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ITT: Books only hipsters like

>> No.2430886

>ITT: Books we hate

Fixed

>> No.2430885

Vonnegut?

>> No.2430917

Yes, Vonnegut. House of Leaves. Nabokov's non-Russian novels. Jack Keroac. Ginsberg. Pasolini.

>> No.2430986

>Implying hipsters do not have a superior taste in literature

>> No.2430988

Anything david foster wallace. anything 'postmodern'. cat's cradle. Pynchon is pretty hipster-esque. deal with it.

>> No.2430994

I feel like pulp literature is going to be big with the hipsters in a few years, a huge surging gangbang of pulp.

"Smart" literature is becoming too mainstream.

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>mfw no one can escape being a hipster under the umbrella term it has become

Thought crimes. Thought crimes everywhere.

>> No.2431011

>>2430917
>Nabokov's non-Russian novels.

I was with you until here

>> No.2431013

>>2430986
Real hipsters don't. The common anti-intellectual nerd conception of hipster does.

>> No.2431021

>>2430988
Pynchon is liked by both hipsters and people with actual good taste

>> No.2431024

>>2430996
I know that feel.

>> No.2431036

If it is hip to reject popular, entertaining things and seek out obscure somewhat entertaining things (if you at high) then what happens when the obscure somewhat entertaining things become popular?

Will lesbians get to marry?

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bukowski. nobody else is hipster-exclusive.

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anything by Nietzsche

>> No.2431082

>>2431024
>>2430996
You offend someone's taste, you're going to be called a hipster, even though you've never identified with any subculture. You can't win.

>> No.2431100

>>2431076
>>2431054

the fuck? none of these guys are hipsters

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>>2431101

>> No.2431132

borges, nabokov, surrealist works in general, jap lit like oe or of course No Longer Human or Setting sun

proust, chekhov, gogol: especially if it's the overcoat and not dead souls; anything of the fiction shorts from the new yorker; anything with the "body without organs", "simulacrum"

high-academic works which pick up on math and science like deluzian reference to multiplicities, or worse yet, the transformation of classical music theory into a mathematical behemoth like Mazolla's "Topos of Music"--any works which are perhaps inherently inaccessible to the general public by harshness/rigor of text

visual novels like higurashi or naricissu or true remembrance or manga like nijigahara holograph or punpun which are undisguised stories about the everyday flatness of life which is of utter import yet an everyday banality--teen angst which has outgrown puberty and is just maladjusted characters who never find a place nor settle in, who never become protagonists and fade into the turbulent, personal crises isolated from each other and the non-resolution of things.

>> No.2431134

There are no books only hipsters like. It supposes that liking this or that book is dependent upon being a hipster while simultaneously supposing that being a hipster will determine which books are read. One precludes the other. The only way this could be a possibility is to suggest that reading this or that book actually turns people into hipsters, which is just silly, because that would also be dependent upon said person liking or disliking the book, bringing us back to the original problem of "books only hipsters like."

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Infinite Jest.

>> No.2431161

>>2431132
I'm interested in what exactly you think the definition of a hipster is.
The closest to a definition I've come up with for a hipster is a superficial person who affects an ironic attitude to avoid strenuous mental effort or to defuse confrontations which might make him/her appear inferior.
The majority of books/authors on your list require some pretty heavy lifting in the intellectual department, which is pretty much the opposite of what I would think of when I think of a hipster.

>>2431144
Again this is where I'd differ, I think a hipster would be someone who owns IJ, but never finished it.

>> No.2431162

ITT /lit/ thinks Harold Bloom a hipster

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>>2431161
>Again this is where I'd differ, I think a hipster would be someone who owns IJ, but never finished it.

Thats what a hipster would say.

>> No.2431205

IQ84 anyone

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>>2431165

>> No.2433493

Oscar Wilde

>> No.2433499

>>2431161
>The majority of books/authors on your list require some pretty heavy lifting in the intellectual department

And that's exactly the thought that lures the hipster into buying the books in the first place.

>> No.2433500

Bukowski, Vonnegut, shitty writers in general.

>> No.2433561

Are there any books that arent considered hipster these days?
And that goes for music, movies, clothing, alcoholic beverages, cigarettes, sexual positions, choices of transportation etc.................