So tomorrow I'm starting this book for the first time: what am I in for ?
>>24863225Because I'm saving it for the bus !
>>24863234Save this:*unzip penis*
>>24863236Hey, I'm NOT a faggot, I had sex with mostly women !
>>24863253Whatever. Read it now. Its no a Sanderson doorstep!
>>24863180I liked The Aleph much more.
Is it worth reading nowdays? I'm talking about Harvard Classics, Great Books Reading List and Curriculum, etc. Princeton Classics Department not even require Greek and Latin for students anymore.Why most college and university reading lists nowdays are 10 books tops? Cambridge recommends I Am Malala, Life Of Pi, Dune, but not Seneca, Plato or Aurelius.
>>24862708I had to instruct it to look for hardcovers from reputable publishers and in general books with a high quality comparable to loeb or folio wherever possible because I want longevity for the books I do buy (though I download a bunch because these are expensive and hard to get sometimes). Picrel is the inside of a single week of reading. The benefit of having an account and having had other conversations with the AI is that it has some semblance of how I operate best, which is why it recommends what it does in this case. I also talked to it about how to take notes in the case of history and philosophy because I like the Cornell method and it helped me refine that for the specifics of this program.You still have to use good judgement and pick some thing beforehand, I chose Chris Wickham's book as a core for my Early Middle Ages from what I know of it and made it run with that as the spine of the program. Also, if anyone wants to try this, find video lectures on the subject and go through them rapidly without taking notes and even without paying too much attentions (I did 5 yale lectures in the car in a day when I had to drive a lot) because it gives you an overview and you can orient yourself and know where to 'fit' the knowledge that comes from reading the books later.
bumperoni
My AI tutor recommends me a work from the western canon (currently on Plato's Republic) and we set up a thing called a tryptych, where it recommends a movie, painting, and music.
>>24862308>the coming collapse of modern education>coming
>>24863265Its funny how there have been predicting this moment from twenty years ago. The world is full of Cassandras.
IM TOO DUMB TO ENJOY READING WHAT NOW
>>24862828if you can read posts here then you're not too dumb for books. You either try books that are too hard for you rn or have zoomer tier attention span. Either way you can work it out and you probably should, unless you want to be stuck in a cesspool with /v/irgins ot /tv/tards
lol
even niggers read anon, have some shame
>>24862828Read poetry.Read comics.Anyway, if you want recs, say what you like from other media.
Impossible. I'm a complete retard who finished his first short book at 20 and I still enjoy reading. Don't force yourself to read a classic for the sake of it, read whatever you want, find what you like, disconnect from the internet, and make it a habit. Replace 4chan time with reading and you'll want to come back to it. If you read 20 pages at day that's 600 pages a month and 7300 pages a year. Nothing easier than that.
I wrote for ten years, didn't get published until five years ago, and then I've only had middling success with five stories, a dozen poems, and essays. I just use it to get a foot in the door with some jobs. Other than that, it's been a massive time sink. I might give up soon because I've painted myself into a corner.
>>24862215Cool
Of course it's a time sink, that's what makes it valuable in the first place. Maybe it's a matter of personality, but this is why it's best to enjoy writing more than having written.
>>24862215All that time wasted when you could've been using it to get better at video games. How do you live with yourself?
>>24862227I could've worked more or studied something that could get me money.
>>24862225You don’t enjoy what you’re good at. Most people who like writing are bad at it.
Give me your honest thoughts on Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series. I think her comments on white people were embarrassing and I guess 2nd wave Feminism is super quaint nowadaysBut damn could she write
Also Rowling, the weird Fablehaven mormon guy, among countless other fantasy authors owe her big time
I watched the movie and thought, "That was garbage. They must've butchered the book." But then I read part of the book and realized it was already garbage.
>>24863270The story behind that movie is insanely funny. From what I recall Miyazaki gave his hated son the reigns, and the first thing his son did was add an opening scene where a boy murders his dad (the "king" kek) and runs away
Tolstoy constructed his own version of Christianity through his translation and re-writing of the four Gospels, placing considerable emphasis on the Sermon on the Mount and considering any claims of miraculous occurrences nonsense. This was, of course, heretical. What I find surprising, as an inquirer into Orthodox Christianity, is that Tolstoy was not smart enough to recognise that Orthodoxy contains the fullness of the Christian faith and was founded by Christ at Pentecost. Tolstoy, who was lucky enough to be born into a traditional Orthodox Christian society, rejected the truth in favour of a heretical interpretation of Christianity. Did Tolstoy ever consider that the Gospels he wrecked were only available to him because of Eastern Orthodoxy and its members, "the Orthodox" he equated to the Pharisees? One would like to have seen him hold his own against TAG.
>>24862467Christianity is a Jewish lie so your critique of Tolstoy is as dishonest as your religion
>>24862467Was Tolstoy's version of Christianity influenced by Schopenhauer in any way?
>>24862467Good book. Other than a couple instances of weird sexual/cuck shit still being in there, the edits almost make The Bibble seem like a based way to live your life.
>>24862617I guess you think Michelangelo is a bad artist due to making clear representations of the human figure and prefer undefined prehistoric figurines?
>>24862467>John of Kronstadt called Tolstoy “a heretic to surpass all heretics” and foretold that he would suffer “the savage demise of a sinner." “According to the Scriptures, you should be lowered into the depths of the sea with a stone hung around your neck; there is no place for you on Earth,” John said about Tolstoy.basedwelcome to the /lit/ teahouse https://discord.gg/u3SMtuSV
>“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”>Hunter S. Thompson
>>24859529Adventurous for his time sure (ignoring the parts where he’s clearly lying). But it just feels lame looking back on it today. Doing cocaine and drinking to excess isn’t impressive anymore, it’s what the average corporate wage slave does on a weekly basis.
>>24858467RousseauRussellInterestingly their names are kind of similar
>>24859704"being a wageslave is based, infiltrating a motorcycle gang to do journalism, creating a new type of journo while at it, is onions"
>>24862206Can you redpill me on Nietzsche? From the excerpts we read in school and my limited secondhand knowedge, I think of him as a whiny cuckboy constantly seething about Christians and Wagner. What am I missing out on?
>>24858467J.S. Mill.
You guy's think Raskolnikov's Great Man Theory was correct? I'm guessing people like Napoleon maybe felt bad for killing people to achieve great things, but they were able to simply handle it because they were greatAre you a great man?
>>24862689He achieved nothing great because the killing itself wasn't supposed to be the great thing, it was the means to it. The point is that Raskolnikov couldn't handle such a means, but a "Great Man" could've.
>>24859792Raskolnikov’s views on Napoleon are inherently incorrect, so his theory will be incorrect just based on that alone. Napoleon is not someone who killed people because he felt superior or anything like it. Anyone who thinks that Napoleon didn’t have a conscience is beyond retarded.
>>24862815What about Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, or idk, Vlad The Impaler
>>24860694What's a good way to find out if you have a conscience?
>>24859792The Great Man theory is true. Despite War and Peace being my favorite book, Tolstoy is retarded when disputing it.
>Clarissa>Tristram Shandy>Tom Jonesthe holy trinity
Clarissa is the best 18th century novel, 100 years ahead of its time in psychological depth.
>>24863116I read translations, as well.
>>24860369>Gulliver's Travels>Tristram Shandy>Tom Jones
>Smollet's Picaresques>Early Romanticism>Gothic Literature>Stockings and Breeches18th Century is objectively better than the 19th century. Everything the 19th century did, the 18th century did first.
>>24860369Imma give Tom Jones a try
Im about 100 pages in and while it’s well written and enjoyable this feels like a YA book. I read The Remains of the Day and found it fantastic and so came into this kind of blind, purely off of Ishiguro’s name,I mean, honestly, this would have been better served by being a comic so far with how visual some of it is.
>>24862734OP again, just finished the end of part 2 and the sequence with the mother definitely elevated it.
>>24862734It's a bit thin.One problem is that it doesn't really know what story it's telling.Is it a basic "child befriends robot" tale? Hard to make more than a short story out of that.Or is it all about a robot trying to formulate its own philosophy / religion? The title suggests that, but it never goes anywhere.Or is it another dystopian morality tale? Children divided into HIGH and LOW, "messing with nature", etc?Or is it a psychological drama (the mother aiming to replace the child with the robot)?It can't quite decide, and in the end it goes nowhere. It just doesn't have the weight you would expect from a supposedly serious novelist. Klara is quite appealing but that's about it.
>>24863017All of the 'Is it?' items are really just some dressing to the main thrust of the book, which is that we (or Klara, at least, but based on most of Ishiguro's entire oeuvre I think we can extrapolate) can only find real meaning and happiness in helping others. Klara, who is less self-deluded and more objective than any of Ishiguro's other narrators, is happy at the end of the novel as she fades away, because she lived consciously and unselfishly.
>>24863017Did you enjoy the Buried Giant?
What does /lit/ generally think of books written by anons/namefags? Do they shill their own work here, and how are they received? Assuming the work is freely available.
>>24859302Even if you don't hate the future, the fact that people are still talking about a book 50+ years after it was published is a pretty strong endorsement.
>>24862046>themes are supposed to overwhelm you.it's not a good idea
I should've written a shittier book so you'd all have reasons to talk about it.
>>24862160My goal is 200 years after publishing. Knowing damn well I'm not here to see that happen, I made sure to write like I was already dead. Made my day seeing more than one person call it a to be cult classic in their reviews. They weren't critics, just consumers, but it was still really awesome.Wasn't fiction btw
>>24862046If your goal is to build a writing career you have to follow the rules. Debut novels are not supposed to be ambitious or complex. They are supposed to be simple and short. The further you stray from 50k, the less likely you are going to get published. You have enough material in your novel that you can probably cut it down to a publishable novel. Don't waste the opportunity you still have. If you continue to be stubborn and stick to this script of writing something unmarketable, then you will not make it.>>24859131The lizard beginning is actually a good way to start. There are more people who want to read horror than literary, and agents like that mix too. Look at Gabe's book. Is there some reason you think you can't be traditionally published?
Is it worth it in 2025?
>>24862380Her thesis is accessible online. Go ahead and tell me it actually says anything of substance instead of regurgitating leftoid points for 6 gazillionth time using academia's version of corpospeak.The real blackpill is reading papers from the 70s. The decline is in quality is massive.
>>24861980Amelia is such a pretty name. Why would she shorten it to Ally? One more thing I can fix about her.
>>24862913Because she's a proud ally of transpeople, duh
>>24859787>i dont understand the ragenigga try to explain. Just type out your feelings as they happen using words that describe them as close to what and how you feel them, basicly be honest with yourself first me second and just type whatever shit comes to mind cuz. Shiiieeeeiiiit you have no idea how much bs that drops off your shoulders being non censoring and staring reality straight in its bitch ass face and still doing you>chick with a phdayo ima keep it a buck, the only thing i see here is a bitch thats old now and basicly useless. Everything ahe did was based on the absence of strength and not in the pursuit of acquiring it. Bitch is basicly not righteous about her shit so yeah, idc about no funky old hoe
>>24859787her "phd" is about how if you notice nonwhites smell bad it's because you're racist, i'm not overly familiar with academia but surely that's 99.9 percentile niche and libtarded
What does /lit/ think of her works?Personally, I feel she’s surprisingly solid even though she can be a bit edgy for edgy’s sake at times.
>>24862518She came on my radar a while back and I downloaded a bunch of her work. I'm probably going to start with Wise Children.
>fairy tales but with a feminist spinUhhhhh no thanks
Postmodernistslop
Anyone read The Passion of New Eve? Or The Sadeian Woman?
>>24863044>>24863134seething moids
and why is it ancient Greek?
>>24862586https://archive.org/details/allspanishmethod0000guilhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf8XN5kNFkheNPqxA2mTuX65COM1R3S90https://archive.org/details/pocoapocoanelem00avilgooghttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf8XN5kNFkhe4D2BPBKaUb2JvDHuzAGPI
>>24862759https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_method_(education)
>>24859985>let me shill for Classical PersianI'm honestly surprised more anons on /lit/ don't advocate for the Persian language. I mean Goethe learned it to read and write poetry...I mean West–östlicher Divan anyone?
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>>24862759you hire a nanny fluent in ancient Greek to raise you
two sentence horror
>>24861986and so (finally fully approaching, distance traversed and others matters sorted out), I reached for the handle (unsuspecting), but as though a guardian angel over me sought to save me a tingle rushed down me spine and my hand halted (or, not halted but rather was made immobile) and a sweat grew on my brow and I recalled oftentimes we do not know who is on the other side of doors and me britches got sullied and me teeth clenched, and I almost felt that (to protect myself) I must never open again this door lest this unknown knocker still be out there, lurking, and I imagined the days growing ever-longer as I was made to wait ad infinitum for some conclusion to this tension of unknowing the knocker and unknowing his presence (whether he left or whether he be still lurking, some malicious purpose assuredly), and caught in this imagination of a dull infinitude my eyes watered and my vision blurred, pulled further and further from the here from the now and closer to that endless tension of never-resolving, and so drawn into the fantasy was I that almost I completely lost sight, lost awareness, of the world around me, but (that guardian angel once again through her subtle signs saving me) just in that moment light gleamed off the peephole, light right into my eyes, recalling to me it's existence and I sighed (assured in a safe way to check whether the person knocking is known or unknown) and (hand still immobile on handle) leaned my head forward and took a look-see through that peephole heart half-stopped, but soul steeled as much as it could I took that look-see only to be met by a glass much stained by years of disuse, so that now it was all grimy and nothing could be seen and nothing could be done, and once again that mood came upon me, that rush of drawn out dullness, that ever-going nothingness, and in a panic of it and all it was, all it would be (certainly soonly present), and in that panic of it my hand (previously immobile on the handle) rushed to seize the nearly stopped heart, and gripping at the chest feeling a saviour - at that chest, in that breastpocket o'er the heart, was felt the fabric of the handkerchief - and again I breathed a sigh, relieved, again I thanked the angels above, and again I made resolutions to the ending of this tension, now bringing up that handkerchief (before bringing it back down to first wet it with my spittle, then bring it back up again), bringing up that handkerchief to that dirtied grimy unused peephole, and at last relieving that peephole of it's grime, assuring me finally that this tension was to be over, and so I pressed both palms to the door (for support), and I leaned my body forward slowly (slowly as one might slowly open a door, afraid it may creak - somehow afraid of my body creaking and letting that unknown knocker know of a man beyond the door, which might make him all the more persistent, might make him stake out this place and so return me to the much dreaded waiting forevermore),
>>24861987and I leaned forward (at this point my breathing stilled, or rather stopped entirely, clenched throat blocking the airways involuntary, just an automatic response as a dog might yelp at roars of thunder, I clenched closed my throat at the after-presence of knocking), and leaning forward (I made a point to blink my eyes several hundred times, for they were still wetted, still blurred, and if blurred, if wetted, they could not see, and what use a peephole if the peeper's eyes peep could not I said to myself, so I blinked over over over again to brush out the water to clear the vision to peep the knocker and know who he is), and making that lean forward (at this point I became paranoid of everything - in my lean I thought of the grimy peephole (did I really wash it off properly), I thought of the initial knocking (had I really heard anything or was it some schizo-perceptual derangement), I thought of other entrances to this abode (windows ran aside my room, and though high up in an apartment some maleficent force could will itself, be it through ladder or rope or acrobatics or mayhaps superhuman ability, up and through, terrorising me even if I kept locked this door), I thought I heard something new through the wood, some breathing or worse yet laughing (like he knew I was soon to make some folly, and he soon to pounce upon it and rip me apart thereupon) affirming the presence still (for I had really been hoping that that man would be gone even though he was so persistent in that knocking I had hoped I would look through and see nothing and be relieved that nothing was there, though also simultaneously fearing to see nothing, thus the knowledge of the knocker unresolved, and left wondering what if he was hiding, or what if he were pursuing me through some other means, like the aforementioned window, or what if not pursuing but pursued, and he had already made his way and I was to only turn around and look and see and be gone in just that same time)), and so leant forward fully at last, eye to the glass, and I peeped that peephole to see who was beyond. It was a black man.
>>24861989>It was a black man.
>>24859033right in the feels with this one
>>24845183Lost. You made me belly laugh you fucker
