EYE ROLL
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"Hey, Anon! You like literature? I love literature!"
"Really? Who's your favorite author? What's your favorite book?"
"Hmmm...gosh, I don't know...If I had to pick, I'd say my favorite author is [pic related] and my favorite book is American Gods, by Neil Gaiman."
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So what authors and books make you roll your eyes and immediately dismiss someone, /lit/?
>>7397081
Pinecone, Kafka, Joyce, Wallace
I don't know, I'm lonely and have no friends
I would be accepting of anyone if they would be my friend
>>7397081
Infinite Jest
"haha you like bad books when you should be liking good books" ~ you
>>7397084
I'll be your friend.
What's your favorite book?
Please, please kill yourself OP. For the sake of us all.
>>7397089
Kokoro by Natsume Souseki
>>7397083
if your just trying to fuck with OP i applaud you, but seriously hating kafka? i just feel sorry for you man
>>7397094
*eye roll*
>>7397081
DFW tbhfam
>>7397096
"haha i like good books. that means ___________"
>>7397094
Hm.
Nevermind.
>>7397100
But I was only pretending to be retarded... I think... What's happened to me...
Kys mm
>>7397114
This
>>7397081
Stephen King.
Every english teacher I had throughout high school would say they liked King just to sound like they could relate to the class.
When people say they like King they're actually saying "I saw The Shining and I liked that".
John Green and JK Rowling
>>7397137
No, you're projecting.
Kys friend
>>7397114
Thisss
>>7397137
>When people say they like King they're actually saying "I saw The Shining and I liked that".
Stephen King is one the most popular writers on the planet. He defines commercial fiction and mom book club reading, sorry to burst your bubble
>>7397114
This
>>7397172
He defines entertainment.
>>7397114
This please, op
>>7397114
Bingo
>>7397178
How is that different from what I said?
>Edginess and intelligence are the same thing, right?
Chuck Palahniuk in a nutshell
>>7397081
I've yet to meet a person who love Joyce who was not an insufferable hipster.
Not saying they don't exist, for surely they do, Joyce is certainly among the greatest, but he is hipster-catnip.
>>7397263
>for they surely do
Asshole alert.
>>7397081
Anything that falls under contemporary YA.
If they said something like A Wrinkle in Time, that gets a pass though.
>>7397263
Thankfully I've never met a hipster who loves Joyce, but I've also never met someone who loves Joyce other than my old professors. I'm so literary-alone.
>>7397081
Any YA author or novel, Stephen King and anything by him, Orwell (not because he's bad) and 1984, Huxley and anything by him, Bradbury and anything by him, Tolkien and anything by him.
>>7397442
how many hipsters have you met
>tfw no one in class reads so I can't dismiss anyone based on their favorite literature
>>7397103
This.
I tried to read it, I know you're lying.
>>7398300
Shit I earned a Masters in English and most of my classmates there weren't readers either. Outside of class, they read LotR or HP a million times over and little else. Some pretended to be comics gurus and I would just listen to them yammer off shit that I knew was incorrect but didn't want to get targeted and wouldn't speak up to correct them.
I have to stop myself from calling Harry Potter retarded in front of cute girls on a daily basis.
Normie life is pain, /lit/
>>7397127
Kill yourself, my man
>>7398354
Welcome to 21st century literature. Where dumbasses have convinced themselves that someone like Tolkien is actually good. And that they're not just autistic faggots who would be reading and analyzing Harry Potter if they were born later.
>>7398417
>/lit/ made me hate Harry Potter
>/v/ made me hate Call of Duty
>/tv/ made me hate anything that isn't the Wire
>/r9k/ made me gay
How the fuck am I going to get a job /lit/?
>>7398435
You're not. You're just gonna live a shitty life and then you're gonna die. At least you'll have okay taste.
>>7398435
>wire over Sopranos
>>7397081
People who mention YA or pleb stuff. Especially, fedoras who circle jerk over it.
>>7397114
Tbqh this.
>>7397267
He hates Joyce but he worded that like Joyce would've.
>>7398466
Joyce wrote like he was from the 21st C.
>>7397137
Honestly, I don't think he's bad at all. Because he pumps out so much stuff, his books tend to be really hit-or-miss, but the good ones are really good.
>>7397435
I give Andrew Smith a pass too. Probably some of the only halfway decent YA out there.
>>7398474
No, but "for they surely do" isn't modern and sounds like something from Ulysses. Most people don't use that phrase.
>>7397114
This
