What is the most Reddit book ever?
my diary desu
>>8206948
American Psycho? Instead of pop culture references it's just a name brand drop and feels like advertisement for stuff.
You posted it OP. Snow Crash and The Book Thief are pretty bad too
the martian
>>8206948
infinite jest
Hitchhiker's Guide
The Martian's Guide to the Infinite Jest of the Count of 1984.
anything by earnest memeingway
>>8207132
DELETE THIS
Hard mode: What's the most reddit book that's actually good?
>>8206948
>george rr martin trapped in a delorian by a giant nerd
>>8207362
Slaughterhouse-Five.
>>8207362
the catcher in the rye
asoif
>>8206950
Is it the same guy posting variations of the "my/your diary" meme everywhere? The replies featuring the mem appear frighteningly quickly.
>>8206948
The idiot.
"'She Wears the Pants in our MMO Guild' A collection of progressive Bioware Fan Fiction and other 21st Century Tales of Male Humiliation" By John RR Coelho
Chapter 1: "Just Be Yourself!"
>anything pop-sci
>anything new-atheist
>anything by Zizek, Chomsky, Foucault, or other hacks they use to signal their supeweeor intellectual intelligence
>anything entry level like 1984, Catcher in the rye, to kill a mockingbird (note: these books MUST be read in the most simplistic way ever. So 1984 is not parallel to The Divine Comedy, it's just about muh gummerment)
>anything "left-libertarian"
their best books list will be: what they were taught in high school with a few trashy modern King, Martin, Rowling, etc thrown in.
Now, if you want the most /lit/ book ever...
>>8207547
>left-libertarian
this rofl
>>8207601
>more left economically or socially
Wtf are you talking about?
Left economically of course.
>left socially
lmao
>>8207601
Left libertarianism was the original libertarianism lmfao. Prior to the 1920's, libertarian capitalism was a completely unheard of ideology.
>>8207527
really? lol what do they say
>>8207517
Nope, it's just a good meme, almost as good asmy diary, desu.
>>8207547
>Zizek, Chomsky, Foucault, or other hacks they use to signal their supeweeor intellectual intelligence
wut
>>8208427
That Holden is a whiny teenager who needs to be slapped and that they used to like it but now they're too mature.
Ender's Meme
>>8210090
loooooooooooooool
>>8206948
any kurt vonnegut
>>8206948
I'm generally against "muh reddit" because it only causes shitposting
but in this case it's actually true, Ready Player One is one of the few books that I would qualify as literally pleb reddit
>>8207601
>is this a thing now?
oh honey
>>8206953
American Psycho does it on purpose to show you how shallow and materialistic Bateman is. RPO is an unironic hyper-consumerist neckbeard nostalgia-fest. It could have been the greatest satire of the 21th century, the scary thing is that it's all totally in earnest.
>>8211446
>replies to faggy comment with a faggy comment
Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum
>Wow Camus understands my inner angst and my intolerance for the outside world
- every single redditor ever since the dawn of man
Infinite Jest
>guide to growing potatoes in your own shit on mars
>every character is a snarky nerd
>feels like it was written by a character on The Big Bang Theory
muh scientific realism meme
Gravity's Rainbow
>>8211520
I agree
>left-wing af
>le wacky random humor
>"total mind-fuck bro!!!" postmodernism
>zimbabwe-tier math and chemistry references
>>8211483
Way to miss the point jackass
>>8211502
Wrote a paper about how this book attempts to remove artistic elements from literature in favor of concrete science and provable numerical values. My professor thought me calling it a "fictional textbook" was funny.
>>8206948
Most reddit book I've personally read was Snow Crash. Jesus Christ the fucking retarded pseudo edgy proto memefaggotry was just mind numbing.
>>8207527
how would you know HMMMM ??? You don't actually USE REDDIT DO YOU
>>8206948
>>8211369
>>8211917
What's wrong with those books? Don't just say they're "reddit", tell me specifically why they're bad.
Because those literally were going to be the next two books I was going to read. Ready Player One because a friend suggested it, and Snow Crash because I heard it was one of the inspirations for System Shock.
>>8211469
There is no subtlety in AP, we get it, just like you get it, and you are just a freshman in HS. Does not make it great.
Just read The Stranger for the first time, and understood Meursault to be a total sociopath. Clearly I missed something. Help?
Through most of part one, I was on board and saw Meursault as a pretty normal guy -- somewhat introverted, but pragmatic, honest, and forthright with his thoughts and feelings. I saw the way he dealt with his mother's death as not that unusual -- for a young man to be stoic and somewhat numb to it for a while didn't seem that odd.
The situation with the Arab made me feel like he was, at the very least, mentally unstable, and the way he behaved with regard to Marie I can only describe as somewhat sociopathic. He had seemingly no emotional attachment to her, she was almost exclusively a source of physical gratification, and his constant cold, scientific observation and analysis of her normal displays of human emotion made it seem as if such things were completely alien to him.
Here's the passage that really solidified the sociopathy for me (early in part two, talking to his lawyer):
I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings. The day I buried Maman, I was very tired and sleepy, so much so that I wasn't really aware of what was going on. What I can say for certain is that I would rather Maman hadn't died.
So what am I missing? Is it that his emotional state is completely altered and made unstable because of his mother's death, and that's what causes the odd behavior, and causes the weirdness on the beach in the incident that leads to his arrest? Regardless, it's a quick read and I think I'll have a second go at it...
>>8207547
Tell me about 1984 and its parallels to Dante, I dare you.
>>8212810
Snow crash isn't bad. It's entertaining as fuck, though the ending felt rushed.
I read a couple pages of RPO, and it's just generic YA
>>8207074
HEY OH
>>8212837
Yeah, I've never heard anything like this before. I'm expecting absurd levels of pretension here.
Catcher in the Rye, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Game of Thrones and that John Green book
What is the most 4chan book ever?
>>8212912
the books that people on /lit/ literally wrote
>>8206948
Your favorite book.
>>8212835
It was hot out and he was at the beach. He had a gun and there was an Arab. So he shot him, almost passively.
It was illogical and thats the point.
>>8212912
who is this blastocyst masochist
>>8212946
Imogen
>>8212912
Every blank pages book where 3 years old children doodle the fuck out with 5 colors at once in an insane incomprehensible manner.
>>8212914
name a few
>>8210090
But that's what people say here too
>>8212810
I read some excerpts from Reay Player One that someone posted on here once. One was some characters reciting a Monty Python sketch verbatim, and another was literally just a list of eighties videogames or some shit. It felt like the "such a nerd" version of one of those political speech parodies where a candidate just says "America" and everybody starts applauding. Basically this: >>8211469
>>8211469
Ready Player One is great, if you're actually someone who enjoys 80's culture, video game culture, and near-future scenarios. Otherwise, it's a pain to sit through. I wouldn't say its a bad book, because it succeeds in its main purpose. Ernest Cline's other book, however, (Armada), is a neckbeard YA nerd-fest. Not worth the paper it's printed on.
>>8211525
How is it left wing? The chapters in 30s Berlin seem to make a point about Leni and the KPD which extends to the hippie counterculture in America. They surround themselves with tokens, sit on the floor high, drag their kids unwillingly into their squalor and Pynchon even calls them Judaized. The police just whoop their asses.
Not to say he's nice to capitalism but the only political ideology he seems to praise, reservedly, are the Argentinean anarchists. What they have in mind is a frontier state ala Martine Fierro which is nothing like the centralized gibsmedat state socialists and commies want.
Animal Farm
>>8213029
This place is basically reddit anyways.
>>8207373
>>8214367
>I wonder if Sibel likes my miniatures
oh I'm dying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVu77zJrpS8
>>8211917
Agreed. I have been reading this for like a year on my phone when I'm occasionally trapped on public transit because have a horridly Canadian about of data and I have absolutely no motivation to read it when I get home or anywhere else.
>>8212966
legacy of totalitarianism in a tundra