/lit/ - Literature

>>7243990
I see one good book on that shelf

>>7243990
Good god how horrifying where the fuck is that

>>7243990

ayyyyyyyyy lmao

>>7243993
I hope you're talking about White Noise.

>>7243994
A shelf of books meant for /lit/

>>7243999
No trips, where is that. As in where the fuck did you take this picture.

>>7243998

You wish, yuppie

It took me a while to understand those books were on the "Hipster Nephew" shelf and not "Eccentric Aunt"

did we lower the limit on genius for girls?

Actually kind of salty about that shelf

every book in that picture is meme-tier

>>7243998
>not recognizing Gravity's Rainbow

>>7244011
>Genius niece
>Coraline
wtf

>>7243990
Is the bottom one for a woman's husband? The Art of Fielding is there so that's what I infer.

>>7243990
I don't get it. Gravity's Rainbow for "Your Eccentric Aunt"?

>>7243990
/lit/ absolutely

B T F O
T
F
O

I work at a Chapters, they let me do merchandizing for some reason. I always put /lit/ tier stuff on display.

I also sticker things like Engel's Bear as Heather's Picks.

>>7244052
That whole shelf is fucked. Richard Ford next to Coraline next to swamplandia.

>>7244063
Oh man, I worked at Chapters when I was a teenager and use to kiss the books that bookish pretty girls hands had touched, I was fired inexplicably a month in

>>7244094

/lit/ - Kissing books girls touched

>niece likes books
>genius

>nephew likes books
>hipster

>>7244122
>b-b-but women c-can't be sexist
>b-b-but privilege

These books are now not good.

>>7244122
>triggerēd

Left to right:

Tao lin, gravitys rainbow, white noise, 1q84, house of leaves, infinite jest

>>7244138
have we memed another word out of meaning?

>>7244122
>hipster choices vs genius niece choices
With that lack of reading comprehension you must be a girl.

>>7243990
Are you really buttblasted that some old bookstore-owning cat lady called you a hipster while recommending you some good books?

>>7244122
This though.

>>7244150
try again, bobby, or else we have to call you bobbi

>>7244138

i laughed inappropriately hard

http://o.canada.com/entertainment/books/bookstores-develop-gift-sections-dedicated-to-all-your-dysfunctional-relatives

>>7244155
You reframed choices into reading books in general. Either you're a girl who can't into reading, or a darky.

>>7244094

>>7244176
I didn't do shit, anon, I'm not >>7244122 but it's a consistent division. Your division isn't. You're retarded, congrats.

>>7243990
There should be Mark Leyner in the hipster nephew shelf.

>>7243990
I want whoever made the shelf and their family shot, except for the nephew.

>>7244142
MEMES
E
M
E
S

>>7244184
>consistent division
>implying all books are equal.

>>7244193
OP could have stacked the memetomes before snapping a pic.

I like how the genius niece one has YA where the niece kills her family at twelve years old but they really should have put Gravity's Rainbow on that shelf.

>>7244185
Mark Leyner is for female hipsters whom Pynchon is too difficult.

>>7244052
>>Genius niece
I like how its Genius niece not hipster niece.

>>7244207
>OP could have stacked the memetomes before snapping a pic.
Why would op do that?

>>7244302
And the books on that shelf are for the most part probably easier to comprehend than the hipster nephew books

>>7244501
Why is she so based?

Hahaha I haven't wasted my time on any of that meme garbage seriously fuck /lit/

>>7244122
The dubs know

I have very poor eyesight, what are the Hipster Nephew books?

>>7245013
Tao Lin, Gravity's Rainbow, White Noise, IQ84, House of Leaves, Infinite Jest.

>>7245013
see: >>7244161

>>7243990
>boys are hipsters
>girls are geniuses
This is why I need meninism

>o-only hipsters read difficult postmodern books. Quit expanding your mind, goy! You might have an original thought, and we wouldn't want that!

>>7246033
Must everything be about "DE JEWZ" with you stormfags?

>>7246035
Go back to reddit cuck

>>7244302
THE J00S
THE J00S KONTROL THE WORLD
THEY WANT THE WHITE MALE TO DIE

>>7246033

>meme books expand your mind

>>7244510
Yeah I see like Coraline, some book where the author's name is three time the size of the title, and what is most likely a copy of The Bell Jar.

The only thing on there that looks decent is Swamplandia.

Then again house of leaves is sitting beside GR so...

>>7246119
Is house of leaves good? I've been thinking about reading it and it looks pretty interesting.

Lets see the rest of the shelves

what's the hipster nephew book on the left of white nose?

>>7246469
>>7246480
see >>7244161

>>7246480
...Gravity's Rainbow.

I actually love this and I love this idea

Having a section with built-in quality control is something I want in almost every place I go to find or books, movies and music, digital or physical. It's also something most people with decent taste recognize the need for, but you can't divide stuff by "good/bad" because people who shop on the "bad" section would get offended.

So what do you do? We divide it by good and bad anyway, but we self-mockingly refer to the "good" section as "hipster, pretentious" etc. in order to give those with bad taste some confidence. The section's name sneers at us on their behalf, and they can enjoy crap without feeling guilt.

That way we're not only shortening our searching process, we're also calling the plebs on their lack of taste in front of their noses but they think *we* are the ones being mocked.

I hope this becomes a trend, IMDb needs a Hipster top 250.

>>7246515
Why don't we just tell people what is good and what is bad and if they want to enjoy bad things they will know they have bad taste

>>7246515
>>7246530

because people can't accept that they have bad taste, even though they never try to improve it

it's like how people who are fat and lazy know they're out of shape but you can't just call them fat

Why the mad about girls' genius standard still being crap, isn't that precisely what you're claiming all the time?

>>7246548
But if you explain to them how to be less fat they would eventually be much happier than if you allowed them to continue living with their delusions

>>7244009
you don't hang books, anon

>>7243990
>reading Murakami is hipster

topkek, I see fucking teens on the train with those books

>>7246572
A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. People avoid change until the pain of changing is less than the pain of continuing.

>>7246557
>he thinks /lit/ is a straight white male
oh anon, you are lost :3

>>7246033
But the foundations of postmodernism are the ideas of Jewish critical theorists.

>>7246677
>laughing Irish authors of the 20th C
never go full retard

>>7246684
Samuel Beckett was being brainwashed by the Jews with gamma rays, you faggot.

>>7246752
>he doesn't know the difference between modernism and postmodernism
I'm going to have to add laughing_ponies.jpg

should have put john green in the genius niece shelf before taking this picture

>>7246792
>>7246684
Most of the 20th century Irish authors that immediately come to mind were modernists.

>>7246890
Which is why you're plen

The more I look at this picture the angrier I get. I keep imagining David coming back to life and happening across this display and being deeply hurt. Fucking book store cunts

>>7247000
No, I simply don't participate in the inventions of the Jew.

>>7244002
in front of a shelf of books meant for /lit/

>>7247825
Neither does the antagonist of the first postmodern novel.

>>7247898
Unsurprising.

>>7247913
He also was lying about them and believed in social justice and shared his bed with another man. No doubt this is not news to you either, illiterate faggot.

>>7244094
I AM FUCKIN LAFFIN

(only because I empathize)

>>7246035
>>7246052

The answer is yes.

>>7247919
I've just been goofing with you, take a chill pill, friend.

>>7243990
>switch books around
People will actually buy shit without any critical thinking.

>>7248071
IT'S MY GODDAMN FARM AND BAR GET OUT

>>7243990
NO WAY!
I TOOK THIS PHOTO
It's actually probably 3 years old now, it was in a chapters in Canada. And I posted it on /lit/

>woman that reads
>OMG GENIUS NOBEL PRIZE YAY WOMEN

>>7244002
it's from a chapters

>>7246752
One of Becketts close associates in Paris was the Dublin Jew Con Levanthal. Coincidence?

i dont think you can deny it: if you have a hipster nephew, those books are good recs.

>>7248115
you didn't know that until I just said, you stupid faggot, you didn't take this photo.

it was during Christmas shopping time, hence the 'gifts' suggestions and back when my phone was shitty. I'd be stoked if my mom saw that and got me Dellillo instead of some trashing genre shit she thinks I'd "totally like". You can't make it out but on the left side that's a Tao Lin book, either Bed or EEEEEEE.

>>7244094
lol!!!

>>7244161

only three are dysfunctional

>>7248146
Apparently eccentricity is "dsyfunctional"

Fucking normie scum

>>7246052
btfo tbh

>>7248159

it can be

Robots are eccentric by defintion eccentric and it isn't a synonym for lololquirky you illiterate fuck. Even if the image that comes to mind is a crazy cat hoarder that's still kind of actually crazy.

>>7248100
ayy
>>/lit/image/vrWczPQiquJJSuCr8ugBbw

>>7246052
Why does /pol/ bother /lit/ so much?
Does it make you feel smarter?
Are you stormtrooping for ze Judens who like to read ze boooooks?
Did you come here to see if 'cuck' was an actual word?

I don't understand it. Maybe you're one of those conspiratard racists who vie for intellectualism and fall short almost every time and then blame the Jews or the Niggers or the Spics or those God damn red Chinese. Maybe you should focus on your own hilarious inadequacy before alleging that an international Jewish cabal increased the interest rate on your mommy's house while ordering a Make America Great Again hat so Donald Trump can build a wall to stop those damn Mexicans. Maybe you think your dad killed himself because those dirty wetbacks took his job cleaning toilets but in reality it's because his son was a total failure. He stopped molesting you when you were twelve didn't he? You wondered "maybe I'm not good enough" or "should I have shaved my legs?" but that wasn't it. He was just sick of you. Let the repressed memories slowly come back.

Bitch.

>>7248307
>>>/pol/ or learn to sage

>>7244142
>Tao Lin next to Pinecone
fucking triggered

>>7248310
>>>/r9k/

>>7248330
yes, how /r9k/otic of me to think this was a literature board not your blog. kys tbh

>go to local bookstore
>see this sign
Is it true /lit/?

>>7248397
how impressive

>>7248397
>do

Stupid Indigo made me order The Recognitions online for $10 above selling price and a week later because it didn't have one in stock in store and only one in stock online.


They often don't have anything I want, or only have one copy.

It's pretty obvious GR is for the eccentric aunt. The 27 - 37 mature lush who is a bit too smart for cat ladying. That is your pool lit.

The hipster kid reads the ya crap below. One can only wonder what it is the genius little girl reads, probably a bunch of dense math texts and theosophy.

>>7248499
I miss butterfly

>>7244501
>tfw no /lit/ qt3.142 jewess trickster gf

Why live?

>>7245098
damn you really typed that out and hit 'Post'

>>7248545
>yfw the sexist is more fun than you

>there are dilettantes on this board who think Pynchon isn't YA for pretentious hipsters
>there are faggots reading this YA shit and justifying it with resorts to POSTMODERN COMPLEXITY when they haven't read actual real examples
>there are retards struggling through Pynchon's horrible Franzen tier books and forcing themselves to like them because they think it will make them patrician
>patrician
>for reading YA

>>7248100
>tfw I've been on /lit/ for three years
>tfw that picture was on my hard drive for three years

Kill me

>>7244094
I believe this.

>>7248123
I hear Beckett was a male prostitute in an all-Jew Paris brothel and he took circumcised dicks up his bottom. Coincidence?

>>7248899
Nice doubles. Sometimes I wonder what Laura Joyce had to say about him, but, considering her condition, this post might be accurate.

>>7248904
You mean Lucia?

>>7246033
>pomo books have original thoughts and expand your mind
*tips fedora*

>>7248267
haha, that first thread I had (lucky guess on exactly 3 years tbh) is almost the same goddam template as this one

>>7248655
I've been on here for 5-6 years. Since the first day it opened. I fucking love this place, my lit tastes are patrish and I've definitely gotten smarter amidst the circlejerking and memes

>you will never know what was recommended for your eccentric aunt

>>7248975
>be me
>History of philosophy class
>oral exam
>about to fail because I know nothing of the prescribed authors' opinions
>say I can give him a rundown of Western philosophy regardless of what the textbooks say
>basically summarize /lit/ debates and 3 minute philosophy videos chronologically, throw in some Foucault because I've read some of his works
>manage to get a passing grade because of it
I love you, /lit/.

>>7249341
Did you start with Frege and end with Kripke.

corporate bookstores still suck

>>7249345
Never even heard of them, mate. Uni is strange over here. Only 20% of society is eligible to enter through educational standards, but it's really not that demanding at all. It was a 7 week course, so we didn't really get to treat anything in depth. Wikipedia level summaries sufficed. I just went through Kant, Hegel/Marx, Ranke, Popper and Foucault. Threw in some bullshit when I needed time to think.

>>7244064
geniuses tend to read widely, anon. not everyone stays in their own comfy zone and stops reading after they've read the same four or five meme books as everyone else.

>>7244122
No need to worry, the niece list is absolute garbage compared to the nephew's one.

Neice gets:

>Amor Towles - The Rules of Civility
>Karen Russell - Swamplandia
>Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle
>Riel Nason - Town That Drowned
>Edward St. Aubyn - The Patrick Melrose Novels
>Jane Rogers - Testament of Jessie Lamb
>Neil Gaiman - Coraline
>Jo Walton - Among Others
>China Mieville - Un Lun Dun

Nephew gets:

>Haruki Murakami - 1Q84
>Tao Lin - Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
>Thomas Pynchon - Gravity’s Rainbow
>Mark Danielewski - House of Leaves
>Katherine Dunn - Geek Love
>David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
>David Wong - John Dies at the End
>Jeet Thayil - Narcopolis
>Sergio de la Pava - Naked Singularity

>>7249452
the patrick melrose novels are probably much better than anything on the nephew list but gr though

>>7244161
>tfw you are the dysfunctional relative

>>7243993
Murakami?

Surprised they'd recommend de la Pava, I thought he was fairly unknown.

>>7249166
read the thead
>>7244161

>>7249508
Nice. Mystery solved.

>>7249543
Chalked that one up Watson!
Put it in your fucking notebook!

>>7248426
my local bookstore ordered it strictly for me and charged me only 13$.
Feels good.

>>7248577

so what should they be reading instead fagtron