>/r/books
HHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHHAHAHAAHA
Fucking nerds
>>8561005
>i'm gonna go kill myself
Yay!
>>8561005
>says this while posting an anime
>>8561005
Kill yourself anime pedophile
>>8561005
>one dead weeaboo
/r/books redeemed
>>8561037
anime is for people who never emotionally matured
>>8561037
it really is impossible to leave for good
What do you guys think of this fresh spicy post?
>>8561037
Posting anime is equivalent to posting ponies.
>>8561069
>>8561069
haha Too True XD
>>8561069
Who is Hermoine? Is that her new black name?
>>8561091
What is it about reddit and having that really stuffy, dull surface-level imitation of English humour? All that "sir" and "m'lady" and thinking that rephrasing things in purple prose is hilarious ("Greetings; my given name is Richard Harrison and the facility we have entered is a retail establishment that specializes in unredeemed goods.." and the like)
>>8561120
annoying pro-choice dweebs congregate there
>>8561049
Truer words have never been spoken.
I usually browse a few niche-interest subreddits and some of the serious askreddits. Haven't gone on neckbeard subreddits for a while, but it looks like reddit is the new tumblr.
>>8561135
4chan attracts nerds too, though. But the much cooler, more self aware kind. Reddit is just the worst type of people. They're not "normies" but they're insufferable for other reasons.
More than anything, I hate their constant and obnoxious faux optimism. They use way too many exclamation marks, and always act so over the top "friendly" and "tolerant" while also being passive aggresive weasels who viciously censor anything that goes against the image they want to give off. The sheer amount of deleted/removed posts on Reddit is terrifying. It's dystopian.
They're so fucking lame.
>>8561120
Idk but one time at the restaurant i work at this big group of redditors came in and i knew immediately what they were, fat, over weight, bearded, ugly button up shirts, nerd glasses. They all ordered bacon cheeseburgers and i was called "good sir" at least twice.
You can see them coming from a mile away
>>8561005
>used reddit, ever
we dont want you here
same for you op
>>8561253
kek
>>8561239
t. nerd
fuck you, im going to break ur glasses adnd take ur lunch money next time i see you just for posting on my website
>>8561037
It's just angry redditors.
>>8561069
literally wut
>>8561239
Most 4chan users outside of /b/, /pol/ & /r9k/ are the quiet guys who know a lot about niche interests. They can hold a conversation and are typically alright.
Most redditors are one bad breakup away from creating a suicide thread on /r9k/.
>>8561037
Undergrad kids who got into reading just a few months ago really want to fit in with the "smart pepulz". Liking anime is very antithetical to that, as it turns out.
Stop caring so much. Any reddit-hating thread is 10x worse than anything posted on there, at least what they post is interesting and not "omg look at reddit, fags".
>>8561314
>weeb
>>8561314
I agree, being a pedophile is antithetical to being a smart person, as they have on average a significantly lower IQ than normal people.
>>8561336
Fair enough. Maybe you should go back there, then, and never post here again.
>>8560987
CRASH
>>8561037
Underage faggots started watching filthy frank and try to mimic everything he says and does.
There's a lot of hate for hitchhikers guide here. I read them when I was like 10, they aren't literary masterpieces but they were good books for a 10 year old me, and hold a special place in my heart.
>>8561069
>Someone liked this post so much they paid money to thank the poster
>>8561424
Who?
>>8561431
Damn, that's what the little star next to it means, doesn't it? That's fucked up.
>>8561431
kek, is this true?
>>8561069
>God of the OT
>tfw reposting r/books comments on /lit/
hate to break it to you boys... nowhere is safe now.
>>8561471
that's the dumbest thing i've ever heard
>mulberry
>>8561477
you don't come here much?
>>8561480
4chan is bad, but reddit is worse.
why the fuck would you post reddit here you fucking shithead?
fuck's wrong with you?
kys
>>8561507
i just got it, never mind. how do I delete this post?
>>8561091
your text combined with your image gave me a hearty laugh
>>8561239
Holy... I want more
>>8561037
Reddit. True patricians love anime, especially Utena.
>>8561471
This can't be true.
>google it
>it's actually true
God damn it. I used to mildly dislike reddit, but now I hate it with great passion.
>>8561660
A true patrician would never watch anime.
>>8561277
Take this!
>>8561297
Yeah, agreed. Redditors enable each other by encouraging weak behavior and complacence.
>>8561650
Holy... I want s'mores
>>8561005
Also quit Reddit because of that. They go on about how witty and funny it is and I read it and I didn't laugh once. I'm not surprised a suggestion like that comes from a forum that worships Deadpool though desu.
>>8561698
I think it's that pseudo-intellectualism as a whole is really noncommittal.
>>8561239
>But the much cooler, more self aware kind.
It's what you'd expect of a place what you say maters and who you are doesn't.
>>8562143
yeah dude why has nobody thought of writing a book that takes place in the span of a single day dude
>>8561256
You're definitely outnumbered and have been for years.
>>8562180
Could have just posted Ulysses
>>8562180
is that book any good? serious question
>>8562201
i dont remember it being anything special. i preferred solar/enduring love
>>8562180
There's also Ulysses.
Travesty by Hawkes probably takes place over the course of an hour or two since the premise is just guy takes his daughter and her boyfriend on a drive with the intention of crashing the car and killing all of them, and it starts with them all already in the car.
Also Agapē Agape is just a rant so it could conceivably take place in an hour or less.
Only plebs give a shit about other plebs. This is on the same level as those manchildren complaining about their video game toys.
>>8561675
>weebcuck
>>8562180
>not posting Ulysses
I'm triggered
>>8562341
he says whilst giving a shit about other "plebs"
>I guess /r/books is innocent enough, if a bit pseudo-
>>8562214
>disappointed nobody tore him to shreds in the comments
Oh, I'm sure they did. I don't think you understand Reddit. You're absolutely not allowed to be "negative" at all. Even constructive criticism has to be prefaced with an apology, and then ended with another apology for daring to do anything but agree and say "good job :) "
The moderators almost certainly just removed every post that didn't jerk off the OP and stroke his ego. The posters were also probably banned immediately.
The only posts allowed in that cesspit of censorship are coddling comments. Also puns, but only completely PC, Pg-13 ones that couldn't potentially offend anyone.
Thats what's fucked up about Reddit. The reason users are all so faux upbeat all the time and tiptoe around each other's feelings so carefully is because if they don't, they'll be punished. Down votes, having posting rights removed, being banned, those are all the price for transgressions.
Every Reddit thread reads better if you imagine the posters sweatings profusely and while carefully, nervously avoiding saying anything mean or offensive. They all have forced smiles, straining. Their eyes reveal desperation and mortal terror. Silent but ever present moderators menace just behind them, watching. Waiting.
>>8562366
>the kid is an unrelatable character
You should take a look at Voat's books section.
I'm sure the mods there will appreciate the page views.
>>8562366
I'm fucking dying
>>8562366
>Says "pretentious" 4 times
>>8562366
Fucking hell, I never knew it could be this bad.
>>8562020
>4chan is basically impossible to monetize
>he doesn't have a 4chan Gold Account
Fucking pleb.
>>8561477
That's reddit for you
This thread makes me so grateful that I have the privelege of browsing /lit/. For so many fucking plebs worldwide, reddit is all they know
http://www.dailydot.com/unclick/redditor-infinite-jest/
>Which brings us to jeremy1122. The redditor—who did not respond to request for comment—first popped up in r/books one year ago to offer "An introduction to Infinite Jest." A trifle presumptuous, you might think: There are plenty of intros to this popular but intimidating book online.
>Then you read his actual post.
>I've read the book about eleven times, so I just want say a few words and address people who are thinking about reading it or are just beginning. Before you embark on your journey into the mind of a genius, you have to understand a few things that are very important. When we talk about David Foster Wallace, we’re talking about a man whose I.Q. could not be measured. Past 200, I.Q. tests get imprecise. We don’t know whether we’re dealing with a man with an I.Q. of 200 or 300 or what. We can’t measure it. When it comes to Wallace-tier geniuses, the standard tests simply don’t apply. You see, Wallace could have entered any field he wanted. He was a real-life Will Hunting.
>>8562510
Is he, dare I say...our guy?
>>8562510
And he's still posting.
>Congratulations. You've broken your cherry, so to speak. Maybe you don't want to hear about this, but let's just say you're not the first person to soil their pants with poop or pee while reading Wallace, and if you stick with him and keep reading, this little incident isn't going to be your last. Among Wallace devotees, this is such a common occurrence that we consider it a sort of rite of passage. Some guys in the newsgroups even post pictures. Most of it's tame, but I have seen some unholy carnage.
A visit to r/games:
>I learned recently about a video-game term that teenagers these days throw around: "overpowered," or "OP" for short. If a character type in a competitive video game is inordinately more powerful than the others, then it is "overpowered"; the game as a result is deemed "unbalanced," and fans will complain on forums that the developers have delivered to them a swift "slap in the face." It's an interesting metaphor. Life, of course, is no game, and it's a truism that it isn't fair. But every once in a while we get a striking reminder of how unevenly Mother Nature distributes her gifts. Take the literary world for instance. By any measure, David Foster Wallace, the author of the acclaimed novel Infinite Jest, was overpowered. If he were a class in a role-playing game, then you wouldn't hear the end of the complaining. When it came to the writing of fiction, Wallace blew his competitors—historical and contemporary both—out of the water. To borrow another term from video gaming, it's fair to say that he "owned" them. When Infinite Jest hit book stores in February 1996, the title's two words were in the mouth of every serious reader in America; every living writer, however, was faced with a different pair of words: "Game Over."
>>8562366
He's absolutely right.
Hitchhiker's Guide is actually really good though. Don't know why you lads hate it
>>8562143
>>8562151
>Not knowing your postwar soviet classics.
>Or mrs Dalloway, or fucking Ulysses, etc..
That Redactor probably thinks he invented circadian novels.
>>8562529
>Some guys in the newsgroups
cover blown, like any David FRAUDSTER Wallace reading millennial even knows what a newsgroup is
>>8562529
legend
>>8562497
pleb
>>8562367
The downvote system means negative shot rarely gets seen. In my brief foray into reddit a few years ago someone posted a thread asking what books would be considered 'classics' in 50 years. One popjlar post suggested Harry Potter. I made a comment along the lines of 'the most popular genre fiction of the day may still be read in 100 years or so, but that's not really what a classic is, I don't think Harry Potter should sit on the same shelf as Joyce, Proust, Conrad etc.'
I was absolutely crucified, three or four different people commented telling me to shut up and stop being such a pretentious asshole and that I didn't know what fun was and I got like 30 downvotes
ITT:
Pseuds circlejerk about popular literature
>>Hahahhhahahahahjajhaahhahajajjajajajajajajajajajajjajhahahahahja HITCHIKERS GALAXY, HARRY POTTER, SHERLOCK HOLMES, such mindless rubbish am I right family?
Now shut your cunt mouths and give me (you)
>>8561660
make more videos demo you lazy fuck
>>8562812
I called Player One a childish plebeian book, I got banned.
>>8562529
This guy is a master
>>8562880
Not demo,
Wish I was though, since my work ethic is better than his I'd actually make videos at a reasonable rate.
Does Demo browse /lit/?
>>8563140
i think he said he does not sure
>>8560987
It's all the same. People want to feel well-read and educated while not actually doing anything hard.
>>8561425
Yeah I was very fond of them as a teenager. The hate is more that these are adults acting like they're part of some rarefied secret club since they all read an okay sci-fi parody series.
>>8562529
This is hilarious
>>8563460
>trolling
kys
>>8563447
Great comedy always stems from tragedy. What a sad, sad person
I'm going to visit r/WritingPrompts, wish me luck.
>I guess when I was around 12 or 15…I had an existential crisis, and I was reading various books on trying to figure out the meaning of life and what does it all mean? It all seemed quite meaningless and then we happened to have some books by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer in the house, which you should not read at age 14 (laughter). It is bad, it’s really negative. So then I read Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy which is quite positive I think and it highlighted an important point which is that a lot of times the question is harder than the answer.
Schopyfags BTFO
>>8564070
There is lots of things about Harry Potter.
>[WP] You're a 12 year-old in a world domintated by magic. A small, feeble man appears on your doorstep claiming: "You're a scientist, Henry"
>[EU] You've just been hired as the new sysadmin at Hogwarts.
>[EU] "Welcome to potions class here at hogwarts. I am new your new professor, Walter White".
>>8564090
Also lots of things from people who can only think about life in terms of video games.
>[WP] You just got fired, you're pretty sure your girlfriend is cheating on you, you're 75k in student loans debt, rent was due last week, and to top it all off? You're all out of beer. Oddly enough, you just got an email titled "Would you like to change the difficulty? Current setting: Very Hard."
>[WP] You are an alien playing a video game in which the goal is to help a species survive the longest time possible. Now you want to tackle the hardest mode in the game: human beings.
>[WP] It turns out everyone's playing Life on Normal Mode. You find the main menu and start playing on an entirely new difficulty setting.
>>8564099
This one is excellent.
>[WP] On this episode of Quantum Leap, Dr. Sam Beckett finds himself in what appears to be the cockpit of an airplane. He hears Arabic voices but understands them. A calendar shows the date as September 11th, 2001. It slowly dawns on him; the body he has found himself in is one of the hijackers.
>>8564104
Plenty of Batman and Time travel stuff, I think that people who visit reddit can only produce material if it is already established in popular culture. All of them are terrible, too.
>[WP] According to the Multiverse Theory, there is a universe where you are Batman. However, there is also a universe where everyone but you is Batman. What's life like in this universe?
>[EU] Batman is arrested. The day of his trial, the Joker shows up to defend him.
>[EU] Bruce Wayne is exposed as Batman through the Panama Papers leak.
>[WP] Only a time traveling Adolf Hitler dressed as Batman can unravel the dark and mysterious secret behind the numbers that appeared over everyone's heads at Hogwarts.
>[EU] The Joker travels back in time and prevents the mugging that kills Batman's parents.
>[WP] You time-travel back to 1348, accidentally bringing your phone. About to take a photo, you notice: "1 available wifi network".
>[WP] You've just invented time travel. You decide to go exactly 1 year into the future and speak to the first person you see, "Hey what day is it?" "364." "What do you mean 364?" "It's been 364 days since the incident.
>>8564104
This one has to be a troll.
>>8564123
pretty sure some of these are already BTAS episodes
>>8564234
but why?
>>8561101
Speaking of that, How is making Hermione black for the new thing ANYTHING else but tokenism? I thought we were past that. I think making a character black just so you have a black character is racist as fuck. Personally if I was black, I'd be more offended by this than by a complete lack of blacks. "Oh hey there are no decent black characters in this so we made this white girl black for you. You know, so you can have something good too."
I'd like to see more interesting black characters in media in all honestly. But the same rule applies as to any other character too: "Make it a good one" don't just put something in because you have a fucking checklist.
>>8561061
>>8561061
I left during the reddit invasion and board split. I occasionally come around to see if the board has improved, and it seems to only be getting worse
>>8564070
anon no. A place like that... changes a man.
>>8566038
I remember the first (and last) time I browsed /r9k/. It made me feel so sad.
>>8561135
pro-abortion people gather here tho. man I love me some stem cell research
What does /r/ mean? Is it some directory on Unix? Is it a subreddit signifier? Is it a request board? I don't understand these children lingo.
>>8567538
all subreddits (originally just called reddits) have the url reddit.com/r/subname
>>8560987
>>8568347
Ignoring for a moment how shit reddit is, the Martian isn't half-bad for genre fiction. At least it was a fresh concept.
>>8560987
Faggots
>>8568447
The movie was literally the worst film I've ever seen
Put me off the book a tad senpai
>>8568748
The film is way way better than the book.
What did Douglas Adams know ?
>>8568590
>>8568748
Better than Gravity 2bh pham
>>8568937
...energy meridians flowing across the planet...
>>8562366
>(..I think he means like a train releasing its brakes which makes sense...)
He typed out the counter-arguement to his plebbery and still failed to see it.
>>8564090
>>[WP] You're a 12 year-old in a world domintated by magic. A small, feeble man appears on your doorstep claiming: "You're a scientist, Henry"
They parody themselves.
>>8568961
Anything is better than Gravity 2bh pham
>>8564123
>>[WP] Only a time traveling Adolf Hitler dressed as Batman can unravel the dark and mysterious secret behind the numbers that appeared over everyone's heads at Hogwarts.
I wonder what it's like being someone that only thinks in pop culture.
>>8561239
>implying 4chan isn't also shit
Fuck me
>4chan /lit/
>Ten pages of threads
>Only thread with over 100 posts is a circlejerk of hate complaining about how reddit talks about books
Huh really makes you think....
>>8569516
You mean besides the eight other threads with more than a hundred posts?
>>8569476
I want to kill myself
>>8569070
Reddit is a lowest common denominator website for self-described "nerds". The easiest way for your posts to get upvoted is to make references to "nerdy" culture (i.e. what was socially unpopular 20 years ago).
>>8569061
Yes. They do. Pretty much everything we complain about them for -- they also complain about.
>>8564088
>Nietzsche
>negative
Reddit is just a forum for recycled memes with a superiority complex. I guess it's what you get when you give a bunch of nobodies a pretend "reputation" to uphold.
>>8561073
get that hate speech out of here faggot
>>8560987
haha what a pleb should've named it The Wallace am i right my patricians
>>8568748
The characters were so flat and obnoxious I actually felt nauseous reading it
You can tell the author knows a lot about science but nothing about humans or how to write a book
uh, guys...they're reproducing
>>8572867
should be named after roman mythology like literally everything else involving space
>>8573175
This should just be an inspirational story for all the self-hating /r9k/ type of ppl here to show them that literally anyone can find someone for them no matter how big a loser they are
>>8573251
/r9k/ is just as pleb as reddit, only with more ressentiment.
>>8573259
>/r9k/ is just as pleb as reddit
This. It's the most dogmatic and prejudiced board
>>8573259
>>8573271
well, it's not as simple as that. see pic related.
>>8564099
It's a common trait of autistic people to think of real life as a video game, giving them a way to quantify everything happening to them or at least put things in more concrete terms. Reddit's diagnosis: assburgers.
>not realizing both have their own advantages and disadvantages.
The circlejerk on 4chin is equal to leddit, reddit is less circlejerky but there's a disagree button. 4chin is way more circlejerky[this thread] but no disagree button.
>>8573251
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUgQPzq6ifc
>>8573383
>less circlejerky
what alternate universe's reddit are you browsing mane
>>8562366
Calling bullshit on this kid actually getting anything out of Faulkner
>>8573383
false equivalency fallacy rrreeeeeee
but yeah, /lit/ has a circlejerk, but at least it's in a positive and actually literary direction. r/books is towards YA and YA for adults. I think it's because 4chan is inherently a counter-culture but it's pretty sad that reading real books is an edgy thing to do
>>8573293
The only thing in the top left is academic journals
>>8573394
>unironically posting the cuck king
>>8573383
>less circlejerky
You can literally make opinions that go against the hivemind disappear
>>8564123
>1348
i hope they're not in norway, otherwise who cares about the wifi
>>8574361
>You wake up one day and Batman is Norwegian. How does the Joker react to this?
I don't know where you find all these cringe posts, I just went through the first three pages and all it had was very boring and polite conversations about books. It's not bad, i's just boring
>>8573225
Yeah, Viking and Voyager, two very famous Roman myths.
>>8561239
That's the definition of normie dude...
>>8562366
>>8570748
>negative
>bad
>>8573496
I would actually put them right on the line between autistic and normie
>>8561239
>But the much cooler, more self aware kind.
That's some typical reddit syntax and wording, right there.
>>8569476
Actually that sounds okay. Plebs reading YA won't read good shit, so at least they might as well read genre fiction that's not written by middle class white people
>>8573175
Normie as fuck. The chances of meeting a girl in Melbourne who likes Kjell Askildsen as much as I do are pretty slim
>>8561239
perfect
>>8574347
This is the problem with reddit. I got censored on a board for 8 fucking minutes because too many people disagreed with the things I said and I got a few down votes.
>>8575238
You really don't want to belong to a community of narcissists.
>>8562367
>The only posts allowed in that cesspit of censorship are coddling comments. Also puns, but only completely PC, Pg-13 ones that couldn't potentially offend anyone.
>Thats what's fucked up about Reddit. The reason users are all so faux upbeat all the time and tiptoe around each other's feelings so carefully is because if they don't, they'll be punished. Down votes, having posting rights removed, being banned, those are all the price for transgressions.
Pretty great analysis to be ech.
>>8569476
Holy... I want more
>>8573293
the goodreads one looks like a snail :)
>>8561135
not even /pol/ can agree on abortion though
>>8576973
Asking to be cucked.
>>8576973
i've seen that dino suit somewhere before..........
http://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph57a94fa6ad0ff
>>8576511
cute
>>8561239
If it weren't for 4chan's weird as fuck user base, there's a lot of things I wouldn't have experienced that are now intrinsic parts of my life, and it's only because anons are such cunts about everything that when they unilaterally agree something's good it often is. (certain boards excluded)
>>8562180
The guy watched 24 and "had" an "idea."
Lel.
>>8577879
2/2
>>8577879
To be fair we get the same thread here all the time.
>>8561239
>4chan
>the cooler kind
we're all friends here anon, there's no need to pretend.
>>8567524
I was debating whether to take a course that had hands on shit with ES cells, but I don't think I'm quite in the right spot career wise to benefit enough.
>>8572904
The science is also bad.
>>8576973
>that nose
hmmm
>>8576973
Her legs are more stout then those of an average male dwarf.
>>8561069
ech
>le reddit reputation
>le reddit moderation
I think it's pretty obvious that most people here have never been to reddit.
I don't think that's a bad thing, per se.
>>8577879
Dostoevsky talks about and against the very positivist science that reddit loves, no surprise there.
>>8562143
>two joints up my nose
Stopped reading there
Nobody on planet earth could be so fucking impossibly stupid
I refuse to acknowledge any of this man's opinions
>>8578610
It's to keep them warm.
>>8564090
Is everything just a fucking reference to something else now? Fuck
>>8578707
Welcome to the age of the simulcra
>>8562821
4 days on and you still don't have a (You)
Until now
>>8573293
I'm top left
>>8574361
It'd be more interesting if they said Haraldr actually connected via Bluetooth and either did nothing, you could control him, or copy his knowledge. Something that is historical and slightly interesting that doesn't involve Batman.
>>8561069
That's fucking gay.