I just overheard some people talking about it in public. Does the average person really judge other people like this? It's so awful, but it's such a popular subbreddit! It's just so upsetting reading some of these comments.
>>25150000>wastedNow post the one where a guy has two copies of Lolita
>>25150000If it makes you feel any better, most of the people who do crap like this probably also read rapey dark romance trash so you've probably dodged a bullet. Also nice quads
>>25150000It's funny they're so illiterate they need to be told about the most famous authors of all time by plebbitors
>>25150000>Does the average person really judge other people like thisNot if they're hot.
>>25150000some people for sure are. the thing that really annoys me about it is that I consume shit that I don't like all the time, mostly music but books too. how are you ever gonna know if you like stuff if you don't try new things? I have plenty of books on my shelf that I didn't like. too many people figure out the one thing they like and stick to it for life, or dismiss stuff well before giving it a fair chance. you can sometimes infer things about people by what media they like, but they might like it for a reason you didn't think of. judging by just what's on the shelf is extra dumb though
>>25150009>falling for baitThe guy who owns the bookshelf is the same person who took the photo and made the post labeled "bookshelf of guy I'm dating"It's concern trolling
>>25150000I just browsed this shit for the first time and I kinda agree with them on some things. It is a red flag if you read ZERO female authors besides Ayn Rand and JKR lmao
>>25150000That whole sub is /lit/ 70% reddit males posting their bookshelves for (nominally) female validation that's mostly coming from other males.
>>25150538> red flag if you read ZERO female authors besides Ayn Rand and JKR lmaoWhy? And why stop there, why not tally the skin colours and ages and sexualities and political persuasions? What demographics are we supposed to follow exactly? Current year US demographics maybe?If you exclude one or more criteria or think the question is silly - why? The very premise that you must read some gender balance contains the assumption that author demographics are more important than the words on the page. What new premise contains this appeal to demographics just to women authors?I’ve never heard anyone articulate this beyond some handwavy bullshit about “diversity”, whatever the hell that means (also not specified).
>>25150000>Does the average person really judge other people like this?Yes - people are awful
>>25150576Because women are awesome sauce, and you should rope lil bro
>>25150000Was lurking over there a few days ago. Check out the shelves they actually praise; it’s all feminist or Marxist theory, mainstream slop novels, or witchcraft. The kinds of people who post and comment there are probably just as ugly on the outside as they are on the inside. It’s just a hangout for mentally ill midwit freaks.
>>25150611>It’s just a hangout for mentally ill midwit freaks.Now explain how that doesn't describe 4chan
>>25150622Over here it’s just a more tolerable variant of mentally ill freak. Also there’s the occasional gem in the rough.
Any red flags?Would you join our bookclub?
>>25150622Mentally ill midwit freak males are superior to mentally ill midwit freak females.
>>25150000Yes they do but they're redditors. We don't use books as an ego extension penis here and discuss them in good faith
>>25150622This is a hangout for mentally ill halfwit freaks
>>25150000>Nietzscheoh yeah, he's a chud
>>25150691that explains your presence
>>25150596hope she sees this bro
>>25150694You're a mentally ill witless freak
>>25150704I didn't ask for your morning mirror affirmations.
>>25150710It's a quote about you from your mother, who I slept with despite her extreme obesity
>>25150726The last time you touched a vagina was when you were born, faggot.
>>25150731My last fuck was your crush, actually. And I was from my mother’s womb untimely ripped.
>>25150000Thank god I still live with my parents and we have like 400 books in my home :D
>>25150747>My last fuck was your crush, actually. You've never had sex in your entire pathetic, worthless life.>And I was from my mother’s womb untimely ripped.They should have thrown you in the trash and raised the afterbirth.
>>25150761>I still live with my parentsshocked Pikachu face dot png
>>25150731>>25150764>the most valuable thing in the world is my vaaaaagiiiinaaaBrave and dare I say powerful.
>>25150635I'd join. It looks like a good mix of interesting books from classics to politics, philosophy, history, fun genre fiction, etc.The only book that seems out of place is "How Life Imitates Chess" by Kasparov, which looks like something you'd find sold at an airport. Other than, I'll probably add several of these to my "to read" list.
>>25150000>david dayI'd educate him about Day, but if he is already aware of Day's reputation, and still has that book, then it's a red flag.
>>25150637True
>>25150005I have 3 copies, one i bought, wife had one from highschool, and i got a third in a lot of everyman books.
>>25150952Thanks, much appreciated.This one is the chart covering the first half of our bookclub, which meets irl but started on /lit/ in 2021
>>25150000the point is to make sure that you know that your copy of mein kampfy chair is a fashion statement and you should get rid of every book you dont agree with, meaning only have 20 different copies of the king james version
>>25150538> It's a red flag if you don't read non-binary v8 engine dinosaurs from space that self-identify as a potted plantThat's how retarded you soundAlso:>>25150000Go. Back. To. Plebbit. Faggot.
>>25150000I'm sure 90% of the posts are autistic mental retards that post their bookshelf just to read girls say that they're edgy and dangerous. Cringe.
>>25150000>Does the average person really judge other people like this?Haven't you been on /lit/ before?
>>25150000the foidim have gone insane
>>25150000This person is in dire need of a copy of Fellowship
>>25150538It's a red flag your a performative male feminist sex pest if you have more than one or two female authors in your shelf
honestly, we just need to start judging women's bookshelves the same way. It would be so easy. >she only annotated the first 15 pages of Toni Morrison's Beloved. Guess it was too difficult for her! Hahaha!
>>25150747I ascended to my last fuck nigh thirty years ago. May God spare me the guilt of the indecency a man must suffer whose last drought, prior to its thirtieth year, brought him to such a place as a man would have to be in who is imminently to fuck my mother.
>>25151748Cringe writing. Barely legible.
>>25151737The are the biggest attention whores. Open Instagram, lookup "bookstagram" and you will come across millions of pictures of shelves with nothing but anglo YA, erotica and bad fantasy.
>>25150000That bookshelf is a red flag that the guy is a manchild who thinks he's smartgenreslop + kneechee and dudestoevski which he heard about on a podcast
>>25150322underrated post. 90% of online ragebait is exactly this, because I also do this.
>>25151210So how does your book club work?The "collective reads" makes sense but how does "presented reads" work? Do members just talk about a book they each read on their own? Is it more thorough like a book report of sorts or is it just a casual summary of the plot and what they thought?Did everyone meet on /lit/ or do you have some outsiders as well?
>>25150000I definitely look at what books people have lying around but I'd never take a photo to get a second opinion from fucking redditif they aren't books I recognize (or at least grasp the genre of based on titles and covers) then they aren't that important
>>25150000imagine dating a literal unthinking egoless eusocial drone.f. for homes.
>>25152086>Do members just talk about a book they each read on their own?Yeah, pretty much this. In 2021 we started out by reading the same books, but since when we do meet up, it's generally for the entire day (10-12 hours), a single book gets boring. After all we're not trying to replicate what reading a book was like back in school. Also people are more passionate about the books they read completely out of their own free will, rather than books chosen by the group as a consensus-compromise.>Is it more thorough like a book report of sorts or is it just a casual summary of the plot and what they thought?We try to each make "effortposts". The form of the book presentation is open for everyone to decide himself. Generally the book everyone presents at a particular meetup is kept secret up to the presentation. There've been all kinds of wild book presentations, some in special locations relating to the book, some using media, etc.For a time we were alternating between meetups where books are presented and meetups were our own writings were presented. At this point it's completely open what everyone brings, as long as it is some type of literature/art related effortpost.>Did everyone meet on /lit/ Everyone met via /lit/, via this thread: warosu.org/lit/thread/18305025 or one of the subsequent ones. No one knew each other from before.>or do you have some outsiders as well?As you can see from the chart, we've had guests, some of which came via /lit/ and some from irl contacts of members. But the core members were all recruited from /lit/
I'm liking this subreddit more than /lit/!
>>25151028don't forget the one your butler gifted you
>>25151210Reclam is great, I have an bunch and I'm not even a Germ.
>>25150596Hey, never post here again dipshit.
>>25152264Kek. Burned.
>read the leddit thread>almost all are saying his bookshelf is a green flag
How in the hell can reddit be so much more based than 4chan now-a-days?
I'd post mine in there, but half of my books are in spanish, so EOPs wouldn't get it
>>25150000>Does the average personNo. Not the average person.
>>25152268Nope + L + Rope lil bro. I will keep posting like I have for many years and you will never know you are actually talking to me.
>>25152294>Just started dating this guy, bookshelves look pretty normal but he has this one book called "El Mein Kampfo" by Adolfo Hitler on his shelf and I've never heard of it before.
>>25152606Latin spice makes fascist tendencies endearing.
>>25150000Lol, I want to post my shelf on here and watch them struggle to decipher nothing but esoteric shit from the 1800s no one has ever heard of.
>>25152191>>25152191I'm jealous. The only book clubs in my area are a half dozen "social justice" book clubs and one for old women to read chick lit.
>>25152606>see Mein Kampf on guy's bookshelf>it's the Ford translation
>>25152814>decipher nothing but esoteric shit from the 1800s no one has ever heard of.In other words, psued.
is /lit/ turnover so great none of you remember like 3 months ago when we uploaded an image to this subreddit and they all believed it even though it was the most absurd collection of books imaginable?
>>25152842We could always form a book club, Anon.
>>25152293If you are alluding to Dostoevsky’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Brothers Karamazov and the ghastly Crime and Punishment rigamarole. No, I do not object to soul-searching and self-revelation, but in those books the soul, and the sins, and the sentimentality, and the journalese, hardly warrant the tedious and muddled search. Dostoyevsky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity – all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of ”sinning their way to Jesus” or, as a Russian author, Ivan Bunin, put it more bluntly, ”spilling Jesus all over the place." Crime and Punishment’s plot did not seem as incredibly banal in 1866 when the book was written as it does now when noble prostitutes are apt to be received a little cynically by experienced readers. Dostoyevsky never really got over the influence which the European mystery novel and the sentimental novel made upon him. The sentimental influence implied that kind of conflict he liked—placing virtuous people in pathetic situations and then extracting from these situations the last ounce of pathos. Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. I admit that some of his scenes, some of his tremendous farcical rows are extraordinarily amusing. But his sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment—by this reader anyway. Dostoyevsky seems to have been chosen by the destiny of Russian letters to become Russia’s greatest playwright, but he took the wrong turning and wrote novels.
>>25150000i'd be interested to hear what they think of this list of filenames on my e-reader.https://files.catbox.moe/zr20vi.txt
>>25150761Family libraries are so fucking good>tfw making sure I gift at least one book to my family members every ChristmasWhen my dad retires, I'll hopefully have given him enough /lit/ well worth his time to read with my mom. Sci-fi for him; fantasy for her; historical fiction for both, as well
Fake reddit bullshit to waste your time and feelings on banal digital garbage.
>>25150538>It is a red flag if you...it is a red flag if you make any kind of a public big deal about what someone/anyone else reads!
>>25150622>>It’s just a hangout for mentally ill midwit freaks.>Now explain how that doesn't describe 4chanwe're mostly mentally ill *intelligent* freaks, and everyone knows it. if 4xhan were all idiots? the powers that be wouldn't concern themselves with us. we swing elections, we locate terrorist camps. we locate and see puppy torturer/murderers put away. what's reddit ever accomplished besides whining performatively.
>>25153754>we>we, we, weWe did it, 4chan!
>>25153280There should be a running numbered thread to constantly try and form new irl bookclubs around the world. If you're not in a major US city there's basically zero chance of any happenings as long as it depends on someone from your area making a thread and you visiting /lit/ at the right time to see it.
>>25153310>names files by author first then title of the book
>>25153267kek this thread?https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24602659just read through it again, pretty funny
>>25150635>>25151210I gotta give credit, well established lit with good mixture of literary fiction and non-fiction, I have read many of the literary works and got some ideas from the list myself, good luck with the club.
>>25153162What is wrong with the Ford translation?
>>25154240Dalton translation is the only way to go
>>25154240Riddled with errors.
>>25154349>Anything other than StalagLol. Lmao, even.
>>25150000What do these places think of Mishima? Surely they would tell you to run for the hills because of le facismo author. Despite his works being sublime.
>>25154625>>25150000These sort of judgements do not say anything about the work in question, theyre about the personality that can be read off from their selection of books. For example. Nietzsche, Mishima, Dostoevsky, Tolkien, etc are great authors beloved by almost everyone. but if someone's bookshelf is primarily composed of those, you kinda know whats up. post such a bookshelf in a thread here and people would call your taste 'based' or whatever. well-read normies can pick up on that scent too.
Ive seen that. Half of the comments are>um not enough women and POC authors! Run!Redditors are fags
>>25153327Be glad that you have family members who read. Neither of my parents or my two brothers read any books. My only surviving grandparent is my maternal grandfather and he doesn't read either.Getting them gifts is the worst since they just vegetate in front of screens and have no hobbies or aspirations.
>>25150000>the averageChecked. The masses are capable of anything. Democides last century prove that, redoubled by the whole "let's line up for no control group 'trials', no long term studies, 100% immunity government gene transfection therapy for an illness with insignificant R0 over winter flu." Nuremberg Code violations they Karen'd out on 5 years ago. Their cups aren't full, so they're filled with spite and demons. Illiterate shelf heuristics aren't even the tip of the iceberg.
>>25153754>we're mostly mentally ill *intelligent* freaks, and everyone knows it.lol, lmao.
>>25153298I'm a Christcuck. BK is the novel that contains the whole universe within. I'm high on my own Christian fumes.
>>25154844Nietzsche and Dosto could mean anything. Only plus an extensive Mishima stack would make it carry any real info about personality type or political preferences, and even then it's not much more than RW but antinomian, anti-conservative, anti-""""trad""", high-openness etc. Hardly the chud (or even "based") caricature that morons who've never read any of those authors will leap to
>>25150000>R*dditors found in publicGee. I saw a Bluesky user on transit once. It has since turned into a cold case. You need to grow a pair and take out the laundry.In all realness -- I need to get Jordan Peterson's "Wash Your Cock" on my bookshelf because I need to show women I'm what R*ddit thinks a chud is. I love when the clutch their pearls, it's such an old fashioned thing to get up to in 2026. I like this Victorian quality of R*ddit; because heaven knows, R*ddit is the fester of tolerant libertines and that attribute makes me scared for society. They need to believe in good and bad somehow.
>>25155760Those four years of penal servitude Dostoyevsky spent in Siberia he spent in the company of murderers and thieves, no segregation having been yet introduced between ordinary and political criminals. He described them in his ''Memoirs from the House of Death'' (1862). They do not make a pleasant reading. All the humiliations and hardships he endured are described in detail, as also the criminals among whom he lived. Not to go completely mad in those surroundings, Dostoyevsky had to find some sort of escape. This he found in a neurotic Christianism which he developed during these years. His emotional life up to that time had been unhappy. In Siberia he had married, but this first marriage proved unsatisfactory. In 1862-63 he had an affair with a woman writer and in her company visited England, France and Germany. This woman, whom he later characterized as ''infernal,'' seems to have been an evil character. Later she married Rozanov, an extraordinary writer combining moments of exceptional genius with manifestations of astounding naivete. (I knew Rozanov, but he had married another woman by that time.) This woman seems to have had a rather unfortunate influence on Dostoyevsky, further upsetting his unstable spirit. It was during this first trip abroad to Germany that the first manifestation of his passion for gambling appeared which during the rest of his life was the plague of his family and an insurmountable obstacle to any kind of material ease or peace to himself. Just as I have no ear for music, I have to my regret no ear for Dostoyevsky the Prophet. The very best thing he ever wrote seems to me to be ''The Double.'' It is the story - told very elaborately, in great, almost Joycean detail (as the critic Mirsky notes), and in a style intensely saturated with phonetic and rhythmical expressiveness - of a government clerk who goes mad, obsessed by the idea that a fellow clerk has usurped his identity. It is a perfect work of art, that story, but it hardly exists for the followers of Dostoyevsky the Prophet, because it was written in the 1840's, long before his so-called great novels; and moreover its imitation of Gogol is so striking as to seem at times almost a parody. Dostoyevsky characterizes his people through situation, through ethical matters, their psychological reactions, their inside ripples. After describing the looks of a character, he uses the old-fashioned device of not referring to his specific physical appearance anymore in the scenes with him. This is not the way of an artist - say Tolstoy - who sees his character in his mind all the time and knows exactly the specific gesture he will employ at this or that moment.
You can fuck this mindset out of a mid liberal girl in two to three weeks.
this is why i only fuck with mexican girls. they dont care about this dumb shit. they just want to look pretty, drive a nice truck, get their nails and hair done, get fucked and have light skinned babies
>>25154112this is the correct way because it allows me to sort alphabetically and have them grouped by author in order of last name, obviously.
>>25150538I will purposely not read a book if it's written by a female
>>25150538Who are you posing for, do you take your photos with a bookshelf behind and make sure there are females authors so the world can see?>>25153746This guy knows the truth, read whatever you want and also try to read what others don't.
>>25154119>EvolaStill shitty that I assumed Revolt would be a political tract and not 400 pages of DO THE RITUALS RETARD OR AT LEAST BE A HERO OR YOUR GODSELF WON'T EXIST AND YOU'LL GET TOTEMED. Interesting read though.
>>25154108Be the change you want to see in the world, anon
>>25155771I do think everyone on lit understands you can own lots of mishima and still not agree even slightly with his politcs (I hope.) Mishimas politics are obviously very Japan specific anyhow. Theres not much of anything political for someone not Japnese to even align with.
>>25157010Again these sort of judgements are not about whether you agree with those authors or not or whether what they're saying fits a particular worldview. Its what current social mechanisms most likely got you to hear about and buy that book (which is always probabilistic in nature). Mishima is commonly but not exclusively recommended in right wing spaces. Similarly the Nietzsche-Dosto combo was kind of a Jordan Peterson special when he was still kicking it. None of these are automatic if-then red flags, but they give an increasingly more likely picture of which online circles you hang in.
>>25150538Why women are bad writers. I did like SE Hinton in 5th grade though.
>>25151028Very subtle cable
>>25150000Guys, I'm worried. Are there any red flags?
>>25158072The white border.
That’s just what reddit does
>>25150000>The women who wanted to post their own bookshelf for attention and validation are seething at the women who post supposedly male bookshelves to start a man-hating circlejerklel, civil war between the two species of women on the Internet.
>>25150576If you don't like literally any female authors you have poor taste. If you like Rand or JKR you have poor taste. Easy peasy!
>>25150635Oh I'm reading The Peregrine right now
>>25151729>your
>>25159895the Peregrine is our clubs mascot, you can see it at the top of the 2nd chart
>>25150635saved
>>25159359I think it might mostly be guys baiting foids and foids + guys acting foids falling for it or pretending to
