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I've only started my reading hobby a month back and tried Andy Weir's works and the "prose" was so god awful that I was shocked it was published, got popular, and then got a movie adaptation. It felt like I was reading reddit-comments combined with (the worst of) fanfiction.net tier writing. Like how is this a professional work?Like 90% of the snippets anons post here have superior writing including shlocky erotica. Although, it just goes to show that having an eyecatching concept/premise is the important thing if you want to gain "success".
>>23401099Anon, BookTok isn't an ironic meme, people sincerely believe that getting lit recs from the Chinese spyware app is better than just walking to their local library.
>>23401059>criticize prose>write like fucking dogshit yourself>"uhhhhhhh dont be boring :)"lmao
>>23400779So because other people write shit, I should be okay with writing trash?
>>23400779fixeddont know why midwits feel the need to add random wordsI bet you say "per se" a lot too, dumb faggot
>>23401123>>23401116>criticizing the "prose" of comments and posts in forums.Calling you a midwit would be generous. You're a retard.
>found my old classmates Instagram page>everyone is having vacation in some island and/or getting marriedwhat books can I read to cope with this shit
offtopic. no book will help you "cope" with this. take your whining to >>>/adv/
>>23400286Weapons grade cope.
>>23400556I would assume what's stopping him is the expenses of finding a place to stay for a week. But you also have to remember he'd vacation alone. He probably doesn't do anything on weekends or free time, so why would it matter if he did it in a different city? You could go to tourism spots, restaurants, or cool places in your city/local area. Yet you don't. So chaning locations won't change anything. He'd still just sit alone whatever place he rents and post on 4chan all day.
>>23400826https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour
>>23401146kindle is key. "reading" while checking out chicks at the beach
>what would happen if Pinocchio says "my knows will grow"which philosopher has an answer to that?
>>23401142Isn't this just a different version of that Socrates story?
>>23401142It will get smaller
the knows knows
>author self-inserts and ruins the novel
Behold! The Power of AI Edition/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION:https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQ(embed)RESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS:https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvC(embed)Please limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.Previous: >>23382472
>character pop in while writing cause it's more convenient for a new face to deliver exposition>feel obligatory need to kill him an arc or two later due to outliving his usefulness>can't find a proper way to kill the character, discard him as a side causality for whatever current conflict there isThis is probably the worst trait of my fictions.
>>23401047You should kill everybody. Even the main character. Do it without actually resolving the story. In the real world, not every protagonist makes it to the end. It’s, like, deep.
>>23399757Definitely got the “shit” part right. Nobody cares about your fucking D&D campaign.
>>23401047Can you consider retiring him? Putting him in the freezer in some situation that needn’t be described in much detail like “went to work to Somalia”, “is undercover in Hell’s Kitchen” or “quit his job and we can’t reach him atm”. Whatever fits your genre.
Why are you retards unable to write anything other than cyberpunk or dnd fantasy slop copycats. It's a completely soul less genre and is so obvious of a larp that i don't understand how you can convince yourselves that it could lead to any success. Can someone help me understand this, because it doesn't seem to make any sense.
I struggle forth to find a friend to light the way for me.Oh brothers can you hear my voice? Or am I all alone?If there’s no fire to guide my way, then I will start my own.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctpfRxvC0JQ
No Lovecraft thread? Let's fix that.
>>23399044I got this from the official store last year but it was full of grammatical errors (even though it was the "revised" purple bookmark version). Please buy Lovecraft collections from any place other than Barnes and Noble. Anything but this brick with LITERALLY a thousand grammar mistakes
>>23394120I read his stuff when I was a child. It influenced my vocabulary
What other Cthulhu Mythos authors do you recommend besides Lovecraft?
>>23401140Clark Aston Smith
>>23394120Anyone knows the name of the story about a blind man that writes down his final moments while being stalked by some unknown menace?
here's your sacred scripture bro
>>23400465>all othersOnly the ones you like. The fact that Christianity contributed to forming you is the biggest stain on that whole enterprise.You replied to a post where I was defending a religion I don't adhere to against the most mindless group of retards that have ever lived in a thread "spewing hatred" about that religion.In your diseased mind even suggesting being slightly reasonable about targets of your media induced derangements is "getting defensive over my superstition".
>>23399394>The only thing that can be called life affirming (in opposition to death worship) would be those ideologies which emphasize the flourishing and prosperity of human kind on earth in the one life we know we can live. The set of ideas which best fit this bill is secular humanism.Secular humanism can't reproduce itself and relies on cannibalizing the third world to keep itself going. This is an actual legitimate death cult.
>>23400193>tomorrow: shitting on the street is the right thing>day after tomorrow: eating shit is where it's atNuke /fit/ or India I dont care just do it
>>23400719I'm the guy doctors hate because of this one weird trick.
>>23400718It's successfully reproduced itself since 1700 until 1960 without third world immigration.
Are there any?
>>23387961Childhood's End has certain beats in that vein. I explicitly read it due to the similar themes to NGE, and it didn’t lesve me disappointed.
>>23397247Is Asuka the sister he rapes in his dream?
>>23387961Idk but I want to make Asuka a single mom
>>23393809This is literally me lol
>>23391018Looks like the previous reply hit the nail squarely on the head.
>>23400397Philosophy is a place where any thought can be validated. If you hate God but want answers to life then it seems like something worth pursuing.
>>23401085>Philosophy is a place where any thought can be validated.Nigga go back and start with the Plato
>>23400397Have humanities always been a joke or this just a millennial thing?
>>23401034Why do you say that? (Also, it's very plainly a fetish that exists, it's just not the primary cause of dysphoria for every single non-straight trans woman as Blanchard theorized.)
>>23401034>>23401119I think this discussion should focused not on whether AGP is a myth But on whether it's okay to represent transgender through these grifters, or "transtrenders" as they call it
I repeat: DO NOT BUY BOOKS FROM PASSAGE PRESS. Owner got exposed as a homosexual Jew larping as a fascist.I did buy their Storm of Steel, trans Creighton. It was of the utmost quality, but after discovering the owner is a Jew masquerading as an anon with fascist tendencies, I can no longer continue to support.
>>23393823NTA but I don't see how it's remotely incorrect. Which of the books on passage press aren't acquirable elsewhere? As far as I can see, it isn't as if their publishing house is re-printing anything that's particularly rare/out of print. As >>23394057 said, it's just a means of making money off signalling that you're part of a somewhat underground 'in-group', without actually creating and delivering any real value. It would be like building up then marketing your 'human bio-diversity'-oriented publishing house, where you just reprint and mail people "Campbell's Biology, X edition", alongside offering some less-trodden bioinformatics texts that are otherwise readily available off Springer or something.
>>23401078Correction: The Land and Yarvis texts are a useful addition for sure. Xenosystems isn't particularly accessible, so kudos for that, credit where credit is due. Otherwise, seems pretty run of the mill.
>>23400451Tbh it's Fuentes' own fault for cultivating such a distasteful juvenile audience.
>>23392923>Owner got exposed as a homosexual Jew larping as a fascist.Why did you call him an homosexual twice?
>>23398111What was this guys critique?
All the possible terminologies and creative wording and concepts have all been laid out for us 50 fucking years before we were born. TRY and write Cyberpunk without regurgitating what another book said YEARS ago and that sounds way better, just try.
>>23398692alright fine you got me
>>23398692That was not me, idiot.
>>23398308Just write a noir then make the femme fatal a computer and the mcmuffin your misunderstanding of technology
>>23398308neuromancer is so horribly written. the bridge trilogy he could actually afford a decent editor. none of his novels are good but virtual light is at least decently written.
>>23398384Reads like it should be a romance novel, written by a women for women. Too much needless description of things that drags on for too long.
Oligarch’s Parallel Lives includes 48 biographies of important men. The term “parallel” refers to the fact that Plutarch organized them in pairs, a Roman and Greek, then after each pair writes a bit on how the two lives mirror each other.So what would be some pairs in a modern Plutarch?I’ll startFDR and Benjamin NetanyahuRonald Reagan and Javier MileiMargaret Thatcher and Golda Meir
>>23399183Too bad genetics show they are levantine chandala. Phenotypic traits can change easily and quickly, and are only a handfulYou will never be European shlomo
>>23399198After 2017 he got seriously involved with yarvin and other actual zionists and he dialed down the lip service to antisemitic right. He was always proud of his jewishness tho look at his Yale essays berating those attacking the "small state of Israel" as he said jfl>>23399209He has no influence still
Bottom Age Phaggot
>>23399240He has so much influence that major periodicals write about him and he has his own wiki article.
Most of /lit/ has never read Plutarch butRousseau = MarxRobespierre = LeninCitizen = ComradeAntonelle = TrotskyJacobin = BolshevikConspiracy of Equals = Chernoe ZnamiaReign of Terror = Red TerrorBonaparte = StalinFouché = Beria
Axolotl edition.Previous: >>23396065
>>23400191The late 90s were better in my opinion, and I've no serious complaints about where and how I live now. Doubtless you jest about your condition and status, particularly when it comes to virginity.
>be me>read a lot as a kid then stopped as a teen now wanted to go back>internet people tell me Pynchon is good >pick up V.>wow reading is so much fun first few minutes>get to the Herbert Stencil >filtered hard>maybe it's not for me yet, better read something else>spend 2 years reading Knausgard, Proust, Dostojewski, Tolstoy>ok im ready to get back at it>pick up V. again>wow this is very fun>get to the Herbert Stencil parts again>filtered hard againComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Burn all books.
>>23401105I only had scrap paper and a mechanical pencil but I bet my retarded cow is better than your retarded cow.
>>23401111I haven't read V, but I just finished my second reading of Gravity's Rainbow and enjoyed it very much. You have to get a feel for his sense of humor for his stories to make any sense.
