r/badliterarystudies
4k members
r/badliterarystudies is a subreddit with 4k members. The most common kinds of discussions are pain & anger and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses literature, literary criticism, classics, books, and shakespeare.
A place where the Illiterati congregate, in their grand conspiracy to trick logical upstanding redditors into thinking that the author is dead and that books exist which aren't 1984 and Brave New World.
Popular Themes in r/badliterarystudies
#1
Pain & Anger
: "DAE notice that Catcher in the Rye is really bad & Holden is really whiny? I know I'll get downvoted to hell for this off-the-wall opinion, but I can't hold it in any longer: we need to break the silence on this "classic" and call it out for the literary sham that it is."
5 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Help me understand this bit of postmodernism"
2 posts
#3
Opportunities
: "[META] Should we create a list of required reading?"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/badliterarystudies
#1
Literature
: "/r/Literature discusses feminist dystopian fiction"
41 posts
#2
Literary Criticism
: "r/MrRobot user on Lolita: 'That is far too sick, disturbing and cheesy for me to register it as "beautiful".'"
30 posts
#3
Classics
: "/r/books proves yet again that they hate when books have meaning."
29 posts
#4
Books
: "/r/Books proves yet again that they hate when Books have meaning."
14 posts
#5
Shakespeare
: ""When you think about it, Shakespeare was really postmodern." "When you think about it, Milton was really postmodern." "When you think about it, Chaucer was really postmodern." "When you think about it, whatever sick cunt wrote Beowulf was really postmodern.""
8 posts
#6
Reading
: "Why read a book set in Jamaica when you can spend three days travelling to Jamaica instead? An economist on the marginal utility of Reading literature."
7 posts
#7
Literary Studies
: "Saul Bellow is badliterarystudies!"
5 posts
#8
Poetry
: "Poetry is awful self indulgent nonsense. It isn't very creative and liking it is pretentious. It's like when someone reads Poetry to an audience and they say oooh and ahhh it makes me want to rip my eyes out"
5 posts
#9
Postmodernism
: "Help me understand this bit of Postmodernism"
3 posts
#10
English Literature
3 posts
Flair Used in r/badliterarystudies
#1
What was shakespeare?
: "Shakespeare's speed of light."
1 post
Member Growth in r/badliterarystudies
Yearly
+31 members(0.8%)
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Last updated: September 21, 2026