Thread 24491267 - /lit/ [Archived: 691 hours ago]

Anonymous
6/24/2025, 2:00:59 AM No.24491267
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Well?
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 2:08:21 AM No.24491286
Catcher in the Rye
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 2:30:53 AM No.24491331
>>24491267 (OP)
The Alchemist
Replies: >>24491703 >>24492073 >>24492442 >>24493261
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 2:57:57 AM No.24491388
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What did boomers mean by this?
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 2:59:54 AM No.24491394
>>24491267 (OP)
anything by dostoevsky
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 3:05:08 AM No.24491404
>>24491394
nah bruh the idiot is lowkey goated
Replies: >>24491468 >>24493136
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 3:37:52 AM No.24491447
>>24491267 (OP)
Moby-dick
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 3:46:46 AM No.24491468
>>24491404
Greatest of all time (ed) or raped by a goat?
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 3:59:51 AM No.24491490
>>24491267 (OP)
Camus
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 4:02:34 AM No.24491495
>>24491267 (OP)
house of leaves
Replies: >>24491685 >>24491773
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 4:04:01 AM No.24491499
>>24491394
filtered
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 5:35:05 AM No.24491685
>>24491495
House of Leaves is a fucking meme. It's enjoyable for what it is but isn't good fiction.
Replies: >>24491773
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 5:36:07 AM No.24491689
>>24491267 (OP)
Old man and the sea
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 5:44:19 AM No.24491702
>>24491267 (OP)
I tend to rarely read popular books. If its well liked its bad usually. That even extends to philosophy in most (but not all) cases
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 5:44:34 AM No.24491703
>>24491331
When I was in highschool in my third world shithole we would openly mock people who liked paulo coelho. I don't know why foreigners rate him so much because over here it is pseud slop like newspaper stand romance.
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 5:44:43 AM No.24491704
Malazan.
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 5:46:33 AM No.24491708
>>24491703
Strange. I loved that book as a high schooler. I read 4 Paulo Coelho's during that period.
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6/24/2025, 6:19:35 AM No.24491773
Ready Player One. I'm surprised it was even green-lit to be published. I'm convinced it was astroturfed.
>>24491495
>>24491685
Faggots.
Replies: >>24492129
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 6:25:27 AM No.24491787
>>24491267 (OP)
It's not "really really bad" but it aged into a cliche.
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 6:27:07 AM No.24491792
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It's not "really really bad" but it aged into a cliche.
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 8:42:28 AM No.24492013
The metamorphosis by kafka
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 8:46:57 AM No.24492027
Three Body Problem
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 9:02:43 AM No.24492055
>>24491499
You got filtered into a pile of shit
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 9:15:36 AM No.24492069
>>24492027
I'm quite convinced that no one actually thinks 3BP is good and all the praise for it is actually praise for the rest of the series, which is much better.

Unfortunately, I'm also not convinced that the rest of the series, as good as it is, is worth slogging through 3BP.
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 9:18:36 AM No.24492073
>>24491331
Based and correct
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 9:20:16 AM No.24492077
>>24491267 (OP)
The Great Gatsby. Symbolism is for cowards
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 9:23:47 AM No.24492083
>>24492027
What didn't you like? I had this series recommended to me but I don't want to waste time on something that will probably be overrated
Replies: >>24492091 >>24493328
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 9:32:34 AM No.24492091
>>24492083
Not him, but it's very unfocused, doesn't have much sci-fi shit actually going on, and has a massive cast of completely unparsable Chinese names. It's disconnected enough from the narrative of the other two books that it feels more like a prequel than a first book, and it's just kind of a slog in general.
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 9:59:42 AM No.24492127
>>24492077
Nah its a great aesthetic movement
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 10:02:04 AM No.24492129
>>24491773
I don't think that book is targeted to the average /lit/ user. If you thought so you were misled and you deserve it.

>>24491792
I find the whole premise retarded like Ligotti and his ilk
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 1:28:45 PM No.24492311
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>>24491267 (OP)
Misery porn for young liberal girls.
Replies: >>24492925
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 1:36:58 PM No.24492325
>>24491267 (OP)
Snow Crash
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 2:23:09 PM No.24492383
The Illiad
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 2:39:49 PM No.24492403
>>24491286
This and On the Road. Makes me distrust Americans tbqhwy
Replies: >>24497888
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 2:46:45 PM No.24492411
>>24491703
same here in eastern europe. i still never read it but it was seen as pretentious twaddle for women you'd accuse a guy of liking if you wanted to call him a faggot
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 3:07:04 PM No.24492436
>>24491792
One of the worst I've to read
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 3:08:40 PM No.24492442
Brave New World.
>>24491331
The Alchemist is Coelho. The Alchemist is also his alchemical Magnum Opus (philosopher's stone) meaning that by realizing it Coelho attained immortality and conjured a fortune from nothing. The book's milquetoast narrative is basically Coelho explaining what he did, which from a metanarrative perspective means that by writing about how he made the philosopher's stone, he made the philosopher's stone. Coelho is one of the most successful ocultists alive and calling him an occultist is almost funny since he did his craft in the most transparent, public and mundane way possible. Since /lit/ is full of brainlets I feel obliged to make it clear that nothing in my post is an endorsement of the book's quality or literary merit.
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 3:32:30 PM No.24492479
>>24491267 (OP)
Fahrenheit 451. God-awful prose and extremely thin plot.
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 3:39:43 PM No.24492485
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>>24491267 (OP)
Can't stand Clarke in general but this in particular.
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 7:29:30 PM No.24492925
>>24492311
>Me when I'm in a fujoshi contest and my opponent is Hanya Yanagihara
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 8:32:35 PM No.24493136
>>24491394
>>24491404
>>24491499
If you are alluding to Dostoevsky’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Brothers Karamazov and the ghastly Crime and Punishment rigamarole. No, I do not object to soul-searching and self-revelation, but in those books the soul, and the sins, and the sentimentality, and the journalese, hardly warrant the tedious and muddled search. Dostoyevsky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity – all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of ”sinning their way to Jesus” or, as a Russian author, Ivan Bunin, put it more bluntly, ”spilling Jesus all over the place." Crime and Punishment’s plot did not seem as incredibly banal in 1866 when the book was written as it does now when noble prostitutes are apt to be received a little cynically by experienced readers. Dostoyevsky never really got over the influence which the European mystery novel and the sentimental novel made upon him. The sentimental influence implied that kind of conflict he liked—placing virtuous people in pathetic situations and then extracting from these situations the last ounce of pathos. Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. I admit that some of his scenes, some of his tremendous farcical rows are extraordinarily amusing. But his sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment—by this reader anyway. Dostoyevsky seems to have been chosen by the destiny of Russian letters to become Russia’s greatest playwright, but he took the wrong turning and wrote novels.
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 8:40:32 PM No.24493159
>>24491267 (OP)
Every book ever written.
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 9:09:34 PM No.24493261
>>24491331
The fact that this is the 10th most sold book in the world is depressively staggering; a pulp detective noir from the 50's has better prose and story than that drivel.
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 9:27:45 PM No.24493328
>>24492027
>>24492083
The target audience for Three Body Problem is non-readers who aren't usually that interested in sci-fi. Most of its ideas are pretty obvious, the plot doesn't really make sense, and you will find most of it dull and cliche if you have any exposure to sci-fi.

This is a more personal gripe, but the combination of its attempt at a galaxy-spanning multi-generational plot and its insistence on having problems solved by one single person applying extremely basic and obvious logic made me want to give it up halfway through.
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 9:29:20 PM No.24493337
A Memory Called Empire has very little to say but insists on saying it over and over and over again in case you missed it the first thirty times.
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 9:38:53 PM No.24493368
>>24492479
Its good fuck you
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 9:40:24 PM No.24493373
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>>24491388
blood on the hands would
not wash- glowies will keep on
glowing , jews - jewing
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 11:31:15 PM No.24493670
Stranger in a Strange Land
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Anonymous
6/25/2025, 12:05:14 AM No.24493740
>>24492442
>Brave New World.
hm, what's the problem with this one?
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Anonymous
6/25/2025, 12:09:32 AM No.24493751
>>24491267 (OP)
Anything recommended by a normie woman. ANYTHING. It's porn, it'll be poorly-written porn and she will NOT have the self-awareness to realize this. She will lack this self awareness even if she has good taste (she doesn't).
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 12:22:26 AM No.24493786
>>24492485
I had to read it for a class in high school and I fucking hated it but then years later I read it by my lonesome and enjoyed it.
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Anonymous
6/25/2025, 12:24:32 AM No.24493792
>>24491267 (OP)
Harry Potter at the very zenith of its opening popularity. I read three chapters, got bored and just read The Silmarillion instead.
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Anonymous
6/25/2025, 12:29:25 AM No.24493803
>>24493792
>implying
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Anonymous
6/25/2025, 12:32:16 AM No.24493809
>>24493803
Implying what? You must have been born afterwards. Harry Potter was absurdly popular.
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Anonymous
6/25/2025, 12:33:44 AM No.24493814
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>>24491267 (OP)
Why is it so lauded
Replies: >>24493848
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 12:36:01 AM No.24493822
>>24493809
Implying that the Silmarillion isn't boring
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Anonymous
6/25/2025, 12:37:32 AM No.24493826
>>24493822
It's better than both The Hobbit AND The Lord of the Rings, lmfao. Not my fault you got filtered.
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Anonymous
6/25/2025, 12:38:53 AM No.24493829
This the Sarah Maas thread? I got "Throne of Glass" and it should have been called "throne of ass" because it was a big bowl of diarrhea
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 12:44:15 AM No.24493848
>>24493814
filtered
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 12:45:10 AM No.24493854
>>24491267 (OP)
Stranger
War and Peace
Savage Detectives
Blake
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 12:47:31 AM No.24493857
The Trial. It is incredibly boring.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 12:49:05 AM No.24493863
>>24493826
And Harry Potter is better than all three. Try and keep up. Rowling is for patricians only, so you might not make the cut. But I would put in the work anyway if I were you. Maybe one day the gilded gates of understanding will be unlocked and you'll be let in, but for now you should dump the Welsh le war is bad crap. Kay, babe?
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Anonymous
6/25/2025, 12:52:53 AM No.24493886
>>24493863
>And Harry Potter is better than all three
Here's your (You) didn't read anything else you had to say.
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Anonymous
6/25/2025, 12:53:43 AM No.24493890
>>24493886
>doesn't read
Explains why you love Tolkien.
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Anonymous
6/25/2025, 12:55:21 AM No.24493894
>>24493890
*YAWN* you're so totally trolling me right now lil' bro... for realsies..
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 2:58:14 AM No.24494120
>>24493670
Of all the psychedelic-inspired sci-fi of the sixties, Heinlein holds up the worst. He's good to read in high school, because you'll outgrow him quickly after that.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 3:34:15 AM No.24494182
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>>24491267 (OP)
BIGLY as well.
Also all Latinx magical realism sloppa that's just a long string of lethargic victim narratives and romanticizing Latin inaction.
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Anonymous
6/25/2025, 3:38:45 AM No.24494184
>>24491267 (OP)
The Turn of the Screw
Apparently only popular because perverts have been reading too far into it for the past century.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 4:10:27 AM No.24494231
James by Percival Everett. I think most intelligent people would think it's gimmicky, simple, lazily written, and mediocre. If you read Huckleberry Finn before hand, you'll think it's absolute garbage.

Stranger in a Strange Land was also not as great as I thought it would be. I still enjoyed it though. But I thought it could probably be turned into an anime pretty easily.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 5:03:39 AM No.24494329
>>24492442
Based meta analyzer.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 8:57:15 AM No.24494747
>>24491267 (OP)
>when you're finally reading a really popular book and it's really really bad
2 Chronicles KJV1611
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 2:29:55 PM No.24495158
>>24494182
I've heard a lot of up and coming South American writers despise Gabriel Garcia Marquez because he made it so all publishers only want Magic Realism slop if you come from SA. They've been typecasted to fuck.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 2:51:29 PM No.24495187
>>24491267 (OP)
no longer human
Replies: >>24495393
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 4:51:04 PM No.24495393
>>24495187
This, it insists upon itself.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 5:24:17 PM No.24495475
>>24491388
One April morning in the sixth grade we became, first by accident and then by premeditation, trout fishing in America terrorists.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 5:49:16 PM No.24495538
>>24491267 (OP)
Anything by Camus
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 8:05:53 PM No.24495836
>>24491267 (OP)
Great Gatsby
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 8:55:45 PM No.24495931
honestly never happened to me. i do not really have to be impressed by a book to enjoy it. i can pretty much enjoy anything that isn't actually terribly written.
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 3:07:48 AM No.24496666
>Hyperion
soap opera tier writing, some cool ideas
>Blood Meridian
uuuh, big bald baby man scawy!!! great prose rhough
>The Dragonbone Chair
generic, uninteresting characters, boring
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 3:10:32 AM No.24496672
>>24491267 (OP)
Game of Thrones.
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 4:25:07 AM No.24496789
Journey to the End of the Night
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 2:23:06 PM No.24497528
>>24493670
agreed, cool ideas but really bland execution
I'm sure some other author does it better, but who?
Replies: >>24499366
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 2:46:20 PM No.24497559
>>24491267 (OP)
I know this may sound retarded but The Little Prince. I know the point is to show the innocent viewpoint of childhood and all that, but it still feels ridiculously simplistic and naive. And the narrative and coherence is all over the place. Besides, it was written by a french.

When it comes to portray an innocent kid,I think Alice in Wonderland does it way better.
Replies: >>24497735
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 3:30:17 PM No.24497626
>>24491388
Everything in this book is operating as a multi-tiered metaphor or symbol for something else, be it commercialism or shrinking wilderness or something else. Its one of those eclectic books that's meant to be analyzed as you read. A strange object
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 4:31:33 PM No.24497720
>>24493136
so then what are his best novels?
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 4:41:28 PM No.24497735
>>24497559
Filtered.
Replies: >>24497826
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:22:30 PM No.24497826
>>24497735
Can't handle the truth. Go draw a box with your criteria inside or something.
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:43:52 PM No.24497878
>>24493740
Dreadful narrative and terrible prose.
>>24492027
Awful book. The kind of thing that is bad to the point of making you disregard the opinions of anyone who cares for it.
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:45:30 PM No.24497888
>>24492403
Don't worry we distrust you too
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:51:28 PM No.24497896
>>24491267 (OP)
Anything by Rooney. Conversations with Friends was fun but all her later work is boring. And her prose is dismal. I haven't read Intermezzo but it sounds like a feminist retelling of Atomised.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 3:49:57 AM No.24499366
>>24497528
RAW in Illuminatus
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6/27/2025, 6:27:32 AM No.24499657
>>24492485
FAGGOT.
>>24493786
Many such cases.