/lit/ - Literature

Finnegans Wakean
Ulyssesan
Tao Linan

it's called 'the sticky'

Minus On the Road because nobody actually likes that book.

>>2768314
Your core can't contain of a several lists with a shitload of books within them. This is about the absolute diamonds of all of those list.

>>2768317

What's with the crossed-out ones? More importantly, why is Blood Meridian crossed out?

>>2768322
I don't know. I assume the guy who posted it before was crossing out the ones he read.

/mu/ is ruining this board

>>2768317
That seems pretty accurate, seconding fuck On The Road. Nbody lieks that shit except hipster girls

The only authors common and dear to all elitists here are:
Joyce
Pynchon
DFW
and maybe McCarthy
Those are seriously the only ones. Sure, there others mentioned occasionally, like Kafka, Borges, Dostoevsky, Woolf, Bolaño, what have you, but either too few have read them or they're too readable to become circlejerk material.

Tao Lin is just a troll name.

>>2768406

I think Nabokov might fit on that list as well.

/mu/ is ruining this board

>/lit/core

omfg get out! fucking now!

Infinite Jest, Lolita, Ulysses, Gravity's Rainbow, the list could go on....

so, you get a list of all the best books

so what? then you read them? let's be honest: not likely to actually happen. let's say you do, then what? you're chasing a carrot, dude...

>>2768421
hurrrrrrr iama14yearold hurrr

>>2768421
only /lit/ can destroy this board, and we're doing a pretty good job on our own.

abandon all hope, ye who enter here

>>2768455
dante pls go

>>2768458
DIE HOPE DIE

We have a whole wikia that applies to individuals, we don't believe universalism.

Brother's Karamazov or Crime and Punishment as well

Also Naked Lunch?

Lots of praise from everybody here

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>>2768317
So can we get a revised version of this?

>>2768406
>Joyce
>Pynchon
>DFW

3/10 - you must be new.

>>2768317
I like on the road.

>>2768623
>Naked Lunch
fuck off

>>2768822
Faggot

There are not 7 /mu/core albums, there are 6. Fuck, stop trying to add your Kanye/Beach Boys/Death Grips bullshit.

I have a Master's in English and I refuse to read "Ulysses." Suck it.

>>2768861

same here

read < 10 books for the mandatory lit courses and hated all of them (think victorian novels, american modernism, poststructuralism)

C&P has to be on this list, I don't think, in the two or so years I've been coming to /lit/, I've ever seen hatred towards it. Everyone loves 1984 and Brave New World, but they are far too high-school to meet with broad approval for any kind of /lit/core style list.

Lolita, again, everyone seems to like at some level.

Blood Meridian is also high on the '/lit/ approved' list.

AP is not. DFW is an unaborted trolling attempt gone wrong long ago. As is Finnegan's Wake.

/lit/ could never agree without intra-trolling itself to a useless result.

Perhaps a list of 7 novellas could be a good start, /lit/ seems to agree alot more on that level. Camus, Wilde, Hemingway, Orwell (Animal Farm) for example.

YOU CAN'T SURVIVE HERE UNLESS YOU HAVE READ:

GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
INFINITE JEST
ULYSSES
NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND
LOLITA
THE STRANGER
HOUSE OF LEAVES
THE GREAT GATSBY
CATCHER IN THE RYE
DUNE
FAHRENHEIT 451
CATCH 22
CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
THE ODYSSEY
THE ILIAD
NAKED LUNCH
UNDERWORLD
RICHARD YATES
CAT'S CRADLE
POST OFFICE
THE SUN ALSO RISES
BLOOD MERIDIAN
THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA
SIDDHARTHA
2666
DANCE DANCE DANCE

>>2768919
UNLESS YOU EXCLUSIVELY READ PRE-1950, THEN YOU'RE ALRIGHT

>>2768919
This.

All the rest are just recommendations of good novels.
But this is board meme-level literature.

the man without qualities should be litcore

>>2768919
You forgot A Song of Ice and Fire.

Isn't "/mu/core" a big joke for trolling new people?

I was under the impression no one actually liked Aeroplane, but that everyone just used it as a running gag..

>>2768919

EVERYONE here read Infinite Jest? Shut the motherfuck up. I have a friend who reads basically everything and even she threw it at the wall.

And she and I love DFW.

>>2768963
that's hardly ever discussed. there are books /lit/ generally hates (50 shades and on the road) which I think should go on the essential just so that people can be informed when they comment on it which they will inevitably want to do in order to tell us how bad they are

>>2768919
THAT LIST IS TOO AMERICAN YOU MOTHER'S CUNT.

>>2768975
>TOO AMERICAN
>ON AN AMERICAN WEBSITE

>>2768972
ASoIF is discussed more often than most of the books in that list. Are you here for the first time?

>>2768971

>>2768999
no ive been on every day all day for the past year. all those books are meme status with the amount they appear on the site.

>>2768311

I've always thought this pic was pretty accurate (sorry for the mark ups, I don't have an unmodified version). I guess God tier and above would be the equivalent to the 7 albums of /mu/.

Infinite Jest = In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Lolita = My Bloody Valentine
Crime and Punishment = Ok Computer
The Stranger = Kid A
Ulysses = Merriweather Post Pavillion
Blood Meridian = In the Court of Crimson King
Gravity's Rainbow = My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Richard Yates = By Request Only
Ayn Rand = The Mars Volta
Finnegans Wake = Trout Mask Replica

>>2769008

I just cried a tear for the person that wasted their time creating a jpg that looks great but the content is illogical.

>>2769007
>House of Leaves
lol

>>2768971
It's the only book where someone's organised a reading group around it and it's worked.

>>2769011
>Ayn Rand = The Mars Volta

You take that back.
The Mars Volta isn't anywhere near that bad.

>>2768311
The Mars Volta is beyond bad.
The Fountainhead is a good read.

>>2769082
>good read
Rand can't write.

>>2769082
>In which he is objectively wrong.
Did you see what I did there?

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>>2768948

THIS PERSON GETS IT

This is a fucking white whale of a book. Pynchon/DFW are pale imitators of this gigantic roundhouse kick of a book. And this list is shitting red white and blue.

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