/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6509780]

Which books are literally Reddit: The Book?

[Anonymous No.6509785]

Hitchhiker's

[Anonymous No.6509793]

>>6509785
You fucking take that back.

[Anonymous No.6509798]

My Twisted World
Accept no substitutes.

[Anonymous No.6509800]

>>6509793

True though, it's kinda memey (lol bring a towel, 42).

[Anonymous No.6509803]

>>6509785
>>6509793
My mum reddit to me when I was a kid, I liked it a lot

[Anonymous No.6509815]

Obvious one.

[Anonymous No.6509817]

>>6509800
Death of the author works both ways, Adams is in no way responsible for the memers

[Anonymous No.6509818]

>>6509800
That's not Douglas Adams' fault, that's a shitty autistic fanbase. The books themselves aren't like that at all.

[Anonymous No.6509821]

>>6509800
It's very poorly written. Re-read the book. It really will disgust you.

[Anonymous No.6509825]

>>6509818

I'm not just saying that, I have the boxset.

[Anonymous No.6509830]

Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.6509836]

Fight club
Most Vonnegut
All Bukowski
The Gr8 Gatsby
Game of Plebs
Tai Pei
All Young Adult books ever
Lord Of the Rings series

[Anonymous No.6509839]

I'm going to say Eragon because I fucking hate Eragon.

I knew that a book written by an nineteen-year-old would be pure unadulterated liquid shit but my siblings insisted that I read it before passing any judgements.

Oh and Tortellini was nineteen when he wrote Eragon, not fifteen. He was fifteen when he "imagined" his Star Wars/LotR fanfiction, and unfortunately for me Tortellini's wealthy and doting parents self-published their autistic son's chronicle of day dreams when he decided to write it all down. Instead of like, leaving in on fanfiction.net where it belonged.

Also,

*Ardwen - Arwen
*Isenstar - Isengard
*Mithrim - Mithrim or mithril
*Angrenost - Angrenost
*Morgothal - Morgoth
*Elessari - Elessar
*Furnost - Fornost
*Hadarac Desert - Harad Desert
*Melian - Melian
*Vanilor - Valinor
*Eridor - Eriador
*Imiladris - Imladris
*Undin - Fundin/Udun
*Gil'ead - Gil'Galad
*Ceranthor - Caranthir
*Isidar - Isiludir
*Oromis- Orome
*Eragon- Aragorn

[Anonymous No.6509849]

>>6509839
lol how does someone get away with that shit?

[Anonymous No.6509850]

>>6509836
>Lord Of the Rings series

The Lord of the Rings is a book. It's not a trilogy and it certainly isn't a series. Also the author hated how popular his story was with teenagers when it suddenly became a phenomena in the 60's so fuck you.

[Anonymous No.6509857]

>>6509839
/thread

As a young kid they held my attention but I hadn't read any better genre fiction at that point.

[Anonymous No.6509871]

>>6509836
Gatsby is great though

[Anonymous No.6509872]

>>6509849
It was okay because "he was only fifteen."

But he was also considered a genius for writing a book at fifteen, even though it was an objectively bad book which was derivative to the point of plagiarism. Nice double standards right?

Take a look at his fucking prose, also:

>The branch Roran had added to the fire burst asunder with a muted pop as the coals underneath heated the gnarled length of wood to the point where a small cache of water or sap that had somehow evaded the rays of the sun for untold decades exploded into steam.

Let's keep in mind that this same author gauged his own writing as being somewhere on par with that of nobel prize laureate Seamus Heaney and "Tolkien at his best."

Anyway I learned my lesson. When a book stinks like shit I won't bother suffering through it simply to affirm that yes, it was shit all along.

[Anonymous No.6509877]

>>6509839
I own all the books. Read them as a kid. By the time the forth one came out, however, I had honestly forgotten about them, but, I bought it anyway. Did anyone finish the series? How did it end? I don't care enough to actually Google it.

[Anonymous No.6509876]

>>6509780
http://www.amazon.com/Why-There-God-Responses-Arguments/dp/150277528X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1431051487&sr=1-2&keywords=arguments+god

[Anonymous No.6509879]

Stephen King's life work
Anything by Camus

[Anonymous No.6509884]

>>6509839
>an nineteen-year-old

er, a nineteen-year-old

I was going to say that Tortellini was eighteen when he started writing Eragon and nineteen when he finished. He and his parents told everyone he was fifteen though in order to hype his literary diarrhea as the work of a "prodigy."

[Anonymous No.6509887]

>>6509793
Why do people like it so much? It's just one more piece of degenerate nerd culture that for some reason seems to attract STEM nerds who even though they are very intelligent seem to have lost all aesthetic sensibility. Same goes for Star Trek, Star Wars, Arthur C. Clark, Isaac Asimov, and all that crap.

[Anonymous No.6509897]

>>6509884
>unironically calling out a minor typographical error on a Kyrgyz trading-card forum

[Anonymous No.6509903]

>>6509897

He was correcting himself I think.

[Anonymous No.6509907]

>>6509903
Regardless, it's autismal

[Anonymous No.6509920]

>>6509897
>>6509907
I try to hold my posts on /lit/ to a higher grammatical standard.

[Anonymous No.6509921]

>>6509793
reddit pls go

It's alright the first time you read it, like I chuckled. But the reverential treatment tis unwarranted for a mediocre pop comedy science fiction novel.

[Anonymous No.6509926]

>>6509877
Highlights of the fourth book include Eragon discovering radioactivity and giant mutant slugs, Eragon stabbing the invincible evil king without any problems, and Eragon literally becoming an immortal permavirgin who lives alone (with his dragon) on the far side of the desert.

[Anonymous No.6509929]

Hegel

[Anonymous No.6509937]

>>6509929

Nawww, Reddit is more of an analytic philosophy/STEM type place.

[Anonymous No.6509940]

>>6509926
I'd heard that the author forced a meaningless sad ending in a last-ditch attempt to make his story somehow poignant.

[Anonymous No.6509975]

>>6509940
Thus the last point. As I recall, Eragon gets rejected by Arya, and so goes off to be a hermit forever (but remaining "loyal" to her or whatever). He justifies his decision by saying that he'd become another tyrant if he stayed.

Also the thing with the radioactive island probably takes up a good quarter of the book.

[Anonymous No.6509990]

>>6509975
Fuck. Glad I didn't waste time on that shit, lol

[Anonymous No.6509994]

Game of Thrones.

[Anonymous No.6510003]

>>6509975
>Eragon gets rejected by Arya, and so goes off to be a hermit forever (but remaining "loyal" to her or whatever)

That's like the literal definition of a cuckold.

[Anonymous No.6510453]

Aside from Eragon what's the shittiest YA literature out there?

[Anonymous No.6510516]

>>6510453

Josh (Jon?) Green
Ready Player One
Fifty Shades of Grey
Guardians of Gahoole
The Divergener Trilogy
Franklin the Turtle
Dave Eggers
Harry Potter/Kant

[Anonymous No.6510527]

>>6509817
If you don't understand Death of the Author as a concept, don't use it.

[Anonymous No.6510547]

>>6510516
>Fifty Shades of Grey
>YA

[Anonymous No.6510550]

[Anonymous No.6510576]

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The God Delusion
A Song of Fire and Ice
Lord of the Rings
Fault in Our Stars
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
American Psycho
Harry Potter
Hunger Games
Slaughterhouse Five
Ender's Game
1984
Brave New World
Everything by Lovecraft
Snow Crash
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
John Dies at the End
Starship Troopers
American Gods

[Anonymous No.6510581]

>>6509780
>>6509780
The Ego and its Own

[Anonymous No.6510700]

>>6510550
I doubt anyone on reddit has read this.

[Anonymous No.6510778]

>>6510576
>>6509815
>>6509836
>>6509839
>>6509994
>>6510516
>>6510576

I never touch any of those books

[Anonymous No.6510781]

>>6510576
>mfw I actually like Starship Troopers

[Anonymous No.6510785]

>>6510581
Ebin dude

[Anonymous No.6511055]

>>6510576
>Implying reddit would like Starship Troopers when it's basically a whole book with /pol/ ramblings

The rest are accurate though

[Anonymous No.6511329]

Snow Crash
Ready Player One
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

[Anonymous No.6511388]

>>6509821
>re-reading a book you loved as a teenager and finding it's a load of drivel

[Anonymous No.6511393]

>>6509780
You look like a gentleman and a scholar OP

[Anonymous No.6511443]

>>6509879
>camus
>reddit
no

[Anonymous No.6511449]

>>6509921
I didn't like it but I like funny things
Recommend me a better comedy novel plz

[Anonymous No.6511460]

game of thrones

[Anonymous No.6511464]

>>6511449

Dead Souls. Bouvard et Pecuchet. Look Who's Back. Catch-22 is also considered Reddit by people here but I think it's funny.

[Anonymous No.6511501]

>>6509872
>implying Heaney and Tolkien are good
However, this is how you have fun AND are not plagiaristic:

>Schizo Tech: Flying saucers that fire blindness-causing rays and ocean liners co-exist with pre-gunpowder weaponry, gunpowder weaponry, horse-drawn vehicles, and a general vaguely late-Medieval/Renaissance atmosphere. This juxtaposition has no in-work explanation.

[Anonymous No.6511552]

>>6509836
>Tai Pei
I don't think that's actually Reddit, but I don't use that site so I can't disagree

[Anonymous No.6511564]

>>6509872
God, that sentence hurt to read. It was actually difficult to read in my head, like the words did not flow at all. I have no idea how I read the first Eragon book

[Anonymous No.6511570]

>>6510576
How is John Dies at the End? I bought it like 3 or 4 years ago and haven't touched it at all. Can't remember why I wanted it either. I know I bought it the same day I bought House of Leaves, which I finally got around to reading last year, and I thought it was shit, so I can't imagine liking JDatE either

[Anonymous No.6511587]

>>6511570
I don't remember JDatE being awful, but nothing great either. A couple of things might have been funny, but nothing exceptionally clever or memorable.

I also remember the movie being even more unremarkable, but also with most of the stuff in the middle gone which made it feel incredibly rushed.

[Anonymous No.6511632]

>>6509836
why would bukowski be appealing to reddit?

[Anonymous No.6511639]

>>6511587
Well, I may as well read it anyway. It must have cost me like $14, and I don't like to waste money

[Anonymous No.6511806]

>>6509818
Makes you wonder why some things just tend to attract autistic people more than others. Like My Little Pony...

[Anonymous No.6511807]

>>6511632
Bukowski is pretty pleb tier. Upper middle class white kids love to put deep and inspirational quotes on their Facebook, Twitter, and other crap.

[Anonymous No.6511817]

>>6511807
>Upper middle class white kids

nice buzzwords, karl

[Anonymous No.6511825]

>>6511817
>lel buzzwords cuck lel kekkles

[Anonymous No.6512208]

>>6511464
>Bouvard et Pecuchet

Great book.
>that part when the little girl they adopt is molested by the old drunk and she enjoys it

[Anonymous No.6512224]

>>6510700
I was going off of what book is the most like reddit, not which book reddit likes the most.

[Anonymous No.6512476]

stop associating my sacred cow with Reddit /lit/ it's triggering me

[Anonymous No.6512486]

ANNE RICE HELLO-O

[Anonymous No.6512491]

>>6510778
same, all except taipei

i started it purely for comparison to my assumptions on tao