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So long ago when I thought being a pretentious book snob made me the coolest kid who ever saved Latin, I had a 100 year rule about books. If a work was not at least 100 years old I didn't read it. Save your girls on trains and eat pray loves and other popular cool kids literature. No it would only be Voltaire and Chaucer and Milton for me. Then I got bored and lowered it to 50 years. Over time I realized I was likely just reading the pop lit from that time period. I wasn't rediscovering some ancient unknown truths. I was just pretentious. However I was never able to break the bad habit and kept with a 50 year moratorium. Just finished reading pic related because its on this years liberated books list (originally published 1967).
I found it enjoyable. Almost certainly it must rank as Plebian tier as a /lit/ soft consensus.
My question is, am I right in thinking that pic related is just girl on a train or eat pray love or million little pieces of the late 1960s? Is it literature or pop lit?
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>>9407928
>am I right in thinking that pic related is just girl on a train or eat pray love or million little pieces of the late 1960s
no
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There is no difference
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>>9407928
So in theory once you reached 50 you would read books from your childhood? But you wouldn't actually read them now?
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>>9407939
Yeah that's what I was wondering. If I would come across a copy of The Life of Pi when I'm grew and shriveled and think well this must be worth a shot. Or will instill think its cancer because I'm 3cool6school?
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Read for entertainment. No one irl is going to ever be impressed that you have read Voltaire or Chaucer I promise. I mean fuck, I read my gf's copy of New Moon when I was home sick last month, that doesn't mean I appreciate Shakespeare or Twain any less. If anything you appreciate fine /lit/ more by reading "popular" stuff occasionally.
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>>9407948
The only way to fix this is to increase the moratorium for every year that passes, i.e. by the time you're 50, the moratorium will be reset to 100. That way you can continue your pretentiousness without being hypocritical.
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>this level of pseudery
Are you the king pseud?
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>>9407995
OHHHHHHHH
He's got the right attitude
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>>9407928
Are you unironically asking /lit/ if you liked this book?
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you should read The Autumn of the Patriarch
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Pasteurized Urine Process.
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>>9407928
>tfw you left /lit/ a long time ago because of the abject pseudery but you stop in tonight real quick before logging off just on a whim to see how things are and this is the first post you see
made the right call
stay dumb yall
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