Which board on Veeky Forums do you imagine has the worst taste in literature?

as if /tv/ reads

Exactly

Veeky Forums and /k/ are the worst.
it's just 'murica, "fuck you i only need to read my bible"

/mlp/

Veeky Forums where only oone book is read

That is the funniest fucking thing I've read all day.

>Why /co/ and not /a/?

Because LNs aren't literature.

/k/ has book threads, and they're 100% retarded shit

that post is unironically correct though...

they sure as shit read a lot of fanfiction.

Yeah, the worst possible fanfiction, and fanfiction in itself is the worst possible form of fiction

>the world would be a better place if he and his friends were killed at Normandy

what a fucking loser that kid is. and this is coming from another NEET. who would ever say that to a veteran let alone your GRANDFATHER. the amount of trauma that old man must've gone through during that war... he probably saw those same friends die in front of him and he has to hear that shit from his little faggot grandson who is mopey over not having a job. i hope this is a pasta because it riled me good.

What is the nature of taste? How can we define goodness of taste? I think those are problems we should tackle before we can answer OP's question.

Taste in this thread is clearly regards the extent to which books signal intelligence and sophistication. Boards whose "top 10 books" are more complex, rigorous, or nuanced will be most agreeable to Veeky Forums here

My thoughts:
Many boards fail to meet the "perceived as having a significant % of readers" criterion, and can't be easily considered. /v/ & /tv/ being the most obvious, as those media destroy attention and drain the literary mind.

/co/ is likely to be toward the bottom of those thst conceivably read due to their affinity for nerd culture & identity politics. Genre fiction, power fantasies, and pseudo-progressive virtue signalling books are lowbrow/indicate a lack of depth on the part of the reader

We can imagine Veeky Forums is also low on the spectrum. Warhammer 40k novels and the like are obviously garbage in our taste schema. However, the board is pulled up by the occasional "literary game master" or historical wargamer who are well-read.

Veeky Forums has a similar mix: most of the board probably read exclusively how-to business books, but you'll find the occasional business-intellectual

gtfo pseud

It's a pretty good book with good advice (apart form the diet) though. It explains how your muscles work and the biophysics behind the exercises.

/k/ here, I agree.

/mu/, /x/, /co/, /mlp/, /pol/, Veeky Forums, /adv/. I would imagine /tv/ wouldn't read much outside of the books adapted by Kubrick but that's better than nothing imo.

> blaming a board for your own spaghetti autismo powers

I don't use /pol/ but I'm aware enough to not let my behaviour on Veeky Forums influence my behaviour in the real world holy shit.

Well well well, aren't you a gullible brainwashed faggot? How in your right mind can you even possibly think that the screenshot you posted wasn't made by either a shill or a cuck that wants to make a false flag? For fuck sakes, even the 6 gorillions are more believable than this shit. Of course, even if you actually went back to read it to see if you could find any possible giveaways, you would most likely find nothing; that is because you are a deluded faggot that has been brainwashed by jewish communist propaganda. Your mind has been so manipulated by zionists that if they told them that 2 + 2 = 5, you would believe them in a heartbeat. How could this oppressed race (even though they control 99% of all information and 99% of all the government) ever be wrong? It must be the fault of those racists and of those nazis! Never mind the fact that you would have to be retarded to believe that it wasn't the jews' fault for being kicked out of pretty much all european states since the dawn of civilization. Also, let's ignore the fact that "nazis" have demonstrated time and time again through scientific studies and statistics that they have above average IQ, have a deeper understanding of socioeconomic factors and tend to have a more disciplined life. You probably agree unironically with my sarcastic statements, but I don't care; I know that if you are so brainwashed to actively try to undermine /pol/, there is no hope for you. Besides, I like to get the satisfaction of seeing the butthurt seep through your irrational and emotional replies. You make me laugh when you pretend to be a smart little boy who knows all about the world around you. You will never attain even 1% of the understanding that /pol/ has of the world.

It's /v/ without a doubt. Nothing but anti-intellectuals whose most developed reading is console war blogs.

Wouldn't a WW2 vet in 2017 be at least 90 years old?

Sincerely doubt a 90 year old man is capable of throwing bird baths and breaking noses.

wtf i love /pol/ now.

Is this pasta?

/cgl/

The joke is how he included Mark Twain because the word 'nigger' features in his books

/v/

/pol/ isn't even that bad compared to /a/ or /tv/. Atleast on /pol/ some of them have read the Republic, and there's a sizeable portion that reads Evola. /pol/ was actually more Veeky Forums before it became a pro-Trump board, which speaks to the intellectual curiosity of Trump supporters.

Probably /co/. I like them, but their taste in literature probably starts and ends at what they read as a kid. Which was probably good children's literature, but nothing special otherwise.

I'm also going to go with /pol/. They have the highest disparity between how highly they consider themselves intellectuals and how much they actually read. /Pol/ has only three books Mein Kampf, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and The Bell Curve, and they think all of them will take you on an intellectual spirit journey and make you better than everyone else. To them, it doesn't matter how much you have read or what areas of expertise you have, if you haven't read one of those books they will treat you like an idiot.

I will also defend /co/ in that there are at least a few comics and cartoons with strong artistic merit which may not be directly comparable to literature but at least get them in the right mind frame. I would even say a couple would deserve to be here if they were less visually oriented.

Yeah dude like Watchmen and Saga xD
Back to r/comics you pseud.

You sound more like a redditor than the other guy desu

>and they think all of them will take you on an intellectual spirit journey and make you better than everyone else
You forgot The Bible, which absolutely will take you on an intellectual spirit journey that will make you better than every last degenerate heathen.

this is what's wrong with modern western society
personally I blame Socrates

Existence precedes essence.

Fite me.

HOW THE FUCK DO YOU READ PAST NUMBERS?

Should i just skip that fucking book? Been on it for about a week now and it's fucking boring as shit, why has God gone from killin' and chillin' to requiring his followers carry rulers around.

debating things rationally triggers you i see

ive read some clever manga, ive never read a clever comic book.

/v/ doesn't read so they don't have bad taste in literature, they just have no taste

Most other media interest boards don't even have good taste in their own board subject matter, let alone literature

Not sure about worst, but Veeky Forums probably has some of the best taste.

Sure, but a non-trivial percentage of them think that vidya are literature.

threads like that Bloodborne thread the other day give me the chance to shill cosmic horror classics

>You forgot The Bible

>The alt-right mourns European culture’s decline but has itself created the most degraded and degenerate forms of culture the West has ever seen in its own fetid forums. It romanticizes the West but hates its Christian “slave morality” and the best of its intellectual traditions. The alt-right uses the now completely bankrupt language of counterculture and transgression when they talk about being “the new punk,” which should serve as a reminder of how empty those ideas have now become.

jacobinmag.com/2017/02/paleocons-for-porn

The /pol/ reading lists are so cringeworthy, and show a total lack of awareness of nuance in conservatism. It honestly shocks me that it isnt 100% troll. I've seen what seems to be honest support for Jünger as a Nazi

/fitlit/ is real though, and honestly, though sometimes sadly, read for personal enrichment.

/v/ reading is Reddit top 100 stuff and scifi-fantasy. Not Veeky Forums but not below expectations.

you sound like such a pathetic poser trying to fit in 'with the cool 4channers'. Are you really gonna shit on watchman because the only semblance of personality and taste that you have is being a contranian on the same level as an insecure teenager desperately trying to lose his virginity

>implying Reddit top 100 and Veeky Forums top 100 aren't pretty much the same apart from some YA shit.

why are you replying to me? How is this relevant to my comment?

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I don't doubt that /co/ has taste for comics and cartoons (though way less European animation than I'd like), I'm just unsure if that'd translate well to Veeky Forums. Many are probably familiar with the big names like Catch-22 and Kurt Vonnegut, but outside of that I really doubt many have read that much after leaving school.

/co/ doesn't even like comics anymore, the comics fans were chased off long ago.

I'm going to guess this is Reddits. It's worse than I thought

/v/, they read books based on vidya

reddit.com/r/raerth/comments/cpxkq/reddits_favourite_books/c0udvs9/
reddit.com/r/raerth/comments/cpxkq/reddits_favourite_books/

This is the top result.

/v/ book threads are purely hedonistic escapist works. As far as literary quality, poor, but pulp beach trash is sometimes fun. Lovecraft, Howard, Warhammer books, Sanderson etc

>Ender's Game
>Harry Potter
>all that contemporary shit in general
>fucking HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE

There are some great contemporary works, that meme is shit. But its just so middlebrow...

>Dr. Suess and the Bible, eh? Amazing how much we love our fictional children's stories.

>le altright maymay
your finger couldn't be further from the pulse

an [intellectual] corpse has no pulse

>Twain
>Good
Faulkner was right about Twain

I know a WW2 vet who is 92 years old and still kicking ass. Doesn't look day over 75 and doesn't need help with anything. I could see him kicking some fat NEET's ass pretty easily

/mu/ is pretty good, they just act like ironic retards. their sharethreads and discussions on favorite x/y/z are usually pretty on point. i say they have better taste than most of Veeky Forums

>Lovecraft
>hedonistic escapist

thats how i feel when I read At the Mountains of Madness

>he hasn't read "the silver key"

/pol/ easily. Followed by /b/, /v/ and /tv/.
/pol/ is the worst offender because /pol/tards perceive themselves as intellectual and entitled to voice their opinions on literature whereas posters from other boards would be more likely to acknowledge their status as philistines.You see it every day on Veeky Forums: some refugee from /pol/ making a thread bashing an author they have clearly never read. Bringing up "cultural marxism", etc.

Found the Yidd.

or the whole Dream Cycle, really

Nobody likes The Silver Key

That is a good point, but /pol/ still tries. /pol/ may use literature exclusively to push their retarded agendas but they do read, even if it's only the shit they're allowed to read.

you fuck right off

I have seen posters on /pol/ unironically believing that Soumission is a critique of Muslim immigration

I don't believe /pol/ has read a damn thing. There is a certain person they love to talk about and one of his most famous books has an intro with a very amusing sentence /pol/ would describe as a "sign from Kek".

The fact that these idiots havn't found it proves to me they don't read a damn book in their life.

or the whole Dream Cycle, really

As many other have said, probably /pol/. I've seen alt-right reading lists, and it's limited to non-fiction, propaganda, or self-help books, because fiction is a marxist jewish agenda.

Very occasionally, one of their greentexts are alright.

On /co/ - I'm kinda biased here, but I fully support comics as their own artistic medium, and though the narrative can be compared to books, I think it's a pretty uninteresting discussion to have. The knee-jerk comparison to literature is unhelpful in almost all discussions about artistic merit.

That being said most comics really are shit, especially american cape comics.

On /tv/ you will usually find people who have read the source of any given tv show or movie, so that assessment can't be quite right.

Veeky Forums is aware of classics in personal finance and macroeconomics. The poisonous side of that board are the anti-bogle types, the day trading chartists with their moms money, and the bitcoin shills

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ohhhhhhh
haha

When he was young he trashed Twain but recognized his importance when he was older.

>90% of literature threads on /pol/ just post the Veeky Forums charts over and over again
They've definitely got the worst taste.

>Le pol is the wosrt board ever xDDD hehe meme we r'e so cool you guys accept me right? :) XDD

I loved when /pol/acks were going through that Nietzsche posting phase, because you could tell that literally none of them had read a single page of nietzsche's writings in their life.

I was really into comics until I was around 14 and got sick of the constant capeshit that made a resurgence around then. The only good capeshit is certain one off batman novels, anything taken from the serials is guaranteed to be littered with the cliches and is made to appeal to manchildren. Do you have any good comic recommendations? I want to get back into it because of know there is still some decent stuff. Also my movie ideas will never happen because I don't have 50 million dollars and a graphic novel seems like a good medium to take advantage of with my drawing abilities. Would anyone be interested in a Web comic of the French religious wars starting from the St. Bartholomew's day massacre to the crowing of Henry IV?

pol is so bad it goes beyond ironic to post ironic memes. Anyone who takes anything in that shithole somewhat seriously is already lost. It's not even the views themselves that are bad (they are) it's the level of rhetoric they discuss ideas with that is on the same level as uneducated day labourers whose main source of information is fm radio