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1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2. 1984
3. Dune
4. Slaughterhouse 5
5. Ender's Game
Do you agree with this list?
I agree, that is probably reddit's top 5 books. I don't know, I've never been there.
Hitchhiker's Guide and 1984 are alright but they're not the greatest of all time.
yes, the
>>8101724
You aren't fooling anyone.
>>8101717
>No Harry Potter
>No to kill a mockingbird
>All authors are white males
Right in the childhood, sirs. This list is like the opposite of bacon
its missing finegans wake
>>8101739
great post
>>8101717
Is this legit?
I know we trash Reddit a lot, but aren't there like English majors and professors and....normal people there? I was under the impression that they weren't as bad as we made them out to be but damn. this is like the Lunchables Ham n' Cheese Crackers of literary food.
>>8101760
Yeah, full of people who read for enjoyment instead of people who read for shitpost material on a mongolian cave painting website.
>>8101760
There are great subreddits and shitty subreddits there (Askhistorians for example is great, r/books is horrendous). The site deliberately selects for posts/content with appeal to popularity (via the upvote system) so naturally the most prominent content will be that which appeals to the broadest range of people; the vocal majority. That's why a lot of reddit seems stupid and memey, because majority of people are very stupid and memey
>>8101779
r/askhistorians is utter garbage. You need to fuck off back to plebbit, son.
>>8101760
yes overall reddit is about as pleb as it gets. Filled with pseuds, but at least on /lit/ you can call them faggots. Some subreddits are great though
Another list from /r/books
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - (10/11 Lists)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - (10/11 Lists)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - (10/11 Lists)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison - (9/11 Lists)
Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut - (9/11 Lists)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - (9/11 Lists)
The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner - (9/11 Lists)
1984 by George Orwell - (8/11 Lists)
Beloved by Toni Morrison - (8/11 Lists)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - (8/11 Lists)
>1. lmoa everyone on reddit loves this book so it's the best
>2. I read this in high school and could actually kinda understand it
>3. lmoa everyone here loves this book so it must be good
>4. I read this book in high school and actually kinda understood it
>5. I read this book in elementary school and remember liking it
>check out /r/literature
>its basically /lit/ with upvotes
You guys are like Canadians pretending they aren't like Americans
>>8101717
mein gott
pure ideology
>>8101825
i cant tell who is the male in that picture.
>>8101806
What a surprise, the reactionary roots run deep. Enjoy festering in stupidity
>>8101816
Every single one of these books is also on the /lit/ starter pack
>>8101844
What on earth are you talking about, plebbitor?
>>8101857
I don't even visit the site particularly often, but I'm not such a slave to dogma that I can't see that reddit has some worthwhile content. But if you just want to rub your keyboard on your ass cheeks and shitpost all day, I won't stop you
>>8101851
Exactly, it's where reddit stops and /lit/ starts. Although I never would start with the /lit/ starter pack ,its too pleb.
>>8101879
What is your favorite book? I know you won't answer me.
>>8101884
Locus Solus
>>8101884
Orlando Furioso, are you upset redditor?
>>8101884
He probably will, but will just respond with a book universally respected on /lit/ like The Recognitions or Absalom Absalom
>>8101890
Okay look above you.
>>8101888
the prose in Locus Solus is trash and the concept is Huxley-tier
>>8101904
are you quite impressed with yourself?
>>8101918
No you proved my point quite well.
>>8101872
You have clearly left your heart at plebbit. I'm sure your buddies miss you.
>>8101884
Infinite Jest
>>8101937
Infinite Jest is hugely popular on Reddit, probably because of the extreme user overlap between Reddit and 4chan.
>>8101932
now this a starter kit
>>8101933
like I said, I don't go on reddit often, but I'm not some cromagnon partisan that can't think freely to save his life, so I'm comfortable acknowledging that it's sometimes a useful source of information. But please, continue with your empty millenial attacks
>>8101983
more like a tryhard kit. Considering a lot of the works on it require prior reading in the Western Canon, it is a pretty stupidly named list of books
>>8101987
>everyone is a dumb cunt like myself
>>8101717
>>8102009
>projecting this hard
>>8101932
Shit, this is hilarious. It should be /lit/ starter kit.
Yawn, this thread. I can feel myself growing beyond the scum muck of the /lit/ mole-people
>>8101770
Modern art.
I don't know what /lit/ top books will be this year. Infinite jest is now hated, Pynchon considered a hack, Joyce is a poop fetishist. Gaddis and Gass are getting there in the meme ranks
>>8101884
Finnegans Wake is legitimately my favorite novel. It transcends being a novel and breaks free from the chains of its medium being the message. I don't like plots either.
>>8103572
Finnegans wake is not even a novel. The Yellow pages are more a novel than FW
>>8101739
Over 9000 internets to you, good gentle sir/mad'ame
>>8103585
I said that it transcends being a novel, that's why it's my favorite. But if I were to choose a traditional novel I'd go with The Golden Bowl.
>>8101825
People here like r/literature though. It's r/books that's a mess.
>>8101987
That's the joke m8
>1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
fun book
>2. 1984
breaking the conditioning
>3. Dune
Decent sci fi, ok espionage and mystery.
Overmemed
>4. Slaughterhouse 5
Focuses on the wrong issue.
Should be concerned with hormones and antibiotics not mechanized slaughter. Although animals should be butchered by hand.
>5. Ender's Game
Meme book.
Obvious predictable plot twist.
>hating hitchhiker
fite me faggots, I will take on each and every one of you even if it means ending up as a bloody pulp on the floor
but not before I take an good amount of you with me, you bunch of closeted transsexuals
>>8103675
>Focuses on the wrong issue.
>Should be concerned with hormones and antibiotics not mechanized slaughter. Although animals should be butchered by hand.
Have you even read the book?
>>8101717
Not bad, better than most pleb site lists
1. Humor and damn interesting soft sci fi
2. The only good "lel totalitarianism" book from back then, way better than Brave New World or Fahrenheit IMO.
3. Well its one of my favorites so I would be lying if I didn't say I didn't like it
4. Great intro to surrealist literature and concisely presets ideas such as social alienation, the effects of war, the lack of care we have for victims of war and suffers of mental illness, swaggering American imperialism etc, Its also damn funny, probably funnier than Hitchhikers
5. Never read it but apparently its top notch, and its nice to see that reddit doesn't dumb on works of art just because the author is a bigoted retard
>>8103718
Humorous*
>>8101932
fucking eliot rodger manifesto.
>>8103718
Tastless fuckhead detected
>>8103730
why didn't you like these books?
>>8101717
>1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Decent.
>2. 1984
Great.
>3. Dune
Good.
>4. Slaughterhouse 5
Decent.
>5. Ender's Game
Terrible.
It was all going so well.
>>8103675
>Focuses on the wrong issue.
>Should be concerned with hormones and antibiotics not mechanized slaughter. Although animals should be butchered by hand.
>>8101825
>its basically /lit/ with upvotes
no, /r/literature is way better than this shithole, there people actually talk about literature, here is just ego and shit post in every single thread
/r/books is shitty tho
>>8103675
>Focuses on the wrong issue.
>Should be concerned with hormones and antibiotics not mechanized slaughter. Although animals should be butchered by hand.
Did this actually just happen?
>>8103718
>swaggering American imperialism
Oh fucking stop it.
>>8101884
Solaris
>>8101932
I know this is a meme, but why would War and Peace be on there? Tolstoy isn't challenging, he just has long books.
>>8103675
>Focuses on the wrong issue.
>Should be concerned with hormones and antibiotics not mechanized slaughter. Although animals should be butchered by hand.
i'll join the kekking
>>8105848
in what possible way is that better
>>8107584
because it's more fun if you doubt it for part of a second than if it's just all meme
1. The Curious Case of Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hide
2. Brave New World
3. The Shadow over Innsmouth
4. The Things They Carried
5. Lolita
>>8105848
It really isn't.
>>8109404
>implying that it isn't sexist
>>8105900
Isn't that a theme? What about that guy in the hospital who is writing the history of the American air-force and is just glossing over the fire bombing?
>>8101851
Memes aside I want to start reading more, I don't browse this board. Is the /lit/ starter pack a good place to start?
>>8109485
Get out whilst you can anon
Dont listen to them
dont read DFW or Joyce
You can still be happy you know, stay away
SHOO SHOO
GET OUT
>>8109630
Where else should I go anon?
>>8101717
1984 is a classic, the problem with it is WHO reads it.
Dune is probably the best non-literary fully genre fiction work of science fiction and fantasy, excluding Tolkein and Lem
Ender's Game is a good entry level Sci-Fi novel on the cusp of YA and Not
Slaughterhouse V is vastly overrated with mid level prose, but is a good story
Hitchikers Guide is shit
>>8109478
>Judging author's out of their own time
>>8109650
Anywhere
Go to /r/books
just get the FUCK away before these autists poison your mind and you start reading meme shit man FUCK this place. NEVER read anything Greek
go read Kafka
Why do you guys care so much about what redditors think? It's the common opinion in 4chan that reddit is utter garbage plagued by quirky plebs xD, i don't understand why give those known morons time of our day when we could be discussing descartes or borges.
>>8101932
>Ulysses
>No Gravity's Rainbow or Infinite Jest
I'm ashamed.
>>8109723
I've already been spoiled, my tastes in other mediums alienate me from others. Do not cry for me anon, my death was already long ago. I face the memes now without fear, I am ready to go beyond.
>>8103675
LoL!
