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What are some books that /lit/ can unanimously agree are good and worth reading?

>> No.12246291

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>> No.12246300

There are none because this place is filled with contrarian assholes.

>> No.12246302

>>12246275
define good and define worth

>> No.12246310

>>12246302
>good
Has positive qualities
>worth
the time spent reading values the reader

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12246311

only this

>> No.12246315

>>12246310
Every popular book has positive qualities. Define worth.

>> No.12246316

>>12246275
Lolita

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>>12246275
Stoner
https://youtu.be/U1ei5rwO7ZI#t=34

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>>12246275
nothing is good and everything is bad. you will never make it and she will never love you.

>> No.12246392

I don't think I've ever heard a bad word on this board about Homer, Tolstoy, or Shakespeare. Those are the only three. I prefer Virgil to Homer, but people call Virgil a fanfic wannabe. I also prefer Dostoevksy to Tolstoy but people speak against his melodramatic style here pretty often. I don't have a strong opinion on Shakespeare.

>> No.12246397

>>12246275
>/lit/
>the most contrarian place in the Internet
>unanimously agree
Every book you could suggest to this position, a good chunk of people will genuinely think it's garbage.

>> No.12246400

>>12246397
>the most contrarian place in the Internet

Oh not not even by a long shot. There are far worse places.

>> No.12246404

>>12246400
like what

>> No.12246406

>>12246404
Woosh

>> No.12246407

Sophocles, Dante, Borges, Yeats

>> No.12246414

>>12246406
Your joke was shit.

>> No.12246416

>>12246406
It was a good joke, but you had to ruin it with "woosh xD" didn't you

>> No.12246419

>>12246414
Wasn't my joke senpai

>> No.12246420

>>12246404
/v/

>> No.12246421

>>12246414
>>12246416
Wait a second...

>> No.12246429

>>12246275
Ulysses
The Republic
Iliad
Kashf ul Mahjoob
Summa Theologica
Art of War
Moby Dick
Lord of the Rings
Macbeth
Oxford Dictionary

>> No.12246430

>>12246419
I wasn't really setting up a joke at all either but I guess it was an accidental joke

>> No.12246435

>>12246429
There was a thread mocking Art of War last week.

>> No.12246437

>>12246430
Ok, so you were serious.
See what these two posters on /lit/ had to say about your joke, nine seconds apart:
>>12246414
>>12246416
>Your joke was shit
>It was a good joke

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>>12246429
>Ulysses
No.

>> No.12246439

>>12246429
Most of these are often in contention here.

>> No.12246443

>>12246435
It's good and worth reading. Those mockers were being ironic to catch pseuds joining in but as usual it becomes the New York City Communist Party

>> No.12246444

>>12246437
>See what these two posters on /lit/ had to say about your joke

I have eyes, I can see the comments for myself.

>> No.12246448

>>12246438
Ulysses is the best example of a novel written in the English language. It's better than good it's exquisite and absolutely worth reading.

>> No.12246454

I unironically can't read anything but but Germanics anymore. Anglos, Meds, Slavs, it's just poison for a grounded man's soul desu.

>> No.12246457

>>12246454
Read the Irish

>> No.12246466

>>12246397
>>12246400
>>12246404
>>12246406
>>12246414
>>12246416
>>12246419
>>12246420
>>12246430
>>12246437
>>12246444
All of these posts were written by me.

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>>12246448
Preference falsification, the post.
Ulysses is when it all started to go downhill.

>> No.12246490

>>12246457
Take the potatopill

>> No.12246503

Ficciones

>> No.12246510

>>12246484
>Ulysses is when it all started to go downhill
Ulysses is peak English language novel. And I know you're trolling whether you intend it or not solely based on the fact that if I ask you to name one better you cannot. We are at an impasse, anon.

>> No.12246519

>>12246407
>Dante
I've seen people unironically comparing the divine comedy to ready player one

>> No.12246528

>>12246429
>summa theologica
You guys just post this but don't read it. It's how many thousand pages of stuff which is mostly useless if you haven't already read Aristotle and has a ton of flawed arguments even if they are clever enough most of the time

>> No.12246533

>>12246528
Fair enough, strike it out

>> No.12246857

>>12246429
I've heard people talk shit about all of these except for the Iliad and Macbeth.

My nominations:
>Ficciones, Borges
>The Book of Disquiet, Pessoa
>Complete Stories, Chekov
>To the Lighthouse, Woolf

>> No.12246883

>>12246857
People rib the catalogue of ships but I don't think it's a serious criticism.

>> No.12247572

>>12246857
I'd put Macbeth higher simply because it can be enjoyed as-is by pretty much everyone
it has near universal appeal and few drawbacks if any I can imagine.