What was the point of this?
>>24777904There wasn't anything in particular wrong with Long Sun, but it's among the weakest of Wolfe's works and would have benefited from being abridged to the length of three books, if not two. Urth might be the weakest installment in the New Sun series, but that still puts it on the upper half of Wolfe's work.
>>24777927if you're looking at all of wolfe's work, there's no way long sun is near the bottom. it's comfortably mid as a series, with nightside being very, very good. you also can't really read short sun with out it, and short sun is wolfe at his absolute best so i would give long sun a similar courtesy.
>>24777965Short Sun is easily Wolfe's best work, but the only particular value to Long Sun is that it's necessary to really understand Short Sun. I'm glad I read Long Sun, but I've read Short Sun three times now and I have no interest in giving Long Sun a second read. I'd sooner read Short Sun again, or New Sun, or Latro (Arete isn't that good, but it's one book and not four), or Wizard Knight, or Borrowed Man (but not Interlibrary Loan). Wolfe has worse books, (the two already mentioned, There Are Doors, probably a couple of others that aren't coming to mind right now), but he's got too many excellent books to bother rereading a long and mediocre series.
>>24777999I'm not about to silently put up with this Long Sun slander. Long Sun shines as a political epic in a way that you just don't get in New Sun/Short Sun. It's a necessary and enjoyable part of the series and without it we wouldn't have Silk.
I started his Wizard Knight stuff and was immediately filtered. Am I retarded?
I just read it, truly amazing, what from Hesse should i read next? I am also open to suggestions regarding different authors
>>24777401you are right fren, but u don't have to be offensive about it
>>24777812He's not, the genre is defined by it's themes of becoming, identity crisis, moral development, societal expectations, emotional maturation, self-actualization, not age limited around boys first boner. What do you think a MID-LIFE crisis is? They focus on the coming of age period because youth start in a state of naivety but many continue to follow the character into middle and late adulthood as those themes evolve into legacy, reconcilloation, acceptance: Martin Eden, The Magic Mountain, The Glass Bead Game
>>24778006yes, but there is a convention of "Bildungsroman" referring to a youthful period, going from childhood or youth into maturity. it's just a convention, but you are right about character arcs in general. i don't disagree with you that most good books have the essence of a "coming of age" in some kind.
>>24777802https://poestories.com/summaries.php
>>24775505>Debian and narcissus & goldmund are plain and frankly not worth a readit's mostly used on servers these days anyway
>>24778131Is he liked here? Iâve seen him call himself the king of lit
>>24777998/lit/'s resident flat-earther.
>>24778157Nobody likes you kys Gardner.
Imagine a forced meme. Now imagine the meme the person who is forcing is himself. Now imagine he is actually paying to have the meme forced and using AI to pump out books ascribed to himself. Yet he still hasnât become a memeThatâs F. Gardner
Donât know donât care
Well /lit/, is he right?
>>24777997seethe about it
>>24776854It wasn't that he used drugs, it's that he became so brainfried that he believed he was a prophet personally guided by both God and the hermetic gods to save the West, combined with him telling his entire embarrassing life story as a means of "proving" his claims. Part of his life story revealed that his mom was a deranged schizo, which he seems to have inherited and unlocked after his trip. It's tragic and I feel bad for the guy basically Syd Barretting himself, but I wouldn't take his opinion all that seriously.
>>24777947>make useless thread>thread turns to dogshit. >shocked that this is so.What did you expect anon. Do better lol
>>24777947>It would appear that i have made a mistake in thinking /lit/ has good comprehensionit's ok anon it happens to many others as well
>>24771291um based?
JP has been in the ICU for the past month due to neuropathy possibly related to mold. MP suggests he and her daughter are being attacked by demons. Press F or something.
>>24778277He senses that God himself is attacking him for his heresy and evil deeds.
Netanyahu poisoned him for not being an effective enough shill for Israel
groyper curse
>>24778175a rare form of mold native to Epstein Island
>Be giga cuck Engels>Write The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State>"Patriarchy was caused by private property, Incel!1!1!1!">Men hoard wealth to oppress women & control inheritance>âMuh agricultural revolution makes men evil oppressors!1!1!1!â>Monogamy is prison for women to secure rich dudeâs stuff>Look into Darwin's works>Say natural selection and competition decide who dominate the world >Males are stronger, more aggressive (evolutionary trained for hunter and combat and later confirmed by modern biology that men have much higher testosterone than woman)>Meanwhile women have been the helpless meat (3/4 of domestic abuse and rape victims are women)>Physical superiority determines control of resources
>>24777342>how thoughDidnât Engels literally raise Marxâs child of an affair so that he wouldnât have to own up to his wife?
>>24777722You don't even know how to speak English
>>24778249Moronic tourist
>>24778298>no uThis is the smartest guy on reddit
>>24777121As an infohazard, it worked brilliantly as a Malthusian population and capital suppressor on the Continent, and endlessly 'developing' nations forming the lumpenprole biomass of the world . . . As Lenin states innumerably, there is a ratcheting operation of class-fitness redefining lumpenproles as technological advancement progresses, and which slates them for slavery and/or elimination, something hardly removed from climate change secular gnostic original sin of carbon consumption obliging the removal of useless eaters.>>24777197>I still can't believe Marx was a racist, given that commies in general perceive racism as the nightmarish result of colonialism and resource extractions for capital accumulation.. . . Peoples retarded in historical/material development are inherently retrograde-reactionary. Only the West had/has Workers and High Technological Industry as suchâ ends absolutely justifies the means in Fabian-Liberalism (to secure drone enforced global panopticon stasis) and Communism, chasing eternal Meiji Revoluton hyper-industrialization toward 'post-scarcity' singularity. Barearsed savages playing cargo cult catch up are irrelevant outside of geopolitical mob-nation incitement and nominal sovereignty over rare earths/energy to prevent free for all warfare to land grab them.
I was walking home from having breakfast & reading Milton at my local Wetherspoons, and and I saw picrel and Deida's the Way of the Superior man lying in a box of recycling outside a house. I am a student and live in an area filled with students, and also pakis. I can just imagine the loser that bought these books while he was at Uni to become powerful but was too lazy and zoomified to even bother reading them, and laughed to myself. Now, I long ago decided that these types of books are just slop for midwit gymbro and "entrepreneurs" escape the matrix type normgroids to buy because some pua on tiktok told them these are the two best books for young men to obtain muh power and influence. I will confess I read a bit of Deida's book when I was about 16 and bored of it quickly and got rid of it. I have never even bothered to glance at 48 Laws of Power but since it was lying there for the Binmen and in perfect condition I impulsively picked it up. Now I am not sure I will bother to read it as I have quite a lengthy list and am in the middle of 2 books at the moment, and I actually feel embarassed putting on my bookshelf but I don't know. I have read some of The Prince from a philosophical and historical perspective, is it just a rehash of Machiavellian ideas or is it a different beast entirely? What are /lit/'s thoughts on this tome of power?
>>24777328>reading Milton at my local Wetherspoons
>>24777443
>>24777328Cool story anon How can I subscribe to your blogpost?
I think its appeal is the historical anecdotes. Don't read it as an instruction manual but as a warning on how retarded people in power are. Just read it nigga
>>24777328It's useful. Yes people call Greene a hack because it's been done before but so what? All he did was take Machiavelli, Gracian, Sun Tzu, Pere Joseph, Montaigne, etc., and give a condensed modern take on the whole thing. He filters out the retards by not spelling out exact instructions. You learn by the historical examples he gives throughout the book. Every single retard who complains about this book says a version of the same argument; I read the book and don't feel powerful kek.This is a book you read, meditate, AND take action. This book is useless without action. It's not all manipulation, you can use it to defend yourself. His book on the laws of human nature is also excellent.
nigga is talking about heaven and hell. I thought Buddhism was proto atheism
>>24777823Oof, big mistake.
>>24773136>niggaWe don't talk like that here. Hard R please.
>>24775396What exactly do you think reincarnation (a term many Buddhists object to âpreferring the term ârebirthââsince âreincarnationâ implies the existence of Atman, the soul, being âincarnatedâ, and all sect of Buddhism deny the existence of the soul) is?
>>24778253>(a term many Buddhists object to>âpreferring the term ârebirthââsince âreincarnationâ implies the existence of Atman, the soul, being âincarnatedâ, and all sect of Buddhism deny the existence of the soul)Ugh
>>24775503Friend, if I told you what else I discovered reading the suttas, I am not sure you would be able to recover from the ensuing heart attack.
Candlemass edition.Old >>24771208
Raw mushroom salad with raw portobello and shiitake mushrooms, lettuce, onions, grated pecorino and parmesan, blue cheese dressing, and croutons. What is the literary reason this dish tastes so good? Pic barely related.
>history of how humans have ravaged the planet for money>any talk about overpopulation is racist
>>24778244>Raj PatelWhat were you expecting
>>24776454kek>>24777916Believing that they were so ugly and autistic that evolution/society had removed them from the breeding process.>>24776507Pricing virginity at all is what damages people, whether its purity in girls or experience for boys, it can only do harm. I'm glad we agree bro.>>24776527Women and men, because everyone does this.>>24777918I am an immature piece of shit who is subject to the disease in my brain, I can't confidently claim I have any free will. No matter what I change, there's a constant that lingers in my head. I would love to believe any other sane being has an influence in their life. But I can't claim that for myself.
>>24778289I don't want to read this conversation anymore. Its depressing me
Which stage of the simulacrum are we currently in?
>>24778212The stage where I fuck your mother and never call her back.
Stage L
FARD, SHID, CUM
>>24777700Just keep in mind that sheâs a limited hangout. Her book on Area 51 is disinformation horseshit.
>>24777700All female "writers" are the same bro. Literally just pick any book with a girl's name on it.
Christ is Lord. Read your Bible.
>>24778188>But muh baybleChristianity didn't freeze in time after Revelation was written down.Even if it was, oral tradition exited and still exists
If op were akshually a sincere, studied Christian they wouldâve used âKing.â Youâre posting in a bait thread.
>>24778192Youâre welcome in the Antiochian church. >>24778218>>24778232Youâre not welcome in the Antiochian church.
>>24778232i'm actually from the eastern bloc lolbut yeah, it's the same as a westerner taking hinduism seriously - the complete lack of any connection to the "cultural" aesthetic will make it meaningless and "based on vibes". i honestly think you can't really shop around for faith denominations if you actually want to follow something.
>>24778125lmao do christians really believe in this fantasy lore
>>24778101Enjoy your EMP and bitrot.Paper is king. It has lasted and it will last another thousand years.
>>24778101>doomsday scenario>dropping the e-book reader>the inevitable and consistent failure of hard drives>typical battery failures>burgeoning antipiracy measures due to internet regulationnone of these things are doomsday scenarios. i didn't say the sun would explode and electricity would vanish. besides, I read literature, not fag shit, so there would be no reason to burn my books. they'd probably award me with managing a library or two when they see my collection.
>>24776451Iâm not poor and I prefer physical.
>>24776458>FCUX-FtM
>>24776451these threads are always about one vs the other when a reasonable person does both
Why do you think 2666 came to be the greatest book of all time?
>>24778171I'm reading it right now, honestly I preferred The Savage Detectives. Only 400 pages in though.
Is he an atheist?
>>24775020In the lowest part of the fresco it looks like the Dominicans were organizing dog fights. I suspect some kind of symbolism for the Dominicans being God's hounds - Domini= Lord God and canis= dog.
>>24774146negation isn't privation
>>24775526That's a great find anon
>>24776162explain?
>>24775526what's with old paintings and crazy metaphors did they expect people to actually get it
