How many have you read, /lit/?
sadly, only 5
damn first comment ever on 4chan just to say read all of these except Harry Potter and Illuminatus and I didn't finish Pale King. Jesus Christ of course this is your top 100 lit revealing yourself all to be bastard normies and not even the best mishima either. JESUS FUCK U FUCKS.
>>7377744
post the new one you fuck
>>7377744
31.
>>7377879
Watch out everybody, a cool kid's in the thread.
can just imagine the new one will be all vox day and 1 borges and ernst junger
>>7377892
>defending Harry Potta
>>7377756
same
>>7377744
read
97 83 56 21 73
96 82 44 14
90 66 29 68
read some pages and found too boring/inpenetrable to continue because nobody was forcing me
6 31 98 3
12 42 13
17 94 64
Saw the movie (omitting if read the book)
5 24 55 100
16 51 59
19 54 60
Might enjoy in future
7 20 24 52 78 77 95
read 29, own about 80 of them though so I'll make it to more at some point
tacklin' Moby Dick once the semester ends
Only 16, 19, 44, 75, 83 and parts of 98 and 31.
>>7377744
5
7, with several more unfinished.
1 2 3 4 7 12 14 17 19 20 21 25 26 30 31 32 34 36 38 44 48 51 52 54 55 56 59 60 64 66 67 68 69 73 83 87 94 100
Best one is Ulysses
>>7378023
good answer
54
Hey, I remember not long ago we voted again so that we would have larger numbers, and it was being done with google docs spreadsheets by some dude. Do we have the results now?
51
>>7377744
0 because I have good taste
16
nice tripdubs
85
the master and margarita sucked. biggest let down since oblomov. too lazy to count. somewhere between 1/2 - 2/3
71.
I gotta stop coming here so often.
>>7377744
what other authors should I read if I really liked Bolaño?
>>7378525
Bolaño liked/recommended Cesar Aira.
>>7377744
49 - hey not bad!
Especially considering my overall taste in literature generally doesn't fall in line with what's really popular on lit
I do love Pynchon though. Anyone who's anyone loves Pynchon
Only the bible so far (not sure why that would be considered a top 100). I just got into reading books like these. I have a bunch on standby that I plan on starting as soon as I finish this Sam Harris book.
>>7378479
I loved it, but I have no idea why or how it's as critically well received as it is, seems like a super niche book to me without much of what one generally considers "literary"
>>7378533
>49
Like The Crying of Lot 49 :)
0.
I don't read any books.
17.
only 17, /lit/
that's it, guys.
This place, reddit, netflix, every other free-time consuming activity that isn't reading must go.
It's been a good three years /lit/. I hope I never see you again.
goodbye.
1. Androids by Dick, which I hardly understood so I guess 0.
I read too much Star Wars desu
Although I've read most of The Silmarillion? I'm pathetic
>>7377744
25, reading W&P now. Upload the new list fag face.
>>7378613
lel
Damn, I've read 71. Plus, I started a bunch in there and dropped after a bit, so I didn't count those. But really, most of that is fucking entry level. And so skewed to the anglo side, the only french writers in there are Proust and Camus? Seriously?
100.
20
>>7378628
This please, I lost the threads and I can't be assed to look it up in the archive.
>>7377744
really? the sun also rises but no for whom the bell tolls?
Only 7. Started 3 more.
Sorry.
About 50, if you count only the ones that I have finished. I started reading literature only 3 years go, and not every book i read is litcore. Also, this list is for anglophones and I am russian
>>7378302
>>7378628
>>7378644
>>7378650
24, and my thoughts exactly. For Whom The Bells Toll is his best in my opinion.
>>7377744
26, but the list is quite anglo-centric and I read mostly in Spanish
>>7378698
>the list is quite anglo-centric
I agree with you, but that list was voted on by /lit/, so I guess it's just a reflection of the population we have here. Mostly anglos, but we already knew that.
55 from this new list.
>>7378746
Why The Savage Detectives but not 2666?
>>7378751
Because it was cheap. Didn't really even like it.
>>7378753
>Didn't really even like it
I don't think we can be friends anymore anon.
What are your favourites from the list then?
>>7378756
I liked the beginning, I lost interest in the second part.
>What are your favourites from the list then?
The Trial, Brothers Karamazov, Moby Dick, Metamorphosis, Notes from the Underground, The Stranger, Hunger, Pale Fire, Kafka on the Shore, The Sun Also Rises, etc. Lots of great stuff. I've liked almost all of the books I've read from the list, Savage Detectives actually maybe the least, don't know why.
Why aren't Miss Lonelyhearts of Day of the Locust on the list? Even Bloom said that Lonelyhearts is the best english language novella.
>>7377744
I'm missing like 10~
It's a really basic chart, I gotta say.
>>7378479
I almost agree, but I get the feeling it would have been much better if P+V's translation hadn't been generally awful. Although it's possible the original writing is awful too, I guess.
>>7378765
Because /lit/ mainly reads poptrash. Lots of it is good, mind, but the scope is pretty limited.
>>7378727
You realize that there are millions and millions of books, right? That's only 100.
>>7377744
What is the significance of the colour of the author's names?
>>7378874
IDK but number of votes would explain why there's more of the same colour in a row near the end
>>7377744
Damn, didn't expect Illuminatus trilogy to be on this list. Thought it was too "silly" for anyone to post in this kind of poll.
>>7378727
Or you could realize that not everyone reads summer reading list and sophomore english fare.
>>7378676
61 on the old list, 66 on the new (and much better) list.
>>7378676
Is The Book od the New Sun really that great?
>>7378727
this is a comparatively old folks board by 4chan standards. There are teachers who post here.
>>7379021
The last kindle thread was made by a 54 year old.
Also, I know alot of people my age (mid 30s) who read, but they dont read 1984 and shit because that was the stuff they avoided reading in hs.
11. To be fair I started reading a year ago and I don't really care about anglo shit.
>>7379044
>how much praise is heaped on 20th century latin lit here
lol nobody knows anything about latin lit here. It's always the same threads mentioning Borges-Garcia Marquez-Bolanio-Cortazar, and maybe something else like Vargas Llosa every now and then. Which is all that ended up on the list, I guess.
>>7379126
I seldom see Cortázar discussed here outside of Rayuela, which is a shame. The guy was a top short-story writer, up there with Borges IMO
>>7378676
55 on first list, 62 on second
(slightly cheating cause there are still a few of the minor Canterbury tales I left unread)
(second really is better)
13
30
Actually read more than I though 41.
On another note this is a horrible horrible list is the harry potter seriously included? Is this a fucking joke? not only that but the it's better than works such as Grapes of Wrath, Portrait of the artist, Old Man and the Sea, etc.
Harry Potter are terribly written children's book chalk full of plot holes, horrible prose, elementary school vocabulary, etc.
And this board makes fun of reddit. Unbelievable
>>7378676
29 on the first list, 30 on this one
>>7377744
30
More than I had expected
25, not counting a few titles I tried to read but just couldn't get into.
I know, I'm trash.
>>7377905
Same.
Feels good man.
36, which I'm okay with.
17 but I'm an engineering student :^)
I plan to read more in the future.
>>7377885
31 bro here too
>>7377744
0
Fuck your books
>kek
>>7378676
>Journey to the End of the Night falls from 10 to 52
The degeneracy is real
>>7377744
33 here. gonna read one of these soon
No Under the Volcano on both those lists. Fuckem
>>7377744
16, most of them within the 52 books I've read so far this year. I hope to tackle almost all of those.
>>7377744
11, though around half of them I'd never bother reading
>>7378941
>summer reading list and sophomore english fare.
>dubliners
>count of monte cristo
>2666
>anything by melville, nabokov, dostoevsky
>sophomore or "summer reading fare"
fuck you
Why have there been so many circlejerking threads lately?
>>7380879
as a sophomore english student who recently read dubliners, 2666, melville, nabokov, i'm offended.
>>7380542
Great, you're almost there, all you have to do now is count the number of check marks and post that number in the thread.
>>7377744
4, I've read 4.
>>7380862
Sounds like you should have voted in the poll.
>>7377744
>only fully read 4 books from that list
>harry potter
>lolita
>hobbit
>ubik
>yet have read over 600 books (that I can remember) listed on goodreads
>>7377744
>tfw have read nearly none
i can't do e reading, i need physical media and i cant buy books
i promise i'll start when i get to university
>>7377744
Hi Guys, /sci/ here.
Can someone please create a mega link for these 100 books? I will be forever grateful to you guys.
Here are some of my math texts, don't know if they are useful to /lit/
https://mega.nz/#F!N4cGVCaZ!nuh0Ftx02YOylt92iRy64A
17 - it's a good mix of hard and soft lit
Harry Potter and The Tale of Two Cities
Rowling would be pleased
>>7380542
16- so, yuh, some good reads on there
>>7377744
14 here family
( I spend about as much life-time reading non-fiction and various children-shit, I reckon)
25 off the new one, and most of them during this year while studying a completely unrelated subject and working. you guys really need to take some time off the internet, at least i can boast about having a social life
>>7378676
39 best list
43 OP list, but I consider some on the OP list to be wastes of time.
>>7377744
I've read 22. Why the fuck is fight club on there? And Slaughterhouse Five?
>>7377744
blue=read and liked
yellow = read, indifferent(a couple of these were read in hs/etc.)
red=didn't like
I'd really love recommendations for what else to read out of this list. Hoping to cop 20 or 30 books to start next year over thanksgiving. Going to book stores tomorrow and I'm sure I'll run into online sales over the week(end). Not feeling something like Infinite Jest right now. Give me something a little more obscure off the list.
>>7381770
I'm a dork.
>lit likes the Valis books
Why? It's literally the pseudointellectual ramblings of a madman.
Most of Dick's other work is more enjoyable.
>>7381585
>22
22 checkin' in.
This is pleb as fuck.
>memebook is #1
>Bible below American Psycho and Harry Potter
>>7381857
>Why? It's literally the pseudointellectual ramblings of a madman.
historically that has had great literary success. c.f notes from the underground, the tunnel, etc
