>signed up for the book club>read the book>took two ativans for my nerves>showed up>sat across the street and watched people go in>decided to go home Books for crippling social anxiety and loneliness?
>>24750379I am a musician. I had a band and played shows and released an album years ago. I've struggled to even find someone to jam with since then.
>>24750318You were supposed to have sons. That's the point of marriage.
>>24750295>Books for crippling social anxiety and loneliness?How to Stop Being a Faggot, by Who Fucking Cares, Just Stop Being a Faggot.
>>24750536We had a daughter and I'm an incompetent parent. I'm planning on running away to a different city and starting over.
>>24750567run clubs are big now. I hear people use those to date.
Are there any literary works worth reading from this region?I only know of Ibsen's plays and Andersen's tales.
>>24737396"The Tomten" really annoys me as a translation, doesn't that basically mean "The the tomte".
>>24748470I’ve only ever heard pretentious artsy women discuss Edith Södergran. Can’t say I’ve ever heard anyone mention Diktonius.
Sigrid Undset is one of my favourite writers of all.
>>24750381why?
>>24726411>>24728493oh shit i'll be in finland in a week maybe i'll go find your book despite not knowing any finnish :DD
Do you genuinely enjoy reading or are you just pretending to be well read? Be honest
>>24747970I can't even tell which are the books on the top row other than the alchemist, otherwise of the listed ones I've only ever read Ulysses and Odyssey, if that is what's the rightmost book on the bottom. Of the other books, I do not pretend to have read them, in fact, I tend to exude obnoxious smug superiority if they ever get brought up in a conversation and I get the chance to express my disinterest in them. Anyways, while I enjoy reading, I'm pretty inconsistent and bad at it, so I naturally also act as a pseud pretending to have read a lot more than I have.
>>24747970At first I was pretending to impress my parents/teachers then I was pretending to impress myself then I was pretending to impress a girl. Now that i actually have a mind of my own I've come to enjoy reading and stopped forcing myself to finish uninteresting books.
>>24747970>Do you genuinely enjoy readingWhy else would I do it. Having other interest would be more convenient so why pretend.
>>24747970How retarded do you have to be to pretend you've read Paulo Coelho and Margaret Atwood?
>>24750526woman retarded
Is political philosophy/theory dead? What’s the status of the field, and who are the most relevant authors/scholars today? Surely there’s more out there than Deneen and Fukuyama, right? Thiel seems to be ripping his toes into it again with his talks on the Antichrist and world government.
>>24750460I do it in my spare time and have written five works of it. To answer your question: Ikenberry, Gray, Wendt, Mearsheimer
>>24750489>international relations theoryObviously IR theory is alive and well with vigorous debate, but I meant actual political philosophy, with Strauss as an archetypal leader in the post-war generation.
>>24750460What contemporary issues would political philosophy even have to consider and think about? Everything is fake and gay today
>>24750497I'll give you ONE
okay have 2
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>Previous:>>24729043>Thread Question:Do you need supplementary material to enjoy books? I'm talking art, music, etc. based on the property? Does it help you visualize what you've read better?
>>24740187Abercrombie- audiobook Hyperion Book of the new sunFor culture Way of kings and the name in the wind
>>24744575You should've kept going.
>>24745855Many agree the series is good. The other anon got filtered. Simple as.
>>24749424Take your meds.
>>24750518Swan Song, Boy's Life and Mine are his best novels. Wolf's Hour is pretty fun too
>dude what if star wars but political
>>24745844>>24745852star wars retroactively influenced DUNE
>literally the most retarded thread on /lit/ rnCongratulations faggots.
>>24750325>literallySo it is doing slightly better than most of the catalog? This thread has some self awareness?
>>24750325There are 3 blood meridian threads
>>24750554Those are figuratively retarded.
>100 days left in the yearyou're finishing one more doorstopper before 2025 right? you reached all your reading goals, right?
>>24749467East of Eden is only 7000 words longer than Dracula. Did you get the retard big text edition?
>>24749467I have a nice little slender East of Eden
>>24749630The text must be microscopic
>>24749472At the most generous east of Eden is 59800 words more
>>24748226how come whenever i see a picture of Infinite Jest, it has a million sticky note things in it? ive never read it before
the chad medieval scholastic>studies for Truth and God>semen retention>reads Latin and Greek>trivium and quadrivium all day every day>uses straightedge and compass>listens to nothing but classical musicthe virgin public school defender>studies for grades and diplomas>"masturbation is healthy">atheist>"what's a syllogism?">"trust the science">"English is all you need"Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>24749718>listens to nothing but classical musicClassical music was long after the medieval era. He should be listening to Gregorian Chants or some shit.
>>24749718>>24749783based>>24749748>>24749778cringe
>>24749718You have to be 18 to use this website.
Bump
Is Nietzsche's critique of Kant here correct? (or valid I guess too).I no longer really trust Nietzsche at face value anymore.
>>24750153>>24750114>you feelretard, kys. its like you dont understand language or basic concepts. maybe thats why Nietzsche's love of untruth is so appealing to retards like you. This is a speculation, with relevant basis unlike your psychologizing
>>24747825In this day and age where you can download all of Nietzsche's books as PDFs in 20 minutes and search them for every instance of the word "Kant" there's really no excuse for making such idiotic posts like this one.
>>24750473lol. notice nietzsche followers never provide basis for anything, just call you some self aggrandizing name like nietzsche does other philosophers, dont even do the bare minimum of offering an olive branch of referencing something that could easily be cross referenced with a google search, vs downloading and scouring for somebody else's burden of proof
>>24750162>its like you dont understand language or basic conceptsFrom the start I told you you're illiterate and every post just demonstrates that.Worse still you don't even try to understand anything, you spend all your efforts on sperging out incoherently.>you feelIn this context this is a reference to whatever subjective "faculty" in you makes you value logic. If you try to formally state what that is you'll end up appealing to the power that valuing logic gives you, like the predictive power of formal models.
>>24750491I have already read his books which is why I know a 30 minute talk on his views regarding Kant is modest. Searching "thing-in-itself" and "subject" will also bring you in proximity with those views.
Are we more prudish in some ways now? When I read old books, people including men say stuff like "he is as serenely beautiful as Endymion" or "she has such pretty feet" but nowadays you'd seem weird if you did so, even in a piece of fiction - at the very least you wouldn't be able to say them innocently and without irony
>>24750186spending one's teenage years stuck inside jacked in to the internet does that i think
>>24749091I never read a book by a sex haver and don't intend on doing so
>>24750224Women only become ugly and bitter as they age.All men desire youth and beauty. Anything else is cope.
>>24750186Zoomers seek ever more degenerate fap material while living in fear and horror of actual, physical sex.
>>24749126>probably it began as a welcome reaction against the ridiculous, insincere hyper-expressiveness of the preceding centuriesI don't see it this way at allI view the modern culture as one that specifically circumscribes and punishes sinceritythis has come about because people have been increasingly raised/conditioned (and infantilized) to find depth/complexity/sincerity disturbing and indigestible, and by this very incapacity have been made the prison guards of expressionI consider the increase in discomfiture among young people regarding sexual display/content in films to be a related phenomenon
Remember, no matter how niche or unpopular your intellectual interest is, there will always be some Hollywood faggot to turn it into a garbage franchise.
1. PTA is great2. I don't give a fuck if other people also like or dislike what I do or don't like
>>24750499Enjoy your Pynchon cinematic universe
>>24750436I don't think your statement is factual, isn't Pynchon pretty popular?
>>24750502N-no! It can't be... rrraaAAAGHH!
>>24750507Never heard his name mentioned outside of /lit/ and PTA
>two books of knights kicking ass>fighting dragons>hauing dvals>foiling sourcerers>defeating allegorical beastsfvcking cool>booke 3>lady knight showes vp>immediately beats the hero of book two in a iovst with her enchaunted spear>rescves hero of book one from some jobbers fvcking dropped, what is this woke shit?
>>24748672What's the best edition of the Faerie Queene to pick up?
>>24748672>hauing dvalsBumping for this alone.
>>24748672It gets worse, the lady knight's love interest gets force femmed by another man while she watches and laughs.
Or why fantasy books are overwhelmingly romance erotica slop.
>>24747940I don't know about the specifics of the publishing industry but it doesn't seem absurd all things considered. From the names alone, it seems like he made his career in shitty independent publishers where salaries and job stability aren't really good. And I assume it isn't easy for some O'Brien nonce looking Oklahoma corn farmer whose connections consist of the local pig breeder and his meth addicted cousin to break into HarperCollins in New York.
>>24747738All modern moids do is whine and seethe instead of giving patronage to the things they enjoy. It's no wonder romantasy is so popular. And you can still buy mid fantasy with Gary Stus, but you can't even be assed to search for them, can you?
>>24749741This! So much this! The publishing industry is skewed towards dumb women who read Harry Potter and dumb romance novels. It should cater towards men, who have better taste and read things like sci-fi and Elon Musk's latest authorised biography. The fault is on the roasties reeee
>>24748426>we don't need to pretend that people have never focused on quantity over qualityyou're a fucking retard who can't understand differences in magnitude and relative prevalencethe rest of your comment is basically projectionas a bonus I'll go ahead and quote myself from February>let's take a look at pic related>where would one even go to find an equivalent list like this today, covering books of the last 20 years? do you suppose the reviewing/taste-making/filtering apparatuses of today would have the balls to include something like Mein Kampf, if only to deride it, or even Freeman's biography of Robert E. Lee?>oh yes, and who are today's Eliot, Hemingway, Mann, Saint-Exupery, Cather, Fitzgerald, Lewis, Steinbeck, Huxley, etc.?>then there's the matter of quality itself, and concordance with future value/importance: from our much-later vantage point we could surely make some changes and fix some omissions, but as a whole it was a worthy effort with solid predictive power, and one does not get the sense that it is merely crass advertising or a dishonest circle-jerkas you've now been assfucked into oblivion, I recommend you take your own advice
>>24750359Take the L. The current state of affairs, both in the publishing world, and politically, are all the fault of dumb feminists ruining everything. You're in charge of the publishers, you're in charge of education, you're in charge of the economy, you're in charge of Hollywood, you're in charge of the decline in marriage and birth rates, you're in charge of the surge of OnlyFans, flooding every website from Instagram to Linked In with your ass pics, you're in charge of BookTok, you're responsible for Twilight, 50 Shades, and Horny Eragon Fanfic, and keeping Harry Potter relevant 20 years after the final movie came out. Take a bow. Pat yourself on the back. Adopt another stray cat. This mess is all you. You kicked men out and have no one else to blame now. Enjoy it.
>He still hasn't read the Ulysses of our time
>>24749455Max is a libtard pussy but this Chud is right.
>>24749455celine wasn't a nazi author
>>24744462>SCHATTENFROH
I haven't even read Ulysses
I am German and not interested in this garbage, translated or not.
