What's the Veeky Forums equivalent of this:
>You're not supposed to read it, nobody's ever actually read it. We all just say we've read it, talk about how brilliant it is, and place it prominently on our office bookshelves to silently humblebrag to anyone who drops by.
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Bottom's Dream
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For normies definitely Infinite Jest. East pussy, no joke.
This was the first thing that came to my mind
Ancient Evenings
The Bible.
do americans actually do this
>Not actually reading Ulysses
For shame.
the eggo and it is own
True actually, 90% of stirner threads are filled with people that haven't even read him.
Like 50% of all the books ever written.
IJ was what came to my mind
IJ is actually a pretty bad book from a very bad genre. The memetome genre never should have become a thing.
if ideas are spooks books are fucking haunted graveyards, that's why.
this or Finnegans Wake.
there are actually plebs who haven't read Ulysses on my board? get out now
Moby Dick
not all ideas are spooks
my diary, desu
But I feel like more people here have actually read Endless Joke over, say,
If you haven't read both of them you probably should take a hike
Are any of you actually like this? I've read most of the great western tradition books and all of them were fantastic even if some didn't strike me as much as others. The only one to bounce off me is Steinbeck but he's more of a cultural literary figure anyway.
It's hard to say a true Veeky Forums equivalent, simply because literary people really do read books and are expected to read books. A computer programmer just needs to be good at programming and know general concepts; being well-read might be a nice side effect, but it's not 100% expected.
>You're not supposed to "get it"; nobody's ever actually understood it. We all just say we've read it, talk about how brilliant it is, and place it prominently on our office bookshelves to silently humblebrag to anyone who drops by.
And thus, the big meme doorstoppers make more sense as suggestions.
there are actually plebs who haven't read Finnegans Wake on my board? get out now
that's fine since stirner is cancer. never read stirner either.
Bottom's Dream HAS to be Veeky Forums's version of this.
The Sound and the Fury? Tried reading that incomprehensible trash, donated it to one of those little free libraries people put on their front lawns. Don't think anybody ever took it out from there.
Or maybe You Can't Go Home Again. Jeez what a meandering turd that was, when I was having trouble sleeping I kept that book by the bedside and was out like a light in ten minutes every time.
The bible
Divine Comedy
The book in OP's post people act like they've read for the prestige. But having read IJ mostly just indicates that you literally have autism.
is a better pick.
I have not read one book on philosophy. Every time I tried to I found myself being bored to tears and having forgotten everything I read after a few pages. Schoppo is especially annoying.
The Fault In Our Stars.
Yeah but the g guy is talking about a reference book volume that really is not read.
The lit equivalent would be decline and fall of the Roman emperor or medieval theology
the amount of people who haven't read 1984 is pretty impressive given how much of a meme it is. all the ubiquitous images and quotes from it are mostly ornamental stuff. the plot itself is almost never discussed when people mention it.
the greeks
Full Metal Jacket BTS?
no it's a pic from /r/transpassing, was titled something about how his dad accepts his transgenderism, and it made me feel really sad to see a father get cucked
why is IJ considered to be so difficult? sure it's long, but people are more than willing to read thousands of pages of fantasy stuff.
It's just a meme. If you want something that's actually stupidly difficult read Finnegan's Wake or Bottom's Dream.
if you don't like Steinbeck you've either got no heart or you're a 20th century industrialist.
The social angle and reification of the proles is pretty off-putting, juvenile, and disingenuous to me. Dude writing about "the real America and it's people" from inside a luxury hotel room. He can spin a sentence and give some pretty vivid imagery but the rest didn't work for me.
it turns out that romantic socialism is a bourgeois phenomenon
>"Golly gee paw I think we oughta seize the means o production or sumfin" "wuzzat son?" "Get I don't rightly know, just whatever happens to spontaneously come to my little ol mind I guess"
Sinclair Lewis and Dos Passos were the more astute and convincing cultural critics of the period and Dos Passos was a straight up socialist for a while.
>cretins naming readable books
>living on donated knowledge
Anthologies. Encyclopedias.
This.
Also Milkbottle H. Though no one has heard of it.