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Brothers Karamazov as number 3 is insane to me, same goes for Notes from Underground as noted by @jawbreakeraddict

Dostoevsky is the most overrated "western canon" author, I wonder if he sounds good in Russian because the dialogue on the translation to Portuguese I read is super clunky and I can't tell if that's on purpose.

!classics

they always include crime and punishment too and its dosts worst book, and war and peace over anna karenina

No Camile Paglia too

>He hasn't read Moby Peepee

Moby Peepee is unironically a banger

1984 lol that book is for 9th graders

top book in 2024 , number 1 on list a book written 1900 years ago. Half of those books are circlejerks 4chan users trying to prove they are all English majors.

Where's the caddyshack novelization? !familyman

Anna Karenina is kino even if it is foidshit, C&P is mid.

Other than that

One that often gets talked about as really excellent that I really didn't like is "100 years of solitude". I'm curious what you liked about it, because every time I ask people it feels like they read a totally different book than me. The story came off as very anti-human agency, very life-denying. I also thought all the incest and libertarianism and shit eating was really gross.

Brothers Karamazov are kino, besides that I agree have no opinion because I don't read much

My first thought after finishing it was that it would be a really difficult read for an ESL or someone who didn't grow up in the west. This book hard-counters the Chinese, in my mind.

The Moby Peepee fandom is dying, repost if you're a true peepeehead!

According to 4chan, Lolita is the third greatest book ever written in human history. Better than Goethe, better than Shakespeare, better than the Bible. Does anyone actually believe this? Even the biggest Nabokov heads all seem to prefer Ada. But there it is. According to 4chan, every single great novel from outside the (broadly defined) West has come from a single country, which is—of course—Japan. They could have pulled Bloom's excuse, that he was limiting himself to the specifically Western canon, but they couldn't resist throwing Mishima in there.

LMAO

We know very well why they pick Lolita over Ada or Pale Fire.

Also, I didn't know Obama was so vanilla.

Enjoyed the article, but it doesn't persuade me of its thesis. He raises particular objections to /lit/ and NYT lists, therefore lists of books are bad, QED??? Using either of those lists as a starting point would be vastly superior to grabbing whatever booktok nonsense is shelved at your local bookstore - objecting to lists of quality books on principle seems akin to rejecting any value judgments about books, anti-intellectual nonsense.

I personally find no longer human to be very meaningful because I'm a misanthropic cute twink

But anyone who tries to use it to demonstrate their superior taste is an idiot because its the most blatantly r-slurred piece of shiterature in existence.

The only interesting mishima book I've read was confessions of a mask and it's not on the list

They should add Simulacra and Simulation to their list so they can understand why it's becoming so terrible

Heart of Darkness is so kino. Everyone knows all of the obvious works that were inspired by it but once you read it for yourself you realize just how pervasive its influence is.

I thought the fact he writes likes he's translating it through two languages is what made it such a great read. It gives the prose this really fever dreamy atmosphere which fits with them all having tropical diseases and experiencing the horrors. Its unintentionally impressionistic and it makes it so special and all of its adaptations have made that a core part.

I also know its popular now to call it a racist book either as a chud or a woke but I think the worst thing it says about the Congolese is that they are no worse than the Europeans. You're supposed to go "but they were better" (which they pretty much were in the Congo) now but it was written at the turn of the century, Europeans are no better than those they try to improve is about as woke a statement you can get for a mainstream novel written then.

Why do chuds like Heart of Darkness? It's a criticism of colonialism.

i liked it

Nah /lit/ is filled with people who are actually neurodivergent enough to have read every single one of these

It is actually impossible to read translated poetry. Anyone that claims to have read it and doesn't speak German is lying or is as smart as someone who would read the dictionary

There are some short poems I like but I also get mostly filtered by long ones. I only went through a few pages of "Os Lusíadas" before giving up.