/lit/ - Literature

>>23433220
Everything Bukowski every wrote

>>23433220
And then I'll continue on with the obvious

>>23433220
Peak midwit

>>23433220
I don't like McCarthy. He seems like a godless cynic. He was also kind of reddit in the way he worshipped science (see his involvement with Santa Fe Institute)

>>23433220
The Greeks
Any philosophy

>>23433220
Yeah that’s probably right. It’s still a great book, but I think a bit hyperbolically overrated now especially by its big midwit fanbase. Like “House of Leaves” in terms of books that people who don’t generally read books think is one of the greatest things of all time.

>>23433228
Feeling euphoric today, I see.

Possibly unique in that both numales and midwits love it, but intelligent men don't.

>>23433220
>>23433228
good choices, op

>>23433239
It's not very well written in terms of prose and such, but the thought he put in to constructing the culture and history of Middle Earth is cool

Reddit: A Novel

>>23433242
Oh yeah that's the midwit bible. Strictly for midwits who think themselves to be geniuses

>>23433239
'Intelligent' men are too soulless for this one.
>>23433244
It's not very well written but it is well written.

This one feels kind of cliche to mention but I still here people bringing it up and praising it

>>23433245
Pagan, atheist or jew? what are you?

>>23433244
The prose is nice but the characterisation and plot are massively lacking because he wanted to publish a worldbuilding diary as a novel

>>23433255
Yet to be debunked properly. I love how it makes white nationalists seethe.

>>23433256
I worship at the church of pynchon

>>23433261
More embarrassing than the accusations

>>23433250
>/sci/ respects taleb
>/lit/ doesn't
hmm, i wonder who the true midwits are

>>23433316
/sci/ didn't start with the Greeks. We won.

>>23433259
>deboonked
reddit

>>23433228
>NIV
You're correct but not for the reasons you think you are.

>>23433220
1984
>BUT BUT YOU ARE A COOMIE
No, I'm not
>NOOOO YOU ARE A LEFTY
No, I'm not

>>23433238
ah come on, it was the longest smart people book i read, now i understand no ones rational.

>>23433220
what does that make the road then?

Even before I opened this thread I knew every single book that was going to be here and not a single one of you surprised me.

>>23433220
Hmm, just a bait thread or is there something...
>>23433231
aha, a psyop too! Daring today, aren't we

>>23433535
Shoot yourself in the head please, I tire of boring tfw 2 smrt 4 u jerkoffs like you.

>>23433559
>Furious nobody took xer low effort bait
Grow up.

>>23433559
Most of us are sick of talking about these books. I'm not going to respond with aggression to you because I know you're underage, but these books have memed for years and all this thread is doing is posting jpegs of the covers with zero added commentary or intellectual value.

>>23433220
How does this book consistently get voted as the top 10 books of all time by this board when every other thread is about how its "Onions Midridian"?

you guys really crack me up, bunch of goofy retards

>>23433662
Lots of redditors come here to troll and vote. Hence all the meme titles.

>>23433662
Contrarianism. You know how fusion powers nuclear reactors? That's what powers this entire site.

>Love Russian Lit translated to English
>Love Hardy
>Love Aurelius
>Attempt Aristotle
>Literally dont get wtf he's talking about
>Try Zarathustra
>Literally wtf is all this repetition, what point is he trying to make
>Realise I am a midwit and higher works of lit and philosophy are beyond me
>Read Zola
>Love it cos simple

Embrace midwit core fellow intellectual retards.

>>23433796
>starting with Aristotle and Zarathustra
Wtf were you thinking?
Start with pic related

>>23433836
CAAAATTTTTTHHHOOOOOLLLLIIIICCCCC

>>23433851
GIGA BASED

>>23433851
Yes but it doesn't get in the way of the book desu. I'm glad you're onto the christkikes though.

>>23433859
TKD

>>23433220
Who is considered a midwit?

>>23433220
Machiavelli - The Prince
>I'm not reading it for advice but to protect myself from le sociopaths

Anything Murakami
>I don't like the way he writes women but I separate le art from le artist now please stop calling me a YA reader.

>>23433988
People who use that word often mean "anyone who isn't me"

>>23433401
Are you fighting the voices in your head or something

>>23433261
Based
>>23433301
Cringe

>>23435474
Who are you, sir? To be the arbiter of based and cringe?

>>23433223
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>>23433255
>>23433261
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>>23433956
True

How has this not been posted?

>>23433220
Siddhartha.

>>23436453
Because it's a lefty/pol/ shitpost thread.

>>23433259

>>23433255
kek
he said midwit-core not fuckwit central

>>23433220
>Anything of Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, or Christopher Hitchens.
>Murakami.
>Proust.
>DH Lawrence.
>Anything erotic.
>90% of what NYRB publishes

>>23433239
Filtered contrarian

>>23433662
Real answer: it’s a very good book, but it’s unconventional and objectively not what some people want it to be

This really says a lot about society

>>23436869
>Martin Amis
I like dark comedy and was excited to read his London Fields but I don't know if I laughed even once despite his many efforts. Plus the story wasn't too compelling and I stopped reading. Are there any good novels in that genre?

>>23433220
I can’t tell you what a midwit book is but I can name some patrician highwit books: my favorites. Dimwit books are books I don’t like

>>23433796
>Frogposter
>Midwit retard
Pottery

>>23437350
No reason to be so rude, nigger asshole sucking tranny faggot.

>>23436901
Best post ITT

>/lit/ thinks they are somehow part of a smart group and not an average midwit themselves

>>23433851
Total Klu Klux Klan Death?

>>23433236
He's not saying it because it's the Bible; he's saying it because it's the NIV. You doofus mcgoofus.

>>23436892
Why are the covers for lolita almost always pro-pedo

>>23437764
Most people on /lit/ couldnt name a theme from their favorite book.

>>23433453
The majority of experiments cited in that book have failed to replicate since the book's publishing. Literally like 75% of that book is made up bullshit.

>>23437791
There is nothing pro-pedophilic about this. Are you having unwarranted thoughts, anon?

>>23437774
das rite ytboi now spread em cheeks an hollah

>>23437764
Oh I embrace the mid-wittery. I can't brag about my intelligence but let no one say I'm not self aware

>>23433220
Everything written before 2010

>>23433242
Add anything by moldbug too

>>23433343
It serves a valuable purpose. It makes nationalists seethe with rage and attempt to debunk it, thereby revealing how little they can comprehend even simple claims.

>>23437791
Cause the book is pro-pedo. Making it ~136 iq and thus slightly above midwit range.

>>23439106
It's difficult to imagine the variety of subhuman creature that would make such a post.

>>23439172
You must not be very imaginative. Prescription: Read interesting books.

>>23438752
What is this strange projection?

>>23439106
Believing in IQ is for midwits.

>>23433242
I read the Bed of Procrustes and it was the most inane, smug, pseud shit I've ever read.

>>23439402
https://lukesmith.xyz/
Enjoy

>>23433259
>Everything in Europe was formed to facilitate advanced society
>Apart from the people, they experienced no such pressures at all
Peak apologetic-core reading for inadvertently racist boomers.

>Infinite Jest
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Ulysses
Deapite being the most widely discussed books on /lit/ I still have yet to see anyone say anything interesting about these books. It's always just tryhards circlejerking over how difficult and rewarding they are. They cant even discuss it on a surface level like characters or plot.

>>23433220
peak midwid

>>23433220
It's midwit, but not in a harmful way. Guns, germs and steel, however, is most certainly harmful midwit core

>chantards calling other people "midwits"

>>23436881
It's not "unconventional" it's just retarded. If you think not using punctuation is experimental, you are a fucking midwit.

>>23439449
It's hard to talk about GR without spoiling it >_<

>>23437984
Soft science problems

>>23436869
Dark comedy is quintessentially midwit. I could recommend Vonnegut just to be facetious.

>>23433220
Most of Christopher Hitchens' work

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>>23436892
based