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Deities Edition>Old:>>25072147>Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs):https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg
>>25091813Robert E. Howard
>>25091723He's a hard gay.
>>25091689Epstein basically had a Dûnyain breeding program planned. He was going to recruit high IQ poor women and pay them to be bred with billionaire and scientist seed. Then raise the kids in a conditioned environment. I don't think he ever got too far with the plan but based on their ideology you can be sure others will try and will also try to hide it.The idea of recruiting high IQ third world women to use as disposable Whale Mothers in particular is on point.You now realize the Dûnyain would have been neoliberals.
>>25091723I don't think we ever see him lusting after men, but that might just be repression. When backed into a high tension cat and mouse later he decides to shift the paradigm by asserting dominance and gay raping his opponent and then he spends the next decades raping dick girls.
>>25085746>it gets good after 700 pagesIt's fans are the same people that drop books before chapter 2. The first book was dogshit and I don't trust their opinions to continue.
What am I in for?
>>25089977You'll be sucked in!
>>25089977Low effort thread starter, OP, no? What to expect? Surely you have some idea... But I will respond as I adore the text. Also, there's only like two ppl asides me here who have read this text so I feel obligated lest this thread die w no response. I think however that most us fans do not post so oft here anymore too. Homo Abyssus is exit level so to speak. At least I don't bother much. But mayb a few will show up and surprise me.Anyhow. Ulrich is basically the greatest philosopher of the last hundred years. A metaphysician and ontologist par excellence. Theologically committed but a true philosopher nonetheless. His work is heavily Thomistic, one might even say Aristotelian or Platonic as well, but remains in dialogue with modernity, namely German Idealism and Phenomenology. In fact, it deepens the commitments of Idealism and Phenomenology and shows the way beyond both. In a sense, he is more Hegelian than Hegel and more Heideggerian than Heidegger. A little bit of familiarity with both will go a long way. Despite being Catholic, which many see as retrograde, his work is future oriented and goes beyond stale dogmatic Thomism or neo Thomism as a solution to the problems of modernity and being. It also resonates deeply w Pryzwara who is another amazing Catholic philosopher. Analogia Entis would be another good companion piece. I will say it helps to know a little bit of Latin. Tis left untranslated in there sometimes. References to Aquinas and others. Also there's sometimes German translation notes that help draw out connections to other thinkers insofar as he borrows terminology. Your mileage may vary depending on education, I suppose. But good luck and Godspeed.PS: check out the communio panel!https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeifPMILG4Kaq0Mlzt0jZTVUhEL4tAt53&si=Lr8pjP5EGk2DMpcu
What author healed you from your digital media addiction?
>>25091666that's how all addictions feel.it's an addiction.
>>25091196does he ever say anything back?
>>25090709OP is assuming everyone on this site is addicted
>>25091316pedo
>>25091235NTA. And I am Eastern anon, but I have definitely found that it is remaining in touch with the aspiration that precedes the change in the rest of… everything really. It's not the other way around, the other way around is not working precisely because it is lacking in the content, in being in touch, it is just blindly struggling against what is. I don't recall a whole lot, naturally given my rather low state in the current times.
Seriously, I've dropped the 4 most famous of his novels at around ~50%.The atmosphere he creates is good, but is it all he has? No plot (not that it really matters), no philosophy, no deep feelings, no interesting characters, no poetry in his descriptions. It's just everyday life with bits of dream like elements.Maybe I got spoiled, because the last books I read were for Tolstoy and Mishima, but I really don't get why murakami is so highly rated.
>>25091816You need to be the type to embrace the subjective dream-like nature of reality to really appreciate this guy.
>>25091816Poor man's Borges. It's japanese fiction for middle aged anglo women.
Started reading The French Revolution by Carlyle. Its an absolutely insane work by an incredible author. Any Carlyle fans here?
I am a lot smarter than the people I interact with. Even among highly intelligent groups, most of them are stupid. What this feels like is that everyone I talk to seems fucking retarded. Day in and day out, it's just retards. Retards online, retards in person, retards on the phone, fucking retards everywhere. Everything is run and decided by retards. I have to listen to retards, pretend their retarded ideas are good, and pretend to be retarded myself, just to interact with the world. The natural reaction is withdrawing socially, but that won't save you when most everything is written and created by retards. Imagine if your entire life was a special ed classroom. Except the teacher is special ed too, and the desks were made by special ed retards, and the entire curriculum was written by a retard. That's what it feels like. It's just immensely tiring and frustrating. I don't know if I can handle it any more. Books for this? No Schopenhauer.>erm calling yourself intelligent is hecking cringe o algoShut the fuck up you stupid fucking pseud. I'm tired of you fucking animals.
is /lit/ really this easy to baitshame on you all
>>25089953As someone who works with retards professionally, never underestimate them. The insanely creative ways they manage to cheat on the exams I give them shocks me.
you are probably just an autist who can't figure out how to socially function, sucks to be you anon
Get your paper up. Literally. That retards would have been incapable of uses of numbers beyond addition and subtraction would have precluded any productive uses of financial instruments would have been exactly how the non zombies would have eaten them throughout history. Normies cannot, will not and would have always not have been able to have issued quantifiable predictions over numbers. Grown ass military aged armed men in america do nothing to those to have eaten and raped their kids thus be not afraid
>>25091762not sure if ESL or poorly programmed chatbot
Chat is this true, or is it just a case of the French ruining otherwise good European legends?
>>25091452Sure, that's you, but why have most men always felt like their sense of worth lies entirely in being servile to his goddess or muse or what have you? Nor do they find such a position contemptible.There has to be some deep seated psychological mechanism operating there. Social conditioning may play a role, of course.
>>25091478Most men just want pussy, don't overcomplicate it
>>25091478>>25091515most men are homosexual;
>>25091519If that were true, the simp problem would not exist, as men don't gatekeep cock the way women gatekeep pussy
>>25090161>hUrR iF rApE Was LeGal DuRRyou'd get killed in the streets by her male relatives, and it would be good riddance.
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I want to meet the Fair Folk even though I know it's almost certainly a bad idea. I know the stories. I know the danger they present to people who don't know what they're doing. But they can't help but intrigue me. I think I am courteous enough to survive an encounter with them, and I want to see them.
us is so cooked even the idf stopped gynocentric spamming but feds would have carried it on
I've had enough. Just pushed the /lit/ killing button. You have 24 hours left to live, morons.
I wish it was the 60s I wish we could be happy
>>25091608you must fuck her anon
Can his publisher sue him for refusing to finish the series?
>>25088954Thats why authors need to be held in contempt of shareholders.
>>25088888Numbers of truth
>>25088888kek
>>25091208unc crashing out lmfao fr
>>25088888fpbp and quints, the ideal would be for them to tell George when he's bedridden and dying that they've decided to feed his work into the slopmachine.
I will finally read house of leaves and already checked a place that has it and I'm probably going to buy it tomorrow, however, english is not my first language, I can probably understand everything but i'm more comfortable reading in spanish my native language. The library has both version, english and spanish and as I know this book is something special I need help choosing whether to read the more challenging but original verison or the comfortable but maybe not faithful spanish version. I know it might be silly but I've been hyped for this book for years and I really want my experience to be perfect. Also if you have any advice, everything is welcome, thanks
>>25090724it's not as good as the hype might have led you to believe. get the spanish edition, the translation doesn't matter all that much.
>>25090742lowering my expectations is good in case I end up not liking it
>>25090724I thought it was great, keep your expectations high.
>>25090742>>25091702Personally, it was not anything like what I was expecting but I still enjoyed it. For some reason I was expecting it to be more scary based on how other people talked about it. It was less scary and more eerie I found. Also kinda difficult to follow the different narratives going on at once but I guess that's part of the experience. I'd def advise to do your native language. It's going to be a difficult read already, don't add a language barrier on top of that.
>>25090724It's not a good novel at all, I think it is quite bad in fact, so you are probably better off reading it in your language so you don't end up thinking you may have missed something due to the language barrier>any adviceWhat you see is what you get. No puzzles to solve. No esoteric meaning. It's a gimmick
Prosefags need to be rounded up and lobotomized
The strongest minds don't read the works of lesser minds.
>>25091297Poets are just failed novelists
>>25091783.
>>25091637This, and it's why Hugo is greater than Melville, Nabokov, Pynchon, etc.
>>25090590plot is the unity of fictional media wtf it's plot > characters > prose...
Books like this?
>>25088156
Have any of you miserable fucks read any of these?https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/162620.King_in_Yellow_Fiction_Have_You_Seen_the_Yellow_Sign_
>>25088149>lovecraft for people who don’t actually understand lovecraft or what makes lovecraft good or why lovecraft got popular and bubbled up from obscurity into the public consciousness Plenty of that around these days. This is the best example though. Also an excellent sleep aid.
>>25088149>Books like this?Now that you mention it, I think there were a few books written by an obscure chap named Howard Phillips Lovecraft, who I don't blame you for not having heard of because he's fairly unknown even in literary circles, which took inspiration from The King in Yellow. May be worth checking out if you can find a copy somewhere - as said, Lovecraft is pretty obscure, so tracking down some of his works might take a while.
>>25088149IMO some of Clark Ashton Smith's stuff is the closest you cat get.
Books about female loneliness?
>>25091094Where do I find a cute lonely mentally ill twink to manipulate into loving me?>t. fat ugly bastard
>>25090854
>>25091033The previous post to the one you replied to, idiot.
>>25090918You got a list for male loneliness as well that isn't the usual meme picks?
>>25091638>when they’ve finally been acknowledged as having a male-centric-problem that should be addressedBecause it hasn't been acknowledged, because it's not an actual fucking thing. How are you so dense to pick up that it's all a sham used by grifters and then turn around and eat it all up? Loneliness is not a new thing, and there are countless books and films and music about it, it's just that bitter, stupid, empty minded ugly men have decided to create a term to make themselves feel better about not having sex. The irony is that you're buying into this male loneliness epidemic while most likely trying to pretend women can't experience it because they can have sex easily. I know /lit/ is still a dumb board like any other, but I still expect better than some /tv/ tier posters here, and maybe that's my fault.
She's not a good writer and her criticisms are mostly informed by her social/political views, and I say that as someone who agrees with her.
>>25091249That's The Mortal Instruments series you're thinking of.
>>25081676She isn't a goodw riter but she's a good writer and her critiques are accurate. Being able to produce good material is not a prerequisite of being able to identify bad material, in fact you have to learn the latter first to be able to acquire the former skill. There is nothing odd about this.
>>25091401>She isn't a goodw riter but she's a good writerShe isn't a good writer but she is a good READER, Jesus
>>25081676/lit/ Anita Sarkeesian for chuds.
>"Good is when no bad, and when less bad the more good">Accepting criticism is woke actually.Not the brightest person in the room.
