Dastardly New Age Edition>Old:>>24975110>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
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>>24984606>>24984625Since your post are the most recent one, I really need to ask, is the conclusion of Soldiers Live good enough or was it made with next books in mind?
>>24984703I would say it's the closest to original novel's ending in a sense it's open where the series can still be concluded in satisfactory manner. For 25 years no one really clamored for more Black Company because it was a solid finale. >It is immortality of a sort.
>>24984726I wanted to end on "fourth" book, but reading about Raven's chase of Black Company made me interested in south too, but now I'm in such a place that I just don't care, it really makes me worried about other series by Cook, heard they are quite similar in the "structure".
>>24984726is it really that good? i avoid first person novels like the plague because a lot of YAslop does it
>The dispensers of mass information have once again discovered science fiction. They do it every seven or eight years. The last time was with 2001. The only trouble is, they've discovered 1939 science fiction. Mindless shoot-'em-up and hardware. Paeans of praise to the grommet and spanner. And that means more of the same, just the way it happened in the wake of 2001. It means that thought-provoking sf, the kind written by Gene Wolfe and Kate Wilhelm and James Tiptree, Jr. and Michael Moorcock, has no value. It means that an entire genre of fiction for our time, material that informs and educates and entertains, will be bypassed in favor of more cops&robbers in outer space, more cowboys&indians on Tatooine.>Goodbye, science fiction, hello sci-fi. That's pronounced skiffy.
>>24983866do you not understand how this type of guy operates? none of this is about gene wolfe. ellison wants to say "i deserve the success of george lucas," but he has enough self-awareness to know that would make him look bad, so he uses random other writers as proxies, which is acceptable to him because the priority is to try and drag lucas down by any means necessary. that's how envy works.in an alternate universe there is a quote like that where he seethes about the "new sun" cinematic universe and how hollywood has gone gaga for that hack wolfe instead of promoting true geniuses like x and y and z. he'll never say it's about him but it's always about him.
>>24984105So all of this ranting is just your personal headcanon?
>>24984118>ummm source? source? you got a source for that, buddy?
>>24984105In an alternate universe where there is a "new sun" cinematic universe Ellison was probably executed for being a faggot.
>>24981045Truth nuke.
why do you read books?
this happened
>>24983560>Anyone who reads in public is only doing it for attentionYou're hopelessly retarded.
>>24984416>Imagine a world without women.If you think a world with only men is "Heaven," you must be a homosexual, and anything you say can be easily ignored.
>>24982468>>24982538>>24982546Either way women absolutely hate dudes who are trying too hard
it's free
Thoughts on scaruffi's best novels ever rankings?>https://www.scaruffi.com/fiction/best100.html
>>24984685Scaruffi's entire bit is being wrong headed in innovative ways, no surprises here.
>>24984704the beatles do suck and he's right in thinking orson welles is the GOAT of filmmaking though
>>24984523>ScaruffiNever heard of this guy. Is he a fag or are his rankings legit?
>>24984754His music rankings are pretty legit in that they'll help you find a lot of excellent music that you would've otherwise likely never found and contrary to popular belief he isn't actually much a contrarian (has The Doors and Velvet Underground in his top 10). His movie rankings are rather standard and not that different from those of nearly any other critic. I'd say his literary criticism is the funkiest by far.He gained a lot of notoriety and infamy pretty much just for not thinking The Beatles are the best band ever, he's the person that made the original "the fact that so many books..." Beatles pasta (funnily enough he gave a good rating to like 4 or 5 of their albums, just not that high)
Yeah I'm not a retarded sheep person so I don't listen to critics ever.
What would he be doing today?What would have he thought of tiktok? The transgender issue? AI literature? current human literature? current american politics landscape?
Privacy by Danielle Chelosky (new story!)>A folder on her laptop held the stories she was not allowed to publish. One boy forbade her because there was an entire paragraph about his dick size (it was complimentary, she didn’t understand the problem). Another was worried his girlfriend would end up finding it. Another said he would cancel her for invasion of privacy. >These were rare instances. Mostly boys were flattered, considered it an ego boost, no matter how they were portrayed. People in general liked to be immortalized. In a way, she resented their narcissism, like they couldn’t appreciate what she’d written because they were just staring at themselves.>The truth was whatever reaction the boys offered was not what she wanted, even if they lavished her with praise, called her a genius, it was never enough. She thought of writing as not just a plea to be seen but a plea to be loved. It never seemed to have the effect that she yearned for, probably because it was impossible. Maybe, she thought, if she killed herself then her words would take on a new, heavier meaning.>She used to think that a boy being mad about a story she’d written about him meant the writing had done its job. It touched a nerve; it was controversial and had a direct impact on real life. Then she decided that mindset was banal, stupid. She thought her writing was at its weakest when it was a weapon.>On the internet she stalked a writer she had once done a literary reading with. During the reading he had spoken candidly about his sex addiction, and his girlfriend at the time stomped off. Now he was dating a different writer and they were constantly writing about their relationship, hosting readings where they read about each other with each other, publishing the history of their love in glossy magazines that paid by the word. She felt put off by this masturbatory spectacle. Like she couldn’t imagine anyone caring about it or finding it as anything other than insufferable. She wondered how one could make interesting art if they viewed their life as a project—then isn’t the project about the project, not about life?
>>24983088You can literally see the stubble on his chin in this picture hahahaha
>>24981577Lol literally the chud face
>>24981577Lmao this is what porn does to a nerdy awkward guy with no female attention. Tbh I hope he ropes soon.
Ugly women exist my mentally ill friend.
>>24984750Yeah it's a problem that has been tolerated for far too long.
how much of ROT3K is fictional?
>>24982106Does ANYONE enjoy reading this thing? Or is it only good in the original?
>>24983401Read the manga
It's all Imperial Uncle propaganda, Cao Cao did nothing wrong
Are you implying that Chinese warlords did not have weather wizards?
>>24983279I dunno, but Koei seems determined to try
Moby-Dick and Blood Meridian
>>24984668Atheists hate himThomistics/ Aristotleans hate himMonists/ Parmenideans hate himVirtually everyone on earth except you hates Descartes, Anon. Wear that with pride. You are very special
I finished reading this yesterday and honestly it was kind of boring.The first few chapters detailing how the Spanish plundered the continent were great but then when it comes to the 20th century he gets bogged down into way too much detail and mentions a bunch of literally whos and corporations that make me lose interest.
>>24983072I think a lot of them are going to Spain though. It seems to be full of immigrants these days.
>>24983545Yeah. But that's independent of historical grievances. More economically prosperous, no language barrier, permissive government. Migration is an economic issue, not really an ideological one.
>>24979093I'm Latin American. This is not a very accurate book, if you actually study history or economics in a good university. High-school history teachers back in the 1990s loved it.There are two good proxies to know if a book about Latin American history is completely trash. 1. It was written in the 1960s or 1970s2. It claims the British got Brazil and Argentina to destroy Paraguay in the Paraguayan War.We were taught in high-school in the 1990s that Paraguay was becoming a developed country and Brazil and Argentina were the lackeys England used to destroy this nascent rival to England.Except that Brazil and England didn't have a good relationship and we almost got into a war a few decades before due to some drunk British sailors.Paraguay actually invaded Brazil and we spent the first part of the war getting our butt kicked since Paraguay had a good army and Brazil had a decent Navy and a pretty poor army. To the point that there is no sea between Brazil and Paraguay and our best victory in the war was by our navy...
>>24984526The British have always been stoking up enmity down there among Latinos.
>>24984736The British had nothing to do with the Paraguyan War and they didn't see Paraguay as a rival.
Why do you put faith in metaphysical claims that can't be empirically tested? Are you just a science-ignorant caveman?
I don't like being here. Everyone on this board talks about Guenon but I would need an entire second lifetime to catch up on required reading to even read him. These threads make me uncomfortable. I wish I could have been reading all these books in highschool and then be a cool philosophy student in university
>>24984572Nobody else on this board has read guenon either
>>24979312Can you demonstrate that reality is only physical and literal and rational?
>But here an objection will undoubtably be raised: is it possible, then, to go beyond nature? We do not hesitate to answer plainly: not only is it possible, but it is done. But those are just words, it will be said; what proofs can you give us? It is truly strange that people ask for proof concerning the possibility of a kind of knowledge instead of searching for it and verifying it for themselves by undertaking the work necessary to acquire it. For those who possess this knowledge, what interest can there be in all this discussion? Substituting a theory of knowledge for knowledge itself is perhaps the greatest admission of impotence in modern philosophy. Moreover, all certitude contains something incommunicable; no one can truly attain to any knowledge other than through a strictly personal effort.- R. Guenon
>>24984561Sudra detected
>read it all but didn't understand so I used Grok to summarize it for meI don't understand a lot of novels but am actually really enjoying reading. I just can't seem to understand anything beyond surface level. What I usually do when watching reading a book like this is finish them and then go on Grok/GPT or Youtube to have it analyzed for me. I want to do this analysis myself but I don't see any deeper meaning when I can just get it summarized by someone else
>>24984385>He wants you to have an epiphany.i know you said you’re ESL, but you’ve somehow co-opted an embarrassingly american way of looking at things.
>>24984385Who said it was hard? It's retarded and pretentious, not hard. It's artist's shit, like when you do the needful, saar
>>24984385>The point with Joyce is that he wants you to feel certain very powerful emotions through writing.Quite the opposite, which is why many have problems with him. His lack of actual story, substituting it for commentary, intellectual interests, dense worldplay, etc., makes for a deliberated product rather than a felt one. Demanding that you pick apart and decode something is antithetical to feeling and knowing on a deep emotional level.
>>24984525Some litfic was written for mainstream audiences. But I was responding to the claim Joyce was aiming for feels but he was aiming for thinks. The two are generally competing.
>>24984385I'd rather be an autistic, low IQ, likely brown Estonian than a self-decieved, pseud. You get your epiphanies from the literary equivalent of another man's wank. Get a hold of yourself.
The book I have enjoyed the most this year has been The Unbearable Lightness of Being. In it, the author seeks to describe what it means for an individual to accept or reject the responsibilities that arise in their life.Specifically, it describes two lifestyles. On the one hand, there is a life that accepts responsibility. This life is more grounded, connected to the earth, and experiences life in its fullness, since many of its actions have an impact on the world—to the point that the weight of those actions can end up crushing the individual to the ground. On the other hand, a life of lightness enjoys its own existence by avoiding any responsibility in order to focus on oneself, even though this life ultimately feels a sense of unease when realizing that all its actions end up being insignificant in the face of the world.In summary, the idea that responsibilities make us more or less connected to the world around us has surprised me greatly.What book have you enjoyed the most this year?
>>24984715who would have ever imagined that there would be any humorless fags on /lit/
The Chrysalids (John Wyndham)Ruined City (Nevil Shute)Blindness (José Saramago)Flowers for Mrs Harris (Paul Gallico)The Little World of Don Camillo (Giovanni Guareschi)
>>24984219>All the dicksucking it gets is fully deservedof course homosexuals enjoy this novel.
>>24984717Can you give me a break man. Its not like I insulted the book. Why do you have to give me a hard time
>>24984733i'm sorry and i hope you have a nice new year
Why isn't this guy more famous? A lot of his stuff is seriously mind blowing, the type of ideas you'd expect PKD to have if he were born again.
>>24984480This short story is my favorite of his and is maybe more accessible, it doesn't get all oooh aaah let's talk about cellular automata like permutation city does and covers some of the same ground
>>24984488One of my favorite short stories.
>>24984245>He's an amateurHe has a bachelors in maths and several published papers.
>>24984547I meant it in the sense that it's not his job.
>>24984556Does he have a job?
I don't get the appeal
>>24982521It's like reading a 4chan shitpost. Amusing and way ahead of it's time
>everyone just talks about how its funny>i just thought it was really depressing Its genuinely the most depressing bit of litfic I've ever read. I don't understand how people can see any comedy in it. These people must be sociopaths or aliens or something. There were multiple times in the middle of reading this that I had to set the book down and cry to myself. This book is very well written but everyone who likes it seems to drastically interpret it differently.
>>24984652you need to start TRT immediately
>>24984652Sheltered much?Sure the circumstances are depressing but nothing special really. Most people on earth live in similar squalor. The gossip, the retarded incessant conflicts, characters full of themselves. To most people it paints a very familiar picture.
>>24984719>sheltered muchNo.
I have been reading Chinese classics lately and finished this one. Out of all of the ones I've read so far, this has to be the greatest.Has /lit/ read traditional Chinese classics like Romance of the 3 kingdoms, Journey to the west, Dream of Red Chamber, Investiture of the Gods, and others?
>>24981966>to help your cold blooded strategist sideLiterally what Art of War and Daodejing exist for.
>>24958227Old ornaments, ruined and forgotten,will only be seen in the distant future,like some peculiar-flavored pillsfor those who crave exoticism to swallow.The real is overlooked;people turn a blind eye to those struggling to survive.Those who pretend to seesays that a deer is a horse.
>>24982322>>24982382too abstract i need a manual to cultivate the mindset of knowing any and every position every time while not being swayed by noise >his heart is so still he can see 5 years, 10 years in the futureit's almost like they value meditative, psychic like abilities whats the ancient chinese way of cultivating perfect awareness
>>24973370zoomers love Chinathey're like boomers who grew up on Hong Kong wuxia films and shit, except their fetish is based on nothing but chinkshit (which somehow is exempt from the "slop" label they now love to bandy).
>>24984688It's because China is living in the future. It's the Red Scare people who memed this.
