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Well, what is your gameplay level, /lit/?

>> No.15789554

>Clancy is accessible

This is the ultimate pleb filter

>> No.15789618

>>15789542
Looks like I dipped my toe into level 3 once or twice but I've read and understood most of level 2 so I guess im level 2.

I well.

>> No.15789640

>>15789542
Well I'm reading Ulysses now so I think that qualifies me for level 5. Most of my reading though is probably like between 2 and 3.

>> No.15789930

>>15789542
>DFW
>pinnacle of high literature
Actually keked

>> No.15790035

>>15789542
5, mostly because of Beckett

>> No.15790084

6 because I read Finnegans Wake

>> No.15790175

I go down to the Borges and Eco level, but I’ve also read Beckett. Fuck Pynchon.

>> No.15790611

>>15789542
Where's Ted Kaczynski? Where's Ian Livingstone? I guess my brain is too big for this board

>> No.15790634

>gameplay level

this says it all about people who read unreadable doorstops, it's a challenge to be beaten like hard mode vidya, read the reviews of Women and Men on goodreads, endless dorks celebrating the fact that they completed a big heckin chonker of a novel

>> No.15790646

>>15789542
>tolkein lacks substance
wat

>> No.15790648

>>15790634
KEK just let people have their fun, anon.

>> No.15790683

>>15790611
>Ted Kaczynski
level 0

>> No.15790695

>>15790683
confirmed braindead

>> No.15790777

>>15790611
Clearly it's a ranking of prose authors. Moreover, K's main work is a manifesto published in major newspapers, intended to be very simple and understandable. His other works are too written very simply and clearly for similar reasons. So he would rank very low, with the only detriment to his accessibility being the whole "but anon isn't this guy a terrorist? why are you recommending me to read this? are you some kinda incel?" thing.

>> No.15790784

>>15789542
very stupid chart desu

>> No.15790801

>>15789542
Has anyone here read anything by Julian Rios? I'm intrigued.

>> No.15790804

>>15789542
>misspelling Tolkien and putting him in level 0
cringe
I know this is a meme chart, but where would Homer and Dante be placed?

>> No.15790881

>>15789542
Where's my boy Pessoa

>> No.15791058

>>15789542
>ballard
>level 2
lmao

>> No.15791149

>>15790634
Based
>>15790648
Cringe

>> No.15791193

>>15790804
>NOOOOO YOU CAN'T CALL HIM BY HOW PEOPLE PRONOUNCE HIS NAME NOOOOO
Why is English so fucking garbage?

>> No.15791232

>>15789542
Why is Sorokin so low down? His style is extremely straight foreword and he doesn't really say much new?

>> No.15791314

>>15790611
Isn't Ted non fiction

>> No.15791748

>>15789542

I think level 0 and 1 should be like the novel tie-ins for popculture entertainment stuff, like the novel tie-ins for the Halo and Dead Space video games and junior novelizations of films. Level 0s should be bumped up to number 2 or 3.

>> No.15791762

>>15790804
>but where would Homer and Dante be placed
I mean it's clearly for modern prose writers.

>> No.15791811

>>15790804
Yeah, fucking garbage chart

>> No.15791875
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15791875

>>15789542
A challenger appears.
(you can help this chart by expanding it.)

>> No.15791886

>>15791875
Kafka, Proust and Hamsun below Camus, you tekkin the fackin piss lad?

>> No.15792129

>>15791875

No, your level 0s should be bumped up to level 1. Level 0 should be the novel tie-ins for popculture entertainment like I said here: >>15791748

Levels 1s should be bumped up to level 2 which should be bumped up to level 3 and likewise with all the others.

Also, I don't think Nietzsche should be level 2, probably higher since he seems to be a favorite amongst the scholars and intellectuals.

>> No.15792584

>>15791875

is there a Hamlet by someone other than Shakespeare that I haven't heard of? (yes I know about "Amleth")

or is the idea that Hamlet is so deep that no one can fathom it?

>> No.15793260

>>15792584
it's a joke you literal autist

>> No.15793513

>>15789542
>murakami lacks substance
t. pseud that has never read murakami

>> No.15793545

>>15791875
but Kazuo Ishiguro is highschool books

>> No.15795084

>>15789542
Tolkein that low, kek.
Shit chart.

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>>15789542
Get into my levels plebs

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>>15795099

>> No.15795108

Is Barth really that difficult?

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>>15795105

>> No.15795127

>>15791875
this is even more pseud. kys

>> No.15795154

>>15789542
Tolkien and Austen in 0 is a joke. Pynchon needs to go from 4 to 2. DFW goes to 1

>> No.15795159

>>15789542
4 dipping slowly into 5

>> No.15795460

>>15793513
>>murakami lacks substance
>t. pseud that has never read murakami
Murakami es worst than YA because is labeled as deep. At least you don't find people saying Suzane Collins is canonical.

>> No.15795551

>>15791875
>Higashino Keigo
>Above Level 0
His writing is literally anime in novel form. Everything, down to the plot and the dialogue, is the equivalent of a low-budget anime meant to appeal to the unintelligent. It is crap.

>> No.15795586

>>15789542
I made it to level 4 thanks to Breton (surprised)

I believe that I am at level 6 due to Giorgio de Chirico's Hebdomeros.
But you all don't know about that book :)

>> No.15796233

>>15789930
said the person who hasnt read his books

>> No.15796381

>>15796233
Oh, no need to be triggered, I finished The Pale King after a /lit/ readalong and I have read quite a few of his short stories. It is somewhat enjoyable and occasionally insightful but exalting him as a paragon of contemporary literature is just facetious and something which only a barely literate anglo would do.

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15796636

>>15789542
unrepentantly level 0
fuck this image and this thread, read what you like, not what other people tell you to like

>> No.15796723

>>15791875
>completionist Dazai
nice

>> No.15796855

>>15795460
Bait
Also learn how to speak english lol

>> No.15796928

>>15796855
>Bait
>Also learn how to speak english lol
Autocorrect

>> No.15797073

lmao as if the most modernist = "the most difficult" try learning Homeric Greek you fucking dork