/lit/ - Literature

>>7227376
If you have already voted but still want to help. You can do so by posting pics of authors being sexy for the infographic.

Here's the list of authors who have already been voted for so post pics of them being sexy.

Alexander Pushkin
Aristophanes
Anoine de Saint-Espéry
Albert Camus
Alexandre Dumas
Alan Moore
Aldous Huxley
Anaïs Nin
Anton Chekhov
Aeschylus
Arthur C. Clarke
Alistair Macleod
Alessandro Baricco
Al-Arabi
Arthur Rimbaud
Anne Rice
Alfreed de Musset
Alasdair Gray

Bret Easton Ellis
Brandon Sanderson
Banana Yoshimoto
Breece D‘J Pancake
Ben Lerner
Buchi Emecheta

Charles Bukowski
Charles Portis
Cormac McCarthy
Christopher Marlowe
Charles Baudelaire
Christopher Hitchens
Clarice Lispector
Charles Dickens
Christopher Moore
C.S. Lewis

David Foster Wallace
Dan Simmons
Dr. Seuss
Don DeLillo
Dante Alighieri
David Mitchell
Doris Lessing
David Ohle

Ezra Pound
Ernest Hemingway
Eiji Yoshikawa
E.E. Cummings
Emile Zola
Evelyn Wugh
Emily Dickinson

Franz Kafka
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fernando Pessoa
Friedrich Nietzsche
Flannery O‘Connor
F. Scott Fitzgerald
François Rabelais


1/?

>>7227395
George Orwell
Gene Wolfe
Gustave Flaubert
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
G.K. Chersterton
García Márquez
George R.R. Martin
George Herbert
Georges Bataille
Garcilaso de la Vega
Graham Greece
Gabriela Mistral
George Perec
Graciliano Ramos

Herman Melville
Hunter S. Thompson
Hart Crane
Homer
Haruki Murakami
Hermann Hesse
H. P. Lovecraft
Honoré de Balzac
Henry Miller
Harry Mulisch
H.G. Wells
Hilda Doolittle
Hans Christian Anderson
Henry James
Henry Miller
Ha Jin

Iain Banks
Inger Christensen
Italo Calvino
Isaac Asimov
Isabel Allende
Ian Flemming

J.R.R. Tolkien
James Joyce
Jorge Luis Borges
Joseph Conrad
John Donne
John Steinbeck
John Barth
Jane Austen
John Milton
Joan Didion
J.G. Ballard
José Saramago
Jules Verne
Jack Kerouac
Jacques Roubaud
John Edward Williams
John Keats
José Saramago
J.D. Salinger
Jean-Pail Sartre
Jonathan Clayden
John Kennedy Toole
John Green
J.M. Coetzee
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2/?

>>7227401
>>7227401
Kurt Vonnegut
Katherine Mansfield
Knut Hamsun
Kazuo Ishiguro
Konrad Bayer
Kenzaburō Ōe
Karl Marx
Karl Ove Knausgaard

Leo Tolstoy
Lydia Davis
Lui de Camões
Lewis Carroll
Lasxlo Krasznahorkai
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Mark Twain
Michel de Montaigne
Marcel Proust
Manuel Bandeira
Michel Foucault
Max Stirner
Miklos Szentkuthy
Mark Lawrence
Michael Chabon
Michel Houellebecq
Mavis Gallant
Milan Kundera
Mikhail Bulgakov
Mazie Louise Montgomery
Miguel de Unamuno
Margaret Atwood
Moshin Hamid
Malcolm Gladwell

Nathanael West
Norman Mailer
Nikolai Gogol
Natsuo Korina
Neil Gaiman

Osamu Dazai
Oscar Wilde
Octave Mirbeau

Plato
Philip K. Dick
P. G. Wodehouse
Peter Singer
Percy Shelley
Patrick Suskind
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Patricia Hernandez
Patrick Roesle
Patrick White
Peter Carey

Rainer Maria Rilke
Robert Jordan
Roberto Bolaño
Richard Burton
Richard Yates
Ray Bradbury
Richard Brautigan
Raymond Chandler
Robert Graves
Roland Barth

Sylvia Plath
Samuel Beckett
Salman Rushdie
Stanisław Lem
Stephen King
Sherwood Anderson
Samuel Delany
Sophocles
Saint Augustine
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Seamus Heaney
Saint-Exupéry
Susan Scarlata
Soren Kierkegaard

3/?

>>7227416
>>7227416
Thomas Pynchon
Terry Pratchett
Thomas Bernhard
Tim Winton
Tao Lin
T.S. Elliot
Tad Williams
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Mann
Toni Morrison
Terrance Hayes
Tacitus
Tom Robbins

Ursula Le Guin
Umberto Eco

Vladimir Nabokov
Virginia Woolf
Virgil

Walt Whitman
William Shakespeare
William Faulkner
William S. Burroughs
William Gaddis
William Gibson
William B. Yeats
Willem Frederi Hermans
William Wordsworth
Witold Gombrowicz
Woody Allen
William Styron

Yukio Mishima

ZZ Packer

4/4

>>7227395
Joan Didion

>>7227376
Homer

>>7227395
ZZ Packer

>>7227376
I'm off to sleep now. I'll be back here in 8 hours to post the results again.
>>7227427
Sexy as fuck
>>7227435
Kek

Would you go out on a date with me /lit/? I'm serious

>>7227395
Sylvia Plath

>>7227395
Kurt Vonnegut

>>7227416
>Knut Hamsun

>>7227418
>Tao Lin

fucking faggots

>>7227451

Really hot but really dumb, probably the worst "major" "poet" of the 20th siècle

>>7227401
>John Green
the memes never come to an end, do they

>>7227416
Roberto bolaño

>>7227451
>no hawthorne
>no london
>no lowry
>fucking plath
I don't think so tbh

Jack Kerouac

hemmingway

>>7227642
handsome man

>>7227376
>I'm in love with you /lit/
That will pass.
Sincere thanks for you efforts and for caring

>>7227659
Damn. I'd let him fuck my wife on a safari hunt.

>>7227771
JUST

>>7227509
Lol she's the Edgar Allan Poe of the 20th century.

>>7227556
U can vote 4 them dipshit

William Gaddis

Richard Brautigan

>>7227427
what books of hers should I read?

H E N R Y M I L L E R

>>7227395
>Don DeLillo

>>7227444
I'm back with the current results
>>7227451
>>7227462
>>7227495
>>7227544
>>7227642
>>7227659
>>7228767
>>7228784
>>7228837
>>7228896
>>7228905
Thanks for the help.
>>7227751
Thanks for that. It means a lot to me

I'll be back from work in 8 hours and then I'll post the results again.

Thank you so much /lit/

>>7227376
How is going to design the infographic OP , are you familliar with graphic designing ?

>>7228905
He was prettier in his darkest years.

>>7229131
Who*

Whitman

Keats

Lem

come give daddy some sugar

>>7227418
>Vladimir Nabokov
Who would win >>7227659

>>7229060
Sorry I'm late
>>7229131
>>7229146
I have no experience in making anything like this. I'm going to try to replicate the 2014 version of the list. But have a different colored background so you can tell which version it is just from the thumbnail.
>>7229142
>>7229159
>>7229161
>>7229163
>>7229170

>>7230023
Hemingway would probably win due to his size

Love you all.

>>7231319
if you love us so much then WHY DON'T YOU PUT A RING ON US HAH

>>7227376
You might as well had cast votes for /lit/'s age.

>>7227395
Without contemplating the science of it too much, you should probably make an effort not to skew the results by resisting the urge to celebrate the authors' sexiness rather than their literary merit

>>7231326
Can't marry a image board, just checked
>>7231496
Too late for that now
>>7231676
Should we rather post authors being "booky" or smart?

>>7231686
Well I'm off to sleep. See you again in 8 hours.

I love you /lit/

>>7231970
when is this gonna be done

>>7232062
oct 22 apparently
KEEP
UP
FAM

I edited my submission, but it didn't work. Oh well.

>>7227376
SAVING THIS THREAD

>>7232062
October 22nd like >>7232063 said
>>7232201
The reason your vote changes don't show up in the pic is due to the fact that I only screencap the new votes everytime and add them to the old votes. So if you are editing your response then it will show up in the poll and it will work. I just don't want to screencap all of the results again and again, every time I post.
>>7232544
Why?

I'll be back in 8 hours to post the results again.

Thank you for everything /lit/

>>7227376
why does everything have to be measured? just to make us suffer?

actually , i have some experience in the graphic design field , that's why i asked.

man these are all embarrassing. there's a meme on /lit/ where we all whisper about our secret potential but this basically puts that all to rest empirically

thanks op

>>7233282
talking to you OP
>>7231319
>I have no experience in making anything like this

>>7233287
what?

>>7233280
are you thinking about your penis (what else)?

>>7233294
without anything being quantized it's possible to imagine that we could, collectively or individually, produce something of some significance someday for some someones somewhere—far along the road

have you ever seen an old style therapist (not cbt) for any long period of time, anon? you realize that transparency doesn't change anything, it just makes everyone a little bit unhappier. just like how repulsed we'd all be if we all had transparent skin and you could see our guts and organs bobbing around and getting smushed and shifted when we sat down & all that

Haruki Murakami

So when are you going to collate the results, OP?

>>7233272
For a second I thought that "Ernest K. Gann" was the worst attempt at spelling Ursula K. Le Guin I've ever seen.

I'm back from work and we finally reached over 300 votes.
>>7233280
I just thought this would be a interesting project to do
>>7233282
I have to admit. The plan was that I was just going to edit the 2014 version of the list in MS Paint. I don't have access to Photoshop or the skills to do it there. If you want to do the infographic then feel free to do so. But I'm still going to try to do it in MS Paint and see how it comes out. (It's probably going to be shit)
>>7233378
Classic writers pose
>>7233760
The poll will end on the 22nd of october if that's what you are referring to.

>>7234616
>The poll will end on the 22nd of october

jesus christ

>>7234616
It's going to be shit.

MS paint can't convert pictures.

Wonder how many people cheated by voting multiple times

>>7227376
do plays or short story collections qualify as books?

Also I just realized I don't have to type the captcha when I'm logged into my google account, spooky.

>Based Bernhard, he remembered he thought

>>7234641
Why the jesus christ?
>>7234648
I know that
>>7234660
Probably none. Unless you have multiple google accounts
>>7234662
Plays and short story collections do count
>>7234746
Nice

A kind Anon posted in the earlier thread the raw photoshop file for the 2014 version of the list. (Although I haven't checked it out since I don't have access to Photoshop) If any one you want's to create the infographic then feel free to do so. Here's the link: https://mega.nz/#!k1MFxRBC

>>7234765
Because what's the point of waiting that long? Pretty much the same people come here every day...

GRRM is currently leading in the polls, what is the most eloquent picture of him I can use?

>>7234616
if you want to do it by yourself then go for it. just make sure to do something neat and simple , maybe watch some tutorials online.
i would suggest that you use pictures with description for the top 10 and then plain text for the rest.
anyway i think that you are going to do a good job with the polling so it will be a wise decision to honor it with a good design.
i may help you , but you will need to send me some information concerning the results and so forth , the design may require a good amount of work and effort.
Good luck.

>>7234765
The decryption key is: !SrJy6Sx0kg4ClTNcop_XsgSfRS-L08FM0MIy8QgEs14
Don't know how to remove it

>>7234780
Everyone in the thread was telling me to wait 2 weeks so I did. You can count the votes now if you want to.
>>7234810
Thanks for that. I'm probably going to copy the 2014 design. But change the background color and add the number of votes each book or writer got.

VOTE OR DIE

http://strawpoll.me/5735674

>>7234810
>>7234827
If you want any help just ask ,
i like this design as an example , you can use GIMP just look up for some tutorials online and you can do something simple and good.

>>7234874
I've never been to /tv/ but it really looks like a meme board.

>>7234863
Is being Dank Memes a good thing?

>>7234765
>I don't have access to Photoshop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLMJpHihykI

>>7234874
Eh, I think the style where every book gets a cover is superior. Text-only is boring. The numbers on the top are nice though.

>>7234927
awesome, cool, bodacious it's all those things combined.

Where did the original video go?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uq1bcBZSCk

>>7234936
maybe , but don't forget that there is a top book + top authors so the infographic is going to be huge.
the numbers effect are cool and really simple to do.

>>7234958
Could be split into 2 smaller + a super image

>>7234958
Maybe limit it to top 50 of each to save space?

Or more easily, just split it into two infographics. Use the same template for both.

>>7234931
Thanks I'll look into this.
>>7234936
Every book and author gets a picture
>>7234954
Nice
>>7234958
>>7234970
>>7234976
I'm going to do two separate infographics. One for the books and one for the writers

>>7235001
serious question OP
how do you make huge screen captures , chrome extension ?

>>7227376
Is this restricted for novel only?

>>7235018
It's rather simple really. I just take screencaps and edit them together in MS Paint. If anyone knows of a more efficient way the let me know.
>>7235030
Novels, plays, poems and short story collections are all accepted

t-this.. this is the 4chan killer.

It's really happening isn't it?

>>7234863
and they call other people reddit. top kek

>>7235060
i think a non-fiction poll would be great.

>>7235248
Maybe I'll do that later. Also some anons were asking for a modern / contemporary literature poll, so maybe I'll do that too

>>7235282
i think that you are doing a good job here bro

>>7235001
I'm off to sleep. See you tomorrow. Only 15 votes cast today, so hopefully that means that the majority of /lit/ has already voted.
>>7235445
Thanks for that

the polling anon, i fucking hate you. you're such a milquetoast faggot and i have no idea what you get out of this. except maybe you feel like you can get self-esteem from creating a picture on 4chan that gets reposted a lot. and maybe you can homogenise all our tastes even further? you disgust me. i guess what i'm trying to say is i love you, and i'm sorry. can you forgive me? you cunt

>>7235890
I'm getting mixed signals here.

i updated mine but its still showing the same in these new images your posting

>>7235920
I am aware of that. Your vote has changed in the poll. The reason for it not changing in the picture is because I only take screencaps of the new votes and add them to the existing votes on the picture. So I don't have to screencap all of the votes everytime I post the picture. Understand?

>>7235941
I just edited mine to give Mason & Dixon a push over the top

I recommend everyone change their votes to Mason & Dixon

just kidding I like you Polling Anon I don't want to fuck up your shit

>>7235941
Do you know how to do pivot tables? I think they would help you with your data.

>>7234874
/tv/'s taste is as middlebrow crap as you can get

i will be shocked if a meme book doesn't take the gold

>>7235873
Make the god damn list already. Or give me ratings

>DeLillo
kek

>>7235873
I'm back.
>>7236311
No I don't but I'll look into that
>>7237305
I'm not going to make the list right away. You just have to wait and I'm not going to give you ratings.

I'm off too work, see you in 8 hours

Love you /lit/

>>7237376
An average day in the life of Polling Anon.

>Wake up
>Post results
>Work
>Post results
>Sleep

>>7235941
yes sir

>101%

>>7237447
Divine powers pushes it past technical limits

>>7237305
I've totaled the first 112 entries, at the moment the most popular favourite books are as follows:
1st - Infinite Jest
2nd - The Brothers Karamazov
2nd - Ulysses
2nd - Crime and Punishment
3rd - Gravity's Rainbow
3rd - The Illiad
3rd - Lolita
3rd - Blood Meridian

>>7237576
or rounding

>>7227395
I find this one so much more appealing than the classic profile Woolf picture.

>>7237620
>>7209673 (Cross-thread)
Thank you. I was reading over the OP list, and thinking to myself, 'Shit, I haven't read pretty much any of these.'

This at least gives me a list to check through rather than just randomly searching Kindle. (I'll put more trust into /lit/ than Amazon reviews.)

I appreciate the effort you've put into this.

>>7237620
There was a poll a while ago that had Moby-Dick at the top tied with IJ and Ulysses, but only 76 people responded

>>7237768
>>7237620
Actually I'm wrong, IJ and Ulysses were tied, but Moby-Dick and the Bible were both higher. Also, you were allowed to choose five books, so that might be partly responsible for the different results. Here's everything that got 2 or more votes:

Moby-Dick - 11
The Bible - 10
Infinite Jest - 8
Ulysses - 8
The Brothers Karamazov - 7
Blood Meridian - 7
The Great Gatsby - 6
Lolita - 6
Catch-22 - 6
Gravity's Rainbow - 5
The Divine Comedy - 5
Mason & Dixon - 4
The Stranger - 4
Ficciones/Labyrinths - 4
The Iliad - 4
East of Eden - 3
If on a winter's night a traveler - 3
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - 3
Don Quixote - 3
The Odyssey - 3
One Hundred Years of Solitude - 3
The Old Man and the Sea - 3
Crime and Punishment - 3
A Clockwork Orange - 3
Cat's Cradle - 2
The Sound and the Fury - 2
In Search of Lost Time - 2
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) - 2
Tristram Shandy - 2
The Koran - 2
American Gods - 2
Pale Fire - 2
Underworld - 2
Candide - 2
Nineteen Eighty-Four - 2
2001: A Space Odyssey - 2
Journey to the End of the Night - 2
Midnight's Children - 2
Hamlet - 2
Book of the New Sun - 2
2666 - 2
The Sun Also Rises - 2
Siddhartha - 2
King Lear - 2
The Master and Margarita - 2
Paradise Lost - 2
Storm of Steel - 2
The Magic Mountain - 2
Stoner - 2
Heart of Darkness - 2
A Farewell to Arms - 2
Anna Karenina - 2
Dune - 2

>>7227401
Hmmm no Jean Genet. Is he out of style these days? Redundant?

>>7237671
You serious? She just looks like a typical middle-aged posh English woman. Nothing remotely interesting or appealing about her face at all.

Even though I've read the /lit/ favourites, I'm pretty conservative in my choices, plus a new one that maybe won me over due to the time I was in when I read it.
That said, how is it called?, "social" influence is strong, I feel like a pleb for choosing what I chose.

>>7237771
I've seen some anons posting parts of Book of the New Sun as Claw of the conciliator or other part which makes no sense since it's a part of a whole. Also parts of the bible may have been posted. How are you going to count those? As a part of the whole? Or separate?

>>7237771
The Bible? Wha? Like the KJV?

>>7237786
It's the expression. I find it very hard to grasp what it's supposed to convey. It seems like a weird mix between dreaminess, condescension, pity, and motherly encouragement in a sort of ''Oh, you poor thing'' kind of way.

>>7237843
So a
>typical middle-aged posh English woman
? I gotta agree with anon on this one

>>7237846
I don't know, it just speaks to me. I do look at it knowing who it is as well, though, so obviously her novels are part of the face for me. Maybe it just reminds me of my mom (quite the opposite of a ''typical middle-aged posh English woman'', though), who knows.

>>7237830
Here are the votes and I don't remember having any problem like that: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1373EVoFPffWUVOdDyUHzz4qJD5AE_NB5dsZoGiKNPyI/edit

>>7237376
I'm back from work again.
>>7237412
Pretty much sums it up.
>>7237424
Good
>>7237447
>>7237576
>>7237622
I can neither confirm or deny the fact that I have any divine powers.
>>7237742
Thank you for that.
>>7237807
There's no shame in being a pleb.

Thank you for being there for me /lit/

>>7238888
You make me feel so bad, I've just sat around browsing /lit/ all day. Meanwhile, you're at work.

>>7238888
You're a lovely guy

>>7239234
For all of us

>>7238913
Could you do me a favour?
>>7239234
>>7239310
Thanks for that. It's been so nice doing this thing and chatting with you guys.

>>7238888

>>7238888

AT LAST SOMEONE WORTHY OF THEIR QUADS

I think you should close this now. Anyone who has not voted has not been on the board for multiple days. I don't think those people should be representative of lit

>>7238888
Nice quads

>>7239706
It's the people that aren't representative of the board that make this place worth visiting

>>7239706
What if some people are on vacation?

>>7239827
yes. Their votes mostly wouldn't cumulate with anyone else's tho.

For some reason my internet is behaving in a weird way. It won't load /lit/ every other board and website works. But for some reason /lit/ doesn't. This means I can't post the current results, although only 4 votes were cast since the last picture was posted so it isn't a huge deal.

Thank you and good night /lit/ hope we can cuddle some time.

>>7239992
And now it decided to work again. Just when I posted it. Anyways, I decided to redo the whole thing because so many have edited their responses. So now their edited responses are included.
>>7239609
>>7239622
>>7239819
Oooohhhh baby
>>7239706
>>7239827
>>7239862
>>7239984
You know how we can solve this problem? With more polls!!! http://strawpoll.me/5745014
And now I'm off for the night. Love you all.

>>7240036
>You know how we can solve this problem? With more polls!!! http://strawpoll.me/5745014

I voted yes, realistically the poll could close Monday the 19th at midnight. That would allow for another weekend of voting, I doubt their is any of typical weekday crowd who have yet to vote.

>sticky when
C'mon mods this is a once per year event

Voted

>>7228784
Such a pimp

>>7237837
>KJV
this is what /lit/ usually canonically refers to when talking of the bible.

>>7227395
This Hunk o' Man Meat Dumas

Who votes the bible? seriously?
Its like voting the screen play for Oh brother where art thou instead of Homers odyssey or Ulysses

>>7240263
Just remember that after the great reddit controversies earlier this year, many of those who would unironically list the bible came over here.

>>7240433
enough of this fucking reddit talk, one of you fucks called me a redditor

>>7240433
>>7240263
/lit/ has always liked the bible you uncultured swine

>>7240489
*tips fedora*

>>7240489
/lit isnt as patrician as It makes itself out to be

Yo dawg what up wit dis

>>7240489
I remember on the day /lit/ was created I posted a thread about how the Bible is the most influential literary work of all time and pretty much everyone in the thread agreed with me

>>7239390
yeah definitely I can do you a favor.

>>7241320
good times.

>>7240036
I'm back.
>>7240064
>>7240065
The votes are pretty even now. If the majority of the votes in the strawpoll is yes by this sunday, then I'll close the poll on midnight on sunday. If I'm honest, I don't want it to end. It's been so much fun doing this thing for you guys and chatting here with you. I love you guys, all of you.
>>7240691
What do you mean?
>>7241417
I've been noticing talk on this board about anons wanting to split this board into a philosophy-board, a religion-board and a book-board. And I was wondering if you could start a debate thread on the subject? Then maybe we could compile the arguments together into a infographic and list all the pros and cons of splitting up the board or something , I don't know. Maybe it isn't such a good idea.

>>7241529
There's always gonna be talk. Not sure that Hiroshima Nagasaki would be too keen on changing much though. Also, I think a lot of conversations about novels quickly change into discussions on both philosophy and religion, since these are popular topics in a lot of major novels. IDK, maybe I could start something up, but I doubt that it would have any significant effect.

>>7241540
Yeah, you're probably right. Personally I'm against splitting the board up. We seem to be too few to do that. I just wanted to get other people's opinion on the subject. But you can do whatever you want to.

>>7241549
Haha, we'll see if I start something. Who knows, could be a fun discussion to have.

>>7241556
Thanks for that. I'l probably check the thread out when I get back from work.

>>7241558
Do.

>>7241529

I'm just going to throw a thought into the discussion, and it has to do with the frequent updates of where the voting stands. On the one hand, I think about watching election night coverage and how the results aren't shared until the polls close, so as not to sway the voting in various ways. On the other hand, it's been kind of interesting to see, and it's not like we're electing a president or anything here. Just putting it out there.

>>7241549
>Personally I'm against splitting the board up. We seem to be too few to do that.
I agree with not splitting up the board. I think the topics that come up around here (history, religion, etc.) complement each other well and inform each other, and they have a solid footing in the world of letters anyway. It would be a shame to have several tightly specific boards that would sequester the various topics and keep them from interacting with each other.

>>7241529
>Taking a non chapta poll as an argument to shut your work down

Literally one anon could manipulate this in a couple of seconds.

Back from work.
>>7241573
I checked the thread out. And it was interesting, because I didn't think the arguments would be so one sided. I wanted to add something to the discussion but I'm afraid that everything has been said already on the subject.
>>7242231
I know. The reasons I am posting the results here is to show everyone that I won't alter the results and to keep the thread interesting. I doubt that many users will use the results to their advantage when voting, since so many votes have already been cast.
>>7242250
I agree with you
>>7242996
I hope no-one does, everyone has been so nice here.

>>7243075
It's been 4 hours and 30 minutes since anyone voted.

>>7243679
We're too busy reading books.

>>7243686
And checking this thread

>>7243686
>>7243693
I hope that both of you are having a wonderful time

>>7243706
It's a bit slow, though.

>>7243731
The thread?

>>7243686
Bullshit.

>>7243735
Yeah. But I'm going to bed anyway. Good night Polling anon.
Good night /lit/.

>>7243748
Good night fam,
Good night Moon

>>7243748
Sleep tight, anon

>>7243754
Well I'm going to sleep now. No votes were added since the last picture I posted. Good night everyone.

>>7244047
Sleep tight, pupper, don't let Kafka bite.

Bump I guess.

>>7244047
>No votes were added
>340 votes so far
Guess we're just picking up the scragglers now.
And also tbh from now on I'm going to use '340' as the number of /lit/ regulars. maybe just '300' like the romans
>>7244065
nice.

>>7245147
>romans

>>7245294
I'm imagining that it's a Kanye joke, where he says ''Ima keep it 300 like the Romans''. Something that everyone tried to mock him for, until they realized 300 in Latin is CCC, Cool, Calm and Collected.

>>7245304
Shit, that's deep. Maybe Kanye isn't so stupid after all.

>>7245304
implying it's more likely that Kanye was being "clever" than historically illiterate

>>7245309
>I think that's the joke
>(inappropriate greentext for your lack of appropriate greentext)

>>7245309
Or he could be making a joke.
Or he might be playing a bit of a character.
inb4 'pretending to be retarded'

>>7245304
He keep it 300, like his IQ.

>>7245309
He is just saving his ass with a late excuse, even if it is a somewhat clever one.

>>7245388
Mixed memes are a metaphor, see?

>>7245408
Mike Tyson = Kanye West confirmed confirmed

>>7245386
I don't know man, if he were playing a character, marrying Kim Kardashian and having kids with her seems like going just a tiny bit too far.

If it really all is Joaquin Phoenix-esque performance art, it's admirable in a way...but somewhat pointless, no?

>>7245421
What's retarded about marrying and having kids with a really hot celeb?

>>7243075
I'm back. Finally someone voted for The Legacy Of Totalitarianism In A Tundra
>>7244065
Funny, I actually voted for Kafka

>>7245421
>if he were playing a character, marrying Kim Kardashian and having kids with her seems like going just a tiny bit too far.
I've literally seen people say that courting her and all that entails was part of that.
I don't know if they fully believed it, but it certainly seems somehow hypothetically possible to some number of people.
>If it really all is Joaquin Phoenix-esque performance art, it's admirable in a way...but somewhat pointless, no?
A bit autistically ('autistic' in the sense of https://boards.4chan.org/lit/thread/7243913/lit-humour-thread#p7245269)) strange but interesting, I think.

>tfw the ultimate god tier book, Mein Kampf, doesn't even have a single vote
>/lit/ is plebs

>>7245651
hmm... its content might appeal aesthetically to certain individuals, but we usually value >prose, or poeticism, or style, or aesthetics, or artistry, or what have you, over anything else. I don't think Adolf's Mein Kampf really has a lot of that.
Ahem.
b8
le dumb frogposter
le g2bpoland

>>7245651
But Mein Kampf is shit and Adolf fucking lost the war

>>7246456
He would have won if you fuckers voted for him.

>>7246467
Bukowski was better sorry
Wait I'm not sorry you fucking frogposter

>>7245651
actual National Socialist here

while Mein Kampf is definitely an amazing piece of literature that allows insight into the most "revolutionary" revolution in history, if you really want to know where Adolf got his ideals, read Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts by Houston Chamberlain

his ideas of "race" are pretty retarded, and he groups the entire european gene pool into one race, but the rest is good

also translations are shit and are ALWAYS politically motivated, read them in the original language or else you are a pleb

>every bukowski protag
>alcoholic
>brilliant but lazy
>too smart for current job
>great with women
>if only he gave a fuck

Is Bukowski the original NEET fedora fag?

>>7246521
>brilliant but lazy
>too smart for current job
>great with women
You have never read ''Women'' by Bukowski, have you? He's a self admitted ugly cunt with no job but reading a bit of poetry every once in a while, who can't manage any relationship with anyone because he goes on drunken rampages.

>>7227395
>Anoine de Saint-Espéry
>mfw

>>7245509

>>7247091
Would really be interesting to know the number of unique IPs that actually visited /lit/ during your polling, as well as country distribution.

>>7247091
For those wondering how the infographic is going to look like. Here's the first draft, if you have any better ideas post them or you can just make your own.
>>7247224
Yeah that would be interesting. Maybe next time

>>7247582
Black or olive background please.

>>7247779
I don't really care what the background looks like. I just want to not have it black so you can tell if it's the 2014 version just from the thumbnail.

>>7247793
Make a strawpoll

OD would look good

>>7247793
Olive or beige then. Maybe light blue. No hard colors. No lifeless colors.

OD Green

107-142-35

>>7247823
>/lit/ in charge of visual design
Just pick one of these colors and be done with it:
https://www.google.com/design/spec/style/color.html#color-color-palette

Khaki (meh)

241-226-145

>>7245509
>Does cum-eating have any long term health
benefits?

Every. Fucking. Time.

>>7247836
Hey man I'm working with paint here, just used the fill tool for a quick and dirty post.

>>7227659
pretty sure its spelled Hemmmingway dude

>>7247837
use the /lit/ background

I got this.

>>7247823
>>7247837
Doesn't look right.
>>7247836
I think /lit/ can handle this.
>>7247842
What?
>>7247859
He looks so innocent in that picture.
>>7247869
I'm leaning towards this one
>>7247880
>Not Infinite Jest

>>7247906
Alright, which one of you voted for Mazie Louise Montgomery? And also voted for the manga version of Battle Royale?

>>7248016
I'm going to sleep now. See you all tomorrow

>>7247823
Too hard.

>>7247837
Ok

>>7247869
No

>>7235060
Use a chrome extension that screenshots the whole page

>>7247582

>>7248147
I'm back. I want to remind you all to vote in the strawpoll on whether we should close the poll today at 23:59 (GMT) or if we should have the poll open til october 22nd (thursday) Here's the link http://strawpoll.me/5745014
>>7249320
I didn't find any that captured the whole page, only the part that I was looking at.

Are you using any fancy-pants technology to count the votes, or doing it all by hand?

How long after the poll closes are you expecting to have the results out?

>>7250015
I don't know of any fancy programs I could use to count the votes, so I'm probably going to count them by hand. If you do know of any programs that could count the votes for me, then that would be great.
I don't know how long it will take me to go through them. I have to work, which takes a lot of my time. But I could probably finish it in half a day or so when I'm back from work.
Alternatively you could just count the votes yourselves, if you're inpatient.
However it will probably take longer to put the infographic together, since I have to collect a bunch of photos of books and authors.

>>7250560
Probably best to do it by hand. Misspellings, only last name or both names of authors, title and author or only title, stuff like that.

There you go.

>>7250560
You could get a spreadsheet to do it for you, but it might be quicker to tabulate by hand than to mess with formulas, regular expressions, and so on.

>>7250560
You'd have to deal with a number of exceptions due to the diversity of formatting, probably easier to do by hand

>>7249509
18 have voted yes to close the poll early and 13 voted no. So I'm going close the poll 8 hours from now, to give the rest of the voters at least some chance of voting or changing their votes.
>>7251916
>>7251922
Yeah it seems that way.

Well I'm off for the night. See you in 8 hours.

>>7252049
The polling has officially been closed. 369 votes were cast. Now the only thing left to do is to count the votes and make a infographic. I'm going to work in an hour so I wont be able to count all the votes now. So if you're inpatient you can just count them yourself.

Thank you to everyone who participated. I love you all.

>>7253912
I've counted the first 100 votes for the writers, and here are the current results.
I'll count the rest when I get back from work.

>>7254063
I see the meme trilogy is alive and well.

>>7240261

>tfw still blowing all your cash on card games when they're taking your portrait

No wonder he had to flee to Belgium.

>>7254063
>Dostoevsky first place
This board isn't so shit after all.

>>7254063
>people voting Vonnegut unironically
Madre de Dios

>>7254063
Promising results, love you pollinganonwaifu

>>7253912
Wait I thought the voting was until the 21st?

>>7255368
Some impatient cucks couldn't wait any longer.

>>7255476
Oh well, if you can still include one extra vote I would have voted for One Hundred Years of Solitude.

>>7255479
It was three books / three authors, friendo.
Besides, how could you not have voted yet, it's been like a week and a half.

>>7254063
There have been some major changes recently it seems, compared to Aaron D's TOP 100

>>7255498
I wasn't around.

>>7255498
feels like forever, I can't wait to see the final results.

>>7253912
Not a bad turnout
Very good!

>>7255499
fucking aaron d
>>7255502
filthy scraggler

>>7254063
>tfw only one other anon voted for Baudelaire
>tfw i'm the only one who voted for Pound
>tfw Ibn Al-Arabi isn't even on that list

feels weird man

>>7254063
Someone other than me voted for Lem !

>>7254063
I'm finally fucking back. Just got back from work due to unexpected overtime. Now I can finally start counting the votes again.
>>7254883
Love you too
>>7255368
>>7255476
A decision was made via strawpoll to close the poll early. The logic being that those who haven't voted in the one and half week period that the poll was open for, did not frequent /lit/ and thus do not properly represent /lit/
>>7255479
I'll consider it, but I doubt that it will have an effect on the final results
>>7255506
Me too
>>7255527
Thanks

>>7256262
Here are the results after having counted the first 200 votes. For those wondering about the green and red text. The red names are in my opinion most likely troll votes and the green names are the ones where I'm not sure which author the voter is reffering to.

>>7256497
Past #34, everyone has 3 or less votes, is the infographic going to show them in tiers or are we gonna have to deliberate further on this?

>>7256497
And here are the final results. 368 votes counted by hand.
>>7256773
It's going to be a top 100 thing.

I'll be back here sometime tomorrow to count the votes for the books, but I'm going to take a little brake from counting, so don't expect the results just yet.

Good night /lit/ I'm pretty tired now, I think I've been awake for 20 hours or so. But I still managed to count the votes. Just for you /lit/.
And now for some well earned rest.

Love you /lit/

>>7256806
Well I guess you'll have to do top 82 or top 108, unless you can figure out a way to set a fair cutoff among the authors with 2 votes apiece. Good job, and thanks for all your hard work!

>>7256806
Tiers please. Go up to 2 votes. 2 votes should be fringe tier

>>7256903
Yeah, that makes sense to me as well, though exactly what the tier divisions would be is a matter of opinion. Personally I'd have a core 23 writers who got ten or more votes, then authors 24-64 who got four or more votes, then authors 65-108 who got two or three votes. Or just list the number of votes each author received, I'd always err on the side of a graphic having more information.

>>7256806
Stirner 1? (210) why is he such a meme then?

>>7256806
We love you Polling Anon :3

>>7256903
>>7256952
Have smaller pics on the 4-9 votes and yet smaller pics on the 2-3?

>>7257709
Obviously most people didn't focus on non-fiction.

>>7256497
>green names are the ones where I'm not sure which author the voter is reffering to

i'm guessing al-arabi is the one mentioned in this post:
>>7255608
>Ibn Al-Arabi

>>7256806
>didn't mark the tao lin votes as troll votes

>>7256806
Hmm, seems the ''Dostoyevsky a shit'' is pure shitposting then.

It's a shame we don't have more people on this board, it seems that with a lot more voters the list could've become very interesting.

I'll definitely use this list to find some new authors every once in a while, though. Thanks for polling, polling Anon ;3

>>7256806
How will you deal with books with two votes?

>>7258211
>>7256806
>>7256868
should there be another poll for that

>>7256773
It is possible to use the other list as further criteria to discriminate them. What I mean is that authors who have more votes in the books list get higher places than the ones who have fewer votes on their books.

It would diminish the draws, but it would not probably solve all of them.

>>7256806
Eliot's name only has one l. Please don't fuck this up.

>>7256806
OK who are thef ucking dipshits that voted fro Alan Moore. I'm glad there are relatively few of you but that's still retarded

>>7258312
Huh. Wouldn't have imagined that this many would vote for him... but you obviously have no idea what you're talking about.

>>7258323
Multiple people voting for him, George RR Martin and Terry Pratchett makes me think there was a minor invasion from reddit or somethinb

>>7258342
>Terry Pratchett
some anons genuinely like him (and nostalgia)
>George RR Martin
... I guess some anons genuinely like him too (or maybe sunset found them squatting)

Moore is def legit though, only surprising because his books aren't that well known (afawk)

Here's Perec being sexy. I'm happily surprised he is in the list.

>>7258363
Some reallyy popular movies were made out of Moore's comics so I have no idea what you're talking about

>>7258372
His work outside of comics is excellent but not what he's famous for among the general public (you being a prime example) and he's not usually thought of as primarily a prose writer. There's been some anticipation for his next novel on /lit/, though.

>>7258409
>general public (you being a prime example)
You mean people who aren't dipshit nerds that read comic books?

>>7256806
Do you want to do a final poll off just of the two voters so those can get condensed into something a little neater to take the bottom portion of the 100? Like don't let it move them out of 84 or below, but let it rank them within that.

>>7258416
I meant the reverse. No need to try to troll because you've shown your pleb, you're 1- anonymous and 2- not very good at it. I suggest you check out "Voice of the fire" instead, it's a good novel/collection of connected short stories.

>>7258462
>The narratives take place around Moore’s hometown of Northampton, England during the month of November, and span several millennia – from 4000 B.C. to the present day
Sounds like a stupid idea that nerds would like
>The 2004 edition from Top Shelf Productions features an introduction from Neil Gaiman
loll
>and colour plates by artist José Villarrubia. (comic book artist)
Of course

Still probably better than people voting for Mark Danielewski

Burroughs > Steinbeck

I'm glad Billy boy made it so high up. God bless.

>>7227416
>Kierkegaard

You should lay it out like this:
>Top 10 - 2 rows of 5, double size image
>10-40 - 3 rows of 10
>The rest split into tiers, based on the number of votes they got

>>7259159
How about this modification:
>Top 10: 2 rows of 5
>11-40: 4 rows, with 6, 7, 8, and 9 images respectively (a less abrupt transition)
>the rest: tiered, grouped in rows of 10

>>7256806
>Orwell above Nietzsche

/lit/ confirmed for being reddit

>>7259372
on reddit orwell would be #1 tho tbh

>>7259391
True, but Orwell isn't really a great writer. I think people confuse his topics and stances with his writing ability.

Like, most people agree, Nietzsche may have been half-crazy but his writing style is fun and is very good, but Orwell is dry. Doesn't matter whether you think Orwell or Nietzsche are better, these are pretty basic stylistic observations that most everyone would agree with

>>7256806
>mfw 3 other people voted for Alan Moore
>mfw a young man is mad about it to boot

>>7259391
>>7259412
lost a comment about this but I'll defend Orwell's writing as clean, precise, and engaging if unshowy. I like him as a prose stylist better than Huxley for sure, even if BNW has more interesting ideas and themes. Animal Farm is admittedly dry but the consciously told rather than shown style works fine there. His non-fiction writing and journalism is similar, as you might expect from a good journalism.

Nietzsche is certainly fun but I would comfortably vote for Orwell before I voted for Nietzsche. I would also (and did) vote for several dozen writers before I voted for Orwell, so maybe this is moot. If the point is that Orwell is a writer that relatively inexperienced readers love, then yeah, no argument there.

The idea of placing Orwell above Nietzsche is bizarre to me. Like preferring a piece of stale bread over a perfect steak covered in shaved truffle.

N is utterly unique, he writes with such force and fiery passion. There's nobody like him. Like a literary fist thrusting out of the book and punching you repeatedly. Layer upon layer upon layer, there is so much to discover on every re-read. And funny, too! And that's all without mentioning his incredible insight into philosophy, psychology, the classics, etc.

Orwell is a fucking milquetoast journalist who wrote easy, didactic tales for the masses. His most famous work is a Zamyatin knock-off ffs.

Not one vote for Solzhenitsyn or am I just blind?

What's the best book to read if you are a slow reader?

>>7256806
I'm back, and I just reading the results now (Went straight to sleep after I finished posting this)
>>7256868
>>7256903
>>7256952
>>7257960
>>7258211
>>7258232
>>7258255
>>7258421
>>7259159
>>7259352
To those wondering how I'm gonna sort out the ties between the authors. I'm thinking of making a multiple choice google forms poll, where we'll sort out those ties. For example: Gene Wolfe, Marcel Proust and Yukio Mishima were all tied with 10 votes each and in the poll you'll be asked: which of these three authors is your favorite / do you like the most, and that's how we'll sort the ties out. The list will be a top 100 list and everyone will get a equal size image. Any questions?
>>7257846
I love you too, so much.
>>7257967
Thanks for that, but the one who voted for Seneca, was he referring to the elder or younger?
>>7258120
Don't know that much about him, is he awful?
>>7258307
Hopefully I won't
>>7258365
Thanks for that
>>7259038
Probably the most beautiful philosopher
>>7260144
I searched the name by using Ctrl + F and I there weren't any results. So apparently not
>>7260197
Short story collections?

>>7260197
COLLECTED TWEETS by ah no I can't do this, go for Borges' anthology of extraordinary tales, they're essentially microfiction, if you can find it, or the 1001 Nights.

>>7260350
>Don't know that much about him, is he awful?
Yes, and is spammed as a meme, less often now and he's stopped shilling himself a long time ago, but a couple alt-lit faggots actually do read him so you probably can't discard them.

>>7260144
it's funny to me when people are mad about someone not voting for an author that they didn't vote for either

>>7260506
Not mad just surprised, I thought people liked him. Also I didn't vote or else I obviously would have.

>>7260381
>>7260350
He's not so very awful (he is at least better than John Green, in my mind, though is that not quite a low bar eh) but getting 4 votes and being above so many better authors is quite odd.

>>7260350
For those wondering about when the results for the book poll will be published. I was just now finishing putting all the names of the books into a excel document, which I will then use to count the votes. The next thing I'm going to do is double check on all the books on google to see if there are any troll votes or such. Then I have to find authors for a lot of books, since many of you didn't write who wrote which book when you voted. So that may take a while.

Also I'm going to meet a friend after work tomorrow which means I'm not gonna have a lot of time to count the votes tomorrow. But I'll try to check in on the thread and count some votes before I go to sleep tomorrow
>>7260381
>>7260757
Ohh ok.

I want cuddle with you /lit/, cuddle all night.

>>7260928
Put the document into Google docs and let people help you by turning on suggestions.

>>7237780

I like Genet, I guess when I think about it though I've never met anyone who is CRAZY about him and idolises him though. He's probably in my top ten writers, I'd say the same for a lot of people, just not top 3. tbh i didn't even really think of considering playwrites that much lmao

>tfw none of your top three books got two or more votes ....

>>7260757
>>7260928
I unironically like Tao Lin and I think I voted for him, imho he appeals to us young plebs who enjoy drug abuse a feeling sad all the time

>>7260350
>Thanks for that, but the one who voted for Seneca, was he referring to the elder or younger?
It's hard to know unless he comes into this thread, but it's probably the younger. He produced a lot more work, and is much more widely recognised. I didn't even realise he had a famous father before this thread, always just associated the name with him.

>>7263641
Ya, the only times I've ever been confronted with the elder was when looking for the younger on a list and wondering which was the one.

here's a sexy pic of DFW for the collage

>>7259507
It's not like there's a lack of sexy pics of him, but might as well use this one

>>7263703
hey!

>>7260928
I'm back
>>7261971
Do you mean the excel document?
>>7263641
>>7263670
Yeah you're probably right, but it's not that important since he didn't make it onto the list.
>>7263703
Has anyone here seen the movie? How is it?
>>7263883
I wonder how he looks without the beard

>>7264463
The movie is very good, though the appeal is probably limited if you haven't spend at least some part of your life really into DFW's writing, especially his nonfiction. Segel doesn't look anything like him but the vocal inflection and tics are perfect. It's a two-character study, and a very well done one.

>>7264463
The movie is pretty good. My favorite part was when they were singing in the car and Segel looked like he was about to die of embarrassment.

>>7264463
Progress?

>>7264568
>>7264576
Ok. Might just check it out.
>>7264764
Currently I'm finding the names of the authors. I've found the authors of 112 books out of the 411 book that got votes in the poll. So I'm not sure if I can start counting tonight but we'll see.

>>7264789
I'm going to sleep now. I won't be doing anything tomorrow besides counting the votes, so straight after work I'll start counting them. So tomorrow will be the day when I'll post the book results. Hope to see you then.

If the thread dies. Just let it rest in peace. I'll make another one when I get back.

The Polling Anon <3 /lit/

>>7264972
I won't let that happen, TPA; no, Tilapia, it will be bumped, it will subsist, it will stay, for you

>>7264972
Good night Polling Anon

>>7264972
Have you already figured out nr 1? i'm excited