What are the worst books on this list? Please be honest.
i dunno i don't read
Infinite Jest, White Noise, The Bible, The Book of Disquiet, No Longer Human, Wuthering Heights
>>7607384
>IJ
>Bible
>NLH
>WH
>Bad
Wew lad...
>>7607376
>franz kafka
That guy is absolute utter pseudo-intellectual bullshit.
Literally the only reason he was so succsessfull is that what he made was weird as fuck, nothing insightful, nothing interesting.
>>7607376
all pynchon
also murakami
>>7607376
IJ
Catcher in the Rye
Book of the New Sun
Mason & Dixon
Absalom Absalom
American Psycho (Winner)
Fahrenheit 451 (Close Second)
>>7607440
Actually I would say Fahrenheit 451 and American Psycho have such a large power gap on everything else in that even the worst books are obviously works of art, where as these two are just shit.
Do people who say IJ is bad actually think it's bad, or do they just dislike the meme
>>7607465
it's basically genre fiction
>>7607465
I read it, and I did not like it. I understood it, I am an avid reader of contemporary literature, and I found it boring.
>>7607468
>reading for enjoyment
>inb4 Murakami and Vonnegut
I know at least 80% of /lit/ hates both authors. Reddit must have been in attendance during voting.
>>7607504
Most of /lit/ likes Murakami just not 1Q84, but they also recognize that he does write for a larger audience. /lit/ has nothing wrong with more accessible authors you know?
IJ, followed closely by American Psycho.
>>7607564
Dune may actually be worse than both. Murakami doesn't deserve to be there but he's just mediocre.
>>7607376
Anna Karenina. Realism is a bad meme.
>>7607410
>absolute utter pseudo-intellectual bullshit
>weird as fuck, nothing insightful, nothing interesting.
>welcome to 4chan
>>7607504
most of /lit/ likes murakami but admit he is plebbish.
>>7607576
Eat shit and die please.
>>7607628
You must be upset that Fight Club and 120 Days of Sodom isnt represented.
American Psycho is SHIT that may have once had some meaning to a small elite in NYC, but is now read for shock by edge-lords
>>7607376
Fahrenheit 451
Brave New World
Sirens of Titan
Of Mice and Men
There are a lot of books that should not be on this list but those are obviously the weakest
>>7607686
>American Psycho is SHIT
Nah, you're shit.
>>7607686
What's wrong with 120 Days of Sodom?
Should I not read it?
>>7607686
>Fight Club and 120 Days of Sodom
I seriously don't give a mothefuck about FC or 120 DoS more than AP.
>>7607376
Blood Meridian
>>7607720
try again
>>7607376
the name of the rose
>>7607686
>some people with rad taste like American Psycho outside /lit/ and they never give me importance in their circle that is why it's shit and I'll bitch about it.
Kekekek
>>7607686
>American Psycho
>It's liked by the someone I could never have
Cry moar douce.
>>7607376
nevermind me, just rolling for what to read next off of op
>>7607768
Stay deluded.
>>7607700
>Fahrenheit 451
>Brave New World
Try harder slugger.
>>7607781
Good idea rollerino
>IJ, Bible… are worst because we don't understand those. Also, we are casuals, redditors, 9gagers, /b/s and /pol/tards who are too lazy to read lengthy shit and love to puke on /lit/ with our frivolous faggotry.
>>7607781
same
>>7607839
fuck. re-roll
>>7607796
Fahrenheit 451 is actually trash, definitely the only book that I've read on that list that I see no real merit in.
>>7607440
>IJ
>Book of the New Sun
>Mason & Dixon
>American Psycho (Winner)
>Fahrenheit 451 (Close Second)
Someone please kill this creature with a stapler
>>7607410
>hasn't read Vor dem Gesetz
>hasn't read Beschreibung eines Kampfes
>hasn't read Poseidon
>hasn't read any of his diaries
>hasn't read Letter to the Father
>hasn't read The Trial multiple times
nice m8
>>7607465
they just dislike the meme. there's just like 5 people who hate the meme and are very vocal and no one else cares that much to change 5 recluses minds about one of the richer contemporary novels
>>7607855
>I've no better taste
>wait… what is a better taste
>oh fuck I'm just a retard
I would recommend you to lick my ass with your post.
>>7607870
He/she will lick it clean.
>>7607852
>Fahrenheit 451 is actually trash
>>7607376
They're all very good or important to read. The worst would probably be Catcher, Gatsby, and Stirner. Catcher I've liked, but in comparison to other works and omissions from the list (the Greek playwrights, for one) it pales. Gatsby can go for the same reason. Even though I like his philosophy, Stirner's book doesn't have a very good aesthetic since by his own admission he doesn't care about profound or correct ideas but his own self interest.
>>7607384
Why does /lit/ hate Pessoa so much? Some of the books on here are loved because of the depiction of solitude and loneliness (Underground, SteppenWolf, Osamu), so why does the book that portrays it most accurately and emphatically get shoved?
>>7607892
Disquiet is well liked in this board, it's just the anon you responded to being a contrarian faggot
>>7607376
American Psycho
Dune
Androids Fuckin' Sheep
Lord of The rings.
>>7607901
>American Psycho
Imma sensitive bitch lol
>>7607905
No fuck you /indiansmokingsignal/
>>7607907
Sensitive tits.
>>7607901
>Androids Fuckin' Sheep
OMG RALLAY?
>>7607901
Why American Psycho? Cuz Pat slits a child's throat?
>>7607936
Yep he shouldn't have killed the child. I hate American Psycho.
here's my take. I've read about half of these
red means shit
green means great
no mark means meh or haven't read (so can't recommend)
>>7607984
shit taste
>>7607376
7, 14, 15, 20, 22, 41, 45, 46, 63, 72, 73, 74, 77.
Those.
Les "top" than popular.
>>7607990
And 86.
>>7607984
wow top pleb
Why is Hamlet at 38.
Like, okay, this is a fucking meme chart, but holy okay buddy.
>>7607984
pseud the list
>>7608026
>mere shitposts
our contempt is genuine, friendo
jk, but not really, but kind of still
>>7608040
Oh trust me, my contempt for the average c/lit/ poster could not be more genuine. I've set my browser to automatically redirect me to /his/ whenever I accidentally click on this awful board through force of habit
>>7608026
ok will post my hold on
>>7608049
Stay there you fucking faggot
You have god awful taste
>all these sensitive souls who cant take the fact that American Psycho is a bloated piece of schlock shock garbage
>"You missed it man he is commenting on society"
0 nuance, shit prose, shit story, Fight Club tier audience. This board has become so garbage recently.
>>7608064
>Fight Club tier audience
>This board has become so garbage recently.
especially you m8
palahnuik is good writetr stop hating christboy
>>7608068
;^)
>>7608060
oh spare me you clown. you probably haven't read 10 books on this list to begin with. you just go along with the meme authors like everyone else on this pisshole board. I bet you've never even heard of Tristram Shandy or Noli Me Tangere. get the fuck out of my sight you slave
As you can see I've read a decent portion of the list.
Green- Good/Excellent
Blue- Decent, but didn't do much for me
Red X - Bad/skip
The only bad/skippable ones IMO are-
IJ
Slaughterhouse V
Catch 22
Siresn of Titan
Kafka on the Shore
Naked Lunch
Of Mice and Men
People need to stop finding reasons to hate books and more reasons to like books. If you hate like half the books you've read on a top 100 list of renowned classics (albeit a bit memed) maybe you're the problem.
>>7608075
>Noli Me Tangere
>says we read nothing but meme books
>>7608081
go back to reading your tranny fucking slant eyed introvert meme novels turbopleb
>>7608090
>projection maximus epitaphus
>>7608077
good taste m7
I'm not sure the Bible is worth reading in 2016 apart from the Old Testament though
>>7608077
Kafka on the Shore really isnt up to snuff, how the fuck can people say "THAT is my favorite book. wooo. that really fucking impressed me."
>>7608099
>inhalus phallus maximus
>>7608077
>Slaughterhouse V
>Catch 22
I respect your judgment but I'll never understand why you didn't like S5 & C22.
>>7608075
>you just go along with the meme authors like everyone else on this pisshole board
I feel like the board was getting better right before hypersphere and /his/ came out. There were some nice non-fic and contemporary fiction generals and my backlog exploded.
I havent found a fucking new book suggestion in a week here.
>>7608114
Read Fire From Heaven you swine
>>7608117
Interesting but I've already read plutarch diodorus quintus curtius and arrian on alexander, i just dont care anymore.
>>7608111
I've tended to dislike American narratives of WW2 since I feel they are from a very parochial viewpoint that failed to properly engage with the majority of the participants for these two books in particular I've found the humor and absurdism to be too in your face without much subtlety. In addition they lean too much on the subject matter without much artistry and aesthetics for me.
Though to be fair I read catch 22 many years ago when I was quite young and had very little exposure to and appreciation of literature. If I read it again my judgment might change. I stand by my dismissal of slaughterhouse 5 however.
>>7608119
Then read Funeral Games you wittol
>>7608064
That's enough diarrhea for the day, shitskin.
>>7607376
maybe sirens of titan or 1984
the list doesn't really contain bad books
>>7608122
What do you think? Why do people here hate Blood Meridian, F451, CitR, Book of the New Sun, Mason & Dixon but not War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Les Miserable, Brother Karamozov and so on… Are people being racist about American Lit? What are the chances that the same people won't call the later books I mentioned shitty in coming years?
What's the best book on here as a recommendation for a newbie?
>>7608210
Read the sticky.
>>7608210
slaughterhouse
catcher
farewell to arms
>>7607376
I don't believe The Great Gatsby or American Psycho should be on there, personally. "Worst" is a little harsh because it's such a negative word. Neither book was bad. They're just not Top-100-Tier.
>>7608210
Be smart. I would suggest you not to ask for recommendations on this board, as whatever you'll be recommended to read, will be called shit sooner or later.
>>7608223
>American Psycho is worst in being the best
Grow a fucking brain.
>>7608229
That's not what I said at all. I just said I think it's a good book but not as good as the other entries on this list, and certainly not one I'd list in the top 100 books of all time.
Why is that stupid?
>>7608233
Post your list of 100 books please.
>>7608243
I don't have one, it'd take me a long while to make it. Seems like it'd be a pointless exercise anyway, considering your attitude - you'd call it awful no matter what.
Is that why I'm a retard? Because I wouldn't have American Psycho on it?
Fair enough. Bit harsh, but at least I know what you're arguing now.
>>7608247
American Psycho is a good book, pal.
>>7608252
Never said it wasn't.
>>7608247
If you lived in a developing country, you wouldn't say it's a bad book.
>>7608256
I live in a developed country, and I never said it was a bad book. I actually called it a good book.
>>7608233
Don't worry anon, he's either baiting or just insanely intolerant of others opinions.
>>7607376
Apart from the obvious ones like The Hobbit and Alice in Wonderland, Dubliners and Ulysses.
>>7608304
>thinks I'm baiting
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
>just insanely intolerant of others opinions
That is exactly what happens when you call best shit worst.
>>7608312
>you think this is a good book but not one of the best in the world!!!! grow a brain!!
fuck off bigot
>>7608309
>the obvious ones like The Hobbit and Alice in Wonderland, Dubliners and Ulysses
This is another idiot.
>>7608314
Yes dumbfuck it's a good book to make the best in a list.
>>7607376
stop posting the wrong list
delete this
1984, Steppenwolf, Old man and the sea, The Odyssey, Notes from underground, Of mice and men, Hamlet, Lolita was middling and I enjoyed The Iliad and Catcher in the rye.
I gave up partway through Meditations, Watership down, The Trial, The ego and its own and Do androids dream...
The Picture of Dorian Grey. Seriously though, the book is terrible. First half or maybe two thirds are kinda good, but then it delves into a big clusterfuck of stupidity and it's all over the place
>>7607376
>any femal writer
>female
>writer
>>7608584
stop having autism
>>7608959
stop promoting the incorrect chart you ballot-stuffer
>>7607376
the stranger
>>7607376
american physic but a fucking landslide
>>7607576
if you think American Psycho is better than AK you should literally, all memes aside, commit suicide
>>7608064
this. Fight club is an embarrassment, should not even be acknowledged as literature. Its graffiti.
>>7607381
/thread
>>7608077
haven't read nearly as many, but out the ones we have both read i agree completely with your ranking.
>>7608247
agreed completely, anon. Its not fucking good. People in this thread are edgy, pseudo-intellectual high-schoolers, ignore their elementary opinions on "literature" no that you can call American Psycho literature.
>>7607410
spoken like a true 4chan frequenter
>>7609174
oops i meant american psycho
>>7608077
good taste. dubs speak truth.
>>7607376
Definitive answer here
>not bad literature but still middlebrow high-school tier or genre fiction
Steinbeck
Fitzgerald
Frank Herbert
Hesse
Orwell
Heller
BNW (other Huxley is better)
Adams
Bradbury
PK Dick Castles in the high ass
Strugatsky
Book of the New Sun
Toole
>pleb trash/ lower quality genre-fiction
Vonnegut
Ellis
Salinger
>>7609335
>lists supposed middlebrow
>doesn't include Murakami
Wew lad
>>7609335
Fuck off to /mu/ pleb
>>7609356
I forget to add him but he could also be placed under that category as well.
>>7609358
>hurr he called one of my favorite authors middlebrow and I got offended so I'll tell him to go back to /mu/, that'll show him!
>dosn't even try to defend the author you like that was insulted because you subconsciously know they are middlebrow
>>7607376
Ada, The Name of the Rose, and The Hobbit don't deserve to be there.
>>7609373
>meme meme hurrr
>meme muh projection
Haha got ya!
ITT we hate on popular stuff
Very contrarian, guys.
>>7609398
Trash taste.
Probably thinks IJ is one of the 5 best books he's ever read.
>>7609406
>telling someone to go back to a different board
>not the most worn-out worthless thing to even post
>What are the worst books on this list? Please be honest.
#20.
>What? Why?
Typical goddamn furries -- no trigger discipline.
>>7607410
Get a load of this contrarian edgelord
>>7607892
Pessoa was a whiny self-important douche who understood how to put a sentence together.
>>7607376
Infinite Jest
Anyway, humor aside:
>What are the worst books on this list?
Tough call. None of the books on the list are bad. The best one can do with this question is state what one dislikes. With that:
#1
#2
#6
#9
#22
Either read each and mostly hated the experience, or gave up no more than a third of the way through.
Aside from that there are fifteen others on the list I've not read. I'm not planning reading those any time soon, but I can't just say they're bad.
>so many redditors disliking IJ
downvoted
There's no accounting for taste, my darlings.
>no one calling out life of pi
damn right
>>7609661
w-what?
I've only read a little more than half of that chart, but my choices for worst books are:
1984
The Stranger
Siddartha
The old man and the sea
No longer human
Kafka on the shore
Not trolling, sorry if you liked these.
>>7609335
I haven't read Steinbeck but I want to know why do you consider him middlebrow? Other than the fact that high-schoolers are forced to read him, I've heard only great thins of his novels.
>>7609515
What does this even mean? How is this not stupid contrarian pseudo-critique?
>nobody choosing Tropic of Cancer
Feels good man. My vote was well-cast.
>>7610427
Not him, but probably just because he's really accessible, and often read in high school, and therefore has a lot of reddit popularity. He really is great though, East of Eden and Grapes of Wrath are both dope af
>>7608309
>>7609398
KIll yourself
>>7610271
Mostly agree.
Why is white noise on that list when underworld isn't? Makes it hard to take it seriously.
>>7609161
Anna Karenina and American Psycho are both good, and if you can't get this, then your the one who should commit suicide.
>>7609199
Shut your stupid ass up homo.
>>7609335
Higga please.
>>7609590
diskababolator booboolator
Kafka is awful. His prose is autistic and dull, his short stories are boring
Meme author
>>7607376
Paradise lost is horribly tedious and pretentious. Its a great story, but it would be much better if it used the same sort of economy you see in HOD instead of the verse Milton insists on. Blows my mind that it beat out The Great Gatsby.
>>7609590
His opinions sucks and you're a fake bigot cunt of misery.
>>7607376
The Bible, 451. Unbearable lightness and catcher in the rye are good, far from top tier though
>>7610944
lmao
embarrassing
>>7610944
>hates on paradife loft
>uses sviddy-g to namefag
wew lad im dying from second hand embarrassment here
>>7607465
I didn't like it. It took far too many words and meandering around several broad themes to get to its core message. It also features 100 of pages of meaningless exposition. Moby-Dick and Blood Meridian did this, but those books were beautifully written. With IJ I felt like I was reading words written by an unemotional, cold and calculating serial killer attempting to ape stoner culture and college literary student terminology in order to attempt basic human relativity.
stoner is just irritating to me
>>7607376
LOTR
Brave New World
War and Peace was my biggest disappointment. I fought long and hard to keep my eyes open all for an anti-climactic ending. The Stranger is not bad if you ever had an existential crisis.
1, 3-100.
>>7607440
451 is pretty meh except for that moment when the guy talks about how literature is shit by using literature. That was nice. 451 reads like some fanfic tier story with an interesting concept and nothing else.
>>7607781
let's do this thing
I'll say The Brother Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Lolita and The Devine Comedy are literally the most overrated pieces of absolute shit I've ever read.
>>7612756
pleb
also
>devine
>>7612759
How boring is your life?
Also,
Fuck your life.
>>7612763
I'm 19 years old.
I am handsome, smart, athletic and virile.
I have a novel that is in it's final editing stage, and a creative writing professor at my college has read the first draft and thinks it's saleable.
I have a girlfriend who is confident, articulate, playful and spontaneous.
I have a small group of interesting friends from different social and academic backgrounds, and I also have many other acquaintances who see me as a reliable source of humour and good company.
Both my parents are alive and in good health.
I have no regrets.
I have already experienced three existential crises, the latter of which was described as having the depth and profundity of a man twice my age.
I am a passionate lover, a sharp thinker, and a trader of witty repartee.
I am not self-pitying, meek or needlessly humble.
I will live a good life at your expense.
>>7607781
Same
>>7612781
Cool story, but you know whose life is better than yours? Pat Bateman. Now you feel stupid.
>>7607376
The naked lunch
All it is: Faggotry, grotesquery, and insane, fragmented rabble.
>>7612826
>responding to copypasta
>>7612781
>I'm 19 years old.
You died before 20
>I am handsome, smart, athletic and virile.
You met with horrible accident.
>I have a novel that is in it's final editing stage, and a creative writing professor at my college has read the first draft and thinks it's saleable.
Rated gabage on 4chan.
>I have a girlfriend who is confident, articulate, playful and spontaneous.
Friendzoned.
>I have a small group of interesting friends from different social and academic backgrounds, and I also have many other acquaintances who see me as a reliable source of humour and good company.
Morons in disgues
>Both my parents are alive and in good health.
One's commited from Schizophrenia the other died of cancer.
>I have no regrets.
Regrets doesn't give a fuck about you.
>I have already experienced three existential crises, the latter of which was described as having the depth and profundity of a man twice my age.
The person suffered from ADHD
>I am a passionate lover, a sharp thinker, and a trader of witty repartee.
Only with fucknuts
>I am not self-pitying, meek or needlessly humble.
You have nothing to pity, meek or being humble.
>I will live a good life at your expense.
See first reply.
>>7607575
>Dune
The one science fiction novel that dates break the mold of "computers! Space travel that's simple to explain because it's similar to ours! Look, it's 'science fiction' but there's magic too!"
Herbert actually did something original, and managed to throw some actual political intrigue in there at the same time.
>>7607781
Rawling
>>7614477
Damnit. Reroll
>>7614480
You have got to be kidding me. Rerolling again...
>>7607781
roll
>>7607376
Infinite Jest. Leave the memes for the rest of the site.
Bible, Pynchon, Borges, Delillo, Heller, Orwell, Wolfe, Vonnegut, Faulkner, Hugo, Hemmingway, Steinbeck, Hesse, Calvino, Gaddis, Conrad, Tolkien, Huxley, Adams and I am getting too lazy to list the rest. A lot of shit.
>>7608077
Gr8 taste
>>7607781
I'll bite, rollin' !
>tfw only read 2 books on that list
>tfw don't actually read but come to /lit/ anyway
>>7607376
Don't mind me. Just rolling for what to do next.
>>7607467
what's wrong with genre fiction?
>>7607781
hurrrrrrrrr
roll
>>7607376
>1. Infinite Jest
>votes: 40
It's pathetic how predictable this list is given the tiny sample size, just shows how /lit/ is completely lacking in variety.
>>7617008
It's top 100 not bottom 100 you fucking pretentious pleb.
>>7617048
What?
Given so few people voted, the list should contain a certain number of anomalies, the fact it didn't shows how homogenous people on /lit/ are.
>>7607781
rolllin'
rollingz
>>7607781
roll
>>7607781
rlll
>>7607376
for such a high rating, 2666.
>>7607781
That's not a bad idea at all. rawls
>>7607384
stay pleb friend
>>7617673
Fuck that, already read Kafka on the Shore.
>>7607376
Is 2666 any good?
>>7618133
It's a slow burner. Only read if you're not put off by 900 page books
its pretty comfy, in the better way possible
>>7607376
Naked Lunch
>>7607781
ROLL
>>7618133
the fourth part, arguably the core of the book, is fairly dull and, at times, a chore. also it happens to be the longest part.
the rest is really good
>>7607781
rollin
>>7612781
Is this pasta?
>>7607376
Erm, they're arranged in order... /thread
>>7607781
Nice thinking
>>7607781
woo
>>7607984
>hating on of mice and men
>>7607376
rolling
>>7607781
lets see if I've read dit
>>7607781
I don't get this meme
>>7607704
no you should. marquis de sade is a real nigga.
>>7607376
Infinite zest
>>7607781
Niggers tongue my anus
>>7607984
>hating on hamsun
Is there a file or torrent with all of these books?
>>7607781
Rolling
>>7607781
roll
>>7607376
Madame Bovary, because it's just someone's agony dragging on page after page
The Hobbit, because it's almost kiddy-tier reading
>the bible
Lolita, because the only reason it's on this list is its controversy
Wuthering Heights, because how could one ever enjoy reading such petty characters. Seriously, instead of reading this I could visit an elderly retirement home and witness the same conversations
But who am I? I haven't even read half of these books.
i hate warren zevon
>>7607376
fagget in the rye
>>7617066
This is a good post, but I have noticed this sentiment showing up a great deal lately, which is a good thing. Even Gaddis posting is a reaction towards constant IJ and Pynchon posting
>>7607781
might as well join the fun
>>7623393
Wuthering Heights is an ace comedy.
>>7607781
I second this idea.
>>7607984
>Les Fleurs du Mal
>shit
No, you're shit.
>>7607781
Roll
>>7607376
Tell the truth lit, which has the most gay, rape and incest?
I see the Bible, Blood Meridian, book of the new sun, the odyssey. What else?
