Hello Veeky Forums. It's me, the polling user from 2016. I'm back to host another poll of your top 100 books, so we can measure the progress of Veeky Forums's taste and get a chart to help beginners find new books.
If you're wondering why I'm doing this again so early, it's because Veeky Forums has the ugly tendency to succumb to memes (when I did the last poll, Alan Moore's Jerusalem was "in" and made the top 35 I think, which wouldn't have happened had we done it in a meme-free time). For another example, Bob Dylan won the nobel prize and dominated Veeky Forums's collective attention for a month or so. If I'd made the poll then we surely would've lost a lot of time to having to delete the "Blonde and Blonde" and "like a rolling stone" entries. not to hate on Dylan who I like, but it would've delayed progress. There don't seem to be any memes currently other than the longrunning ones, but they shouldn't affect the polling more than we can expect.
This time, I'm allowing 3 entries. The first gets 5 points (ie, 5 votes), the second gets 2, and the last gets only 1. That way you can give more weight to the books you like most, and we can get a more concise list that's easy to count and also factors in just how much ppl like certain books.
I've missed you Veeky Forums. Also, enjoy Joyce playing the guitar.
another one? I doubt our taste has changed that much since the last.
Jeremiah Nelson
you'd be surprised
Jaxon Adams
I decided to start join Veeky Forums around the time the last poll wrapped up. I guess I didn't get much of a chance to read too much of the entries on that one. Right now I'm having a hard time as to what I'll be voting for entry number three.
Easton Collins
voted; hopefully we get more women and minority authors on this list
Charles Brooks
How do you guys pronounce DFW? I asked my friend if he knew who "deefuhwuh" was and he just got mad and threw The Pale King at me.
also I voted
Mason Miller
Dee-Eff-Double-U
Gabriel Adams
>lel
Evan Miller
no bait here please
Parker Cooper
So, what about complete works? Let's say that I vote por Shakespeare's Complete Works, but someone else only votes for Othello. What happens then?
Brandon Scott
its not bait it's new sincerity
>select all the images with BOOKS
Justin Thomas
Only 3 books? This is going to be hard as hell.
Oliver Reyes
voted.
Benjamin Williams
Discuss, enjoy female or minorities writers just like you would the male counterpart. Just don't make a special parade for your 'oppressed writers'. Shoving an agenda down people's throat is as bad as the ones who won't read female writers.
Sebastian Johnson
thanks user
maybe I can make it up to my friend
Luis Jenkins
>can nominate multiple times
WEW
Oliver White
This should be changed. I just voted 5 times
Kayden Miller
I just shilled American lit since I knew the Russians, muh Bible and the meme trilogy were all guaranteed spots in the top ten, and I'm a red-blooded patriot.
Kevin Powell
> Submit another response
Don't mind if I do...
Julian Bennett
The Trial, 1984, The Wasp Factory. Recommend me books based on my taste.
Dominic Lewis
I did my duty as an american and as a democrat and voted.
Jose Wright
the bible and the greeks because it's obvious you haven't read much and you need to start with the foundations
Jack Gray
>sign into your google account BOTNET REEEEEE
Joshua Martin
what does captcha mean to you? youre in the wrong place, kiddo
Isaac Morris
sorry i disabled it
Xavier Perry
Dana Fucking White, Doofus
Landon Morris
don't forget to vote for your favourite shakespeare plays
Landon Taylor
Delet this thread and start over, OP
Alexander Davis
Shakespeare entries will likely be collated into a single entry.
Daniel Sanchez
with only 3 choices i'm shilling my favorite authors and you can't do anything about it
Owen Phillips
seriously...
Kevin Robinson
>the bible I'd honestly rather be peed on.
Brayden Sanchez
submitting multiple posts doesnt do anything except override your previous post
Blake Thomas
The art of the deal for all 3 entries
Lucas Campbell
ok release the results, op
Alexander White
Ready Player One The God Delusion Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
yeah just pronounce every letter on it's own like in the alphabet song
Brody Cooper
voted eight times for the Percy Jackson series.
Jordan Kelly
Whoa! I rail on redditors a lot, but credit where credit is due...
Dylan Price
>hurr durr reddit
Josiah Cox
Deaf Dubs
Nicholas Nelson
Has the taste of shit become too familiar?
Nicholas Ramirez
How the hell am I supposed to only pick three Harry Potter books?
Josiah Allen
We can only hope.
Logan Sanchez
Hey polling faggot can we maybe get an update!?!?
Lincoln Scott
dont count on it, the discord fags are the worst
Gavin Hill
I just say David Wallace so people don't think I'm aiming to be trendy
Mason Sanders
>original post posted at xx:02 >your post posted at xx:21 >discord posts are ALL xx:43 Wtf. Are you some kind of afghani fag with a messed up time zone? And why are they all posted at xx:43? Usually when you're discording, messages come at 30-1 minute intervals.
Joshua Johnson
I'm kinda against this t.b.h.
Liam Barnes
You don't belong in lit.
Ian Morris
right now there are 200 responses, big winners are ulysses, moby dick, doestoevsky, and gaddis.
Dylan Nelson
Only Shakespeare entries? For example, if I write "Beckett's Complete Drama" and someone else writes "Waiting for Godot", what happens then? Will they also be collated?
Brandon Price
You're dealing with discordfags here. Don't expect intelligence or consistency.
Michael Russell
proofs?
Kevin Thomas
Have you thought about making one of these for short stories? More than 90% of the entries on this poll always end up being novels/novellas
Also thanks user, you are doing god's work here
Ryan Lewis
ceit's pretty intelligent
Lucas Perez
hi ceit
Jaxson Gomez
You're wrong.
Jace Phillips
sheep is the mod and hes easily the shittest poster on Veeky Forums
i guarantee 95% of "my diary desu" posts are him
Landon Russell
shut up faggot
Adrian Allen
...
Jason Johnson
> shakespeare will be one (1) entry
fucking discordfags
Adrian Murphy
what's the fucking point of the discord anyway? Joined a while a go and it was just a tripfag(?) called spaft talking some pseudo-intellectual garbage.
Ian Jones
he's a pretty smart poster once you give him a chance actually, shame the other guys in the discord don't quite get what he's playing. Anyway, next time you or any other guys come in the discord, give him a hello and he'd be happy to help i'm sure
Austin Diaz
hi spaft
Carson Howard
Fools! Quit mocking me. It's very clear that the mods at that server are just fucking cucks who cannot handle true intellectualism entering into their circlejerk!
Dylan Russell
dont know who spaft is but thats true of the discord in general, not only the mods
basically you have a to be a boring loser or else they call you a shitposter, every now and then one of them will parrot some cheap opinion of harold bloom's
Matthew Wood
OP influencing the vote with his Joyce image, pure bullshit.
Jacob Robinson
Probably. Weird thing is if you go back far enough in warosu, it was probably Luna who started the whole my diary t b h thing.
Ryan Foster
Stop this fucking masturbatory trash. After the list's top 15 you get between 8 and 3 responses per work. The chart means nothing. And then you fucking run to imgur, and we get more threads complaining about racism and raving about ready player one. These charts are the worst thing to happen to the board.
Thomas Wright
The discord is just an insular off-topic /soc/ circlejerk except they get angry when someone outside the circle doesn't discuss books or their brand of shitposting
Robert Brown
>The discord is just like every discord ever
Landon Nguyen
People who discuss books they've read, even if out of the usual tastes, or even if they interpret things unconventionally, are perfectly welcome. Most people there are even welcoming to caela, despite him/her/it being rather self obsessed, and rarely a talker of worthwhile books.
If you were btfo, it was most likely from being an insufferable twat.
Jaxson King
So this is what discordfags sound like. I think I just had an authentic nerd moment.
Brayden Brooks
Well, thanks for proving my point buddy!
Joshua Hill
>caela
literally fucking who? I don't care about your online personas, but unfortunately that's all the discord is about. Fuck. You.
Christian Foster
Wait up, so you come into the discord and don't even know who a few of the common(okay -ish, in the case of caela) posters are? Why don't you trying judging our cord once you've been a regular for at least a week?
Ethan Edwards
Discord seemed fine, I don't know what the big deal is. I have no use for a lit chatroom, but it seemed what was to be expected from a Veeky Forums discord. I briefly joined for the blood meridian group they ran.
As for the survey, I'm interested to see if it is the same as last years.
Jacob Miller
I'm shilling hard for Hamsun this year, hopefully we get another book of his on the list besides Hunger, which is really not among his best.
Sebastian Adams
>proving his point and your post style is so distinctive. It will be good to know when I can stop replying to someone because they're a discord shitter.
Jeremiah Taylor
retards
Samuel Williams
1/3 me desu
Samuel Lopez
Guys please take this circlejerk to the discord group, where you are well contained and separated from the people who don't want to read your spastic shite
Liam Adams
5/4 me desu
Connor Stewart
>only three (You)s for myself in that entire stack I need to step it up
Ryan Lewis
i wanna have sex with caela
Kevin Ward
C A E L A I LOVE YOU A E L A
Mason Baker
stop bumping this shit thread
Gabriel White
Great seeing you again, this is the third time I will participate in this, my taste hasn't changed much.
Leo Morales
I was also more partial to the whim's of the one they called 'soprano'
perhaps I shall return to discord someday! see the maiden once more!
Samuel Scott
Fuck, this is funny. I happened to join this Discord last week pretending to be a girl and some beta cuck named Maul started DMing me and wouldn't stop. Seriously, this Discord reeks of thirst. Melynx's group is smaller but at least each user is quality, and most of them have GFs.
Brody Barnes
Most of the older members in this one have wives and gfs too. There's always going to be a few obnoxiously thirsty guys in anything coming from Veeky Forums.
Justin Evans
Older members? Yeah, no. Like I wanna hang around a bunch of codgers.
Ayden Morgan
Melynx is a know nothing nobody such as yourself.
Colton Peterson
I don't give a shit really. Can we talk about books instead?
What are you lads voting this year? >Pan >Madame Bovary >The Savage Detectives