/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.4241214]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/28-favorite-books-that-are-huge-red-flags

[Anonymous No.4241220]

>buzzfeed

[Anonymous No.4241222]

where the fuck did buzzfeed even come from

[Anonymous No.4241226]

Never read the book but looking at the URL link

>buzzfeed
>internet list

Not even good bait material

[Anonymous No.4241227]

That was actually kind of funny.

[Anonymous No.4241237]

>>4241214
God, I hate buzzfeed so much.
>every article is stupid and at best, worth a slight chuckle every few minutes
>90% lists
>can't help but click the next link
It's like popcorn.

[Anonymous No.4241241]

>Joseph Bernstein

[Anonymous No.4241257]

>twilight
>dan brown
i wonder if people actually get paid to write unoriginal and unfunny crap
it looks like they pasted all of those from some 3 years old /lit/ thread and adapted it to make it likeable to tumblr ("white cis bad hurrrr").

[Anonymous No.4241261]

>>4241257
white cis people are bad though

[Anonymous No.4241286]

>>4241214
>Better keep that to yourself.

And give in to white guilt? To hell I will. I swear to god, there should be pride rallies for straight, middle-class white men. There are no stops on the /pol/ar express.

Meanwhile, in the comments:
>This piece is ridiculous. Whenever someone tells me about his or her favorite book, I think, "You have a favorite book! Awesome!"

Oh, Sarah D. Kritzman, you stupid, ignorant slut. You think the fact someone reads warrants a hearty congratulations? Jesus Christ, is this the society we live in? Are we really to make no distinction between finger paints and Turner, and just appreciate that someone likes art?

[Anonymous No.4241290]

>>4241214

>collect SSI
>like Infinite Jest
>suddenly upper class and white

Also what is this idea that suggests that being upper-middle class is bad?

[Anonymous No.4241292]

>>4241257
go to bed cracka

[Anonymous No.4241300]

>>4241290
white guilt
it's also fading away, so they also came up with patriarchy (obviously a WASP trademark).
btw /pol/ and trolls already showed up so there's no pretending this will be taken seriously by anyone. Good job OP, bait worked.

[Anonymous No.4241302]

What a pathetic, insecure faggot.

[Anonymous No.4241344]

the guy is a troll, guys. He writes stupidities about how good video games are
He's like the guy who makes comics for cracked

[Anonymous No.4241348]

>>4241290

Tallest poppy syndrome. If you succeed you're evil, and if you do better than someone else then you're wrong because you had success and they didn't.

[Anonymous No.4241388]

>>4241214
>You could have saved yourself a lot of time and energy by simply typing "I'm better than you" and copy-pasting it twenty-seven more times, Mr. Bernstein. It would've allowed you to flaunt your insufferable conceit just as effectively as this does.

Seriously what the fuck is with this article. Utter shit, but an apt portrayal of 90% of /lit/. Also you
>>4241286
fuck you. Reading is good, and when you act like a snob you encourage
>is this the society we live in?
you encourage the further alienation of the common man from good art. I appreciate it when someone just "likes art." It means that they have good taste without being a tryhard faggot.

[Anonymous No.4241407]

>>4241388
>It means that they have good taste without being a tryhard faggot.
That's a false dychotomy though

[Anonymous No.4241411]

>>4241241

[Anonymous No.4241422]

>>4241388
>It means they have good taste without being a tryhard faggot.

That's not the problem. It's the ones without good taste, which, more often than not, is the majority. If some people like Dan Brown, inevitable others will emulate him (which they're quite capable of doing, given its simplicity), leading people to emulate THEM, until the market is saturated with mediocrity and commercial vacuousness. It's the death of art, if anything.

[Anonymous No.4241589]

>Finnegan's Wake

What a travesty.

There Is No Apostrophe.

[Anonymous No.4241599]

>>4241589
troled hard

[Anonymous No.4241605]

Jesus that fucking guy.

>Grow up and read books for grown ups
>Most of his articles are about video games


Dat double standard.

[Anonymous No.4241632]

>>4241222
tumbler? that's where they get all their gifs from anyway.

[Anonymous No.4241634]

>mfw i agree with the whole thing

[Anonymous No.4241638]

>>4241605

>>Most of his articles are about video games

Rated M for Mature, though

[Anonymous No.4241662]

What's wrong with people who like American Psycho?

[Anonymous No.4241669]

List is pretty good.

[Anonymous No.4241758]

To be fair anyone who likes Catcher should be avoided at all costs

[Anonymous No.4241759]

what a shitty list

[Anonymous No.4241844]

Basically social media click harvesting unique bumping listing. I know that writer is trying to go for, 'top lels' but almost all those authors are probably better writers than he'll ever be.

Nice viral op

[Anonymous No.4242451]

>>4241759
It's buzzfeed. It has to be shitty.

[Anonymous No.4242462]

>no mention of stephen king

[Anonymous No.4242469]

>>4241214
>American Psycho
>implying anybody likes it because of the satire
People liked the novel because of the genuinely unique character of Bateman as told through his stream of consciousness. The satire is secondary, and so hyperbolic as to be rendered incredulous. Just about any of Ellis' other novels have more credible and thought-out satire.

[Anonymous No.4242472]

>>4241214
>buzzfeed

[Anonymous No.4242473]

The Lolita one made the least sense to me.

[Anonymous No.4242483]

>>4242473
It's
>implying
that everyone who likes Lolita is an undercover pedophile

[Anonymous No.4242499]

/lit/izens getting genuinely mad up in this bitch

[Anonymous No.4242521]

Cool, he failed to understand Camus.

[MtMattics !!58hTUK7XbfZ No.4242677]

>all this upset asburger

So carefully selecting books from all the range of readers to make caustic comments on.
He's just a marketer trying to make some money, respectable, especially since he baits even /lit/.

[Anonymous No.4242694]

how can buzzfeed be so bad?

[Anonymous No.4242696]

You can fire off glib, dismissing lines about any book. Literally any book.

[Anonymous No.4242773]

>get to Infinite Jest
>This is a good book and all but saying it’s your favorite is sort of like saying you’re proud of being upper middle class and white. Better keep that to yourself.

I like this one because it's cut from the same meta discussion about IJ we've seen a hundred thousand times on /lit/. I've just seen so much discussion about this book here by people who have clearly never read it that by now (like many of you) I am a leading expert on superficial IJ discussion and picking up on whether or not someone has read it.

This is classic "didn't read."

Thinking about it, it's quite odd and pretty ironic that such a safe, broad and vague criticism could possibly expose someone as having not actually read. If he would have said the same thing about literally any other book, I'd probably have to give him a pass. But there just happens to be a place on the web where detecting Infinite Jest bullshit becomes second nature for its long time visitors.

[Anonymous No.4242791]

>>4242773

I've read the book and love it but it's definitely the work of a dopey upper-middle-class white dude and geared primarily toward others in that demo. Oh look how noble the inner city coloreds are in their struggle. Oh look how difficult life is for these pampered children in a sports prep school. Oh look how hip and in-tune I am with drug culture. Look, I know ebonics. Did you ever notice how black people talk funny? Etc.

[Anonymous No.4242804]

>>4242521
Camus was one of the only authors he was on-point about.

[Anonymous No.4242810]

>>4241214
Buzzfeed is a cancerous hole of whiny women and simpering hipster men bitching about white male privilege while they write about pop sci and shitty meme tier culture as an excuse to generate ad revenue.

They have nothing relevant to say.

[Anonymous No.4242820]

The damning flaw of this piece is that it attempts humor and accomplishes bile.