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Hello, /lit/.
It's /mu/ here, and we were just wondering if you guys have some sort of literary equivelent to our In The Aeroplane Over The Sea.
Or at least a list of books that come under the "god tier" category.
Also, do you have an equivelent to pitchfork when it comes to book reviews?
Thanks a lot.
Your friends next door.

>> No.1312686

Ayn Rand, anything by Ayn Rand.

>> No.1312685

1. Atlas Shrugged.
2.http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading
3.No.

>> No.1312692

do you have an equivalent to our _twilight_? kanye?

>> No.1312698

>>1312685
>>1312686
Some one comes here with a question and gets only troll posts stay classy /lit/
Also no we don't have any specific book that is as prominent here as ITAOTS but if you look around awhile you may get a general consensus.

>> No.1312699

>>1312692
Actually, since Kanye West got 10.0 on p4k, /mu/ loves him now.
BrokeNCYDE would be our equivelent of twighlight I do believe.

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>>1312699
>Actually, since Kanye West got 10.0 on p4k, /mu/ loves him now.

mfw

also anything that says rand = noob tier troll (which this board is filled with seemingly)

>> No.1312707

>>1312698
How was my Ayn Rand post a troll, it's perfectly true.

>> No.1312710

>>1312699

that makes me want to read twilight. brokencyde are win.

pitchfork is trolling you guys.

ayn rand is the voice of the oppressed masses here. dare not speak her name save in awkward jest.

>> No.1312718

>>1312710
So it would appear that the trolls on your board are even shitter than on ours.

>> No.1312721

Infinite Jest = best book ever.

>> No.1312722

>>1312718

Except to say that Ayn Rand is our equivalent of NMH is trolling is just denial. Look at the rules for /lit/, and tell me what you think that suggests.

>> No.1312725

>>1312699
Wat. No. /Mu/tants were jerking the new album off the day it leaked.

>> No.1312726

>>1312710
/mu/fag here but not OP

You seriously don't like BrokenCYDE right? Because if you do, you should just kill yourself right now.

>> No.1312730

Finnegan's wake!

>> No.1312734

Yea, I'd say -Infiinite Jest- stays near the top, 'bout like NMH.
Steven King is like Pink Floyd
The Wheel of Time is probably like Daft Punk.

>> No.1312733

>>1312726
You are clearly not from /mu/ if you just referred to yourself as an /mu/fag rather than a /mu/tant.

>> No.1312736

We don't. On a side note, ITAOTS is so fucking overrated on /mu/. ITCOTCK is much better.

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>>1312736
>mfw it's all downhill after 21st Century Schizoid man

>> No.1312742

>>1312736
You know nothing.

>> No.1312744

>>1312733
Everyone uses /mu/tant nowadays. So played out.

Also, does /lit/ have anything comparable to last.fm?

>> No.1312749

>>1312744
There's Goodreads.com, but it's not nearly as used as last.fm.

>> No.1312753

>>1312742

Thus proving that /mu/'s narrow-minded groupthink hipster stereotype is mostly true.

>> No.1312755

>>1312753
Well of course it's true. But once you look past it /mu/ is a great place to find good music.

>> No.1312775

>>1312698
Apparently you don't hang around /mu/ that often.

I second Rand for the tambourine head that looks like a sliced potato album.

>> No.1312778

>>1312682

>ITAOTS
>god tier
pick one

>> No.1312783

>>1312778

>apparently doesn't lurk /mu/ or didn't understand the OP

>> No.1312787

Except everyone hates Rand. Srs

>> No.1312796

>>1312738

>he hasn't listened to either Epitaph or the title track

laughing_elf_man.bmp

>> No.1312801

>>1312796

Nah, he's sort of right, but 21st Century Schizoid Man sets the bar incredibly high. Plus the fact that they can rock live performances like no other band, and the amount of influence ITCOTCK has had on multiple genres...yeah.

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>> No.1312803

>>1312783

I do actually lurk moar, ITAOTS is a troll album, just like Kanye's new album. In no way are they god tier

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>>1312803
>If I don't enjoy something, how could anyone else? Conclusion: must be trolls.

>> No.1312846

We don't have an ITAOTS equivalent, because nobody on here genuinely likes Ayn Rand. Her books have no literary merit and objectivism is gay, pure and simple. Everyone here probs has shit taste in music or hasn't listened to ITAOTS and so don't realise it's actually an excellent album, they're probably under the impression ITAOTS spam is pure trolling rather than a kind of affectionate meme. Ayn Rand is pure trolling.

>> No.1312850

>>1312738
i hope you're trolling

>> No.1312855

>>1312850
yes I was

>> No.1312866

>>1312787

Everyone hates NMH. srs.

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1312867

The only correct answer is Gravity's Rainbow, it's a love/hate thing as well.
Also, Pynchon and Mangum are both recluses, so there's a bit of a trend.
Further also, sage for not vidya.

>> No.1312889

>>1312867
Gravity's Rainbow AND Infinite Jest.

I would lean towards Infinite Jest more.

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>>1312889
Your argument falls down on one important point:
>ITAOTS
>Some amount of quality

>Infinite Jest
>haha oh wow, etc.

>> No.1312912

Just in case you didn't realize this, Adult Z is trolling. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is apparently an album by the band Neutral Milk Hotel. This band is /mu/'s equivalent of Twilight. Obviously, we /lit/erati don't listen to faggy indie music so we wouldn't recognize this. He's getting his rocks off as we respond to his post not realizing this.

>> No.1312925

>>1312912
Just in case you're fucking retarded (which you are), NMH is hardly /mu/'s twilight.

ITAOTS is a good album, and genuinely enjoyed by lots on /mu/. It just became a running gag because it's quirky and easy to make fun of.

>> No.1312933

>>1312901
Why?

>>1312912
I don't get you. The question says they like it (which is true, it's like the /mu/ equivalent of /a/'s waifus), so it's not like Twilight.

Also, what does Semen stains the mountaintops mean?

>> No.1312943

I'll tell you what /lit/ loves OP: JEEEEESSSUS KHA-RISTTTT

>> No.1312950

>>1312933
>Also, what does Semen stains the mountaintops mean?
It's a line from the Communist Daughter

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proof

>> No.1312956

>>1312950
That's not an answer. That's what it is, not what it means.

>> No.1312970

>>1312912
Actually, this isn't the case at all. ITAOTS is a joke precisely because it's so well-regarded. It's not even a hipster album, really. He just uses traditional instruments and fuzzed-out recording/production at parts, but I'm going off on a tangent here.

The point is that ITAOTS is /mu/s standard against which all other good albums are measured. Listening to it at least once, if not many many times over, is obligatory.

And Kanye's album, though more divisive, is actually very well-liked.

Neither is comparable to the "lol twilite is bad" trope that you guys use.

>> No.1312982

>>1312970
Kanye is genius being spewed out on every other thread is not so well liked.

I do entertain the idea that Kanye comes to 4chan though.

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>>1312820
>someone using this picture after I posted it
>imokaywiththis.jpg

>> No.1312998

>>1312970
LOL. No need to troll anymore. I already exposed your shitty meme.

>> No.1313000

>>1312998
Oh fuck, I forgot to sage.

>> No.1313017

>>1313000
What do you think sage does?

>> No.1313223

Actually, this isn't the case at all. Atlas Shrugged is a joke precisely because it's so well-regarded. It's not even a hipster novel, really. She just uses traditional philosophies and fuzzed-out metaphors/allusions at parts, but I'm going off on a tangent here.

The point is that Atlas Shrugged is /lit/s standard against which all other good novels are measured. Reading it at least once, if not many many times over, is obligatory.

>> No.1313241

Everyone on here is such a rugged hyper individualist that we can't agree on which book is the greatest of all time used as a standard or measurement against all other books. There's no easy "buzz lit' gathering website like pitchfork and other blogs, you have to do your own homework and trudge through shit to find gems when it comes to literature. Sorry, bro.

>> No.1313249

>>1313223
>>1313223

lol. Ayn Rand was a pompous, clueless, dumb bitch, and Atlas Shrugged is one of the most overrated novels of all time.

You only like her stuff because you're an upper middle class white american teenager/twenty-something and you think reading her looney anarcho-capitalist psychobabble makes you "edgy" and "different". In the future Rand will be looked back on as one of the biggest shit-peddling writers of all time.

>> No.1313254

>>1313249
She reminds me of bruno bettelheim.

>> No.1313260

>>1313249

see:
>>1312970
>>1313223