/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18820302]

Hilarious list, losers

[Anonymous No.18820309]

What does /lit/ think about Anna Karenina?

[Anonymous No.18820318]

stop posting women

[Anonymous No.18820324]

What's amusing?

[Anonymous No.18820328]

>>18820302
they're acting like that list is anything special, most top 100s contain the majority of those books

twitterers and redditors live in a totally different reality

[Anonymous No.18820332]

>Twitter screencap
Into the trash it goes

[Anonymous No.18820333]

>>18820302

[Anonymous No.18820349]

How many have you read from this list. Be honest.

[Anonymous No.18820355]

>>18820349
Blood Meridian is way too high as always, Suttree is better

[Anonymous No.18820358]

>>18820349
around half, I'm deficient on women and mutts

[Anonymous No.18820359]

>zoomer twitter poster pretends they're well read
many such cases

[Anonymous No.18820361]

>>18820349
>>18820355
Also Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment being so much higher than Anna Karenina (in particular) and War and Peace is so sophomoric

[Anonymous No.18820376]

>>18820349
nevermind, I just saw Book of the New Sun is on this list, it's just a meme list, I was concerned this was people's actual opinions for a second

[Anonymous No.18820380]

Any list that is decided through a lot of different people voting is obviously going to be pretty “basic” or whatever it is that the people who are making fun of that list are accusing it of being. Especially when the group that votes on it isn’t focused around any sort of topic beyond the extremely broad “Literature” and there are absolutely zero barriers to entry. To interpret that list as some carefully curated regiment of the all-time greatest literature is absolutely retarded, as is to imagine that that list is one specific person’s taste and that everyone on /lit/ basically shares that taste. It is literally just the amalgamated result of several polls, and as such absolutely nothing about it should come much as a surprise to anyone vaguely familiar with /lit/ or even 4chan in general. Also Twitter is gay.

[Anonymous No.18820386]

>>18820376
Shut up faggot. Your sarcasm is disgusting

[Anonymous No.18820390]

>>18820349
Oh, hey, Harry Potter, I know that one!!1!

but in all seriousness, about 10 of them, if we count half-read books as 0.5
I would make justifications about how I've read a lot of spanish/spic literature that hasn't made it to english speaking lists, but honestly I'm just unnecessarily defiant and refuse to read "classics"

What's a good recommendation to start tackling this list?

[Anonymous No.18820395]

>>18820302
These "/lit/core lists" are just pseuds trying to fit in,while in reality all you need to be on this board id to be a man of culture and a erudite

[Anonymous No.18820401]

How many have you read from this list. Be honest.

[Anonymous No.18820402]

>>18820386
You can't really consider it a serious list when they allow genre fiction garbage shilled by one autist in the top 50

[Anonymous No.18820405]

>>18820395
what's the point of the cigarettes?
to brag that you smoke?
decoration?

[Anonymous No.18820416]

>>18820302
Why do normalfags suddenly care about /lit/? Let us have our peaceful porn addict monastery.
>>18820318
>women

[Anonymous No.18820418]

>>18820390
Are you not from America? You would have had to read like 40 of these just from high school

[Anonymous No.18820421]

>>18820405
it's not my photo you nincompoop

[Anonymous No.18820428]

>>18820421
I'm not asking you personally.

[Anonymous No.18820433]

>>18820395
>Honor
>Ojczyzna
based
>Bóg
cringe

[Anonymous No.18820434]

>>18820349
51

[Anonymous No.18820435]

>>18820428
wew

[Anonymous No.18820436]

>>18820302
The percentage trannies that kill themselves is pretty amusing

[Anonymous No.18820466]

>>18820436
gottem

[Anonymous No.18820478]

>>18820418
spic, actually
Most of my highschool reading was magical realism with some Orwell and such sprikled in. I was supposed to read Don Quijote, but I was too busy reading exclusively science fiction at the time, and the archaic language filtered me hard.
Now that I look at the list in detail I can see more titles I've read, but the total is still at about 15. I was forced to read some of these like Catcher in the Rye, Hamlet, The Odyssey, and The Iliad, but most of what I've read from here has been personal reading.

[Anonymous No.18820486]

>>18820478
Good job then

[Anonymous No.18820488]

>>18820302
>fuckung midwit plebs rate Dostoevsky so high
Disgusting

[Anonymous No.18820493]

I honestly don't understand what their issue is

[Anonymous No.18820499]

>>18820402
No shit it's not a serious list. You think /lit/ is a serious literature forum? Most of the users here dont dont even read fucking books.

[Anonymous No.18820502]

>>18820349
22

[Anonymous No.18820505]

>>18820349
4, I'm a pseud

[Anonymous No.18820515]

>>18820349
53

[Anonymous No.18820526]

>>18820505
Don’t worry Anon. I read 21 all the way but own at least 60 on the list. I’m a pseud.

[Anonymous No.18820538]

>>18820486
I haven't earned this Jackie Chan. The number of titles I've read from this list hasn't gone up at all since I finished highschool ~8 years ago.
I might just turn it into a spreadsheet and use rng to select and track my next reads...

[Anonymous No.18820551]

>>18820418
At my high school in America, which was pretty nice by American public school standards (brand new and adjacent to two neighborhoods, one upper middle class and one middle class) we read like 10 books on that list, including things we only read excerpts of (Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, Odyssey, The Republic). 40 seems like a pretty high estimate there.

[Anonymous No.18820562]

>>18820302
How come no one posts the 2020 one?

[Anonymous No.18820621]

/lit/ absolutely btfo

[Anonymous No.18820629]

>>18820349
no, never

[Anonymous No.18820630]

>>18820621
Am I having a stroke?
I get what they mean, but the grammar confuses me.

[Anonymous No.18820643]

>>18820621
It's a list voted on by an entire board. Why would it be remarkable?

[Anonymous No.18820645]

Who’s list is better
Pic related or /lit/?

[Anonymous No.18820647]

>>18820621
The second comment reeks of "This list doesn't list enough obscure titles."

[Anonymous No.18820649]

>>18820645
>Who’s
Whose*

[Anonymous No.18820651]

>>18820621
What the hell do you think a massive aggregation of a bajillion users is going to produce? Only the unanimously liked get in.

[Anonymous No.18820652]

>>18820361
Unironically using the term "sophomoric" is sophomoric.

[Anonymous No.18820655]

>>18820645
The 2016 list is the official /lit/ list though

[Anonymous No.18820664]

>>18820309
It's gotta be the 21st best book of all time, at least.

[Anonymous No.18820676]

>>18820655
I posted a plebbit list I found from google loal

[Anonymous No.18820682]

>>18820621
There is nothing more pathetic than being on twitter with an ironic meme name trying to be a postmodern public intellectual

When I began to write this I thought I had more to say but it sickens me and depresses me too much to think of these zoomers all climbing over eachother in a big pile on twitter trying to get "likes" like a bunch of fucking teenage girls. At least the teenage girls are stone cold retarded and shallow, they need no excuses, they have an animal existence. At least /lit/'s pseud posters are anonymous and mostly self-deprecating. Somehow every twitter screenshot I see of these wannabe critical theory perpetual undergraduate zoomers is like if you mixed a teenage girl's lack of self-awareness with only the worst /lit/ discord tourist newfag's self-awareness.

All the worst aspects of both, all the pretense of a late teens or 20ish tryhard who doesn't realize he's embarrassing himself, and all the shallowness of stupid young broads who expect credit and attention for doing nothing of note.

[Anonymous No.18820685]

these lists were always a shitshow because they’re just a jumble of ”books” ie you get novels, novellas, story collections, poetry collections, anthologies and fucking religious texts all next to each other

[Anonymous No.18820690]

>>18820676
oh didn't see it was from leddit

[Anonymous No.18820691]

>>18820349
Why the hell is Jerusalem on that list, let alone Alan Moore? I've never seen one thread discussing it at all. I've never seen anyone discuss or mention Alice in Wonderland either. Also 22.

[Anonymous No.18820699]

Why does everyone on the internet have to be sneering and flippant? It doesn't make you cool

[Anonymous No.18820702]

>>18820349
22.5 couldn't finish Anna Karenina. Holy cow, what a snore fest, why do you people like it? It's literally chick lit but old

[Anonymous No.18820724]

>>18820699
30 years of '90s style Jewish sitcom neurosis characters constantly snarkily quipping at eachother in media is designed to turn all men into sub-crypto-jew neurotic effeminate faggots.

Some time around 2000-2010 there was a total convergence of Joss Whedon Buffy the Vampire Slayer quippy gayboy male character dialogue and Avengers Iron Man sassy zippy gay quip fag dialogue and now every man unconsciously knows that the highest form of manhood is to be a gay quippy queer.

[Anonymous No.18820728]

You people are so dull. Where is the POC section?

[Anonymous No.18820729]

>>18820349
36

[Anonymous No.18820739]

>>18820302
People that dumpy and fat don't get opinions

[Anonymous No.18820742]

[Anonymous No.18820743]

>>18820682
This is how I feel about those fat losers like kantbot and bap

[Anonymous No.18820749]

>>18820728
>JEFFERSON didn’t believe any nation had the right to contract debts that it couldn’t pay off with reasonable effort within nineteen years.

>“ The best place for keeping money is in the pockets of the people.”

>We have had the century of the “benefits of concentration of capital” (and the malefits).

>Paper money in the popular pocket would not breed stagnation and it would not stay there for the reasons of oriental hoarding. The popolano would want to show it was there. Its distribution would mean greater mobility of goods.

>The first act of the fascio was to save Italy from people too stupid to govern, I mean the Italian communists, the Lenin-less communists. The second act was to free it from parliamentarians, possibly worse, though probably no more dishonest than various other gangs of parliamentarians, but at any rate from groups too politically immoral to govern.

>As far as financial morals are concerned, I should say that from being a country where practically everything and anything was for sale, Mussolini has in ten years transformed it into a country where it would even be dangerous to try to buy out the government. In other countries they excuse inexplicable perfidies by saying “These men are personally honest.” I am now quoting an admiral : “All I know is that all these men are my personal friends and I assure you that they are personally honest.” The implication being that they play the super-crooks’ game because they are stupid and hoodwinked.

>A capacity for being hoodwinked is not in itself a qualification for ruling. It is, let us admit, often a means of getting office in countries where office is elective. Jefferson thought the live men would beat out the cat’s-paws.

>The fascist hate of demi-liberal governments is based on the empiric observation that, in many cases, they don’t and have not.

[Anonymous No.18820756]

>>18820728
>London stank of decay back before 1914 and I have recorded the feel of it in a poem here and there. The live man in a modern city feels this sort of thing or perceives it as the savage perceives in the forest. I don’t know how many men keep alive in modern civilization but when one has the frankness to compare notes one finds that the intuition is confirmed just as neatly or almost as neatly as if the other man saw a shop sign.

>Thus London going mouldy back in say 1912 or 1911. After the War death was all over it.

>Italy was, on the other hand, full of bounce. I said all of this to a Lombard writer. I said: London is dead, Paris is tired, but here the place is alive. What they don’t know is plenty, but there is some sort of animal life here. If you put an idea into these people they would DO something.

>The Lombard writer said yes ... and looked across the hotel lobby; finally he said: “And you know it is terrible to be surrounded by all this energy and ... and ... not to have an idea to put into it.”

>Jefferson thought the formal features of the American system would work, and they did work till the time of general Grant but the condition of their working was that inside them there should be a de facto government composed of sincere men willing the national good. When the men of their understanding, and when the nucleus of the national mind hasn’t the moral force to translate knowledge into action I don’t believe it matters a damn what legal forms or what administrative forms there are in a government. The nation will get the staggers.

>And any means are the right means which will remagnetize the will and the knowledge.

>I think the American system de jure is probably quite good enough, if there were only 500 men with guts and the sense to USE it, or even with the capacity for answering letters, or printing a paper.

>Power is necessary to some acts, but neither Lenin nor Mussolini show themselves primarily as men thirsting for power. The great man is filled with a very different passion, the will toward order. Hence the mysteries and the muddles in inferior minds.

[Anonymous No.18820758]

>>18820302
I want to see their lists. It will be nothing but marxist drivel, right?

[Anonymous No.18820774]

>>18820621
>everyone who actually likes books that are highly-praised is just pretending to appear smart
what a cope. probably bitter that not everyone only reads YA

[Anonymous No.18820780]

>>18820758
gottem, praise kek

[Anonymous No.18820785]

Its pretty standard shit for the most part. Guess its missing whatever shitlib fotm crap a twitteroid would complain about being absent

[Anonymous No.18820798]

>>18820780
>>18820466
Come on twitterfag, give me your favorites.

[Anonymous No.18820812]

>>18820758
Implying twatterniggers read anything apart from ya/genre fiction

[Anonymous No.18820817]

who did it better?
https://letterboxd.com/smoothhands/list/lbg-top-50-kinos-of-all-time/

[Anonymous No.18820831]

>>18820324
Nothing. People on Twitter are threatened by the masculine, intellectual, quasi-fascist energy emanating from /lit/, but they are also secretly attracted to it and want to be dominated by it, since most people on there are either weak-willed, leftist (unattractive) women who mostly read YA and PC trash, or womanly queers. So they put up a front of mocking us, as if they were somehow better read than the majority of /lit/ users (which they are not), and try to call us unintelligent, close-minded or pretentious for actually having a modicum of taste. The ironic stance they take towards us is only a means of repressing their frustrated sexual desire. In short, if you are a /lit/ user, find out Twitter pussy or bussy IRL and dominate it with your Doric column-like knowledge of the Greeks and your unsubtly phallocentric postmodern tomes.

[Anonymous No.18820863]

We've been outed as pseuds bros

[Anonymous No.18820912]

>>18820621
contrarian losers

[Anonymous No.18820921]

>>18820831
nice, this post belongs in the /lit/ bible

[Anonymous No.18820932]

>>18820831
real sigma male grindset here

[Anonymous No.18820935]

>>18820302
t. twitter troon promoting twitter profile

[Anonymous No.18820945]

>>18820349
10 for me

[Anonymous No.18820955]

>>18820645
That sub is just /lit/ rejects they don't have sufficient cognitive autonomy to be compared to an alive cultural entity like /lit/

[Anonymous No.18820957]

>>18820831

[Anonymous No.18820969]

>>18820863
The God-as-author thing was done by the redditor compiler of the list tho

[Anonymous No.18821012]

>>18820831
Please you absolute faggot. /lit/ list literally has Harry Potter, Haruki Murakami, Herman Hesse, and other fantasy lit on it. The list clearly isn't meant to be taken seriously.
Or so I hope

[Anonymous No.18821053]

>>18820817
You can tell this is ancient because Brown Bunny is nowhere to be seen

[Anonymous No.18821075]

>>18820302
People in the replies are saying these are good picks, tho

[Anonymous No.18821076]

>>18820349
Already told you, 29 books.

[Anonymous No.18821096]

>>18820742
Woolf is on there. Cash in your dollars.

[Anonymous No.18821114]

>>18820969
Since the people who wrote the New Testament were (according to the canon) inspired by the Holy Ghost, God being the author is technically true.

[Anonymous No.18821121]

>>18820645
2014 is better than all.

[Anonymous No.18821128]

>>18821012
Strop trying this hard Jesus Christ, you are embarrassing. Literally the pretentious faggot the twitterdards describe. You're either underage or retarded.

[Anonymous No.18821137]

>>18820355
>>18820361
>>18820376
That is enough Tolstoy tranny.

[Anonymous No.18821142]

>>18820349
6. I'm new

[Anonymous No.18821149]

>>18820361
>>18820376
Peak reddit posts. Leave.

[Anonymous No.18821166]

>>18820863
How does the Bible not count as a book according to this moron? Even if you want to claim "hurr durr it's a collection of texts" it has been printed as a book for hundreds of years and the individual texts are almost never sold separately. I've never seen say Leviticus for example be sold as it's own text. It is always with the Bible.

[Anonymous No.18821224]

>>18820682
underrated

[Anonymous No.18821230]

>>18820831
lmao

[Anonymous No.18821259]

>>18820349
92 but I dropped FW and read only through 4 out of 7 books of SFLOT

[Anonymous No.18821265]

>>18821137
>>18821149
stay mad dostoniggers, tolstoy will be waiting for you still when you grow up

[Anonymous No.18821272]

>>18821128
>stop trying this hard
>literally trying to prove to your friends on 4chan that you're all actually masculine chads who will dominate the feminine twitter people with magical intellectual power and knowledge and shit and it is the fear of this great day of reckoning that make the twitter people mock you

im gonna give this one a 50/50 chance of being bait.

[Anonymous No.18821275]

>>18820349
How did Harry potter made the list? I thought it only appeared as a meme pick in the 2011 poll

[Anonymous No.18821285]

>>18820493
Probably saw infinite jest and discarded the whole thing

[Anonymous No.18821288]

>>18820349
I'm reading Book of the New Sun right now. Any one want to tell me how I feel about it?

[Anonymous No.18821290]

>>18821275
Rowling lurked and spam voted it into the list

[Anonymous No.18821295]

>>18820349
19 and i didn't finish 5 more

[Anonymous No.18821297]

>>18820645
You can see the women and nigger picks start to appear all together about the halfway point. It's so transparent

[Anonymous No.18821303]

>>18821265
Cope more

[Anonymous No.18821310]

>>18820691
Alan Moore got a bunch of threads back when it came out. I guess Alice in wonderland gets votes by those anons that are not very well read and struggle to fill a 10 picks form

[Anonymous No.18821320]

>>18821310
alice is a certified classic held in high regard by a great number of authors old and new. but you wouldn’t know that mr election tourist

[Anonymous No.18821331]

>>18821320
Eh. Wizard of oz was better

[Anonymous No.18821361]

>>18820691
There were literally multiple read-alongs of jerusalem, newfag

>>18821331
Both are top tier

[Anonymous No.18821364]

>>18821320
Alice is a valid choice for one of the greatest lit. The list is still a meme and more of a list of what anons have read than of the greatest literature though, fucking Haruki Muraksmi is on there ffs

[Anonymous No.18821366]

>>18820395
i really like this image

[Anonymous No.18821383]

>>18821166
The kingdom of god is INSIDE us.

[Anonymous No.18821394]

>>18821012
>>18821128
Harry Potter was there as a meme you retards

[Anonymous No.18821405]

>>18821265
>if I say nigger people won't realize I am a cryptoneoliberal zoomer and think I fit in

[Anonymous No.18821408]

>>18821297
Like Lord of the Rings or what? They all just seem like average books to me.

[Anonymous No.18821414]

>>18820621
You think they'd understand that a list is supposed to be general, and does not account for people' individual interests. I've never seen anyone who lists Michael Jackson, The Beatles and Taylor Swift as their favorite artists, but they seem to think that people who browse here are the type that would. Actual projection. The fact that they believe that such a list might encompass a single person's interests is proof of the fact that they haven't developed their own interests even a little bit in a single direction.

[Anonymous No.18821429]

>>18820863
>Person named #1 Digimon Poster thinks he can dunk on anyone.

Holy shit.

[Anonymous No.18821433]

>>18821303
>>18821405
yes i'm the zoomer, not the retards who learned about dostoyevsky from jordan peterson lel

[Anonymous No.18821447]

>>18821433
So that's where you heard of Dosto. Lel

[Anonymous No.18821448]

>>18821433
Dostoevsky was on top of the lists before JP got popular, you absolute moron

[Anonymous No.18821453]

>>18820302
>a list of constituting nothing but canon
>funny
yup

[Anonymous No.18821462]

>>18820831
BASED

[Anonymous No.18821464]

>>18821448
And we had the same arguments back then too. However, that doesn't change the fact that you are a /pol/zoomer

[Anonymous No.18821474]

>>18821464
The anti-dosto sentiment got much stronger around the time /lit/ started larping as twitter and jannies started deleting "transphobia"

[Anonymous No.18821481]

>>18820390
>I'm just unnecessarily defiant and refuse to read "classics"
Why

[Anonymous No.18821482]

>>18821297
What's transparent is your complete fucking pathology, that's a list from /lit/.

[Anonymous No.18821483]

>>18821474
And when did this happen? I haven't lurked much since 2017

[Anonymous No.18821491]

>>18821474
DOSTOESCHY so ANTISEMITE

[Anonymous No.18821493]

>>18820349
14, finished
3, unfinished

[Anonymous No.18821496]

>>18820390
Literally any of them, they are not difficult.

[Anonymous No.18821505]

>>18821483
/pol/ and reddit (which is the same) happened.

[Anonymous No.18821510]

>>18821483
A 4-5 months ago, its a gradual process

[Anonymous No.18821512]

>>18821408
Like Austen, woolf, Ellison, Wright, Bronte all appearing in very close proximity to each other. Seems to me like they submitted about 6-7 of their actual favorites when filling the form and then remembered they are supposed to put women and niggers too otherwise they are colonized or something. Maybe it's just me but it seems weird

[Anonymous No.18821518]

>>18821482
No it isn't. Learn to read

[Anonymous No.18821532]

>>18821518
Jesus christ.

[Anonymous No.18821542]

>>18821394
That's the point you illiterate retard. The whole list is a meme and mostly represents what /lit/ read or want to meme with, not something to flex or denote superior taste.

[Anonymous No.18821547]

>>18821483
>Tranny pretending that he isn't a newfag
Fooling no one, buddy.

[Anonymous No.18821553]

>>18821510
4-5 months ago? This place is unrecognizable from the old days and you are crying because the two brands of zoomers are disagreeing with each other?
>>18821505
Yes I can recall this, the redditors came in 2014 because of retards on /v/, drove moot off and killed pretty much all board culture that was left, and then the /pol/fags a couple years later to finish the job. I finally graduated and had a real life and stopped posting for the most part after that, but I still like to visit every once in a while. I wonder if some of the old fellas are still around

[Anonymous No.18821569]

>>18821553
You should just give up this place, frankly.
I come here too much, but there's nothing left.

[Anonymous No.18821573]

>>18821547
How can you call someone a tranny and a newfag at the same time. Accusing people of being trannies is newfaggotry. It started like a year ago at most. Trannies didn't even exist really back in 2012

[Anonymous No.18821576]

>>18820831
FUCKING BASED-PILLED

[Anonymous No.18821579]

>>18821573
>This post
If you want to maintain your facade, you better stop posting quick.

[Anonymous No.18821581]

>>18821573
it doesn't even make sense as an insult, i know i'm not a tranny

[Anonymous No.18821591]

>>18821288
You think it's alright since it is orders of magnitude better than most genre stuff but you don't get the hype and think it is grossly overrated in here

[Anonymous No.18821596]

>>18821581
>making sense of an insult
So tell me about those ol' days that only exist in your head!

[Anonymous No.18821600]

>>18821579
I really don't understand why you are so upset that I posted on /lit/ before you. I'm glad you found a place to fit in and waste time. I think it's shit and I preferred /lit/ during my time, but that was our /lit/ and it's clear that it's not something that exists anymore. At the end of the day, what I was doing ten years ago and what you are doing now is basically the same thing

[Anonymous No.18821608]

>>18821600
this is how I feel too
reminds me of that Hunter S Thompson excerpt

[Anonymous No.18821623]

>>18821600
>why you are so upset that I posted on /lit/ before you.
Because you didn't. It's so easy to tell when newfaggots act like they been here for over an year.
>the redditors came in 2014 because of retards on /v/, drove moot off and killed pretty much all board culture that was left, and then the /pol/fags a couple years later to finish the job.
Reads exactly like a 2nd hand account of a post 16er cribbled from wiki and reddit posts.

[Anonymous No.18821639]

>>18821553
>4-5 months ago? This place is unrecognizable from the old days and you are crying because the two brands of zoomers are disagreeing with each other?
Yeah, let's pretend that /oldlit/ where people unironically thought DFW was the greatest writer in history was any better.
The issue now is that jannies/mods are themselves trying to transform the board into reddit. It has been going on for years by now. I once got banned for calling Jemisin a talentless identitarian nigerwoman but 99.99% of the time saying nigger is obviously fine. It only recently started having significant impact. Mods updates the wiki, started banning /pol/posting under the pretext of "low quality" and "meaningless catchphrase", etc.
They deleted Platonism general, probably because Platonism is loosely associated with fascism for some reason.
Twitter screencap threads are allowed 99% of the time even if they are political/off-topic. Their deletion used to be a coin flip and jannies usually pretended that the only reason they didn't delete all of them was a lack of resources.
Reddit screencaps? Same thing.
I don't browse /pol/. I don't care about politics. But Jannies seem to. I tried saying ywnbaw in /wg/ as a clever word-play where the last w "woman" becomes "writer" and got warned. Fucking niggers.
Essentially hiro wants that add money but marketing jews won't give him any if 4chan continues to have the reputation of le right-winger racists.
Just look at the reddit post. Its an inside job. Hiro is trying to normalize blue boards. Make it look like we don't hate women and niggers. I don't hate women and niggers. I don't read their books though and I will pretend I hate women and niggers. I find it funny. But the wallstreet jew won't give hiro ad money if Hiro allows me to be overly homophobic.
Empiricist thread deleted, reneissance art thread deleted, climate change alarmism thread up, le enlightened centrist twitter screencap up.
Wake up before its too late.

[Anonymous No.18821640]

>>18820621
>popularity contest
>wtf where’s the shit no one has ever heard of

[Anonymous No.18821651]

>>18820655
This is the official list

[Anonymous No.18821661]

Me and my lit frens are based
Everyone on shitter should be shot

[Anonymous No.18821665]

I'd be interested to see a book list from Twitter.

[Anonymous No.18821677]

>>18821623
So you have chosen to still be upset. That's ok. In our hearts we know the truth. Although I will give you credit for not pretending to have been here for more than a couple years, but I have to take away the credit all the same for your complete derangement

[Anonymous No.18821691]

>>18821012
This would be valid criticism of the /lit/ list if not for the fact that those are the only ones that Twitter bitch would actually agree with.

[Anonymous No.18821702]

>>18821677
The more you post, the more obvious it becomes that you are a newshitter. You haven't even been able to cleanse the reddit-tier passive aggressiveness from your way of writing. Keep embarrassing yourself.

[Anonymous No.18821709]

>>18820645
>>18820349
I hate anglos so much it's unreal

[Anonymous No.18821712]

>>18820349
The Odyssey
The Iliad
The Catcher in the Rye
The Lord of the Rings
The Count of Monte Cristo
Yes I know I'm a pleb

[Anonymous No.18821713]

>>18821651
stale meme

[Anonymous No.18821717]

>>18820302
t.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_OBbMrmmwo

[Anonymous No.18821722]

>>18820758
If you consider Cultural Marxist drivel Marxist drivel, then yeah. Most your typical tumblr/twitter/instagram slut is going to scream how much they hate capitalism and love using big tech to attack their peers.

[Anonymous No.18821729]

>>18821702
bro why are you sperging out

[Anonymous No.18821738]

>>18821713
Timeless really

[Anonymous No.18821746]

>>18821729
Pointing the obvious is not sperging.

[Sneed !jjVySneed6 No.18821777]

>>18820302
>this list is for people who are try hard hurr durr

Really a brainlet take, those books are "hard" mostly for dumb people. I remember when I took advice from retards like pic related and avoided books that sounded difficult like Pynchon and Joyce... huge mistake, Pynchon and Joyce are awesome, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are geniuses, Moby Dick is very cool. The only book that I read and disliked from pic related was Blood Meridian. /lit/ has a good taste.

[Anonymous No.18821790]

>>18820302
So not only is this board getting an influx of r*dditors, it's going to get an influx of Twitter twats. R.I.P. /lit/

[Anonymous No.18821813]

>>18821729
He's right, you come across as a newfag but the main thing above and beyond that, the thing that gives you away is your faggy passive aggression. You don't just confront him, you try to slither around him and "contain" him with emotional and social implications. Also nobody likes trannies.

[Anonymous No.18821831]

>>18821790
Nah they effeminately get upset if they see words like nigger and faggot being used and they also can't cope with "discussions" that don't involve a lot of low effort back and forth ass patting like "I know right, ______"

/lit/ sucks but at least if you post gay or retarded shit people just ignore you or rebuke you. That is like natural antibodies to twitterbrain/r*ddit posters, they feel as if they're being attacked.

[Anonymous No.18821840]

>>18821677
This is such a fucking reddit post. Kill yourself retarded cunt.

[Anonymous No.18821867]

>>18821831
The problem is how long is the attention going to last? Because chances are the tourist who discovered /lit/ has yearly charts and posted it on R*ddit is probably going on this board again and will continue to do so. Now we're going to get people who are going to be absolute nuisances in an effort to spite /lit/.

[Anonymous No.18821895]

>>18820418
Lol what kind of a fag actually reads the books that are assigned in high school?

[Anonymous No.18821910]

>>18821895
Are you telling me you shirked when your fat SSRI-taking mid twenties teacher assigned you 17 books in a row about whiny blacks and oriental tranny immigrants? In your history class that never talked about history?

[Anonymous No.18821923]

>>18820355
>look guys, my opinion is different from the norm!!!

[Anonymous No.18821936]

>>18821746
>>18821813
>>18821840
autistic samefag

[Anonymous No.18821953]

>>18821936
Yes, it was me. I'm sorry everyone for being a retarded zoomer. Sometimes I just feel so lonely and need people to respond to me

[Anonymous No.18821968]

>>18820349
19 fininished
1 unfinished.

[Anonymous No.18821977]

>>18821953

[Anonymous No.18821991]

>>18821953
Nice shoops

[Anonymous No.18821998]

>>18821953
pretty sad desu

[Anonymous No.18822015]

>>18820349
Brothers Karamazov
Lolita
Crime and Punishment
Blood Meridian
Bible (several times)
The Stranger
The Trial
Divine Comedy (only Inferno)
Anna Karenina
War and Peace
100 Years of Solitude
The Odyssey
Hamlet
1984
Iliad
Notes from the Underground
Catch 22
Book of the New Sun (Jesus, how did that get on here, are we adding Bakker next?)


Based on the top 30 I'm around 59%

[Anonymous No.18822037]

>>18821998
You do get it right?

[Anonymous No.18822051]

>>18820302
What year is that? Anything post 2016 is tainted by plebbitfugees, and some of them were completely shat up by retarded /pol/fags, who think that unutterably gay flavor-of-the-month polemics is superior to Hamlet

[Anonymous No.18822061]

>>18821953
KEK

[Anonymous No.18822067]

>>18821429
about being childish none the less. these people have 0 self awareness

[Anonymous No.18822071]

>>18820349
57. Only the good ones.

By the way, Finnegans Wake is schizophrenic wank for pretentious posers.

[Anonymous No.18822087]

>>18821639
Lol what do they have against empiricism?

[Anonymous No.18822096]

>>18821953
>>18821936
Actual samefag. Kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.18822113]

>>18821936
>>18821953
>being this mad at ownage

[Anonymous No.18822121]

>>18820333
6th post best post, confirmed by the triple threes.

[Anonymous No.18822125]

>>18821953
Fucking kek

[Anonymous No.18822128]

>>18820831
le website i use makes me le sexually attractive le mao

[Anonymous No.18822130]

>>18822071
Finnegans Wake is good, just don't try too hard. I read it one page a day for a couple years. It's a good experience

[Anonymous No.18822142]

>>18821953
this kills the /pol/tard

[Anonymous No.18822157]

>>18821936
I'm the middle one. >>18821953 would be funnier if it weren't a tranny doing it for butthurt reasons.

[Anonymous No.18822172]

>>18822157
Tf are you talking about

[Anonymous No.18822178]

>>18822157
take your meds schizo

[Anonymous No.18822183]

>>18822157
I'm the last one.

[Anonymous No.18822190]

>>18821953
It's ok buddy, it happens to all of us :)

[Anonymous No.18822201]

>>18821953
Wait a second. Is this (>>18821936) (You) too?

[Anonymous No.18822212]

>>18822201
Everyone in this thread, except (You), is me.

[Anonymous No.18822214]

>>18820349
Rolling for next book

[Anonymous No.18822221]

>>18821936
me
>>18821953
me
>>18821968
me
>>18821977
me
>>18821991
me
>>18821998
me
>>18822015
me
>>18822037
me
>>18822051
me
>>18822061
me
>>18822067
me
>>18822071
me
>>18822087
me
>>18822096
me
>>18822113
me
>>18822121
me
>>18822125
me
>>18822128
me
>>18822130
me
>>18822142
me
>>18822157
me
>>18822172
me
>>18822178
me
>>18822183
me
>>18822190
me
>>18822201
all me

[Anonymous No.18822226]

>>18822221
>off by 1

[Anonymous No.18822227]

>>18822212
No, I am Yu

[Anonymous No.18822234]

4cuckbros we are getting owned by this redditorchad and his html tricks...

[Anonymous No.18822235]

What the fuck is going on in this thread?

[Anonymous No.18822260]

if dubs, tommy pinecone dies in his sleep tonight

[Anonymous No.18822273]

>>18822235
so THIS is the power of tolstoy v dosto slapfights

[Anonymous No.18822275]

>>18822260
Get fuxked

[Anonymous No.18822282]

>>18820302
The replies to that tweet make me so angry. All they can do is laugh at God being put as the author of the Bible or how some of these are read in high school English classes. These people are the epitome of online brain rot. There is no substance to these people's ideas. All they are capable of doing is pointing out what they perceive to be a small error or inconsistency and smugly posture about it. They are not capable of any kind of intellectual honesty or depth.

[Anonymous No.18822287]

>>18820433
Kys nigger

[Anonymous No.18822298]

>>18822260
Now that this is just a /lit/ shitpost thread, what ever happened to that book he was supposed to be writing

[Anonymous No.18822301]

why do they act like no one can enjoy anything but YA/genre fiction?

[Anonymous No.18822323]

Please ramp up the usage of the words nigger and faggot in the coming days to deter twitterfags from posting here

[Anonymous No.18822342]

>>18822298
It was never real dumbass. He's like 100 years old

[Anonymous No.18822371]

Twitter posts should be an auto-ban. You can't proof this wrong.

That being said I always found the top 100 list pretty cringe since it's basically just what people here think should be in the top 100.
Sometimes a cool and edgy book like Mein Kampf makes the cut, or some other meme-shit, which is actually a better representation of this boards taste than most of the list.

Also this: >>18822323

SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
ADRESSING ALL FAGGOT NIGGER REDDIT TRANNIES IN THIS THREAD:
IMMEDIATELY KILL YOURSELF!!!!
SNEED

[Anonymous No.18822379]

>>18820349
13, but most of those books are boring. I read more non fiction anyway

[Anonymous No.18822393]

>these are the people criticizing anyone who likes reading classics

[Anonymous No.18822400]

>>18820324
Very young male shit I guess
It's really not that bad tho

[Anonymous No.18822406]

>>18820349
13

[Anonymous No.18822445]

>>18820302
What the fuck is that thing in the profile picture? That can't be the OP. No one who looked like that would post their picture on the Internet where they can be ridiculized anonimously... right?

[Anonymous No.18822456]

>>18822393
These niggas live in the age of information and can't be bothered to google the definition of a word they don't understand

[Anonymous No.18822494]

you know, sometimes I feel like this board is trash and near unusable, but reading threads like that make me realize how good we have it here. love you guys

[Anonymous No.18822497]

>>18822128
Yes.

[Anonymous No.18822506]

Hey everyone, check this book!
GOTHIC VIOLENCE is a fictional dark comedy by author, Mike Ma. Though is a continuation of the first work, this book stands alone. GOTHIC VIOLENCE follows a gang of jihadist surfers who use insider trading profit to disable the national power grid and capture Florida amid total panic
Get it here: https://www.amazon.com/Gothic-Violence-Mike-Ma/dp/B096Z7J6C1

[Anonymous No.18822526]

>>18820309

It's the best of the best. The book has something for everyone.

[Anonymous No.18822538]

>>18822526
And the section where levin mows the field with his peasants is just so damn comfy

[Anonymous No.18822556]

>>18820682
Yep

[Anonymous No.18822899]

Stoner is a horrendously overrated book.

[Anonymous No.18822930]

>>18820682
At least he's not self aware. He can function as a mindless zombie and still be happy. Think of the zoomer who is aware of the absolute state their generation is in; there aren't many of them but they exist. I'll be amazed if we haven't all killed ourselves by 2030.

[Anonymous No.18822942]

>"why is a popularity list full of popular literature and not obscure shit"

>>18822506
post it in ebook/pdf format or fuck off

[Anonymous No.18823032]

>>18821481
Probably for the same reason I haven't watched any of the Marvel movies. If something feels over-hyped it just puts me off.

>>18821496
It's not about them being difficult, I just know that if I pick a random one and dislike it I'll end up dropping the entire thing. For now, though, I chose to start with García Márquez's book, since it's pretty much required reading in spicland.

[Anonymous No.18823057]

>>18820349
A little under 30. Rolling for next book

[Anonymous No.18823134]

>>18820349
42

[Anonymous No.18823195]

>>18823032
>Probably for the same reason I haven't watched any of the Marvel movies. If something feels over-hyped it just puts me off.
Fair point. And I bet many of the classics are pushed by the elites as part of an agenda. But I like to read the classics nonetheless because it teaches me to write better prose. I don't have to adopt the content.

[Anonymous No.18823208]

>>18822128
post body.

[Anonymous No.18823245]

>>18822298
dat nigga ded.

[Anonymous No.18823250]

But none of you have read anything from the list

[Anonymous No.18823270]

>>18820349
This list smells like my grandmother.
Has anyone really read this outdated shit?

[Anonymous No.18823327]

>>18823270
Back to Goodreads

[Anonymous No.18823329]

>>18823250
theyre basically the only books that people here read and discuss lol

[Anonymous No.18823337]

>>18820831
You sound like BAP. When I read your post my kneels started bending on their own. Undoubtedly based.

[Anonymous No.18823370]

>>18820302
Has anyone actually argued about this list that wasn't
>lel no women
>lel no black trans women authors
Because I haven't seen it yet.

[Anonymous No.18823372]

Why can't /lit/ be muh sekrit club again?

[Anonymous No.18823380]

>>18820349
30

[Anonymous No.18823452]

>>18820349
18, and I've got about seven others from the list on my shelf that I'm yet to read.

[Anonymous No.18823483]

>>18823370
There’s nothing to argue, as one of the Twitterfags said >>18820621 it’s a pretty standard list, the point is that these Twitter people cannot stand that such regular list could come from Le evil 4chin raciest hacker website. They can’t grasp into their minds that 4chan is just a forum for them everything associated with this site is inherently evil. And to be honest, I think it should be kept that way, so that these Twitter people are too scared of confronting 4chan boogey man and they don’t come here and shit up the board with their pseudness and college marxism

[Anonymous No.18823494]

>>18820359
This dude is like almost 30 I’m pretty sure

[Anonymous No.18823512]

>>18821012
what's wrong with hesse lol

[Anonymous No.18823545]

>>18820349
15, but there are several I've read some/much of but didn't finish.

[Anonymous No.18823560]

>>18820831
>>18820324
>>18820302
it's literally just a random list only a small number of people who care about lists contributed to. the majority of board had no say, wants no say, and most of these are mediocre meme books anyway. that's probably why it's 'amusing'.

[Anonymous No.18823575]

>>18823483
I agree that's why I include nigger in every post I make. You should all do the same.

[Anonymous No.18823581]

>>18822128
Kind of true. Have you seen 4chan mentioned elsewhere? It's treated as a unified and mysterious entity. A dangerous, bad, fascinating character in their mind (rather than what it is which is just a fucking imageboard). Although its cultural output is irrelevant today, it's still in the internet's mind.

[Anonymous No.18823585]

So what is wrong with this list? Any lit list looks like that.

[Anonymous No.18823589]

>>18822371
This. fuck Twitter trannies

[Anonymous No.18823590]

>>18823494
If you're on social media, you're a retarded zoomer.

[Anonymous No.18823599]

>>18823483
That's why the 2020 had mein Kampf #1 and why this year will list will have it too

[Anonymous No.18823607]

>>18820376
Book of the new sun is a great book but it is NOT number 29

[Anonymous No.18823616]

>>18822445
>>18820739
why you gotta roast lead singer of The Cure, Robert Smith, like that ;-;. he can be as big a trash fire in his old age as he wants he deserves it

[Anonymous No.18823626]

>>18820645
>87. My struggle
They were so close

[Anonymous No.18823654]

>>18820395
> crowdsourced
> /lit/core

you seem to misunderstand

[Anonymous No.18823661]

>>18823372
perpetually online zoomers

[Anonymous No.18823671]

>>18820333

[Anonymous No.18823689]

>>18823616
Wait, that thing is Robert Smith? No kidding?

[Anonymous No.18823747]

>>18823689
never confirmed it but he's got a pretty distinctive washed out post wall tranny at 62 look

[Anonymous No.18823899]

>>18823747
he’s an entertainer who deserves no end of credit for remaining committed to his bit. i will hear no fat bob slander

[Anonymous No.18823941]

>>18822899
It is placed way too high, but I'm glad that I got memed into reading it by anons

[Anonymous No.18824057]

>>18820728
>I've been desperately trying to finish Moby dick all year
Literally sounds like a personal problem

[Anonymous No.18824072]

>>18820349
>Hamlet
>Crime and Punishment
>1984
>Great Gatsby
I'm a brainlet...

[Anonymous No.18824101]

>>18820831
Kek

[Anonymous No.18824103]

>>18820349
15, but I only started reading about 2 years ago.

[Anonymous No.18824195]

this is the real list

[Anonymous No.18824206]

>>18820349
This is a 4chan list right? Not some reddit board?

[Anonymous No.18824214]

>>18824206
It's a 4chan list... made by a redditor.
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/ozyfj4/every_year_4chan_ranks_their_100_best_books_of/.
I have no idea why it's being posted here so much all of a sudden.

[Anonymous No.18824245]

>>18820349
>>18820302
This looks pretty much identical to every "top 100 novels" list, maybe in a different order and with some substitutions. But I don't understand the methodology behind it, did they seriously just crawl this site patternmatching book title mentions?

[Anonymous No.18824385]

[Anonymous No.18824388]

>>18824245
kys newfag.
go fuck off to where you came from, kile nigger.

[Anonymous No.18824403]

>>18820302
like 20? I dunno. I read books I like; and most /lit/ is adequate but what doesn't interest me I don't intend to read Now.

[Anonymous No.18824410]

>>18824195
Election tourism the list. The worst I have seen thus far.

[Anonymous No.18824414]

>>18824385
Lol what a retard

[Anonymous No.18824416]

>>18824214
it's gained a lot of traction elsewhere.
doubt it will be the cause of any new long-term users

[Anonymous No.18824421]

>>18820401
Card quit fucking shilling yourself and trying to catch on like Gardner. I don't even think you're a bad writer or anything but quit trying to make it "happen"

[Anonymous No.18824452]

>>18824421
Kind of this. If you want to mimic Gardner you have to put out a genuine schizo book like CotC.

[Anonymous No.18824461]

>>18824416
yep probably, when searching for that thread, i saw that they post /lit/'s top 100 every year for a while now.

[Anonymous No.18824473]

>>18824416
>doubt it will be the cause of any new long-term users
No but tourists will shit up the board for months

[Anonymous No.18824496]

>>18824473
That implies the board was good before they got here but I've seen people whining about board quality for as long as the board has existed

[Anonymous No.18824595]

>>18824385
if this is what professional academic mindset is it can fuck off

[Anonymous No.18824603]

>>18824385
>>18824595
It's like they don't understand how an aggregated top 100 list works.

[Anonymous No.18824604]

>>18824385
how can a triple digit book list even produce historically significant context of individual titles on the list. it's a book list not a syllabus/class

[Anonymous No.18824612]

>>18824603
yeah you beat me
>>18824604

[Anonymous No.18824620]

>>18824612

[Anonymous No.18824631]

>>18820395
Why'd you post a picture of me?
By the way I have 9 inch long penis with a 6 inch girth.

[Anonymous No.18824636]

>>18820349
29

[Anonymous No.18824637]

>>18822899
You are correct. It is mediocre, at best you could find it slightly better than average if you have a particularly unsatisfying, frustrating life.

[Anonymous No.18824655]

Yeah /lit/ is terrible we should all stop using it and exclusively use twitter and reddit from now on.

[Anonymous No.18824754]

>>18820349
26

[Anonymous No.18824812]

>>18824385
What a fucking pseud

[Anonymous No.18824816]

>>18820309
Truly awesome.

[Anonymous No.18824843]

>>18820349
Crime and Punishment
The Stranger
Anna Karenina
War and Peace
The Metamorphosis
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Republic
Confessions
Nausea

[Anonymous No.18824850]

>>18820349
This list honestly is kind of bad. Not bad for an entry into literature though. I've read a little over half

[Anonymous No.18824906]

time to send this thread to the trash

[Anonymous No.18824909]

[Anonymous No.18824911]

a toast to a better thread

[Anonymous No.18824917]

>>18820349
30 and I stopped reading a bit over a year ago.

[Anonymous No.18824969]

>>18820309
It's fantastic. Unfortunate that it lives in the shadow of War & Peace.

[Anonymous No.18825001]

>>18824385
What's up with all these retards just trying to flex? A selection of a community's favorite books of all time is not intended to be some guide to literature. Yes Schiller is important but who the fuck has a book by Schiller as one of his favorites? Nobody, retard.

[Anonymous No.18825017]

>>18824969
I don't think it really does. Anna Karenina is far more popular with women and I would wager that it is also more widely read in general.

[Anonymous No.18825035]

>>18824655
here here!

[Anonymous No.18825046]

>>18824385
>you need to read these other authors in order to appreciate how good these books are, therefore they are not good books
do they not understand what a "top 100" list implies?

[Anonymous No.18825143]

>>18824421
would be easy way to kill off these posts if someone just uploaded the books and posted them every time they try to advertise there shit...

but no one wants to buy it first, which is fair

[Anonymous No.18825169]

>>18824414
>>18824595
>>18824603
>>18824812
>>18825001
>>18825046
>twitterfag makes a perfectly well-reasoned argument criticizing the nature of these top 100 lists and why you should never follow them if you want to become a well read individual
>cue di/lit/tantes kneejerk reacting over a perceived attack on their board, as if it were an attack on their own character
If that post originated here, everyone would reply "Based".

[Anonymous No.18825170]

>>18820324
Just a way to imply that the books on the list are below them without actually explicitly claiming to have read most of them or offer a concrete critique on why they are "amusing"

[Anonymous No.18825184]

>>18820831
I'm on the other side of the autistic internet political saloon and even I'll say this is based, but in a "every time someone calls Freud a neurotic Jew his ideas become more true" sort of way

[Anonymous No.18825201]

>pssshhh, what is this? a list of books everyone read in high school?

[Anonymous No.18825204]

>>18821573
>started a year ago at most
somehow even more of a newfag than the 2016 newfags

[Anonymous No.18825240]

>>18820831
Anon.....4chan has traditionally been known as the place for fat geeks. If you were bullied you went here. While reddit has changed its image to the point that everyone uses it now, the point still stands for 4chan. You only come here because you’re not wanted anywhere else. This site has a “masculine energy” because it’s primarily male and proud of it, but that doesn’t mean we’re chads, far from it. As for intelligent, browsing this place for too long will genuinely lower yours. This place is good for moderate discussion and quick recs but spend a month on here and you’ll find your ability to properly converse will be completely destroyed. The “quasi fascism” is just because of post 2016 politics. While I’d argue they’re not better than us, it’s not by a lot. /lit/ users aren’t hyper masculine alpha males with dicks that slap their ankles, and browsing it won’t make you that either. The true chads are those that don’t waste their time with either.

[Anonymous No.18825243]

>>18825169
>a perfectly well-reasoned argument
its not though, the person argued that the list of favorite books is invalid because it doesn't include "important works for understanding why they\se great books are special" which doesn't make a single fucking shred of sense because we are talking about a list of favorite books not a reading list for understanding literature as an artform. its not even an argument for this context, let alone a "well reasoned" one

[Anonymous No.18825254]

>everyone rightfully shits on the top 100 lists for being an incoherent mish-mash of what someone thinks the general consensus is
>but when a twitter user complains about it everyone comes to its defense
the sheer hypocrisy of this board stuns me.

[Anonymous No.18825289]

>>18825254
pretty sure these lists are made by vote, not "what someone thought the consensus is"

[Anonymous No.18825292]

>>18820349
roll for next

[Anonymous No.18825312]

>>18825169
Here's your (You). Top 100 lists never were reading lists or syllabi. They have never claimed to be. If you are using them for that purpose, that is your problem. What that Twitter user said was not "well-reasoned" at all, it was plain arrogant posturing. He clearly began it as an attempted dismissal of this board's taste (hence the statement "this list is indeed bad" -- "this" list, not all top 100 lists), but then shifted his argument mid-tweet to something generally applicable to all top 100 lists, probably without even recognising it himself because he's such an ignorant pseud. If he had posted that here he would've been torn to shreds for his pseud faggotry immediately.

[Anonymous No.18825324]

>>18825243
>noooo it's just our favorites list it's not meant to be taken seriously!!!
You reason like a sperg. If the list is trash, then it's trash. Seethe and dilate undergrad.

[Anonymous No.18825355]

>>18825324

but that is not even remotely what i said though, i said it was a favorites list and its meant to be taken as a list of favorite books not a how to guide for getting into literature