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talk about books or smth idk
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Not bad for 4chan. Not as many rightoid manifestos as I expected from /lit/ but overall, it's maps pretty well to what I usually think of as /lit/core.
Moby Peepee is definitely worthy of being at least in contention for #1, in my opinion. I'd probably rate The Iliad higher than /lit/ has rated it, but #9 ain't bad.
I'm not sure about Thus Spake Zarathustra. I'd probably put Nietzsche's collected works on instead. I mean, they put Shakespeare's First Folio as one item so why not. Is there anything in Zarathustra that Nietzsche does not say both more clearly and more entertainingly in his aphorisms and essays?
I sometimes wonder why /mu/ and /lit/ mostly stay on topic but /tv/ is overrun by coomer threads and forced stale memes. Is it just because /tv/ is a more active board?
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/tv/ is overrun with newstrags because films and shows are normiecore meanwhile reading doesn't interest them at all so it's harder for them to infest /lit/ with their coomer baitposts
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True, but music is also normiecore, so why does /mu/ stay on topic most of the time?
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Never been there but I assume cause normies only listen to newest pop slop and aren't neurodivergent enough to remember which album a song belongs to let alone rank albums
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less coomer friendly, and only music neurodivergents actually discuss music, while talking about their current movieslop is western culture
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this is just anglo propaganda.
200 years ago french was the lingua franca, and everyone said french litterture was the best, now its english and therefore the english think their lit is best and becuz most wof the world speaks that they read it and think ts true
in 100 years you wll all say that confusious and wang xhei were totally the best authors
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Uncle anon mindbroke /tv/ and /fit/
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Who da fuk is uncle anon?
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Ever read Lolita
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He babysits his niece lol.
His posts usually were something along the lines of “Hey [board], I'm babysitting my [obviously underage] niece and she's [doing something implying sexual interest in him]. What do?”
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/lit/ is a much more moderate/lefty board, what are you on about?
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It's leftoid compared to /pol/ but that isn't saying much. It still has a lot of rightoid posting.
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BIPOC.
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Sneed
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He's a bit of a bore when he's not writing fiction.
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Atheist detected
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Even when I believed that shit it was boring. Most of the interesting stories in it are in the Old Testament anyway. Stop appropriating Jewish culture.
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Have you tried reconnecting yourself to God's light?
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Yeah, I got a 404 error
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I will pray for you
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Pray to Wakkanda
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Christ is with you always. Only through Him can you reach salvation
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that implies a response
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Well, I guess God's head is empty
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Please find Him. He is eternally in your heart
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Seriously, its not a good book. Also cancerous to read.
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Beget
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I think it varies wildly from book to book. Genesis is one of my favorite books of all time.
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Genesis 5
From Adam to Noah
5 This is the written account of Adam's family line.
When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. 2 He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind”[a] when they were created.
3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. 4 After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. 5 Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.
6 When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father[b] of Enosh. 7 After he became the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters. 8 Altogether, Seth lived a total of 912 years, and then he died.
9 When Enosh had lived 90 years, he became the father of Kenan. 10 After he became the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters. 11 Altogether, Enosh lived a total of 905 years, and then he died.
12 When Kenan had lived 70 years, he became the father of Mahalalel. 13 After he became the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters. 14 Altogether, Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died.
15 When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he became the father of Jared. 16 After he became the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters. 17 Altogether, Mahalalel lived a total of 895 years, and then he died.
18 When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch. 19 After he became the father of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. 20 Altogether, Jared lived a total of 962 years, and then he died.
21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. 22 After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. 23 Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years. 24 Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.
25 When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech. 26 After he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters. 27 Altogether, Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.
28 When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son. 29 He named him Noah[c] and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.” 30 After Noah was born, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters. 31 Altogether, Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.
32 After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.
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All those words won't bring daddy back.
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Eh it's such an important and influential book, ignoring even the religious
contexts, it completely and forever 
changed literature, to this day many stories emulate it (I acknowledge of course that the bible 
itself emulates other older stories, but those were all oral and this one got written down), I think 
it's pretentious 
to put it up there 
with the "best" books, but I also don't think 
it's necessarily out of place 
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It's reeeeeeeally boring.
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Agreed. Should 100% be #1. Nothing will ever come close to the Word of Christ
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Christ is king
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/h/lit's book would be
A LITTLE UNDERRATED GEM CALLED BLOOD MERIDIAN YOU PROBABLY HAVEN'T HEARD OF IT
IT'S PRETTY OBSCURE JUST LIKE PALE FIRE 
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I unironically had not heard of wither until 2023 lol
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Shut the frick up REEEEEE
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Meanwhile on the reddit board, while we have yet anther year of 100% diversity and obviously 0% yt men.
Me on the other hand care deeply about sexism, so only male authors this year.
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Have you been tested for schizophrenia?
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Where are all these schizo pinkoids coming from?
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Link?
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I might have cheated alittle bit, its actually from a couple years ago.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/suhpcy/comment/hxb3ru0/?context=8
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lol, lmao even
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I was just following mayo hugo drama nonesense.
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Uncle Ted made the cut
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Darnit wrong
timeline 
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Nothing existed before 2023. Everything you remember prior to 2023 isnt real.
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Yeah where is Thora ?
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I read all of them and they all suck butt
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Ok but for real I've read from that list:
Lolita
infinite jest
Growth of the soil (recommended)
Metamorphosis
American psycho
All the children's books
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I read from that list 19 books and I considering my self a person that doesn't read
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I consider myself profoundly mentally r-slurred
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Obviously fake, where are the F. Gardner novels?
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Just finishing steppenwolf. Honestly the list doesn't change much, but it's pretty good. Recommended reading for the majority of them.
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Heck yea boys we fricking made it!!!
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what a strange list, like why the frick is critique of pure reason on there i guarantee no one on /lit/ has read it, a lot of these are books that you think should be on a top 100 but if youve read them you know they shouldnt be
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YES. this is a "look how smart and cultured i am" top 100.
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Shit like Faust really
isn't the peak of German 
literature 
and I'm tired 
of people pretending it is
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I've read both that and Critique of Practical Reason and my main takeaway was that Kant needed to get laid more
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i read critique of pure reason and my main takeaway was that im never reading another western philosophy book again, what a fricking slog
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Pure reason is absolutely more of a wall than practical reason, but it's still a philosocel writing
about his world view in the end.
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Some books that got at least 4 votes on an online poll of random nobodies. OK.
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Where Harry Potter?
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This isn't 2016
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Camus shows up once but Kafka twice?
Lol whomever made this list thinks they're deeper than they are.
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Yeah and the hobbit made the list. Its a book for children they could have put For Whom the Bell Tolls in its place.
1. Forever and Always
2. Fearless
3. Our song
4. The story of us
5. New Romantics
6. Love story
7. Paper rings
8. Augusst
9. shake it off
10. mr perfectly fine
11. red
12. teardrops on my guitar
13. The way I loved you
14. How you get the girl
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1. Forever and Always
2. Fearless
3. Our song
4. The story of us
5. New Romantics
6. Love story
7. Paper rings
8. Augusst
9. shake it off
10. mr perfectly fine
11. red
12. teardrops on my guitar
13. The way I loved you
14. How you get the girl
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I never read Lolita to not be libertarian and surprised War and peace is before Miserables
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The stranger is great but highly overrated at #20. I'm surprised it cracked the top 50
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Swap Lolita and Pale Fire's positions, and remove all the weird foreigns, and you've got a list
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Growth of the soil is kino
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True, as is Hunger.
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I'm very happy a brave new world stuck in their and ted Ks manifesto, surprised to not see 100 years of solitude.
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Jk i missed 100 years
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Literally never heard of Stoner. Is this another boring butt beat schizo rant that got “rediscovered” by millenitards?
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Missing The Stranger by Camus
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Fake title.
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The Stranger (1942)
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It's there.
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Missing Wuthering Heights then
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Nvm
x2
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Third time will surely be the charm. Perhaps they missed the bible.
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Also there. Can you even read?
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The Trial is an perfect example of brilliant idea but fricking awful execution. I know it was published after his death and it was more a hobby or something but you'd at least have an editor run over it and remove the last chapter and make the dialogues readable (I am also aware that he wrote the final chapter first which is why it is so disconnected from the rest of the book).
I've heard Metamorphosis is actually decent though.
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Excellent taste.
Surprised there's no Murakami on there though. 1Q84 is one of my all time faves.
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Garbage list
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Shit list lol
BM isnt even peak mccarthy and its in top 5
Lolita is good but top 10 lol
KACZYNSKI lol
Mein kampf is there but its obviously a meme so idk
Lord of the rings before odyssey
Stoner at 6
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Ofc mein kamf is there
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