The last three books I read were The Lord of The Rings, Dune,

Yes.

>>8624486
depends what you enjoyed them for

>>8624486

>Am I a hopeless pleb?

you're only starting out.

you'll find yourself naturally progressing to more difficult books as you continue. don't get meme'd on just read.

>>8624486
there are worse things to enjoy
you're supposed to have read those at some point anyway

>>8624513
Will Gravity's Rainbow be too much for me? It seems interesting.

>>8624486
You're a poser pleb if you care so much about being pleb you can't even admit to liking stuff in certain things

>>8624486

>>8624513
>you'll find yourself naturally progressing to more difficult books as you continue
This. Over the past few years I found myself slowly evolving from lowbrow genre fiction (Dungeons and Dragons books, movie novelizations, real bottom-of-the-barrel shite) to entry-level classics that had genre elements to them (H.G. Wells, Dracula, mythology stuff) and finally to regular Literature (Dickens, Kafka, etc). It helps that /lit/ will make you feel like a pleb, giving you the impetus to aim higher so you can participate in threads without everyone mocking your choice of book. Also you find yourself wanting to read Infinite Jest or Jerusalem or whatever so you know what the memes mean.

tl;dr Hang in there m8, you'll make it.

>>8624529
Why are genre elements seen to lower literature?

>>8624546
No real reason afaik, there's just a lot of subpar genre stuff out there that lowers the tone of the whole thing. I mean, "Literary Fiction" itself is just another genre, albeit one that's manage to snag the word that means "quality" as its descriptor.