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In the year 1999, this was voted as the greatest novel of the 20th century. Yet any time you discuss it on /lit/ you get pseudo intellectuals coming out against it. WTF is all your problem hating such an important work?

>> No.9920373

>>9920370
>this was voted as the greatest novel of the 20th century
by whomst????

>> No.9920376
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9920376

>>9920370
what is objectivism?

>> No.9920389

>>9920373
By the readers. It wasn't on the critics list at all. Ignore the OP

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9920477

>>9920370
>>9920373
>>9920389
>THREE (3) L. Ron Hubbard books in the top 10 from readers
>FOUR (4) Ayn Rand
>Not a meme list
The critics list isn't perfect either but in all their top 100 neither of these authors even appeared once. Kudos at least for placing BNW a few notches above 1984. Must have seemed more relevant at the time of voting

>> No.9920604

>>9920477
what the hell, why is the reader list so shitty? even reddit is superior to that

>> No.9920612

>>9920370
>WTF is all your problem hating such an important work?

op = fag

>> No.9920622

dude rip everyone off who gives a fuck

>> No.9920626

>>9920477
How did Mein Kampf not make the reader's list. It's clearly all memes

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9920631

>>9920477
>Brave New World at #5
>Catch-22 at #7
nice """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""board"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" you got there

>> No.9920632

>>9920477
Both of those lists are incredibly shit tho. I actually prefer the memesters who rigged the reader's list with a write-in campaign to the critics who unironically call Brave New World and The Great Gatsby some of the best novels of the twentieth century.

>> No.9920634

>>9920631
Are you implying that Catch-22 should be higher than Brave New World or just that they're both shit?

>> No.9920639

>>9920477
All that's missing is Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

>> No.9920703

>>9920634
Both are shit, but you bring up a good point that Catch-22 is probably better than Brave New World

>> No.9920717

>>9920370
its boring