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truth

>> No.1506928

/lit/ = /shit/

>> No.1506944

if you give a mouse a cookie

>> No.1506952

correct
but my best offer of a "maybe not" is The Giving Tree

>> No.1506956

War and Peace.

>> No.1506960

>>1506952
Randroids hate the giving tree.

>> No.1506980

Game of Thrones?

Only ever hear praise for this.

>> No.1506992

>>1506980

nope, awful prose

>> No.1507001

>>1506992

Thanks for proving me wrong! Returning to the drawing board.

>> No.1507007

>>1506980
REally? It's fantasy and shit. Although, most people ignore the threads sans neckbeards.

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1507009

Yet to meet someone who dislikes this.

>> No.1507010

Oil by Upton Sinclair

>> No.1507031

a portrait of the artist as a young man

>> No.1507035

Dubliners

>> No.1507040

The Great Gatsby

>> No.1507041

The Bible

actually, it's bronze age sand nigger morality with atrocious language to boot

>> No.1507079

>>1507031

Obtuse slogfest that's not worth the trouble.

>> No.1507084

>ITT: Fags posting shit books

>> No.1507089

One Thousand and One Nights

>> No.1507097

>>1507079
it's like 200 pages max for prrobably the most enlightening look at the psyche of a developing mind ever written, how coulld that not be worth the trouble?

>> No.1507109

>>1507089
Woman writers...

>> No.1507144

>>1506956
nope

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1507154

What OP says is probably, to an extent, good because it means the population of /lit/ is large enough that there will always be disagreement.

I'm glad there are that many readers.

>> No.1507172

.. The Count of Monte Cristo?

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>>1507172
>mfw

>> No.1507192

Do short stories count? I've only heard praises for The Man Higher Up by O'Henry..

>> No.1507197

>>1507154
It would be good if the disliking of the book was actually educated, but nope, its always "hurr i hate catcher in the rye cz holden sux" or "durr entry level hipster garbage". But it is also the case when people like books aswell.

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1507199

No-one would dare call this book shit.

>> No.1507203

I've yet to see a post against GK Chesterton.

>> No.1507204

Les Miserables?
Never heard anybody saying anything bad about this

>> No.1507224

>>1507031
I actually didn't like Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, and I'm not the only one who feels this way. I found it kind of dragged and I got bored of being in the protagonist's head so much. He was so cut off from other people, I could have used more human interaction. I also felt like Joyce was so close to the main character he wasn't as generous in his portrayal of him as he could have been. I think, in a lot of ways, Woolf's Jacob's Room is a response to Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. Obviously, the first takes place in Ireland and the latter in Britain, but there are many parallels. I think Jacob's Room is a lot more critical of men of the period. While being generous and humane, the picture it paints is a lot fuller and more fruitful.

>> No.1507253

There are plenty of books that /lit/ will never call shit because they will never even hear about them because /lit/ is full of plebians who don't know anything about books.

Just sayin'.

>> No.1507257

I haven't heard too much ill about A Canticle for Leibowitz.

>> No.1507293

>>1507224
I didn't like it at first then finding out more about it changed my mind, your post kind of makes it about how it relates to yourself rather than a book in itself, which is cool but as a book, in terms of writing its extremely well written, not only in the progressively complex syntax and vocabulary, but also in that it is very personal to the character. At the beginning of chapter 2, his uncle charlie "repairs" to the outhouse, joyce was criticised for this for "using simple language", but he was using 'repairs' because stephen's uncle charlie would use the word 'repairs'. Also, when stephen's at school, some older boys are caught "smugging", while assumed to be a sexual act, smugging has no actual definition, and it is left to your imagination what they were caught doing, in the same way it would be left to stephen's imagination. I think people often mix up their tastes with how good a book is, I don't particularly like the plot of portrait, but it is an excellent book for what it is.

>> No.1507458

Remember when you posted this on /mu/ earlier?