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2012-09-28 12:49 3015298 Anonymous (1341655357654.png 1208x3504 611kB)
What does /lit/ think of this list?

4 min later 3015308 Anonymous
Bump.

4 min later 3015311 Anonymous
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5 min later 3015313 Anonymous
>>3015298 It's a pleb-tier tier list.

18 min later 3015331 Anonymous
No lists.

20 min later 3015334 Anonymous
it is arbitrary and subjective, just like every other "HURR DURR EPIC TIER LIST". it's even shitty amongst the category of shitty teenagery tier lists since it is missing SO MUCH.

24 min later 3015336 Anonymous
I was going to write a derogatory comment, but then > satan tier ayn rand i lol'd

57 min later 3015375 Anonymous
The only accurate bit is the pleb-tier list. Those are all objectively correct. The rest is opinions.

1 hours later 3015392 Anonymous
>Finnegans Wake

2 hours later 3015476 Anonymous
American Psycho is pleb tier? Welp.

2 hours later 3015481 Anonymous (lit-core.png 1208x3504 741kB)
it's out of date

2 hours later 3015486 Anonymous
>>3015481 Demote Murakami and DFW one tier, then promote Nabokov.

2 hours later 3015488 Anonymous
dont make lists, somebody will take them seriously

2 hours later 3015490 Anonymous
I actually enjoyed Hunger Games. I didn't think I would, but I did. Game of Thrones is decent too.

2 hours later 3015511 Anonymous
> no tolstoy

2 hours later 3015519 Anonymous
>>3015481 >Displacing Cervantes >No Shakespeare >Oscar Wilde shiggy

2 hours later 3015564 Anonymous
>>3015490 You're a good audience.

3 hours later 3015567 Anonymous
>>3015375 This. Except for American Psycho on pleb. It's not worthy to be anywhere else on the list, but not there.

3 hours later 3015572 Franz (Franz Liszt (in 1858 by Franz Hanfstaengl).jpg 739x962 304kB)
Only Liszt is real.

3 hours later 3015579 Anonymous
Putting Ellis on the same tier as Meyer? Do you even read? He's not an absolutely stunning writer but he has a far better grasp of what he's doing than her.

3 hours later 3015589 Anonymous
>>3015579 This is a troll list, and OP is a troll.

3 hours later 3015592 Anonymous
just to clarify for the denser ones among us, the image is charting /lit/'s collective opinion, not just the author's opinion. the writers are placed according to the frequency and zeal with which they are discussed around here.

3 hours later 3015604 Anonymous
>>3015592 Ayn Rand isn't discussed with zeal?

3 hours later 3015606 Anonymous
>>3015604 negative zeal. hence she is on the list, but down at the bottom. if she wasn't discussed with zeal, she wouldn't be on it at all.

3 hours later 3015610 Anonymous
>>3015592 and by "discussed" i mean "name-dropped", of course.

3 hours later 3015614 Anonymous
Why the fuck is Meyer even on this list? Even the pleb section is giving her credit she doesn't deserve.

3 hours later 3015624 Anonymous
>>3015614 yeah, tbf she should be replaced with e.l. james or j.k. rowling or something. the problem is that we seem to have a different pop-lit author to hate every month.

3 hours later 3015625 Anonymous
>>3015614 Same with G.J.R.R.J.K.R Martin

4 hours later 3015676 Anonymous
As someone who has spent a lot of time on /a/, it took me a little while to figure out that "Gaia Tier" wasn't being used as an insult in this context.

4 hours later 3015684 Anonymous
>>3015625 GRRM has actually written not-awful stuff.

4 hours later 3015688 Anonymous
>>3015676 Haha.

4 hours later 3015689 Anonymous
I've never taken a college-level literature course and have read the majority of the books listed in the 'respectable' tiers. I also rarely come on /lit/ (maybe a few times a year), so I have no idea what the board considers pleb or type-academic taste. Feelsgoodman.png Also, I read Joyce while in jail a few years ago. I'd put Camus or Dostoevsky above him any day of the week... but that's just my opiblahblahblah.

4 hours later 3015694 Anonymous
>>3015689 >being in jail >2012 Plebeian detected

4 hours later 3015696 Anonymous
>>3015694 >being on /lit/ having a problem with people who have been to jail >trustfund liberal arts pussy who would be despised by his heroes detected

4 hours later 3015700 Anonymous
>>3015696 Not liberal arts. Not rich. There's very few good reasons for being in jail these days. Most people in jail are assholes who belong there.

4 hours later 3015707 Anonymous
>>3015700 Ah. Then you're just devoid of any interesting life-experiences and bitter at anyone who may have had slightly different life experiences than you. Noted. I can't wait to read that one.

4 hours later 3015711 Anonymous
>>3015707 Petty crime isn't interesting or cool. People who tell themselves this are compensating for not having had any truly interesting experiences so they tell themselves they're unique and down-to-earth.

4 hours later 3015719 Anonymous
>>3015711 Ah yes. But growing up in the suburbs, attending a university populated primarily by the same type of people you grew up with and then entering into the sameness called the 'working world' absolutely makes for redeeming, and unique literature. Discount the fact that I've had a professional button-down career, lived on both coasts as well as in the mid-west and have spent considerable time sneaking through border checks in Europe (pre-9/11)... you're probably right, cupcake. I didn't go to jail for drinking and driving, Good Will Fronting.

4 hours later 3015720 Anonymous
>>3015711 Yes, because interesting people never dream of breaking laws. The most boring people I have ever met have been straight edge 9-5ers, happy to come home and fester in front of the television, mewling at the 10 o'clock news when presented with a 'criminal' and nodding in agreement when told not to deviate from a gruelling life of conforming to the governments idea of a citizen.

4 hours later 3015725 Anonymous
>>3015689 damn, my jail library only had shit spy novels.

5 hours later 3015745 Anonymous
>>3015725 Kinda sounds like a bad selection for a prison.

5 hours later 3015766 Anonymous
>>3015719 You assume too much. I actually grew up in Peru, before coming here to study. I've had to deal with shitty criminals every day so committing small customs infractions in Europe isn't impressive to me. The fact that you think living in Europe makes you worldly shows that you are the one who is sheltered and boring. I've been to Europe and it isn't much of a change from the affluent US.

5 hours later 3015778 Anonymous
>>3015719 >implying you will ever write anything of any worth >implying the majority of great novelists haven't been middle-class white males (ie. people privileged enough to pursue extensive formal education and dedicate their whole being to literature)

5 hours later 3015780 Anonymous
>>3015720 I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

5 hours later 3015790 Anonymous
>>3015778 The great majority of reputable novelists have, historically, been criminals, vagrants and those who realize that University is primarily a breeding ground for vapid, uninspired writers. Academics are not art. Of course, you and everyone you went to school with really believe that you're going to publish something of merit someday, when really everything that its just a great big extension of being over-coddled by your parents. Of course, Rush Limbaugh needs writers.

5 hours later 3015800 Anonymous (hysterical harlots.jpg 500x333 130kB)
>>3015790 Your favourite author is probably Charles Bukowski.

5 hours later 3015804 Anonymous
>>3015800 I prefer ee cummings for my poesy, and dostoevsky for my mental illness. Thanks for playing, snowflake.

5 hours later 3015811 Anonymous
>>3015790 You shouldn't conflate being a criminal or a vagrant with rejecting higher education. That's intellectually dishonest. While the majority of great writers probably didn't go to university that doesn't mean they were criminals or vagrants.

5 hours later 3015830 Anonymous
>>3015811 >>3015804 Oh never mind you're mentally ill I'm sorry for giving you a hard time. It must be hard for you to make consistent arguments with all the crazy going through your brain. But hopefully all your suffering will lead to inspiration and build character. Because there's no way it could all be in vain, right? No, you deserve to be an acclaimed author, you've earned it by being interesting and breaking from the herd!

5 hours later 3015835 Anonymous
>>3015830 zing

5 hours later 3015839 Anonymous
>>3015804 entry level as fuck. i bet you read dostoevsky in translation, too, don't you?

5 hours later 3015852 Anonymous
>>3015766 Really? The difference between Detroit and Hamburg is stunning -- I'm sorry that you missed it.

6 hours later 3015867 Anonymous
>>3015830 Grammar and reading comprehension skills are weak with this one. At no point was proprietary mental illness implied, rather a reference to Bukowski both writing poetry and having mental illnesses was made. Forget arguments, you should start out with consistent sentence structure, champ (this is the part where you counter with writers having editors for that and uh huh...).

6 hours later 3015870 Anonymous
>>3015867 I'm not the one suggesting that he's going to be a successful writer, smartass. BUt I'm really glad you've gotten a head start on your interesting life experiences. How is the actual writing part going? Where can I find your work?

6 hours later 3015875 Anonymous
>>3015707 >Ah. Then you're just devoid of any interesting life-experiences and bitter at anyone who may have had slightly different life experiences than you. Noted. Aha, and by 'life experiences' you, of course, really mean 'illicit drugs'. (twoblondechickslaughing.jpg)

6 hours later 3015902 Anonymous
>>3015875 I would have a much easier time writing if that were the case. >>3015811 Anyway, the only worthwhile rebuttal in here came from this guy. The rest of you really need to work on your condescension if ever you plan on effectively defending your work -- real writers would hurt you.

6 hours later 3015928 Anonymous
>>3015902 Why the fuck do you keep assuming everyone on /lit/ is some aspiring writer? I'm none of the people you've responded too btw.

6 hours later 3015942 Anonymous
hesse is paul coelho tier yeah, he is one of those old sacred dudes and even german. still a pleb

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