When you hear people discuss classics they’ve read, women seem much more likely to say Lolita. On Reddit and Twitter threads about it or YouTube analysis or clips from the films, the comments are usually mostly women discussing it. There is an even a popular fashion trend among women based on it. But why? Where does the fascination come from?
>>25002090I suspect just as many men would say Lolita if it wasn't viewed as "problematic" by women. Only they're allowed to like it publicly, when men do it it's creepy.
>>25002090Women value style over substance, and Lolita is one of the most stylish books of all time
>>25002395This.>>25002554>>25005600Explain this then
>>25004373Women wish to be the little girl.
>>25002090>Why is Lolita so popular among women?probably because most women that are average-looking or better have had experiences with predatory men when they were teenagers.>>25002545>Nabakov's excellent prose.Humbert Humbert's internal monologue is written like a redditor. Part of the point of the book is that he's an insufferable pseudointellectual.
Average love story written by a man>Self insert author met a slighty average sweet girl that loves him. At worst shes a little too young for him but aside that its a vanilla love storyAverage love story written by a woman>Self insert is an average shy woman that keep switch hardcore sex between sociopatic billionaries, serial killers, vampires and so on that are all mean to anyone and use her as a fucktoy with some lovebombing in between. They are all also in the 0,30% top of male beautyWhat caused these two oppositive phenomenons? I read a lot of romantic slop books and can confirm these stereotypes are generally true
>Take female sex hormones to completely and officially drop out of thr race and not have to worry about it>Still get baited by shit like this.Hard to kick the blackpill bucket ngl.
>>25002682>Self insert is an average shy MAN that keep switch hardcore sex between sociopatic billionaries, serial killers, vampiresI read books/VNs like this
>>25003320Have you played what men like to consume, video games where they murder and steal?
>>25005699It's called CK3 and the temptation of murder makes our fantasy characters actually virtuous when they don't murder and stay faithful to their wives, the actual male fantasy.Any deviation from this is a result of chemicals in the water turning frogs gay.
A silent voice was written by a woman and it fucking sucks. The main character never earns their redemption. This is NPC-core because if you think this movie is romantic, you are a scumbag. I would hate to have you as a partner
Trust the Ratiocination! Concatenation is real! You HAVE had your seventh booster caffeine? You don't want to come down with a case of saturnine, that leads to chronic DOGMA!
The highest form of literature is a play written in poetic meter, all the complexities of the novel with the flowery language of poetry
Some of the biggest wastes of space are people who assert the utterly subjective as fact
>>25005541General and vague enough to be true.I agree!
>>25005498I love this cute pink-haired dad!>>25005540Such as...?
>>25005498The highest "form" is qualitatively irrelevant.The height of the arts are found in any *form*
>>25005498>more is betterSo then the highest form of media would be an epic poem, written in meter, visually acted, with music, that rhymes. Fuck it, throw in some 4d shit like they do in movie theaters.
What books do you read to attract love interests?
>>25000764Wtf does this even mean?
>>25000642imagine running your tongue from her clit up to her navel and rimming that belly button and from that biting and kissing and groping those large tits and then you push her head downwards to fuck her throat and cum on her tits
>>25000642The reason you don't get women is because you didn't grow up yet, mentally and emotionally. Adults don't gets nervous about socializing or about sex. Doing those things is almost completely instinctual and requires no effort, let alone personal development.
>>25003623Girls hate this shit lmao back in college freshman year whenever I brought a girl over to my dorm room they'd always ask me if my roommate's a psycho because he had a copy of how to win friends and influence people. (he was)
>>25003208>>25003639exactly what it says on the tin: she has the face of someone that was homeschooled.
It seems rock solid. Totally impenetrable. How do you even argue against rational Egoism?
Books that help you cope with the fact that you are not special and will never achieve your dreams?
>>25006228I can't understand why the anons here hate so much stoicism.
Anything religious that is against the world of the flesh.
>>25006236It got appropiated by grifters who sell AI-written philosophy tutorials in bookstores across the globe. We live in strange times.
>>25006287Well, you can always just read old editions and original authors. Problem solved.
>>25006156Weird how this fits so well both here and in the neighbor thread where a dude was asking recommendations of books for when you fucked up your lifeThe Tartar Steppe by Dino BuzzatiYou see Drogo also had a dream that was sold to him by the regime, he was convinced that this is the path to follow and he ignored every sign that pointed at him being wrong. Ultimately he paid the greatest price for his mistake and nothing ever happened.
>>25006403
/lit/ memes
>>24990300Best take on the guy I've seen
>book praises the act of reading as being brave and revolutionary
it is in Trump's america
dumb catposter
>>25006362
> really? come on, it's [current year]
>>25005270What book lel
Why does this chud refuse to show his face? What is he afraid of? I bet he fucked underage girls like Cormac, didn't he?
saved!
>>25001046>newfag thread>2 days oldoof
>>25001046>Writes the best novel of the modern era>refuses to elaborate>shitposts on the simpsons insteadbased
>>25003728>sex mentioned but it doesn't mean anything>tons of Europhobic stigma>tries to be anti-theme but it's theme is hating EuropeansIt was therapy for its author. Nothing more.
>>25006365>Upon receiving the scripts, he refused to say one line where he calls Homera “fat ass”, saying “Homer is my role model and I won’t speak ill of him.”Wtf based
Please share any books that would educate me on 1930s and 1940s Hollywood particularly popular culture
>>25005718>>25005737>>25005751its a kenneth kind of anger
>>25005755Is this supposed to be a joke
>>25005684Well i don't know how legitimately informative it may be. But Day of the Locust is set during that time.
>>25005772Thanks anon
Its also a film series by the same name. I think its all available on Tubi.
at the edge of the world editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>24975576
Speaking of AI, am I going crazy or do the new polish covers look very suspect?
>>25005289
>>25005801link them. we don't know wtf you're talking about
>>25005801The chance of another Polish guy sitting in this thread is close to 1%
>>25006355Does Polish-American count?
How come the rate of readership keeps declining but Barnes and Noble just keeps getting more popular over time
>>24982353look at all these fools replying to this with sincerity that lack the intelligence to differentiate between ragebait and genuine humanity and laugh at them
>>25004510>It's not a SUPER duper secret, but we try and play it close to the vest.Why?
>>25005977Then you come to find out that majority of the retardation comes from age. More than 70% of this board is over the age of 30. Grim. Leave my zoomer board fossilfucks, thanks.
>>25006290Millennial board. millennial website. Fuck off back to tiktok zoomie. You don't belong here.
>>25006237I honestly am not sure. It's just always been one of those things. Maybe if it becomes suddenly known as opposed to everyone knowing weeks or months in advance, it raises more interest? It's like that with a few sales every year. The "Book Haul" sale where lots of Signed Copies come up for sale and are available is a big secret for some reason, even though 99% of people couldn't care less about signed editions. The Criterion Sale is a big deal to them for some reason. Could possibly be to make sure sales continue up until the sale and so people don't just hold off on their normal, full priced purchases and just wait for the sale instead.
How have you turned knowledge into will thus far?
>>25004624Sharia and Islam did
