4chan /lit/ top 100 poll MMXVI

I do like this pic better

Don't want to start a new thread for this.

Is the Lydia Davis translation the best translation of Swann's way?

>>8584529
Can we have the list of the least voted this year? Maybe doing so we can discover lesser known titles.

>>8584587
You can have the full list and look at all the 1-vote books like last year?

>>8584587
We could have a vote for the worst books. Least voted books wouldn't really be interesting because there'd be too many of them to make sense out of it.

>>8584634
That's actually a great idea, I'd love books I hated the most list.

>>8584548
No Montcrieff with edits by that Yale professor but it's unfinished (typing with one finger because there's a thirdeatenapple in my hand)

this picture is too spicy for my tastes

I observe a serious lack of votes for Paradise Lost

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> Melville and Joyce respectively one and two
> The sudden surge of IJ posters might destroy the dream

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>Ctrl+F, "Jerusalem"
>9 results
This is a comfy list.

I've got some more rough counts. I've listed the counts for all the books of the top 50 last year, but keep in mind there are books that probably have more votes than these. I've also listed the counts for some of the authors -- Dosto is the favorite by a long shot.

>>8585895
The meme to defeat the Infinite Jest.

>American Psycho
>4 results

Not bad lads, let's keep it to a minimum though

i-i'm not a loser

>>8585895
If Jerusalem is on this list I will kill myself and everyone around me.

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>tfw to intelligent to be able to "rank literature"

and nothing has changed in the past 2 years. fuck you guys. J R is better than all those books you fucking faggots.

I voted

J R
travesty
a public burning
Europe central
life a user's guide

This already looks much better than the last one

>>8587297
oh, and i voted
ulysses
moby dick
iliad
dubliners
sound & fury

>>8587298
fucking pleb. dubliners is boring as fuck and the sound and the fury is trash.

>>8584529
The problem with Shakespeare is similar to the problem with poets generally in a list of "top books": poets don't release their work in that format. Most of my favourite writers are poets and I can't really vote for them because to vote for a bunch of "Complete Poems" as my favourite books wouldn't make any sense. It would be more honest if the poll was changed to "Top 100 novels", because "books" across different forms of literature can't really be compared in a single novel-format.

>>8585558

>>8587310
You don't know how to read. never come back here again.

>>8587310
Holy shit fucking kill yourself

>>8587329
Sure, but king Lear is different than sonnet 18. I would consider the plays as books.

Not enough Tundra and/or Hypersphere.

>>8587330
the sound and the fury is garbage. why did they put that hard bits in italics. it makes it so easy. DUDE NIGGERS ENDURE LMAO the book.

>>8584529
the gallic wars
the secret history of the mongols
next level deckbuilding
submission
timur the great amir

>>8587352
>different than

>>8587352
Yes, I agree. If "Complete Works" is going to be admissable then I'd like to change my vote from Ulysses and the Divine Comedy to "Complete Works of James Joyce" and "Complete Works of Dante Aligheri".

>>8587359
Sorry, if you didn't get it then you should go back to more basic works.

>>8587392
I got it alright

>>8587381
>>8587329

I think I'm just going to count the plays individually. There's going to be an authors chart and Shakespeare will fair a little higher on that. Shakespeare's not especially prevalent here so I think the list will be accurate.

>>8587252
yfw too wishywashy to make choices so hiding behind farce of subjectivity

>>8587329

anthologies made by the poets themselves in their last years of life, that pretty much are "remember me for this, burn all the rest" should be counted as single books.

>>8587563
Only became a common practice in the 20th century...

>>8584529
>not putting moby dick as #1
>including pynchon or gaddis
kys

>>8587563
Poetry collections like "prufrock and other observations" and "north of Boston" should be considered books because the poet published those poems as a collection. Collected works and anthologies should not be counted.

>>8587428
You don't have to push stuff in because of people writing "Complete Works of...", at worst you can still add their vote to whichever individual piece has the most votes already

>>8587638
Poets who don't have major collections (The Waste Land, Cantos of Pound, etc) are going to be put in as 'poems of x'. Don't worry too much about it because the only person who's gonna make it into the top 50 (or on list at all) because of this is Borges, whose fictions would already have been up there.

>>8587234
Voted.

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>same books every year including this one

OP you're not going to include Jerusalem, are you? Nobody actually likes it.

>>8584548
>>8585487
Disagree, I prefer the Davis translation.

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>next level deckbuilding by patrick chapin

>>8584529
>Borges - Stories
Fuck you OP I voted Ficciones, nothing else.

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>>8587886
>Nobody actually likes it

>>8587919
Yeah, thinking about it I'm gonna count ficciones separately. People have been talking here in the thread and making a lot of sense, and I'm inclined to agree with them. Shakespeare's plays, Borges' story books, poetry, etc. will be counted separately.

>>8587886
I'm gonna include whatever people vote. It's awkward considering the timing -- if this was held in three months nobody would be thinking about Jerusalem, but so be it. At best it'll be around the 25 place mark so don't get too worked up about it -- last time 1984, Catcher and Gatsby were all in the top 20 and this time they aren't even clsoe.

>>8587969
that doesn't make sense. Placement on the list is going to imply a form consensus and absolutely nobody thinks it's representative of the board. It hasn't been out for more than a month. Think of all the awards and accolades that require a date cutoff. Yes this is an unofficial list of a meme community but can't we exercise some common sense here?

>>8587911
kej

>>8587990
People are voting for it dipshit

>>8587886
I like it desu

tfw feel tempted to vote another time, but with 5 different books from other writers.

>>8587886
Actually I think a guy tried to make a hate thread and got shat on by everybody, so if anything it would be the reverse? I haven't voted but I'm liking it so far.

>>8587969

Ficciones and El Aleph should be treated as two different books, thats what Borges would have wanted. They are his only critically acclaimed works (apart from his poetry) and Ficciones is generally regarded to be superior containing his most famous stories.

Historia universal de la infamia (1935)
Ficciones (1944)
El Aleph (1949)
El informe de Brodie (1970)
El libro de arena (1975)
La memoria de Shakespeare (1983)

>>8588071
Same, I want to give Bellow & Greene atleast one vote

They seem to get better every year.

The Brothers Karamazov
Paradise Lost
All Men are Mortal
Robinson Crusoe
The Ego and His Own

It's also getting harder for me to come up with a top five as time passes.

Flannery O'Connor may see herself on the list for the first time, we shilled it lads, good job.

Are people ironically voting for The Bible and Moby Dick?

I don't mean this in a 'lol religion lmao' way, but the Bible isn't lit, and neither is it something people read from start to finish.

And Moby Dick is self explanatory. Only pseuds who pretended to read and endure the excruciating boredom voted for it.

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>>8588975

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>>8588975
>the Bible isn't lit

Tried to read a dutch translation of Genesis. Read the first 20 pages, absolutely insufferable

>>8589356
The Pentateuch is not Job and Ecclesiastes is not Isaiah is not Daniel is not the Synoptics is not John is not Paul is not Revelations.

Its an anthology, and shouldnt be included

>>8589382
Bible is in the same category as Hubbard's Dianetics and Ayn Rand and those are lit, stop discriminating against Xtians

>>8589387
At least The Fountainhead and Dianetics were written by one author with a unified purpose.

I don't want to log in with botnet account
can I still vote?

also some of these answers are confusing. are we really going to consider the Tractatus Logico-Filosoficus "literature"? isn't this just for fiction and theatre?

>>8589471
The chart isn't split into fiction and non fiction, unfortunately. I'd have loved to voted for some more niche stuff in that one.

if infinite jest isn't #1 im going to flip shit

>>8589524
be prepared to flip shit, man. it's gonna be Moby Dick, Ulysses, Lolita or TBK for sure the way thing are going

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>>8588975
>complains about 'pseuds'
>thinks Moby Dick is boring because of non-adventure and action style chapters

There is only one pseudo here.

>>8588975
holy...i want more

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>tfw each krasznahorkai bro voted for a different book

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How is there not a single Zizek vote?

>>8590103
There were at least two Phenomenology of Spirit votes.

Please no Infinite Meme as number one again.

>>8584529
There are two of us who voted Gulag Archipelago, feels nice knowing there will be another shill

I've made another count -- these are just for the interest of the voting public. Strange that Lolita, that was #1 by far a few days ago is down to 6th place, and Ulysses which wasn't doing well either is now solidly #1. Jest is ten behind and while I don't think it'll rise to the top spot it could.

Keep in mind that this is merely derived from the top 50 last year and that there are a number of books that will be in the top 50 that aren't listed now merely because I haven't counted them yet.

Voting is still open, we're still getting 25-50 a day and at this rate we'll probably end up with 450-550 votes by the end.

>>8590184
That's Hegel

I think that later votes should have less weight because they obviously aren't as keen users

>>8590314

>Not voting for ivan denisovich

>>8590541
>not voting for his true masterpiece

>>8590512
stop spoiling the surprise

>>8590560
you don't have to look

>>8590569
when you make the chart be sure to put the amount of votes each book received

>>8590572
Of course.

Only one Wuthering Heights? c'mon /lit/

>>8590512
Ctrl+f Ulysses: 47
Ctrl+f Moby: 50

Seems like Melville is still in the lead op

>>8590514
You seem to be unaware of the implied jest.

>>8590590
Right, because of the idiots putting moby-dick. Thanks anon.

So how does this work, and what is it for?

>>8590599
Moby-Dick is the correct stylization, though.

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>>8590754
So you vote for five books, I count it and put it into a chart like this one. It's just for recommended reading and for /lit/ to gather as a community and look at the opinions of our visitors. No real reason, I need something to do.

>>8590767
Oh, neat. Thanks anon.

Also, some interesting stats:

It seems we have a lot more votes than last year already, and we're still getting good quantities of voters -- last year the top ten had 224 votes and our top ten right now has 364.

The top 50 last year had 549 votes total and we have 812 already. And this is only a rough top 50, with many books probably having more votes. So we may already be at twice the quantity of votes as last year.

Additionally, hs tier lit is pretty reduced. Catch-22, Gatsby, Catcher, Slaughterhouse V are all doing very poorly compared to last year.

No votes, laudably, for Tai Pei. There were no legitimate votes for John Green and none at all for Rowling, and both the Iliad and the Odyssey are doing very well in comparison to years past.

Say what you want but it seems /lit/ is shaping up.

>>8587379
What the hell is wrong with this

>>8590791
More like our taste is becoming more homogenous and boring due to the invasion of people who don't read outside of what the circlejerk tells them.

>>8590808
New stuff will probably be on the list. But yes, due to the nature of literature, you can't consume, or most can't, by the hundreds every year so the crossover for what people read is going to be high. Most don't want to read trash, hence stick with the popular things.
It's understandable, untill you reach a point where you should have a taste of your own.

Are we including philosophy and poetry, or only novels and the like?

>>8584529
Meme votes you can purge
331

>>8590866
>-1 to infinite jest
Patrician vote desu

Donkey Oatie
Confederacy of Dunces
Ficciones
Illiad
Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep

>>8590853
Any book: Novels, epic poems, lyric poems, short stories, essays, philosophy, graphic novels, non fiction, etc.

When DFW is dead, everything is permitted

>>8590808
There's always gonna be casuals like that; However, the fact that it's leading people to books like Karamazov, Moby Dick and Ulysses as opposed to Catcher in the Rye and 1984 means that we're doing better now than in years past.

>>8590866
I think I will -- Watchmen, Jerusalem, -1 infinite jest. Can anyone defend this?

>>8591050
The idiot is pretty legit. He's a liar though, that makes 4 books.

>>8590791
>No votes, laudably, for Tai Pei.
Jerusalem has filled the meme gap

>>8591069
That's why I'm conflicted -- GR too.

>>8591089
Yeah, if I had done this poll in 2-3 months (when people have forgotten about the Jersualem meme) we would probably have done better.

>>8591050
obviously you can't apply the -1 infinite jest, much as it would make things interesting if negatives were in play... (well maybe if it's the only one lel)

>>8591089
funny thing is madanon is actively participating by railing against it, just like the fact that it came out last month, it gets new voters thinking about it

>>8590791
No shit we have more votes for the top stuff when we have 5 votes this year and had 3 previous years...

>>8591141
I remember the last poll; We had five votes I'm fairly sure. I'm told that there were 400 votes total last year.

>>8591155
3 votes for books IIRC, but along with 2 for authors?
Looking at it now it was 368 votes total, which the current count isn't far from already. I think I saw last year's polling anon in here saying it ran for several weeks but he must be confusing it with the time it took to count, the poll itself lasted for a bit less than two weeks according to the pic. Votes were down to a trickle by the end.

>>8591096
>lack of Jerusalem is "better"
I mean, if you actually gave it a shot and don't like it that's fair enough, but it seems like some people just acted dismissive from day one because "muh comics man".

>>8591711
I get the impression it's just the one person, but then again I'm coming after three dubs in a row

Anyone who voted for fewer than 5 titles should obviously not be counted. If you haven't even read five books, how can you possibly have an opinion about which books are the best? It makes no sense.

I hope OP will understand why the most reasonable thing to do is to expunge those who didn't submit five serious votes. Most of the ones who didn't only put in memes anyway.

>>8588975
you went full retard

>>8590599
>Idiots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick

>>8591784
>being serious on 4chan
wasn't your previous attempted line of argument about the stuff you don't like being ~not representative~? have a double check mister mirrorless man

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>>8588975
I voted for pic related unironically

>>8587310
KYS, faggot. Dubliners describes the emotions of ordinary people better than any other work in history.

>>8584529
>>8584529
>>8584529
>>8584529
>>8584529
OP you should count Beckett's trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable) as one entry. I see votes for the trilogy as well as votes for each of the individual (very short) novels. The trilogy is only around 300-350 pgs. total and is typically sold in a single volume, so I think there's a strong case to be made here.

>>8591155
>>8591466
Yeah, it was three votes, with a separate poll for top three authors (which was made into a separate graphic). Probably having the poll open for two weeks would be enough.

When will OP finish the chart? When does voting end?

>>8591895
After a certain number of voters I think

>>8591711
to be fair how can so many have that as their top 5 out of everything they've read, especially if it just came out? I don't buy that nobody likes the book, but I'm skeptical why they'd choose that out of all the fantastic literature out there. Probably just choosing it to make people mad and ensure the chart'll get shitposted into oblivion for its inclusion.

>>8591843
>who are you quoting
I haven't "previously attempted" any argument about this subject, you cocksucking catamite.

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>>8591946

>>8591920
thx

>>8591933
Personally, I'm grateful that other people are voting for what they're into now rather than old mainstays, even when it means that most likely none of their votes will make it in. Like who cares exactly how many of you whimmed that Ulysses or Karamazov is the best book ever this time around? These "Stranger, Karamazov, Lolita, Bible, Don Quijote" lists are as pointless as they are depressing, and they don't denote a very well-read board at all.

>>8592055
It's almost like they are the best books ever written. This isn't a 'list your favourite hipster books' it's a Top 100 poll. Just fuck off.

>>8591096
Jerusalem can safely be removed from the list. It's nothing but a meme and people who are actually reading it have either dropped because it's shit or are still reading it. It's 1200 pages long and it came out so recently that it can't be anything but a meme.
Also, Watchmen probably shouldn't be on the list, comics are comics and not literature (and I'm not saying this as le comics can't be art, they are a different medium, having it on is like allowing manga on the list).

And I'm pretty sure all Jerusalem voters are memes, did anyone who voted for it actually read it?

>>8592418
>Jerusalem can safely be removed from the list. It's nothing but a meme and people who are actually reading it have either dropped because it's shit or are still reading it. It's 1200 pages long and it came out so recently that it can't be anything but a meme.
The book came out almost a month ago. That's more than enough time to read 1200 pages.

>>8592433
For some, but most posters read far bellow 1200 pages per month.

Has anyone unironically voted for Jerusalem and why? Because I'm pretty sure we could remove it from the list and nothing but a shitty meme would be lost.

>>8584529
Yo op,

Are you going to use InDesign for the list?

I'd be happy to help, I got a template already

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>>8592457
what im talking about

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STOP VOTING FOR MOBY FUCKING DICK. IT SUCKS. ITS A FUCKING WHALE BIOLOGY BOOK.

>>8584529
>Meme posts will be discounted wholly
>How much of a loser are you on the bottom of the form.
Cognitive dissonance must be hard to deal with.

You missed #289, op

>>8591895
My idea is for it to end at the end of the month, so we can get a wide a net as possible, but I'm willing to close it sooner. The 21st would be three weeks so depending on how many votes we're getting at the time I might end it there. I'll finish the chart as quickly as possible once the voting is closed.

>>8592441
Yeah, but then people could make the argument that we could delete Infinite Jest or Lolita because people vote for it because it's a meme. I'm gonna let people vote for what they want.

>>8592457
>>8592539
I'm not sure how I'm gonna do the list; I don't have indesign. I might use that template if it's alright with you but I've got an idea for a slightly more expansive chart that has favorite authors, methodology information and so on.

>>8592561
I don't see how anyone who actually read Moby Dick (read- didn't just read it for the meme cred) can make that argument. The whale biology is a vehicle for discussion of an extremely broad variety of topics. Either way it's comfy as shit and the tone is fantastic. I voted for it.

>>8592567
Yeah, it sucks

>>8592590
Thanks anon.

>>8592824
I can help you with the list of you want, Indesign is probably the easiest as it just has placeholders for images and text etc.

>>8590801
Seriously?

>>8591860
>poor man's RSV: the book

>>8584529
Fuck I literally forgot my favourite book.

Is there any way to change my vote?
>>8592824
>but then people could make the argument that we could delete Infinite Jest or Lolita because people vote for it because it's a meme
What the dicks did you mean by memes, then?

Looks like the votes are starting to stabilize; We're still getting decent numbers but the Moby Dick - Ulysses - Karamazov - Lolita - Jest order has stabilized now. Still, we've been getting 25-50 a day pretty consistnetly so I think the poll should go on for at least another two weeks.

Definitively here, Shakespeare's plays are going to be counted in separate entries, authors like Borges who published their work in consistent collections are going to be counted separately (aleph separate from ficciones), and same goes with poets. For poets like Dickinson who didn't have collections, the 'complete poems' will do, although don't get too rustled up from this because I don't think any are going to make it up there too far.

>>8593312
You can just go back and revote, I think, to change your vote.

By memes I meant things like voting all the John Green books, or shit like calenders or chemistry textbooks. I think there are some people who unironically like Jerusalem and so I'm not going to count it as a meme unless there is a really convincing argument that it is a meme.

>>8593326
>You can just go back and revote
I cannot.
>By memes I meant things like voting all the John Green books
You think no one can unironically like Green? There are some here.

I think it is more effective to simply pick books you know /lit/ recommends (ad nauseum) rather than rely on voting; that would give newfags the temperature of the board.

>>8593360
I've just enabled editing; I'm sorry, thought it already.

I can understand some people liking John Green; However, the only person who listed a John Green book had infinite jest and four John Green books -- everyone agreed that it was an utter meme. So I deleted it. If someone appeared to sincerely vote for John Green, of course I would count it. We're just trying to weed out what are obviously insincere votes. For the most part, Jerusalem voters' other picks are genuine and we can conclude that Jerusalem isn't necessarily a meme. If it was included in a meme vote with other stuff, I'd delete it along with the other stuff. But that's no reason to take away the votes of those who legitimately like it.

My point, however, is not to make a helpful infographic. The point is to measure the current opinions of /lit/.

>>8593360
>You think no one can unironically like Green? There are some here.

Yeah you're right there was one fan who voted for 4 different green books, his fifth vote, however, went out to Infinite Jest. There was also one guy, I think, who apparently could only think of two books to elect and but so he used his first 4 votes to vote for his all time favorite - IJ - but it wasn't until the fifth vote that he evinced his appreciation for one of the works of lauded novelist Green.

And that was it

>Moby Dick as best book ever written
American navel-gazing at its peak

>>8594056
This is an English board, hardly a surprise.

>>8593421
disable editing before someone fucks it up

>>8594080
I meant editing as somebody editing their personal votes -- that is, they can vote again to rewrite their old votes. It's still view only.

>>8594056
it's a real good book senpai

>>8594056
more like naval gazing amirite

>>8594100
THAT NIGGA STOLE MY QUIP

378 and 379 are obviously the same person.

>>8594344
dumbass

Just wanted to let you guys know that i voted about 50 times already. The canon and discourse of /lit/ will be shaped by my manipulation.

>>8594848
Ok, then which votes are yours? There are no correlations in the timestamps that look like one person voting with dozens of accounts.

You're just a sore loser mad that his favorite book isn't winning, so you're trying pathetically to invalidate the whole thing since you can't get your way.

>>8594898
I'm tired of Americans always winning at everything. It's not fair!

>>8594848
Thanks for making the top slighty better, my man

>>8594898
I'm sure statistical analysis could reval ambiguous but odd patterns here and there, there seems to be too many bland votes, even for /lit/
Infinite Jest and the Bible are usually good indicators of ballot stuffing, except here it seems to be shared with the least suspicious entries, making it hard to discern any clear intention

>>8594848
>implying anyone shapes their "discourse" around the charts

>>8594848
how do you make so many google accounts?

>>8595018
You can buy a pack of them from indians. It probably wouldn't be viable right now, though, since Google has been pushing IP checks hard to get people's phone numbers

>>8594848
If you really did this would you mind going back and editing your extra votes to just be blank? Why do you care so much about an internet poll so as to spend time cheating it?

>>8595609
you bite bait

page 10 bump

>>8596872
Gracias amigo

The lack of Bottom's dream is disturbing.

I thought that was our new meme book.

>>8597341
Nobody's even read it cover to cover is what it is

Ulysses in the lead, time to wrap it up

>>8594906
I'm tired of Americans never getting the Nobel. It's not fair!

>>8592539
is this Hilarys top 100 book list?

>>8594952
The Bible is legitimately my favourite book.

Also I feel sorry for Ego: it's an incredibly important book to read, but I don't think it's top 5 per se. Just top 5 in importance.

>>8593421
if you want to give the temperature of the board to newfags you should put the memes too.

>>8597692
"Memes" from a single spammer are hardly the temperature of the board, and they're not getting in regardless

>>8597710
We're saying IJ are memes.

>>8587586
This

>>8597507
Ulysses beating Moby-Dick would be /lit/'s greatest achievement to date.

>>8597786
More like Ulysses beating Moby's Dick hahahaha

>>8597811
holy... I want more!

>>8597819
So did Moby! hahahaha

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VOTE FOR THE TUNNEL YOU PLEBS

GASS IS FUCKING GOOD

moby dick is literally the best book ever written

>>8597826
i liked in the heart of the heart of the country but i just can't get into this

>>8597341
If anyone here has actually finished it I'd be shocked

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>>8597341
Voted. Better meme than Jerusalem by far..

>>8597865
>translated
ugh

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>>8591777
>>8590777
This thread has been visited by the Alan Moore of good digits! Trips and quads will come to you, but only if you say "grant morrison is a feverish nonentity" every day and every night for the next two years.

Can people please start voting for Barth books, I'm starting to feel like I threw away two of my votes

>>8584529
>tfw epic of gilgamesh has only 3 votes

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>>8597835

I'm up to this penis so far.

>>8597953
yeah guys, first-book/best-book has to get on the list so more people here will talk about it

>>8584634
>Least voted books wouldn't really be interesting because there'd be too many of them to make sense out of it.

The list of books with 1 or 2 votes is often more interesting than the main list. The main list is dominated by stuff that's commonly discussed here, while the list of 1 or 2 vote-getters can turn up all sorts of interesting books that you might not have heard about before.

>>8598730
I'll leave a link to the list on the image so people can go back and see all the books that got votes; However, while there are of course very interesting books that get few votes it's difficult to put them into an infographic.

>>8584529
>Referendum on Shakespeare - http://www.strawpoll.me/11365179

Featured Question
Should the turkey drop continue at the Arkansas's Turkey Trot festival?
"A Turkey Drop is when a turkey is thrown out of a moving plane high above a spectating crowd."

I voted yes. Drop the turkey Arkansas.

Such a shame that people are voting for Bottom's Dream when they haven't even read it.

I mean, maybe some Germanophones might have read it but they would write Zettel's Traum I guess.

Al the other ones are highly likely to be meme votes, OP

The translation's been release, what? 3 weeks ago? It's huge, it's 1,500 pages long, it's challenging, I don't believe any of the Bottom's Dream voters tbqh

>>8599737

I'm on page 56 and it's already the best book I've ever read.

>>8599862
Maybe, but how can you seriously place it in your top 5 when you've merely read <5% of the whole thing?

>>8599913
It's the 5th book he has ever stared reading.

It got 30 more votes yesterday, poll is still going strong. Even discounting the deleted rows there are a sizable chunk more entries than last year's poll already.

>>8600225
there's someone voting more than once though.

>>8600443
I thought that had been prevented by changing the poll settings?

How pathetic would someone have to be to try to manipulate an anonymous message board book poll in order to feel that their life has importance. Jesus, go write a short story or something.

>>8600526
Well, considering some people are trolling an anonymous message board book poll by voting for books they haven't even read, I would call that too far-fetched tbqh

>>8600602
Oh yeah, it's not far-fetched at all, I was just commenting on how pathetic it was.

>>8600602
Trolling? on this web-site? when did things go so wrong...

>>8600637
Outrageous indeed

>>8600637

It's preposterous.

>>8600635

2014 also had some odd anomalies,

We're still getting about 20-25 posts a day which is cool, especially considering that this thread hs been buried most of the time.

To promote more visibility on the thread, I'm going to pose a question for you guys to debate: Tolstoy or Dostoevsky?

>>8602506
Dost
I have a better question: which one deflates the most without his beard?

>>8600635
>>8601425
Just compare with 2015, which still had Infinite Jest but remarkably little Bible spam, to see that it must be the work of very few people
>>8597653
Yes, I'm sure some of you really, really like the Bible but how exactly does that prevent stuffing
Okay, going from 3 to 5 votes may have given more space for those who can't consider KJV their absolute favorite to still include it, all the memery and tension with muslims helps, some maybe find that voting for the bible is top of the line in trolling lefty intellectuals, the board's population has changed a little, right, but all that doesn't account for a difference between like 3% bible votes to 10% from one year to the next, I'm willing to bet that going through the list you'll find correlation with bland and expected votes, nothing unnatural about that, and here it just so happens that Dostoevsky is the new top dog... let's have a look:
>remarkably little bible-thumping among the first responders, some close ones but nothing unreasonable really
>subtle and believable troll on n°15, love it
>more russians, who would have known, but less spam than expected, most of those seem genuine
>here are the first adjoining votes with identifiable, non-meme books,
What are the chances: yes, have an archive look for someone who might have mentioned "Alcools" and "La Princesse de Clèves" as their favorites before, and you find "The Portrait of a Lady" also among their favorites, which happens to be the above vote, 3 minutes, about the time it takes to switch accounts and make up your mind, tempting also to follow up with Billy Budd and tag more of these votes are probably affiliated but what's the point
Indeniable proof? of course not, and this is just basic clumsiness from one person, so nothing like the large-scale spamming I was hypothesizing, but it only takes every person voting two or three times, and let's not kid ourselves, who has more motivation to try and fake an inconsequential poll than the faithful?
Someone more autistic than me could probably go through the whole list and identify some of them using the archive and previous votes

>>8602592
PS to autists: I'm not suggesting you actually analyze the list, please don't waste your time, that was rhetorical

>>8587873
Probably because people reading are getting there pointers from here and vote for those books and so on and so on and so on and on.....

>>8602905
And getting their pointers from the ongoing list too, since it's public. I admit I looked and took inspiration from votes with similar tastes before entering mine.

KJV
Blood Meridian
Moby Dick
LOTR
Big Nowhere

r8

>>8588975
colossal pseud detected

bible is a great story
moby dick is comfy

>>8602986
You're 18 years old and read under 3 hours a day.

>>8602997
23 and read almost constantly everyday

>>8603000
I have tempered my boring cynicism and remembered that each one of those books is great. I apologise for being snide.

>>8603004
Apology accepted. I could've voted for oddities like Dictionary of the Khazars but kept it classic so vote might count

>>8584529
>CTRL+F
>leaves
>3 of 5 results
>2 are House of Leaves

what the fuck is wrong with you people?

>>8584529
I've voted for this same poll before and its letting me again. You're poll is prone to high amount of voter fraud. Destroy your results create boards announcing the polls date months in advance and a 48 hour timeframe to vote for more accurate results.

>>8603062
It lets you vote, but doesn't record it. I just checked, unless I got something wrong.

>>8602592
Board culture does change in that timeframe. We've been having a lot of KJV-circlejerk threads, and this I fully admit is what brought me to read the thing to begin with.

It's entirely believable.

Also, I seriously doubt we've got many "of the faith"—of that kind of faith, anyway. Christian anarchists á la Tolstoi seems a lot more likely.

>>8603062
It lets you edit your old vote you enormous mongoose.

You've been changing your votes, not making more.

>>8603073
>>8603062
If you voted before and you vote again it just edits your previous entry. Unfortunately it then locks you out for at least a while, which is why there is now a row that says "test I've already voted blargle"

>>8603009
>Dictionary of the Khazars
Holy shit I've been trying to remember the title for fucking ever, thank you anon!

>>8603199
I'll change it back in a few days, thanks for clarification.

>>8589661
When he goes on forever about the history and terms about leviathans it gets a little tiresome.

>>8602592
>166 The Bible
>167 LA Bible
Master of deception desu

Can I still participate?

>>8604603
Yes, the voting is still open

>>8604603
No! If you follow the first link in the OP and vote for five books, people from here will find you and beat you up.

>>8604611
Thanks, just did.

>>8604612
>implying I'm not hiding behind seven proxies

>>8604621
I can imagine a face for each and every vote.

>>8604638
Am I handsome in your mind?

You guys really like Ulysses?

>>8604717
nope. voted for meme status

>>8603365
>he doesn't understand the extended metaphor

>>8604717
Yes, it's an amazing book and easier than its meme status suggests.

>>8604657
assuming you're 449, I'd say you're relatively attractive but not in the chad sense but rather in the secretive loner sense.

>>8584529
close this poll already

>>8584529
bumping, call it quits anon

>459
F R A U D

>>8606203
give it a couple more days, make it close to two weeks again

>>8604850
>>8606203
Nah, leave it open a bit longer, see if we can hit 500. When there are fewer than 10-15 new responses in a day that's when I'd say you should call it.

>>8603054

It's pseudo reddit tier try-hard shit.

>>8606618
I like this idea, if it was two weeks last time. I'll close it at like 6 on Friday and make the chart Saturday.

>>8606623
We can probably get 500 by Friday if we keep this thread prevalent.

>>8588975
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

>>8597811
I hope all you people voting Moby(ldy) Dick are getting excited for all the best new memes that are going to spawn off its like 1 or 2 position off the charts.

BOTTOMS FUCKING DREAM

Bumpity bump

I haven't read enough to vote in this.

So, if I voted for the complete works of one author (say, comolete plays by Beckett), but someone chose just Waiting for Godot, our votes count towards the same, or are the individual?

>>8608223
Conscious votes for "whichever of that author's books gets the highest count" don't sound quite fair when so many already won't get in due to divided votes

You have good taste other em dash using anon

>>8608315
>he checked
Is it the /lit/ equivalent to the foot under the bathroom door?

>>8608329
Yes.
I was searching up my own though.

>>8608363
>I was searching up my own though
One can imagine situations in which a man would use that excuse

>>8588975
the bible falls under fiction anon

>>8608391
It's nonfiction.

>>8590767
Shit top 10

>>8608386
plz no bully.

>>8608391
The Bible is literature, and it's non-fiction because it is a religious text.

>>8608413
>religious text

Exactly my point, fiction

>>8608219
You haven't read 5 books?

>>8608423
Completely off-the-wall writings by certified lunatics are published as non-fiction, I don't see why you would have a problem with religious texts in that regard

>>8608516
Nope. Nonfiction is 100% true and anything that isn't 100% verified by science is fiction.

>>8608519
Your false-flag face is worse than your bait face

>>8608423
Don't you have some place else to tip your hat?

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anyone interested in seeing the next 100 chart finished?

Just waiting until we get more results

>>8608647
Not sure what you mean by the 'next 100' chart.

>>8608686
What do you mean?

>>8608686
OP is doing the top 100 but that still leaves a ton of good books that didn't make the cut. So I can just make a list of those just for fun or whatever.

>>8608647
Not particularly. The top 100 list will identify the consensus books, after that I'd be more interested in the individual responses by people who mention one of my favorites so that I can try something else that they list. Books that only get a couple votes, in contrast, don't particularly interest me in a vacuum. But hey, I'm sure someone will be interested in it.

>>8608745
Sounds cool.

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Just done mine

>Ulysses
>Elmer Gantry
>Songs of Innocence and Experience
>Jerusalem
>Italian Folktales (the Calvino one)

Please disregard any votes that include that new Alan Moore book as they're obviously trolls

>>8609375
This
And bottom's dream as well

>>8584529
>tfw every one of the books I voted for have only 1 vote, from me

>>8609375
Most actually seem like genuine votes

>>8606641
>I'll close it at like 6 on Friday and make the chart Saturday.
You'll probably want to take a couple days after closing it for a tie-breaking poll (the order in which books with the same amount of votes appear I guess you could roll dice for, but chances are that if you keep it to precisely 100 the least amount of votes that makes it on the chart will include more books than there will be space left at the bottom)

>>8608315
A lot of us use emdashes, anon.
>>8608329
Yes, except I'm into that.

>>8609691
must be because you have shit taste mate

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>>8609751
>voting for books other people have voted for

>>8608647
so many excellent books!

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>>8608647
>yfw Taipei is on this list

Hi Tao.

>>8598083
what the fuuuuuuck what did I just read?

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>>8610239
The rightful #1 book of all time