/lit/ - Literature

Moldy Dicc

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Find a flaw.

Calculus: Early Transcendentals

>>18089117
This is my favorite book but at least a few people here think it is unfunny.

>>18089100
Hamlet

Principia Mathematica Philosophia Naturalis

>>18089100
Crime and Punishment

>>18089139
Yeah, cringe pseuds who judge it without having read it because they think it's """""unbefitting of an academic""""" or some shit.

>>18089119
That’s true but only because the only people who will have read Pierre are people who like Melville and therefore will enjoy Pierre, and its good even though it’s not his best

>>18089159
It gets a lot of shit thrown at it on /lit/

>>18089100
hundreds of people post here. in what community that big can you find anything that all of the members agree on?

>>18089100
I can't remember anything bad being said about Don Quixote.

>>18089206
That your mom is a dirty butt slut

__ ____

easy

>>18089264
Agreed

Dune?

Lonesome Dove

>>18089222
Trips confirm

>>18089100
The Odyssey
Don Quixote
Ulysses
The Violent Bear it Away
Confederacy of Dunces

>>18089472
I’ve seen all of these get hate. The books with unanimous praise on lit are always more niche.

>>18089131
Based

>>18089131
Redpill me on calculus anon

>>18089100
This clown can not be a real person. This is one of you larping as a neckbeard right?

>>18089117
I love it but I see a lot of people here who don't. Probably hits a little too close to home.

>>18089749
This is the phenotype of the average /lit/ contrarian.

>>18089815
These are the creepy guys who hang out near the manga, holding a Camus for cred.

>>18089100
>I challenge /lit/ to post a book that everyone here considers good.

find the book no one on /lit/ has read,

>>18089112
Yes

>>18089117
I've never been so personally attacked by a book in my life

>>18089940
/thread

>>18089212
You don't visit this board often, do you?

>>18089100
Stoner maybe

>>18089155
gigabrain stuff, here's your well deserved (you)

>>18089212
its shit. just toilet humor.

Les Deux Etendards
Its pretty obscure and anyone who feels the need to do the work to seek it out is guaranteed to enjoy it

>>18089553
I don't need to. This book will single-handedly redpill you on Calculus up to multivariable equations. Three college classes of mathematics in one book.

pic related is kind of in the same category as >>18089119, the only people who read it are people who already like kazantzakis

>>18090121
forgot pic

>>18089100
Goosebumps

>>18089100
Gg ez

>>18089159
Ghastly rigmarole.

>>18089820
One and the same

>>18090041
I can't find a PDF of it which doesn't have horrible formatting

>>18090241
This is true because everyone who actually reads it ends up liking it to justify the sunk cost.

>>18089112
>>18089940
I kneel.

>>18089100
Rendezvous With Rama.

>>18089725
God I loved having this read to me as kid by my mom, loved the animated movie too.

Surprised that crocodile book hasn't shown up yet.

Masnavi

>>18089264
Meh

>>18090011
Eh. It's okay, maybe decent

>>18089100
Emma by Jane Austen, the perfect novel (matched by Proust)

Best piece of lit I've read is Inferno

>>18089100
Blood meridian

>>18089131
holy based

>>18089206
you know where. reddit!

Thomas Ligotti's short stories, for a novel, I think we all like Infinite Jest

>>18089100
c'mon guys...

The Man Without Qualities
The Good Soldier Svejk
The Sleepwalkers
Berlin Alexanderplatz

>>18090494
I hate that shit. Immensely boring

>>18089100
Lolita

GG EZ

>>18089472
>joyce never criticized
Lol

>>18091484
Really? I really liked it when I was 14 or whenever I read it. I should read it again to see what I think of it.

>>18091493
based

More contemporary lit like Heinrich Böll, Salman Rushdie, Robert Bolano, V.S. Naipaul

>>18089100
M' Boy Dick

>>18089159
it's way too long

my diary desu

>>18089131
>Stewart
At least go for Spivak

>>18089159
It's a shit book. It has no pictures

>>18089112
Unironically this

>>18090359
This. Still can't believe I spent hours on a book where literally nothing happens till the last few pages. But I'm sure there's an analogy hidden somewhere.

>>18089100

The Elementary Particles or almost anything written by Houellebecq

>>18091468
this

>>18089100
Finnegan's Wake*
*not Finnegans Wake

>>18091842
It does have though

>>18089117
Yes
>>18089264
It's not a very good book. By no means a terrible book, but it's not good. It's definitely a book, though.

A veritable tour de force

>>18090241
Not true, it’s a truly great work of art but Moby-Dick is a fairly dense book and it’s popularity/fame leads many people to read it who are intellectually lazy speedreaders who get almost nothing out of it and so resent it. These are people who will boldfacedly claim that their is no subtext or deeper meaning to Melville’s writing, simply by ignoring it.
>>18089940
Based
>>18090041
I like it but it was a little disappointing given that despite the proto-lovecraftian stories that made it famous, it’s mostly just comfy ghost stories

>>18089725
Probably the most correct answer for a book that a lot of people here have actually read

One of my childhood favorites.

>>18089131
>Stewart

I wish I could skullfuck you to death

>>18092844
>Posting the reactionary sewage that is Mien Kampf
It hits the heart sure, but that doesn't make it good.

The Iliad. I know some "people" hate it but let's be honest do they really count?

>>18089472
>The Violent Bear it Away
Corniest cob Ive ever read

>>18089940
BASED

Count of Monte Cristo

>>18089131
>Stewart
absolutely niggerlicious

>>18089112

> Notes from Underground/Brothers K (anything by Dostoevsky)
> A Confederacy of Dunces
> Marcus Aurelius

Basically anything that will make you bored and depressed is in the /lit/ canon

>>18089100

>>18091493
ftfy

>>18089155
I disagree, I once threw an apple and it remained in air, levitating

>>18089264
yeah I specially loved when the protgaonist literally reads a book explaining the message of the story for 20 pages. Masterfully done.

>>18089117
came here just to post this

>>18089168
filthy degenerates, all of them!

>>18089452
/thread and based

>>18089168
I just don’t think it’s funny.

>>18090011
stoner gets shit on in every thread it’s brought up

storm of steel

>>18089112
Simply perfect.

>>18089109
Yes, Mr Melvin!
I would love to read another 40 page chapter about your misinformed thoughts on whale biology

>>18089725
Holy shit I can’t believe I forgot about this book. I absolutely loved it when I was young.
/thread

>>18089112
Excellent choice.

>>18093354
I'm actually going to read this now

>>18097053
Good, its an interesting book

>>18089112
My man.

>>18092978
Indisputably BASED.

>>18089112
kek there is unironically a /lit/izen who fucking despises Eric Carle and that book. He apparently makes picture books himself and is extremely mad at the picture book industry

>>18093354
anon... i...

i liked watership down

>>18099319
AHEM.

>>18099508
>he hasn't read the gay way series

>>18099531
What about the violet one?

>>18099619
>He doesn't know about mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit.

>>18089725
PURE kino

>>18090494
Nah, Childhoods End is a much better Clarke novel

>>18092811
Stay based Pony Boy

>>18090041
it started falling apart with the whore stories

>>18089113
dogs cant be presidents anon

>>18089264

Homage to Catalonia is a better anti-Stalin book.

>>18091468
Agreed. For some reason as a child I autistically read this 17 or 18 times in a row because I loved it so much and couldn't find any other kiddo fantasy that hit the same sense of sheer strangeness.

>>18089100
>This place is so cynical and forcibly contrarian it'll never happen.
holy shit what a revelation.
Almost as if people from all walk of life visit this site and as such everyone has differing opinions on everything

idiot

>>18090252
based Nabby poster

>>18093341
midwits will hate you for this

>>18090343
try gutenberg or libgen

>>18099417
same

>>18089109
Too long for a story about a whale.

>>18089117
I like it but it's a bit reddit and i've definitely seen it get hate here.

>>18089159
I despise it.

>>18089264
Hated by lots of people.

I'll go with Don Quixote, very difficult novel to hate.

>>18089100
I have never seen anybody from /lit/ shit on Borges'body of work.

Women in the dunes by Kobo Abe is generally well regarded by the few people who has read it in here

Of Mice and Men

>>18089117
The guy on the cover looks like mario lol

Epic of Gilgamesh

>>18101718
same here, it's such a quick read, and so clever and fun.
just started reading it at bedtime to my girlfriend because I'm a fucking creep and found out she hasn't read it.

/thread

>>18099645
No it's gotta be the Red Book that's not even Red.

>>18089117
The covert art makes it look a lot more charming than it actually is.

>>18101651
Where in the constitution does it say that a dog can't be president?

>>18106487
Well you'd have to find a Dog that was over 35 to start.

>>18105366
>just started reading it at bedtime to my girlfriend because I'm a fucking creep and found out she hasn't read it.

Well, is there any more to that?

>>18106510
Every time she would fall asleep Id start opening and closing the book really loudly. When she got mad I started ripping out pages and told her “Listen to me and MY STORY” louder and louder until she left

>>18106466
>posting the wrong red book twice

>>18106581
>Maoism
Into the trash it goes

>the most unanimously highly rated books here are all children’s books

>>18089112
A childhood favorite of mine.

Crime and punishment.

>>18089117
It's very hard to know which character is saying something in this book. Funny though

>>18089100
Admit it /lit/, you loved it

>>18093879
That's the preface nigga

>>18108123
You just admitted that you haven't read it

>>18101651
It's called heightened reality, anon.

>>18089117
Zelda cdi art

Fanged Noumena

>>18109308
These are books which I think everyone can actually agree were trash.

>>18106734
Reading books is for children

>>18089100
>oh look I can use twitter to make you cringe!!1!

>>18107941
It's not highbrow lit but it was entertaining (especially the middle section where Daphnie is building the rail line). The John Galt rant turned it into a DNF for me though (and I was only like 100 pages away)..I fucking get it jesus.

Also, Randianism teaches you a lot about buying into a cult of ideology and how good it feels when you think you're never wrong (you can empathize with identity politics types).

>>18089264
good motives, shit writing

>>18089112
Shit's /lit/.

>>18106501
They can be over 35 in dog years.

>>18109625
She really does love beating you over the head with her messages

>>18089100
les miserables

>>18110129
This is one where I have trouble seeing how someone could dislike it. There are multiple sublime scenes. Jondrette’s prisoner is one of the coolest in all of literature

>>18092989
>>18092819
>>18091834
Samefag is obvious and hates the enlightened mathematician

>>18090121
>>18090130
extra points if you read it in greek

>>18089100
No one can deny the greatness of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason if we’re counting philosophy. But if we’re talking fiction only then I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone seriously say The Brothers Karamazov is a terrible book, it’s probably the most loved book on this board. I also haven’t seen anyone try and shit on the Magic Mountain but that gets talked about a lot less.

>>18090241
>>18092730
Should I read anything before Moby Dick?
Or use some kind of side material?
I was thinking of tackling it after I'm done with my current reading.

>>18103642
I've seen a few anons say he's overrated but never that he's bad, yeah.

>>18110029
God, the fact it sets aside like 8% of a 1000+ page novel for an ubermensch to go off, rant about how people who are better than others should have more power, is a huge strike against anyone who wants to defend it as being entertaining.

I'm embarrassed by how deeply I bought into her shit as a kid. But, as I said above in a prior comment, it gave me a line into what it feels like to be an ideologue and a better window of criticism once I'd reformed myself.

Crime And Punishment
Anna Karenina
The Count of Monte Cristo
If you dislike these there is unironically something wrong with you

>>18089264
R*ddit ruined it. I hate it now

>>18089472
I quit Confederacy of Dunces after about 50 pages

>>18089112
yes

>>18089112
Good work. Proves thread's hypothesis wrong in under 2 min.

OMG! 300 Debates! He MUST BE STOPPED!

>>18111422
Every time he wins a debate, he grows another hair on his neck.

>>18089112
A bit on the long side for me desu.

>>18089264
>muh Biden causing 1984 all over again.
Magatards ruined this book.

>>18111422
>>18111437
You spastics know it's a joke account, right? That's the guy that made bushworld adventures

>>18105174
lol he kind of does lol

>>18089112

>>18089109
>>18089112
Ftpbp

>>18110389
Shakespeare, the Bible, idunno mayne. Moby Dick is the kind of book I'm gonna reread multiple times in my lifetime and I'm gonna get something new out of it every time as I grow older. Just jump into it

>>18096959
Based picture. I once used this exact picture in coursework report about algorithmic image processing.

>>18089112
I kneel.

>>18089112
I have never before, in all my days, read anything this based.

I am talking about both the book and this post.

>>18089112
this

>>18110206
No, Stewart is shit

>>18089159
It's mogged by TBK.

>>18089100
Ulysses may be controversial but with Dubliners there's no discussion. Also there's not excuse for anybody here to not read it.

>>18115233
kinda sucks ngl

>>18115412
What do you think of Portrait?

>>18107551
Are you ESL by any chance?

>>18115412
Some of the stories fell flat for me, but yeah, it's still at LEAST "good"

>>18101871
>people from all walk of life visit this site
Not sure about that, bud

2001 a space odyssey
(the sequels get progressively worse as clarke's dementia also progresses lmao)

>>18089100
Silmarillion, I wish I could say don Quixote, but I've been putting off the reading of the original Spanish for a while, a year now.

>>18089100
Harry potter.

>>18089940
English doesn't have a word for how based you are.

>>18111296
Holy based

>>18089100
The holy quran.

>>18089100
Dies irae (the visual novel)