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This is a public service announcement for all newcomers to /lit/ brought to you by a /lit/ patrician™. Those of us who have long called this board home have noticed a significant deterioration in posting quality and an influx of plebs in the last few months. We can attribute this to the fact that many of our top 100 charts have been posted on reddit and viewed many hundreds of thousands of times, but whatever we blame it on doesn't change the facts of the matter which is that plebs who don't belong here are shitting threads up.

Thus, this public service announcement was made for those who are determined to stay even if they are way over their heads. Here are some important things you need to get through your head if you are going to stay and post without being ridiculed. Take notes.


1. Under no circumstances will you ever praise or even mention any book taught in a standard high school curriculum unless it's clear that the book is already well-received on /lit/ (to account for the few good books/authors occasionally taught in some high schools like Shakespeare, Conrad, Nabokov etc. The vast majority of books taught in high-school are complete pleb shit.

2. Genre-fiction is pleb trash and anyone who reads it frequently should be curb-stomped. If you are going to post in bookshelf threads then take your GRR Martin et al., off of the shelf before you photograph it you retards. Don't ever mention genre-fiction unless its in a containment thread specifically for it.

3. Israel did 9/11

4. Don't ever defend yourself by trying to insinuate that the person ridiculing you for your shit taste is simply trying to get you to stop liking what they themselves don't like. This will instantly reveal you to be a mega-pleb. There is objectively bad literature and roughly 85% of the time people here are being honest with you when they say an author you like is trash.

5. Don't ever bring identity politics into threads on /lit/. We are here to discuss literature and not women or minorities. If you want to have a thread asking about favorite women authors thats fine but don't ever attempt to use "all white men etc" as an argument to detract from something. Also don't ever ask why literature from African authors isn't more popular (its mostly shit). Bringing up identity bullshit needlessly irritates even most left-wing /lit/ posters.

6. /Lit/s harsh attitude towards plebs and pleb books is a necessary and vital part of the board as it helps maintain a homeostasis of quality by weeding out and discouraging plebs from posting.

7. Anything by Douglas Addams, Harper Lee, Joseph Heller, Vonnegut, B.E.E., Bukowski, Palahniuk, or Orwell is complete pleb trash and not to be mentioned.

8. Start with the Greeks or Indians


Brought to you by a /lit/ patrician™. For those of you who are already patricians™, don't give up hope. For those of you who are newcomers, at least try to make it less obvious.

>> No.14720727

cringe and no one asked. fuck off already, newfag

>> No.14720786

>>14720711
>last few months
lurk moar

>> No.14720791
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14720791

>Orwell
>pleb trash
you have actually enraged me holy shit delete this troll thread

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14720805

Actual oldfag here. Didn't read.

>> No.14720822

Just don't make off-topic posts and your're in the upper half.

>> No.14721332

>>14720711
Fuck you faggot

>> No.14721388

>>14720711
>Anything by Douglas Addams, Harper Lee, Joseph Heller, Vonnegut, B.E.E., Bukowski, Palahniuk, or Orwell is complete pleb trash and not to be mentioned.
THANK YOU!!!

>> No.14721402

i don't disagree with this at all and it could be stickied IMO

>> No.14721410

>>14720791
he's a supreme mediocrity

>> No.14721883

>>14720711
based oldfag patrician

>> No.14722218

Its too bad that /lit/ is going through the shitter at the moment. I'd really like to discuss some things with knowledgeable anons. It often helps my writing. But every thread is a shitpost, and the few threads I've tried to get going only get one or two replies.
Hopefully this blows over.

>> No.14722252

whos op pic?

>> No.14722266

>>14720791
Orwell was a boring Trotskyite mouthpiece of the British government.

>> No.14722272

>the last few months

newfag

>> No.14722274

>>14720711
>insinuate that the person ridiculing you for your shit taste is simply trying to get you to stop liking what they themselves don't like

this is so accurate
why can't redditors deal with the fact that some authors are better than other authors?

>> No.14722279

>>14720711
Good post patrician OP. You have successfully triggered the plebs. Bravo.

>> No.14722328

It's not by chance this thread and the rest currently on /lit/ right now are utter shit. Happy valentines day everyone! Try to focus your discontent towards something productive, not judgmental exclusionary bullshit like OP. Just because you feel excluded IRL doesn't mean you should run around looking for reasons to exclude.

>> No.14722334

>>14722328
I agree OP is a faggot and his post is dumb, but number one its a pasta and number two its true.
So you're both wrong and right.

>> No.14722339

>>14720791
Imagine actually liking Orwell

>> No.14722351

>>14722328
why should /lit/ be welcoming and non-exclusionary?
In my experience, this place works the best when the current climate makes newfriends terrified to post

>> No.14722359

>>14720711
trrying to hard. Gay and cringe faggit

>> No.14722367

>>14720711
Bukowski's women is an incredibly based book
Good post otherwise

>> No.14722430

>>14722351
I wasn't clear because I was implying too much. This is what /lit/ looks like when it tries to be exclusionary and its embarassing. I'm positing that the creation of this thread and valentines day overlapping is not a coincidence. This is not a genuine conversation of trying to reform /lit/ because the real source of discontent is IRL triggered by the commercialized annual reminder of loneliness.

Basically, if this thread pops up a week from now, I would take it more seriously. There is a noticeable lack of quality in all threads at the moment and the cause is easy to infer. I don't think being genuinely exclusionary is bad, but being reactionary and hyper exclusive because of your feelings towards what amounts to a marketing campaign is insincere.

In a temporal moment where more anons are paying increased attention to their loneliness the response is to amplify exclusionary messaging. That just seems immature and insincerely motivated to me. Let the fever pass. Perhaps less exclusion is actually the treatment for this specific temporal sickness.

>> No.14722445

>>14722266
>trotskyite
>Mouthpiece for the British government

It's like you have no idea what you're talking about

>> No.14722467

>>14722274
But how does one measure it, and how do you know the future won't completely disagree with you? If Pantagruel can become a classic, why couldn't Leftopia, or one of those weird scatological Russian books?
If you can give me a concrete criteria by which we can objectively judge the quality of literature I'll consider your terrible reactionary position, but until you do I will assume you're an angry contrarian that wants justification in calling other people's taste "objectively terrible"

>> No.14722479

seething butterflies ITT. sticky the whole thread.

>> No.14722482

>>14720711
Fucking TREMENDOUS, thank you for saying what needed to be said.

>> No.14722488

>>14720711
I appreciate #3. Keep fighting the good fight.

>> No.14722491

>>14720711
what's wrong with catch-22 though

>> No.14723076

>>14720711
i agree

>> No.14723084

>>14720711
Actually pretty based.

>> No.14723988

>implying the majority of idpolposting is by leftists and not poltards
>metaposting outside /qa/

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>>14722491
>what's wrong with catch-22 though

>> No.14724223

>>14720805
you are one creepy boomer

>> No.14724372

>>14720711
>or Indians
Nice try pajeet

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14724416

Lol if it's objective how do you measure it

>> No.14724549

>>14724372
LOL!!!!!!

You sir, win the internet for the day!

>> No.14724565

>>14724372
>>14724549
>pajeet
>lol
>win the internet

You both talk like bots programmed by a boomer.

>> No.14724634

>>14720711
get this fuckin wannabe janitor out of here.

>> No.14724646

>>14720711
fuck you Bukowski and Vonnegut are based lick my sweaty, sour balls

Everything else makes sense though

>> No.14724745

>>14720711

Based

>> No.14724749

>>14724549

Reported for purposeful cringe

>> No.14724774

Bumping for number 5

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>>14720711
Add "No niggers allowed" and this list will be complete

>> No.14724818

>>14720711
Why is this Russian whore pretending to be an American cheerleader (read: whore)?

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>>14720711
how's your Valentine's day going op? you sound lonely?

>> No.14724832

>>14724792
>keep identity politics out
most nogs are terrible writers, but some are good. no reason to ignore someone for their race

>> No.14724871

>>14720711
This should be stickied

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>>14720711
I think Heller has some good stuff that isn't Catch-22, otherwise all correct.

>> No.14724897

>>14720711
Based post OP. /Lit/ will be cleansed.

>> No.14724910
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14724910

>>14720711
Leave this place.

>> No.14724921

>>14724832
Niggers are stupid, smelly, and cry about racism constantly. I don't want them on /lit/. Period.

>> No.14724927

>>14724565
Only zoomers know code doomer.

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14724962

>>14720711
>The vast majority of books taught in high-school are complete pleb shit.
Why is this always true in ANY part of the planet with an education system?

>> No.14724975

>>14724962
read trial and death of Socrates.

the many are stupid and ill-motivated, but they shape democracy. the few are wise and helpeless against a majority.

>> No.14725016

>>14724975
Recently bought The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classic; it includes Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo), going to read it after I finish Gilgamesh

>> No.14725079

>>14720711
Number 2 is so fucking based

>> No.14725127

>>14722252
Natalia Pokemon Skyler

>> No.14725310

>>14724975
this is read in some German high schools (called Gymnasium)

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>>14720711
Bukowski's one of us and PKD may very well be classified as genre-fiction, but that doesn't mean he's not absurdly based.
Indians are trash.

>> No.14725347

>>14720711
>or Indians
oof , almost a good post until you get here.

>> No.14725361

>>14724975
Es muss einen Weg geben, dies zu überwinden.

>> No.14725368

>>14720711
>ever calling yourself a patrician
Fastest way to spot a pleb. Although it is adorable that you think you're better than anyone else because of the books you read

>> No.14725379

>>14720711
Get your head out of your ass, elitist moron. I can already tell you’re the type of person who comes to /lit/ so you can feel intellectually superior and compensate for being severely deficient in every other aspect of your life. Also, have sex.

>> No.14725385

>>14720711
annoying but great post oldfag

>> No.14725410

>>14724372
This shit will never not be cringe

>> No.14725419

>>14725410
Fuck off apu

>> No.14725450

>>14725347
ho mo sexual

>> No.14725458

>>14725419
you don’t need to be an apu to be well-read anon

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14725508

Ironic. He wanted to save /lit/ from shit posts, yet he made a terrible post himself

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14725541

>>14720711

Thank you, someone had to say it, was a little worried no one would.

>> No.14726174

>>14720711
good post OP

>> No.14726250

>>14720711
Bukowski is not trash, fucking cunt piece of shit