Even hardcore bible thumpers don’t defend “their” book as fervently as Tolkien fans do.
>>24963811case in point
>>24965928he's right, you know. First time I read it, I noped out at Bombadil and Dingleberry Diarrhea-daughter.Second time I read it, I skipped ahead to Bree and Weathertop. It starts getting good then.
Does anyone else these days feel like Tolkien's actual writing has become obscured?Every time there's popular "discourse" about Tolkien it always feels like people are engaging with the mere pastiches and cliches around his work, rather than considering the things he actually wrote.
>>24960229In some circles.Pepe le Frog is the most overrated author of all time.
>>24967230just skip all hobbit chapters it is a better book thenand becomes readable
>If you meet the Buddha, kill him.What does he mean?
>>24967920Mentally by Zen, yes.
>>24966582You... are ... GAY.
>>24967870>enlightenment incomi-ACK!
>>24966582It means you’re the Buddha. Someone else can’t be the Buddha. It’s all on you.
>>24967870is it about breaking duality?
Spooky Psychic Vampires Edition>Old:>>24957211>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
>>24968664Unironically what some good classic novels (60s-80s?) for strong barbarian 'fus? It's one of those situations that always stymie me where an archetype emerged that clearly encapsulates the whole of an idea, but tracing it back to actual material ends up being harder than expected. Red Sonja wasn't even an actual Howard character.
Good shit
>>24968999I assume you've read the Kane stuff?
>>24968928>>24968664Even in the 1920's, white women desired BBC
>>24969026Nope. Are there ladies in it? The only non-Conan Conan-alike I've read so far is Gardner's Fox's Kothar. The man was a great low-price copycat.
So 2025 will be just another year you wasted by not reading Yu Hua's masterpiece To Live, huh?Come on, buddy. You have 10 days, you can finish a short novel in that time. I believe in you. Come the fuck on!
>>24966107And the movie is adaptation of the book. Gong Li's beauty is just better attantion grabber than this. The movie is also quite different from the book.
>>24966987>movie is also quite different from the book.c'mon the only difference is there's no water buffalo at the end
>>24967876There are more differences, for example the novel has nothing about puppets and there's whole puppetry symbolism in the movie. The book is more honest-to-life and less 'art', it's like any symbolism in the book feels almost accidental like all things in are.But holy moly is Gong Li at her peak in it.
>>24969011she's not my type but i would like to see what she looks like now
>>24969011>puppetry symbolismit's a motif, but how is it symbolism?
What the fuck was AM's problem?
>>24966494He was written by a shitty author and lives in a shitty story. He’s also probably pissed that the only reason he’s relevant is because his shitty short stories legacy is carried on by autistic teenagers who don’t even have the attention span to read the 13 page story he’s from and have to watch YouTubers talk about him.
>>24966588AI nigger detected. I see through your lies
>>24966920>You're thinking of the Samson option, goy.Literally that's what happens in the book.
>>24966494AMerican IntelligenceHe was a retard from the beginning. (the truth is Ellison's talent lies chiefly in writing anger and he couldn't conceive of an enemy with such disproportionate power being driven, as he was, by anything else except anger).
>>24967429>He was written by a shitty author and lives in a shitty story.fpbp
he was right
>>24968818Seed
>>24968818i googled this and it's for children
>14 years in prison for innocence>your fiancee gets married to the guy who screwed you over>every day, hour, minute, second, all spend in tiny stone cold wall, barely any light coming through>keep fantasizing 24/7 about your revenge, how you're gonna do it, think over and over each step>a miracle happens, you're free out of your prison>spend 10 next years preparing to exact your revenge>halfway through, dipshit son of your ex-fiancee challenges you to a duel he stand exactly zero chance winning against you>your ex fiancee comes up to you and recognizing you she begs to not kill her son>you unironically agree to be killed by some retard>because of a woman>who betrayed youYears of suffering, deep hatred, injustice. Edmund had every of those niggers dancing in the palm of his hand, and just like that he was ready to die because of a fucking foid? This is worse than average anime isekai
>>24967575you're telling me you wouldn't sex your daughterwife?
>Be adopted godson of the pharaoh>Have a speech impediment but otherwise an absolute unit of a man>See somebody bullying slave>Being a righteous gigachad you step in and beat the bully to death>Slave, a perfidious jew, rather than being grateful goes and snitches on you>End up being persecuted by the authorities for murder (even though he deserved it)>Flee into the mountains of Sudan>Marry not one, but two cutie waifus>Settle down to spend the rest of your life as a simple shepherd in the mountains>Could look back on the palace life you left behind, but don't>God tells you you got to go back and tell pharaoh to free the rest of the slaves>Tell him you'd rather not>...The story of Musa is the best story of revenge ever. None of these convoluted schemes, just a simple man who wants to grill and can't catch a break.
>>24967475I dunno i just finished it and really liked it. Never had a 1000 page book that I was really sad when it was over
This book has no right to be in /lit/'s top 100 baka
what do we think about him?
>>24966895no, he was a colonel in finnish military intelligence
Why would we think about him?
>>24966947he has some very interesting things to say about russian culturesee >>24966863
He got roasted on twitter so bad he died
That author was my editor. Why would this be posted on /lit/?
Is mysticism real or just your neurons misfiring and making you hallucinate God?
>>24968424Experience it for yourself.Atheists love empiricism until it's time to collect the empiria lmao
There is no science that can solve consciousness. Any claim to such is simply its own faith-based supposition.
>>24967992>something every man can observehow many men do you know?
>>24968993didn't Michael Polanyi speak of this?
>>24967992There’s no objective verifiable reality that two men can observe
What's your favorite Nabokov?
>>24968158YOU ARE MENTALLY ILL.
>>24965654my favourite nabokov? probably mr nabokov himself?? what other choices are there? mrs nabokov, you fucking nigger?
>>24968932Véra and Dmitrievich were pretty cool... Don't make fun of them...
>>24968870Kankermongool
Think I've only read Lolita and Speak Memory (his autobiography) and preferred the latter, loved it in fact
English is such a shit language. For me the nail in the coffin for English was when I learned that the problem of ambiguity between argument and explanation, where all you have to disambiguate is context, which they talk about in logic books, is not something which is universal in logic, but rather is a problem of English. Other languages don't have this problem. English is a low IQ language. All it's good for is dumbing down the masses.
>>24968236>Pic says the natural method is fake and gay>Anon links two sources for the natural methodWhat did he mean by this?
>>24968251The picture shows an advantage of German over English with the highlights. The links are the same book, one is the book, the other is audio. The discussion in the pic was about Athenaze, a textbook for Classical Greek, and that was someone's personal opinion in regards to textbooks for Classical Greek. I think the natural method is great to get started learning German for someone who speaks English. Then after a while you can try other things.
>>24968147I enjoy studying it. Its not too far off from English so its somewhat intuitive, but its got its own share of challenges. and its worth it cause there's plenty to read.my favorite part is picking up on weird cognates and that sorta stuff. I would guess learning French might be a similar experience. I think its the sort of thing that improves your English; not just in the abstract as is true of language learning generally, but in terms of vocabulary - makes you reconsider the meanings and relations between some words, and helps highlight a lot of Germanic words which might go less used in English over French equivalents.
>>24966450Where do these frogs just show up out of nowhere?
>>24968803Thanks, pretty insightful, I've been watching some videos about Anglish, English spoken without french words and it's the exact same just with lesser known words or words used in different ways. I am at a point where I can understand small bits of a conversation but responding is still hard, still more of a listener and reader than a speaker.
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I'm looking forward to new year's eve more than Christmas Day honestly.
>>24967868You can do it with a single click, maybe you’ll figure it out one day
>>24967915>sexually aroused>not aliveYea sure
>>24967983Virgin
>>24968582Being jobless is great
PBUH?
Our king charles is a big guenon guy
>>24968950What are your essential Guénon and adjacent readings beyond the obvious ones?
>>24968998also how to into siddhis?
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Bernhard - ExtinctionCaro - The Power Broker>>24951578
>>24965835Top five?
>>24951578Need to add:The Water Margin - Shi Nai'anPoems - Thomas Lovell BeddoesThe Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters - Ulillillia AndPoems - Leopardi If they aren't on there already
Is the bible unironically worth reading? Is it more profound than entertaining?
>>24968663Honestly I don't. Please explain.
What are the "edgiest" novels?Hard Mode: They have to actually be good (pic related)
>>24968501>15>other side of puberty No
>>24964311I've read that exact edition of the book and it was terrible, horrible repetitive language to the point of insanity. I'm currently rereading it (thanks a LOT OP) but this time it's the Penguin edition.The difference in quality is like night and day, wtf? The version I'm reading now is so much better translated/written what gives? Is this how all translations are?
>>24964311Don't read this shit. The slippery slope is real.
>>249688561968?
>>24966014The story of the eye has both, maybe read it first, takes like an hour max.
