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Why is /lit/ so repetitive? Every day there's a new post about Graity's Rainbow, Lord of the Rings, Crime and Punishment.
With the millions of books available both in print and electronically, why do we continue to discuss the same handful of books? Are we that autistic or are we in a rut?
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/lit/ is just American, that's it.
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>>9411642
Thats not true. What you see as eveeyday lit is nothing more than this boards culture. Within it people are shaped into, dare I say it, the best way of discussing books. If you come daily youll find people discussing rare or unusual books all the time. We talk about Pinecones Law of Gravity and Crime and War because its a good pleb filter.
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quick: name your favorite book you've never seen discussed on /lit/ before
hard mode: check the /lit/ archive before posting to make sure it was never discussed here
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>>9411680
Robots and Empire by Isaac Asimov
I like Daneel and Giskard's weird non-relationship
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>>9411680
Maybe my favorite book and the one I've reread more than any other.
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>>9411642
>Why is /lit/ so repetitive?
Everyone is too worried about not being smart if they happen to like a book that isn't considered "cultured" by the board's circlejerk.
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>>9411642
I try to meme mcelroy and gaddis all the time then people actually read gaddis and they are too stupid to understand it. So I just stopped.
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>>9411667
>Pinecone's Law of Gravity
>Crime and War
I kekeled
You clever, person.
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>>9411790
Mcelroy and Gaddis are really hard
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>>9411680
Also anything by Marcel Shwob, with the exception of someone recomending the book of Monelle.
Aswell as I've been the only person in here to post the cover- in similar threads to your post- of Giovanni Papini's Gog (though I think this is because this book isn't translated to english, at least to my knowledge). And as much as anyone here circlejerks about Borges no one seem to have ever read his essay books such as "inquisiciones", "otras inquisiciones", "Historia de la Eternidad", etc. (he wrote more essays than stories, you know)
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>>9411642
Regression to the mean.
Other books are posted about, but the threads that stay alive longer are about books that are more well-known and that more people have read.
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It's those NSA meme psyop fucks. This is why we can't get anything done.
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The Possessed is the superior novel of FD anyways.
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>>9411680
The Death of Virgil by Broch. Seen it only once in a stack thread. Some anon copped it for a buck. Was totes jelly. And proud.
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A good majority of 4chan boards are dominated by entry-level subject matter. For every person who has seen a hundred threads on Infinite Jest and decides to go elsewhere for more in-depth discussion, two first-year university students take his place.
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>>9411758
It's truly everywhere
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>>9411680
Glow by Ted Beauman. Got some TCoL vibes.
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>>9411708
Might have to read this, sounds interesting.
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>>9411642
w2c chair?
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IT'S BECAUSE THEY ARE CLASSICS, BRO!
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>>9412094
Very true.
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>>9411642
Because nobody here actually reads, and what they do read they are horribly embarrassed of.
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>>9411708
It was discussed here a few days ago, where by "discussed" I mean some anon complained that it was too boring.
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>>9411965
Is The Book of Monelle translated in English? Did you read Gog in Italian?
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Simply because there are so many millions of books, the chances of having enough people who've read any given one online at any one time in order to have a discussion about it is fairly minimal. We need, actually need, meme books in order to have some things to shitpost about regularly, otherwise the board doesn't work. It's something to talk about while you wait for someone who has read the same non-/lit/canon books as you to surface.
It doesn't take a genius to realise this.
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>>9412054
But this book so important, even Heidegger read this book, why anon never talk about it here?
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>>9411758
there's also modern sex magic.
was there an ancient sex magic novel?
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