It's cool and all to read only "high brow" literature and be a pretentious dude, but confess here, what some "low brow" books that you actually love to read.
>>23613813Kerouac, Poe, McMurtry
>>23613813the turner diaries, also lately i've been enjoying the stormlight archives
>>23613823hahahah
>>23613828t. pretends its smart because it read Mein Kamf
>>23613828hey anon! what's a lowbrow book that you love to read?
Not sure if it's low brow, but Frog and Toad is very comfy.
>>23613813Peterson and Findus is high art.
>>23613813I hate this stupid image. Glamourising soft complacence isn't a good thing.
I stick to feel-good middlebrow stuff like Christopher Moore for light reading, but go for literal middle school fiction, non erotic stories on erotic archives, and unhinged tumblr posts when I'm slumming. I found a good collection of autismo therianthrope stories for when I need to feel good about my own mental health.
>>23613813I like reading celebrity gossip biographies to fantasize about being someone with a life like that. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Hollywood Hellraisers are some of my favorites
>>23613813Stephen King. He can't write an ending, but up until that point his novels are so much fun (sometimes)
>>23613877i've only read 3? of his books but i remember them falling off around halfway through, i really had to grit my teeth to get through the stand after a delightful opening. i wish he would've done more coke.
The Metro series are some of my favorite genre books ever. Although they try to situate themselves in middlebrow territory with all of the philosophizing (and succeed somewhat I feel), but they definitely aren’t high brow.
Yeah, I like books about genetically modified super soldiers with daddy issues that go around fighting other genetically modified super soldiers with daddy issues. It's pure, mindless, testosterone-fueled nonsense that can be read in a single sitting, so I've read more 40k novels than I care to admit.
I'm getting into Dan Simmons' stuff with Hyperion, and it's mostly great. I thought Song of Kali was just ok, not phenomenal.
>>23613813these posts
>>23613854WAGIE mentality
I really love the James Herriot booksI love animals and I love Britain
>>23614038>I love Britainpeople that say this have some explaining to do, you at least need to clarify which Britain you love
>>23614044Multicultural Britain, not stiff upper lip Britain.
Slopmunching retards really love to imagine that everyone actually loves eating pigslop just like them. "How could someone not enjoy my delicious shit boiled in piss? It must be a pretence."
>>23613813jules verne
>>23614030Spiritual work should not be conflated with economic work. Sitting around and eating cake gets boring.
>>23614057based open niggerlover
To be honest, I can't recall the last time I read something that wasn't>Sci fi>fantasy >romance>sports>ya>some combination of the aboveI've been out of college for well over a decade. I've also long since stopped caring about what other people think
>>23614138Hey it's you again. Don't you ever want to read something older just out of curiosity?
>>23613813The Portuguese Irregular Verbs series by Alexander McCall Smith is hilarious. Seriously good stuff.
>>23614636Ever read the Careful Use of Compliments? It's been on my bookshelf for months now, no idea how it got there.
>>23614138What the fuck
This absolute genreslop somehow brought tears to my eyes last year. Super nostalgic, and I guess I'm just a sucker for the brave, stoic hero sacrificing his life for his people archetype.
>>23613813>>23613854It's a metaphor for opium.
Dipping my toes in the genre due to to films been reading some noir , thrillers and detective fiction.Tried:-Vera Caspary - Laura-Dorothy B Hughes- In a lonely place- Daniel Woodrell- Winters Bone- Cornell Woolrich - Rear WindowStarted pic related.
>>23613813For me, it's Diary of a wimpy kid
James Ellroy
>>23613813Captain Alatriste first three books.
>>23613813The unwind has no room for guilt. That being said, Le Guin is incredible for "low brow" reading. All of her fiction is vibrant and perfectly paced for people with slower metabolisms. Honorable mention to Peter S Beagle for similar, though not as affective, reasons.
You can't go wrong with Guy N. Smith.
>>23613813I really like American Gods. Its very honest about being a meandering American road trip even when its pretending to have a plot that doesn't suck
>>23614138Extremely based, just read what you think is fun
>>23614179Why would I want to read something old and about "muh human condition"? I just want to relax, have fun and get lost in another world.
>>23613813I love a good old school pulpy book like Burroughs
>>23614670I know. I love how it somehow mixes sports bios, chic-lit, comics and commercial franchise sci-fi.
>>23613813It’s Pettson och Findus and you can read it right now.
>>23614138Go Yanks
>>23613813moldbug
>>23613881>>23613877The trick is reading his novellas and short stories. The cokemouth is reigned in and they have better endings and if they suck you didn’t invest 600 pages to find out.
>>23613854“I HATE CHILLING I JUST CANT CHILL OUT!! ARGGGGGGGG!!!!!”
>>23614138Very good! Always try to enjoy yourself the beloved!
>>23613813I read to my daughter every night and honestly I love those books like Winnie-the-Pooh the humour is on point.
>>23616265Read the Plato friendly Illiad to your daughter don't make her a pseud like her dad
>>23613854>soft complacencecity slickers really think they're smart huh
>>23614138highest iq poster in this thread rn
>>23615767I kneel before you, grillmaxxing slopcel. Still you seem a little defensive about it.
>>23614138I don't believe it's a real reading list, you just put random retarded things together and think you're a funny dude don't you?
Boarding school lesbians.
>>23616656I liked this book. Very emo.
I can't read
>>23613813I really enjoy mid science fiction books, some Stephen King, true crime stuff and books about fucked up expeditions.
>>23613813Detectiveslop, I still hold a place near and dear to my heart for Holmes and Doyle for some reason. Kinda shitty I will never get the chance to be the eccentric detective genius but just the normie awkward friend that follows him around. Even victorian era slop was better writing than modern day slop.Also scifi, this board hates Azimov but im pretty fine with his work, even if the foundation series fully fell apart on me after the second book in my eyes
Not sure if it counts as low brow, but definitely westerns. God I fucking love Warlock
>>23617129Same but it's occult detectives for, like Carnacki and John Silence.
>>23613813LitRPGGenerally slop that got a manga adaptation
>>23613813>the grindReading books that make you think isn't "the grind". Actually doing useful work for your community is (and I'm not talking about working at starbucks or mcdonalds). And it's something none of you faggots have ever done. So do that, come back and then you can talk about the grind not being important.
>>23613840I fucking love frog and toad.I've read both books to my son like 50 times.
>>23616256Kek.
I'm pretty fond of Agatha Christie. It's pulp. Dated formulaic whodunnit slop. But sometimes she uses the word 'nigger' which is bueno.
>>23615767One can find a world in the human condition. Plenty of old writings established incredible worlds. Many if which paved the way for others to emerge. My hope is to one day be able to see a world in any mundane thing so clearly that I can get lost in it should I choose to. Turn water into wine and all that.
>>23613813Dan Brown and Matthew Reilly. I like a simple, fast read that has conspiracies and silly action. Is there a highbrow equivalent?
>>23618806Name of the Rose. Villa Incognito is underrated around here.
>>23613854Ecclesiastes 11:10: "Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity."
>>23618806Seconding Umberto Ecco, I really liked The Progue Cemetery. You would probably also like Robert Anton Wilsons Illuminates trilogy, though I would say its probably more middlebrow.
>>23618816>>23618830Appreciate the recs and put them all on my list.
>>23613854How dare anyone take a moment to enjoy the simple pleasures of life. Back to work!
I spend my time reading the Greeks (and occasionally I've been known to dabble in the epic poetry of some of the lesser cultures, think the Sumerians and Babble-lonians, the Chinks and Japs, etc.) and then in my time off I do Percocet.No, I don't read 'low brow literature' that would be for plebeians. No, I don't have a job either, I was born rich.
>>23618917By all means, rest on your laurels as the world burns. Taking that tack world wide wont lead to any lasting negative effects that lead to the inability to even experience future moments or anything. Surely.
>>23613854It's from a children's book you retarded pseud.Holy shit this fucking board.
ah yes the peak of serialized kino
>>23619695I ready and enjoyed Like 5 of them AS a kid but i completely forgot the Plot If there was any
>>23613813Dickens
>>23613813Koji Suzuki. He’s like if Stephen king was not retarded, and Japanese
>>23614678All of the Bungie era Halo novels are solid Military-SF. Fuck the haters.
>>23613813The Peter Kenny audiobooks of the Witcher series.Absolute YA angst slop, but it’s like a warm bath.
>>23614636Hey, I appreciate this rec. Thanks
>>23619695It’s cool how every generation gets their own “what if small to medium size forest animals were Shakespearean tragedies though” series.
>>23613813Tom ClancyRaymond E. FeistAlan Dean FosterForgotten Realms novelsDragonlance novelsStar Wars Expanded Universe novels
Surprised no one has posted Flashman.
First three Harry Potter books and Goosebumps during October for Halloween.
>>23618960Posting on and reading 4chan is resting. No more for you. Back to the grind to prevent the world burning
Classic literature is my guilty pleasure. Coming from someone who prefers reading non-fiction for self-education. Reading a book for fun is what I consider to be leisure and entertainment, most of my reading is serious study.
>>23613813I tried to read the Witcher series inbetween some non-fiction but couldn’t make it past the first novel. Hemingway, Austen and Murikami are what I go to for a comfy read.
>>23620950This is honestly how I feel about some of the pulpier classics, particularly the science fiction ones. A lot of them were originally written as cheap entertainment. Though Heart of Darkness was written in the same sort of context and is a great work of literature.
>>23613854Pettson is a self sufficient farmer you fucking retard. are you angry that he appears to be enjoying the fruit of his labor? kill yourself. seriously.
>>23622604Laboring for ones self is selfish. One should labor for something greater than themselves. Like for me. People should labor for me.
>>23622621he supports Findus. isn't that enough?
>>23620266I post him now and then on this board but he remains criminally underappreciated.
>>23616656This might interest you.
Moorcock is a master at writting 100 pages long fantasy pulp, most of his works are far from the likes of Tolkien but they are extremely fun to read.
>>23619695i second this ...very good characters and premise, and has plenty of side-stories/standalones/graphic novels to keep you from getting boredthat is, if u dont mind the constant melodrama lolol
I liked the captain underpants series as a child
>>23618816>>23618830Umberto Eco is slop
>>23622639How does he support it?
>>23624216Highbrow slop is a thing. It's like classy erotic poetry or Joyce making a fart joke.
>>23613813For me it's the vampire the masquerade novels.
Christopher MooreThomas HarrisJohn Irving kinda sits in between lowbrow and highbrowChuck KlostermanChina MievilleGene KerriganElmore LeonardDashiell HammettAgatha ChristieMary Higgins ClarkTamsyn MuirFuninori NakamuraKotaro IsakaS.A. CosbyGrady HendrixStephen Graham JonesThese are my go to easy read writers
>>23624344For being so popular, I never see Christopher Moore mentioned around here unless I'm doing it. Lamb gets some attention but I thought A Dirty Job was great.
>>23613813I like fantasy novels and incredibly violent old-school shonen manga from time to time.
>>23613813Colleen Hoover, but only because I’m reading to practice for my own romance novels.
>>23624379I teach lit and comp at a high school, and for the senior independent novel project, I gave them a list of commercial/popular fiction novels to analyze, and a lot of them chose Moore's work. So I do what I can to spread the love. I think he's a lot of fun but also hit and miss. Lamb, Dirty Job, Bloodsucking Fiends, are really funny and have some depth to them, but then he has books like coyote blue and Noir and the Shakespeare riffs which are just clever funny in a smarmy way, and not super memorable in that regard.If you like him, read Tom Robbins
>>23624216Nah, a book is slop when any semi decent writer could produce something similar and the work has all the trendy ingredients of the era. Name of the Rose has interesting philosophical and historical themes and cleraly Eco knew his shit as an academic in those topics. It is at the core a detective story like Sherlock Holmes, yes, but is miles above airport literature like the books of Dan Brown. I feel like anons here dismiss it just because it was popular during the 80s, but that doesn´t make it slop.
>>23616325No, check the shelf thread
>>23613813Blood MeridianHoly BibleThus Spake Zarathustra
>>23613813Georgie's Many Donged Fantasy Bonanza. Eapecially on audiobook.
>>23613813The Gereon Rath series. In German.
Warhammer40kslop. I certainly enjoy some books more than others, but more often then not I'm pleasantly surprised by their quality. I'm sort of predisposed to enjoy them as a fan of the game, but the novels both subvert and unabashedly steal sff concepts and tropes with just the right amount of respect to make it more comfortable than annoying. Even if I don't read quite as much sff as I used to, it takes me right back to when I was a kid who only read sff.
>>23613813I like listening to creepypasta online.
>>23622604Pettson lives in the fucking garden of Eden were cakes grow on trees and life is nonexistant
>>23625503Hell yeah brother
>>23613813Webnovels. I know most of the ones on royalroad, etc. follow a formula, but some of them (e.g. Worm, Last Angel) feel original enough to me to really captivate me.
>>23613813the Warriors series
Murakami is my guilty pleasure
>>23625832Where do you read them other than royal road? I wish to know my competition before I start posting.
I read fanfiction. It’s a nice replacement for social media
i genuinely enjoyed Bukowski's work, catch-22, catcher in the rye and molier's comedies other than that i mostly read canon and non fiction and i fucking hate myself
My personal guilty pleasure is the Orcs series by Stan Nicholls, read it around three times. It's goes downhill really quick, has really stereotypical characters, and a complete shit second cycle but I have a lot of love for the first three volumes. Great initial hook, but devolves into a Mcguffin hunting really quickly.>>23613889I don't really like space Marines but I love the 40k setting, I read the three Orks novel, and it was hilarious, especially when there was the contrast of the Orks chapters and those from the pov of other factions (Astra Militarum, Admech and Drukharis)>>23613907Hyperion first volume is great, I love stories with multiple narrators or with an anthology style . Really dislike the second volume and I dropped Endimyon quickly
>>23613813I love reading old hero pulps. The Spider is my favorite.
>>23625931I like ham on rye, post office, factotum, hot water music and rooming house madrigals. Betting on the muse had me in the first half but devolved into pseudo decadent slop and bitching about fame in the last half.
i read a wide varity of books.aside from the classics i read political extremist ya slop like turner diaries and the iron heel, i read nutjob manifestos like my twisted world and the odom manifesto, i read edgy novels that explore disturbed antisocial characters like the sluts and the diary of a rapist, and i read kids books like rumo and anne of green gables. i can't say i feel too guilty about any of them. i read only what interests me and reading what interests you is one thing you never feel you've done too much of.
>>23624600>If you like him, read Tom RobbinsWay ahead of you. I think I got into him in...2004? I think Robbins is more genuinely funny, but also total nonsense at times. He does some excellent vibes with it and reminds me of old anon humor in some ways. It makes me realize how divorced current /lit/ is from contemporary middlebrow fiction and how much the market for it has shrunk. Books like Fluke informed my taste and bridge the gap between heavy hitting depressioncore/unhinged autofiction and total slop. Books should be immediately entertaining and there's a joy and poignancy to reading that the middlebrow fosters. I don't you have a sense of what a better novel is unless you can compare it to that.
>>23616256lmao
>>23613823>smiling pepeabsolutely demented
>>23622604Holy cozy
Donald Duck comics
Mostly manga, but also fantasy and YA. I don’t read much fantasy or YA but I have a soft for Harry Potter and the line.
I don't give a shit about philosophy and the only non-fiction I read is the odd history book or tech/programming books. So in that sense about 90% of the shit I read is low brow slop according to the pseuds on this board.
>>23613813Warhammer slop.
>>23624600>Tom RobbinsI tried to read Still Life With Woodpecker and I just felt like he was just trying to be Vonnegut but even more reddit. and I *like* Vonnegut.anyway, Vonnegut is probably better read as pleasure than serious writing, notwithstanding he has more musings on the nature of humanity than Agatha Christie or whoever.for crime genre, Jim Thompson is a hell of a writer
PG Wodehouse audiobooks on youtube
>>23613823appropriate for a nazi retard
>>23625931>Bukowski's work, catch-22seconding these. CitR kind of fucked me up because I first read it as a kid and thought Holden was cool (pretty cringe, I know. I was probably 13) so when I reread it as an adult I thought it sucked because I had the memory of liking him and approached it as him being written as likable, so I hated it. since then, /lit/ told me that you aren't supposed to like him. so I'd probably like it now, lol. I read The Oceans Full of Bowling Balls when it leaked and that was a better survey of Salinger's writing. good stuff
all the Sherlock Holmes stories hold up, for me. I've re-read them at intervals several times through
>>23627595I've been listening to the Jeeves series while watering my yard in the evenings. It's maximum comfy to be honest.
>>23623562That is a living, Dickens wrote similar sort of serials, basically episodes in a tv show. Started as a journalist.
>>23627625I don't think Catcher is his best work, but that upsets the rampant novelism that controls most discussion. If you like him, you'll probably like Carson McCullers. There are some strong similarities there. Ballad of the Sad Café is an easy place to start, I don't think her short stories are as strong as many of her novels but the ones that hit, hit hard.
>>23613813Freddie Puck's Bootless. Short stories that are all about sex but in a downbeat noir kind of way. Also I can't believe no one's mentioned Jim Thompson yet.
>>23628320>I can't believe no one's mentioned Jim Thompson yetscroll up 9 posts
>>23614138Is Supernova any good?
Honestly? I wish I knew.After I fell out of love with fantasy around age 16 Ive never been able to find the same joy and addiction to reading.I suppose thats just what happens and I have discovered and gotten very interested in Great and Classic authors but once youre done reading most of their work there is no more, and even going through a Great and Classic authors writings is not the same as wishing slop franchise #435234 would never end.Its obviously the natural progression of things but I wish I could keep both alive.
>>23628329Well, damn, this is now a Jim Thompson thread.
great crime writer!
>>23628512i saw that movie on criterion channel is was mid but ok
Not exactly profound, but not unsubstantial either.
>>23625939You tried the Gaunt's Ghosts and Ciaphas Cain series yet?
James Clavell.
I don't care what the fuckers on goodreads thinks it's fun and the MC is cute
>>23627596What would you recommend for a Nazi genius
>>23613823I told you to read the StormFRONT archives darn it Stan
>>23613813My dad gave me his complete Tom Swift and Tom Swift Jr collection, pretty cozy and reminds me of reading with him as a kid. Also have every Redwall book - I could reread those endlessly.
I enjoy kid's books and I feel no guilt about it
I want to have sex with elves
>>23614138so lame
