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Reddit has a better top 100 than /lit/

Is it over?

>> No.21497518

>>21497498
That list is almost identical to our list.

>> No.21497523

Reddit is failing so hard that you have thousands od their shill posts every day on 4chan, including this one.

>> No.21497525

>>21497498

My list is better than reddits and /lit/s so I don't really care.

>> No.21497533

>>21497498
there are like 50 people on that subreddit

>> No.21497542

>>21497498
>>21497518
>>21497523
>>21497525
>>21497533
You retards know that truelit is where 4chan fags from lit assemble when they use reddit. That it's the same people as here and they just made their subreddit

>> No.21497558

>>21497542
Not really. Most of nu-/lit/ comes from r/redscarepod

>> No.21497579

>>21497498
Pretty much identical, just replace philosophy with token women and negroes representation. Also it has been the same few women and negroes for years now, which makes me believe that for all the talk about the canon being too white male centric those other groups really do not have that much to offer after all

>> No.21497592

>>21497518
fpbp

>> No.21497596
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21497596

Pretty boring. But I like that there's some more contemporary stuff on here.
>Watchmen
Come on Reddit, get over it already.

>> No.21497616

>>21497498
>no Homer
>no Aeniad
ngmi reddit bros...

>> No.21497617

>>21497498
>no bible
reddit

>> No.21497619

>>21497518
r/truelit is just /lit/ rejects (trannies)

>> No.21497629

>>21497498
>anglo cringefest
No, thanks.

>> No.21497634

>>21497518
We have The Bible, Iliad, and Odyssey. They have Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, and Middlemarch. We are not the same.

>> No.21497692

>>21497634
>We have The Bible, Iliad, and Odyssey.
>We are not the same.
True, but I said "almost identical".

>> No.21497696

>>21497692
/lit/ users don't read, not even the posts they're replying to

>> No.21497718

>>21497634
Wuthering heights and middlemarch are on /lit/'s list as well. As they should since they are great

>> No.21497739

>>21497692
Infinite Jest is in their top 10. Maybe all the manhating femoids here emigrated from reddit.

>> No.21497752

>>21497692
Yes, it's not almost identical, it's superficially identical and fundamentally different

>> No.21497814

>>21497752
>it's superficially identical and fundamentally different
Encapsulates Reddit's and 4chan's differences perfectly.

>> No.21497827

>>21497542
>>21497558
Both are wrong, redscare would be too spicy for nulit, they gather in their own bookclub sub. Nulit is mostly the r/Pynchon mods (anarchists), MFAcels (women), and r/books and r/bookscriclejerk (redditors), truly a damned place.

>> No.21497841

>>21497498
Is Virginia Wolf that good or is reddit just being reddit because we need women in top lists and shit ?

>> No.21497845

>>21497558
>redscarepod
Nearly illiterate, recessed-chin losers who wish they were smart enough to post on stupidpol without getting bullied

>> No.21497848

Post /lit/'s list.

>> No.21497862

>>21497845
>stupidpol
Are they still pretending that Freddie de Boer isn't just another Democrat?

>> No.21497885

>>21497498
now post the r/books one

>> No.21497924

>>21497542
True. I actually voted in this poll kek

>> No.21497925

>>21497841
She's good, but you are correct that she makes the list mostly for that reason most likely

>> No.21497935

>>21497498
>Watchmen
lmao

>> No.21497942

>>21497498
Pretty much the same except they add niggers (Morrison, Elison, Baldwin), more women (Austen, Woolf), comics (lmao, Watchmen) and remove the Bible. Pretty much representative of Reddit.

>> No.21497947

>>21497498
Book of the New Sun: Reddit
Gormenghast trilogy: 4chan

>> No.21497967

>>21497617
Kys christcuck

>> No.21497973

>>21497498
No Dickens and no Twain. We need to claim them next year, bros.

>> No.21497975

>>21497947
Seething Peakcuck. Botns always places higher than gormenshit even on 4chan. Hahahahahahahahahaha

>> No.21497976

>>21497967
Go back

>> No.21497986

>>21497975
Thanks to the redditors from /sffg/. Gormenghast is 4chan's unique taste.

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21498000

>>21497498
>Basedmen
I now respect your list.

>> No.21498001

>>21497986
it's a meme spammed by you and some other discord trannies

>> No.21498006

>>21498000
why do they accept comics? lmao

>> No.21498015

>>21498001
It's talked about by gentlemen of good taste here.

>> No.21498049

>>21498006
comics are literarture, so are video games and tweets

>> No.21498054
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>>21497947
>>21497975
>>21497986
>>21498001

>> No.21498056

>>21498049
and men are women, sis.

>> No.21498066

>>21498006
because NYT accepted it as a novel in their 25 best novels of all time or something

I agree that it's fucking good and in general a better piece of fiction than some of the list but it's wacky to have it in there

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>>21498066
>it's fucking good

>> No.21498170

>>21498066
agree, it's a good comic but I've always seen comics as another medium.

>> No.21498208

>>21498167
based redditors spotter

>> No.21498220

>>21498208
this but unironically

>> No.21498226

truelit on reddit is lit with 50% more trannies and 99.9% less guénon shitposters

>> No.21498234

>>21498226
sounds like a net positive

>> No.21498238

>>21498234
it is. desu this board has become unusable

>> No.21498303

>>21498226
>>21498234
>>21498238
Please don't come back! Bye!

>> No.21498331

>>21497596
>hey.. ms puff.. it's me, spongebob

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21498597

>>21498006
Maybe read it and find out

>> No.21498628

>>21498597
It's shit

>> No.21498632

>>21498597
it's a good comic but comics belong elsewhere

>> No.21498634

>>21498597
Terrible.
Captcha: KYSKYN

>> No.21498652

>>21498634
captcha told you to kys lmao

>> No.21498684

>>21497498
Haven't read Derviš i smrt yet, but it's nice to see something from balkans making the list

>> No.21498691

>>21498054
this but genuinly
Wolfe is way better than Vance

>> No.21498700

>>21497498
>Is it over?
Their list has been better for the past 3 years at least. This is not new.

>> No.21498702

>>21498691
Wolfe is a hack.

>> No.21498707

>>21498700
Maybe you should stay there

>> No.21498722

>>21498707
Having a better list is not enough of a reason for me to use a site as shit as reddit

>> No.21498723

>>21498700
>niggers
>divine comedy not in the top 25
>trendy shit like white noise
>comics (lmao)
our list is better

>> No.21498731

>>21497967
You have to go back.

>> No.21498779

classic lit is a genre for women. If you're not having fun reading you're wasting your time

>> No.21498792

>>21498779
>implying classics aren't fun

>> No.21498815

>>21498792
the vast majority of what I've read are not. Usually they are longwinded, focused on human social dramas (it's a genre for women), and terribly dry. People read these things because of the aura of them being canonized and to look sophisticated, not because they are entertaining

>> No.21498825 [DELETED] 

>>21498815
Retard.

>> No.21498827

>>21498825
No.
>smart people read nonfiction
>pseuds read classics
>leddit reads social commentary

>> No.21498833

>>21498815
Good thing reddit so graciously included comic books this year. Those should be more your speed anon

>> No.21498839

>>21498833
I've stopped pretending and basically just read adventure genre fantasy/sci-fi when I'm in the mood for fiction. High adventure page-turners are the defacto masculine form of literature

>> No.21498843

>>21498815
Maybe your classics are different from mine but I've found them quite entertaining and certainly better than the preachy marxist shit of today or the tedious genre fiction where if you read one you're read them all.

>> No.21498847

>>21497841
She's genuinely one of the best writers of all time. To the Lighthouse is a masterpiece

>> No.21498857

>>21498001
I also love Gormenghast. Wolfefags will genuinely never stop coping when people rightfully point out that their trilogy is worse. You could try all day and fail to provide a passage from BoTNS that's better written than a random passage I could pull from any of the Gormenghast novels

>> No.21498894

>>21498815
Can't tell if you are trolling or not haha

>> No.21498897

>>21498857
The appeal of wolfe has never been in his writing. People like the series as they like finding out about dark souls lore. The discovery that a lake being described is actually an artificial lake behind a dilapidated dam is the height of intellectual stimulation that fans of the series get out of the books. /sffg/ nerds simply reason in a completely different way than the rest of the board and should honestly stay confined to their general but alas

>> No.21499022

>>21497498
>brothers karamazov not in top 3
>blood meridian that high
>anna karenina that high when half of it is soap drama shit
ngmi

>> No.21499383

>>21499022
Being this retarded should be illegal

>> No.21499860

>>21497498
>don quijote in 38
also, why bécquer in the cover of picture on dorian gray? here in spain everyone knows him, how popular is he outside?

>> No.21500921

The German picks on this Top 100 are very strange. 3x Kafka, 2x Sebald.
I get that the anglo-saxons like Kafka but this is hilarious.

>> No.21501241

>>21497498
>No Mein Kampf
>No Bible
>No Quran
What a worthless list

>> No.21501268

>american school curriculum, the list

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21501276

>>21497498
No Gilgamesh
No Beowulf
No Dracula
No Homer

Crappy American pop books.

>> No.21501290

Post the latest /lit/ list

>> No.21501294

>>21501290
newfag

>> No.21501307

>the divine comedy at 66
Anglophones being retarded as usual

>> No.21501365

>>21498897
>The appeal of wolfe has never been in his writing.
Sure it has. If you ask people what they like about Wolfe, what they will generally say is they like his writing, because his writing is excellent. He was a master at writting first person novels where it consistently speaks as the person writing it, depending on the mental condition, upbringing, likes and dislikes and so on of the character. He can go from heroic young warriors to insane schizos naturally and always authentically.
>>21498857
>You could try all day and fail to provide a passage from BoTNS that's better written than a random passage I could pull from any of the Gormenghast novels
Even if that was true, a novel is not simply the quality of the prose. There's a lot of things to enjoy in his works. Which is also true for Gormenghast, the novel is not simply the prose. It's a good work because of its other qualities as well.
>>21497947
New Sun is on both because it's, like it or not, a work many people who read literature enjoy a lot.

>> No.21501388
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>Watchmen
>Dune
>Vonnegut
Yep that's Reddit alright

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21501393

>Watchmen

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>>21497947
Based.

>> No.21501445

>>21497498
Too many Americans

>> No.21501462

>>21501307
And worse, its the only poetry on the list, which speaks volumes about how seriously we should take it

>> No.21501495

>>21501462
Poetry today is no longer a form which people really write, publish and read much. Even those who read a lot are generally not going to be reading much of it.

>> No.21501514

>>21497619
>r/truelit is just /lit/ rejects (people who left when the twitterphilosophyzoomers (Evola, Land, Fisher, Guenon + catholicism) took over)
There, fixed.

>> No.21501533

>>21497498
>americans on first and second place
Just fucking lol.
>Wallace on tenth place
Just even more fucking lol, oh you 22 year olds and your misunderstood souls.
>Three (arguably four) americans in top 10
And they did not even include the singular one that MIGHT deserve it
>Remains of the Day is superior to Hamlet
Just kys.
>Le Great Gatsby even on the list
Real high school hours
>The Last Samurai
Just stop
>Macbeth is the second Shakespeare on there
Reeaaaal fucking high school hours
>Catcher in the Rye
I feel dirty at this point.
>Finnegans Wake
This is like the perfect encapsulation of the spirit of /lit/ - underdeveloped, early twenties taste, which is fine, if it weren't for the desperate attempt to hide it behind a haughty elitism.
Just stop being such faggots god

>> No.21501558

>>21501533
I’m sure your average 22 year old zoomer has the attention span to read IJ or any of Wallace’s writing

>> No.21501561

>>21497498
>Wow 2 books from Calvino!
>the wrong ones
Reddit never change

Also i expected more from eco, the most reddit-like writer

>> No.21501563

>>21501514
Well, yes, that's what the anon said. The Catholics chased the trannies away.

>> No.21501568

Where the fuck is the illiad and the odyssey? Are reddit fags retarded?

>> No.21501575

>>21497498
>No Vittorini
>fucking Eco

Reddit retardation as usual

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>>21497558
I miss my friends

>> No.21501625

>>21497498
> they can only read Calvino in translation

*snicker*

you don't get to be patrician unless you've mastered at least 2 latinate languages.

>> No.21501635

>>21501514
Go back

>> No.21501640

>>21501533
>>Macbeth is the second Shakespeare on there
What's wrong with this?

>> No.21501644

>>21501568
Ancient texts are problematic.

>> No.21501656

>>21501568
It's the "I liked these 5 books the most" probably and I reckon it didn't make it in the top 5 for most. It's not really a "I think these are 5 best books ever" list.

>> No.21501659

>>21497976
>>21498731
Kys christcuck

>> No.21501717

>>21497596
Uma delicia

>> No.21501731

>>21497596
sopa de Coelho

>> No.21501743

>>21501659
ywnbaw

>> No.21501788

>>21501558
Of course they do, they'll just dose up on adderall. I read it at 22. Everyone I know who has read it read it at 21-22. I, and everyone I know who have read it, agree that it only appears as a GOAT book if you read at that point of - spiritually speaking - late adolesence.

>>21501640
Arguably (easily, honestly) Lear is superior, as is the Tempest, as are several of the problem plays. Macbeth is fine. It is also often assigned reading in high school classes because it not particularly difficult or deep, and the time constraints of a single module in a high school class lends itself well to watching the Polanski adaptation, in lieu of seeing the play performed live, which is not feasible for most schools.

>> No.21501803

>>21501788
What makes the Tempest superior?

>> No.21501826

>>21501803
Metatextuality abounds in the Tempest, an expression of reflective activity also found in Hamlet's musings, in a manner that heralds the coming of modernity, and for that reason, it is more interesting than a mere compelling narrative, such as Macbeth - especially as the Tempest has this as well.

>> No.21501840

>>21501276
>Cat
>Canned corn
I don't get it

>> No.21501845

>>21501826
What's the metatextuality in Tempest?

>> No.21501849

>>21501826
no you faggot its a fun story about a wizard..

>> No.21501850

>>21501849
This desu

>> No.21501891

>>21501514
the catholics were here before the twitter invasion

>> No.21501945

>>21501495
If you don't read much poetry, you don't read a lot

>> No.21502011

>>21501495
I'll have you known I read hundreds of poem of the day threads

>> No.21502122

>>21501891
The catholics that were here before were less insufferable. They had interesting opinions on aesthetics and theology - the majority of the current batch are just the /pol/crowd in a pompous disguise, calling things "sinful" instead of "bluepilled", but with equal lack of thought.

>> No.21502139

>>21502122
>The catholics that were here before were less insufferable.
I just came back to lit after a long break, maybe 4 years of not posting. It's pretty much the same. I'm shilling more or less similar authors and so is everyone else. Although there's more people pretending to know something about Aquinas.

>> No.21502242

>>21497752
You simply didn't read the post you replied to.

>> No.21502274

>>21502242
You're iliterate

>> No.21502289

it looks largely the same but otherwise worse in every way

>> No.21502705

>>21499383
i know right, they really are ngmi

>> No.21502886

>No Bakker

Yikes

>> No.21502907

>>21497498
I don't care about post-2012 4chan collective opinion

>> No.21502932

>suttree and blood meridian higher than the road
Pseuds.

Suttree has Cormac's best writing but is his worst book.

Blood Meridian is close to but just doesn't touch the sparse mastery of The Road.

Evoke the forms.