Recommend me books like pic rel. I know Casanova is probably untoppable in terms of sheer quantity of unbelievably interesting stuff described in an autobiography but I'd like recommendations of anything close. Could be memoirs of military expeditions, love affairs, adventures, revolutions, criminal enterprises, anything. Just as long as it's ostensibly nonfiction, and incredibly interesting.
>>24796044Post it
>>24796045>Sunday, 12th October 2025Woke up bright and early at 3pm.Today I stared at my pissbottles until mother left to go shopping so I could use the microwave. Then I played Stellaris for 14 hours. Might wash tomorrow.
>>24796023The Memoirs of Saint-Simon are pretty good.
>>24796023Nabokov's speak memory
>>24796023Ulysses Grant's memoir. Probably not as diverse in action as Casanova's book. It does have one quality that most memoirs don't, and that is it actually goes to the end, I believe he finished it only 10 days before he died, although I could be wrong. Of course seeing the American Civil war through the head of the Union army should interest you enough. His writing is also very clear and easy to read.
How do you find the strength to read a book? I can't do it, as soon as I open a book, I want to read it as quickly as possible. It feels like a chore to me. I'd like to know your thought process when you read a book.
>>24795982good point, go on
When you lose it allWhat do you have left to lose
>>24795737I have that feeling nowadays but only for video games.
>>24795979Horrible bbl Tits probably fake tooThe quirky chungus persona is too exaggerated
>>24796216Tymwits is her OF her tits are fake as hell but she's pretty hot
Sisters is Dracula worth reading?
I enjoy all of the lengthy dialogues and monologues from Dracula and Mary and Lucy and Van Helsing. They're just well written even when they go on for far too long and don't seem to be advancing or adding to the story.
>>24796154Gr8 b8. Not a single Dracula movie has ever been good. Not even lugosi.
The epistolary form is interesting and make it sometimes feel like a collection of short stories pieced together rather than one big story.
>>24796180Who said the Dracula movies are good? It's the three Nosferatu movies that are great.
>>24796185Dont play semantics faggot none of them are good.
How the ACTUAL FUCK do you have the time/energy/consistent uninterrupted mental space to be well-read and to write these days?Even if you aren't hustling and have an average 9-5 job, it feels nearly impossible given the sheer amount of distractions, the frantic pace of the world, and the amount of bullshit you have to deal with on a daily basis. Are we "cooked" as the retarded kids say?
there were only like 40 books in the 1940s, anon.
>>24795852Become a NEET. Bin all your electronics. Start reading.
>>24795852If you start replacing time you spend on social media and other time wasters you'd be surprised at how much you can read.
Put down your phone and stop doomscrolling. Most people have like 6+ hours of screen time per day, sacrifice a couple of those hours to reading
just be a neet
What's the /lit/ consensus on it? Is it truly the Great American Novel? Or is it an overrated midwit piece of shit?
>>24796167Queequeg in his Coffin, the Whiteness of the Whale, and the Castaway
>>24796173>the Whiteness of the WhaleLove that too
>>24796167When they encounter the other ship, captained by an ignorant man named Derick, futilely chasing after a finback whale they can’t hope to catch, and Melville writes:> Oh! many are the Fin-Backs, and many are the Dericks, my friend.
>>24796167The Chart is so badass
>>24795647shut the fuck up you fuckin faggot
Typewriters are rightwing. Don't you dare pound out leftwing shit on a typewriter. It's not a typelefter, it's a typewriter.Welcome to the typewriter general, where even alphasmart retards are welcome.
>>24796217And I wear a purple sportscoat when using my typewriter - in a distraction-free environment, physically located away from tvs, pcs, phones, and other nonsense. Like this, but without the bowtie.
Why do women love dark romance?
>>24795983
>>24794320But is thebanswer biceps or ads? Bicep Bros, please tell me it isn't abs.
>>24793969Lol
>>24794151Those weren't caused by us. Gen X were the first truly PC generation, despite being slightly better than millennials over all.
his forearm looks bigger than mine
Who is this shit even for?It's for kids but it has swearing in it? Wow so edgy.
>>24795651>>24795813>>24795855getting mad at this is like getting mad at 2000AD, it's proleslop written by proles mad that our maggie broke the unions
>>24795873commas are for the weak faggot
>>24795863I usually go over the last entry in my diary desu before I start the next one>>24795876what made you decide anyone else was mad?
>>24795888ok getting annoyed at this
>>24795651I recently experienced some serious discord when confronting how widely-regarded and praised these books are vs. how shite they actually are. I read Guards! Guards! which is considered one of the best books in the series and was amazed at how sloppy, poorly written, unfunny, and disjointed it was. Easily one of the worst books I’ve ever read, but then you look at the reviews and realize that like 98% of people think it’s the best thing ever. It’s basically Minotaur Milking Farm-tier slop for the le heckin intellectual quirk chungus reddit crowd. This experience convinced me that nearly all normies are just peasant NPCs.
Name a bigger failure. Go on, I'll wait.
>>24795648people who don't make the effort to try to look good are just self-centered. Why would I care what some narcissist thinks?
>>24795788lmao
>>24795788>people who don't make the effort to try to look good are just self-centeredmishima bros keep winning
>>24795522He literally said it would be a failure.>The next real literary "rebels" in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of "anti-rebels," born oglers who dare to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall to actually endorse single-entendre values. Who treat old untrendy human troubles and emotions in U.S. life with reverence and conviction. Who eschew self-consciousness and fatigue. These anti-rebels would be outdated, of course, before they even started. Too sincere. Clearly repressed. Backward, quaint, naive, anachronistic. Maybe that'll be the point, why they'll be the next real rebels. Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk things. Risk disapproval. The old postmodern insurgents risked the gasp and squeal: shock, disgust, outrage, censorship, accusations of socialism, anarchism, nihilism. The new rebels might be the ones willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the "How banal." Accusations of sentimentality, melodrama. Credulity. Willingness to be suckered by a world of lurkers and starers who fear gaze and ridicule above imprisonment without law. Who knows.
>>24796191so sitcom writers
Creepypastas. The best literature ever produced on 4chan.
>>24796145Yeah but anonymous poster 10311088 on Tuesday June the 19th, 2012 really transcended the original in his telling of it.
>>24796164>I can't help it, I run>I just fucking run>I sprint out of the hall and I swear as I bolted past the bathroom door it throws itself forward toward me>I think I feel it fucking slide down the back of my shirt like it's grazing me>sprint to door>throw open door>pitch black>light in the neighborhood is out>running down the walkway outside my apartment>pitch black everywhere>slow down just a little as I make it to the stairs>turn around>it's following me>it's fucking following me and it's moaning now not just whimpering, like every limb needs to make a human fucking noiseComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24796166eli5 what happened. yes i read it, my brain can't process the last sentence. hook what?
>>24796188Yeah so basically man door hand hook car door
>>24796182I enjoyed your story. Lots of strange things out there.
"Frustration" editionPrevious: >>24766768/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)Simple guides on writing:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24795968NTA but unedited writing is a true testament to a writer's skill nowadays, anyone can come up with decent prose if you allow him days to hone something into decency
>>24795959It is beautiful but you have to have some kind of sea monster in the water
Hi guys, newfag here, I was told to go here for advice. See, I’m writing this game, about two hours long, making it myself actually. But, since /v/ is a shit-hole, does having a great story matter at all? I don’t want to waste my time, as I’m more than competent at writing and I know the medium style of storytelling, but does it really matter in the end, or nah?
>>24795853It made me feel like you don't know where to end a sentence.
>>24796153trueand tips?
Authors you would drink beers with. No gays or communists.
>>24795747isn’t this clearly a UK putdown? americans are really pretty dumb
>>24795731We don't sign our posts here
>>24793734Your son would probably be a tranny too if you had the unbounded machismo of Hemingway. Their genetic mental illness probably didn't help either. He did not generally care for the Jews. Or blacks. Or Native Americans. >>24794808Yes, he had sympathies for the communists in Spain. More so, he had disdain for the fascists. That doesn't make him a communist. He was a complex guy with complex views that changed over time. If only we should all be so lucky. >>24795708It's not our fault your favorite authors are foreign, not bros and nobody wants to drink beers with them. >>24795731This thread is for bros and you're not really meeting the standard.
Celine would be a laugh until he starts sperging out at the table next to us about the jews and scares away the local tarts.
>>24793122Sounds like you haven't read his books lol
It's obvious why these edgy pro-annihilation and antinatalist philosophies never actually catch on and just remain niche online LARPs. At the end of the day the average person is just a bundle of instincts hardwired with an insane will to live and an animalistic sex drive that makes the idea of virginity as the highest virtue a non-starter. But more importantly the sales pitch for pure nothingness is just terrible. You need to give the masses some kind of cope, a reward/punishment system to keep them in line. Buddha was smart enough to know this, he didn't tell normies the esoteric truth that the goal is to just *poof* gone, because they would've laughed and stoned him. Instead he sold them the brilliant exoteric lie of reincarnation: be good and you'll come back a prince, be bad and you're a maggot. It's the same reason Christianity works, the whole system is propped up by the ultimate carrot and stick of eternal bliss in Heaven versus the terror of Hell. Without those comforting illusions any philosophy that just tells people "existence is suffering and the only way out is to stop existing" is dead on arrival. It's a bitter pill only a few suffering or detached individuals can swallow while the rest of the world will always choose the promise of a better life, even if it's a lie, over the cold reality of oblivion.
edgy philosophies don't want to catch on they would cease being edgy
>>24795933Meanwhile, the mass of plebs are free of these neurotic hangups, and continue breeding like flies while the intellectual bourgeoisie dies out.Humans are like guppies: they breed downwards.
nihilistic despair, like all forms of despair, is just you feeding your appetite for "blackpill" dopamine. no different from histrionic self-flagellation, you wouldn't do it if you weren't getting something out of it.
In a recent study published by John Hopkins University students were asked to write a translation of the first few paragraphs of Bleak House in clear, modern English. They were given dictionaries, access to the Internet, and as much time as they needed. Despite this, 49 of the 85 students failed to do so. Sentence after sentence, they could not grasp what Dickens was saying; i.e., they were incapable of figuring out who or what a sentence was talking about, did not understand the imagery or metaphors, could not translate long or complex sentences into shorter, simpler ones, and could not identify the main ideas being described. As such, the researchers deemed this group to be "problematic readers"
>>24781386>English majors>58% of them cannot read the first page of a Dickens novelNo way, I don't believe it. I'm a self-taught ESL (Europe) and I can read it. There is no way this qualifies as a difficult read. I actually love this sort of flowery, long-winded prose and I wish any contemporary instance of it weren't inexorably panned as purple.I'm not too well read but I think the only one I really struggled with was Melville because of the sailor lingo. Really wish I had the vocabulary to enjoy the prose on my first go. Wish I could write half as well as he did.
>>24781386https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ynCVmw5AWk
>>24795189qrd please I'm too retarded to watch an hour video
>>24796066Watch it at 2x speed whilst doing something else you retarded goldfish.
>>24796066>qrd please I'm too retarded to watch an hour videoThe video is about retards like you, being retarded.
The infinite jest of horror is what?
>>24795840I'd like her to do that to me, yes
>>24795786Which book
Hand hook car hook door man hook
>>24795882What??????
>>24791233Infinite Jest. Stop being a plotfag.
