>"Would you still love me if I was a bug?">"No."
>>24784129>the 2000sYou mean the 2010s?
>>24782254Who the fuck cares about The Metamorphosis, when brilliant novels like The Trial and The Castle were never finished!Oh, how I wish Kafka lived to be an old man...he absolutely would've been discovered in the literary world in his lifetime due to Max Brod's efforts.Although...if Kafka were elderly, he'd have to have dealt with the grief and struggle of losing all of his sisters in the holocaust...
>>24784164>he'd have to have dealt with the grief and struggle of losing all of his sisters in the holocaust...also he could have turned into a bug
>>24784145No I mean the 2000s as a century
>>24784355just say the 21st century, youll avoid all confusion
What does this board think of her?
>>24782415Shes not bvilt
built for...
>>24783320Love <3
/lit/ retards always have time to argue about books they've not read
>>24777273>I'm really not built for this.What is she even built for then?
I thought women didn't like sex or intimacy or men or rajas in general. What gives?
>>24784743average people have never been hot. women included.
>>24784008>60,000 reviewsInsane.
>>24784043Hilarious "ur vir-gen lul" joke.
>>24784008>rajasFuck off jeet.
>>24784008Hmmm... Campbell might say that women are beautiful and men are sublime - what men want in women is beauty, while what women seek in men is action. Aesthetic on the one side, narrative on the other. Probably wouldn't end it there but it's a starting point.
Books on how to stop being a narcissist?
Just read some Hesse and stop posting those shitty things from 15 fucking years ago
>>24784511The New Testament, njkv
>>24784511you can't stop being a narcissist, but the fact that you think you're a narcissist and want to change is proof you're not a narcissist.you're probably just gay or somethihg
The state of literature in 2025 is beyond parody. https://archive.ph/0ZeJQ
>>24783746Why are you pretending this is a controversial or even remotely new topic for literary fiction?Wait, I think I have an idea.
>>24783933>>24783867Was this supposed to accomplish something other than prove him right, you absolute fucking imbecile?>>24784740Looks like a Russian bot is having a melty.
>>24784933You do understand that you are completely full of shit, yes? Who exactly do you think you're going to convince on 4chan with this pathetic faggotry?
>>24784951Who championed the legalization of gay marriage?
>>24784947>>24784951nonsensical hyperaggressive response that hooked on keywords and misfired
What were /lit/'s favorite books as young boy?
>>24783950The part where the baseball ends up in(side) the friend's hand messed with me more than anything in any otherGoosebumps book.Also, that cover is really nostalgic for a number of reasons.
>>24779108Nice, this was one of my favorite books in 8th grade, as well as the WWE Legends and I had some issues of Professional Wrestling Illustrated
>>24783806Oh shit Shiloh, such a sad book.
>>24783950I vividly remember Say Cheese and Die>>24784004Picrel series was my intro to classic lit
>>24778863Percy Jackson
I stopped reading in my late teens. Every year I promise I'll get back to it, but I never have the energy or the motivation. I've lost the war of willpower.
Faggot
>>24784890I did too. Drugs, sex, and socialising got in the way; alongside starting University, which meant that when I had to read it was for coursework and not for the joy of expanding my knowledge or pleasure. This year though I have developed a re-found love for reading. I was a voracious reader from the age of 4, and my Mum always indulged my reading and would always buy me a book if I asked for it. I read throughout my childhood and teens and it was only in late teens that I slowed down, I probably only read 3-5 books a year from 17-24. But now at 24, nearly 25 I'm on about 25~ books a year. My goal is to reach at least 40 a year.
>>24784940So basically your life is perfect. What are you doing here?
>I normied too. Norms, normie, and normalising got in the way; alongside norming Normiversity, which meant that when I had to normie it was for normiework and not for the joy of norming my normage or normiesure. This year though I have normied a re-found norm for norming. I was a voracious normie from the age of 4, and my Mum always normied my norming and would always norm me a book if I normied for it. I normied throughout my childhood and teens and it was only in late teens that I normied down, I probably only normie 3-5 norms a year from 17-24. But now at twenty-norm, nearly normie-five I'm on about 25~ norms a year. My goal is to normie at least normie a year.
>God does not exist, He is being-itself.Is he right?
>>24784724>being does not existWas he retarded?
>>24784852>>24784873>>24784893
>>24784820That is like the most basic Monist comment imaginable - âthinking as beingâ and being as above change. God wouldnât exist as he isnât outside of the creation but rather is part of it.
>>24784893I feel like you should first clarify what you mean by God being existence, and what a "shadow-existence" would mean. Perhaps you mean a shadow-existence in a broader sense, like if God is the universe's first moment and his creations are that moment's consequences, but you can't just attribute to God things that don't make sense.
>>24784925clive was a P.I.M.P.
Which epic poems have you read, anons? And what do you think of the epic? Can epic poetry be written in the modern period? Think âAâ, Cantos, Paterson, and Omeros.
>>24771243What truths
>>24773596POD?
>>24784775Print on demand
>>24784751>Divine Comedy>folk talekill yourself
i havent read hesiod but i intend to
When you write or speak, do you consciously look for words or are they delivered unto you by Mnemosyne herself?
>>24778499>>24778499One of the funniest parts of /lit/ is that everyone here likes to screech about how twitter is le shitter is le heckin trannies is blah blah but everyone uses images from twitter constantly (this thread, for example) and starts threads based on twitter hot topics constantly
>>24780458this image is from reddit, sir
>>24780458We get xitter screenshot threads all the time, not one missing in a day. I wonder why we hate xitter so much, it's practically posted by OP (She/They/Shey/Xhi) everyday!!
>>24778499Who?
>>24778499>Good morning, Clarice
I read some of the "anti-racist" biographies at the public library, and the level of hatred these brown women have towards white girls is insane. There was one with a black girl at some anti-racist seminar just demeaning and making fun of this white woman doing her best to apologize for her implicit biases and privilege. With all these books about race being published everywhere, all these experiences as a diaspora. When is the actual unspoken truth going to get published? the burning resentment and hatred that non-white women have towards white women? Or is that too much for the publishing industry?
>>24784495None of this really applies to non-diaspora, it doesn't really apply 100% to diaspora either. I just feel pure hatred and resentment based on race because our culture is undermined and our people are being attacked. Am I being particularly nasty and mean spirited? Yes, absolutely. But this is me being the one nasty person throwing dirt directly back, compared to the hundreds of books and an entire anti-white industry embedded in government and the corporations. But you're right, I'll tone down the hatred and seethe.>>24784699I just don't see young women doing the boatscrote shilling anymore to a sizable degree. Sure, some wealthy ones do. But take a cursory look at any pro-boatscrote protest in the UK and it's all old women. Germany has a whole "Omas gegen Rechts" (grannies against the right) because boomers have to 100% make sure we exist as a dispossessed minority in our homelands, it's really really that important to them.
>>24784110>but pulling the dick out of my ass will cost me : (Just a bunch of cowardice and excuses. You're in the era of "black fatigue" becoming one of the most widely shared and appreciated memes on the internet. The public's ready for it, and you didn't even have to do any of the work. Find your balls and start pushing the envelope. Alternatively, make some lifestyle changes and surround yourself with people you don't silently look down on.
>>24784770Eh don't worry I understand why you chimp out like that, as I say before, whites have been completely defang and made the safe target to attack. So its normal you start spraying venom to everyone
>>24779476The astronomically overwhelming majority of books published in English in the 2020s are by white people.
>>24779467The level of hatred all humans have in general is insane. They're like rats.
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:>>24753638 (Cross-thread)>Thread Question:You are thrown into the world of the last book you read. Where are you, what are you doing and what are your plans?
>>24784312No, his earlier work wasn't like this at all.I swear he had an idea for a movie, but he was like, "Fuck, I need to write it as a book first" and he just spewed out the first things that came to mind with no thought.https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/james-cameron-write-joe-abercrombie-the-devils-1236235447/I remember it gets worse as it goes on, good luck anon.
>>24784463Needs to be anime
>>24784463Having James Cameron do the writing with you seems like an insult even for Abercrombie. Also it's not like Jimbo will ever film it but if it did you know he would outsource city design sp you'd get pajeet AI- Vatican immediately.
>>24784265Sorry horsefag. Maybe she'll turn things around in Red God. If she and Darrow lose hopefully she'll get a noble death at least. Abomination redemption arc incoming btwAlso Victra best girl.>>24784269This. Ruocchio is a big Iain Banks fan thoughbeit.
>>24784484How is it an insult? Cameron writes all of his movies, and he's written some other people's movies too
just a cool factoid
>>24784248Based. Did you get bored of your middle class lifestyle and crashed out drunk and now have found yourself in a drug smoking meth?
And I'm descended from Arthur
>>24784290No I was always poor.
>>24784303Same, but also due to population collapse and statistics so is basically every European, just not documented, insofar as there was a specific king that the legend is based on.
>>24784197>Fanfic character descended from fanfic characterWow cool.
Is LOTR anything more than a trip to candy mountain or what? I never read the book or watched the movies.
It's a rather plain jane fantasy adventure series.
>>24784909like Shrek?
>>24784910that is rather satirical, or at least comedically inverted, not plain jane.
The quest to mount doom definitely drives the plot like you would expect, but LotR is a very 'big' book, and ultimately the quest is the tip of the ice-berg. The one ring, for example, is a truly clever plot and thematic device, the extent of which took more than one read through for me to fully understand. But I'm a retard, so idk.
>>24784943The One Cock Ring
>be gay hedonist>write definitive story of how being a gay hedonist ruins your life and destroys everything of beauty and value you touch>get your dick cut off and locked in a tower until you die>gay hedonists: "omg hes so based"I feel like the entire situation could have been handled better by all parties involved.
You either die unrecognized or live long enough in the minds of others to be horrendously mischaracterized.
