/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22053720]

ITT: Books that filtered you.

[Anonymous No.22053730]

Nothing filters me. If something is unintelligible, it most likely has nothing of value to say.

[Anonymous No.22053731]

>>22053730
>she gets filtered by something being unintelligible
lmao, what a readlet

[Anonymous No.22053732]

Children of Dune

[Anonymous No.22053733]

>>22053731

>reading retarded doorstoppers where the author is laughing at you from beyond the grave because you got trolled by his schizo ramblings

[Anonymous No.22053738]

>>22053733
>not being intelligent enough to out-read the author's intent and go through it out of sheer spite

[Anonymous No.22053741]

>>22053720
there are no books in the world that are "literally me"
I am an unique individual

[Anonymous No.22053742]

>>22053738
Impossible in some cases. Joyce especially. Joyce specifically designed his books so you can only fully understand them if you read an obscure letter he wrote in 1904 or checked the Dublin census to see which house so-and-so lived on to get an inside joke. This is not intelligence, it's laziness, and you will realize this when you learn to think for yourself and not let (((academia))) dictate what books are worthy of your time.

[Anonymous No.22053746]

>>22053742
Goodness man, are even jokes beyond you?

[Anonymous No.22053759]

>>22053720
Walden. Supposed to be some comfy piece about living in a cabin in the woods. Turns out my man was living on the edge of town, seeing people and trains pass by daily. Not sure what the appeal with that one is supposed to be

[Anonymous No.22053761]

>>22053759
I threw that book in the trash when he starts talking about the plight of the negro on like page 7.
Like can I just read ONE fucking book without darkies? Do even books about the purity of nature have to be contaminated with them?

[Anonymous No.22053762]

>>22053742
>tries to interpret Joyce as a classicist
>accuses others of being drones of academia lacking independent thought

[Anonymous No.22054820]

Sylvie & Bruno

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[Anonymous No.22054961]

>>22053720
I like to slowly unveil my power level to bookstore staff just to keep them in check
>"Are you looking for anything?"
>"Yes, please show me where you keep your Wallace"
>"Wallace? like David FOSTER Wallace? Whoa, cool, I thought you were gonna ask for that Steve Jobs biography or something. Yeah man, Infinite Jest's right over here.
>She hands me a copy of Infinite Jest
>her: "So you like Wallace huh, yeah me too, have you read Brief --"
>I hold up a single open hand while she is speaking, immediately silencing her, then turn to a random page in the book
>I smile quietly to myself as I read the entire page, occasionally snorting cryptically
>After finishing the page I close the book and hand it back to her, still smiling
>Me: "He's terrible, isn't he? Absolutely awful. Put that book back and please show me your Joyce"
>She puts back Infinite Jest with an alarmed look on her face, then takes me to the Joyce section of the librairie
>Her: "Joyce? Yeah I read part of Dubliners in my 400-level community college English class. Do you, uh, d-do you think he's good--"
>"Read this"
>I have shoved Finnegans Wake under her nose
>"Out loud"
>her: "ba...babba......bababadgharf....bababagargrfap--
>I rip the book out of her hands and stare directly into her eyes
>me: "Completely wrong, it's bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoor-denenthurnuk. bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoor-denenthurnuk is portmanteau of various thunder-related words from languages all across the globe; in this context it represents Eve's tragic fall to Satan and the subsequent collapse of Eden. It is perhaps the single most important, emotive, and creative word ever spoken in the entire history of human speech, literally transcending language, and you cannot even read it."
>I throw Finnegans Wake in her face and inform the store manager that he has hired an illiterate
>I leave the store with a copy of Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception under my coat, unpaid for

[Anonymous No.22055046]

>>22053742
That’s incorrect. Joyce incorporating a bunch of puns and jokes doesn’t mean the substance of the work itself (except Finnegans Wake) is obscure. Ulysses is perfectly understandable and can be followed by anyone who has read and enjoyed a decent amount of literary fiction. Missing every bell and whistle is really beside the point because even mediums like Pixar and rap incorporate personal or obscure references which are expected to be lost on everyone except the creator’s personal acquaintances or maybe even himself

[Anonymous No.22056205]

Symposium by Plato, my first and only book of philosophy. In general, also poetry, I have never a full poem of anything...I remember trying to read something of Yeats and he just crossed my mind as pretentious

[Anonymous No.22056227]

Funny, I was just thinking about this topic.
Besides most philosophy, Nabokov's Ada.
His stuff usually clicks for me after a little bit but for some reason Ada doesn't. Tried multiple times and I just don't get it

[Anonymous No.22056635]

>>22055046
Holy pseud.

[Anonymous No.22056663]

>>22056635
>he's a pseud because unlike you he could comprehend Ulysses

[Anonymous No.22056684]

>>22056663
You can't really understand Stephen's anguish if you don't know that Joyce once stubbed his toe while walking down the beach.

[Anonymous No.22056748]

>>22053761
simply based