/lit/ - Literature

>10 books
reduce it to 5

>frogpost OP

Into the trash

>>12270732
don't bully apu

I don't know any novel that I'd like more than some of the philosophy books I like.
They just don't affect me in any substantial way, I'd read them only for the perspective and philosophical content, and so reading direct thoughts is more to the point. I never got good at knowing what good prose really means.

The Fat Rabbit will win

>>12270723
seconded

Is mayonnaise a book?

>>12270747
>applbla.jpb
that's a nectarine

>>12270747
Then vote for those.

>>12270723
Why?

>>12270766
10 is too much and it has always been 5

>>12270773
Okay. Done.

>>12270789
and why do you have it so that you can vote multiple times?

>>12270766
half the people on this board haven't read 10 books

voted. Where’s the sheet?

>>12270801
I think you have to login with your Google accound in order to vote, if you limit the survey to 1 answer.

>>12270816
Since when do we have to read books before voting for them

>>12270828
What kind of a nonce doesn't have a Google account though?

>>12270830
oh true

post the sheet

>>12270717
answers so far

>>12270924
Look at that pseud listing the authors

>>12270934
uh haha yeah what a fuckin retard

>>12270924
Yea I dont think we will have a top 100 this year or ever

>>12270989
it's pretty easy to weed out the meme replies

wtf you can vote multiple times on this?

>>12271061
Fixed. Is it working?

>>12271125

>>12270717
answers, some lelmemer voted for movies, ffs.

>>12271313
>Rings of Saturn

Patrician answerer right there

>>12271313
>A Tbousand Plateaus
>Process and Reality
lmao

The Bible is an anthology but in previous years has been in the top ten. So can I vote for the Bible or not

>>12271313
If GR gets no. 1 this year I'd be very happy.

>>12271419
Not OP but vote for the Bible.

it would be better if we do the list once every 5 years

>>12270924
g

I don't understand how anyone can think Gravity's Rainbow is superior to Don Quixote, The Brothers Karamazov, Shakespeare, Homer, Virgil, Dante, the Holy Bible...etc. GR is magnificent writing, don't get me wrong. But it's not in the same league as those I've listed. Is it just for wanting to flex your 99th percentile in reading comprehension that you would put GR as #1?

>>12271313
Not only that but he has also has very boring taste in movies :/

>>12271484
Who chose all those shitty covers?

bump

I contributed

>>12271313
>answers, some lelmemer voted for movies, ffs
made me cry

>>12270717
>requires an open google account
Fuck off. Best book of '18 is Killing Commendatore though.

>>12272327
vote now, anon, I removed the limitation, but remember this about the best books of all time not just 2018

>>12272273
thanks, anon.

>>12272337
k

>>12272337
>remember this about the best books of all time not just 2018

It's a shame /lit/ doesn't have such a list though, although there are probably like half a dozen people on the entire board that have read multiple books released this year

>>12272903
>there are probably like half a dozen people on the entire board that have read multiple books released this year
It feels too risky imo. I would rather read books with a long tradition and a good reputation attached to them, at least until I feel that I have a sufficient background to write my own work and more meaningfully engage with other contemporary writers.

>>12272903
if you want contemporary discussion, this place isn't for it. all other literature discussion is dedicated to pulp crap, and /lit/ shouldn't be that way

>>12272903
I've probably not read more than 5 books released this decade

>>12271313
>Invisible Cities and Cosmicomics

My nigga

>>12273796
I guess that makes at least 3 votes for Invisible Cities.

>>12270717
voted, the one book that universally sticks up there as number one is 100 years of Solitude. Don't know why though.

>>12270856
>why don't you have a botnet record, silly goyim

>>12270717
voted
1) Boethius Consolation of Philosophy
2) Augustine City of God
3) Plato's Republic
4) Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling
5) Kierkegaard The Sickness Unto Death

I voted but forgot to vote for No longer human. Lit bros i didn't see it on the answers vote for it

>all time
>not favorite books

>>12274110
Not on this board

>>12274161
>No longer human
>best of all time

my best of all time list and my favorites list dont have much intersection. I know Hamlet and The Book of Job have far more merit but that doesnt mean I'm gonna read it all comfy like Warlock or something.

>>12271313
2001 a space odyssey is a book too tho

>>12274151
Based and Christian pilled

post the sheet

Can OP tell if you vote more than once? Asking for a friend

>>12274397
If you use a proxy and incognito, no, but, please, consider the categorical imperative.

>>12274387
this

>>12274387
I'm a bit of a technology illiterate. Wouldn't sharing the link grant you editing privileges?

>>12275579
no

>>12274387
>>12270826
>>12270860
Sheet link

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18joI1SSiIX2TOY2hhQPR1TSyXMWSJNHfKJlwQp0hfUk/edit?usp=sharing

>>12275804
Man, what are you going to do with all that Hamlet spam?

>>12275804
lots of memes

>>12275879
Well, since everyone has the right to vote, I'll be counting his first vote only. All his other votes will be dismissed, since it's obviously one person.

>>12275908
Based wise OP

>>12275804
>infinite jest
>the holy bibble
>The fat rabbit
>gravitys rainbow
>some michael hollaback book idk
Based.

>>12275879
>Hamlet
>Romeo and Juliet
>Ulysses
Underage pleb

Maybe the mods can pin this post? We needn't let this thread stick to page 4.

>>12270717
>tfw you’re the only one who voted for ‘The Stranger’

RIP

>>12276270
I'm sure if it was Camus' best book it'd get more votes

>>12275804
>extinction
>woodcutters
>correction
>the loser
>concrete
based bernhardbro

>>12276347
>>12276347
.

>>12276289
I’m not familiar with his other works, and I’m rather new to literature, so for me as of now, it’s his best work.

MODS PLZ STICKY

>>12276667
The new mods are loathesome troll creatures who delete threads for no discernable reason. They'll probably delete this thread just to spite us

>>12276869
They deleted my thread which requested books recommendations for critiques of the female perception of power and then banned me. Bunch of COCKSUCKERS.

>>12274151
Based votes. Why didn't you vote for the Bible?

>>12274230
Also a screenplay. If Shakespeare plays is included so should all screenplays. It's the same thing

>>12277060
You seldom can get them in book form, though. The creators see them as a mere guide for their movie, not as actual literature.

>>12277024
ban this cunt please

>>12275804
>Their Eyes Were Watching God
Pleb

>>12277071
Fair enough, if it's not a book it's not a book, good point. Also, who gives fuck what the creators think about their work.

>>12277074
I was already banned you tard.

bump

>>12270717
The Dunwich Horror

Blood Meridian

>>12277058
tfw the Bible will win the contest

>>12270717
Why do we do this every year? To accommodate newfag opinions?

The canon is pretty much set in stone.

Its just Christcuccs trying to put the Bible on the top >:^)

>>12270717
This thread is dead

>>12276270
Not true, I also voted for it, like yesterday

>>12270717
Thanks for doing this, but you will regret being the one to take action.
This will not be fun. I will help you out with finishing the graph if you want.

>>12279209
Thank you for your service

>>12276228
mods are fags

>>12270717
Beyond Good and Evil

>>12275804
>that Hamletposter
Otherwise some of you niggers have great taste. Already see a lot of patterns and a few sure winners. No surprise the voting block looks like the catalog.
Reminder this is a Dostoevsky board. Tolstoycels can go home.
>>12276270
There's like 5000 votes for it, shut up.

Since when do we have over 200 posters on /lit/?

I already voted a month ago ?

Voted for
Pale Fire, House of Leaves, Savage Detectives, Catch 22, and for the no1 spot eugene onegin.

>>12279953
every board has some lurkers.

>>12279953
Since when did we only have 200 active users?

>>12275804
Why does nobody else like Gulliver's Travels?

recommend me a good book RIGHT NOW

>>12280267
Odon von Horvath, Youth without God

>>12279209
OP here, thanks a lot! I actually have no idea how to the graph.

>>12280267
Treasure Island

>>12280047
nigga, there are 250+ votes in there right now

>>12280267
make me

>>12280935
Are you seriously claiming that's 250 people?
>that one Correction, Book of Disquiet, Beckett Trilogy, The Tunnel, Kokoro, Third Policeman, Gay Science spammer
>the usual christian spammers

great to see some kesey finally

>>12276270
Stop voting for that shitty book

Resuscitating this thread.
Come on laddies

>>12282186
t. letpypolster whomst wanteth to push DAS KAPITAL back on track

>>12282195
What did he mean by this?

>>12275804
so how's this going to work, a #1 position is 5 points and a #5 is 1 point?

>>12282230
Personally, I think each should be worth 1 point.

>>12282238
All worth 1 point would seem better

>>12270717
These conditions make Shakespeare criminally underrepresented. The true greatest works:
>Shakespeare's Complete. Best prose, drama second only to Dante, powerful and actionable philosophical ideas, and is superior to all religious texts because it is the closest thing to the literal word of God, since Shakespeare IS God.
>Divine Comedy
>Montaigne's Essays. Criminally underrated.
Failure of these true rankings to be reflected in the top 3 of the Top 100 completely discredits the list.

>>12282186
I think he already got enough responses to make a decent chart. It'll happen.

>>12282238
Agreed

>>12278815
So you can filter out the memes as they rise and fall in popularity

Easy:

1. Holy Bible (even though I’m an atheist: the Bible is the literature canon and truly the greatest fiction ever created)
2. La Divina Commedia
3. Epic of Gilgamesh
4. The Demons
5. Les Misérables

>>12280946
I’d lick those hands all over

>>12271533
GR is definitely better than The Brothers Karamazov

t. has read both books in the original

>>12271533
Agreed

>>12274196
*cringe*

>>12284114
How though? TBK continuously forces tremors into your soul. GR flashes and dazzles the mind with it's complexity and psychedelic prose, but it rarely if ever reached into the cynosure of my soul. TBK is undeniably life altering for many, and I don't see that same effect with GR.

>>12271533
is this pasta?

>>12270717
i'm not signin into a google account to vote but heres my entry
1 seinfeld
2 married with children
3 the one with tim allen
4 everybody loves raymond
5 two and a half men

>>12284405
You're a real wit

>>12284405
4channel's shitposting is truly sublime

I really hope Yukio Mishima gets on this year, but I'm expecting disappointment.

>>12270717
Remember to vote for the highest art ever created: Hamlet

>Respuestas de formulario
>Marca temporal

OP pls don't be spic

bump

I think there is enough responses for a top 100 now

>>12271508
based g poster

>>12284517
>not liking our Hispanic brothers

bumpp

>>12285221
I'm surprised that there are so many answers, even if 10% are pure memery/spam

>>12287002
>10%
there were no limits

>>12270717
1. The Old Poo and the Pee
2. Hairy Pooper
3. Eat, Poo, Braap
4. The Gapes of Wrath
5. Gone With the “Wind”

>>12270717
Good to see Montaigne getting some action

>>>12270717
Good luck with this OP. I'm the guy who tried to poll in November and gave up.

>>12270717
Good luck with this OP. I'm the guy who tried to poll in November and gave up.

>>12284021
Cringe

Bumperberg

>>12284347
It can be.

i voted sincerely

I voted insincerely and no one will ever know LMAO this prank is going down in history and im going to LMAO real hard when someone posts the chart and I see one extra vote on a title I didn't like

>Ulysses By james Joyce
>Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
>Dubliners by James Joyce
>Holes by Louis Sachar
>In Cold Blood by Capote

wtf who did this

>>12289913
Pretty much everybody

>>12287394
Why did you give up?

i was going to "lol" (laugh out loud) a little when i thought about writing "nigger" on all fields but then i realized you need to have an account to post your top 10 of books to the /lit/ top 100 (2018) so i created an account and i posted a prank there: all my "top" 10s are actually fake and they do not represent my honest opinion about literature. i don't actually like james joyce or cormac mccarthy. let out a little nose breath (and a stomach contraction) when typing out the list.

>>12290777
You memed us all. What a master. Give this man a prize.

give us an update so far op

>>12290664
Because of the fat rabbit spam and because I wasn't going to make a chart.

>>12284494
Oof

>>12290777
>777
nigger

>>12291797
>he knows what 777 is
nigger

>>12290777
Epic, simply epic.

>>12291797
>>12291839
Are you guys talking about the christian God?
>>12270717
Why have i not seen anons ever recommend Les Misérables i read the first book today and it seems quit good; Anons let us vote for it.

>>12270717
>Results will be posted after December 28 and before the year ends

Will this be a final spreadsheet or a chart?

>>12290777
ure lying its not 10 votes but 5 faggot ass discordnigger redditor

>>12293384
have you seen how the previous years were like?

>>12271484
Should I read Moby Dick, /lit/

>>12270717
infinite jest
Infinite jest
infinite Jest
Infinite Jest
INFINITE JEST

>>12294359
No, poopyheads like you are not allowed to read it.

>>12284021
>>12292800

>>12294098
I have, but just wanted to check.

Is this list coming out tomorrow?

Done

Somebody else vote for Roadside Picnic

>>12295211
it better be

>answers can't be copied
smells fishy

>>12295019
Then I doubt it would be any different

>>12295980
?

bump for bringing more aware

>>12296121
easy to edit the doc or just close access when copies can't be made

>>12270732
imagine still complaining about frogposts in the current year

I want to vote again. How do I do that?

>>12280489
I bought and read these this year. Pretty interesting reads considering his backstory.

Hey leafposters, this is a great book and it would be nice to see it up in the ranks.

>>12270717
OP here, I've been busy at work, as you know, tomorrow is the last day of voting, so I will close the survey tomorrow and will begin counting the votes, I'll upload the results on Saturday or maybe Sunday. I hope >>12279209 can help us out with the graph, as I do not possess such fancy design skills, otherwise the actual graph will take some more time past this weekend. Cheers.

>>12270924
>"omg gotta put iliad as the best book of 2018 or /lit/ won't accept me"

Voted. I'll write this again as I did for the previous anon who tried: this is a work of good you do. I read a lot of things based on the 2016 chart, and I was never disappointed: behind all the toxicity this is a place where you can actually get good reading suggestions.
Let us know how it goes, OP!

where are the results? REEEEE

>>12294359
yes very good read

>>12299270
Agreed, this is worthwhile because (despite board similarity) there are some very good reccs on the lists

i want the results now!! i need anons to tell me what to read. if you dont post the results now how will i manage to know what to read in the next year? fuck!!!

>>12270717
Voting will be closed in 2 hours.

>>12275804
>Hamlet
Fuck this fag, I better not even see Hamlet on the list.

>>12298616
It's not the best of 2018 you newfag moron, it's the annual best-of-all-time list.
>using quotation marks inside of greentext

>>12274196
>doesnt mean I'm gonna read it all comfy like Warlock
lol what a fag

>>12270717
Top so far:
>Moby Dick, 75
>Bible, 59
>Crime and Punishment, 65
>Brothers Karamazov, 57
>Lolita, 40
>Hamlet, Infinite Jest, Gravity's Rainbow, Odyssey, Don Quixote, The Stranger, Blood Meridian, all around the low/mid 30s

>>12303070
>top 3 isn't Ulysses/Infinite Jest/Moby Dick in some order
This hasn't happened since 2014. Where is Ulysses anyway?

>>12303156
Ulysses has 50 votes. Probably top 5 or top 10, so far.

>>12303156
It seems like this board is finally tiring of the meme trilogy. Infinite Jest is for the most part disliked, Ulysses isn't discussed as often, and I'd say about half of Pynchon readers don't consider GR to be his greatest work.

>>12303070
>including the Bible

>>12303214
>Infinite Jest is for the most part disliked
It has a lot of vocal detractors but so does ITAOTS and NGE and I'd say they're still generally liked by their boards. When I see people ask for unironic opinions on IJ and people are actively asked to give their opinion it's still liked. It is definitely the most polarising book on the board though.

>>12303214
i love infinite jest.

>>12303070
Brothers Karamazov has 60 votes. Someone submitted "karamzov" and there's some other variations.

>people constantly shit on dostoyevsky
>it still pulled like 3 books in the top spots
so is it just one anon who always shits on him?

>>12303394
Yes.

I have a feeling this is finally tender is the nights year

>>12270717
Question: is "Amazon One" a real book or did this guy vote twice?

This is exciting!

>>12303223
>mfw bible ballot stuffing was visibly halted for over a day around the time op added authentification requirements

>>12303773
The Bible has always been on the top 25, though.

>>12270717
Six people voted for Becket's Trilogy ffs. What am I supposed to do with this?

>>12303909
it has been on the chart before

>>12303909
Beckett's "trilogy" is how Molloy, Malone, the Unnameable are often grouped together
>>12303800
Obvious multiple votes were pointed out for it last year too, dunno about the previous ones

>>12303934
>>12303924
Okay, I'll group them together. There's 7 votes.

>>12303957
when's it going to be ready?

>>12303996
Do you guys seriously want to include Mein Kampf?

>>12303996
Tomorrow morning, most likely.

>>12304274
no please don't

>>12304274
I feel like the list is meant to be books /lit/ actually like, not edgy memes (well, not JUST edgy memes).

>>12304329
>>12304311
What about Marx's Das Kapital?

>>12304358
that is fine that is an actually serious book

>>12304358
What about my Twisted World?

>>12304369
That has 1 vote. It's not even in the top 185.

Hope this one made it.

>>12270717
OP here. I already finished counting the votes. All the books from #92 to #122 have 4 votes each, what should I do about this?

>>12304453
Have a 122 book long list.

>>12304453
How are you sorting the other tied numbers?

I'd probably say add the books that haven't been in previous lists. It's nice to have variety between years.

>>12304457 is also a good idea.

>>12304453
Have a round of tie breaker voting.

>>12304453
just pick your favorites lol

>>12304453
choose any of them which seem good to you

>>12303070
No way that fantasy B.S. is most voted. Russian bots most likely interfering. The rags actually so obscure, let me explain what I mean. Atheism is like most of the intellectuals in the world of all time like Harold Bloom & Frued... Its influence on culture is merely illusion. Only KKonas and Uncle Tom read the dang raggity toiletpaper. Its fantasy genre fic through and through and belongs on /SFFG/-only.

>>12304453
make a random number generator and select whatever numbers you get, or do a whole survey dedicated to just those books.

>>12304525
well said

>>12304390
we'll get there one day

>>12304453
strawpoll with 8 votes

>>12304453
4 votes seems way too few to earn a place on the list

>>12304453
base their ranking on last year's chart

>>12304453
Search their names on the archives and see which are mentioned the most
Then pick those and ignore the unmentioned trash, fuck your niche reads

>>12303070
>C&P
>65
Jesus Christ. Why? I get that it's a good book, but come on, it's good on a level like the stranger, like Werther, like the trial. It's not on the level of Lolita, Karamazov or Moby Dick. Does the whole "A-a-am I special?" really resonate this hard with people on here?

>>12305645
It is basically a book popularity contest

>>12305702
Not entirely. Many people might vote for C&P because they really wanted to vote for something canonical and well, everyone's read it (it's a mandatory reading in 3/4 of Europe), but there are also lots of christfags and conservatives, so it's an obvious vote from them.

>>12270717
where can i see the results

>>12305890
ctrl f spreadsheet

>>12275804
>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18joI1SSiIX2TOY2hhQPR1TSyXMWSJNHfKJlwQp0hfUk/edit?usp=sharing

Why can't I copy?

>>12305645
It’s an all around great book. Just because it’s on the easier side doesn’t make it less profound

>>12305742
C&P made me conservative

>>12305645
Personally, I think it's Dostoevsky's best work, though I can understand why some people prefer TBK or The Idiot, which in many respects feel like bigger, more ambitious works. They all deal with similar though somewhat divergent themes, but C&P can at times feel a bit more like a Russian existentialist Catcher in the Rye than a grand, sweeping epic. This can understandably make it feel somehow smaller. But this book has a strong, personal connection to certain readers, particularly those who read it during their late teens or early twenties and were going through a rough patch, as cliche as that sounds.

>Does the whole "A-a-am I special?" really resonate this hard with people on here?

Short answer: yes.

>>12305742
>there are also lots of christfags and conservatives, so it's an obvious vote from them.

I don't see why this would apply more to Crime & Punishment than any of Dostoevsky's other works.

>>12305482
this
but post your results sheet with total votes first so you can be told about any errors that affect it

>>12306024
Being on the easier side certainly doesn't have to make it less profound, but C&P literally is less profound than the other words I listed. It's a thought many high schoolers have, literally, investigated literarily. Yes, if the exploration is done right it's still more profound than anything I could write; no, it cannot keep up with a well executed exploration of inherently profound themes.

>>12306004
I suppose OP blocked external editing, which includes copying.

When will the chart be posted?

>>12306106
>It's a thought many high schoolers have, literally, investigated literarily

What do you mean by this?

>>12306581
check the catalog, the list is out but someone's working on the actual chart

>>12306610
His thoughts were becoming multi-dimensional anon, he has ascended

I wanted to vote :(

>>12307087
voted lasted all week, m8.

>>12307106
I haven't been here in at least 2 months

>>12307111
you snooze you loose my man