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>tfw when Harry Potter and The Hunger Games will be considered historically significant classics by our descendents

>> No.5371007

there's no evidence at all that the best-selling books of all time are the most remembered

all the evidence is to the contrary, in fact.

>> No.5371027

>>5370997
>that feel when when

>> No.5371029

>>5371027
>tfw when your atm machine is broken

>> No.5371034

>>5371029

>tfw card is fucked

>> No.5371042

>>5370997
All those pop authors who thrived in the late 1800s and early 1900s are forgotten while most of the ones we read today from that 100 year span were unpopular and disliked in their own time.

>> No.5371058

actually its more likely to be tao lin and similar people

>> No.5371061

>>5371027

hey i woke up too early give me a gosh darned break

>> No.5371065

>>5371042
That's only partly true. Dickens, Balzac, Zola, Maupassant and Tolstoy were pretty big in their times. They were read in weekly newspaper issues, which was the literary version of tv series back then. But a lot of people who were just as well known are forgotten now. There is no telling.

>> No.5371077

>dat scene in Faust where Goethe makes fun of a "Proktophantasmist"
>literally: prokto -> anus, phantasmist -> someone who sees things based on fantasy

Took me years until I found out that Goethe was making fun of Friedrich Nicolai, a famous author of the time, apparently more famous than Goethe.
He's now completely forgotten except for that line in Faust. It comes from that time Nicolai was sick and thought he saw ghosts, which he cured by putting leeches on his asshole. He then widely, and enthusiastically, spread the method of ass leeches to cure ghost hauntings.

What I'm trying to say here is that you can't know who's going to be famous in the future, and chances are, the ones who are unknown now are going to be famous and vice-versa.

>> No.5371079

>>5370997
No, they won't, for the same reason you've never read any Marie Corelli, except perhaps to laugh at it.

>> No.5371117

>>5371077
Hahaha, that's funny tho.

>> No.5371148
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5371148

>tfw I cannot think of a better book to represent the zeitgeist than 50 shades of grey

>> No.5371177

>>5371148
That's why the people who live it aren't meant to analyze it.

>> No.5372036

>>5371007
Dumas

>> No.5372064

Harry Potter will most likely be forgotten, but stuff thats spawned from it wont

>> No.5372080

>>5370997
They will not. They are both tripey pulp, they are thus recognised now and barring a catastrophic lowering of human intellect worldwide will be forgotten with the rest of the froth of our decadent age.

>> No.5373902

>>5371148
>>5373792

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5373910

>tfw Tale of Two Cities is considered a literary classic

>> No.5373941

>>5372036
...is a single author, and the vast vast majority of readers will only ever know him for The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo; and for that matter, both works remain in the cultural conscious largely divorced from their author.