/lit/ - Literature

Meddle? For fucks sake.

The sun also rises

>>13886259
I think it's time to troll this sucker. GET HIM, /LIT/!

>>13886262
Added to the tally
>>13886264
Wtf don't troll me this is a board sociological experiment

Trust me, you can close the thread now, Ulysses is the first book on there from the 20th century from the last poll we did and gets my vote if you're autistic enough to take a single thread's answers for your "experiment"

Ulysses

>>13886259
Any day you ask /lit/ you'll get a different answer. Anyways, come back when you scratch /mu/ off your little project. I refuse to be lumped in with those high schoolers overstimulated by weed.

>>13886294
This. Two votes for OP leaving or scratching /mu/ off.

animal farm or the hobbit

>>13886311
>>13886294
how about letting /lit/ decide the music as well for fun?

>>13886259
I expected more out of /mu/. DSOTM and even WYWH are both better albums.

I agree that it's Ulysses

>>13886320
>mu chose fucking dadrock shit over Neutral Milk Hotels
neomu has zero personality lmao

>>13886259
Lolita

>film
>Barry Lyndon
Even when /tv/ tries to be pretentious, they fuck it up. I can name THIRTY films better than Barry Lyndon off the TOP OF MY HEAD.

harry potter

Harry Potter

>>13886339
>>13886259
As you can see OP, this board is full of pretentious brainlets who think they can make up for their lack of IQ by reading obscure literature and looking down on people who enjoy classics.

>>13886382
okay go

>>13886382
You’re a fucking idiot, read before you let that autistic cog in your head spin off like, vroom.

the harry potter series

>>13886259
Harry Potter

4 votes for harry potter
3 for ulysses
1 for lolita

>>13886409
I voted for hobbit

>>13886259
I am become edge reddit, destroyer of backpages.

>>13886409
Harry Potter

>>13886409
harry potter

>>13886259
Infinite Jest

5 for harry potter
3 for ulysses
1 for lolita
1 for the hobbit

>>13886415
>>13886400
>>13886397
>>13886388
>>13886392
I have not lurked this board enough to be able to tell if they are being ironic or not.

Potter, Harry. Vol IV.

>>13886422
H A R R Y
A
R
R
Y
(this is also my vote)

7 for harry potter
3 for ulysses
1 for lolita
1 for the hobbit
1 for infinite jest

hairy poofter

Hardly Pooter

harley porter

The most intellectual board on 4channel

harry pussy

If you want it to be actually legit, just put Ulysses already otherwise the tally will be mercilessly trolled. Also I'm guessing you got trolled on /mu/ too, change it to Neutral Milk already

What ever blackies like nowdays
we dont want to be know as a racist board hehe

>>13886445
>wah wah put only the things I like and not what other people like
This is a democracy, bitch

>>13886445
>because this poll should be taken super seriously so the other boards will think /lit/ is smart and has good taste
Harry Potter

>>13886259
>barry Lyndon

get fuck ed you pretentious tasteless shit

12 for harry potter
3 for ulysses
1 for lolita
1 for the hobbit
1 for infinite jest

>>13886452
Lit has ready voted for Ulysses as the greatest 20th century book >>13886281

>>13886484
That list was created by a rogue discord server and not by the real /lit/.

>>13886484
joyce is a peabrain compared to bigbrain rowling
My vote is for the masterpiece Harold Potter Esq.

>>13886508
I concur.

Finnegans Wake

harry potter

i vote harry potter

>>13886477
These pretty much accurately represents /lit/‘s tastes

Fanged Noumena

This thread is the ultimate argument against democracy

Harry potter

I love Harry Potter, but I have to go with The Handmaid's Tale

>>13886394
A Woman Under the Influence
The Celebration
The Face of Another
Rashomon
Marketa Lazarová
La Jetée
L’Avventura
Sátántango
Chungking Express
A Woman in the Dunes
Tokyo Story
Ikiru
Perfect Blue
The Exterminating Angel
Paris Texas
Night of the Hunter
All That Jazz
La Dolce Vita
Some Like It Hot
The Trial
Play Time
Branded to Kill
The Grand Illusion
Brazil
Ugetsu
Fitzcarraldo
Mulholland Drive
The Bride of Frankenstein
Buffalo 66
The Shining
Rear Window

I was working, sorry for delay. Barry Lyndon is one of Kubrick’s worsts, second only to Killing Them Softly. I’ve no doubt that every single film on this list is better. Feel free to pick this apart and shit on me, yeah yeah. Fuck you and FUCK /tv/.

>>13886395
Fuck you too, retard.

>>13886395
The OP is clearly talking about the movie breh

>>13886409
Harry Potter

>>13886259
What about; L'Étranger of Albert Camus? I would consider it

15 for harry potter
3 for ulysses
1 for lolita
1 for the hobbit
1 for infinite jest
1 for Finnegans Wake
1 for Fanged Noumena
1 for Handmaid's tale
1 for L'etranger

>>13886259
The Horse and His Boy

>>13886637
Might as well close the poll now. You know who is going to win
Harry Potter

>>13886614
I actually don't know a lot of these, but there are some good ones. Will have to look the others up.

>>13886637
So if I understand correctly if I want my choice (L'étranger) to pass, I just have to spam the name of the book in the thread for it to be number 1 in popularity in this very thread.
Your technique of finding the best Literature of the 20th century is flawed and trolls proved it.
Putting Harry Potter has the #1 is quite ironic and a bit funny in all honesty.

>>13886637
They're memeing you, just put Ulysses. I prefer In Search of Lost Time and GR but I'm happy to vote for Ulysses, especially if it's to beat Harry Potter

>>13886659
This guy is meming, Harry Potter is our choice, I speak for everyone.
Fuck, I do really love ISoLT...

>>13886571
I started reading this because of that thread the other day. Its interesting but not up for discussion for this list.

>>13886669
You got memed.

>>13886669
>>13886671
Good luck understanding Nick Land.

>>13886671
I am aware, It still sparked my interest.

Harry Potter

>>13886677
No, Harry Potter is unironically the greatest work of fiction of the millenium. It will be the next Odyssey.
Jk Rowling > Homer

Move aside, coming through, excuse me

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

>>13886259
good pick for film but Bondarchuk's War and Peace is better

>>13886637
Harold poter undoubtedly

harry potter gets my sword

>>13886262
i read this book recently... it sucks.

my vote is for Moby Dick.

>>13886477
Hairy (Just slightly) Lolita

>>13886463
How is b lyndon pretentious? You just have adhd

harry potter because fuck ulysses

Henry Porter

>>13886259
/mu/ chose fucking Meddle? Over ITCOTCK?

>>13886409
harry potter

>>13886259
im going to have to go with harry potter series

>>13886998
>20th century
>Moby Dick

>>13886259
the 20th century is too broad a period
after the WW2 is when the real degeneration (but not in the moralistic sense) happened and much less great works have been created since then, so it’s easier to choose the best one (+ the second half of the 20th century is so different from the first half that it just doesn’t make sense to consider them as a whole)

Il Gattopardo (Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa)

Il Gattopardo

Il Gattopardo.

>>13886259
Il Gattopardo

>>13886259
>Pink Floyd
What the fuck, and it's not even their best.

>>13887279
This for me as well

Il Gattopardo of Tomasi de Lampedusa

>>13887299
Name me one bad song on Meddle.
>inb4 Seamus
Seamus was a good boy, faggot

Il Gattopardo deserves it

Il Gattopardo
Il Gattopardo

>>13887311
It's not bad, but the best album of all time? Fuck no. At least pick Pipers, although I still wouldn't put it on a top 100 best albums list.

Il Gattopardo

I vote 'Il Gattopardo'

My vote goes to 'Il Gattopardo'

Il Gattopardo deserves both book and film.

>>13887295
This one for me too

Il Gattopardo

Il gattopardo.

'Il Gattopardo'

Interesting experiment, I'd have to say Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa's 'Il Gattopardo'

Il Gattopardo

I hate this board

>>13887397
i hate this site

Infinite Jest, obviously

>>13887397
>>13887442
You're here forever.

El Gatto Potter

the harry potter books

Hā lì · Bō tè

Il Gattopardo

>>13887162
CATS FOOT
IRON CLAW

>>13886409
Harry potter (the half blood prince)

That's 28 Votes for the boy wizard.

>>13888086
Make that 29, I too vote for HARRY POTTER

>>13886259
Whats the one about the wizard kid with the scar on his head? Thats the greatest novel ever imo

>>13887324
based schizo

What about best food of the 20th century??

>>13886637
as an /oldfag/ I pretty much have 9000 votes on these sorts of things...

>>13886259
/v/ lurker reporting in, the only answer is dark souls.

>>13886508
>>13886530
>Esq.
So we're in fact talking about the criminal barrister Harold Potter and his book on Common Law?

It is very good. I won't go into your mistakr of using Esq. though.

Frog and Toad is the real answer. Close the poll already.

>>13886259

Hargid Bopper

>>13886259
>Il Gattopardo

>>13888426

Depends where and when in the 20th century, the cuisine could be infinitely varied. For instance, 1970s metropolitan areas would say prawn cocktail. 1950s America, the humble cheeseburger. 1920s Russia, grass and you're own children. You just don't know.

>>13886281
>lolita
>gravity's rainbow
>the bible
>moby dick
what the actual fuck is that top 10. is this a meme?

>>13886259
The Bible

>>13886452
Lurk more faggot

my diary desu

>>13888736
No, YOU are a meme, a mere jest.
Infinite Jest

>>13886259
In The Court Of The Crimson King is much better.

>>13887199
dammit, i wasn't paying attention

>>13886685
I second this

This is probably an invalid, but everything is an invalid so I'm voting for "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess.

Really love Ulysses but gotta go with Harry Potter

Clockwork Orange isn't even the best Kubrick movie ffs
How come /tv/ has such shit taste? Even though it's become a stereotype, even /mu/core is pretty good. /tv/’s canon just fuckin blows

Harry Potter unironically

Harry Potter

>>13886409
harry potter

hairy padre

The absolute fucking state of /tv/

How come /mu/ has good taste for once
And what is wrong with this board

Harry Potter

The Bible

harry potter

>>13886422
trust me, they're not.
I vote Harry
>>13886444
>>13886555
>>13886577
checkem

>>13889816
I'd prefer TVU&N, ITCOTCK or Loveless over anything by Pink Floyd

>>13886262
I wonder how many of the votes for Meddle were just votes for Echoes

>>13888736
All those are pretty reasonable for a top ten, excluding perhaps gravs rainbow.

>>13890040
>Infinite Jest and Stoner are more reasonable for the top ten greatest books ever written than Gravity's Rainbow

>>13890087
No of course they aren't i was referencing the one's listed. Brothers K. should also be omitted, except for the bit about onions it is trash.

>>13890147
Please stop you look ridiculous

>>13886409
harry potter

>>13890147
>>13890220
>Please stop you look ridiculous

>>13886259
MY DIARY DESU is the only objective answer desu

Fearless is p Nietzschean to be fair, we should class it as occuring the previous century
youtube.com/watch?v=sl_apx8JoMw

Il gattopardo

Harry potter

>>13886259
>/tv/ voted Barry Lyndon as the greatest film of the 20th century
wait, when did /tv/ get good tastes?

>>13886259
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

I asked this guy I work with what his favorite book was and he said Magic Treehouse, so that's my pick.

the best book of the 20th century is:

MAGIC TREEHOUSE #20: DINGOES AT DINNERTIME

>>13891297
Lol

>>13886614
Solid taste desu

I heard Harry Potter is a really good read, but like modt of /lit/ I have only ever seen the movies.
I still vote Potter

>>13886259
Kek just came from /mu/ to see if you actually put meddle there. Fucking retard

How could Harry Potter be the 20th century’s greatest work of literature when it “inspired” one of the dullest franchises in the history of movie franchises? Each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody, just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though r-right
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

>>13890147
You were based until you mentioned The Brothers K.
>>13889971
>>13888840
>>13887162
It seems like /lit/ has much better music taste than /mu/. Put ITCOTCK instead of Meddle, OP. You got meymey'd.

>>13892583
>I decide who has good musical taste
Fucking braindead faggot

>>13886259
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
>honestly probably Ulysses though

>>13886614
Good taste

>>13886259
'film' should be renamed 'movies' considering show shit their taste his, god damn.

>>13886409
harry potter

>>13892603
it's not just me. Look at the people I quoted and the original thread on /mu/. ITCOTCK was the runner-up with only few votes difference. Meddle won because of memes and anons botting.

>>13886259
>Literature
Ulysses
>Music
Don't know since I don't listen to much music
>Film
Playtime
>Video game
Deus Ex
>Art
A hard question, but I'd probably go with one of Magritte's paintings.

>Literature
Ulysses
>Music
Andrew Hill's Compulsion
>Film
Out 1

>>13892726
I was the one who made meddle win. Didn't use any bots, i work as an IT, and i used a dozen coworkers pc-s from work. Also I didn't just put meddle there for the lolz, it's a better album and far more enjoyable then INCOTCK, you just have to be a mature listener to understand that. I've been trying to make people understand that, and it seemed like the perfect chance to do so.

>>13892857
Well then congratz, you have certainly succeeded. Not a big fan of Pink Floyd myself but yeah.
It's just that Meddle came out of completely left field. ITCOTCK was at least /mu/core.

>including video games with actual art

you have to be over 18 to post on 4chan

>>13892867
>Not a big fan of Pink Floyd myself but yeah
That's the thing. I hate pink floyd, they are very talented individuals, but they are too self centered. They focus way too much on their lead and their stuff feels always pretentious. Meddle is weird in that way, it was made after syd left, so the other band members didn't have that lead they had to focus on untill now. That's why this album feels completely different to me compared to their other stuff. You can tell they were shocked, and that left them a lot more focused and humble. And that's why i still listen to this album nowadays, but can't force myself to finnish something like dsofm of wywh They feel way too predictable, while meddle always feels new and crisp.

>>13892882
based retard

These are the 5 greatest books ever written
The Hunger Games
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
To Kill a Mockingbird
Pride and Prejudice
Twilight

Source - https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1.Best_Books_Ever

It's probably Ulysses but I'll honestly confess I haven't read it yet, so I'm voting for Lolita.
Actually, scratch that. Harry Potter it is.

>>13890146
hi IQ post