/lit/ - Literature

1 article you dont have to click

people who post tabloid articles should be immediately permanently banned for spam imo

>>11120494
This, stop giving the article attention.

Why have you made 3 threads about the same article?

>>11120514
they’re bots/autistic sociopaths/shills (there is no difference); half of the threads are posted by one of those 3 entities

>>11120514
it's more efficient, we can shitpost at thrice the speed

>>11120482
The article lists books that they deem 'unnecessary', followed by books that these contributors think are suitable replacements. Since I don't want to give the article anymore clicks, I'll list them here for you faggots:

1. Lonsome Dove to be replaced by The Mountain Lion
2. The Catcher in the Rye to be replaced by Olivia: A Novel
3. Goodbye to All That to be replaced by Dispatches
4. The Old Man and the Sea to be replaced by The Summer Book
5. The Alchemist to be replaced by Near to the Wild Heart
6. A Farewell to Arms to be replaced by The Great Fire
7. Blood Meridian to be replaced by The Sisters Brothers
8. John Adams to be replaced by Destiny of the Republic
9 & 10. Adventures of Huck Finn to be replaced by Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass
11. The Ambassadors to be replaced by The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

cont...

>>11120584
12. The Bible to be replaced by The Notebook (the one by Agota Kristof, not the Nicholas Sparks novel)
13. Frany and Zooey to be replaced by Death Comes for the Archbishop
14. The Lord of the Rings to be replaced by the Earthsea Series
15. Dracula to be replaced by Angels
16. Catch-22 to be replaced by The American Granddaughter
17. Life by Keith Richards to be replaced by The Worst Journey in the World
18. Freedom to be replaced by Too Loud a Solitude
19. Gravity's Rainbow to be replaced by Inherent Vice
20. Slaughterhouse Five to be replaced by Veronica
21. Gulliver's Travels to be replaced by The Life and Opinions of Tritram Shandy, Gentlemen

>>11120482
there's already a thread
here >>11118191

stupid GQ shill

>>11120584
>>11120603
wtf
that's fucking retarded

>>11120482
I don’t read because I have to since high school. Fuck off.

https://electricliterature.com/20-authors-i-dont-have-to-read-because-i-ve-dated-men-for-16-years-96cde96a8d17

>>11120482
>Catch-22 doesn't capture the absurdity of war well enough
>So let's replace it with an unrelated book that is more in depth about WW2 and doesn't have any stylistic or comedic appeal.

>>11120603
>21. Gulliver's Travels to be replaced by The Life and Opinions of Tritram Shandy, Gentlemen

The only right one though they are really not comparable.

>>11120697
Or you could always just read both...

>>11120678
vonnegut, franzen, salinger, bukowski and kerouac are all chick-lit

>>11120681
They replaced catch 22 with The American Granddaughter. The statement is weird though because Heller writes about his real experience and neither that commentator nor the author actually experienced war, they're journalists who've never covered a warzone

>>11120482
"I know that [insert book here] is a right of passage to be considered well-read, but [book] is a dry struggle to sit through. The book is about [...] and if that sounds interesting let me suggest a shittier book that has a similar plot. Why read The Bible when we have Veggie Tales, right?"

>12. The Bible
>Instead: The Notebook by Agota Kristof

>>11120603

Tolkien to be replaced by the earthsea series??
Holy Bible to be replaced by The Notebook??

This is amateur contrarian bait at best.

>implying gq isn't just making the same thread on /lit/ cause it knows it's the only place it'll get click views

>crime and punishment to be replaced by harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban

>treat it like Don Quixote and read the first half before calling it a day

>>11120482

>Mark Twain was a racist. Just read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

This is the power of PC Theory. Just fucking wow.

>>11120482
>>11120482
let's archive that
http://archive.is/ljZcF

honestly i should have stopped reading right at the beginning when i read "misogynistic gender roles" but i guess that's the power of clickbait. i actually made it all the way to #7 when blood meridian was written off because it's not "fun" enough. honestly is this just one giant shitpost? i dont know what gq is supposed to be, is it like the onion?

>relevant minotaur of milwaukee list gets deleted
>this shit gets 3 simultaneous threads
why live

>>11120681
Not even that, the writer says it outright "fails to capture the absurdities and impossible conflicts of war." I don't know how you can say that about the quintessential antiwar novel, especially given how grim Catch-22 is toward the end.

>>11120678
Is it a stylistic choice that articles like these are written in the most condescending way possible?

>War and Peace
>Instead: the daily show.

>>11120808
twain is absolutely expendable but not because of racism

>>11121285
>Hamlet to be replaced by My Big Fat Greek Wedding

>La Divina Commedia to be replaced by Event Horizon

>Don Quixote to be replaced by A Song of Ice and Fire

>Borges to be replaced by J.K. Rowling

>>11120482
>replacing Twain with Douglass
Nice.
>replacing Swift with Sterne
Eh.
>everything else
Shoot yourself.

>>11121453
Oh yeah, replacing Coehlo with Lispector would get you blessings from every single living brazillian literature teacher.

>>11121286
FUCK YOU

Twain was a genius. Have you read Huckfinn? If you cant appreciate the depth of his wisdom intertwined with humor, you should silence your opinion

>>11120482
Why not just read all 42 books? Most of the aren't even that long.

>>11120808
>He was a man of his time, so let's leave him there. We don't need him.

Future generations will say the same thing about Mr. Orange, if they say anything at all.

>>11120482

>don't have to read the Bible
>assumes everyone reading the article is a hardcore Dawkins dick-sucking atheist