I'll start
>>7949713
How are Dost fans annoying? Do they actively talk about him or something? I mean I really like Dost, but I hardly talk about it.
Rupi Kaur
>>7949731
150 years of endless praise for him and his ideas, as if the man was the groundbreaking philosopher rather than a well spoken journalist.
>>7949713
As much as I love him, Pynchon. There are so many fucking undergrads who act like hot shit because they read Gravity's Rainbow.
>>7949742
> groundbreaking philosopher
Very few pretend this. Most people like him because he made great books.
>>7949731
>Dost
what was he, your schoolmate?
>>7949713
God
Real life: Greene
/lit/: I guess Rand.
>>7949769
made me tip my trappist beer
>no DFW
Has no one here ever been on a college campus?
David Foster Wallace fans are literally proselytizing out of car windows.
Gene Wolfe
>>7950370
hahaha
>>7949713
Kek. Freud and Nietzsche where Dost fans.
>>7949758
me desu
>>7950466
Yes. A friend of mine took a class on him at the Sorbonne. While he was taking the class he wouldn't shut up about him.
He also talked a lot about Zizek, but I didn't want to reveal my power level in case he wasn't memeing.
>>7949713
This kind of thinking is a big part of what is wrong with the world today.
>>7949713
Adolf Hitler
I enjoy Lovecraft's work, but his fans are nothing personnel edgelords that quote c'thulu mythos shit really badly.
>>7950466
Ohhhhh yeah. As far as I can tell reading him, or at least knowing his name is a rite of passage in my college town. And I go to a state school in the American south, so I can't even imagine what it must be like at a school like Wesleyan.
>>7950508
>Wallace class
>at Sorbonne
quoi?!
>>7949713
Cortazar
Murakami
Aquinas
any new atheists for that matter
>>7950787
>trying to look like Camus
He is still way better thanSam Harris and Richard Dawkins.
Hitchens can actually be funny at times.
>>7950576
>tfw you memorised "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" at 12 and would drop it into conversations sometimes
>>7949742
Crime and Punishment was my first (if unintentional) exposures to philosophical pragmatism but other than that anyone with half a brain knows Dostoevsky was pretty much just chronicling the goings-on in Russia and was pretty unpopular for it.
If anything it's Tolstoy who gets thrown around like some kind of intellectual juggernaut.
>>7949758
That's not the entirety of Pynchon's fanbase though.
>>7950466
>>7950508
>>7950309
This kind of jus got big this year, for obvious reasons (the shitty movie and the media frenzy of the 20th anniversary). The Saint David-heads are the worst crowd in college. Just like 2 years ago it was sort of a rite of passage or maybe only seniors knew him or whatever, no one had really read Infinite Jest (people at my school haven't either, there's only 5 or 6 people at my college who have read it, I go to a 2k person school and know the literary type people well as I'm an English major). I'm not sure what happened, everyone just likes to talk about him now, people really like the idea of him. In one of my classes a freshman is writing a paper on a chapter in The Pale King (we literally read Chapter 6 which is my least favorite chapter of TPK) titled "The Philosophy of David Foster Wallace) in a 1500 word essay, which straight up makes no sense. I've meant to confront him about it but I don't care enough. Honestly people just read This Is Water. Maybe a story or two of his and A Supposedly Fun Thing. It sucks.
>>7950932
>we literally read Chapter 6 which is my least favorite chapter of TPK
The only chapter I just skip when going through. I don't know what i'm missing / why it made it to the New Yorker, of all the book.
>>7949774
correct answer
LE 42 is le answer to le meaning xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD grab your towels
>>7949713
Link related probably have the worst fanbase imo.
http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1257261.1360194116!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/atlas7n-1-web.jpg
>>7950787
that picture cracks me up every time
tho his book is enjoyable and based
>>7950787
Why would someone do this?
both dostoevsky and tolstoy are praised as near-gods, them and their books labeled as the best and most intellectual ever.
if there was ever a need for the word "overrated", its here. the word exists for these 2.
do people just feel special for liking russia stuff because its exotic? or the fact that its so boring and grey that people find it more intellectual or something?
there is no color or life to their work. their books are about as captivating as reading a textbook on plastic bottle manufacturing.
>>7949713
Dostoevsky is hella fucking epic OP. He has deep themes and messages, I think he's just too complex for you.
You're probably a fucking pleb OP who didn't get The Brothers Karamozov because it was too fucking deep.
>>7951808
Don't hate on Dosto because he's too complex, pseud.
>>7950576
This. He's my favorite weird fiction writer, but I cringe every time I see a thread about him.
I'm sick of hearing about role-playing games, "muh Cthulhu" and "muh Elder Gods". I bet the 80% of the modern fanbase hasn't read his lesser known stories or his poems, if at all.
>>7951715
>author
He'd needed to have actually written the book for him to be considered the author.
>>7951813
You're not helping, of course.
Why has anybody said Boob-Cock-Skeet?
>>7949742
People who don't read philosophical works or much other literature who go on as if he is the greatest author in human history with profound and unique understanding of the human condition.
>>7949713
shut the fuck up OP. Dosto fans are just fucking smarter than you. Fuck off to reddit.
>>7952518
Yikes
>>7950773
Muakami true but Cortazar? Most people whom I've spoken to regarding Latin American lit have never heard of him
Fuck this guy and all his ilk
>>7949713
Can you even call it a fanbases?
It's not like massive amounts of people get together to murder pawnbrokers or anything.
I love his writing, he might be my favorite author; if I meet someone else who likes him then we'll probably talk about his books.
That's about it though.
>>7952518
Fresh off the boat, from reddit, kid? heh I remember when I was just like you. Braindead. Lemme give you a tip so you can make it in this cyber sanctuary: never make jokes like that. You got no reputation here, you got no name, you got jackshit here. It's survival of the fittest and you ain't gonna survive long on 4chan by saying stupid jokes that your little hugbox cuntsucking reddit friends would upboat. None of that here. You don't upboat. You don't downboat. This ain't reddit, kid. This is 4chan. We have REAL intellectual discussion, something I don't think you're all that familiar with. You don't like it, you can hit the bricks on over to imgur, you daily show watching son of a bitch. I hope you don't tho. I hope you stay here and learn our ways. Things are different here, unlike any other place that the light of internet pop culture reaches. You can be anything here. Me ? heh, I'm a judge.. this place.... this place has a lot to offer... heh you'll see, kid . . . that is if you can handle it...
>>7950932
>2k person school
which?
>>7952518
A reddit meme gone wrong
>>7949731
Fucktard detected
>>7952515
I dont think there are writers who stand miles apart as being the best objectively, in totality or worthy of the kind of accolades undergrads give to certain.
Then again Im probably speaking from the peak of mount stupid.
>>7950466
Yes, if you have been on a college campus. In creative writing classes they're especially insufferable because they imitate the worst aspects of his writing (the smart-alecky style) but lack insight.
I find Joyce fans more annoying though to be honest.
Joyce, Wallace, Nietzsche, Sylvia Path
>>7950576
i've been a total nerd of lovecraft around 13, bought his complete stuff and read it over and over. i've been a member of a french lovecraftian forum on which i had hundreds of posts… managed to delete the account, a lot of pretty cringey stuff on there.
he's still the author that amazed me the most. he had an huge influence on me at a time i was the weird kid. i feel i have an intimate relationship with him, so i'm kind of a snob when it comes to roleplaying, card games or whatever. though i can still enjoy a good fan art.
>>7950910
i feel you so much anon
>>7952735
as a H.D. Thoreau enthusiast i feel hurt inside
>Having a hobby and ever paying attention to it's 'fanbase'
ALL fan-bases are for autists and narcissists.
Just keep it to yourselves, nigger. If you like a good book, recommend it to a friend but don't be an arse and buy a t-shirt of it or constantly fill your gay instagram with it's quotes like some cuck scribe for the author.
>>7950189
Are you referring to Robert Greene, the political strategist?
>>7950576
His fans are usually metal heads who have never heard of deodorant and 'le random' girls who hate their fathers.
>>7954227
Well considering you didn't go off on some retarded psuedointellectual rant just now, you're not part off the enthusiasts I hate
>>7954322
thank you! i'm not american, so i guess the fanbase is bigger thus more annoying there.
i realized his vision of life was pretty close to mine, even if god is a huge deal in his. i think a lot of other atheists like him.
Fanbase always tries to be like him but end up looking like edgy fuck heads.
>>7954349
What?
>>7954356
that's "ayn rand" in shitpost language i guess
>>7954357
But why Fire Emblem?
>>7954356
Ayn Rand.
The game his image is poking fun at is Fire Emblem: Awakening.
Said series has a general with memes based entirely on face dragging.
The rest of said general is pic related.
>>7954358
only god knows the ways of spergies.
>>7954358
Tis a silly place
>>7954362
Oh my fuck
>>7954362
>Belka is very beautiful when she is pregnant
>Belka is aged now but still very beautiful and aged well
My fucking sides. These people are some advanced spergies.
>>7950370
They're not even that bad. Its mostly on /lit/
>>7954381
That's actually only one guy. He doesn't post anymore (or at least, he's not posting anything people identify him by).
I'd post his "Belkameter," if I had it...
>>7954389
I was waiting for this one
>>7954398
To be fair a lot of /feg/ is special in their own ways.
>>7949713
>be me
>sophomore in highschool at the time
>english class
>teacher going over what will be on regent exam
>basically an exam you have to pass in NY to graduate
>teacher explains we have to compare two works of literature
>proceeds to give examples of possible essay topics given on exam
>tells us how to use the books we've read to answer the questions
>student asks teacher if we can use other books
>teacher says yea but we did a lot of work on the books we've read in class so I'd say go with those
>student says "Okay so I can use like Dostoevsky and stuff right? How will I know the person grading my exam will know what I'm talking about? You know Dostoevsky right?"
>"...yes, I know Dostoevsky, I'm sure the person grading will know beca-"
>"Okay thanks just making sure"
>mfw
ayn rand comes to mind
>>7954448
Yeah, just look at how much it derailed this thread.
Why are /feg/ such big fans of Rand anyway?
>>7954335
Yeah, in America there's a rather obnoxious sub-fanbase that has emerged here. They think they're hot stuff for reading a few Walden passages and snicker smugly at their peers for it, et cetera
You shouldn't feel hurt for liking him, Thoreau's got some really good stuff. I'm not an atheist myself, but I agree his vision of life is very universal
Nothing like this?
>>7955216
her fans arent really annoying or vocal about anything
>>7949713
His fan-base is just annoying on /lit/, almost as much as those who try to pretend that he wasn't a good author. Speak with any book nerd or book reviewer anywhere else and they will have nothing but praise for Dostoevsky, go on /lit/ and suddenly you have a bunch of people who think they can hold their own against people with degrees in Russian literature. His books are nearly universally thought to be amazing works and yet people on here hate him just because so many people like him.
Why so hipster, /lit/?
>>7955257
Think I just proved OP's point here.
kek
>>7949758
>tfw you will never meet another undergrad who knows of Pynchon
>tfw you've only met 3 people who knew of D. F. Wallace
I have a sneaking suspicion many of my classmates do not even know Joyce's name
>>7950779
This
>>7955216
Thanks for the unnecessary 3.8 MB image, shit-compressor.
>>7951845
Holy fuck, this guy right here. Chuck Bukkake has got to be the least talented writer of the past century. I've known too many people who write poorly, with basic sentence structure for prose or otherwise simple poetry and attribute either Hemingway or Charles Bucuckski as their major influences
Hell, I'm good buddies with a fellow English major who acts high and mighty in comparison to our other classmates, and he's the definition of a philistine, reading only ASOIAF and Bukowski, and preferring to watch TV programmes instead of interesting films
>>7955216
Man, I'd totally fuck her, no lie. Bet she got that volcano pussy melt your peter like ice
Dostoevesky fans just know 10/10 fucking literature. Fuck off to your pleb shit OP while we read patrician shit.
>>7955278
This guy.
>>7954346
Real reason:
Girl you're in love with who doesn't know you fucking exist has this photo as their facebook cover photo. Just admit you're dying to talk to her about Camus but in reality she's just sucking some other guys cock.
This man
>>7955711
Isn't that the premise of The Stranger?
>>7955737
I hope this is bait
>>7954276
John Greene, of that I am positive. His fans are usually vapid, teenaged girls.
>>7949758
Where do all the pynchon-fan-haters find Pynchon fans to hate? I'm an undergrad and would love to find someone else to talk about some pynch.
Um I think Dosty is deeper than you OP.
>>7955257
>A renowned author is disliked by contrarians on an imageboard full of autists who want to be successful authors themselves but never will be because they're incapable of reading out of their comfort zone like all good writers do and they don't want to put the effort into it.
You don't say.
>>7956189
>dostoevsky
>outside of anyone's comfort zone
Spot the pretentious middlebrow
>>7956195
>anon capable of reading comprehension
>>7956200
>anon in charge of writing overly long strawmen in order to protect what he's told is good literature and to save his ego and being a big fat babby who can't accept that other people may dislike what he's been told to like by the "/lit/ top 100" chart he saw a few months ago and decided to base his reading upon it like the middlebrow bitch he is
>>7955278
Mods sticky this
>>7956212
Sadly I should prob start getting ready to go be a wageslave else I'd point out how retarded you are.
Have fun with that.
>>7956230
woah I sure feel safe knowing you didn't totally show me up there pal :)
I was getting pretty scared that i'd be blown away by your immense erudition :S
>>7955237
> Twilight fans
> not annoying or vocal about anything
So were you just under a rock when the Twilight movies came out or something?
High School: The Thread
>>7950787
This
>>7954280
yep ,
>>7950787
...new ...atheists ....I like that answer
>>7949758
Remember in the Simpson when Lisa (an 8 year old girl) seemed to somehow know who she was?
>>7952978
I don't care if this is ironic, it's retarded.
>>7955720
thanks
>>7955720
Why didn't he was the first post?
I was waiting this
>>7954280
yup.
I've never really met any fans of him but I feel like they'd be annoying. Anyone else?
>>7951503
this, at least on the internet (not here though obviously). Is the Hitchhiker's series any actual good, memes aside?
>>7949713
Nietzche is the only correct answer
>>7949713
This board is absolute shit and it has a lot has to do with seeing this faggot's face on every other image in the catalog.
>>7957800
>o kappatin
>my Kappatin!
>>7957800
>i'm a european/euroboo who doesn't like Walt's poetry so people who do must be shitheads
>>7955711
That sounded kind of personal. Gotta get something off your chest big guy?
>>7949713
I actually like his writing but his big fans definitely think very highly of themselves.
