What do you think of this?

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Anonymous Tue Jun 18 18:24:39 2019 No.13322695 [Reply] [Original]

What do you think of this?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 18 18:29:18 2019 No.13322726 >>13322695 Frankenstein should be on here. Also BK >>>>> C&P

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 18 18:30:19 2019 No.13322734 >>13322726 But still, I must add it is a great list

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 18 18:30:32 2019 No.13322735 >>13322695 Greatest literary top 100 on any current online community.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 18 19:00:38 2019 No.13322941 Needs Jules Verne.

Anonymous Tue Jun 18 19:00:46 2019 No.13322944

>>13322695
It doesn't have Harry Potter (unlike some of the previous top 100 lists that /lit/ made), so it's fine. Lots of retarded shit on there, here are some examples:
>The Stranger being that high
>Anna Karenina that high, and higher than War and Peace
>The Lord of the Rings that high
>The Hobbit even being on the list
>Vonnegut even being on the list

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 18 20:11:42 2019 No.13323288 >1984 on here instead of We Could have been a better list

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 18 20:14:32 2019 No.13323299 File: 112 KB, 800x1195, 1560884802373.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13322695 Rolling for my next book :)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 18 22:02:56 2019 No.13323748 >The Iliad >Homer >The Odyssey >Fagles

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 18 22:04:25 2019 No.13323752 >>13323748 lol

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 18 22:24:47 2019 No.13323798 >Slaughterhouse-Five I don't know if this is the best choice for #62, or any number on that list for that matter. Otherwise not bad

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 18 22:24:59 2019 No.13323799 >>13322944 >The Stranger being that high Yep, should be higher.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 18 22:32:52 2019 No.13323821 >>13322695 woah...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 18 22:35:02 2019 No.13323832 >>13322695 If I hate my roll I'll read Spengler or Nietzsche Truth be told

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 18 22:37:26 2019 No.13323844 >>13322695 roll

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 18 23:13:43 2019 No.13323959 Roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 00:24:49 2019 No.13324203 >>13322695 Roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 00:25:50 2019 No.13324206 >>13324203 Holy fucking shit, i got the exact book I want to read next! I have never been luckier.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 01:46:10 2019 No.13324451 >>13322695 >The Stranger or Catcher in the Rye being on that list at all Besides those two, the list is pretty solid.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 01:48:53 2019 No.13324459 >>13322695 Rolling. I hope I don't get a modern one

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 01:52:41 2019 No.13324470 >>13322944 whats wrong with anna karenina?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 02:03:59 2019 No.13324504 >>13322695 Rolla rolla rella zolla

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 02:13:37 2019 No.13324541 TSATF belongs in the top 5, but at least it's in a better spot than cityslicker /lit/ fags usually place it

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 02:22:47 2019 No.13324569 Best translation of C&P? How much does it matter?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 02:25:14 2019 No.13324572 >>13322695 Role

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 02:29:48 2019 No.13324580 >>13324451 Yeah, those two should be removed. It's an insult to Salinger and Camus, who have written some of the greatest literature of all time, to share a list with a hack like Pynchon or Vonnegut.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 02:30:51 2019 No.13324584 >>13324569 Garnett, and it matters a lot.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 03:20:30 2019 No.13324712 roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 03:22:40 2019 No.13324720 >>13322695 rolla rolla

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 03:24:21 2019 No.13324723 >>13322695 Rolling

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 03:30:27 2019 No.13324746 I’m suprised Slaughterhouse-5 is on it at all when /lit/ does nothing but shit on it. I guess Vonnegut fans have all been bullied into silence.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 03:41:42 2019 No.13324779 >>13322695

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 04:23:17 2019 No.13324920 Not quite sure why the Aeneid isn’t #1

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 04:25:41 2019 No.13324925 Rollll

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 04:29:19 2019 No.13324944 >>13324746 Just got about halfway through the book and I’m loving it, why the hate on this board?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 04:33:01 2019 No.13324954 >>13322695 Should have a chart for fiction and philosophy, apples and oranges.

Anonymous Wed Jun 19 04:59:30 2019 No.13325007

>>13323799
Camusfags are the biggest plebs in the highbrow circle of literature - analogous to the YAfags of shitty literature. Leave, and take the other Camushits with you. Camus is mediocre, his works are highly overrated and absurdism is a retard-tier philosophy.

>>13324470
>whats wrong with anna karenina?
One half of it is mediocre, obviously. I'm talking about the segments concerning Anna, for course. Levin's segments are god tier.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 05:09:16 2019 No.13325020 >>13324944 Normies like it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 05:10:38 2019 No.13325023 File: 50 KB, 668x400, Acromegaly_facial_features.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13325007 >Camusfags are the biggest plebs in the highbrow circle of literature... Best not to mention brows when yours looks like this.

Anonymous Wed Jun 19 05:13:03 2019 No.13325028

>>13325023
You're either baiting or being a typical Camusfag. He's ideal for plebs who haven't read much stuff yet want to feel smart or cool, especially because Camus was physically attractive and fucked around often. Truly the biggest pseud attractor.
You have to go back.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 06:07:05 2019 No.13325181 >>13325020 Actual normies don’t even know who Vonnegut is. Normies love the Bible too.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 06:15:14 2019 No.13325198 >>13322695 where is A song of Ice and Fire??

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 06:16:25 2019 No.13325200 Roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 06:20:11 2019 No.13325211 File: 543 KB, 816x1024, gettyimages-75282110-1024x1024.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13325028 >physically attractive He was a manlet and not especially handsome. He got laid because he had game.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 06:21:15 2019 No.13325213 >>13325198 On my shelf next to my Zweihänder.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 06:27:34 2019 No.13325236 >>13325211 >he still height matters What a retard. If your face is hot, then you can be 5'5" for all they care.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 06:28:01 2019 No.13325237 Rollin

Anonymous Wed Jun 19 06:29:47 2019 No.13325241

>>13325007
>Camus is mediocre, his works are highly overrated and absurdism is a retard-tier philosophy.
You sound like the kind of talentless dullard that reads introductions, annotations, criticism and essays because his soul doesn't work. Art appreciation through gritty determination, thorough analysis and hard work.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 06:30:46 2019 No.13325244 >>13325241 Based

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 06:31:17 2019 No.13325247 >>13325241 Your post might be one of the cringiest things I've ever read on /lit/.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 06:34:12 2019 No.13325255 >>13325236 >Being this naive

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 06:34:44 2019 No.13325256 >>13325255 >implying I'm the naive one here

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 06:36:54 2019 No.13325259 >>13325256 Height plays a huge part in physical attraction. But I agree that having game is important too

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 06:38:31 2019 No.13325268 >>13325259 >thinking "game" (a retarded concept that doesn't exist) and physical looks related to your face are the same You're either baiting or being an absolute retard.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 06:38:43 2019 No.13325270 >>13325259 >>13325236 I'm glad that you homos were able to reach a middle ground. Heartwarming.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 07:00:11 2019 No.13325304 >>13322695 >Moby Dick >no. 1 Yeah, no. Fuck off

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 07:00:42 2019 No.13325305 >>13322695 none of those books came out in 2018

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 07:02:13 2019 No.13325310 >>13325305

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 07:04:32 2019 No.13325316 Roll

Anonymous Wed Jun 19 07:17:39 2019 No.13325354

>>13322695

This is actually surprisingly varied and not necessarily too anglo-centric, which is what I was kind of expecting.

More than once I thought something like "oh they are just fucking putting everything by Joyce here but they won't put Finnegans wake because "lol that one is shit"", but to my surprise there it was.

"Oh they're just gonna put 1984 and not mention any other dystopias even if Brave New World was arguably better", and there it was.

I think that putting Cervantes and Dante there and not mentioning any other big romance-language authors besides Fernando Pessoa is a bit simplistic. Portugal and Brazil have some seriously good literature, and I think this list is maybe a bit too focused on what is widely considered to be good by some kind of USA-France-Italy-England-Russia-Germany centric view, but you can't expect a list like this to be completely unbiased. If you honestly read this now and thought to yourself "oh but no other countries matter", I feel like it's unfair to call yourself an avid reader. A good text could come from literally anywhere, and would you really want to miss it?

Like I think "Grande Sertão Veredas" should be here as it's probably one of the most important titles ever written in the Portuguese language, but because of it's structure and experimentalism it's fully impossible to translate at all, meaning people would need to know Portuguese to read it, which is not expected from this board, and that's ok.

Same goes for like, why aren't any of the four chinese great novels in there, while some pop-classics from japan are? They could be considered the japanese equivalents of Quixote or Divine comedy.

But yeah this is a really good list. Definitely gonna be reading a bunch of shit from here I hadn't even heard of.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 07:22:38 2019 No.13325364 >Moby dick. >Whale anatomy manual. >Number 1. I get it. Men can be obsessed with something and that can destroy them. I don't need to know the function of every cell in a whale, can I stop reading now? Why is this number 1?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 07:29:42 2019 No.13325383 after reading Lolita this year I would drop far down the list like into the 80s or 90s it's a stylistic achievement but the story is not cohesive in the end

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 07:36:27 2019 No.13325395 >>13322944 also >The Great Gatsby even being on the list

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 07:37:57 2019 No.13325401 File: 106 KB, 1006x888, 1547007791237.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13322695 How can /lit/ possibly recover from this based redditor's take-down?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 07:42:04 2019 No.13325412 >>13325401 stopped reading at “writers of color”

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 07:43:49 2019 No.13325420 Roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 07:44:15 2019 No.13325423 >>13325412 >not at 'women'

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 07:45:04 2019 No.13325426 >>13325395 >>The Great Gatsby even being on the list Belongs near the top.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 07:45:11 2019 No.13325429 File: 8 KB, 212x238, 1559797343702.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13325420 Read it already. Reroll

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 07:52:14 2019 No.13325449 >>13325426 brainlet

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 08:01:10 2019 No.13325479 >>13322695 Rolln

Anonymous Wed Jun 19 08:05:23 2019 No.13325491

>>13325401

>Complains about this being a hipster list, modern heavy, while citing authors that are arguably lesser known and more complicated, essentially wanting the list to be at his level of hipsterness.

Yeah, sounds like reddit alright. You can compare this top 100 to most top 100's by any respectable body of proeminent writers made in the last 50 years and you'll see there's a lot of overlap. Of course people are influenced by modern classics more than older classics. Of course there is a body of classics that starts forming in the general mindset of people and it doesn't include lesser known authors. That's the whole point of top 100 lists. Sort of forming the most common denominators that maintain a high quality while still preparing you or opening doors for you to find the other deeper or less known content.

It's absolutely not a top 100 hipster book list, which I think this redditor is more capable of making. Imagine fucking thinking anything in this list is hipster. Every fucking book here has been discussed, summarized, studied and read to death by a billion people. That doesn't sound like something hipsters crave.

Who the fuck has seriously read or heard of Nightwood by Djuna Barnes? Who the fuck has seen this mentioned anywhere by writers in general? If it's such a deep enigmatic lesser known title why the fuck would you expect a lot of people to know it intimately? Again, this whole critique is based on the premise that this is a list to make someone feel smart, which it is not. There is no reason to add a book there that is vastly unknown or hermetic.

>B-b-but Finnegans Wake is impossible to read.

Yes. And if there are people who read it cover to cover they surely didn't understand everything. And if they claim they understood everything it's impossible to really test that since the book is written in like 30 mixed languages in a non linear fashion. Demanding someone to read a work like this like a normal book, and treat it like a normal book, and analyze it like a normal book, and sneering at them for not doing so, is already the first sign of being a butthurt hipster avid consumer of soya bean based products.

Anonymous Wed Jun 19 08:18:40 2019 No.13325533

>>13325491
His thesis is that people here are only interested in appearing high brow. He claims that Nightwood by Djuna Barnes is excellent but it wouldn't be added to a list like this, for it would be met with "What's that?" and not "Wow, you must be smart!"

It seems plausible to me. Go look at the absolute state of the catalogue of this board at any given time. Observe how often people present themselves as intellectuals and call others brainlets. Do you really think even 1% of these 'people' have appreciated or even attempted to read Finnegan's Wake? Or is it more likely that they would list such things in their top 10 to seem high brow?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 08:20:22 2019 No.13325538 hegel

Anonymous Wed Jun 19 08:40:09 2019 No.13325608

>>13325533

I think its a bit self defeating. If the same list was written by prominent authors of our time, would he have the same opinion?

The idea of the list, at least to me, is that it's not enough for a book to be excellent to one person. It has to be considered excellent to a broad audience of different degrees of literary knowledge.

I understand what you're saying but at the same time this idea of "seeming smart" is sort of common in any intellectual/artistic circle of any kind. You have to grow at least a bit of thick skin regarding that. Don't you get the same vibe from the reddit post?

At least here there aren't any upvotes or direct recognition to be had. No one is trying to be publicaly recognized as smart.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 10:05:41 2019 No.13326057 >>13325395 That's not a problem, though. Sure, "Tender is the Night" is better, but "The Great Gatsby" is also good.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 10:08:04 2019 No.13326069 We need one of these for philosophy

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 10:12:28 2019 No.13326083 >>13322695 rollio

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 10:27:22 2019 No.13326153 File: 33 KB, 511x671, 1559668354195.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Jokes on you I've read 12 of these books. And I'm only 18. Kek

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 10:30:10 2019 No.13326172 >>13322695 Reminder that the /lit/ 100 is rigged and decided by a handful of spergy /lit/ discord faggots. Just LMAO if you think your votes count

Anonymous Wed Jun 19 10:38:57 2019 No.13326215
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>>13326153
>dumb frogposter
Reading them clearly didn't benefit you in any way. Maybe you'll understand them better when you're older. By the way, pic related is what I can remember being forced to read in high school and as a result is only a fraction of what I had completed before turning 18.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 10:52:15 2019 No.13326274 >>13322695 >Hoysmans

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 10:53:20 2019 No.13326286 File: 2.97 MB, 4032x3024, 20190602_134027.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13322695 Fuck it, rollan

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 10:57:38 2019 No.13326306 >>13326215 Wow sorry pal didnt know there was a genius on this board

Anonymous Wed Jun 19 11:08:30 2019 No.13326362

It’s proof that you retards don’t actually read

> placing Anna Karenina above W&P
> placing C&P above tBK
> placing V and tCoL49 above Mason and Dixon
>placing the Bible above the Quran
>placing 68 books higher than Beckett’s Trilogy
>placing Invisible Cities above If on a Winters Night
>placing the Sailor Who Fell from Grace over Mishima’s Teotrology
>placing of Mice and Men over The Grapes of Wrath
>Placing To The Lighthouse above The Waves

fucking plebs gtfo

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 11:20:15 2019 No.13326424 Roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 11:23:54 2019 No.13326444 >>13322695 rolling rolling rolling

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 11:33:31 2019 No.13326481 >>13322695 Roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 11:44:19 2019 No.13326521 >>13325401 would have been a based comment if he hadnt included the "biased against women and writers of color" part for reddit brownie points. Not one of the writers he claims is missing is female or a nigger.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 11:46:15 2019 No.13326524 >>13325533 People on here are far less concerned about what other thinks than on other fora. His point applies much more to reddit than 4channel

Anonymous Wed Jun 19 11:48:55 2019 No.13326532

>>13326153
>>13326215

No one gives a shit what you read before your brains were fully developed. All books must be read by an adult mind to truly be appreciated. And Im saying that as someone who read a ton of classics around 15-16 and realize upon reading them again that I was too immature to truly understand.

>b-b-but Im smart even though Im not even 20!

come back to me when you find one older person who think he was smart when he was 18.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 12:02:13 2019 No.13326585 >>13322695 roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 12:06:01 2019 No.13326601 >>13322695 Way too Anglo-focused, there's plenty of authors here who shouldn't be anywhere near a Top 100. Still better than other online literary communities though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 12:06:24 2019 No.13326602 >>13322695 rollo

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 12:26:32 2019 No.13326694 >>13322695 Anyone else notice how the bible has gradually jumped from 62 in 2014 to 4 in 2018

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 12:34:09 2019 No.13326736 >>13322695 roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 12:47:54 2019 No.13326829 >>13322695 Keep rollin, rollin, rollin, rollin.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 14:55:15 2019 No.13327269 >>13326694 We got more based

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 15:12:56 2019 No.13327340 >>13322695 roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 15:13:59 2019 No.13327351 >>13327340 already read it. rerolla

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 15:15:08 2019 No.13327362 File: 108 KB, 400x381, 1542663846028.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13327351 dont want that garbage, rererolla

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 15:21:52 2019 No.13327407 >>13322695 roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 15:23:19 2019 No.13327415 >>13327407 nice

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 15:28:42 2019 No.13327447 File: 92 KB, 620x800, 458fd6d0a8618bb61d1dfad8226465e2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13322695 >2. The Brothers Karamazov >16. The Divine Comedy Dostoevsky is a runner-up, an honorary mention.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 15:31:20 2019 No.13327465 >>13326694 We're more polarized

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 15:35:06 2019 No.13327488 >>13326057 No, The Great Gatsby is fucking dogshit and I hope you die if you disagree

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 15:38:02 2019 No.13327506 >>13327447 >Divine Comedy >Good It's literally bible fanfiction

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 15:55:21 2019 No.13327595 >>13325364 Plenty of self centered burgers in this board. They think their literature is great.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 15:56:23 2019 No.13327606 That's a chart made by the eternal Anglo.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 15:58:34 2019 No.13327618 >>13327506 based

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 16:08:32 2019 No.13327669 >>13322695 roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 16:38:00 2019 No.13327808 >>13322695 Very nice list, but I think C&P is better than Moby Dick.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 18:24:17 2019 No.13328290 I'm almost certainly biased because of where I live, but I believe that An Appointment in Samarra was a better story of self destruction in the roaring twenties than the great Gatsby.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 18:24:56 2019 No.13328300 >>13322695 rowling

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 18:52:48 2019 No.13328415 Rll

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 18:56:28 2019 No.13328429 File: 6 KB, 238x250, 1537276397832.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >make thread hoping for quality discussion >come back >it's turned into a roll thread >mfw

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 18:57:54 2019 No.13328435 File: 79 KB, 716x768, 1542031943848.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13328429 >Post a chart and "what do you think of this" as a thread >hoping for quality discussion

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 19:05:41 2019 No.13328467 >>13328429 >to share a list with a hack like Pynchon or Vonnegut. >...Anonymous >06/19/19(Wed)02:30:51 No.13324584 >>>13324569 # roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 19 23:17:54 2019 No.13329398 >>13322695 roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 00:22:25 2019 No.13329564 >>13322695

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 00:29:02 2019 No.13329578 File: 86 KB, 756x574, 1514926385338.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13322695 >The Iliad, Homer >The Odyssey, Fagles

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 00:43:51 2019 No.13329624 Roly poly.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 02:15:28 2019 No.13329898 >>13325354 I'm brazilian and for some reason I found the english translation of Grande Sertão Veredas easier to read than the original, kek.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 02:16:31 2019 No.13329903 >>13325383 the ending is what I liked the most, are you fucking serious?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 02:19:16 2019 No.13329910 >>13325211 Those shoes and sockstho

Anonymous Thu Jun 20 07:33:44 2019 No.13330469

>>13328429
Next time ask people more clear questions, like:
>Which books have you read?
>Which one is your favourite?
Or discuss how this chart only represents the books that people on /lit/ have read and like, and that it does not represent quality; it's more of a popular /lit/ books chart. You can also discuss that it is mostly fiction but that there are also philosophical works in there, and that maybe there should have been more clear rules to which books should be on the list, since it has become a mixture now. Just some thoughts.
Also interact with people, ask them why they think a specific thing, why they feel like certain books should be higher/lower etc.
Making a thread and then abandoning it while hoping something amazing is going to come out of it is pretty naive.

tl;dr: >>13328435

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 09:17:27 2019 No.13330807 >>13322695 roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 09:25:41 2019 No.13330831 >>13325491 >Who the fuck has seriously read T.S. Eliot, at the very least, you middlebrow cretin.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 10:32:51 2019 No.13331074 >>13324470 He hates women, even fictional women written by men. >that's stupid It would be stupid anywhere else but here.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 11:23:20 2019 No.13331309 roll

Anonymous Thu Jun 20 11:25:52 2019 No.13331325

>>13324944
It's a creative and genuinely funny book that gives one of the most horrifying depictions of a bombing I've ever read. It also doesn't have any of the didactic shit that Vonnegut shoved into some of his later books. I think it belongs on the list but lower.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 11:38:50 2019 No.13331410 roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 11:41:14 2019 No.13331418 >>13322695 The entire concept of a "Top 100" is absurd. Why "top"? What exactly makes, say, "The Trial" superior to "Naked Lunch"? Or what makes "The Picture of Dorian Gray" so much worse than "The Book of the New Sun"? This is absurd.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 12:19:41 2019 No.13331571 roll

Anonymous Thu Jun 20 13:20:53 2019 No.13331861

>>13331418
The top 100 is basically a yearly poll where everyone is asked what their favourite books/best books (in their opinion) are, and the votes are tallied and made into a chart. The more people vote on a specific book, the higher in the chart it ends. So the only conclusion you can take out of this chart is which popular books have been read the most.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 15:31:43 2019 No.13332538 File: 141 KB, 605x800, 1502389862315.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13322695 rollin

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 15:35:17 2019 No.13332558 >>13322695 roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 15:40:36 2019 No.13332588 Rolling

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 15:45:29 2019 No.13332618 >>13322695 roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 17:10:36 2019 No.13333043 Roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 17:18:51 2019 No.13333083 roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 17:31:45 2019 No.13333149 >>13322695 roll

Anonymous Thu Jun 20 17:34:29 2019 No.13333172

>>13326524
>People on here are far less concerned about what other thinks than on other fora.
completely disagree. People on here will argue for hours, even days sometimes, about some of the stupidest shit known to man. I'm talking circular arguments that lead nowhere. Strings of 20 posts replying to each other every 20 minutes by the same two or three people going back and forth.
On reddit, you have the ability to downvote, so people don't feel as committed to having these battles that lead nowhere.
Here, when you speak out AGAINST something that is held sacred to this board, people can't downvote, so will reply and fight for hours even though this board is ANONYMOUS.
People here talk even more smugly than reddit, and care even more about maintaining their identity, even though they don't have one because they are anonymous. It is instead about maintaining their identity within themselves.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 17:34:32 2019 No.13333173 >>13329903 the moments after the confrontation is pretty good and the reunion with Dolores was great but the whole character of Cue and his place in the plot wasn't believable, didn't ring true to me.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 17:41:46 2019 No.13333214 >>13322695 rolling 4 shelf ornaments

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 18:44:26 2019 No.13333564 >>13322695 Rolling...

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 18:46:20 2019 No.13333579 >>13333564 Read this one, rolling again

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 19:50:47 2019 No.13333864 >>13324920 Vergil could never be a number one. What a ridiculous thing to even suggestion. Vergil could never defeat Homer.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 21:09:35 2019 No.13334172 >>13322695 The author of the Odyssey was not Fagles.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 21:09:50 2019 No.13334174 >>13323748 >Hating on Fagles What's wrong with it? It was the edition I read and I thought it was pretty clear and had helpful footnotes

Anonymous Thu Jun 20 22:14:03 2019 No.13334391

>>13322695
Very good list. There are a few favorites of mine that I'm biased towards that I would include, most notably Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, but in all, a very good list. The one that I would suggest you consider changing is Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. I know that it is his most famous work, but I think that his Philosophy of History holds up better and provides a much better insight into the ideas of "Progress" and "being on the wrong side of history" that permeate much popular cultural discussion.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 23:04:19 2019 No.13334460 >>13333864 This isnt devil may cry.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 23:31:23 2019 No.13334558 roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 23:32:54 2019 No.13334564 >>13325395 Thats a classic, though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 23:33:27 2019 No.13334569 >>13334558 Already read it, reroll.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 20 23:34:29 2019 No.13334576 >>13325401 It's impossible to do a top 100 and not leave something behind. Go see their shitty list, you filthy plebbitor.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 21 00:24:29 2019 No.13334777 File: 334 KB, 640x464, 1516895950511.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'll never get why people shit on Vonnegut, I guess it's probably because it's usually a very easy read? That doesn't make it inherently bad though.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 21 00:32:58 2019 No.13334805 Rolln for something to reserve from my library

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 21 00:35:19 2019 No.13334813 Man, I'm reading "To the Lighthouse" right now, I had no idea the prose was gonna be like this. It's something else, I love how it makes me feel. Some people are just so gifted when it comes to language

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 21 00:37:06 2019 No.13334822 >>13334805 >Ulysses Ok I'm a bit intimidated desu but I'll try it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 21 00:38:44 2019 No.13334833 >>13334174 The chart just lists Fagles (translator) as the author whereas it lists Homer for the Odyssey.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 21 00:41:37 2019 No.13334843 >>13334777 Checked. And you know full well why - people here are desperate to appear smart and so anything 'accessible' is instantly out of the question for a list like this.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 21 01:26:42 2019 No.13334993 roll

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