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8295101 No.8295101 [Reply] [Original]

>there are people who actually argue that r/books is comparable to /lit/

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/4thwcf/why_arent_books_like_lord_of_the_rings_or_a_song/

>> No.8295113

>>8295101
>muh internet war

Kill yourself

>> No.8295116

>there are still OPs shitty enough to make dumb reddit threads

>> No.8295129

Where

>> No.8295146

>>8295101
upvoted the reddit post

>> No.8295180

That was a good chuckle, OP. Can plebeians like that even be saved, or is it too late?

>> No.8295197

HOLY SHUT LE IDUOTS LIKE TOLKEIN!!!!!!! xDd

Sage and fuck off OP. Thanks.

>> No.8295203

Whats with the sudden influx of reddit threads?

>> No.8295209

>>8295203
They are all about the same thread, too.

>> No.8295228

>>8295129 nice post. I Lol.

>> No.8295527

>>8295203
Because 50% of people here crosspost, ever since that faggot posted the top 100 list.

>> No.8295540

>>8295101
if you cunts hate reddit so much, why do you talk about it whenever you get the chance?

>> No.8295562

Nigga, you know what plebbit is about. How the fuck do you still get surprised when you find exactly what you expect to find there?

>> No.8295563

>>8295540
It's like /r9k/ and women. Pure ressentiment

>> No.8295572

>>8295562
He deliberately seeks out posts to get outraged about because he wants other people to circlejerk with him to make him feel special and give him a momentary sense of self-worth

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8295623

>>8295113
>>8295116
>>8295146
>>8295197
>>8295203
>>8295540
>>8295563
>>8295572
>all these triggered redditors

Clockwork.

>> No.8295637

>>8295101
When will hiroshimoot make /dit/, for discussions of reddit?

>> No.8296194

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/4tj5ze/anyone_else_have_issues_reading_the_heart_of/
>thread about heart of darkness being hard to read
>top comment is about it being boring

>> No.8296213

>>8295101
Didn't bother reading that but Lord of the Rings is considered literature and was analyzed by the academia, it's just that the plebmagnet movies have put that on indefinite hold for now.

>> No.8296222

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/4teozs/have_you_ever_had_to_stop_reading_a_novel_because/

>Have you ever had to stop reading a novel, because it appeared to be beyond your intellectual capabilities? If so, which book was it and why?

>top 200 comments
>>War and Peace. How can I keep up with all these characters? I don't know this many people in real life.[3388 points]
>>Ulysses [821 points]

>> No.8296227

>>8296222
nice trips, but you should have posted this expert reply to the finnegans wake post in that thread
>Nobody has really read Finnegan's Wake. People only make the claim and nobody can call them out on it, as they've never read it either.
>772 points
>"I can't read the book so anyone else claiming to have must be pseuds doing it for attention"

>> No.8297017

>>8295101
Really makes you think

>> No.8297039

Not a question I've seen many of you deal with. Certainly not honestly. And it's both a difficult and important question.

What actually does render something a work of art? Why should I read Melville over Rawlings? Better prose? What the fuck is that and who cares? Mirror to nature? Why not look at actual nature? Closer to lived experience? I read novels to escape my lived experience.

Most you just default to Bloom as authority, but that fucker, whose whole point was overcoming influences, stole it all from Emerson, who stole the same stupid point from the Upanishads and the Gita. (That said... Emerson is probably the best answer...)

>> No.8297093

>>8297039
>Most you just default to Bloom as authority

NO

DISCERNIBLE

TALENT