/lit/ - Literature

>screenshoting your own post

>>19704317
this
>not using inspect element to fake a post with unsearchable IDs and 15 replies calling you based

>>19704312
Cope

The real red pill is accepting they're great for their significance and quality, but most are far less enjoyable that many other books that don't constantly get recommended since they aren't top 100 or traditionally part of the western canon's essential reading.

Form your own taste. Read a bunch of the top classics, but don't be a generic midwit that only reads stuff that appears on these lists.

Charts are stupid but the purpose is to rank the fave books of anons, not create an "objective" list of The Best Books. Picrel is an npc.

>>19704440
Fuck you.

pynchon and mccarthy suck, but the older americans were at times massively based

Tristram Shandy is garbage compared to Moby Dick. They don't even deserve to be in the same post.

>>19704445
filtered. stick to your heckin epic boys adventure stories, kiddo

>>19704445
>Press F for filtered

>>19704444
hella based numbers

>>19704445

>>19704317
>>19704388
>LOOK I HAVE PROOF
fuck off, retards

>>19704438
Are you fucking serious when you talk about "LE WESTERN CANNON" and then there has never been The Decameron or Petrarch's Canzoniere on those charts?

>>19704492
What are you talking about the western canon for and mistook or for by being or and for? Is this an ESL? Why don't you post on your country's bored if you are so unhappy here?

>>19704445
>>19704448
>>19704449
>>19704467
None of you have read either

>>19704536
>What are you talking about the western canon for and mistook or for by being or and for?
Learn English. I insult anglos all the time but at least I know their language.

>>19704312
>an European

>>19704542
Evidently you do not.

>>19704536
based strokeposter

Americans are natural storytellers.

>>19704312
This is the post that rekts every single thread OP ever made. This is such a ridiculous place to endure for a straight male.

for and mistook
or
for by being
or
and for?

It is a nice and rather suggestive little poem.

>>19704317
>Why yes, I do laugh at my own jokes and find my own posts extremely interesting.
>Why, you say? Well, simply because I love myself.

>>19704312
Murakami is Japanese Coelho, that post is completely right

>>19704312
>endure
You can leave anon. I'm a European and found a lot of interesting american literature thanks to this place. It's true that american anons are mostly monolingual bonobos trying to get out of their provincialism, but you should try to help them. It's not their fault if they think throwing shit at each other is a valid past-time. Imagine growing up with american television and roaming for most of your life through a state which is as big as europe but everywhere you go, instead of changing, it's still america - for kilometers and kilometers. It's not their fault for being stupid, since everywhere they go reading is regarded as an activity for homosexuals and women and if they worship "simplicity" over complexity for the sake of keeping people stupid and making them buy useless shit. I have lived there for several years: it was hard for me, and it's harder for them, because at least I know europe exists, and that people can live differently than in america. Most americans don't know this. But those who read Melville, Pynchon and McCarthy are at least trying to develop something like a soul out of the nihilistic desert of their country/continent.

>>19704581
fixed. Too much space on the left

>>19704581
>>19704861
What exactly are those little arrows for anyway? For the textual interface enjoyers?

>>19704440
correct
>>19704443
seethe

go post on a moldovan lit board then, faggot

>>19704665
Does his book have motivational character?

>>19704921
Provincial

>>19704317
kek fpbp

>>19704312
Murakami is unironically better than The Decameron, and I'm not even a Murakami fan.

>>19704939
>Murakami is unironically better than The Decameron
kek no, he's not. you must have read a pretty shitty version of The Decameron, little zoomie.

yeah and most Europeans are in their own bubble, completely unaware of any Asian literaure, most people aren't even aware of Russian lit because they cannot appreciate Pushkin & co in translation, it's all relative, you can't learn every language and deep-dive into its literature

>>19704701
You must be absolutely insufferable at parties.

>>19704312
Euros, I kek at 'em
>Nobody invites them.
>They show up anyways, and speak the language.
>Nobody asks them.
>They interject their retarded opinions anyways.
>Nobody agrees with them.
>They bellyache and moan about taste.
>Nobody wants them around and tells them to go to some domestic place.
>They can't due to complete and incredible cultural irrelevance.

>>19705056
>>Nobody invites them.
>>They show up anyways, and speak the language.
>>Nobody asks them.
>>They interject their retarded opinions anyways.
>>Nobody agrees with them.
>>They bellyache and moan about taste.
>>Nobody wants them around and tells them to go to some domestic place.
>>They can't due to complete and incredible cultural irrelevance.

>still manage to be infinitely superior to anglos and amerishits

>>19704701
BASED

>>19704312
why are Europeans so insecure?
>muh Divine Comedy
yawwwwn

The internet is rightful american clay

>>19704945
What version did you read, hmm

>>Nobody invites them.
>>They show up anyways, and speak the language.
>>Nobody asks them.
>>They interject their retarded opinions anyways.
>>Nobody agrees with them.
>>They bellyache and moan about taste.
>>Nobody wants them around and tells them to go to some domestic place.
>>They can't due to complete and incredible cultural irrelevance.

20th century literature blows everything else away. Postmodernism is peak literature. American literature is unmatched.

I am European.

What is it about Moby Dick that makes Euros seethe so much? I like it more and more knowing this.

>>19704536
What is this new fashion for hating "ESLs" for some perceived error of language (despite the fact that about half the time the accuser is themselves incorrect about the mistake)? Is it just monolingual Americans I presume? They are the only people who would have such pride in themselves for being able to speak the language they were raised with and even then, their knowledge of it on any technical level is tenuous

>>19705300
Postmodernism was a mistake.

>>19704868
To indicate that a post indeed begins there. How else would you know where to look?

>>19704312
>some assmad Yuropiss mad American authors mog theirs
>screenshots his own post and makes a thread about it claiming it "recks every thread"
>he made this thread unironically
I hate Yuropisses so fucking much, bros. How are they so insecure and butthurt?