes
Peaches
Bananas
Kiwis
Plums
Rasberrys
Blueberries
Cantalope
Watermelon
Honeydew
Pineapple

>>10614537
fuck i could go for some plums right now

>>10614329
Pynchon
Wallace
Gaddis
Gass
Barth
DeLillo

>>10614537
1. blueberries
2. pineapples
3. kiwis
4. cantelope
5. watermelon
6. raspberries
7. oranges
8. apples
9. plums
10. peaches
11. grapes
12. honeydew

I believe this is the patrician order. The ranking has been adjusted for price, popularity and sweetness.

>>10614611
>The ranking has been adjusted for price
>popularity
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>I believe this is the patrician order
you wot

>>10614329
>gaddis
>barth
>pynchon
>delillo
>gass
>wallace

>>10614616
Popularity affects if my local supermarket will stock it or not and how likely it is that my brain will associate certain fruits with the signal to release dopamine.

>William Gass
excellent writer and probably the most underrated essayist.
>William Gaddis
Maybe a bit overrated by fans who elevate him to godlike status, but without him you wouldn't have most post modern burger writers.
>DFW
His essays are his best work, his fiction is good too, but he consistently punched above his weight trying to compete with his contemporaries like Vollman to be the next maximalist-meta-fiction-postmodern american writer.
>John Barth
A few great books that overshadow the endless stream of duds he put out.
>Don Delillo
Same as above
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>Thomas Pynchon
An awful pun and joke machine (Sailors drinking beer out of tits, a lawn care business called Marquis de sod.) who will digress from a story line to tell an excruciatingly long and unfunny Godzilla joke. He is Madlibs the author. Fuck Pynchon.

I've been reading some Robert Coover lately and I think he belongs up there with Gass and Gaddis.

>>10614537
1. Cantalope
2. Bananas
3. Pineapple
4. Grapes
5. Oranges
6. Apples
7. Peaches
8. Blueberries
9. Raspberries
10. Watermelon
11. Kiwis
12. Plums
13. Honeydew

>>10614537
currently eating apples. with peanut butter.

>>10614611
>grapes that low
0/10

>>10614537
>>10614329

1. Pineapple
2. Bananas
3. Thomas Pynchon
4. Raspberries
5. Grapes
6. William Gass
7. Oranges
8. David Foster Wallace
9. Peaches
10. Blueberries
11. Apples
12. John Barth
13. Kiwis
14. Watermelon
15. Don DeLillo
16. Cantaloupe
17. Honeydew

I've never read a plum or eaten William Gaddis

>>10614329
1. Pynchon - I think he's funny. M&D one of my favorite books
2. Gaddis - American Gothic is the bomb
3. Wallace - Great short stories and essays ok everything else
4. Delillo - Can be a real snoozer and he does it on purpose
(Gass + Barth not familiar enough to judge)

>>10614537
Blueberries - Good enough for Sal good enough for me
Grapes - good as food, great as booze
Bananas + peanut butter on toast 'nuff said
Pineapple - recently jumped super high on this list
Oranges - especially clementines
Apples - Sweet or tart all that versatility
----POWER GAP-----
Cantalope
Watermelon
Honeydew
all water flavored solids
----POWER GAP----
Peaches - canned or frozen only
Raspberries - got it wrong in a spelling bee and was eliminated
----SHIT TIER----
Kiwis
Plums

>>10614329
>Pynchon
GOAT
>Foster Wallace
GOAT
>Gaddis
decent
>Barth
ok
>DeLillo
boring history-ridden shit
>Gass
like reading a fart

>>10614885
>i am an undergrad

>>10614626
>a lawn care business called Marquis de sod
cmon that's pretty funny

>>10615211
especially because marquis means: A title name ranking below duke and above earl.

Its not even like a name, Michael of... so it kind of makes sense, like someone would actually do it, like King of Carpets...

>>10614329
1. William Gaddis
2. Don DeLillo
3. William Gass
4. David Foster Wallace
5. Pynchon

Haven't read Barth

>>10615611
You just hurt the collective butt of /lit/ real hard there

>>10615742
Conts gunna cont

>>10615742
I like Pynchon I just think he's the weakest out of the group

>>10614537
>pineapple
>raspberrys
>apples
>bananas
>oranges
>watermelon
>peaches
>blueberries
>grapes
>kiwi
>plums
>honeydew
>(powergap to emphasize my distaste for cantaloupe)
>cantaloupe
I want to like it, but I just feel like it shouldn't taste like that. I've yet to find a melon that isn't water that I like, though I am uncultured when it comes to melons.
Melon Puchao candy is fucking great though.
Can anyone recommend me some melons?

>Pynchon
>Gass
>Gaddis
>Wallace
>DeLillo
>Barth
I've only read 3 of these authors, guess which ones.

>>10615840
Obviously not Pynchon

1. Pynchon
2. McElroy
3. Vollmann
4. Gaddis
5. Gass
6. Markson
7. Hawkes
8. Federman
9. Adam Levin
10. Michael Butor
11. Jim Gauer
12. Dara
13. Sorrentino
14. Wallace
15. Delillo

>>10615211
It's stayed with me all these years so you have a point.

>>10614329
Gaddis
Gass
Foster Wallace
Pynchon
Barth
DeLillo
>>10614537
Raspberries
Blueberries
Apples
Bananas
Kiwis
Watermelon
Honeydew
Pineapple
Cantaloupe
Plums
Grapes
Oranges

>>10615830
you gotta try cantaloupe again sometime, maybe you had under ripe or over ripe, it is very hit or miss, but it is very good, refreshing, boosting shot of energy and excitation. Succulent, sweet, its so good, you will look back on this phase after your aquired taste and shake your dang head, I promise, its impossible to not like if you have a good piece:

and everyone: I realized I left some key fruits off the list, so everyone has to update their lists:

Pomegranate,
Mango,
Guava,
Passionfruit,
Papaya,
Strawberrys (how i forget this..)
tomato (hehehe)
pumpkin (tehheeh)
Cherry
Coconut
Grapefruit (I know orange family or something, yada yada)
Pear

>>10615998
>>10615830
I think you guys may be unjustly ranking raspberries too high, yes there is something extra magical about them, though to be honest all fruits are equally magical in their own right (part of the idiom, comparing apples to oranges, ala); perchance you just havent had them in a long time so seeing them written has struck you with a great tastebuddy force of memory of their sharp sweet sour distinctness that catapults them to the top because you really really want some: though they do not lose points for likely their ability to not be eaten so often? Unlike say, the utility of the apple and banana, grapes, orange...daily warriors... raspberries I suppose can be such as good as any...but they may get a little overwhelming with such an abundant velocity of temporal proximity

>>10616323
>pineapple
>raspberries
>apples
>bananas
>pomegranate
>cherrys
>mango
>oranges
>watermelon
>peaches
>grapefruit
>blueberries
>grapes
>coconut
>pear
>kiwi
>plums
>strawberries
>pumpkin
>honeydew
>(powergap to emphasize my distaste for cantaloupe and tomato)
>cantaloupe
>tomato
I've never eaten an actual Guava, passion fruit, or papaya, sadly.
Strawberries are to berries what tomatos are to fruit in general.

DeLillo is normie boomer-core

>>10616323
>tomato (hehehe)
>pumpkin (tehheeh)
might it make more sense and consistency to not just define fruits as 'that with seeds' (are trees fruits..are nuts seeds?) but by some combination of nuts or by only the possession of a certain quantity of fructose?

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>>10614885
Why DeLillo get so much hate, I'm about half way thru White Noise and I think the media commentary is interesting, along with the anti-consumerist sentiment. Although I do not like some of the characters, I think they turned out to become tropes (Heinrich autistic smarty) but that was probably not the case when writing them in 80s. Is his other work worse or better? However I cannotunderstand a man who devotes his life to Hitler having existential crisis.

>>10617798
This. Vastly overrated

>>10618594
>>10617798
he is a good writer, has good lines and ideas, poetic prose, interesting perspectives and statements.

The people who arent seeming to rank him high, likely are doing so because they perceive his tone to be boring, maybe dreary, maybe dull, maybe arent entirely enthusiastic about all his subject matter choices

>powergap
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Everybody who considers DeLillo boring should give Ratner's Star a chance before they shrug him off

>>10614626
That Godzilla/Gilligans Island mash up joke in IV was great dude. And the hairspray can bit in Lot 49?

>>10614537
>No mango

Shit list

1. Gaddis
2. Pynchon
3. Barth
4. Wallace
5. DeLillo
6. Gass
>>10614537
1. Bananas
2. Plums
3. Apples
4. Grapes
5. Oranges
6. Peaches
7. Raspberries
8. Pineapple
9. Blueberries
10. Watermelon
11. Cantaloupe
12. Honeydew

>not rating DeLillo

You pseuds realize DFW cited him as a major inspiration right?