Why is this board so pretentious? It's unbearable.
it's because it's become reddit-tier, and the worst part is that most people here think reading infinite jest and pynchon gives them the authority to be pretentious.
TOP KEK.
>looks around
>anime thread
>two harry potter threads
>several shitty obvious baits
>two "i want girls" threads
It's not pretentious, it's shit
You wouldn't understand
>>7490201
>mfw the Star Wars thread last night got 45 replies but the Proust one got 3.
/lit/ has become garbage. I've cut my browsing time down by about 3/4ths, and I plan on taking another hiatus for a few years until the place stops being trash again.
NEETs think they are superior to other NEETs for reading books rather than watching anime.
They both lead shitty, unfulfilling lives kek
>>7490197
if you actually read Pynchon and read deeply, that's some pretty high end lit desu
thing is I kno for a fact only 1/3 of people who discuss pyncwhon here actually read/understand him
dumb frogposter
>>7490263
Pynchon is the cubism/modern art of the literary world. Thinking that it actually makes you a more worthy person because you read it makes you the same as the dipshits who walk past the classical, Gothic, and Romanesque aisles in art museums to see huge scams like pic related.
>>7490262
So? Neets that don't read books don't belong here.
>>7490189
>Man Booker and Nobel come out
>/lit/ trashes awards for their history, the authors for their ethnicity and gender, and the books because reasons
>read the totality of both authors books
>best fucking reading in years
fuck /lit/, most of the threads are summer reading tier anyways
>>7490310
You are among the reasons /lit/ has become garbage. Please go back to r/books/
>>7490310
You didn't find this place from Imgur, by chance?
>>7490310
>>>/reddit/
>>7490310
Agreed, the bitter disaffected white male vibe that's always been present here is starting to get on my nerves. This place reeks of prejudice and resentment and I know for a fact that most of the undergrads and NEETs posting this poison have never interacted with anybody who wasn't an autistic white nerd like themselves. aLWAYS choose the literary establishment over independent thought, these people are more reputable than /lit/ for a reason
>>7490298
please fucking kill yourself and your family, you idiot
>>7490339
Yeah I'm sure you got a lot out of Finnegan's Wake you poseur.
Literally go back to r/books/, you mongrels.
>>7490330
>independent thought
Your thought is not independent. You're brainwashed and following the next hottest thing, which in this case happens to be "progressivism." They've led you to believe you're going against the grain, but you're not. Keep buying into the "rebel" archetype though, poseur.
>>7490336
Same goes for you, you fucking loser.
>>7490330
>>>/tumblr/
>>7490347
>i've read pynchon, and now I'm such an intellectual xDDDD
It's people like you (and the infinite jest posters) that have caused this board to go to shit. This board has literally become worse than reddit, and its all your guys' fault.
>>7490189
Are you new here? As far as I can tell, /lit/ seems to be gradually moving in the direction of reddit, towards that folksy, unpretentious humbler-than-thou attitude, where any trace of extra effort put into a post, or any strong opinion, is misconstrued as pretentiousness.
>>7490330
but im a mexican girl.
>>7490373
Kill yourself.
It used to keep the faggots and shitters out. Somehow it became that which it hates. It's why /a/ is pure and perfect. They can self-moderate and drive out shit.
>>7490336
>bashing the appreciation of 2 gay authors
I suggest you close your laptop or power down your PC, turn off your CRT monitor (or flatscreen if you have the dough) and seriously think about the homophobic comment you made.
Because people who don't spend their time reading books hate themselves enough they need to pretend they do.
The obvious solution is we round them up and gas them so the board consists of the original sticky, and, a specific recs and new reviews thread. They're not smart enough to put themselves out of their own misery.
>>7490382
Mira you wanna chill next time you're in the Midwest? I don't have any drugs but I'm better than most of Muumuu House anyways
I think it all started when I began posting here about a year ago. Well, not started, but capitulated, if you will, to the flood of my supreme purple prose posts.
pynchon memekids need to fuck off back to WoW or /a/ or whatever they were doing before they decided they were gonna try this "literature" thing out and picked up a copy of le wacky rocketman chronicles because it's got a deep-sounding name and the author writes in a fever dream-esque stream-of-consciousness style it must be profound WHOA HIS DICK PREDICTS V-2 STRIKES NOW THIS IS LITERATURE
kill yourselves
>>7490189
FINE I'LL LEAVE! I HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO WITH MY TIME!
>>7490472
Fuck off back to WoW, shitlord
>>7490475
>pynchon is my favorite author
>>7490362
your sense of belonging is your undoing.
>>7490350
>Implying your thoughts is independent
Because following the opinion of other /lit/erati is the epitome of artistic freedom and expression.
Black sheep are still sheep.
>All the people hating on Pynchon here because all memes take a 180 at some point
>They haven't read Mason & Dixon
>>7490347
pynchon didnt write finneganS wake.
>>7490839
I guarantee less than 5% of /lit/ has actually read anything by Pynchon in full besides Lot 49 and Inherent Vice.
You have no idea what pretentious is, or you have become so used to this place that you don't realize what it's really like compared to shitshows like reddit.
it's just a prank bro
>>7490398
It's true though. I'd rather /lit/ be a little more "pretentious".
>>7491207
Agreed. If /lit/ were more pretentious we wouldn't have to worry about retards invading our board because we could just laugh at them.
>>7490974
t. pretentious twat
poe's law= get out of jail free card
>>7490189
people who use the p-word are usually p themselves
