/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12250173]

post essential reddit /lit/

[Anonymous No.12250192]

[Anonymous No.12250198]

Why are you people obsessed with that website?

[Anonymous No.12250232]

>>12250198
I just find the reddit user archetype very gay and I like to laugh at them.

[Anonymous No.12250338]

>>12250232
>i use this website to bitch about that website

[Anonymous No.12250351]

>>12250198
>>12250338
Why do redditors get so defensive like this? It’s just a joke

[Anonymous No.12250352]

>>12250338
>he only does one thing on a website

[Anonymous No.12250353]

>>12250338
>i get asshurt about the lads having a laugh
fag

[Anonymous No.12250356]

>>12250173
>ready player one
>harry potter
>dune
>the martian
>ender's game
>holes
>anything by brendon sanderson
>dae stephen king?
>east of eden (good book tho)
>the alchemist
>le outstranger
>1984/BNW/451

[Anonymous No.12250385]

>>12250356
>1984/BNW/451
Do you mean reading them at all, or just gushing over them? I agree with the rest of your list, but I feel like those three aren't quite essential reading, but are close

[Anonymous No.12250391]

nietzsche

[Anonymous No.12250419]

>>12250385
they've Sparknoted these. Reddit loves dystopian fiction but after the originals, very few actually add anything really new to the genre. At least not the pop fiction ones anyway.

They use the basis for these stories to compare the absolute trash dystopians they have read. That's all.

[Anonymous No.12250436]

>>12250385
you really think that reddit plebs read any books at all? Most of them buy the books just to show off skim through them or read a review and back to shitposting.

What essentially this thread is, "post normie books"

[Anonymous No.12250445]

>>12250419
That's fair. I would still say that it's important enough to read at least one or two of those that I'm not sure if they belong on a list, but I can't name a solid choice for dystopian fiction past them that would be more fitting of that sentiment on its own, so I won't argue

[Anonymous No.12250460]

>>12250445
Wool could be one. They're reference to 1984/BNW/451 is masturbatory.

Put it this way, everyone Sparknotes them and uses them as the comparison for other dystopian lit, but those who have actually read them never stop talking about it. As if that what sets the boys apart from the zit-addled teenagers.

[Anonymous No.12250464]

>>12250173
Any book that has had a video game based on it because I've never met anyone that has read the likes of The Witcher just because.

That includes The Witcher, Metro 2033, Roadside Picnic, and Canticle for Liebowitz off the top of my head. Live Girls may qualify

[Anonymous No.12250476]

Also any Warhammer book.

[Anonymous No.12250477]

>>12250385
I mean essential reddit /lit/.

[Anonymous No.12250490]

Lovecraft's works? Or does Reddit just like Lovecraft and has never actually read anything he's written?

[Anonymous No.12250560]

How did no one not name this yet? Those people are obsessed with these books.

[Anonymous No.12250565]

>>12250560
UHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
>>12250356

[Anonymous No.12250575]

>>12250560
I always thought Artemis Fowl was cooler :^)

[Anonymous No.12250601]

Is Discworld Reddit tier yet/anymore?

[Anonymous No.12250645]

>>12250173
How exactly am I supposed to know what reddit likes? How do you?

[Anonymous No.12250677]

>>12250464
Roadside picnic is actually good though

[Anonymous No.12250688]

>>12250198
t. redditor

[Anonymous No.12250695]

>>12250464
>Canticle for Liebowitz
What game is based on this?

[Anonymous No.12250703]

[Anonymous No.12250773]

>>12250703
Why? Do you even know anything about Dune?

[Anonymous No.12250783]

>>12250773
Do you? It's huge on reddit. We just had thread the other day where reddit showed their favourite books. Dune showed up more than any other book

[Anonymous No.12250789]

>>12250773
https://www.reddit.com/r/dune

[Anonymous No.12250796]

>>12250773
Yes some liberal whiteboy takes the bluepill (that’s why his eyes also turn that color) and helps pajeets take over the universe. It’s a cautionary tale. if anyone is likely to do it it’s litfags, so this book is essential litcore

[Anonymous No.12250799]

>>12250783
FUCK. Now I cant like dune anymore.

[Anonymous No.12250803]

>>12250232
This. I also hate the way they try to piggyback on top of eachother's jokes in really unfunny ways, usually its in the form of a reference.
I've also come to the conclusion that british people are basically reddit incarnate.

[Anonymous No.12250811]

>>12250490
The only thing they know about lovecraft is
>XD tentacles

[Anonymous No.12250816]

>>12250338
You need to go back, cuckface.

[Anonymous No.12250829]

[Anonymous No.12251003]

>this

[Anonymous No.12251007]

>>12250419
>love dystopian fiction
>use a dystopian website
whoa

[Anonymous No.12251014]

>>12251003
It's missing To the Lighthouse desu

[Sage No.12251030]

>>12250173
Why don't you ask reddit to do that for you? Why do you have to kill threads for this?
>>12250351
>>12250353
If that joke was ever funny, it stopped being so the first few hundreds of times it was repeated. Isn't there anywhere else other than the literature section of a Slovenian fishing forum where you could discuss your hilarious reddit jokes?

[Anonymous No.12251249]

>>12250796
But it turns into a facist empire Anon, why does nobody read Messiah where the underlying evils of the first dune are brought to light.

[Anonymous No.12251664]

>>12250783
Does that make it a bad book tho?

[Anonymous No.12251699]

>>12250803
>british people are basically reddit incarnate
I live in Australia so I'm surrounded by English people, and this is accurate as fuck.
'le british humour' is the most fucking childish, unfunny, try-hard shit imaginable

[Anonymous No.12251715]

>>12250173

[Anonymous No.12251745]

Should I read a song of ice and fire, lit?

[Anonymous No.12251774]

>>12251745
Don't bother until the last 2 books are released. Even then, there are way better options.

[Anonymous No.12251956]

>>12251745
No. It's not worth anyone's time.

[Anonymous No.12251969]

>>12250173
this thread is completely unfunny
directly making fun of outgroups is completely feminine and lame
you should have written "post essential /lit/"
because then at least you'd be trying to be funny

[Anonymous No.12251975]

>>12251745
All of that hack's letters, essays and books should be gathered and burned.

[Anonymous No.12252002]

ACTUAL reddit lit is repeating the same fucking books over and over again and making a thread about being scared of finishing the harry potter series because one is so attached to the franchise and cannot fathom reading anything else.

[Anonymous No.12252066]

>>12250695
The Brotherhood of Steel from Fallout

[Anonymous No.12252131]

>>12252066
t. someone who has only read a summary of the canticles

[Anonymous No.12252425]

this is reddit. this is memes. this is reddit. this is memes.

[Anonymous No.12252473]

>>12252002
That's fucking /lit/ except they don't even start a book but just collect them to show off in stack threads to get pseud cred.

[Anonymous No.12252485]

>>12251715
>next to the Shark vacuum
10/10

[Anonymous No.12252508]

>>12251699
>>12250803
Based. Fuck britbongs.

[Anonymous No.12253670]

>>12251003
>TFW the /lit/ starter pack is literally just my high school reading list
Swap out Lolita, American Psycho, and Fear and Loathing for Les Miserables, Animal Farm, and A Long Way Gone and it's identical.

[Anonymous No.12253688]

>>12252131
?
The creators of Fallout literally list Canticle for Liebowitz as their single biggest influence. Granted, it's not a direct adaptation - it's more like how Vampire the Masquerade is 'influenced by' Live Girls instead of an adaptation but still.

[Anonymous No.12253695]

>>12253688
>implying they read it.
They probably read a summary themselves.

[Anonymous No.12253702]

>>12250476
Fuck you Skarsnik literally the funniest book I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.12253716]

>>12251003
If you like Catcher in the Rye you should be shot. What absolute fucking garbage.

>oh I'm so le edgy and so le unmotivated and so le deep lmao

[Anonymous No.12253729]

>>12250356
what's wrong with dune and holes?

[Anonymous No.12253736]

>>12251003
i have the last two collecting dust on my shelf
they'll get their turns

[Anonymous No.12253762]

>>12253716
>he doesn't get it
How's high school?

[Anonymous No.12253786]

>>12251715
>College Physics
Everytime

[Anonymous No.12253807]

>>12251715
The biggest tell of Reddit taste is unironically liking young adult and younger books as an adult without acknowledging your childish tastes and instead trying to pretend those books are actually super mature. Owning 6 Warriors books means this man has never mentally aged past 12.

[Anonymous No.12253832]

>>12253762
OMG IT'S SO LE DEEP

Get a fucking job you fucking hippie

[Anonymous No.12253834]

>>12251699
>>12250803

It's a middle class southern English thing rather than a UK-wide behaviour teeby aych. Middle class people wherever you go are generally unfunny spergs but ours are particularly bad. They're all doctor who fans who reference Stuart Lee and it hurts

[Anonymous No.12253876]

>>12251715
I really enjoyed and hated looking at each of these. Any other images like this?

[Anonymous No.12253902]

>>12253832
please go be stupid somewhere else

[Anonymous No.12253975]

>>12251715
>Qualitative Research FUCK

[Anonymous No.12254506]

>>12250560
Shut up.

[Anonymous No.12255275]

>>12251003
>>12251715
Leave Huck Finn alone, he's a good kid.

[Anonymous No.12255300]

peoples on r/books be like 'im 100 years old and read 4 pages for the first time!' upvotes to the left.

[Anonymous No.12255322]

>>12250773
Just because something is good doesn't mean it's not still redditcore

[Anonymous No.12255404]

>>12250803
It's all puns in every top post and the following comment chain just to whore themselves for attention

[Anonymous No.12255896]

>>12250464
I liked the first two as short stories starring Geralt, they worse and worse. Though I read those shitty fan translated pdfs from ages ago
>>12250476
These get really fucking repetitive

[Sage No.12256044]

Jannitors encourage discussion of reddit over actual literature: >>/lit/thread/S12250173#p12251030
>>12250173
Why don't you ask reddit to do that for you? Why do you have to kill threads for this?
>>12250351
>>12250353
If that joke was ever funny, it stopped being so the first few hundreds of times it was repeated. Isn't there anywhere else other than the literature section of a Slovenian fishing forum where you could discuss your hilarious reddit jokes?

[Anonymous No.12256079]

>>12256044
Go back.

[Sage No.12256089]

>>12256079
>>12256079
You first

[Anonymous No.12256092]

>>12255322
>dune
>good
Pick one

[Anonymous No.12256093]

>>12250464

I actually like Metro 2033, never played the games. Its worth a read on its own.

Just skip the rest of the series though, absolute and utter trash.

[Anonymous No.12256208]

>>12250351
I don't think redditors care at all about their reputation here. Reddit isn't really anything in particular and there isn't much of an identity that comes with using it. If you tried to confront a Redditor on it they'd be more confused than offended.

"Yeah I go there to talk about music production and look at videos"

lol what are you going to say to that?

[Sage No.12256253]

>>12256208
It's useless, if these idiots really cared what reddit thought they could just google the name of any book and reddit, these newfags just want to revel in the fact that they're superior than their former fellow redditors because they use 4chan now. And it's the people who aren't obsessed with reddit and just want to discuss their interests with other anons that will suffer.

[Anonymous No.12256261]

>>12256208
I think redditors are very concerned with reputation.

[Anonymous No.12256283]

>>12250173

[Anonymous No.12256285]

>>12251715
Joseph Heller is too good for this

[Anonymous No.12256403]

[Anonymous No.12256604]

>>12253716
Pleb

[Anonymous No.12256620]

The Distributist's series on nerd culture is basically how i see reddit.

[Anonymous No.12256636]

>>12256403
This is depressing. Everything about it, makes it look extremely deliberate, as though this is a source of pride in his life. Like this guy just got the leftovers from half-price books and the thrift-shop. This is the sort of room you just sit down in one day, look around, and decide to become a heroin addict or blow your brains out because you don't have anything else going for you.

[Anonymous No.12256642]

>>12256403
>>12256636
Also, if this is your picture, I don't mean to suggest you to do this.
Even a new bookshelf. Some floor. Anything to cheer the room up would make it look better.

[Anonymous No.12256691]

>>12250192
How wrong can one man get

[Anonymous No.12256696]

>>12256642
I think the bookshelf it's self is fine
not the most modern or chic but it seems sturdy and of decent quality
Just a bit on the dated side

[Anonymous No.12256699]

[Anonymous No.12257233]

>>12250703

[Anonymous No.12257305]

>>12256283
Good one.

[Anonymous No.12257315]

>>12257233
Ouch.

[Anonymous No.12257339]

>>12256403
Jesus the owner of this shelf must be able to fit a basketball in his maw when he poses for photos

[Anonymous No.12257395]

>>12253834
>Stuart Lee
this nigger doesn't like stewart lee
whats it like to be sub-90 IQ?

[Anonymous No.12257402]

>>12250192
Spot on. This shit is always in reddit's best book lists.

[Anonymous No.12257407]

>>12250464
I read The Witcher back when first game came out and thought it was pretty good, actually.

[Anonymous No.12257408]

>>12250803
>I've also come to the conclusion that british people are basically reddit incarnate.
lost

[Anonymous No.12257423]

>>12250391
t. edge kid

[Anonymous No.12257432]

>>12250799
>being this much of an edgelord

[Anonymous No.12257489]

>>12250460
It wouldn't piss me off as much if it wasn't the very faggots that want big government and totalitarianism that then make references too "big brothers watching" It causes me to audibly and physically cringe

[Anonymous No.12257508]

>>12250198
reddit's literature board is honestly way better than this place
not r books, the other one.

[Anonymous No.12257514]

>>12250490
A good portion of reddit rejects him as he was "Extremely racist even for his time" and those that do praise any of his work preface their posts with long winded explanations how THEY are not a bigot and that Lovecraft himself was "problematic" Its honestly sad to see people this scared of being called the boogyman "R" word, like jesus christ you like some literature by a guy who doesn't fit your ideal of a perfect human. Big deal

[Anonymous No.12257542]

>>12251969
Go back faggot

[Anonymous No.12257562]

>>12256044
>If that joke was ever funny, it stopped being so the first few hundreds of times it was repeated
>Slovenian fishing forum
Yeah I know what you mean, faggot

[Anonymous No.12257615]

>>12250192
why is the hand drawn like buttcheeks

[Anonymous No.12257671]

>>12250560
>Dullest franchise

[Anonymous No.12257704]

>>12256403
>horror

That's what I feel so this garbage has to be intentional

[Anonymous No.12257728]

This. Emphasis on Sapiens and People's history

[Anonymous No.12257763]

>>12254506
Spend 5 minutes on that site if you can stomach it. Literally everything complex socially goes back to Harry Potter

[Anonymous No.12257781]

I could never take any reddit suggestion seriously after pic related.

[Anonymous No.12257792]

>>12257781
Also this.

[Anonymous No.12257811]

>>12251249
It turns into a pajeet technocracy.

[Anonymous No.12257821]

>>12253695
The original game was sort of good, the sequels are pseud shit.

[Anonymous No.12257823]

>>12257728
>atlas shrugged
>meditations
>brave new world
>1984
this is quality bait

[Anonymous No.12257833]

>>12257728
>stirner
>mid wit

[Anonymous No.12257854]

>>12250173
Murakami

[Anonymous No.12257886]

>>12257728
no midwit could read maps of meaning lol

[Anonymous No.12257944]

>>12257728
>Machiavelli
You need to enlightened as fuck to GET him.

[Anonymous No.12257972]

>>12257728
Hohoho that is some nice bait

[Anonymous No.12257979]

>>12250803
>I've also come to the conclusion that british people are basically reddit incarnate.

I've been watching Tom Scott on youtube recently. His vids are enjoyable, but at the same time he seems to be the incarnation of british reddit person. It's unnerving

[Anonymous No.12257981]

I used to think Chuck Palahniuk was Supreme reddit core until I heard him on JRE. He kept bringing up children having sex. Now I just think hes a cryptopedo

[Anonymous No.12257990]

>>12257728
This is a genuinely great image.

>>12257823
>>12257833
>>12257886
>>12257944
>>12257972
pic related

[Anonymous No.12258024]

>>12250601
>main character is a strong willed and sensible woman who that author wants to be spanked by
tiffany/susan/granny books are reddit

[Anonymous No.12258049]

>>12257514
Sounds a lot like that video by Overly sarcastic productions. That girl talks at like Mach 5 words per minute for poor comedic value and cant make it more than a minute without mentioning he was a "horrible racist, even for his time!!".

[Anonymous No.12258056]

>>12257981
He's gay sooo obviously

[Anonymous No.12258067]

>>12257763
True. Harry Potter is kind of important to me, but I know better than to call it the best thing ever. I believe it has its merits, but unfortunately people took it way too seriously and effectively ruined popular culture and readership alike, even scholarship.

[Anonymous No.12258095]

Anything by Kurt Vonnegut

[Anonymous No.12258150]

>>12258049
lmao I searched up that video and I started watching it at some point in the past as a minute and 20 second was on the bar. I went back to the start and it LITERALLY opens with the line talking about how he had issues and by 0:15 what did she say "HORRIBLY RACIST EVEN FOR HIS TIME" AHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH omg was I right or was I right actually on my sides right now

[Anonymous No.12258184]

>>12258150
It really shows that they and all the people in the comments defending them get their information from the same threads on reddit. I have to wonder how much else of that video is just parroted information

[Anonymous No.12258819]

>>12256699
If you want to go even further over the redge, read this. The second one literally starts with a "*record scratch* bet you're wondering how I got in this mess!" And the 1920s slang the author uses reads like he wrote the book normally and then just hit "find and replace" down a list of slang.

[Anonymous No.12258826]

>>12257407
>back when first game came out
That's the issue, not the quality. Canticle for Liebowitz is considered by most to be a legitimately good book as well. It's Reddit because you only read them because of a video game.

[Anonymous No.12258856]

>>12258067
I'd honestly go so far as to say that liking YA or mid grade books in and of itself is not reddit-tier. It's liking those books and pretending that they're super sophisticated or mature and not really kids' books that's the problem.

[Anonymous No.12258927]

>>12256403
Having anything else on your bookself other than books is a red flag for being a pleb

[Anonymous No.12258965]

>>12256403
Jesus, how many fucking books has Steven King written?

[Anonymous No.12259155]

>>12257514
>horribly racist for his time
Must've missed the letters he wrote where he bragged about all the lynchings he committed, the eugenics he advocated for and the Klan chapters he joined. Give me a fucking break.

[Anonymous No.12259166]

>>12258184
I love how almost every example of his racism is his cat's name. Have these plebs even read "on the creation of niggers"?

[Anonymous No.12259167]

>>12258965
You gotta admit it's kind of impressive even if you don't like him.

[Anonymous No.12259326]

>>12250173
Why buy a boxed set when there's still books coming out?

[Anonymous No.12259376]

>>12259326
Good joke

[Anonymous No.12260429]

>>12256044
you're a faggot, but i have to agree that jannies are even worse.

[Anonymous No.12261087]

>>12256699
I have all of these in ebook format, are they worth the time investment?

>>12257781
>>12257792
Haven't read these, what's wrong with them?

>>12259167
I sort of like him. Some of his books are fun to read if you want nothing more than a literary way to shut your brain.

[Anonymous No.12261114]

>>12257728
This but EXTREMELY seriously

[Anonymous No.12261128]

>>12259166
Its always shocking to be reminded of how mortified of the word "nigger" Americans and their mindslaves are.

[Anonymous No.12261129]

>>12259326
There was a box set before A Dance with Dragons came out too.

[Anonymous No.12261242]

>>12261087
>I have all of these in ebook format, are they worth the time investment?
I like em
First two are weak though

[Anonymous No.12261386]

will be posted on r/suggestmeabook everytime someone asks for a spoopy book

[Anonymous No.12261483]

>>12251715
What's this guys life like? Seriously i wanna know what's his job, who are his friends, how are his relationships

[Anonymous No.12261500]

>>12257728
on point

[Anonymous No.12261813]

>>12261483
he's definitely happier than all of us here

[Anonymous No.12261821]

>>12250391
Not getting Nietzsche properly*

[Anonymous No.12261836]

>>12259167
>at least
What did they mean by this?

[Anonymous No.12261839]

>>12256403
Now THAT is cringe and manchildpilled

[Anonymous No.12262114]

>>12256403
The Dark Tower comics are kino

[Anonymous No.12262597]

>>12261836
The number varies based on how you define it. Do short story collections count at all? Does each short story count? Do novellas count? Do you count abridged or updated editions differently? 90 is counting only completely unique, full length novels.

[Anonymous No.12262770]

>>12257514
Based redditspy

[Anonymous No.12262927]

>>12261386
the joke is that the book is satirizing long-winded, meandering literature that's only meant to waste your time

by being a long-winded, meandering waste of time.

[Anonymous No.12264230]

>>12253716
What do you identify to be actually deep, give examples

[Anonymous No.12264290]

>>12257981
He looks like one desu.
Also are you implying redditors aren't cryptopedos? They are.

[Anonymous No.12264743]

>>12253729
This is a thread about essential reddit lit, not a critique thread.

Although, in saying that, Dune fucking sucks.

[Anonymous No.12264760]

>>12264743
>Dune fucking sucks
The only thing that sucks is your taste in fantasy.

[Anonymous No.12264784]

>>12256093
How bad is 2035? I've tried reading 2034 a few times and could never finish it. I really liked 2033 though, never played the game either.

[Anonymous No.12264884]

So I can't like any of the books listed itt, can i?

[Anonymous No.12264893]

[Anonymous No.12264990]

>>12257233
>Your father is not an immortal flawless God.
Man it must suck for you all.

[Anonymous No.12265073]

>>12253716
>>12253832
Yikes, what are you even doing here brainlet?

[Anonymous No.12266258]

>>12250783
Because Dune is solid. Reddit isn't going to get everything wrong....just most things.

[Anonymous No.12266267]

>>12264760
Dune is unreadable