/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12304792]

Justin Trudeau's five favourite authors are, and I quote:

Stephen King
Neal Stephenson
Tad Williams
Eric-Emmanuel Schmidt
Ernest Cline

Say something nice about his taste

[Anonymous No.12304819]

Godawful.

[Anonymous No.12304827]

It’s not like my country’s leaders of the past 50 years are doing much better

[Anonymous No.12304835]

>>12304792
>Je suis un grand lecteur
No, you clearly are not lol

[Anonymous No.12304839]

Justin Trudeau's five favourite authors are those which his PR team think will play best to the specific demographics they are trying to court.

[Anonymous No.12304847]

>Ready Player One
H-he’s joking r-right?

[Anonymous No.12304855]

>>12304792
Why even know French if all you're going to read is Ernest Cline? fucking kek

[Anonymous No.12304863]

>>12304839
Pretty much this. Trudeau is a poster boy.

[Anonymous No.12304869]

A world leader reads YA and slam poetry.
Does it ever end?

[Anonymous No.12304872]

>>12304839
>>12304863
This, except for Schmidt which I suspect is genuine.

[Anonymous No.12304898]

The last world leaders with any actual interests were Harry Truman and Saddam Hussein, the poor bastards

[Anonymous No.12304906]

>>12304792
>White males

woooooow

>>12304839
Tad Williams is a weird choice for any PR team to make

[Anonymous No.12304915]

>>12304839
I doubt a PR team will not pick at least 1 classical author.

[Anonymous No.12304922]

>>12304792
>Ernest Cline is the author of Ready Player One.
L
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O

[Anonymous No.12304937]

>>12304898
>Saddam Hussein

Tell me more. What was Saddam into?

[Anonymous No.12304944]

honestly this doesn't mean very much. Stalin had very good literary taste and was a poet in youth.

[Anonymous No.12304958]

>>12304944
And? Stalin was based.

[Anonymous No.12304961]

what a disgrace to our country he is

[Anonymous No.12304962]

>>12304937
Guns pussy and cars

[Anonymous No.12304963]

>>12304792
>Je suis un grand lecteur

[Anonymous No.12305074]

>>12304944
>Trudeau, no taste
>boring cuck who panders to degeneracy
>Stalin, patrician taste
>Chad leader of men who turned a backwater shit hole into a world superpower

Really jogs the almonds

[Anonymous No.12305121]

>>12304792
This is made up, right? I mean, obviously it's hard to name a Worst Book In The World because there are a lot of shit books out there, but from what I've seen Ready Player One is a very serious contender.

[Anonymous No.12305122]

>>12304792
Donald Trump's five favourite authors are

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[Anonymous No.12305135]

>>12305122
That's not a shock though. AFAIK Trudeau's supposed to be reasonably intelligent and educated.

[Anonymous No.12305139]

>>12305135
Wasn't he a pot addled ski instructor in Whistler before entering politics? Those books seem to corroborate that kind of mentality.

[Anonymous No.12305140]

>>12304792
Macron's favorite authors are:

Hegel
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Charles Taylor
Honoré de Balzac
Guy de Maupassant

[Anonymous No.12305143]

>>12305122

[Anonymous No.12305145]

http://favobooks.com/politicians/86-vladimir-putin-reads.html

really makes me think ...

[Anonymous No.12305153]

>>12305122
>being this butthurt
Its actually
Sun tzu
Himself
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Machiavelli
Norman Peale
>>12305135
LMAO Trump is way better read and smarter than some substitute teacher

[Anonymous No.12305155]

Hitler also once ranked the following 4 books among the world's greatest works of literature:
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Karl May seems to have been Hitler's favorite author, he had a shelf of Karl May novels at his bedside.

[Anonymous No.12305162]

>>12305155
unironically great taste

[Anonymous No.12305163]

>>12305145
Putin plagiarised his PhD and hasn't read a book in his life

[Anonymous No.12305165]

>>12305163
Doubtful, he seems pretty smart.

[Anonymous No.12305173]

>>12304792
>je lis tout et rien
Cringed, I hate that meme

[Anonymous No.12305185]

My God, this has to be a joke.

[Anonymous No.12305211]

>>12305140
Why is the son of Jupiter so based?

[Anonymous No.12305472]

>>12304792

That such an evil man also loves my beloved Neal Stephenson is greatly disturbing.

[Anonymous No.12305484]

>>12305472
>Evil
Hi is just dumb and unclarified for the post.

[Anonymous No.12305497]

>>12305074
>boring cuck who panders to degeneracy
epic

[Anonymous No.12305498]

>>12305155
he really was an anglophile wasn't he

[Anonymous No.12305506]

>>12305074
Wow he turned the biggest country in the world into a superpower. What a visionary.

[Anonymous No.12305513]

>>12304872
He's there for the Quebecois Francophone rep.

[Anonymous No.12305517]

>>12305506
Show me the countries you've turned into a superpower then faggot.

[Anonymous No.12305596]

>>12305153
>he's just pretending to be a retard

[Anonymous No.12305619]

>>12304937
He wrote some novels
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein%27s_novels

so did Gaddafi

[Anonymous No.12305704]

>>12304792
he's in touch with the common man

[Anonymous No.12305728]

>>12304792
Why is he on Quora?

[Anonymous No.12305736]

>>12304915
Have you met people who work in PR? They're the most shallow people on earth

[Anonymous No.12305791]

>>12305211
>He instead studied Philosophy at the University of Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense, obtaining a DEA degree (a master level degree, with a thesis on Machiavelli and Hegel).[12][20] Around 1999 Macron worked as an editorial assistant to Paul Ricoeur, the French Protestant philosopher who was then writing his last major work, La Mémoire, l'Histoire, l'Oubli. Macron worked mainly on the notes and bibliography.[21][22] Macron became a member of the editorial board of the literary magazine Esprit.[23]
He has some philosophical chops

[Anonymous No.12306702]

>>12304792
If anyone of you fags actually spoke french you could see that he specifically says that these 5 are a list of more "approachable" authors/books.
I don't doubt that he is a major faggot but at least he doesn't feel the need to brag about his obscure literary tastes to a bunch of 20 year olds.

[Anonymous No.12306921]

>>12304792
>Je suis und grand lecteur
And this is just about the funniest thing I've ever heard from a man who single handedly started an economic fistfight with our only fucking neighbor, lost, then started another fistfight with the only other major oil producer who sells to the continent, lost, and then kamikaze'd any chance of reconciliation with the former at an economics conference by going off-script.

If Justin Trudeau had ever read a book more complex than Go Dog Go he would understand that Orange Man Bad only works as a virtue signal if Orange Man can't effortlessly obliterate your economy without going through whatever America calls its parliament. This fucking idiot, this low IQ himbo, son of a bimbo, is going to be remembered for centuries as the Antiochus III of Canada, and it is of GREAT relevance that his favorite author is Stephen King. Williams I understand, Williams has actually written competent stories before, but King is the physical incarnation of mediocre writing. Trudeau, in a way, has stuck together with birds of his feather, because he is himself the most mediocre politician in Canadian history.

I never thought I'd say this, but I miss Harper. At least Harper was an asshole, he and Trump would've gotten along fine. Now we've gotten to the point where Donald Trump is cooperating with MEXICO to dick us over. This is like if Hitler called up Auschwitz and said "put the Jews on the line, I need their help destroying Canada" and they agreed to do it.

[Anonymous No.12306952]

>>12305165
Do you speak Russian? Watch any interview where he's not reading from a script.

[Anonymous No.12306969]

>>12304792
Trudeau is the greatest ‘first as Tragedy then as farce’. For all the criticisms you can throw at his father, nobody thinks he was stupid. Had PE Trudeau been born in another country he would have been a ‘great man’ in Carlyle’s sense.

His son is the ultimate dumb normie who was hoisted into power because even liberal Canadians are naturally monarchical.

[Anonymous No.12306996]

>>12305153
Trump was asked what his favourite novel was in an interview and he just ‘“uhhhhhh’ed” for a minute before saying ‘All Quiet On the Western Front’, a book he probably had to read in high school. He then said he was too busy to read books, and only ‘read articles’.

Everybody around him says he doesn’t read either.

What indication to you have that he’s a reader?

[Anonymous No.12307014]

>>12304792

[Anonymous No.12307056]

>>12306996
Well he apparently keeps a copy of Mein Kampf in his room and actually read through it. That's not like a "lol Trump Nazi" joke either I think it was his wife who said it.

Anyone who can slog through Mein Kampf is at least literate. Back before he became political he also gave a couple of surprisingly insightful film reviews. Trump talks like a twelve year old but there's obviously some sort of intelligence lurking behind the facade. I just assumed that he realized that American voters hate people who sound smart, so he adopted the mannerisms of a New York cab driver to endear himself to them, sort of like Dubya just pretended to be retarded so that Florida Jews would vote for him, when it's very clear that he was actually a Machiavellian cutthroat from a long line of politicians.

[Anonymous No.12307076]

>>12306702
Literally above the masses in that regard. But then he is a serious man not looking for much in his press. His sincerity is at least not so polished that you believe he spends all his days in some disdaining attitude towards the fickle people he has to work with to get things done. He does somehow not seem to have lost his babyfat.

[Anonymous No.12307260]

>>12304792
>Neal Stephenson

[Anonymous No.12307359]

>>12307056
That’s not what people have reported, some have reported that he keeps a copy of Hitler’s Speeches in his room, and I’ve never seen it reported that he actually has read any of it. Specifically it was pic related. But yeah it was something that Ivana said back in the 90s.


While I agree that he things his voters are rubes, he makes too many obvious blunders for me to genuinely think he’s a political genius

[Anonymous No.12307407]

>>12304792
>those first two sentences
why do people find trump's speech particularly offensive, at least he can boast and spin shit properly

[Anonymous No.12307430]

>>12304937
>Begone, Demons, also translated as Get Out You Damned, or Get Out of Here, Curse You! (Arabic: اخرج منها يا ملعون Uḵruj Minhā yā Mal'ūn) is Saddam Hussein's fourth and last novel, allegedly finished the day before U.S. forces invaded.[8] The novel describes, through biblical metaphor, a Zionist-Christian conspiracy against Arabs and Muslims. An Arab army eventually thwarts the conspiracy by invading their enemy's land and destroying two massive towers, as a reference to the September 11 Attacks.[9] The characters include the narrator, Abraham, named for the patriarch in Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions, and his grandchildren, three cousins named Ezekiel, Youssef and Mahmoud, who represent Jews, Christians and Muslims respectively.
>The book was published in Tokyo by a Japanese publisher, Tokuma Shoten Publishing, in 2006 under the title Devil's Dance. A total of eight thousand copies were printed of the 256-page novel.

Why would Japan out of all other countries would do this?

[Anonymous No.12307911]

Is "tout et rien" = everything and anything? Sounds odd..

Not even a token Canadian? Trubae disappointing on many levels.

[Anonymous No.12307952]

>>12305140
It’s a damn shame they’ll have to behead the man

[Anonymous No.12308006]

>>12305155
>one of Hitler’s favorite books was Uncle Tom’s Cabin

[Anonymous No.12308018]

>>12305135
he dropped out of my university after a couple of months, went to a lesser university and worked as a high school teacher
in what world is he reasonably intelligent and educated lmao

[Anonymous No.12308025]

>>12304792
Elitism is a defining characteristic of far-right ideology.

[Anonymous No.12308033]

>>12305122
his number one favorite is God

[Anonymous No.12308044]

>>12305506
>the potential of a country is proportional to its size

[Anonymous No.12308062]

>>12305472
>>12307260
Doesn't Stephenson's writing center on classical liberalism/libertarian ideology? I'm finishing up Cryponomicon right now and there's been some libertarian gun loving side plots like Avi trying to create an anti-holocaust Jewish guerilla movement and the secret admirers open carrying and protesting the feds in down town Los Altos. And then there's the whole crypto currency plot going on.