/lit/ - Literature

/lit/-core doesn't even exist. They're all very popular books outside of /lit/ and I imagine any serious reader has read most of that list.

>>6746805
>no GRRM
>Fight Club

kek

>>6746805
No. It's just a list of books that /lit/ discusses the most frequently, or a list of books /lit/ claims to enjoy the most or with the most frequency. Personally I've enjoyed everything I've tried from the list and would recommend it to those new to the board.

>>6746805
No. They're there for a reason.

It doesn't mean that a book up there is automatically better than a book that isn't. It's just a selection of popular and great books. Memes are very useful.

The stigma only exists because self-loathing shitposters hate everything to do with this site.

Well, it's very English-centric which is a given with an American site, but that's about it.

>>6746805
I don't think so. Certainly a better recommendation selection than many. Anyone worth their salt has read the majority of those but we all have to start somewhere.

>>6746813
So what? All of the /mu/core albums are pretty big

/lit/core is all the edgy shit like Pynchon, DFW, Bolano, Dostoyevsky, Camus, etc.

>>6747078
>not trash
Litcore for ya, folks

>>6747078
True to an extent, but they are still mostly acclaimed and importent works. (Dostoyevsky and Camus are essential af)

>>6747078
You forgot to mention Orwell, Shakespeare and Hemingway, anon. Those are just the edgiest!

>>6747096

Shakespeare was the biggest edgelord

>To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
>Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
>To the last syllable of recorded time;
>And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
>The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
>Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
>That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
>And then is heard no more. It is a tale
>Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
>Signifying nothing.

wow such edge

>>6746805

I take issue with Siddhartha being on this list, I thought it was the most pretentious book I've ever read. It's objectively poorly researched, and I don't think a European like Hesse is qualified to write a book set in India about prominent Eastern religious figures.

A lot of us are of similar age and background so its only naturally we like similar books

>>6747392
I don't think it was supposed to be, you are taking it too seriously. Its fiction, people only started taking it seriously for its message decades later

reading something translated is wrong

>>6747069
that isn't true. stuff like car seat headrest, the fishmans, and the goslings are considered /mu/core.

>>6747449
I listen to all of those bands and I don't even browse mu

>>6746805
There's no way to ever tell, but I wonder how many books here are entries of the 'i've listed the ones i really like and feel somewhat qualified to recommend so i'm just filling in with whatever else i've read or know i should've read'. The same effect you get when you ask someone to name their favorite X and they feel the urge to fill all answer slots provided.

>>6747487
cool but that doesn't mean they're popular.

>>6746805
I think people are usually split between two camps -- people who like stuff, and people who like mocking people who like stuff.

One of these groups are more fulfilled than the other.

Nearly everyone thinks they're in the right camp.

>>6746805
that's a good list. I don't see anything wrong with it. I think in general those are just agreeably good books.

even has my motherfuckin' favorite on it. like wtf tho.

>>6747078
>edgy shit
>Pynchon, DFW, Bolano, Dostoyevsky, Camus
You've obviously never read any of those authors.

Okay but many people (like me) purposefully posted meme books to fuck up the list.

>>6746805
>/lit/core

>>>/mu/

seriously, i left that place because of this shit

>>6747655
>purposefully posted meme books to fuck up the list
But a vote on the books most liked here would only show "meme books" anyway because they're only memes for their popularity here.

We need to stop usage of the word "/lit/-core". By calling authors as big, innovative, and influential as David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, James Joyce, and countless others "/lit/-core" we are implying that this literature is defined by the fact that it is frequently discussed on /lit/, the literature board on the esoteric otaku website 4chan. That is how the English language works. In reality, the opposite is true. /lit/ is defined by the presence of these authors being discussed. In a way, you can say /lit/ is a David Foster Wallace-core board.

To expand on this idea further, let's apply this logic to real life scenarios. If my friend, let's say his name is Jacob, likes an author, let's say Thomas Pynchon, I say "My friend Jacob really likes Thomas Pynchon". I don't say "Thomas Pynchon is a total Jacob author". If anything, I say the opposite, by saying "Jacob is a total Thomas Pynchon guy". Because, you see, Thomas Pynchon is much larger than Jacob. The same should apply to /lit/ as it does to Jacob. It's foolish and possibly autistic to think authors /lit/ likes are "/lit/-core" when /lit/ is a music board on an esoteric otaku website. What's ironic, is that /lit/ often accuses Reddit, /v/ and /a/ of autism. Nobody on Reddit calls Stephen King "Reddit-core", nobody on /v/ calls Deus Ex and Morrowind "/v/ideo games", and nobody on /a/ calls Evangelion or K-ON "/a/nime". This behavior is exclusive to /lit/.
To put it simply, if you use the word "/lit/-core", you either don't know the basics of the English language or how it works, are delusional, or have autism.

Whenever I post in bookshelf thread there's always a few people who shit on me for having /lit/core, and yet the majority in this thread seem to have no problem with it...

>>6747685
autism

>>6747733
it's an edited copypasta from /mu/

it's still correct though

>>6747104
Is this where the "The Sound and the Fury" title came from?

>>6748489
Yup, Infinite Jest is from Shakespeare too, along with a shitload of other titles.

>>6747104
>Implying that isn't the best soliloquy

>>6748504
the fault in our stars?

>>6748515
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars

Alright so I'm about 30p into the Brothers K and its actually quite humorous and easy to follow. When does shit get real?

>>6748536

Near page 60.

200 first pages are fun, then it gets boring until page 600.

>>6746805
>Telling people to ever read "The Good Earth"
Why do you hate people so much?

>>6748536
>When does shit get real?
When you realize there's still 800 pages to go

Are there any quality literature forums that don't hold DFW up so highly?

He's objectively inferior to authors like Barth, Gass, and Vollman bet those authors get no recognition in comparison here.

>>6750879
Way to never make a thread about their books anon

>>6746805
I think the only problem is that Brave New World didn't make it on the list, but I guess it's fine considering everything else on it is all pretty good

I only read /lit/core. Not because it's from /lit/, but because all my favorite authors are in some way /lit/core. It's not really a fair distinction though, nothing /lit/core is exclusively popular here.