/lit/ - Literature

NO HERE!

You forgot to the kings in God Tier!
1: Kafka
2:Poe
3: Lovecraft

Paradise Lost and The Divine Comedy are shit tier.

>No Count of Monte Cristo.

>>506311
Yeah, you forgot Kafka in God tier and Poe and Lovecraft in Low tier... oh wait.

This tier garbage is such troll-friendly bullshit.

>>506318
Even if you don't care for Paradise Lost or Divine Comedy, there's no way you can misconstrue it as anything less than High tier. You can't fully appreciate 18th and 19th century lit without working knowledge of the Bible, Paradise Lost, and Divine Comedy.

This entire list is FUCKED, Gentlemen.

>>506324

Data! I love you!!!111000
I read any book with you in it.

>>506325

Needing working knowledge =/= the work in question is good

They're fucking shit and anyone who likes them is shit

>>506335
You better not be talking about the holy kings.

>>506340

If that's your name for the shit-tier garbage mentioned in the post I'm quoting then yeah, they're good for toilet paper maybe.

This sums up /lit/'s attitude pretty nicely. The more accessible something is, the worse they'll claim it is. The Divine Comedy is the worst thing I've ever read.

why is this still trolling people

>>506346
No. I am talking about:
>>506311

>>506356

Oh. I approve.

>>506340
You just got trolled by a post which openly accepts this shit as being troll material. How does that feel?

>itt

Tier lists are by their very definition retarded.

>>506377
It's 4chan. I never really take anything seriously here. Just all in my amusement. Hows your day?^_^

Vonnegut should be higher, Tempest should be lower, needs some urban fantasy outside 'not lit'

>>506399
Defensive/dismissive then?

shit list
missing so much authors and books

No Goethe!!!!!!!!?????

Where were you faggots a week ago when this shit was posted on here as a troll post

guys, seriously.

a little song for you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plz9JxsnhH4

nominating Battle Royale for Mid Tier

Nearly raged, but some people called it troll so..... yeah. Fuck you, mang. 7/10

OP's tier list is less a listing of good literature, and more a show of absolute pretentiousness.

While I agree that most of the things he has listed in his high / god tiers are culturally significant, and in fact masterpieces, I must disagree with the whole "it's not a century old and horribly hard to get into, thus it sucks". There are two main purposes books serve, education and entertainment. And I can honestly say that I was more entertained reading Snow Crash, than I was reading Don Quijote.

tl:dr OP is a faggot.

Fuck Catcher in the Rye

you were doing so well until you put LOTR in.

3/10

>Great Gatsby classified as "Low Tier"
Dey see me trollin', dey hatin'.

>>506282

OP doesn't know how to spell Ulysses. Oh you faggot ass.

op is new to /lit/.

op's pic is sooo fucking low

Uncle Vanya is shit. Your list is bullshit.

hating on The Merchant of Venice, not cool. that's Shakespeare's 2nd funniest play.

The Tempest sucks.

>>506571
the tempest is a social satire though - if you know history you will know it is good. in fact the Shakespeare bits are the only things i agree with on that faggot list.

Your list there is worthless. As far as I'm concerned, if I don't like the book it's shit tier.
I don't really care what other people think when I'm the one reading the book.

>>506586

Except for Henry VIII. Terrible play. Mostly not even by Shakespeare anyway.

Your list fucking reeks of pretension.

Proust is God tier? Ulysses?

Fuck you.

>>506599
I think yer the pretentious one here buddy

comics are definitely NOT shit tier

>:'(

>No Terry Pratchett

What? I thought /lit/ was all over Pratchett.

I'm afraid I don't see how this could possibly enrage someone. Anyone who is enraged by this has a broken brain

>>506599
Not mad, but Ulysses and In Search of Lost Time is just too high up. Really.

>>506619
Nope

Seeing Turn of the Screw in Low Tier makes me sad. I spent an assload of time with that story my junior year of high school... dictionary was always close.

Great Expectations should be tear (this book apart) tier. This list just seems like somebody who likes Epic poetry and hates SF and horror with the occasional exception.

>No Jules Verne

>>506318
HERESY!

>putting Macbeth below Hamlet

Also,

>Gatsby in low tier

Also,

>a bunch of other stuff that doesn't matter because this is a stupid project anyway

Also, animooted.

Agree in most part OP,
but pride & prejudice is awesome.

OP can't capitalize consistently to save his life.

oh, mr bentely make joke

>God Emperor Tier

>ULYSSES
>GOD TIER

FUCK FUCK FUCK

>>506725
There's something wrong with this board..

ITT: Elitism

OP is a pretentious ass who would rather read something that professors told him was great than have own opinion of books/THREAD

>>506743
Or maybe he's just smarter than you.

>>506743
your lips move when you read

"Tier" lists are for fags. Not homosexuals, mind you. Fags.

>>506734
you are

don't suck critics' cocks too much

>>506754
I am what? God Tier? Why thank you

El subjetivismo de este thread es abrumador.

>>506751
Mine do too..

I know
I'll ignore all the good books
and look intelligent by recommending books
I have never even read

>>506762
You do that, and I'll keep telling people to read Ulysses.

>>506763
You sir, are a master troll.

i disagree with OPs list

WTF is lord of the rings doing way up there?!?!?!

>>506282
Could you give me a description of your criteria for compiling those books in that order?

Melville?

>>507830
Most assuredly God Tier, at least in my opinion.

>Gulliver's Travels in High Tier

Where would you put The Dice Man and The Man in the High Castle?

>>507876
The Dice Man is in shit tier, not pictured here.

What I learned on /lit/ today: Books are only good if they are old.

>>507895

you seriously mean to say you didn't realise that until just now?

The Spice is not Flowing

I agree with the OP's list mostly, but tier lists are still cancer.

>>508327
lol

>>508327
there aren't even any other tier lists in this thread, and yet this thread is still retardedly long

I can't believe anyone actually thought this list was serious, especially after it had already been posted as a troll once before.

>>510773
Did you forget for a second where you are?

>>Henry V in God Tier
>>Not Henry IV

>>510783
faggot obviously hasn't read Henry IV

>>510785
You mean that hilarious romping comedy, the history turned satire staring one of the most lively characters in the history of the English language, Falstaff?

Yes I've read it. And it's in every way superior to the patriotic tripe that Henry V represents.

I'm sorry but LOTR was one of the most boring books I have ever read.

What does Tier mean?

>ULYSSES
>GOD TIER

FUCK YOU

>>510805
it's something you cry

>>510789
um i was talking about the OP

>>510789
Falstaff had to die. Henry V evolved into the perfect king, shedding the vestiges of lower-class merry England.

The rejection of Falstaff is the saddest scene in literature.

>>510809
Why are you so pissed that people can appreciate literary classics?

>>510809

>>510809

lol o u

HERP DERP 1984 is modern literature so it can't be good!

>>510981
No it isn't

>no I, Claudius in god tier

Its amusing to find out that I read everything out of entry level. Guess I am an amateur

>>510999

i guess you are...

>>506282
You forgot The Tin Drum in God Tier.

I enjoyed reading Twilight last summer.

i assume that all the people attacking OP are not very well read. I agree with 75% of that list.

YO.

WHERE THE FUCK THE AENIED AT?

EPIC TO END EPIC FOR A VERY LONG TIME.

Pretty much everything there, except for Not Lit tier, is God Tier literature. Ranking all the classics among each other is fucking stupid.

Nice shitty list bro! The only time literature should be put in tier lists that rank quality is when the list is composed of works by only one author, or one genre.

Start here, newbies.

>>511580
>fucking ancient tier
>6 books from 1400s or later

>(james joyce's) Ulysses

OP, you misspelled Edgar Allen Poe

You see, the 'e' in Poe is silent

Canterbury Tales isn't God Tier? Isn't that basically one of the three greatest works of Literature OF ALL TIME!

>>511610
No.. the three are the Complete Works of Shakespeare, The Divine Comedy and Don Quixote. In that order. Chaucer is just a bit behind them next to Milton and The Bible.

>>511617

There is no possible way I can agree with that.

>>511617
Crap.. forget to mention that it's the King James Bible. Looks like I'm going to H***..

Don Quixote? God tier?
Lol

Why is Ulysses on there? It is an experimental piece that has no literary value. Only people who are really serious about writing should read it, because they are the only people who will "enjoy" it.

>This thread

>>511619
Well sorry you can't agree with Objective Fact that has been proven by History and Criticism

>>511676
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>>511676
YOUUU
UNDERSTAAAND

what about fahrenheit 451?

terrible troll

No Faulkner? Fail.

i want to kill you, op

<subjective loost is sujectiove

>two and a half day old troll

>>511676

Internet high-five/brofist!