/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16227406]

What authors could you expect to find in a midwit pseud's bookshelf?

I'll start, Herman Hesse & Dostoevsky

[Anonymous No.16227440]

>>16227406
camus and sartre

[Anonymous No.16227730]

99% of Continental philosophers

[Anonymous No.16228041]

Guenon, Auquinas, Descartes.

Inarguable trash and readers of these scum need to an hero.

[Anonymous No.16228212]

>>16227406
programming books

[Anonymous No.16228224]

Peterson and Zizek

[Anonymous No.16228251]

>>16227406
saying Dostojevszkij here is kind of cheating since he is mandatory reading in most curricula

[Anonymous No.16228256]

>>16227406
any book.

[Anonymous No.16228264]

>>16227406

>1984
>Lord of the Flies
>The Handmaid's Tale
>The Color Purple
>Fahrenheit 541
>House of Leaves
>The Neapolitan Novels
>Man's Search for Meaning
>The God Delusion
>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
>Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
>Thinking, Fast and Slow
>A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
>Freakonomics
>Between the World and Me
>A Visit from the Goon Squad
>To Kill a Mockingbird
>Chronicles of Narnia
>Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
>Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
>The Grapes of Wrath
>Ender's Game
>12 Rules for Life
>Guns, Germs, and Steel
>Anne Frank's Diary
>The Goldfinch
>Wolf Hall
>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
>The Catcher in the Rye
>A Separate Peace
>Lincoln in the Bardo
>The World According to Garp
>any "literary graphic novels" including Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, Fun Home, Maus, Persepolis, etc.
>anything by Malcolm Gladwell
>anything by Jonathan Franzen
>anything by John Updike
>anything by Vonnegut
>anything by Stephen King

[Anonymous No.16228265]

>>16227406
Hemingway, niche

[Anonymous No.16228284]

>>16228264
Have none of these except a collection of Updike's short stories which are better than his novels.

[Anonymous No.16228314]

>>16228264
This is the true list right here. High School-tier required reading with a smattering of Pop Sci.

[Anonymous No.16228325]

>>16227406
Adolph Hitler

[Anonymous No.16228341]

>>16228264
It’s incredible how far guns, germs, and steel has been debunked to the point even reddit can’t defend it and yet it’s still being published solely because of self hating Afro-apologists

[Anonymous No.16228362]

>>16227406
any translations to be honest

[Anonymous No.16228363]

>>16228264
In most of those cases, owning or reading these doesn't mean you're a pseud. Owning nothing but them, or considering them the best books ever written, will absolutely mean you're a pseud.

[Anonymous No.16228413]

>>16228251
>Dostojevszkij
Why do autists insist on using alternate spelling for this guy? We get it, you know slavic transliteration. There's a standard spelling and it's literally shown in the post you replied to.

[Anonymous No.16228450]

>>16228413
>doss todge evv skidge

[Anonymous No.16228676]

What’s the criteria for being a pseud? Is it simply somebody with an academic interest with no formal training? Or is it more about a lack of true dedication to that interest, further hampered by egoism?

[Anonymous No.16228685]

>>16227406
John Irving

[Anonymous No.16228690]

>>16228041
stay mad pleb

[Anonymous No.16228703]

>>16228264
>>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
I had to write a 25 page essay on this for the final project in my Ethics In Human Resource course. Fuck that nigger

[Anonymous No.16228711]

>>16227406
Yep
>>16227440
Yep
>>16228041
Yep
>>16228212
Yep
>>16228224
The thread is about midwits not retards.
>>16228256
Possible, but I like to have some hard copy references that don't depend on internet access or battery/power access. Maybe I'm midwit though.
>>16228264
Again sub-90 books, this thread is about 90-130 IQ (midwit)
>>16228690
Midwit detected

Any fiction.

[Anonymous No.16228717]

>>16227406
Any philosophy at all, whatsoever.
>I am not a failure, it is the world that failed.

[Anonymous No.16228718]

>>16228224
Zizek books without also having Sublime Object, Less Than Nothing, Absolute Recoil, Sex and the Failed Absolute, Tarrying with the Negative, or The Parallax View is a sure mark of pseuddom.

[Anonymous No.16228750]

>>16228703
Imagine having a pussy so rank it gained a life of its own

[Anonymous No.16228766]

>>16228264
Franzen is funny and makes me feel bad at the same time, I like his stuff honestly. Feel like he gets the "popular = bad" treatment too often

[Anonymous No.16228767]

>>16228264
God house of leaves is so fucking terrible

[Anonymous No.16228779]

>>16227406
Bukowski

[Anonymous No.16228791]

>>16228264
>>The Color Purple
>>The Neapolitan Novels
>>Man's Search for Meaning
>>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
>>A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
>>Between the World and Me
>>A Visit from the Goon Squad
>>Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
>>12 Rules for Life
>>Anne Frank's Diary
>>The Goldfinch
>>Wolf Hall
>>A Separate Peace
>>Lincoln in the Bardo
>>The World According to Garp
>>any "literary graphic novels" including Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, Fun Home, Maus, Persepolis, etc.
>>anything by Malcolm Gladwell
>>anything by Jonathan Franzen
>>anything by John Updike
i have all the rest :)

[Anonymous No.16228795]

>>16228703
My freshman year of university we were assigned that book, I dropped out right before the end of the semester partly due to that class and how mind-numbingly gay it was.

[Anonymous No.16228800]

Do any of you actually like to read

[Anonymous No.16228804]

>>16228800
I love to read and have to not take threads like this seriously considering most people here haven't picked up any of the books they consider pleb filters. Or probably any other books for that matter lmao

[Anonymous No.16228858]

>>16228711
What do you read, smart guy?

[Anonymous No.16229027]

>>16228264
Shut up please.

[Anonymous No.16229289]

>>16228858
inb4 the bible.

[Anonymous No.16229706]

>>16227406
Pseud bookshelves have a pretty weird mix of quality. You will find good and midwit-level stuff side-by-side. You know, like Dostoevsky beside Stephen King. These people can't distinguish themselves, so they end up mixing stuff which is popular in one part of the demographic with stuff from another demographic. But you also have to consider that some people don't throw away books so they have their old library in there, including the YA stuff. But I would expect they would separate it.

[Anonymous No.16229737]

>>16228858
He doesn't

[Anonymous No.16229744]

>>16227406
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Scott Hahn
An untouched Summa Theologiae

[Anonymous No.16229766]

>>16229706
Another option is the "I bought my whole library at a single point in time and never opened one book" type. Usually hardcover and all the same size and look, in mint condition. In extreme cases, they are faux. There was an industry specializing in books as furniture. I remember you could buy fake books in the 70s mail-order catalogues, leather bound hardcover with canon authors printed on the back but no print.

[Anonymous No.16229793]

>>16227406
80's Book-club libraries. Membership fee, and they sent you a bunch of books every month. Usually leather-bound and never used. Some of these are worth buying though, they are often good quality, in mint condition and the literature is often stuff from the western canon.

[Anonymous No.16229809]

>>16228264
>anything by Stephen King

Stopped reading

[Anonymous No.16229814]

Authors:
James Baldwin
Toni Morrison
Naomi Klein
Bret Easton Ellis
Orwell
Bukowski
Lacan/Jung/Reich/Fromm/any non-Freud psychoanalyist
John Ashbery

Books:
Sister-Outsider
Infinite Jest
Lord of the Flies
Stoner

[Anonymous No.16229819]

>>16229706
>You will find good and midwit-level stuff side-by-side. You know, like Dostoevsky beside Stephen King
And? Your example is missing the "good" part

[Anonymous No.16229832]

>>16229706
Or they just have diverse taste and don't autistically try to organize their bookshelf based on quality. Liking high literature while also having an affair with genre fiction on the side isn't all that uncommon.

[Anonymous No.16229842]

>>16228264

>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Fuck off

[Anonymous No.16229846]

>>16229819
Notes from the Underground is not good ? What about the House of the Dead ?

[Anonymous No.16229856]

>>16229814
>any non-Freud psychoanalyist
you've exposed yourself

[Anonymous No.16229865]

Midwit is buying and displaying physical books at all.
Should be a last resort if it cant be found online or in the library.
Midwits that also fill up harddrives with porn and pay onlyfan whores

[Anonymous No.16229870]

>>16229832
Genre fiction gets really boring once you hit 40, you will see.

[Anonymous No.16229884]

>>16229865
>doesn't want a beautiful, sweeping, victorian library
ngmi

[Anonymous No.16229899]

>>16229865
Yuppie midwits do, because it's part of the image they cultivate. We're not necessarily talking about the lower classes.

[Anonymous No.16229919]

>>16229865
wowza bro you are so smart i someday want to be just like you

[Anonymous No.16229920]

midwit = possessing a physical copy of any book by any author.

[Anonymous No.16229932]

>>16229884
I wont make it in your bookstack reddit?
Hang yourself

>>16229899
yeah I larp as christcuck aristocrat too and participate in serious 4chan discussions

>>16229919
sojackmouth.jpg
HARDCOVERS!

[Anonymous No.16229937]

>>16229920
Exactly

[Anonymous No.16229945]

>>16229932
I don't get this board's fear of mediocrity and feigned individualism, statistically we are pretty much all guaranteed to be "midwits" why not just accept it and read books in the form we like

[Anonymous No.16229949]

What books do high IQ chads have on their shelves?

[Anonymous No.16229954]

>>16229945
>>16229949
my point exactly lit and sci are the same board

[Anonymous No.16229960]

>>16229932
literal reddit coomer
i can smell you from here

[Anonymous No.16229977]

ITT: plebs namedropping authors they’ve never read

[Anonymous No.16230004]

>>16228264
>tfw I have literally none of these

[Anonymous No.16230014]

>>16227406
Critique me, and yes I like simple adventure novels.
Missing/on loan;
>Lost Horizon
>A Month In The Country
>A Canticle For Leibowitz
>A Scanner Darkly

[Anonymous No.16230058]

>>16230014
You will grow out of it. At least it's top-shelf genre fiction. What's with the orthodox vibes ?

[Anonymous No.16230087]

>>16230058
>You will grow out of it
No, but I like sea shanties and hunting stories!
>What's with the orthodox vibes ?
I've been an inquirer in Orthodoxy for almost two years now, some of those are on loan from my church. Some people make fun of me for not being a catechumen by now, but I was raised in a secular household so I'm taking my time to learn the theology. Lossy is pretty complex, but the Desert Fathers have been fun to read.

[Anonymous No.16230197]

I hate all of you.
Obsessing over the idea of a “midwit” is pure projection of your own insecurities about your intelligence. It’s all about the perception of what you read, not actually reading. Like most of the reddit and /pol/ immigrants browsing this board right now and looking for the next twitter screencap or religious argument to get their fix, you don’t read. You don’t care about reading. You care about how anons perceive you. People can read and own books they/you don’t like; in fact, these “midwits” are better than you. because they’re actually reading and cultivating opinions and thoughts. You’re just larping on an image board.
I hate this place. I hate what is has become.
Fuck you

[Anonymous No.16230202]

>>16230197
This

[Anonymous No.16230241]

>>16228413
Dostojevskij

[Anonymous No.16230250]

>>16230014
can we have a closer look at that leather lovecraft book? nice shelf anon

[Anonymous No.16230260]

Joyce and Beckett.

[Anonymous No.16230284]

>>16228264
I'll defend Updike, Orwell, Steinbeck, and Salinger.
And question: what if the owner of Cuckoo's Nest also has Kesey's masterpiece Sometimes a Great Notion?

[Anonymous No.16230289]

Welp, based on this thread I would be considered a midwit. I got king, peterson, hesse, as well as a couple others, but I just recently turned 18, never threw out any books and and a couple I needed for school(like hesse); would I still be considered a midwit?

[Anonymous No.16230303]

>>16228264
>>Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
There is literally not a single introvert alive who owns this book because they willingly came into it.

[Anonymous No.16230317]

>>16230289
since you are so concerned about whenever you are some internet buzzword and as a result go to beg for validation on the internet, the answer is clearly yes. Who cares what others think, read what you benefit from, dont take yourself too seriously.

[Anonymous No.16230340]

>>16228767
Man fuck off, it was a decent read

[Anonymous No.16230356]

>>16228413
The only acceptable spelling is Дocтoeвcкий

[Anonymous No.16230711]

>>16229809

Presumably because the list ended there. Good job!!

[Anonymous No.16230755]

>>16229809
stephen king is garbage. read better books

[Anonymous No.16230778]

>>16230014
>ray kurzweil
fucking burn that book. biggest hack of our times

[Anonymous No.16230786]

>>16230197
Seems like something only a midwit would type out unironically

[Anonymous No.16230795]

>>16227406

[Anonymous No.16230815]

>>16230795
this is perfectly constructed to illicit rage in the viewer. 85% terrible books, 15% decent books, but they are distributed in such a way that almost all of us have at least one thing on here. fuck you anon

[Anonymous No.16230819]

>>16230815
Is John Oliver a book?

[Anonymous No.16230825]

>>16230819
this is a literature board, i can not perceive anything but literature

[Anonymous No.16230832]

>>16230795

>implying midwits actually /read/ alan watts

Great books tho

[Anonymous No.16230842]

>>16227730
seething non-american. we will live eternally rent free in your head

[Anonymous No.16230850]

>>16230197
Yeah, how is this a productive conversation? What does anyone get out of this?

[Anonymous No.16230854]

>>16230825
>this is a literature board, i can not perceive anything but literature

[Anonymous No.16230877]

Any autobiography ever written.

[Anonymous No.16230898]

>>16230087
dw anon. I didn't become a catechumen until a few weeks ago. Granted I started my inquiry around 8 months ago and shortly after, the virus hit which disrupted services a bit. Before attending services, I began research into Christ and his Church for over a year. There is a lot to unpack, take your time. The world isn't ending yet (I hope)

[Anonymous No.16230916]

>>16230795
>A People's History of the United States
I see this book shilled a lot as a True tell-all. Even in Good Will Hunting, a genius, the main character, says the book will blow your mind. QRD on it? I have a sneaking suspicion it is lefty history

[Anonymous No.16230936]

>>16230916

It is far lefty history. Will is a genius, but he's also an insecure tryhard pseud, so of course he namedrops it.

[Anonymous No.16230938]

>>16230916
>I have a sneaking suspicion it is lefty history
You are correct.

[Anonymous No.16230947]

>>16230916
>Even in Good Will Hunting, a genius, the main character, says the book will blow your mind.
you understand that it is actually the opinion of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, not of a genius lol. They wrote the script.

[Anonymous No.16230949]

>>16230938
>>16230936
>>16230947
>but he's also an insecure tryhard pseud
makes sense, ty for heads up anons. now i won't spend money on it

[Anonymous No.16231025]

>>16229809
>liking Stephen King
Go back immediately

[Anonymous No.16231036]

>>16230850
to save you from the embarrassment of having non approved literature on your shelf on the off hand chance you invite a /lit/ aspie into your home

[Anonymous No.16231223]

>>16230197
i love you

[Anonymous No.16231646]

>>16227440
>>16228224
>>16228212
>>16230795
These

[Anonymous No.16231657]

>midwit
american books

>topwit
18th century french proto sci-fi

the semiotext(e) intervention series, each book individually vacuum sealed in a kitchen vacuum sealer bag along with gold bullion, flower seeds, and women's necklaces

goethe

don delillo – libra

[Anonymous No.16231658]

>>16227406

[Anonymous No.16231665]

>>16228264
>The Grapes of Wrath
>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
>The Catcher in the Rye
>anything by John Updike
>implying graphic novels can't be good

apart from this I agree with you, but really I loathe people who shoot graphic novels down as a forever doomed medium.

[Anonymous No.16231691]

>>16230197
Based

[Anonymous No.16231737]

>>16227406
>Evola
>Bronze Stone Age whatever you call it book
>Jordan Peterson
>Edmund Burke
>The Denial of Death
>Howard Zinn
>Cornell West
>Amy Chua
>Dewey

[Anonymous No.16231758]

>>16231737
>>The Denial of Death
Honestly that's Becker's least interesting work. It only got popular because ZOMG A DYING GUY IS WRITING ABOUT DEATH
I do like Becker though.

[Anonymous No.16231794]

>>16228264
>anything by John Updike
woah there, friend

[Anonymous No.16231796]

>>16231758
What other of his books would you recommend?

[Anonymous No.16231813]

>>16230004
>there are now people on /lit/ who are proud of NOT reading

[Anonymous No.16231833]

>>16230197
post more

[Anonymous No.16231856]

>>16231796
The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective in Psychiatry and Anthropology
I found it to be excellent, he draws a lot from Erich Fromm and revises a lot of Frued's theories in such a way that makes them less sex oriented. Escape from Evil is interesting, but it's a companion notebook to Denial. More of an anthropological examination, which I'm interested in

[Anonymous No.16231860]

Clean your room man

[Anonymous No.16231864]

>>16228413
Doestoeffeiski

[Anonymous No.16231868]

>>16231856
Thanks added to my list. Have Fromm's Escape From Freedom somewhere might give that a try first.

[Anonymous No.16232703]

>>16228212
Why

[Anonymous No.16232744]

>>16227406
>midwit pseud
holy fuck listen to yourself. have sex loser
>>16230197
this

[Anonymous No.16232787]

>>16231737
Midwits hate Evola because they get filtered right off the bat

[Anonymous No.16232800]

>>16228264
>>anything by John Updike

A couple of decades ago, maybe, but now I'd only count the Eastwick and Rabbit books as part of this.

[Anonymous No.16232804]

>>16228717
>I am not a failure, it is the world that failed.
This is actually an incredibly based way to live one's life.

[Anonymous No.16232819]

>>16228264
I am a big fan of Orwell but this book makes me angry, when I read Sapiens I almost threw my phone across the room desu

[Anonymous No.16232823]

>>16228676
Not reading the books. If you read them you will be fine anon

[Anonymous No.16232824]

>>16228858
Probably not a guy

[Anonymous No.16232828]

>>16230197
It is incredibly remarkable that 4chan has develoved into yet another grandstanding social media platform despite being based on anonymity and ephemerality. There are no internet points here.
The 1 mil+ views on the /lit/ chart top 100 after it was shared on plebbit, gaymergate and the 2016 election, has ruined the soul of this site beyond repair.
Calling someone a midwit pleb should be done gracefully and elegantly after carefully ripping an anon apart, not as an empty <5 word twitterbrained drive-by.

[Anonymous No.16232834]

>>16232828
upboated

[Anonymous No.16233619]

>>16228264
>The Handmaid's Tale
>any "literary graphic novels"

Does it look better or worse if you've doubled down on similar books? I've got a half dozen other Atwoods, and a shelf and a half of stuff including manga, Eurocomics, and collected editions of American comics.

[Anonymous No.16233635]

>>16227406
any, any pseud can own any book

[Anonymous No.16234054]

>>16228413
Fiodor Dostojewski

[Anonymous No.16234074]

>>16230197
based