I write for illiterates.
What is there even left to read after him?? Why is his prose so good?
>>24946400Reads like a parody.>a delicious distension of my innermost roots became a glowing tingleLMAO
>>24949493Yes, almost like it was written to be the kind of thing that character would write.>>24948729>>24948735Agreed. Literature has less to do with fun and imagination than people realize.
>>24948719This anon >>24948776 is being hysterical, muh ART; however the argument I heard in favor of Lolita is that pedophilia is a symbol more or less to represent the issue (which extended to the infinite in the 20th century) of the environment of high sexual stimulation (in terms of media environment and women's clothing) and reduced opportunity for actual sexual satisfaction. It is dubious why pedophilia is so interesting to him and for myself I cannot interest myself in the book, but pedophilia is the major obsession of the modern world as its population collapses, so it makes sense to write a book on the issue
>>24948719Weinginer:>It is just the same with other characteristics of the man of genius. Not only the material, but also the spirit, of his work is subject to periodic change. At one time he is inclined to a philosophical and scientific view; at another time the artistic influence is strongest; at one time his intervals are altogether in the direction of history and the growth of civilisation; later on it is “nature” (compare Nietzsche’s “Studies in Infinity” with his “Zarathustra”); at another time he is a mystic, at yet another simplicity itself! (Björnson and Maurice Maeterlinck are good modern examples.) In fact, the “amplitude” of the periods of famous men is so great, the different revelations of their nature so various, so many different individuals appear in them, that the periodicity of their mental life may be taken almost as diagnostic. I must make a remark sufficiently obvious from all this, as to the existence of almost incredibly great changes in the personal appearance of men of genius from time to time. Comparison of the portraits at different times of Goethe, Beethoven, Kant, or Schopenhauer are enough to establish this. The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his talent.>People with an unchanging expression are low in the intellectual scale. Physiognomists, therefore, must not be surprised that men of genius, in whose faces a new side of their minds is continually being revealed, are difficult to classify, and that their individualities leave little permanent mark on their features.>It is possible that my introductory description of genius will be repudiated indignantly, because it would imply that a Shakespeare has the vulgarity of his Falstaff, the rascality of his Iago, the boorishness of his Caliban, and because it identifies great men with all the low and contemptible things that they have described. As a matter of fact, men of genius do conform to my description, and as their biographies show, are liable to the strangest passions and the most repulsive instincts.
>>24950176reading lolita for "symbols" that represent social issues at large is like attending communion to get drunk or becoming a buddhist to bulk.>>24948719>If you actually tried writing seriously, you'd see that you can't write well about the stuff that you you find personally disgusting or isn't your fetish.nabokov has written about diarrhea, gay sex, gay sex during intestinal infections, old people sex, murder, torture and his characters all have qualities that are his complete opposite. his next two novels were about a man who can't speak english and a terrible academic. on the theme of children, he definitely valued childhood (going by how much of SM is dedicated to his own) and thought of losing one's childhood as a great source of pity, pity being one half of his formula for beauty.
You lived through the age of opportunity, a type of golden shitposting age if you will.In no previous time period could a man shitpost with such fervor and with such great ease.In the east communism kept people in strict order and behind an invisible firewall. Climbing up the hierarchy truly did require exception shitposting skills especially social ones. The communist block would see a brief glimpse of opportunity for 2 generations, yet it would also be plagued by western elites abusing the falling system for their gains.In the south the african ways have never changed. Shitposting is shunned and crushed by a violent R-selected collective. Reproduce fast, die young, even if external factors don't demand it their genes will drive them to idiocy.In the islamic world a more orderly violence remains but shitposting is still mostly hereditary or limited to truly exceptional individuals.In the far east with rare exceptions the asian blood demands obedience and limited creativity so shitposting is rare there. Perhaps Japan could be considered an exception but not for long.All of these people have some sort of reason to claim the conditions brought them down.But you, who lived in the West, you can truly say "we experienced an unprecedented age of freedom of expression and shitposting opportunities"That time is coming to an end. Years of shitposting recession are coming. Some say years of high austere measures will come with them, others claim a total clamp down on shitposting and non-approved speech due to the upcoming digital ID and surveillance bills.Either way there will be less opportunity to shitpost, all major platforms will be hit, censorship will rise, information of everything that was in abundance before will be limited if available at all. There will be less venues to shitpost and some anonymous venues like these (4chud), now deemed the pinnacle of shitposting, will become obsolete.
>>24950647Tldr.
No leí una mierda.
>>24950647Quit your whining you retard.Didn't read a word though.
The US has a shitposting president and shitposts have more influence on major policy decisions globally than ever.The shitpostocratic imperium rises.
Recommend some Soviet literature to me.
Better than Life & Fate because it made the same Westoid critics who praised L&F for its criticisms of Stalin seethe on account of Stalingrad's praise of the Red Army
>>24948657The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years - Chinghiz Aitmatov
Envy --- Yury Olesha
Ilf and Petrov's The Twelve Chairs
>>24948657Short stories by maxim gorki
>If there is a danger, it lies in the Negro music and dancing that has been imported into Europe. This music has completely won over a whole section of the cultured population of Europe, to the point of real fanaticism. It is inconceivable that the incessant repetition of the Negroes’ physical gestures as they dance around their fetishes or that the constant sound of the syncopated rhythm of jazz bands should have no ideological effects.Was unc spittin fax here?
>>24950708Yeah but its over for Europe and the worldz Black American culture is the most popular with the youth in fashion and music because it is the most Vitalistic and captures the youth, that's why whites, arabs, indians, Chinese all want to be black and copy their culture
>>24950708obligatory /mu/ pic related
>>24950735>it is the most Vitalistic and captures the youthIt's the most corrosive, because it aims at the youth while representing and celebrating the worst traits of youth: irresponsibility, uneducatedness, frivolity, naivety, promiscuity, shortsighted thinking, inexpirience, inconsidered use of drugs and so on. If the children of a society accept this culture as their own, the downfall begins. I think that the breaking point was Elvis Presley and the fact that the adult people who despised Elvis were too powerless against the young and stupid masses who loved him so maniacally. Elvis and his enablers and lovers started the mass cultural destruction of the west. Elvis was the original wigger.>>24950751based
>age>location>current read
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>>24931414>age 28>location Amerikistan>current readThe War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas LlosaOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
>>24935478I'm one of twenty people living in this hellscape province but good luck finding where>>24931414>22>Saskatchewan, Canada>The Mayor of Casterbridge
>27 >Iran>Experiencing Fiction by James Phelan
>>2493141421 IsraelJust finished Watership Down
What the FUCK was Stephen King thinking?
>>24941886kek
>>24933848Why don't women ever run a train on a man?
i always felt like stephen kings stories were always creepypasta scp tier bullshit that would barely fly on some 2000s internet forum for tweens retards. why is he so lauded, exactly?
>>24946769Age of consent is 14 in most of Europe. The girl in the book didn't reach puberty yet and if I recall doesn't even have a 2 digit age yet. Only literal Muslims would excuse this with 9 year Olds being considered "old enough"
>>24950724He is one of the first writers that had a bigger "expanded connected universe" throughout all of his novels. It's now overdone and a cliche to have a bigger universe throughout all your works but Stephen King started his in the 70s. So especially with the dark tower series where he wraps up the narrative it's seen as one huge interconnected story which makes Gen x piss and shit their pants with hype.His writing is very dated and if you don't like his particular style he's not going to stick with you. He has written so much stuff that you will most likely love at least one of his books.I loved the long walk and "under the dome" as they are pretty brutal with unique concepts and good character writing.But yeah there are no illusions that he isn't an actual pedophile. He literally shits on Trump every day EXCEPT for the epstein files, where suddenly he is pro-trump and against releasing the files. Dude fucks kids.
Anyone else see Dick Van Dyke as Jason Taverner. Just finished this book. Still scratching my head at how KR 3 turned that girl into a skeleton.
>>24950742It really was weird to me. I guess she was turned into a skeleton because an immense amount of time was made to pass through her body when reality changed back, which really means her body was made to go through the same immense amount of time until, inevitably, it withered down to only a skeleton.
>>24949295>he doesn't own a $20 solar panel that charges your ereader fully in 30 minutes of sunlightApocalypse can come tonight and I wouldn't notice it besides 4chan being down.
>>24947268Do none of you use an IRC?
I use calibre. Reading anywhere but on a desktop computer is cause for distraction.
>>24950783I love to read in nature when it's sunny and in bed when it's winter. I used to read behind my desk using calibre as well but I notice I read way more now that I have an ereader because it's just more convenient. Also I never expected this but the epaper screens are genuinely adding a lot of value. The "print" quality is higher than actual paper books and it looks indistinguishable to paper. I can never go back to reading from a lcd monitor or oled phone screen.Physical books are cumbersome to hold for extended periods of time and I usually read 4 - 5 books at the same time (one non fiction history, one non fiction about a specific field or interest, a fiction guilty pleasure book, some genre fiction and some genuine classic literature) I won't be carrying an entire backpack filled with books with me wherever I go.
>>24950783>Reading anywhere but on a desktop computer is cause for distraction.how so?
>december 2025>novel still unfinished
>>24949403>>24949415>>24949509What is yalls method for writting? I am only able to make actual contributions to my drafts when an overwhelming feeling of certainty arises, giving me great inspiration and the knowledge to put together my lesser drafts into proper pages
>>24949403So ~50,000 words?On the shorter side>>24949415There are a bunch of booktubers vlogging about the 7th draft of their novel>>24950537I only write when I feel inspiration and have coffee, which is most days
>>24949415>another draftAnon…
>>24950537I've had a concept for like 2 years but no larger story to tie it into, then I randomly thought of another element that would make it a whole story one day, and I've combined those with older concepts that I've had in mind for some time and have drafted scenes and short stories around. I have a lot of scenes and storylines in my head I want to hit, so since I have a base my main process is kind of riffing off the parts I've set in play and building towards major scenes, a lot of improv mixed with following a very rough outline that I have in my head. In my edit or rewrite or whatever I plan on really streamlining everything
>>24948774>119.5k words>roughly 15k left>no progress since AugustI'm supposed to get back to it next week once my finals are over, but I still have no idea how I'm gonna end this thing.
Just got caught up with this series, it's about feudal power armor knights doing battle with terminators and robot demi-gods where the main character kills a female robot so hard that she basically comes back as a female yandere robot that desperately needs to be impregnated by the main character.
>>24948742That sounds awesome. Did you write this?
>>24950046No, I just like cute robots with pale skin and huge titties that legit could probably birth human babies.
>>24948742>where the main character kills a female robot so hard that she basically comes back as a female yandere robot that desperately needs to be impregnated by the main character.Awesome plot point, jealous I didn't make this.
>>24950719More specifically, she was this persistent robot spider thing that he eventually kills and she's so fucking mad that she basically angries herself in front of Robot god and asks for a new form to kill him with.
>>24950785robot god also has big titties and is hot
sansa 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: >>24922194
Happy 100 threads anon. Post your favourite passageEuron stood by the window, drinking from a silver cup. He wore the sable cloak he took from Blacktyde, his red leather eye patch, and nothing else. >When I was a boy, I dreamt that I could fly," he announced. "When I woke, I couldn't . . . or so the maester said. But what if he lied?">"Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some tall tower?"The wind came gusting through the window and stirred his sable cloak. There was something obscene and disturbing about his nakedness.>"No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap."
>>24950684Not So...Perfect
>GRRM bristled at that. "I defeated your idol Tolkien and his The Rings of Power(TM), the first time your Middle Earth came to television. I procrastinated the Winds of Winter against the power of Bantam Books for 15 years, and took HBO’s primetime spot from the Romefags. I smashed JK Rowling at the 2001 Hugo Awards, though she had twenty times my fans. Tell me, /grrm/, what battles has Brandon, son of Sander, ever won that I should fear him?
>>24950752I tried to get into Cosmere but the whole multiple planets thing feels so fucking dumb, couldn't make it through the first quarter of Way of Kings.
Second in her name, daughter of Aerys II and sister of Rhaegar Targaryen (Dany who?)Founders and Duchess (Doge) of Maegoroma/Maegorthage (Axe, Esso northwest -https://files.catbox.moe/envveo.jpeg)Princess of Dragonstone (claimant)Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men (rightfully)Lady of the Seven Kingdoms (rightfully)Protector of the realm (rightfully)
>Pessimist that actually killed himselfOther examples?
>The Enlightenment was... le BAD?
>>24949089>How does reason emerge from primitive god worship?Grasping the nature of universals, something no animal is capable of.
>>24949549Your mother's mouth revolves around my dick>>24949674Not an atheist
>>24949089I'm hijacking this thread to vent with relevancy to this. I fucking hate all humans except for myself and want them to die out. The only means of acting on this I have are the following:Don't do anything for anyone except myself and my personal gain. Invest in whatever brings me the most profit, which inevitably includes companies that exploit people, harm them through medication and implant side effects as well as addiction, build weapons that kill millions, cause financial crises and destroy the environment. Drive a car that consumes a lot of gas and produces a lot of emissions to destroy the environment. Fly as much as I can to destroy the environment. Eat meat to destroy the environment.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24948256Very difficult to read. I wonder if the German original is easier to read for someone who knows German well.
>>24949699Anon...>>24948256I had notebook llm read this to me a while back and I was left unimpressed. am I missing something or is it just reddit? not a phil-tard btw but i am whatever about different opinions on le western enlightenment.
Any books where a comfortable loser with weak character turns it around, and not just by luck? Basically opposite of picrel?
No, and with this attitude, you're not going to dig yourself out of your hole.Your life is in a downward spiral because of structural brain issues. It's a malady of modern times, called "neural net model collapse". Rediscovered with the advent of generative AI, researchers realized that AI models trained on AI-generated output experienced model collapse. Devoid of the outliers and long tails of real-world data, the model's parameters clipped to zero or one, rendering it all useless. A similar phenomenon happens in human neural-networks if they're trained on human-made and other artificial data, instead of natural data. The pathetic shutin stunts his development with anime, vidya, pr0n, virtual human contact, and the confines of his little room, stunting his neural development beyond all repair. The inevitable result is all too common—seething, sexual perversion, and increasing suicidal ideation. If there is any cure, it involves going outside, getting away from the city, and experiencing nature in all its complexity. But that assumes it's not too late.
>>24950055>pr0nWhat's the matter schizoboy? Afraid to say the actual word?
>>24950068THAT'S your takeaway from all that? You're doomed.
>>24950076Your text wall is the same shit people have been saying about representative entertainment since ancient Greeks talking about theater. Nothing valuable to take away. But why self-censor on 4chan? What are you trying to hide, and from who?
>>24949762An interesting question.Wouldn't that fall within the self-help section?I would always prefer a respected philosopher's description of such a turnaround, but I can't think of any examples.
