Does Veeky Forums pass the white male reader test? How many of these do you own/have you read?

Does Veeky Forums pass the white male reader test? How many of these do you own/have you read?

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Is there a purpose to this list? Is there some message about white men the author is trying to convey?

kill yourself op

this trite buzz pop garbage is not literature

18, 62 and 75 only tbqhwyfamalamadingdong.
I have a copy of Lolita, but it's in portuguese, so I'm in constant distress over whether to read the pretty hardcover or the original on a kindle.

this list could well be called r/books

There is a subset of young men who search the internet for posts by an equal subset of terrible young women in order to trigger themselves and thus feel feelings.

>no max stirner
ya dun spooked OP

>books that literally all black men own

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That list died very quickly

>Books that "literally all white men own"
>List popular, commonly read, and widespread lit.
False Correlation

Please take back your race b8 back to /pol/

>Books that all black men own

>48 Laws of Power
>Bible

I own 19 of them, and am not a white man.

>2. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
>3. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
>4. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
>6. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
>9. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
>13. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
>15. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
>16. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
>18. The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
>20. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
>38. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
>62. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
>63. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
>64. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
>66. Beowulf, the Seamus Heaney translation
>69. The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
>71. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
>72. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
>74. The Call of the Wild, Jack London

I've also read but don't own The Big Sleep and The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat.

so there's really two main reasons for posts like these in my experience the first being that people just like to read stuff and say 'that's so me' but the second and i think very dumb convention you have in a lot of arguments is this idea that just because you do things that are stereotypical you're just somehow immediately invalid

like saying hipsters like vinyl isn't _really_ inherently an insult even though it's clearly meant to sound like one. it's this whole idea of like oh well the people _i_ dislike are self-caricatures while the people on _my_ side of the fence are three dimensional human beings with thoughts and feelings

i don't know it's really dumb

>shit that all niggers own:
>cheap guns
>crack coke
>cheap weed
>stained mattresses
>underfed dog/cat

>shit that spics own:
>fake IDs
>sombreros
>burrito wraps as lamp shades
>obese children
>cigarettes

>things women own:
>unearned cash
>tampons
>unclean dildos
>shitty romance novels
>pink diary with glitter

Oh man I'm such a racist sexist bigot, right? I know what can cure me; a dumbfuck bait article about how typical white men are. Ding! I'm cured! Look! I CARE MORE.

Thats actually a really great point dude, I`ve fallen into this plenty of times but I never even realised it.
Blew my fucking mind.

>books that literally all white men own

It's not like black men read, so why make the distinction?

Why do you let dumb internet articles get under your skin?

White man here, I only own Catch-22 and Into the Wild, but that's because I've long been to smart to own books.

Things I do know and enjoy from that list

>Miles

Wow so the Bible really is not a thing anymore

I am just wasting time out of spite of not having an interesting way to spend my spare time from working for something I will inherently hate as a result and after meditating on this fact I will cure my existence and those around me thereafter.

>White men
>if Jewish
>if Irish-American
Does not compute.

*curse my existence

You're right, Americans aren't white.

Semites and Negroids are gradually being retconned into whiteness by the ivory tower marxists who own Fox News.

>2015

How much time do you spend a day searching for this race bait shit to trigger frogmen with?

Go back to /pol9k/

I'm confused, are you saying that /pol/ wouldn't agree with that list? It's a list of liberal postmodern bullshit /pol/ detests.

I have 11.

>mfw own all of them
>mfw not a white man
>mfw a green woman

Post feet

I have 8

>mention race in OP
>guaranteed 300 replies because there's a sizeable contingent on here who only come to Veeky Forums for this

>It's a list of liberal postmodern bullshit /pol/ detests.
Guaranteed 80 (You)s from triggered frogs

i bet fewer than a third of american households actually own 79 books

Almost everyone I know who likes Vonnegut is a woman. Hitchens is only owned by my awful fucking fedora friend. She got me on my 5 copies of lolita though. I don't understand the list though. Is she trying to say only males like good literature?

She's implying that white men only read other white men. There's a big push in the academic-media complex for more diversity in fiction, and white men, whether alive or not, are slowly being pushed out of university curricula and "must read" lists. The backlash against Modern Library's top 100 list is a good example of what I'm talking about.

Yeah it's a storm in a teacup but it still pisses me off.

1, LoTR

I tried to read GEB but it got too boring after awhile. I think I tried to read A Brief History of Time when I was younger, but I got bored again. I can read the actual relevant papers by Hawking anyway.

Thanks for fixing that

>Dear readers, I know that today is the final day of The Toast....

kek

Not OP but it was linked in an article discussed a ton on the Wallace-L listserv today.

please be London

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It's dehuminization.

Ironically, it's a tactic used to oppress people, and was the main point of Nazi propaganda.

It's funny how all these liberals (and conservatives) use so much ideological bullshit. It's so fascistic.

We've already started to see the new wave of this stuff (violence) through Antifa

But they can do it because they have the moral high ground, Shitlord.

What's wrong with Miles Davis?

>List of popular books
>Incendiary title

Why do you keep falling for it?

Remind me what exactly is wrong with dehumanization, you fucking Redditspacer. If I'm going to have my men kill yours I sure as hell don't want my men feeling sorry for themselves; dehumanization is great if you want to kill people.

I've got farewell to arms, gatsby, grapes of wrath, spy who came in from the cold, lord of the flies, big sleep, I, claudius

I don't understand this list

Someo of the works are "bro" tier, some of them are pop psychology/history/economics, some of them classic literature

What does it mean to say they are white male?

Just read it on hardcover, it's a great book and you could re-read it later on Kindle so you can appreciate the prose of Nabokov and craft in english but you will need a dictionary (which is more useful on a e-reader)

I have shogun but never bothered reading it
is it a good read or should I read ten other books in the time it would take

>Beowulf is on this list (with a specified tranlsation even)
>No Homer
Shit list.

How was The Man who mistook his wife for a hat? I'm curious about it

I own five of them as a fucking white male

>burrito wraps as lamp shades

I liked this post. It was very atmospheric. I was reminded of this documentary I saw once about illegal immigrants hopping the Mexican border.

Books that literally all white women own:
>1) The Harry Potter series
>2) I Love Shopping
>3) Bridget Jones's Diary
>4) Some Palahniuk from their edgy teenager years
>5) Horrendous "feminist" "poetry" (Rupi Kaur et al.)
>6) Some actually good books borrowed from their ex boyfriends and never returned (never read)

For sale: ex's books, never read.

>tfw you'll never write an atmospheric post

>God Is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens

Is the average white American a filthy fucking atheist?

I lived my whole life thinking I was a black man...now I see I'm wrong

>Camus
>Not Céline

zzz

Subtle shilling for some of those works, I am sure. Expecting people to go "oh, I've never heard about this book but it's on the same list as Lolita and Moby Dick". Also what's up with that book by Jon Stewart? Isn't his real name Leibowitz?

it's a clickbait listicle, it exist to generate ad revenue

>tfw some marketing guru literally posts a direct advertisement on Veeky Forums
>tfw this works

No sweetie I don't read dead white males.

archive.is/6Ip2w

Lolita, I, Claudius, Infinite Jest and Pynchon. The rest is Reddit/ dadcore garbage.

Well Hooty-Hoo, I am a fine-ass black mama and I own literally all of these, nigga

>tfw i have adblock and ublock installed

>Remind me what exactly is wrong with dehumanization
>dehumanization is great if you want to kill people.

Books every white woman owns:

Harry Potter
50 Shades of Grey
Twilight
Some entry level feminist literature, dropped half way through

I don't want to be killed. I may be a white oppressor but I'm still a real human being aren't I?

No, people who look like you did bad things in the past, now you must die.

W-why is Stravinsky on this pic? I listen to his neoclassical phase unironically

user that doesn't make any sense in the light of

How is that

Jesus Christ that was an autistic rambling rant

there has to be some level on which you can point out patterns that exist if they do, in fact, exist. like, strictly on a factual level, identifying patterns does not have to carry a normative value. and even gently mocking people whose value judgments fall into predictable patterns does not mean you're "invalidating" them.

It's a joke about a way that a lot of dudes are. I don't know that it needs to be an excuse for this kind of soul-searching or defensiveness or self-seriousness.

you all can be some dumb ass chickendicks about stuff like this it's fuckin weird

Yeah blame on us ,when it';s one of your own hoes writing these shits.

>Have never read Camus
>Won't until my french is good enough

Good list desu, the white male canon

> I know what can cure me; a dumbfuck bait article about
>;
How the fuck do you justify the use of a semicolon there?

Let's expand this one

Harry Potter (J.K. Rowling)
50 Shades of Grey (E.L. James)
Twilight (Stephenie Meyer)
The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
The Devil Wears Prada (Lauren Weisberger)
Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophia Kinsella)
Bridget Jones's Diary (Helen Fielding)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)

You should make it into a chart and add into the wiki; it's pretty accurate

p accurate

I didn't think woman bothered to read Woolfe, I thought it was ironically men who read it.

Yeah, but I thought Mrs. Dalloway was the exception.
For some reason I forgot:
Divergent (Veronica Roth)
Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
The Fault in Our Stars (John Green)
Looking for Alaska (John Green)
Milk and Honey (Rupi Kaur) Not sure about this one though

>be spic
>only own two of those books on the list
I guess they're right?

You probably just have shit taste

Why would I want to own a bunch of reddit-tier normalfag books?

>no murakami

Also don't girls read Bukowski?

I was thinking about Norwegian Wood (because every girl I know owns that) but I thought it might just be something exclusive to the people I know.
Don't know about Bukowski though

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Are the rest of you honkies even trying to be be /whitemalelit/?

ha ha the naswer to the universe XD well done fellow white trash

I am the hero of semicologna and will do so with the symbol as I please and equally as such where I please.

>>unearned cash
If they have it, they earned it. Keep your faux niceguys justice to /r9k/

>he hasn't read any nation of islam shit
>he hasn't read iceberg
>no soul on ice
nigga, leave this board, get yourself arrested, and pick a fight if you're meant to leave before you're done that shit.

whites aren't people
how could real conscious people have done the things whites have ALWAYS done FOREVER
if you're white i want you dead

>Mrs Dalloway
Room of One's Own is more common in girls, especially of the tumblr feminist type. Less sexual anxiety over not liking kissing girls as much as they thought they would, more bitches need more money to be free.

Alice in Wonderland I'd doubt too. Unless you specify a Barnes and Noble edition or any shit like that, most adults won't read it unless they math nerds or linguistics freaks and those tend to be male. The porn for Alice tends to be more male orientated too. I'd wager more girls have a tea set and Alice costume than treatises on marmalade.

These and Palahniuk. Once you specify it's Haruki not Ryu. Bitches do not like Ryu, despite loving Burkowski.

>XD

i'm not joking

Brasileiro? A edição da Globo é muito boa. Ótima tradução.

>XDDD

is it possible you're even fatter and more miserable than me

I don't think so