What does Veeky Forums think of this?

>mfw I've read every author from level 4 to 6
Get on my level.

>Giles Goat-Boy
Jesus Christ that sounds good.

It is.

in the white space on the right

yeah this. no matter how much elitism there is on this board, if we allow that reading is easy then it is not only elitism, it is also baseless. reading is not easy. reading well, anyway. it requires patience, willpower, ingenuity, nimbleness of thought, and, in extreme cases, profound feats of memory.

>no Hunter S Thompson
>no Murakami
>no Wolfe
Shit list my dude

terrible bait

>MFW almost 30 and I've only got as far as level 4 thanks to 'To The Lighthouse'

No, you just have shit taste.

The top of the pic is already a bit crowded tbf

How is Late Era Joyce "entirely incomprehensible" and "generally unread"? Finnegan's Wake is pretty commonly regarded as a masterpiece.

It's ridiculously hard to read and largely unknown to people.

How would you know when you can't even get the title right?

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>How is Late Era Joyce "entirely incomprehensible" and "generally unread"? Finnegan's Wake is pretty commonly regarded as a masterpiece.
Spoken like someone who has never read Finnegans** Wake.

>Theroux
>"incoherent"
>every word after "you" in that paragraph

This is all too much

What the fuck is the last one?

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where does zizek go?

Murakami is already on that pic

in the trash

Ray O Light is a communist party in the USA. They don't have a film making group, the term is just intentionally made to sound incredibly oddball and weird.

>implying there's some direct linear correlation between degree of literary merit and how experimental and "incomprehensible" something is
>Carver at the very top
>"strive for artistic internecine" like wtf "internecine" is an adjective you stupid cunt

A total joke. This whole shit triggers me.

i love it when pseuds expose themselves with posts like this

>implying the picture is implying that
>implying Carver is experimental
>implying the maker didn't put that in just to trigger people like you

He isn't ironic, he's just a bullshitter

samefag

I'm only two of those people. Honestly not sure what your criteria for calling samefag here was

I too was triggered. Doubly so by Eco being so far down the list.

Where is Jan Švankmajer on that list?

>implying most high literature isn't complete shitposting

it's a dip, you meme

t. hasn't read eco

That was kind of a lame meme.

I read until late-era Joyce but I'd argue Andrei Bely is more of Tier 4 with William Faulkner. It's not as if Benjy's chapter in The Sound and the Fury is easy, or Absalom, Absalom! as easy to understand.

I'm not familiar with a lot of the authors in the lower level, but I think The Beetle Leg is smack in Tier 6.

where does Bulgakov fit into this?

Where would kant and nietzsche be?

How is Bolaño at the same level of difficulty as Borges?

Oh so you made that pile of shit and are offended that everyone thinks it's ridiculous because you actually think it's clever or something.

>implying this is a new picture
How new are you?

>FYAD

lmao when was this made, 2005?

FYAD has been horseshit for 10 years

I always thought it was best in 2006-2010, but have still enjoyed it since, it's just really slow now

i lost any ability to enjoy it when i realised that most of the hip cool fyad faggots were actually taking the internet SO unironically that they ended up spawning tumblr

tons of them were just over-the-hill whiny slacktivists with affected typing styles

Sounds like you're just upset that some of them are politically engaged. IMO the pinnacle of the forum was the Zybourne Clock parodies and this thread: forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3028383

How does that imply that's a new picture? Like I implied Carver was experimental? You need to spend less time on Veeky Forums and more time brushing up on your reading comprehension, you fucking muppet.

>Lowry somehow level 4 despite level 0 clearly establishing YA fiction as being level -1
>Woolf and Pynchon anying below level 2

neitzche level 1
kant level 2

The bait is f**king real

>kant harder than neitzche

joyce is shit

is gravity's rainbow good

Yes.

please, FYAD is entirely accessible to most Veeky Forums users

Only the ones who watch Sam Hyde.

Brakhage being higher up than Mekas and Anger horribly triggers me. Besides, where are Tsukamoto, Ishii, Robert Todd?

I believe you needed to have written books to be on the list.

>> talented readers

You have a talent... for reading?

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What is this supposed to be measuring? Literary merit? Complexity? How much time you have to waste?

It's fucking idiotic.

No Proust

waste of time

Nabokov and Sorokin are meme authors in Russia.

Just watched that, it's pretty great. Thanks!

>Joyce is incomprehensible

How the fuck did this person figure out how to use a computer, let alone use paint?

look better memester

It's really just a measure of how hard or experimental the authors are.

"Joyce (late era)" refers exclusively to Finnegans Wake, while "middle era" is Ulysses. The Joyce of Dubliners and Portrait would probably be around levels 2-3.

this

>no Rulfo
Fucking pathetic anglocentric chart to be honest, my dear relative

Where is Duras?

kill yourself

Is Eliot ts or George?

George, I think.

>Giles Goat-Boy
The literary equivalent of Frog Fractions.

What is considered late era Nabokov

I don't know what that is.

Pale Fire, I think.

OK I looked this up and that's a fair point

Rankings: fine, useful.

Sidebar that says what the rankings mean and implies that harder means better: dumb.

It's an irony list

pale fire is mid-late, ada is late

youtube.com/watch?v=DSDpssHE0R4

>no shakespeare

awful list

>Conrad barely at the top of "Level 0"

I hope this is i r o n i c.

The list is a measure of difficulty and experimentation, not quality.

Read the descriptions of the levels, they obviously promote the idea that harder is better.

It's shit

It is.

I'm not even a cinephile by any measurable margin and yet I like Debord, Isou and post-66 Godard

Gravity's Rainbow is no more ironic as The Simpsons, fucking kill yourself