I just wanted all of you to know that /lit/ is the worst board on 4chan.
Not a single person here is capable of any critical thinking about literature. Not once have I seen a discussion about Dante or Milton let alone any intelligent discussion at all. Experience leads me to believe that /lit/ is composed of sci-fi and fantasy readers who are, at the very least, literate and capable of assessing a piece of literature for its characters and plot; there are the readers of 20th century classics (I never want to hear the words Infinite Jest for the rest of my life) but I would hardly call them literate; then, there are tripfags, who-- although confirmedly illiterate-- can at least offer distractions from the soul crushingly mundane taste of the other two groups.

In the spirit of /lit/ I would like to offer a ranking of all of /lit/'s most revered authors. Of course, all of them are second rate (the only category in my ranking system is second rate)-- even though you c/lit/s would like to believe that, one, you have taste and, two, that you would be capable of grouping these authors into god and shit tier (and all of the intermediate tiers).

Hemingway
Faulkner
David Foster Wallace
H. S. Thompson
Dostoevsky
Tolstoy
Chekhov
Woolf
Flannery O'Connor
Salinger