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What pseudo-intellectuals read: J.D. Salinger, Ayn Rand, Aldous Huxley, Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Ray Bradbury, George Orwell, Karl Marx, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, Valerie Solanas, Jared Diamond, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Atwood, Howard Zinn, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen Dubner, Brett Easton Ellis, Terry Pratchett, Richard Dawkins, Philip K. Dick

What real intellectuals read: Jonathan Swift, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T.R. Malthus, Adam Smith, Thomas Paine, Niccolo Machiavelli, Edward Gibbon, Virginia Woolf, William Makepeace Thackeray, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mary Wollstonecroft, Jane Austen, P.G. Wodehouse, William F. Buckley, Christopher Buckley

>> No.1947135

If this is a troll, you really need to up your game, son.

>> No.1947134

lmao Christopher Buckley

I mean, lmao William F. Buckley, too, but Christ almighty

>> No.1947136

What pseudo-Scotsmen eat: Korean food, hamburgers, dumplings, fried chicken

What true Scotsmen eat: Haggis

>> No.1947138 [DELETED] 

>>1947130
>mfw I just enjoy reading

>> No.1947141

>>1947134

Christopher Buckley is nowhere near the man his father was.

>> No.1947144

Tell me, OP, what can I do to be as hipster as you?

>> No.1947145

Any self-entitled intellectual is not worth listening to.

>> No.1947147

A real intellectual wouldn't make threads like this.

>> No.1947149

What pseudo-intellectuals read: things I like.
What real intellectuals read: things I don't like.

>> No.1947150

>>1947136
Oddly enough, I'm a Scotsman who eats haggis, hamburgers and dumplings.

Just sayin'.

>> No.1947153

>implying a person who cares about being truly educated wouldn't try reading almost all those authors

>> No.1947155

>>1947130
A real intellectual wouldn't classify authors as being intellectuals or pseudo-intellectuals. 0/10

>> No.1947159

this is the most arbitrary bullshit listing i've seen and you are a fucking retard

jane austen and edith wharton? fuck... you amateur troll idiot

>> No.1947165

What pseudointellectuals insist on thinking: pseudointellectuals are a thing

What true intellectuals think: ""Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

>> No.1947179

only true pseudo intelectuals know that you can arrange a complete philosophic view with 90's gangsta rap and children's stories.

BIG SHOUT OUT TO HANSEL AND GRETTLE

PEACE TO THE THREE BILLY GOATS GRUFF

>> No.1947180

what pseudo-intellectuals do: post on /lit/

what real intellectuals don't do: post on /lit/

>> No.1947183

I think Pynchon should pop down to the other list, and Woolf maaaaybe up to the top.

And, I've read a bunch from both but not all from either. Do I win?

>> No.1947182

OP JUST TROLLED THE FUCK OUT OF A LOT OF YOU.

GOOD GOING GUYS.

>> No.1947187

good: JD Salinger, Aldous Huxkley, George Orwell, Albert Camus, Howard Zinn, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Paine

bad: Ayn Rand, William F. Buckley

>> No.1947189

I read Joyce Carol Oates.

>> No.1947192

>>1947130
it would help in evaluating the validity of your groupings if you provided some definition of pseudo-intellectual apart from simply, one who reads mainly Group 1 books, to the exclusion of mainly Group 2 books.

>> No.1947193

Yes, it's a variation of that old favourite:

Everything I like is great
Everything I don't like is shit

>> No.1947199
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1947199

If you haven't read Nicomachean Ethics

you dont know SHIT about philosophy

>> No.1947200

>>1947130

Hey /lit/, remember when I told you the "pseudo-intellectual/real intellectual" guy was right-wing, and one of you gainsaid me because he didn't understand politics?

> What real intellectuals read: Adam Smith, William F. Buckley, Christopher Buckley

Now do you get it?

>> No.1947202

what people who see through this bullshit read: Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Arthur Rimbaud, JG Ballard, Ovid, Oscar Wilde, Peter Kropotkin

>> No.1947208

I agree with most of the above list except
>Marx
>Orwell
>Camus
>Huxley

>> No.1947210

>>1947202

you forgot umberto eco

>> No.1947227

but i've read most on both lists :(

>> No.1947228

>>1947165

No, shit-eater.

>> No.1947235

>>1947228
No, it's true.

>> No.1947239

What if i read Dostoevsky and Camus? Am i a pseudo-real intellectual!?

>> No.1947241

>>1947239
NO, YOU SIMPLY DON'T GIVE A FUCK WHAT SOME OTHER PERSON THINKS OF WHAT YOU READ.

>> No.1947244

>>1947235
NO!!!! this

>>1947179
you all trying to cross the bridge yo. Gettin owned like a ho, yo the the MUTHERFUKIN TROLL

>> No.1947254

Tru intellectuals (4 lyfe): Faulkner, Shakespeare, Joyce Carol Oates, Tolstoy, Proust, Henry James, Norman Mailer, Eudora Welty, Stanley Elkin, John Cheever, Chekhov, Turgenev, Wordsworth, D.H. Lawrence, Emily Dickinson, Alice Munro, Jane Austen, Hawthorne

Drooling frauds who don't understand real art: Pynchon, Joyce, DFW, Bronte sisters, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dostoevsky, Gaddis, Eliot, Pound

>> No.1947258

>>1947235

No it isn't, candidate for gassing.

>> No.1947262

>>1947258
Yes it is. Candidate for hugs.

>> No.1947264

>>1947254
WHERE'S BELY?

>> No.1947267

Thankfully I've learned to tune out every time I hear/read the words "Real ______ (exposition)"

You can fill in the blank with whatever you like.

>> No.1947273

>>1947262

No, slave.

>> No.1947274

>>1947273
Yes, buddy.

>> No.1947278

>>1947274

No, slave.

>> No.1947287

>>1947278
You aren't very much fun. A real troll would actually try and bullshit his way out of this argument, rather than just become a boring retort set on a loop.

>> No.1947288

>>1947287

No, slave.

>> No.1947297

>>1947288
Just keep saying that, would you? Imma lay down some phat beats over it, we're gonna do /lit/'s first freestyle.

>> No.1947304

>>1947297

How about you meet a real live black person first, slave?

>> No.1947309

>>1947304
I don't see what race has to do with anything.

Also, you went off rhythm, so now we have start over.

>> No.1947322

What I read...
Aldous Huxley, Ray Bradbury, George ORwell, Karl Marx, Terry Pratchett, Philop K. Dick, Jonathan Swift, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Paine, Niccolo Machiavelli, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen

I guess I'm half-n-half, eh?

>> No.1947339

>>1947309

The fact that you're frightened of black people but use 'ghetto' language to try to gainsay the assertion of your born slavery is important, slave.

>> No.1947345

>>1947339
I didn't even mention black people.

And come on, I can't work with what you're giving me here. We had something good going with "No, slave" and then you went and got all up yourself. Stick to the basics kid, for both our sakes.

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>>1947130
> implying Camus was not a true intellectual

>> No.1947977

Your list is too mainstream for me OP

>> No.1947980

>>1947189
I listen to Hall and Oates.

>> No.1948068

What pseudo intellectuals do:
Make shitty threads like this on /lit/.

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>>1947254
>>1947130
Pynchon too hard...

>> No.1948836

real intellectuals don't browse 4chan. we're all here because we have nothing better to do, you self-aggrandizing prick

>> No.1948837

The Buckleys....instant fail.

>> No.1948845

what pseudo-intellectuals do:
post in this thread without a sage

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1948853

>real intellectuals
>reading fiction

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>>1947130
>real intellectuals
>Edward Gibbon

>> No.1948876

>>1948858
hear, hear

>> No.1948887

I was pretty shocked to see Wharton and Fitzgerald on the second list then I realised op is a troll

>> No.1948979

What pseudo-intellectuals read:
>>1947130
What intellectuals read:
books by fellow accademics studying their very limited field of research and directly related to the work they are writing because they've already read the classics in college and grad school.

>> No.1948994

What pseudo-intellectuals read: Fiction

What real intellectuals read: Non-fiction