/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.9398055]

Does /lit/ pass the white male reader test? How many of these do you own/have you read?

http://the-toast.net/2015/05/12/books-that-literally-all-white-men-own/#comments

[Anonymous No.9398067]

Is there a purpose to this list? Is there some message about white men the author is trying to convey?

[Anonymous No.9398076]

>>9398055
kill yourself op

this trite buzz pop garbage is not literature

[Anonymous No.9398077]

18, 62 and 75 only tbqhwyfamalamadingdong.
I have a copy of Lolita, but it's in portuguese, so I'm in constant distress over whether to read the pretty hardcover or the original on a kindle.

[Anonymous No.9398088]

>>9398055
this list could well be called r/books

>>9398067
There is a subset of young men who search the internet for posts by an equal subset of terrible young women in order to trigger themselves and thus feel feelings.

[Anonymous No.9398094]

>>9398055
>no max stirner
ya dun spooked OP

[Anonymous No.9398127]

>books that literally all black men own

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[Anonymous No.9398128]

>>9398055
That list died very quickly

[Anonymous No.9398130]

>>9398055
>Books that "literally all white men own"
>List popular, commonly read, and widespread lit.
False Correlation

Please take back your race b8 back to /pol/

[Anonymous No.9398137]

>>9398055

>Books that all black men own

>48 Laws of Power
>Bible

[Anonymous No.9398175]

>>9398055
I own 19 of them, and am not a white man.

>2. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
>3. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
>4. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
>6. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
>9. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
>13. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
>15. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
>16. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
>18. The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
>20. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
>38. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
>62. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
>63. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
>64. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
>66. Beowulf, the Seamus Heaney translation
>69. The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
>71. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
>72. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
>74. The Call of the Wild, Jack London

I've also read but don't own The Big Sleep and The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat.

[blueeyeswhiteprivilege !8aWlqIh8lo No.9398183]

>>9398067
so there's really two main reasons for posts like these in my experience the first being that people just like to read stuff and say 'that's so me' but the second and i think very dumb convention you have in a lot of arguments is this idea that just because you do things that are stereotypical you're just somehow immediately invalid

like saying hipsters like vinyl isn't _really_ inherently an insult even though it's clearly meant to sound like one. it's this whole idea of like oh well the people _i_ dislike are self-caricatures while the people on _my_ side of the fence are three dimensional human beings with thoughts and feelings

i don't know it's really dumb

[Anonymous No.9398205]

>shit that all niggers own:
>cheap guns
>crack coke
>cheap weed
>stained mattresses
>underfed dog/cat

>shit that spics own:
>fake IDs
>sombreros
>burrito wraps as lamp shades
>obese children
>cigarettes

>things women own:
>unearned cash
>tampons
>unclean dildos
>shitty romance novels
>pink diary with glitter

Oh man I'm such a racist sexist bigot, right? I know what can cure me; a dumbfuck bait article about how typical white men are. Ding! I'm cured! Look! I CARE MORE.

[Anonymous No.9398224]

>>9398183
Thats actually a really great point dude, I`ve fallen into this plenty of times but I never even realised it.
Blew my fucking mind.

[Anonymous No.9398253]

>>9398055
>books that literally all white men own

It's not like black men read, so why make the distinction?

[Anonymous No.9398262]

>>9398205
Why do you let dumb internet articles get under your skin?

[Anonymous No.9398271]

White man here, I only own Catch-22 and Into the Wild, but that's because I've long been to smart to own books.

[Anonymous No.9398274]

Things I do know and enjoy from that list

>Miles

Wow so the Bible really is not a thing anymore

[Anonymous No.9398280]

>>9398262
I am just wasting time out of spite of not having an interesting way to spend my spare time from working for something I will inherently hate as a result and after meditating on this fact I will cure my existence and those around me thereafter.

[Anonymous No.9398285]

>White men
>if Jewish
>if Irish-American
Does not compute.

[Anonymous No.9398286]

>>9398280
*curse my existence

[Anonymous No.9398290]

>>9398285
You're right, Americans aren't white.

[Anonymous No.9398295]

>>9398285
Semites and Negroids are gradually being retconned into whiteness by the ivory tower marxists who own Fox News.

[Anonymous No.9398297]

>>9398055
>2015

How much time do you spend a day searching for this race bait shit to trigger frogmen with?

Go back to /pol9k/

[Anonymous No.9398302]

>>9398297
I'm confused, are you saying that /pol/ wouldn't agree with that list? It's a list of liberal postmodern bullshit /pol/ detests.

[Anonymous No.9398308]

>>9398055
I have 11.

[Anonymous No.9398315]

>mfw own all of them
>mfw not a white man
>mfw a green woman

[Anonymous No.9398325]

>>9398315
Post feet

[Anonymous No.9398333]

>>9398055
I have 8

[Anonymous No.9398339]

>>9398302
>mention race in OP
>guaranteed 300 replies because there's a sizeable contingent on here who only come to /lit/ for this

>It's a list of liberal postmodern bullshit /pol/ detests.
Guaranteed 80 (You)s from triggered frogs

[Anonymous No.9399037]

>>9398055
i bet fewer than a third of american households actually own 79 books

[Anonymous No.9399167]

>>9398055
Almost everyone I know who likes Vonnegut is a woman. Hitchens is only owned by my awful fucking fedora friend. She got me on my 5 copies of lolita though. I don't understand the list though. Is she trying to say only males like good literature?

[Anonymous No.9399202]

>>9399167

She's implying that white men only read other white men. There's a big push in the academic-media complex for more diversity in fiction, and white men, whether alive or not, are slowly being pushed out of university curricula and "must read" lists. The backlash against Modern Library's top 100 list is a good example of what I'm talking about.

Yeah it's a storm in a teacup but it still pisses me off.

[Anonymous No.9399221]

>>9398055
1, LoTR

I tried to read GEB but it got too boring after awhile. I think I tried to read A Brief History of Time when I was younger, but I got bored again. I can read the actual relevant papers by Hawking anyway.

[Anonymous No.9399357]

>>9398286
Thanks for fixing that

[Anonymous No.9399428]

>>9398055
>Dear readers, I know that today is the final day of The Toast....

kek

[Anonymous No.9399446]

>>9398297
Not OP but it was linked in an article discussed a ton on the Wallace-L listserv today.

[Anonymous No.9399471]

please be London

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[Anonymous No.9399478]

>>9398183
It's dehuminization.

Ironically, it's a tactic used to oppress people, and was the main point of Nazi propaganda.

It's funny how all these liberals (and conservatives) use so much ideological bullshit. It's so fascistic.

We've already started to see the new wave of this stuff (violence) through Antifa

[Anonymous No.9399698]

>>9399478
But they can do it because they have the moral high ground, Shitlord.

[Anonymous No.9399704]

What's wrong with Miles Davis?

[Anonymous No.9399714]

>List of popular books
>Incendiary title

Why do you keep falling for it?

[Anonymous No.9399718]

I've got farewell to arms, gatsby, grapes of wrath, spy who came in from the cold, lord of the flies

I don't understand this list

Someone of the works are "bro" tier, some of the, are pop psychology/history/economics, some of them classic literature

What does it mean to say they are white male?

[Anonymous No.9399723]

>>9399478
Remind me what exactly is wrong with dehumanization, you fucking Redditspacer. If I'm going to have my men kill yours I sure as hell don't want my men feeling sorry for themselves; dehumanization is great if you want to kill people.

[Anonymous No.9399725]

>>9399718
Oh and I, Claudius. Forgot that.

[Anonymous No.9399753]

I've got farewell to arms, gatsby, grapes of wrath, spy who came in from the cold, lord of the flies, big sleep, I, claudius

I don't understand this list

Someo of the works are "bro" tier, some of them are pop psychology/history/economics, some of them classic literature

What does it mean to say they are white male?

[Anonymous No.9399761]

>>9398077
Just read it on hardcover, it's a great book and you could re-read it later on Kindle so you can appreciate the prose of Nabokov and craft in english but you will need a dictionary (which is more useful on a e-reader)

[Anonymous No.9399780]

I have shogun but never bothered reading it
is it a good read or should I read ten other books in the time it would take

[Anonymous No.9399788]

>Beowulf is on this list (with a specified tranlsation even)
>No Homer
Shit list.

[Anonymous No.9399789]

>>9398175
How was The Man who mistook his wife for a hat? I'm curious about it

[Anonymous No.9399828]

I own five of them as a fucking white male

[Anonymous No.9399954]

>>9398205
>burrito wraps as lamp shades

I liked this post. It was very atmospheric. I was reminded of this documentary I saw once about illegal immigrants hopping the Mexican border.

[Anonymous No.9399979]

>>9398055
Books that literally all white women own:
>1) The Harry Potter series
>2) I Love Shopping
>3) Bridget Jones's Diary
>4) Some Palahniuk from their edgy teenager years
>5) Horrendous "feminist" "poetry" (Rupi Kaur et al.)
>6) Some actually good books borrowed from their ex boyfriends and never returned (never read)

[Anonymous No.9399989]

>>9399979
For sale: ex's books, never read.

[Anonymous No.9399990]

>>9399954
>tfw you'll never write an atmospheric post

[Anonymous No.9400020]

>God Is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens

Is the average white American a filthy fucking atheist?

[Anonymous No.9400029]

>>9398055

I lived my whole life thinking I was a black man...now I see I'm wrong

[Anonymous No.9400050]

>>9398055
>Camus
>Not Céline

zzz

[Anonymous No.9400085]

>>9398067
Subtle shilling for some of those works, I am sure. Expecting people to go "oh, I've never heard about this book but it's on the same list as Lolita and Moby Dick". Also what's up with that book by Jon Stewart? Isn't his real name Leibowitz?

[Anonymous No.9400090]

>>9398067
it's a clickbait listicle, it exist to generate ad revenue

[Anonymous No.9400122]

>>9398055
>tfw some marketing guru literally posts a direct advertisement on 4chan
>tfw this works

[Anonymous No.9400130]

No sweetie I don't read dead white males.

[Anonymous No.9400138]

http://archive.is/6Ip2w

[Anonymous No.9400170]

>>9398055
Lolita, I, Claudius, Infinite Jest and Pynchon. The rest is Reddit/ dadcore garbage.

[Anonymous No.9400172]

>>9398055
Well Hooty-Hoo, I am a fine-ass black mama and I own literally all of these, nigga

[Anonymous No.9400219]

>>9400122
>tfw i have adblock and ublock installed

[Anonymous No.9400236]

>>9399723
>Remind me what exactly is wrong with dehumanization
>dehumanization is great if you want to kill people.

[Anonymous No.9400250]

Books every white woman owns:

Harry Potter
50 Shades of Grey
Twilight
Some entry level feminist literature, dropped half way through

[Anonymous No.9400264]

>>9400236

I don't want to be killed. I may be a white oppressor but I'm still a real human being aren't I?

[Anonymous No.9400301]

>>9400264
No, people who look like you did bad things in the past, now you must die.

[Anonymous No.9400337]

W-why is Stravinsky on this pic? I listen to his neoclassical phase unironically

[Anonymous No.9400344]

>>9400264
Anon that doesn't make any sense in the light of >>9399723

[Anonymous No.9400392]

>>9400344
How is that

[Anonymous No.9400395]

>>9400138
Jesus Christ that was an autistic rambling rant

[Anonymous No.9400401]

there has to be some level on which you can point out patterns that exist if they do, in fact, exist. like, strictly on a factual level, identifying patterns does not have to carry a normative value. and even gently mocking people whose value judgments fall into predictable patterns does not mean you're "invalidating" them.

It's a joke about a way that a lot of dudes are. I don't know that it needs to be an excuse for this kind of soul-searching or defensiveness or self-seriousness.

you all can be some dumb ass chickendicks about stuff like this it's fuckin weird

[Anonymous No.9400408]

>>9398205
Yeah blame on us ,when it';s one of your own hoes writing these shits.

[Anonymous No.9400428]

>Have never read Camus
>Won't until my french is good enough

[Anonymous No.9400429]

Good list desu, the white male canon

[Anonymous No.9400451]

>>9398205
> I know what can cure me; a dumbfuck bait article about
>;
How the fuck do you justify the use of a semicolon there?

[Anonymous No.9400491]

>>9400250
Let's expand this one

Harry Potter (J.K. Rowling)
50 Shades of Grey (E.L. James)
Twilight (Stephenie Meyer)
The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
The Devil Wears Prada (Lauren Weisberger)
Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophia Kinsella)
Bridget Jones's Diary (Helen Fielding)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)

[Anonymous No.9400496]

>>9400491
You should make it into a chart and add into the wiki; it's pretty accurate

[Anonymous No.9400532]

>>9400491
p accurate

[Anonymous No.9400544]

>>9400491
I didn't think woman bothered to read Woolfe, I thought it was ironically men who read it.

[Anonymous No.9400555]

>>9400544
Yeah, but I thought Mrs. Dalloway was the exception.
For some reason I forgot:
Divergent (Veronica Roth)
Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
The Fault in Our Stars (John Green)
Looking for Alaska (John Green)
Milk and Honey (Rupi Kaur) Not sure about this one though

[Anonymous No.9400557]

>be spic
>only own two of those books on the list
I guess they're right?

[Anonymous No.9400565]

>>9400557
You probably just have shit taste

[Anonymous No.9400570]

>>9400565
Why would I want to own a bunch of reddit-tier normalfag books?

[Anonymous No.9400579]

>>9400555
>>9400491
>no murakami

Also don't girls read Bukowski?

[Anonymous No.9400583]

>>9400579
I was thinking about Norwegian Wood (because every girl I know owns that) but I thought it might just be something exclusive to the people I know.
Don't know about Bukowski though

[Anonymous No.9400587]

42
Are the rest of you honkies even trying to be be /whitemalelit/?

[Anonymous No.9400589]

>>9400587
ha ha the naswer to the universe XD well done fellow white trash

[Anonymous No.9400717]

>>9400451
I am the hero of semicologna and will do so with the symbol as I please and equally as such where I please.

[Anonymous No.9400734]

>>9398205
>>unearned cash
If they have it, they earned it. Keep your faux niceguys justice to /r9k/

[Anonymous No.9400739]

>>9398127
>he hasn't read any nation of islam shit
>he hasn't read iceberg
>no soul on ice
nigga, leave this board, get yourself arrested, and pick a fight if you're meant to leave before you're done that shit.

[Anonymous No.9400755]

whites aren't people
how could real conscious people have done the things whites have ALWAYS done FOREVER
if you're white i want you dead

[Anonymous No.9400756]

>>9400555
>Mrs Dalloway
Room of One's Own is more common in girls, especially of the tumblr feminist type. Less sexual anxiety over not liking kissing girls as much as they thought they would, more bitches need more money to be free.

Alice in Wonderland I'd doubt too. Unless you specify a Barnes and Noble edition or any shit like that, most adults won't read it unless they math nerds or linguistics freaks and those tend to be male. The porn for Alice tends to be more male orientated too. I'd wager more girls have a tea set and Alice costume than treatises on marmalade.

>>9400579
These and Palahniuk. Once you specify it's Haruki not Ryu. Bitches do not like Ryu, despite loving Burkowski.

[Anonymous No.9400757]

>>9400755
>XD

[Anonymous No.9400759]

>>9400757
i'm not joking

[Anonymous No.9400760]

>>9398077
Brasileiro? A edição da Globo é muito boa. Ótima tradução.

[Anonymous No.9400763]

>>9400759
>XDDD

[Anonymous No.9400768]

>>9400763
is it possible you're even fatter and more miserable than me

[Anonymous No.9400770]

>>9400768
I don't think so

[Anonymous No.9400778]

>>9398175
that's because those are all widely read books and op's link is insane

[Anonymous No.9400792]

>>9398055
Lol, faggots replying to a list that has Tucker Max on it.

Do you still read the Best page in the Universe aswell, you middle aged losers?

[Anonymous No.9400806]

>>9400792
now he has a youtube channel lel

[Anonymous No.9400814]

own: 11
read: 3
and theres only 3 others on there that i see myself ever reading (possibly 4 but im not sure if ill ever read house of leaves desu)

[Anonymous No.9400816]

>>9398055
***All anglo "white" "men"

[Anonymous No.9400827]

>>9400778
Well yeah, there's no denying that.

>>9399789
They're interesting stories, but I prefer longer case studies like the ones from A R Luria.

[Anonymous No.9400833]

>>9399979
Out of these, I only have Harry Potter, which goes in the kid's section of my shelves. My good books are all mine.

[Anonymous No.9400836]

>>9400833
No one cares bitch

[Anonymous No.9400842]

>>9400491
>Harry Potter (J.K. Rowling)
>Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
>Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
>Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
>Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
>Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
>The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
>>9400555
>Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)

From those. Not much better percentage than the white man one.

[Anonymous No.9400847]

>>9400842
If you liked those, may I recommend checking out sucking dick?

[Anonymous No.9400865]

>>9399979
>>5) Horrendous "feminist" "poetry" (Rupi Kaur et al.)
Lel just checked it out expecting something at least a bit decent but this would be disappointing even if i had expected nothing

[Anonymous No.9400880]

>>9400865
>vacuous diction
>full of cliches
>arrogant tone reminiscent of shitty fetlife profiles of delusional girls
>falls flat despite the obvious intent of using a volta

and she's finished a degree in "rhetoric and professional writing"? wow

[Anonymous No.9400912]

>>9400833
Post shelf to save face

[Anonymous No.9400929]

A thousand books that don't even fit the bill on that list and no Heart of Darkness lol

[Anonymous No.9400944]

>>9400428

>Waiting to read Camus because of translation
>Has one of the most bare-bones prose styles

also

>Reading Camus