Essential core thread

>oh em GEE we don lyK da same videya gamesss im MAD

why does someone with english class literature tastes think he can talk to me this way

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita
>Many authors consider it the greatest work of the 20th century, and it has been included in several lists of best books, such as Time's List of the 100 Best Novels, Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century, Bokklubben World Library, Modern Library's 100 Best Novels, and The Big Read.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn
>Commonly named among the Great American Novels
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea
>In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness
>Literary critic Harold Bloom wrote that Heart of Darkness had been analysed more than any other work of literature that is studied in universities and colleges
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye
>The novel was included on Time Magazine's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923, and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, it was listed at number 15 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.

stick to percy jackson bubba

please stop trying to defend your very boring tastes. we get it, you arent able to step out of your comfort zone

i am truly sorry that your philistinism prevents you from enjoying great works of literature

>literally babys first nabokov/twain/hemingway
they are good books but not that impressive, mate. I dont get the impression you read a lot beyond skimming the most basic classics

God, I can't imagine anyone being this fucking boring. Every single one of these choices is a hyper popular property that says NOTHING about you except that there is nothing to say.

Are you trying to make a chart of what you think other people like?

Get some fucking opinions.

you are a massive faggot. take your faggotry somewhere else

>nabokov, twain and hemingways magnum opuses
maybe you could argue that the sun also rises is hemingways best book. i dont think so. anyway the point of this exercise is not to impress you with my taste in literature. it's to tell you my favorite books

Literally books that iq 105 retards think of when someone says "name some classic books" because they haven't read a single book since high school that isn't a doujin.

>thinks hating things that are universally liked is a personality
i feel bad for you

>the sun also rises is hemingways best book
ding ding ding
and obviously you havent read Pale Fire or else that would be your nabokov pick

alright enough dabbing on op, you can start taking potshots at me now

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It's not about not liking those things, it's that ALL 15 of the media you chose other than video games are hyper popular things considered almost universally as very good, by people who "should know", and the 5 video games are the blandest mass appeal normie shit physically possible.

These look like top 5s of what I'd get if I googled "best x of all time according to 30 year old dudes"

Not a single spark of individuality or taste from you.

>Pale Fire or else that would be your nabokov pick
Lolita is without a doubt Nabokov's greatest work. Widespread consensus on that.

See, this person is a human being, holy shit. I can tell he's got tastes and interests, and things he likes and doesn't like. There are a FEW classic core things in here, but it's because this user likes them and they're good, not because he feels he's SUPPOSED to like them.

God, I'm honestly baffled at how soulless op is.

jackson & his computer band were awesome

alright
Persepolis isnt /lit/. Nothing wrong with it, but comics and literature are two different mediums. You wouldnt put a screenplay or a play script in /lit/, would you?

Choosing your opinions on consensus is why everyone's shitting on you.

I am genuinely beginning to doubt you ever read Lolita in the first place

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dude!! i rarely meet someone who knows who jackson even is. he put out an ambient track this year weirdly enough, but has been relatively quiet otherwise. sebastian has hinted that he's getting up to something, though
no i suppose you're right. i just don't really read very much so i wasn't sure what else to put that i've enjoyed reading

>considered almost universally as very good, by people who "should know"
are you trying to shit on me because my favorite albums and books are critically acclaimed? I'm sorry that I think the beatles are better than car seat headrest or whatever indie nonsense you jerk off too in an attempt to feel superior

what he's saying is that your chart is just one big appeal to authority. whatever music he likes isn't better than yours because it's more obscure, it's better because you can tell when someone gives a shit and digs deep into their hobby. it just looks like you're wading through puddles with your chart. if you really like those books, i implore you to read different works by them. you might genuinely be surprised how much you like another of their works more than what was defined as their best by popular opinion

you make bold claims like "pale fire is nabokovs best work" but when i point out that your opinion is not shared by literary critics all of a sudden i'm choosing opinions on consensus? lol

holy fuck this is a good troll

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You have NO taste. I don't mean you have bad taste, I mean you literally have no opinions.

Please explain to me why you like Lolita, or any of the other books you listed, without resorting to describing what others have said about them.

It must be, I'm having an existential crisis someone could be this devoid of humanity.

OP is such a stereotypical pretentious midwit it's hard to believe he's not trolling. It's hard to believe people this bland actually exist in real life, and that they would post something like this on Yas Forums and be proud of their milquetoast opinions here.

I bet his sole defense of this monument to mediocrity is "akshully it's a highly acclaimed and respected..." for everything. Literally everything. OP went his whole life without ever having to form an opinion, and defines his personality with media somebody told him was good.

i see now. it is impossible to study the history of music and come out enjoying highway 61. just as it is impossible to be well read and enjoy huck finn. cool. my new favorite book is the doors of perception and my favorite album is meat is murder

I'm literally this but without the videogames part

>monument to mediocrity
>bob dylan
>the beatles
yeah ok

It's possible to like those things, it's not possible to be genuinely well read and not have read less acclaimed books that appeal to you as an individual much more. If you had 1 or 2 highschool reading list classics, it still looks a bit midwit tier, but it's possible, if you have 5, it means soulless.

Old man and the sea is based, it is short to so even if you don't like by the end you won't have wasted too much time. I didn;t understand the point of the story until about 3/4 in though and then it just fucking hit me like a truck. Great book and the way it is written is actually pleasant to read.

You didn't study shit. It's blatantly obvious when literally everything about you is an amalgamation of the most popular and acclaimed whatever. It shows you just follow trends and pick up stuff based on what other people say about it. You don't actually have taste, you don't have an original opinion, all you can do is regurgitate manufactured statements you found somewhere.

or maybe, just maybe I have an appreciation for rock and roll and enjoy the most versatile and innovative band of all time. that could be it too

It doesn't matter how good or bad the things on your chart are, their greatness does not transfer to you. The mediocrity being memorialized is your own.

>the most versatile and innovative band of all time
I too like Beach Boys

imagine deriving superiority from the obscurity of your favorite things

I'm happy to have the Sgt Pepper vs Pet Sounds conversation but don't forget Pet Sounds is influenced by and a response to rubber soul.

Not obscurity. You keep repeating this like a brick wall. You are literally an NPC.

>You are literally an NPC.
ebic meme bro lulz heres an upDOOT

What people are objecting to isn't liking popular things, it's your lack of authenticity. You're a fake. You don't actually like any of the things on your chart, and it's obvious. You picked things that are popular and widely acclaimed in the hopes it would make you seem cultured but you overdid it by making it match public opinion too much. You have no individuality, nothing that indicates there's a real person attached to this.When your "favorites" are indistinguishable from a googled list of "top ____ of all time" then you are basically just a permeable blob of popular opinions.

I doubt you have any rationale for why you like anything you listed except "well it's good".

Yas Forums was very hard. i listen to individual tracks more than whole albums so it was hard to narrow it down.

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I too would be happy to have a nice beatles and beach boys conversation but its obvious you want some sort of debate where you can regurgitate factoids instead of actually talking about the stuff you like about the music

>I doubt you have any rationale for why you like anything you listed except "well it's good".
He is just baiting. Notice the whole thread he has never once explained in his own thoughts and words what makes these things his favorites.

>not picking the best i monster album

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i love all of i monster :( it was too hard to narrow down. bright sparks is probably my true favourite by them, swarf has just been stuck in my head lately.

I'm glad someone ripped into OP for not bothering to have his own thoughts and opinions. When I saw the OP that's exactly what I wanted to do

everyone elses chart SUCKs

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yeah man. yeah, you got me beat with movie game and spongebob

that's a pretty big claim to be making...