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Is there a single book in existence that nobody on /lit/ would call pleb unironically?

>> No.6103464

>>6103443
that's a damn great cover

>> No.6103475

>>6103443
Homer was literally a plebian

>> No.6103478

>>6103443

Ulysses
in search of lost time
Don Quijote

>> No.6103482

Probably a bunch. Middlesex, Brothers K, etc.

>> No.6103483

>>6103482

>middlesex
>being this pleb

i bet u like the virgin suicides too

>> No.6103485

>Proust
>dosto

you already lost

>> No.6103488

>>6103485

You probably havent even read Proust

>> No.6103496

Middlemarch.

>> No.6103502

>>6103443
yes
but i cant name it as doing so would render it pleb

>> No.6103533

Tie pee by Trowel Lin

>> No.6103537

Anna Karenina. You'd have to be a pleb to call it pleb.

>> No.6103538

>>6103488

>implying anyone with half a brain reads beyond swanns way

why torture yourself needlessly?

>> No.6103543

>>6103443
Nah but honestly fuck /lit/. Nerds will shoot down anything.

>> No.6103551

>>6103538
I'm currently halfway through book three. Why do you think reading Proust is torture?

>> No.6103555

>>6103533
good meme

>> No.6103565

>>6103478
Don quijote is pleb.

>> No.6103567

>>6103551

>my mother is in the kitchen, bringing pans and pots of simmering cabbage to a boil as she prepares for her midmorning tea. The birds in the trees are bountiful and harmonize together in a sad soliloquy. I find myself laying in my bed all morning, listening to mother in her kitchen as the garden bugs begin to feast. The walls of my room are painted white and my curtains are of the finest lace, sent to our quarters from the far reaches of Ethiopia. I do hope my lover shows herself today, clothed in satin, with locks of golden hair draping her neck in beautiful curls

yawn

>> No.6103577

>>6103565
Indeed. While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw - that of outright unreadability. This reviewer should know, because he has just read it. The book bristles with beauties, charm, sublime comedy; it is also, for long stretches (approaching about 75 per cent of the whole), inhumanly dull.... Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 - the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right: not tears of relief but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that Don Quixote could do.

>> No.6103579

>>6103443
No. The novel in general has been unironically dismissed as a pleb genre here, and look at the suggestions itt: novels, novel writers, except for Homer, who has been called a literal plebeian here >>6103475.

>>6103485
Nabokov unironically dissed Dosto, pretty much calling his writing pleb-appeal trash with some good humor.

>>6103538
I know at least two persons who read it full before age 16.

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6103580

For some reason everyone in my biology class treats this book like it's the peak of literary accomplishment. It's sort of ok, but it doesn't even really teach you about Ebola.

>> No.6103585

>>6103579

>I know at least two persons who read it full before age 16.

sounds like the perfect age to read Proust

>> No.6103587

>>6103567
That's pretty neat, particularly considering that's a translation. Perhaps that's just not your taste, try more action-ish books.

>> No.6103593

>>6103585
One of them read ISOLT over a whole summer at 13. It pretty much changed his life. 12-17 is best age for discovering huge masterpieces like that. They don't quite make the same meteoric impression past that age.

>> No.6103597

>>6103587

>That's pretty neat, particularly considering that's a translation

I just made that up on the spot to make fun of his style
hilarious that you liked it though

>> No.6103663

>>6103597
You write quite harmoniously and have a nice sense of imagery.

>dat down-to-earth proximity of cabbages
>dem birds singing loneliness
>dem hungry bugs in the ground
>dem withe walls and fine laces
>dem satin and curls

It's like you purposely alterned earthly/corporeal/mundane elements with aerial/aesthetic/far-reaching elements. All that creates a rather intriguing scene. Is the boy in some dreary suburb of Paris, or in a nice house isolated from the city noise ? Is he in some old and cranky but charming familial house ? Nothing happens, but the conjunction of all those elements creates a sense of, I don't know, signifiance. My first thought after reading your post was:"Something important is about to happen to this boy, and he will be exposed to something hellish and heavenly".

You should seriously consider writing, unironically, no homo.

>> No.6103992

>>6103663
lol just stop

>> No.6104075

>>6103663

well, thank you, I am a writer, but you and I both know this is damage control
it's not that difficult to pretend to write like someone you've read

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6104083

>>6104075
>I am a writer

>> No.6104086

>>6104083

>browsing /lit/ as a non-writer

leave and take your circa 2007 pic folder with you

>> No.6104088

>>6103663
kinda

>> No.6104125

>>6104086
It'll be great to see this place in 5 or 10 years, when most of you wannabe writers fail miserably to ever get those planes off the ground and just give it up altogether. The disappointment and misery will be palpable.

Honestly, I can't wait.

>> No.6104128

>>6103443
Atlas Shrugged

>> No.6104136

>>6104125

>hasn't been here for five years already

just go
failure is a prerequisite for the literary lifestyle

>> No.6104138

FIFTY SHADES OF FUCKING GREY

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>>6103577
bravo

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6104595

The Oxford dictionary?

>> No.6106405

I didn't enjoy the Odyssey all that much. I thought The Iliad was far superior, although I'm reading a translation so what do I know.