Burning TBR Edition>Old:>>24948206>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
I've decided to forgive Glen Cook for port of shadows because I really enjoyed how slutty and evil and big breasted the blonde protagonist bitches are
>>24965583>chubby blonde women my fuckin GUY!!!
Just finished reading The Darkness That Comes Before by Bakker. Definitely a very interesting and mysterious book. I will get the next two asap.The mystery is really engaging. Kellhus is very enigmatic and there's this insidious feeling as well. It wasn't as much torture porn grimdark rape as I thought it was going to be, but I guess that might come later.
>>24965667>torture porn grimdark rapeit will
Status of "Bleak Season": DONE.It was truly ... bleak ... had some moments, but all momentum and tension was killed by way this book is structured.Also spoiled myself almost all of the story by looking at wiki, 'cause I wasn't sure if I remembered the events from previous books correctly.
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>>24965508i don't care much for genre distinctions, i read it all, but i am bitter about the practical use of labels because of how beneficial they can be for publishers. "most" being the key word here. most people looking for fantasy or whatever will expect most works to adhere to a kind of formula and apply cliched language in a way that does not require much decoding. this is why i said i see it as the opposite of something like a Borges story.
>>24965607>what kind of herbs grow in frozen ground? Do you think plants migrate south for the winter or something?>Also, you usually use the part of the herb that grows above the groundYou're joking, right?>And if you had to dig, for whatever reason, you'd use tools, even a dead branch, rather than your bare fingers.Have you ever tried to dig in frozen dirt? It's not easy even with a steel shovel, let alone a knife or trowel.>who the fuck is this dude, and why am I supposed to care about himWhat do you want to know about him? What would make (you) care about him, exactly?
>>24965376>xe keeps being a frogniggerWhen will you learn your lesson, germanfag?
>>24965678>he thinks I'm the krautI enjoy frogs. You don't?
>>24965701>both frogniggers>both have an extremely jarring, downright unreadable ESL style>the MCs are called the same>both alchemistYou aren't as slick as you think, kraut
Nobody has ever read the whole thing
>>24965611there's a full (very in depth) overview as well as the entire book on the Marxist Internet Archive (marxists.org)marx was if anything a student of smith and reacting to/developing the ideas put forth in this book.a marxist who hasn't read smith (you clearly have not) is like an Aristotelian who hasn't read his Plato. it's just simple ignorance, not purity.
>>24965632>no historicismBoth of my points were well within the boundaries of the preceding model. This theoretical scenario only has Marx being unable to sustain himself if he opts for a newer criticism of the school of thought. With historicism it is true that Marx had a more favorable view of Smith than most of the other classical economists.>either way it shouldn't surprise you that so few can explain the book.Very well Smith anon, you arrived at the unlikeliest place where anyone would still choose to take you seriously.
>>24965318Are there any good English translations of this thing? I know the original done by Moore and Aveling was (partly) overseen by Engels. Suppose that doesn’t mean all that much, but I’d rather read about a spectre than a hobgoblin, you know.
Marxists never get tired of embarrassing themselves. I love them for it.
>>24965686You're on my time Fukuyamyam. I don't need you're complaints about how voting worked against your thesis and whatever opinion you have about which Roman emperor best captures Trump's perversities. Rational walls are inevitable.
What a lovely day edition.Old >>24956814
>>24965599Nope, also which black country has a god emperor? I’ll give a hint. We have a mausoleum to that god emperor and it’s almost seen like a pilgrimage site.
This morning I had a dream where I was helping someone I knew with like some trauma therapy thing, and the patient was an older woman who was raped. The person I was with was being pretty calloused towards the patient so I intervened and tried to be as caring as possible and asked them to recount their rape if it wasn't too troublesome for her, and she pulled out her phone and said something along the lines of "I want you to feel guilty as you look at these" and started showing me pictures that her rapist took of her while he was undressing her.I don't understand what she meant by that in the context of the dream. Was I her rapist, or did I remind her of him? Was she just blaming all men for the rape, as women tend to do? I did feel guilty in the dream for some reason, probably because I think men have a responsibility to keep women from getting raped, but I don't really know how I could've stopped her from getting raped if I wasn't there personally. But I was also aroused while she showed me the pictures, maybe that's why I felt guilty?It's just a dream anyways, so it's not anything that matters, I just wish I had pleasant dreams every once in a while. Every dream I have is always something that gives me anxiety or reminds me of bad things in the world.
I hate how fickle pride and confidence are. Yesterday I felt on top of the world, felt confident about my direction in life, was happy at not second-guessing and doubting myself, not uselessly overthinking negatives. Then comes night and I find myself regretting shit, panicking, almost deciding to cancel some big plans. Then today after work I felt hyped again. We're so fucking back energy. Oh and I got a string of rejections on stories I sent out so I got that going for me. Plus I'm hanging on to the few friends I have left to dear life. Got 2.5 left and the 0.5 one is slipping away without any good reason. Fucker.
>>24965591>>24965608French, Mongolian, or Turkish
>>24965712Perhaps she deemed your question inappropriate, but relucantly accepted. I could also see it as her wanting somebody to feel bad/guilty instead of being emotionally cold. Going through a traumatic experience and seeing everyone around you speak about in a calm rational manner can feel jarring.But it is your subconscious so my interpretation is probably not correct. You being aroused is probably the reason for why she said what she said. However, it is intreasting that you did not consider any of the posibilities I gave.
Will I like Anna Karenina if I'm an unapologetic mysoginist?
>>24965698It's a nice book. Anna is actually the villain of the book and the protag whose example you should follow is a man named Levin.
Tolstoy was an unapologetic misogynist himself
>>24965698You'll love it t.sexist
What's your favorite Nabokov?
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. I also like The Eye.
>>24965665>The Real Life of Sebastian KnightHeh, that's also my favorite. Great novel.
Do you like Raymond Chandler, /lit/?
>>24965706Yeah, one of my favorites and biggest inspirations.
>>24965706I tried The Big sleep but dropped it halfway through, couldn’t get into it.
>we'll study grammar in secret societies>we'll remove grammar from schools for the masses>we'll present "intellectuals" in the media that tell them grammar is fake and useless
>>24962396>>24962408>>24962456Based. Education is a complete waste of time and money.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsdQeAGakL0
>>24963431They're not very smart
>>24965292Im not the anon you posted that at and I’m not attacking the character of the person. I’m placing scrutiny on Peikoff’s (the video’s) credibility. You sent a video and I checked it out. If someone’s an Randian objectivist, they can’t ground epistemological norms like fallacies in anything but brute enforcement, which means they can’t tell you why exactly these must be followed, only that their reasoning ends in an arbitrary stopping point. Furthermore, they misuse terms like “mystic” pejoratively and unwittingly make caricatures of opposing views, thereby committing fallacies. It’s at 2:15:20.
>pretends to be a justice fighter against the rich elites>goes to epstein islandwhat did he mean by this
>>24965431I don't give a fuck about Ayn Rand. I posted it for you to watch a few minutes from the timestamp. What he says there is what any logic book will tell you and has fuckall to do with Ayn Rand.
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>>24965296>Pale Fire won't make the listIt's beating Paradise Lost you fucking retard. Kill yourself and stop shitting up the thread.
What are these dogshit voting options? Half these authors best work isnt even featured. Why can I not vote for Jungs memories dreams reflections? Fuck you rigged vote.
>>24965411The bible shouldnt even be on the list... Where the fuck is the tao te ching? STOP THE COUNT
>>24965651fuck off samefag
>>24951578The Bible creeping up over the years is telling. Religioncels really were bullied of every other board and try and turn every thread into Bible talk thread #6785. I more annoyed with them shitting up threads, I do think the Bible should be top 10 though
>the best metaphor for modern politics/geopolitics, where automata continue on a decontextualized struggle roleplay devoid of meaning but continued for the sake of continuity, appeared not in /lit/, but in a bad japanese game about a samurai French maid running around in her underwear with her bits out.books to cope with this?
>>24965709Just jerk off to the rule 34 before coming to /lit/ and embarrassing yourself
>>>/pol/524136801Our based bimbo
Well, that was certainly a waste of time.
>>24965479I read the whole thing. >>24965480even worse, a translation in spanish
>>24965483They're both Romance languages, how bad could it be?
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>>24965504spanish is too heterosexual of a language to represent faithfully the droves of technical interior decoration terminology
>>24965470I'd advise all to stop reading after the first 2 books. The first is phenomenal, the second is great, but there's a steep decline thereafter.
You need more?
>>24965652Rabelais was extremely difficult to read, especially the first Gargantua and the first book of Pantagruel.I was kind of memeing. Céline just has a steep learning curve, but once you pick up on all his slang for shoes it's not that hard to read him. Thankfully most editions come with a dictionary at the back, but almost literally every bit of slang Céline says can be determined from context.
Just to show I'm not kidding. Half the slang in Mort à Credit is "godasse" and "godillot" which are derived from the 19th century shoemaker Alexis Godillot's last name.https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/godassehttps://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/godillot
>>24965670are you french? if not im impressed. i have hundreds of words ive had to note from reading not much céline. and no i dont think any or much were shoes.
>>24965676>are you frenchNo, but I'm definitely exaggerating. I used the slang dictionary all the time, but after a few pages you start to pick up on it. I also think the difficulty of Céline is way overblown. People would claim The Exile trilogy was absolutely unreadable in French. It's not. I have no idea where that claim came from. In fact, it's some of Céline's best work.
>>24965676Can you post the list? I'm curious if I will actually remember what any of the words mean.
No literature published post-2020 has gotten even close to how engaging the writing is in this vidya. Face it, games are the new literature medium of the 21st century. Prove me wrong. Oh and pro tip? You can't ; )
>>24964728both comments were coherent and make a salient point, why make a game if you just want someone to read mountains and mountains of text, why not just make it a Choose Your Own Adventure book, the gameplay is walking around a purposefully dull place and equipping a tie every 4 hours, it's confused, and none of the mountains of text actually immerse you, it's very un-natural dialogue. It's a bad game.
>>24962945There are a few.
>>24962941I dont understand why people who post this stuff arent forced to get raped
>>24965128the hardy boys are still lying about killing the guy when the rape story is claimed, so there is still a cover story involved even if they believe in the rape part, so one would think they would send at least someone to let the girl know about it to make sure they're on the same page about it. or have literally any other cover story. they're on bad enough terms that they can't talk to agree on a story but they still go through so much effort to protect the girl because of simpdom? so much convolution just to have a simple discrepancy between two stories make everything too easily unravel.>The killer is the wound on the city you see in every frame.not deducible. no fun. detective stories are games in themselves, where constraints provide value. disco gets its value from other places, sure, but ultimately not the case part.
>>24965568this is too much and in bad faith.
Have you found any of /lit/s feedback on your writing helpful? Or anywhere else on the Internet?
