>he's only read one of the meme trilogies

>>9458747
>the portrait of a lady
Never heard of it baka

>no 17th century meme trilogy
I vote for Don Quixote

>>9458747
>TBK
I've been browsing /lit/ for quite a long while yet this triggers me way more than it should

>>9458796
you misunderstand meme-ology my friend.
it usually involves books that are praised but no one raelly reads.
that doesnt necessarily mean they're bad though, in fact all of these books could be considered good someway in their own right

>>9458805
that said, i dont know why werther is on there as that book is short as shit.
im guessing the chart maker didn't rally do his research

When the fuck does any one on /lit/ ever talk about Wordsworth? Surely that's a prerequisite for being a meme.

>>9458819
They haven't but they're about to start

>>9458815
Huge length isn't a necessity if a book has sufficient meme power

>>9458747
henry james is crap, so is that goethe choice

>>9458869
You're crap

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Moby Dick isn't a meme you fucking cunt

>>9458913
yes it is.
it's a fucking over-blown epic that people dont read and yet recieves enormous praise.
It's a literature meme.

>>9458918
Don't ever post here again.

>>9458918
You have actually read it, right? Care to explain why you hold these views?

>>9458918
Please return to reddit if you don't respect the Meme Trilogies

>>9458925
>>9458921
>people who didn't read any of the 20th century meme trilogies.
it's a cycle of hypocrisy.
dont get butthurt over people voicing objective impressions that only affect your safe-space-head-canon.
All these books have merits, but their inherent flaw (and an award by being presented at all) is that they're meme-ified to hell and back.

>>9458932
i respect the meme trilogies, but they're clearly memes for better, and for worse.

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>>9458934
it's time to stop posting

The new canon is like ten minutes old its already triggering redditors

>>9458942
my intuition tells me you're either an unaware alt-right bro, or extremely deaf liberal

youre a degenerate and your opinions serve no one but your own terrible self

>>9458747
Sorry but you cant just pick random books and expect to meme it into existence

the meme trilogy was carefully selected by the collective consciousness of /lit/

>>9459052
Just watch me

>>9459052
i think a fair amount of those books (karamazov, moby dick, and possibly werther) are posted about frequently.

that is more or less what makes a book a meme on this board. the constant glorification somehow validates their existence to outsiders and they become more significant than they really possibly could be

lit if true

>>9458761
Don Quixote, Anatomy of Melancholy and what else? The Pilgrim's Progress?

>>9459143
that sounds right actually.
bettter than the 19th and 18th for sure

>>9458747
>recommending Infinite Jest
>recommending The Brothers Karamazov instead of Demons
>recommending - out of all books from Goethe - The Sorrows of Young Werther

Do you need help on how to knot a tight rope, OP?

>>9459143
Paradise Lost nigga

>>9459159
gtfo newfag.
IJ is, like it or not, a candidate for all centuries when it comes to /lit/'s definitive meme trilogy.
you probably never finished it.

>>9458747
What do the vertical columns mean?

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>>9459169
Didn't even read it and would never pretend to touch anything from DFW.

I'm confused about the definition of meme-recommendations. Are memed books books that are universally praised but no one read them or are they must-read books?

>>9459188
Best Prose - Highest Power Level - Spirit of Milieu

>>9459191
the latter.
And as the posterboy for this generation's post-modern literature, DFW is significant to the board's most basic concept of a meme. It's telling that you are out of touch with meme-ology and have never touched his work.

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I enjoyed the Italian rip-off of Werther a lot more than I enjoyed the actual Werther.

>>9458847
That book doesnt have good meme power either it would be like putting Notes from the Underground over BK just because autists love it

>>9459203
In regards to literature I have my own mind. I'm just here to have a deep discussion and to shitpost here and there.

I'll never bow to memeology.

>>9458747
>no "War and Peace"

>>9459203
If he hadnt killed himself and been so awkward in interviews no-one here would pay him any meme attention.

>>9459227
>>9458869
>>9459159
What is the prime book from Goatyay then?

>>9458819
Wordsworth is my fav English poet tbqhfam.

>>9458918
This board is near to /tv/, /mu/ and /v/ everyday.

>>9459233
but he did, and the TV (significant to my point about being post-modern lit's posterboy) interviews, and oeuvre he left behind was relevant significantly meme-able and thus he is a meme on 4chan and its literature boar and forever a candidate for meme-trilogies on all relative levels.
>>9459228
you really don't have a choice. Your head is just deep in the sand.

>>9458747
well this is embarassing

xD memes

This is pathetic. I guess these are the people who browse 4chan now.

>>9459288
self-conscious discussion of memes has always been a part of 4chan culture since, as far as i remember, 2005.
youre only exposing your ignorance.

>>9459304
go back to r/books desu

>>9459299
Trying to meme forced memes into memes while saying memes every third meme is just embarrassing, don't try to validate your meme thread by saying the you read a meme ED entry and found out that memes have been a meme for meme amount of years. It just makes you sound like an idiot.

>>9459308
i've never posted on reddit in my life, but the fact that im not strictly opposed to the idea for specific purposes tells me everything that's significant about the difference between me and you

>>9459314
go back to r/books

>>9459309
you just weren't there.
and yes, i agree- overusing the term is distasteful in the modern climate given the rise of 4chan since the late 2000s, but dont let that make you turn a blind-eye to history and it's harsh realities.
If anything, we should be proud of bringing the concept of memes to the masses, at least in some contexts.
your false sense of superiority on this subject just once again shows your inexperience

>>9459253
>you really don't have a choice. Your head is just deep in the sand.
Better having my head in sand than far up my own ass.

19th Century is War and Peace, Moby Dick and In Search of Lost Time

>I haven't read any

>>9459308
I'm pretty sure /r/books doesn't even allow image posts but you should know that reddit

>>9459396
>In Search of Lost Time
>19th century

>>9458819
ANd how does the Prelude make it as 18th century meme? Only two books were written in the 18th century and only Coleridge and DeQuincey read it before 1850.

>>9459419
Because the Prelude is mindblowing, why is this even a question

>21st century
House of leaves
2666
On the edge

What about the 15th century mt?

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>>9458747
>turdsworth

>>9459234
Faust Parts 1 & 2

>>9460120
it's a poem, tard

werther is pure shit m8

The 18th century one only has a single good inclusion. Only TS should be there. Others are like 400 pages short.

>>9460157
>muh filler

>>9460177
ur rly dum

>>9458747

meme trilogies should be long books. sorrows of young werther is like 100 pages. pick a better goethe or some other author, i don't know 18th century that well

>>9458918
Nah. It's a masterpiece that somehow manages to be a comedy, a tragedy, an adventure story, a philosophical discourse, a cosmic horror story, and a spiritual experience in one.

>>9460489
>implying that could not be said about the 20th century meme trilogy

you 19th century lit fans are the worst.
you think seniority is everything.
keep appealing to daddy's assumed authority, but it's too bad because he's dead and not coming back.

use your own judgment for once for christ sake

>>9460459
it still belongs, thats how good it is. started more memes than any other item on the chart.

>>9460510
Huh? I'm just defending Moby Dick, not saying that 20th century lit is worse.

>>9460567
no one asked you to defend it.
you have no idea what i was saying.
being a meme is a blessing in disguise, don't take it as an insult.

>>9458747
I haven't read a single book on here.

>>9460538
I don't think you understand what a meme trilogy is dude. At least the 20th century meme trilogy isn't really about impact on literature at all but rather just really long books that are fun to post about

The 18thC is fucked up, OP. Shandy fits, but come on, you have to include Robinson Crusoe and something by Richardson or fielding to really get the early novel experience.
As for the 1800s: you need some dickens instead of Henry James

>Anna Karenina not in the meme trilogy

>>9460610
>At least the 20th century meme trilogy isn't really about impact on literature at all
i have access to all the important 21st and 22nd century lit, and i can tell you that especially infinite jest is seminal.

>>9458747
I'll the first one of the 21st century meme trilogy

>>9460663
*I'll right

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dont forget this one

>>9460659
you dumb faggot there hasn't even been a 22nd century and IJ, while not as bad as people pretend it is, is not any better than GR really. Definitely worse than Ulysses.
the fact that you used seminal just proves to me you probably only read this book. probably just or haven't quite finished.

>>9460665
better be a troll.
get your delusional ass back to grade school

>>9460682
> there hasn't even been a 22nd century
thx for adding to the joke, tard

>>9460691
how am i supposed to tell youre joking when youre not funny at all?

>>9460698
are you mentally impaired and incapable of seeing art works objectively?
moby dick is definitely a meme of the literature world, and therefore fair ground in deciding 19th century meme trilogies.
Take it as you will, but it's undeniable if you have any idea of what the original trilogy was all about.

>>9460699
same

>>9460717
bad post.
youre mad that i'm right though and i like that.

>>9459846
For 21st I would say
>House of Leaves
>My Struggle
>The Corrections

>>9460725
Calling it a bit early tho aren't we mate. It's only been 17 years

>>9460671
Nice

>>9459191
lurk more faggot

>>9458747
omg
>pale
>male
>stale

wow. just...wow.

>>9460797
>potato niggers and slavs
>white

>>9460132
It's a play, mongloid

Shouldn't meme trilogies consist of the most memed books? /lit/ barely even talks about Werther.

>>9460806
nigga until i see some pansexual genderfluid representation in my 18th century reading lists, i'm gonna keep dying my hair purple and indulging in polyamorous relationships

>>9460732
Yeah, I just mean so far.

>>9460581
kill yourself

>>9459227
People literally memed Werther to death when it came out

>>9459143
Don Quixote, Anatomy of Melancholy, and Paradise Lost