When are we going to do another survey?

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End of 2017 tee bee aitch. But I find it to be more guidelines for beginners that anything. Books are on there that are obvious memes like Bottom's Dream and Jerusalem in place of more deserving books or poems or nonfiction.

>>9022953
At the end of the year like this anon said. Otherwise the results would be far too similar. Gotta at least wait for some new memes to pop up.

>>9022869
Why is there no Brave New World in that chart?

>>9023157
Because it's a shit novel

>>9023168
Your mom's a shit, bitch.

>>9022953
I'm surprised 14 people have read Finnegans Wake

>>9023217
They haven't. They just like to claim they have. It's like the Tolstoy ratings, AK being ranked lower than W&P when AK is so much better than W&P.

>>9023223
bro it's like a 1 vote difference, chill

>>9023223
AK is not better than W&P

>>9023223
It's going to be higher next chart, since a W&P reading group just ended many more people have read it, or at least attempted it than last year.

>>9023250
>>9023223
boys, boys. they both suck equally.

>>9023223
No its not. I finished W&P last month and will finish reading AK tonight. AK has really good characters (moreso than W&P), but it isn't as good. The middle of AK is such a drag to get through.

If you want an example of a book with 10/10 realistic characters, you choose Anna Karenina, but the better overall book is W&P.

>>9022869

Never ever ever ever. The plebbit influx of late 2015 - early 2016 due to this shitty chart reaching more than a million views on imgur made /lit/ absolutely atrocious for weeks on end.

The charts serve absolutely no good purpose whatsoever. Any information from them could just as well be gleaned by reading the sticky. It's nothing but guidelines for middlebrow plebs who are so fucking retarded they can't even navigate the wiki.

Please, for the love of god, if you like these charts, kys.

>>9023276
>>9023250
Tolstoy's strength is his characters. You cannot with any sense say AK has better characters then turn around and go, W&P is better. The only people that try and argue that W&P isn't completely overblown when compared to the masterpiece that is AK are idiots that try to be contrarian.

>>9023265
We are wondering why haven't you killed yourself yet, son.

>>9023308
Oh I t-think it's a fun thing to do

>>9023315
>People who disagree with me or what I think is the consensus are being contrarian.
War and Peace is more entertaining and has characters almost as good as AK. Only pseud idiots judge books purely by what makes them technically good. I enjoyed W&P more, so IN MY OPINION I think its better. Both are very good books though.

>>9022869
Hopefully never. All it does is drive undesirable traffic here.

>>9023308
>muh secret club
>2017

/LIT/ NEEDS A BAR EXAM TO KEEP PLEBS OUT ALREADY. MAKE IT HAPPEN JAPANIMOOT

>the stranger
>2nd

ayy lmao

>>9022953
how did white noise get so low

it was like #14 in 2015

Why is IJ number one when everyone here seems to hate it?

>>9024586

This only applies to /lit/, but the people who hate it haven't read it and assume that because some people are pretentious when discussing the book it must be shit

>>9022869
>top 100 fiction novels

make another for actual literature

>>9022869
Needs more Fahrenheit 451

>>9023489

Were you here during the plebbit plague? Being apprehensive about inviting r/books over again is quite different from wanting this to be a super-secret club. Don't be a giant faggot. There are literally no benefits for making another chart, except to satisfy the autism and middlebrow sensibilities of faggots who should be spending their time reading. The potential drawback is another period of atrocious board culture.

>>9022869
I've read seven of these. I'm surprised it's that many.

>>9022869
I'd like to see how The Pale King does over the next couple of years. It's actually a really good piece of lit, and people outside of DFW fangays are starting to realize that more

>>9022953
What the fuck do you people have against Hemingway

>>9022953
Jerusalem is great you pleb.

>>9023489
I hope many like minded fellows join this board. I do not want to further discussion of catch-22, ender's game, and dune

>>9025891
What do you have against those three books?

>>9022869
This list is so fucking pretentious a fedora spontaneously appeared on my head just from looking at it

Each time a new survey is done the books from the previous list should be banned to at least make the list marginally more interesting. As it stands it's just a list of classics that most people would have heard of anyway.

>>9022869
>>9022953
Why did The Stranger drop back so much