/lit/ - Literature

>>17846550
Yes, but the world does need garbage men and gardeners.

>>17846550
I've only read 25 of them. This is the best top 100 list we've ever had. Every one after this one was a downgrade.

>>17846550
no it's not that bad I started uni literally 2 years ago and already know more than I need to know about books, of course reading them is another thing entirely, but soon enough you become familiar with the names and all.

>>17846550
Yes. Unless you're a teenager you should have at least heard about almost all of them.

>>17846550
Yes. Those are way below rookie numbers but you can improve.

>>17846818
im 25 and I've only heard of

>moby dick
>don quixote
>catch 22
>1984
>great gatsby
>harry potter
>leaves of grass
>the bible
>metamorphosis
>lord of the flies
>huckleberry fin
>animal farm

The ones i read are harry potter and lord of the flies. That's not that bad is it?

>>17846550
I’ve read 13
>>17846818
I think you overestimate the average persons knowledge of literature and underestimate how much shit you have heard of just from hours upon hours of browsing lit

>>17846856
>hasn't read all 25 of those books by his age

What the fuck are you even doing retard

>>17846550
only ones I hadn't heard of were the sci-fi ones, I take that as a positive.

>>17846550
A little bad, yeah. Though a lot of these are meme books.

>>17846875
Idk I cant concentrate when i try to read books that arent funny

>>17846870
yeah probably but i dont browse lit that much

>>17846856
You never heard of Alice in Wonderland or Hamlet???
Kek

>>17847199
oh i missed alice in wonderland but what's hamlet?

>>17847228
Where are you from?

>>17846550
I still have a long journey to go
Some of the recs are complete shit, and I refuse to read certain books like Infinite Jest or Harry fucking Potter.

>>17846550
the 2018 list is the best one

>>17846550
No because this is an incredibly shitty list

>>17847256
the united states, new york to be specific

>>17847332
I thought it would be Zimbabwe or something, honestly.

>>17847288
out of that list ive heard of 8

>moby dick
>bible
>don quixote
>1984
>lord of the rings
>gatsby
>capital
>of mice and men

and ive only read of mice and men

so not that better :/

>>17846818
Everybody who's at least finished high school should have heard of at least a third of them. Anything less than 25... I don't know how this board can survive if we have such retards on it.

>>17846668
Trash opinion

>>17846550
Moby Dick was the first and last book Ive read and I didn’t understand any of it lol, already forgot everything from it

>>17847332
I heard the education system was bad over there but I didn't think it was this bad.

>>17847365
which one of these that i didn't mention should i have known?
>>17847406
I went to school in North Dakota actually, i moved to NY a few years back

>>17847388
all that matters is you remember stubb being an absolute fucking maniac

>>17847332
>New York
that explains it

>>17847529
i went to school in ND

>>17847482
By "over there" I meant America, not New York.

>La Davina Commedia #32

Jesus fucking Christ almighty the absolute state of this clown board

>>17847937
>Davina

>>17846550
Why the hell is Catcher in the Rye so loved? I recently read it and...yea. That's it. I just read it. I had no opinions whatsoever, no love or hate for any characters, no thoughts. I've never felt more like an actual NPC more than this in my life before. I sure did laugh at some point, and maybe felt few emotions here and there, and felt that high when the book title was revealed, but that's pretty much it, not a lot of thoughts really. Heck, I can't even say if I loved or hated the book, sort of just in between. I read a few reviews and figured Holden was supposed to be a character that reader kind of hates for his hypocrisy and stuff, but no, I didn't feel that hate towards him while reading the book at all. It was like reading a guide manual. Am I just not a good reader yet? (could be, I haven't read a lot of books and English is my third language), or Is it because I wasn't able to resonate with the age group (12-16) and the time period (40s) it was written for? Or maybe I just didn't understand it? Has anyone of you felt like this with any book? How come this book 'changed life' of so many people and yet I couldn't feel a thing? I will definitely give it a second try in a year or so.

>>17847288
inded. good times.

>>17847482
>which one of these that i didn't mention should i have known?
You've never heard of Shakespeare?? I mean come on now

>>17846550
It just means you arent into literature. Start reading and you'll at the very least start seeing references to most of these books pop up all the time

>>17847332
You've heard of hamlet.
It's the fucking "TO BE OR NOT TO BE" meme play.

>>17846856
>he never heard of hamlet
What the fuck

>>17847343
>>17846856
Unironically leave this board. /lit/ is a place for people who read literature, no tourist allowed

>>17846550
>is it a bad thing that ive

>only read 2 of them
Nope.

>only heard of 13 of these books
Yes, that's a problem. Lurk more. Not just here, but in real life. Name dropping things, at least knowing titles and authors, will get you far ahead. No need to actually read them. It's always good to pass for a smart one.

>>17847380
No. Pre-2015 lists were better. Less pseuds.

You are a loser. Leave this board and read some fucking books before you return.

>>17846668
I've read 44/100 and your opinion is trash. they're all the essentially same.

I've read a total of 4 books last decade. The decade before that? I cannot recall but presumably far less. Chronic depression and apathy is fucking gay.

>>17847288
Much more grown up.

>>17846550
Hitchhiker's Guide is ridiculously overrated, it's just supersoft SF combined with obnoxious amounts of British "humour".

>>17847406
I'm an American who grew up in a shithole rural area (didn't get any internet above dial up until 2013, that's how rural) and even I had read R&J and Hamlet in class by the 8th grade.

>>17847288
Much more pseudy

>>17846550
Look on the bright side.
You could be like me and have heard of all of them and read none of them. I've been on /lit/ for over a decade and haven't read a book since 2004.

>>17847332
culture less city bug man

>>17846550
i'm italian and have heard of 12 of them

Pretty shit chart ngl

>>17849490
I live in rural NY

>>17848213
Ive heard of that phrase but i didnt know it was from hamlet
>>17848196
yeah thats true
>>17848429
sorry

>>17849478
I've heard more people on /lit/ say something similar, I've always wondered why. Is it just that you like the *idea* of reading literature, without actually reading? Do you just like the people that come around here? Not trying to be condescending or anything, just genuinely curious.

>>17846550
I've probably fully read about 6 and started but not finished 2-3 times that.
Fiction just feels a bit pointless to me.
It's one person's representation of a world which is simply going to be consistent with how they feel the world works because they're free to arrange it in any way they like.
When you're not expecting to learn anything other than what the author feels, all you're left with is entertainment and the ones I didn't finish just failed to entertain.

>>17846550
hmmm, im at 22

>>17846856
How have you never heard of American Psycho?

>>17849523
The fuck?
Crossing out Roadside picnic?

Get out of here phagot.

>>17850681
Crossing out = what I read on the chart, not what I think should be removed from the chart

sorry i see why one would interpret that considering the comment i made

>>17850706
And? Did you like it?

I have like.... 4 of their books? Can recommend "Beetle in the anthill" . Have a really nice copy from 1986.

>>17847260
its worth it, theyre way quicker reads and theyre good to compare

>>17846550
Read:
>The stranger
Have a nice copy from 1991, one of the first books published after the fall of Jugoslavia. Camus is my husbando.
>Moby Dick
Found the copy in Maribor's antikvariat in English. Was a nice read.
>The Trial
From the same series as The Stranger.
>Crime and Punishment
Needed one for matura, still have it. Can't recommend it enough.
>Catch 22
Have a nice hardcover copy from1980. Enjoyed the read and the story.
>The Picture of Dorian Gray
Have a copy in Serbo-Croatian from 1962. Love it.
>1984
Found it hidden in a Zagreb antikvariat for 1€. 1983 print with a post scriptum a Jugoslavian politician. Love it .
>The Great Gatsby
Meh. Read it in high school.
>Slaughterhouse 5
Love it. Have a copy from 1974.
>Siddhartha
Found it in Graz for 5€, 1990 in German. Was a nice read.
>Dune
Muad'Dib!
English soft cover from 1985, heavily worn. Read it 4 times.
>The Odyssey
In Serbian, bought it half drunk in Beograd. From 1970. Really enjoyed it.
>Heart of Darkness
Bought it cheep in Ljubljana, a print from 1997 as a series "important" books. Read this instead studying for the exam.
>The Hobbit
Listened to it when I worked in a factory. Liked it.
>The Metamorphosis
The same as above. I like Kafka... No homo.
>American Psycho
Ex stole it....
After watching the movie I bought it new. Really liked it.
>Harry Potter series
Read 2 books. Didn't like it. I have the whole series in Croatian, because gf is a freaking Harry maniac.
>A Clockwork Orange
From the 1997 series. The Slovenian title is "Devil's Orange" . Liked it, but I think the Movie has a tighter story.
>Fear and Loathing in las vegas
LOVE IT. Gonzo all the way. Bought a soft cover, new.
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Like it a lot. Got it for 15€ in Maribor.
>Ubik
Aaaaa, 1985 hard cover. Love the story.
>Solaris
New, 2005 print In Serbian, got it as a gift from a tovarish. Liked it.
>Holy Bible
Read it a lot as part of my upbringing. Once read it from start to end.
Have a nice copy from 1890, that went with my grandparents and their parents to the concentration camps and came back.
>Faust
Read it in German, didn't like it.
>Lord of the Flies
Had a nice copy from 1980's. Ex took it.
>Alice Adventures in Wonderland
Read in in primary school and I must say, that I don't remember a thing...
>Also sprach Zarathustra
Have a really nice copy from 1940 with "special" Nazi annotations. A really nice time capsule in book form. Got it as a gift from a doctor of history because I helped him move.
>Animal farm
From the 1997 series. LOVE it. It is the best allegory for Jugoslavia in book form. Just with less genocide.
>Roadside Picnic
>>17850706 GET OUT OF HERE STALKER!
Got it new as a gift from gf.
>Fight Club
The movie is awesome, so is the book.
From the series of 1997.
>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
A friend lend it to me. Didn't like it.
>The Iliad
A nice copy from 1962. Really like it.
>The Count of Monte Cristo
Love the story, can't find a nice, old copy.

>>17851392
Hey yo! Cheap Grandpa

>>17851415
Please use the proper term for me.
Oldfag
SlavNigger is good too

And why cheap?

>>17846550
I’ve read 32 of these

>>17846550
>most of it is anglo crap
nah

>>17846550
You're doing better than most of the anons on post2016 /lit/

>>17851392
post your bookshelf

>>17850543
Probably for the same reasons most people come here, not so much as book club dissections of specific works but for the generalized discourse around what's popular or important and why as a sort of secondary landscape for following prominent trains of thought that can't be sustained on other boards spanning art, philosophy, politics, culture etc. /lit/ is as much about books as it is the ideas within in them.

>>17846550
>#2
Based Albert Camus.

>>17851463
All editions of the books are cheap.

>>17851392
Don't have everything in one place. Still need to move like 250 Dylan Dog comics and a lot of history books.

>>17846550
>no Little Prince
how are you supposed to pick up cute arthoes without it

>>17851982
I like sloppy seconds.
I like it even better, if someone wrote something on the first page or that you can see what passage the person before you really liked.
But that's just my taste. I bought my gf a silver engraved Ana Karenina and she liked it a lot, but that's just not for me.

Maybe something interesting.
A book, written in 1942 as propaganda for the third reich about 2 German brothers, living across the border of Poland and being finally united again when the Nazis invade.

One more, then I'll stop.
Letters from the partisans/resistance fighters, that were murdered in Slovenia by Nazis.
It's quite a thicc book.
Spooky.

Ok, ONE more.
Because I like to brag on /pol/ and then slam a Tito's biography on them.

All originals, all from 1941

>>17852205
>Because I like to brag on /pol/ and then slam a Tito's biography on them.
I have a 1 meter thick book praising Tito, filled with text, stories, maps, somgs, statistics

>>17846550
of all the books that Mishima wrote people here chose "The Golden Pavilion" baka, any book from his tetralogy is 10 times better, especially the third one about buddhist destruction and recreation of the universe

>>17846550
I've read:
1. The Stranger 2/5
2. Blood Meridian 4/5
3. Lolita 5/5
4. Don Quixote 3.5/5
5. Ficciones 4/5
6. Crime and Punishment 4/5
7. Catch-22 3/5
8. Picture of Dorian Grey 2/5
9. 1984 3/5
10. The Great Gatsby 1/5
11. Anna Karenina 5/5
12. Wuthering Heights 5/5
13. Dubliners 4/5
14. As I Lay Dying 4/5
15. Metamorphosis 5/5
16. The Sun Also Rises 3/5
17. The Grapes of Wrath 4.5/5
18. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas funny/5
19. The Savage Detectives 2/5
20. The Bible n/a
21. Animal Farm 3/5
22. East of Eden 3/5
23. The Old Man and the Sea 5/5
What should I go for next?

>>17852223
Same here. Bottom right of the first pic is a really nice one from 1980, right after his death.

>>17846550
WHy the fuck is harry potter there

>>17846550
I´ve read 21. (Never done X/5 rating, so this might be fun)
1. The Stranger 3/5
2. Don Quijote 3/5
3. Ficciones 5/5
4. Crime & Punishment 4/5
5. 2666 5/5
6. Picture of Dorian Gray 5/5
7. Catcher in the rye 4/5
8. 1984 3/5
9. Great Gatsby 3/5
10. 100 Years of Solitude 5/5
11. Siddhartha 3/5
12. Dune 3/5
13. The Hobbit 4/5
14. The Metamorphosis 3/5
15. American Psycho 3/5
16. Harry Potter Series 2/5
17. The Savage Detectives 6/5
18. Thus Spoke Zarathustra 2/5
19. Hitchickers Guide to the Galaxy 4/5
20. The Illiad 4/5
21. The Old Man and the Sea 4/5

>>17846550
If you don’t have Robert e Howard’s Conan on there but you have the Harry Potter and fucking lotr series you’re a fucking dunce.