How can we make Veeky Forums great again, my fellow posters? Some suggestions:

I agree with this nigga. I love Bolaño, Pynchon, and DFW. They're legitimately good.

it will be necessary to get the religious vote through choice of vp, along with geographic diversity (ie someone not from the northeast), along with the bookish, thinking man's bigot. Clearlly the vp choice is clear, at least from the bright light of day that is Veeky Forums, and that choice is orson scott card
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>TRUMP CARD

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Yea I agree I'm looking for a more coherently groouped set of texts that are unified thematically in some way. For example having like hume, Rousseau, aristotle, some Dostoevsky, some mccarthy in one group made and titles by me. But another person can make another group that doesnt have to exclude the texts I picked just another theme. Like a russian lit theme with dosto, gogol, tolstoy, bely, etc... Im not sure how this can be done but im open to suggestions

What a brilliant idea, /pol/.

IF YOU BAN ONE BUTTERFLY YOU BAN US ALL!

good

please stop impersonating me, you small minded buffoon.

See, folks, that's why we need the swarm banned.

haha well meme'd old bean!

This guy

It's alright, was ironic (3ish), and was accidentally leaving it on, which I've fixed now

>likes Dostoevsky
oops it appears you found yourself on the wrong site friend let me help you get to the correct one
i think it was read it? red it? le ditt? hmm...

You don't need to have a conversation on the internet about your books. There are mountains of essays and criticism, book clubs even (Goodreads even?).

But we desire to pretend we are pursuing loftier goals when we are not. This board caters to this desire. It will never be good. Literature will always be over there, never quite here, talk as we might.

by saying this I'm not just self-consciously shitposting, right?

You dropped this "« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ »"
*hands it to you*
"There you go!"

>implying reading essays and criticism is a conversation
a dialogue is not a conversation m8

>implying /pol/ would ever recommend more non-anglo lit

Am I being baited?

Less tryharding will fix it over night.

don't you have some underage girls to be stalking, vladimir?

wow what's it like to be retarded?

nice digits

I would greatly value a translation guide for beginners such as myself and the first one up, I think, should be Homer. I've spent quite a bit of time trying to decide which translation to pick for my first reading of the Iliad and, while I'm happy with my choice, I feel like I would have benefited from a more structured guide instead of scanning various threads, reviews, blog posts and wiki pages.

Then I, for one, would love to see translation guides for the Bible, Ovid, Dante (there is already a great chart, perhaps it could serve as model), Dostoyevsky/Tolstoy, Proust and Bulgakov. And that's just for starters.

>ban "I started this book today, what do you think f it Veeky Forums" posters

What the hell is wrong with those posts?
To BAN those people, who are following all guidelines of Veeky Forums in that they are seeking to discuss literature, is CRAZY.
Same with the whole "less meme authors" thing.
The whole point of Veeky Forums is that it's an anonymous free place where an entire literary culture can exist and grow and morph. It will inevitably naturally continue to morph. Stop trying to implement your fascist views on the only truly free place on the internet.

Making more detailed guides isn't going to help. We have a chart for Greek literature but still get threads asking about it daily(do I have to read it in this order? I know this translation is recommended but can I read this instead? Can I skip this book?).
The only way to get rid of them is to not reply. Same with any other kind of thread you don't like. Make good threads and post on good threads.

Trying.

imblingg

>ban "i started this book today, what do you think of it Veeky Forums" posters

Literally the only posts trying to discuss literature.

I think he means less threads about pictures/ memes of these people and more threads about their work.

Since when is Dostoyevsky Reddit? He's a good author though admittedly, not the hardest to understand.

>>a lenghty guide to translations, from homer to dostoevsky
I would greatly appreciate this. It's one of the main questions I always ask on Veeky Forums

Ban Trump supporters.

For the record and before I am accused of feeling the Bern or voting for Hillary I would like to say that all the main candidates are absolute garbage, but Trump cultists are annoying stupid.

Embrace William Gaddis, William Gass, and John Hawkes as the new gods, and only allow discussion explicitly related to literature.

>people don't even know my tripcode

well at least that much is still sacred

>reading translations

We should have generals like /tv/. I know WE asready have /scifi/ or whatever the name is for SF and fantasy, but many topic are too recurrent, they would benefit from having their own generals. Plus they help contain the memes, if you too go on /tv/ you can notice there are barely any GoT meme outside /got/.

Ban book haul gais/recent purchase threads
Ban omg booktubers/reddit/etc sux threads

- generals
- recommendation threads, so people read outside the canon
- bookclub kind of thing for actual discussion (like the IJ read along, but standardised)
- ban all those things you said, but only ban the non-serious threads about the meme authors. Or just make a /pynchon/, /dfw/, etc so that they don't flood the board
- what are you reading? thread, so that there isn't a new thread for every person that wants to talk about the book he's reading.

that's not the tripcode

>a lenghty guide to translations, from homer to dostoevsky
This is a good idea. A quality translation can make the difference between hating or loving a text.

>update the wiki or change the wiki
Another good idea, but if you want the wiki updated, get working. That's kind of the whole point of wikis.

>fewer dfw, pynchon, bolaño or whatever meme author threads
Meh. Kind of stupid to prevent people from discussing literature they like on a literature discussion board. Those authors became memes for good reasons.

>more non-anglophone literature discussion
We already have plenty of this, I don't know what you're talking about.

>ban "i started this book today, what do you think of it Veeky Forums" posters
Again, you're banning people discussing literature on a literature board. Most people aren't doing it to show off what they read, they're doing it to incite a conversation/

>ban frogposters
Yes.

>ban butterfly
Too many impersonators to do this. Plus, why ban someone just because you disagree with them? Bad idea.

it's jews

jews

>Christian author
>Reddit
Lol wut?

CLARIFICATION:
Veeky Forums shouldn't be about reading books for the sake of reading them. There should be focus on originality.
It sounds naive, but with such a large backlog just to make a dent in the humanities, we must not forget to make new conclusions through each reading. Else we're just caricatures of authors.

wtf

>>fewer dfw, pynchon, bolaño or whatever meme author threads

>ban butterfly
finally someone who talks sense

>ban butterfly

she is core Veeky Forums culture though

Goodreads integration

Nah, let people finish books before they try to talk about them, and allow for people to form their own opinions on stuff they're reading.

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Ban butterfly orbiters and apologists, too

increase frogposting

poop ass tits sass try and see if you can pass gass

Ban fucking anime threads.

What the fuck is happening here?

Why is this shit popping up all of a sudden?

poop ass tits sass try and see if you can pass gass

*it was a hologram*

STOP ACTING LIKE ME, THIS ISNT FUNNY

No discussion past "its good" or "its bad" and a bundle of shitposting can occur in these threads. The OP has probably read 20 - 35 pages and
1)cant contribute to the thread directly
And
2)is likely to have the book spoiled for him the longer he is active within the thread.
And honestly if everybody who started a book stopped to ask Veeky Forums what they thought, there would be no room for anything else in the catalog.

spanish/portuguese speakers need to leave