ITT: Good books you aren't allowed to like on /lit/
Harry Potter
The Enders Game series.
50 Shades of Grey
>>7520692
good for what it is, but I grew out of it
probably read it too many times
Madame Bovary. I've never seen it discussed once.
The Scarlet Letter.
Her oven too big for her godam head xddd
>>7520679
I thought we aren't allowed to like anything on /lit/.
Every book is either pleb shit, pretentious shit, or memes.
>>7520694
This.
ASOIAF series. They're a fun read.
>>7520905
Yes.
>>7520679
Good book imho.
It's a shame that it's overused by tumblrinas, who think that Plath 'understands' how they feel when their going through some triviality in their lives (recent rupture, problems in high school, etc).
I like the book, but not so much its main audience.
>>7520679
Any light novel.
>>7520720
why am i laughing
atlas shrugged
Best scene imo
>>7520679
Never Let Me Go
>>7520938
>>youl'l never ever save Sylvia Plath from Ted Hughes tyranny by licking on her puss-puss until 5hours long
i wish I put this dick completely inside her
>>7521725
>you will never go back in time to when licking feet was still really weird and lick Sylvia Plath's feet and do all kinds of other weird shit like licking her butthole and making her pee on your dick and face and convince her you're some kind of eccentric sexual revolutionary so she'll date you even though you're an ugly stupid fuck
Naked Lunch and Blood Meridian
>>7521279
You're not allowed to like this anywhere it seems.
>>7520942
It's weird how /mu/ gets a dedicated k-pop general, but we can't discuss LNs at all
>>7521748
Is this a meme? We get BM threads all the time. I don't remember the last time I saw anyone talk about BUrroughs though
>>7520700
I never got into it (I was into A Series of Unfortunate Events when it was big) so I don't feel any connection to it. Also, I don't like fantasy books.
>>7521742
fixed 2bh
>>7520679
The Martian desu senpai. It's awkward when I get back to Reddit comments. It's like ouch.. What did I do? Baka desu senpai.
>>7521748
I'm not sure if it's meme my beloved.
All I know is anytime I bring up how it's one of my all time favorites I can hear groans and sighs from the other anons. So yeah I guess it's meme.
And people reduce Naked Lunch to heroin and pedophilic sex, and say that's all the book is about
Slaughterhouse Five
>>7520714
>Madame Bovary. I've never seen it discussed once.
I've been curious since seeing the Sopranos, unsure whether it being a recommendation for Carm was a promising sign
>>7521753
i thought it was still banned
Reason: Asian Female author, Contemporary lit, Man Booker Shortlist
>>7520679
Reason: Contemporary lit, Female Author, Gay author, "isnt literature", won Nobel over Pynchon and McCarthy, Awarded for minority status, awarded to tweak russia's nose
Reason: "Nigger wrote it, everyone knows niggers cant write", gay author, contemporary literature, Man Booker winner due to minority status
Reason: African author, shortlisted for numerous awards due to minority status
>>7521279
/thread
>>7520905
The deterioration in quality over the series stops it from being good
>>7520905
>Sunset found her squatting in the grass, groaning. Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler. By the time the moon came up she was shitting brown water. The more she drank, the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew, and her thirst sent her crawling to the stream to suck up more water.
>>7521754
Because K-pop is actually good.
And when was there a "general" of anything on lit?
>>7521963
you don't "get" a dedicated general.
You make one and keep it bumped and if you have people behind you and can keep a thread going then there you have your general.
You'll have to force it for a week and if it's a good general it'll persist.
source: I made one on /vg/. it failed though after a month.
>>7520838
You are mistaken. Go back to /v/.
>>7521948
FAT
>>7520905
They are not
If you want to pull off the "oh but they're *fun*" card to justify your pleb taste at least pick a book that's not just slugging through a sense of seriousness so ridiculous it makes you wonder how it penetrated the mainstream at all
>>7522011
Are you so new that you weren't around for the Munro or Mo Yan win?
>>7522011
There are a surprising number of edgy redditors and /pol/kids on this board who will shit your thread up with false-flagging and IRONIC SHITPOSTING if you try to talk about any SJW-approved lit
>>7521971
I've yet to see a thread here that doesn't have a "it's shit" post in it.
>>7521725
Interesting to note that Ted Hughes burned her last journals, his next wife also killed herself, and that apparently whenever something negative about him is about to be published his estate sues.
>>7522406
Yep.
Any popular literary fiction that is the least bit accessible is considered pleb.
The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in the Rye, Atlas Shrugged, The Bell Jar, To Kill a Mockingbird, anything by Bronte or Austen or Steinbeck, etc.
Lolita, Heart of Darkness, etc. get a pass because of the content.
>>7521754
kpop is despised by everyone outside those threads and has been for years
there's just nowhere else they can be moved to
>>7523007
Gatsby, Catcher and Mockingbird are constantly recommended as entry-level litcore, though.
>>7520679
Typically whingy 'female experience' novel. About as entertaining as Catcher in the Rye. It's good as teen fiction but not sure why it's taken seriously. Her poetry is great though
>>7520692
>>7520694
children's lit. literature for children and manchildren.
>>7520695
erotica, so not of literary merit whatsoever. If it's good schlickin material more power to you but don't pretend it's good or art.
>>7520905
manchildren lit
people with pleb tastes need to stop thinking people that read quality lit are being pretentious
>>7522406
>Interesting to note that Ted Hughes burned her last journals, his next wife also killed herself, and that apparently whenever something negative about him is about to be published his estate sues.
but birthday letters was SO good. Why didn't his gfs just speak out against him?
>>7521279
>Dumb anime-posting NEET
>Likes Atlas Shrugged
I am not surprised.
>>7523007
Lurk more newfriend.
>>7520905
It sort of went to shit after the third book.
Just pretend the series ends afterRobb dies
>>7520679
Hundred years of solitude
>>7520905
ASOIAF? I'm awful with abbreviations and have no idea what this is.
>>7520938
Agreed, I read The Bell Jar this year and found it to be quite an interesting perspective on depression: personal insight into Plath's thoughts and the contradictory and selfish nature of depression itself were pretty fascinating.
>>7521963
> k-pop
> good
What's the difference between k-pop and Top 40s floor filler shit? Waifu drama is not allowed to be an answer if you treat k-pop as a legitimate form of "good" music.
>>7521794
I think people moan and sigh over Blood Meridian because many people have already discussed it excessively. It just kinda happens with the popular books around here: I made a Gravity's Rainbow thread that went down well while I was reading it over the Summer but we still had many people whining about it.
>>7523007
Gatsby, Catcher, To Kill a Mockingbird, Bronte and Austen have pretty dedicated followings on /lit/, anon. Some people are just contrarians and want to ruffle feathers, whereas I'm sure others do find those works overrated, but many do appreciate them.
Atlas Shrugged is bound to be divisive really, and as an earlier post stated, the gripe many have with The Bell Jar is the Tumblr-crowd that follow it blindly rather than the book itself (personally I think one should distance the original work from its following, but I understand that can be difficult).
>>7520714
>Madame Bovary
I think the consensus here is that it's an almost perfect piece of writing.
The only complaints I've seen on this board about it are about the plot being boring, but that's missing the point entirely IMO
>>7520938
god she's a babe. but yeah, lots of people like plath because 'so feminist and confessional and about depression and omg i can relate'. She's not a good poet because she wrote about being a depressed middle class girl, she's a good poet because she worked really hard and wrote well crafted poems. the fans kind of ruin it all though. same with bukowski.
I'll join in with your thread concept tho OP. I feel 'Of Mice and Men' would be dismissed as 'high school core' or something like that, it's a pretty nice book though.
>>7521798
that book is really edgy and does nothing interesting literarily. There's some kind of high school philosophy discussed I guess but it's genre fiction at best.
>>7524006
A Song of Ice and Fire
>>7524482
I believe it's called Game of Thrones, anon.
>>7523778
>>Dumb anime-posting NEET
>on an anime imageboard
lmao pham
>>7521301
>you will never be ethan hawke in that scene
That trilogy completely changed my opinion of him as an actor.
>>7523491
But anon why would you ever want to discuss the B&N leatherbound classics editions? They're a horrible purchase.
>>7524821
>...and then I got drunk and fucked a girl xD
Literally Kafka reincarnated as a frat boy
>>7523778
>not dumb anime-posting to keep normies out
>not reading the OP
>not reading what i said
>>7521948
nothing wrong with that, there's a pretty similar part in GR with Slothrop "shitting acid"
>>7521647
Ishiguro is fine here
Not enough people.have even read him anyways to hate on it.
>>7523581
You sound like a fucking riot, irony or no
>>7521754
why would you want discuss LNs with eops?
The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy desu senpai
>>7524384
>'so feminist and confessional and about depression and omg i can relate'
The thing is that Plath actually suffered severe depression, was filled with antidepressants and anti-anxiety pills, and she even was in a mental institution were she received shock treatment. That's far away of the teens who think 'get' Plath and relate to her because their parents don't leave them go to a party or their boyfriends just broke up with them.
