When getting into a writer, I try to get as much primary and secondary material as I can to fully understand their work. Do you do the same?
>>24977317Hell no
Why do so many writers whine about capitalism? What's wrong with having a Big Mac at McDonald's?
It's the most beautiful love story I've ever read.
>>24975300Why did they re-legalize alcohol but not take the women's right to vote away or put niggers back in the field?
>>249754144chan has some smart mother fuckers, if you didnt know that, you would not be here now would you.
What did i say here
>>24975476based off the clock ready for cock chart>>24975812of course 18 and 21 year olds cant be brainwashed into chopping off their genitals, if we're waiting until people are actually super fully for realsies adult before they can consent to anything we're talking 28-31 years old, also trannyism should be outlawed
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if you don't own this in 2025, you don't love literature.
>>24966640kindle is owned by amazon, made in chinaworst of both worlds
>>24976825Yes, kindle has a built in dictionary. Vou just need to click on the word.
Rate my reading list /lit/
>>24977002>person from a nation of criminals>75% books are about crimeVery apropos
>>24977002barnes and noble core
literature that helps you come to terms with the life you lived ( and regretted )I am in extreme distress because I grew very old and dont have a wife and family that I always wanted. Need some books to help me cope with the missed opportunities in my life
>>24968459You're taking this shit too seriously anon, if you have a decent job just read Carnegie, get lean, and order a mail bride or whatever the fuck, it can't be that bad
>>24977017>>>/adv/
>>24977006Wow imagine that life is good when you are born into a rich family and you have fucking money and you don't have to work to live or can easily get set up with a bullshit job where you don't do shit.
Turned 27 this year. Yesterday I discovered this program that generates a bunch of randomizers out of old single-player games and then links them all together, such that finding items in one game unlocks items and levels in another game, as if it's one giant game. I was pretty enthusiastic at first, but today one of my emulators bugged out and I lost my progress several times in a row, and so I was left staring at Pokemon Emerald on my screen with just a level 7 starter in my pokedex, thinking, god what a manchild I am. But honestly, I don't view playing games as particularly worse than more traditional pastimes like reading, fishing, chatting, and so on. It's more like the act of clinging to the faintest shred of nostalgia and joy from the past is pathetic. It's as if we're affirming ourselves, "Yes, life actually peaked before we even hit puberty". But is that true? None of us growing up thought that childhood would be the end. As children, we looked out and saw infinite growth, infinite possibilities in all directions. As children we constantly turned our heads in every direction, probing, testing, giving everything a fair shake. Now the world for us adults is a cold, dead land save a few cracks in the pavement through which flowers grow. I'm not suicidal, but I don't want this.
>>24977281Alright give me your money then.
Was thinking of reading some labor history. Which one of these should I pick and why?
>>24976545I interned at one of these labor law firms. Shit was repetitive and uninteresting as fuck
>>24976488My employment record desu
>>24976488Volume 1 of the penguin classics translation of Das Kapital covers the working conditions of post-industrial revolution English poorfags quite extensively.
>>24976571It just seems like they'd know what they're talking about
Still no answers...
>>24976777Based 7's. Read it two years ago about this time, my favorite work by him. Yet to read Age of Louis xiv, however
>>24976777No
Is it worth reading the books as an adult?I never read it, only saw the movies up to Prisoner of Azkaban. I find JK Rowling based.
>>24977258Im past my potential. 31yo here. Just want a comfy reading.
If you liked the movies, maybe? It's been a while since I read these. I read them when I was a kid.You're not going to find anything terribly "based" in there, if that's what you're looking for.
>>24977267I'm surprised you managed to skip these given your age.The first two books probably won't excite you as much as anything that follows them. I seem to remember book 3 being much better than the preceding two and enjoying 4 through 6 a lot. I remember thinking 7 was a bit weak.
They're not even worth reading as a child.
>>24977229just listen to the audiobooks
Suggest books you want to read with other anons. Earliest dubs decide.>11 Jan>22 Feb>33 Oct>44 Nov>55 May>66 Dec>77 Jan>88 Aug>99 Feb
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Why is it that an excessive (all) amount of sovereignty resides in the hands of the judiciary (the Cathedral) in an ostensible democracy?
>>24975251>the judiciary which actually rules.Every president defies the judiciary and they do nothing to stop it, because they can't.
>>24975290List examples of when a president defied the SC directly in living memory big fella.Where the SC said no, and they just went ahead and did it anyway, I will wait.
>>24974609>Medicaid/Social SecurityI'm on those Also doesn't picrel talk about large government overreach?
>>24974554To deny actual democracy.
>>24975251Send me something from Saudi Arabia Ma Salama.
Hey guys, pls rate the start of my military sci-fi novel
>>24974326Zoomer writing is well on track of rivaling Millennial writing.
>>24974838Why would they need a brand name if they are the only alcohol business???
I was ait
Turning this into a critique thread. I am shit at writing and english isn't even my first language. Please give feedback on my intro to my first scifi.
>>24977274Please study books you enjoy, what the first pages of those are like, what they all do that you don't do, and what you do that they don't.
I don't get the hype. It seems to just be a book about some autist going around and scoring various shades of poontang. What the hell is going on in this book?
>>24977075Do you think many like you would follow suit?
>some autist going around and scoring various shades of poontangWhat else did you expect from a YA novel?
>>24977041Read Fifth Head of Cerberus or Peace if you are less married to the tropes of an edgy young twenty something going on a wild action adventure, scoring lots of girls, and eventually becomes the ruler of his land because he is the chosen one as most fantasy slop readers on here and r/genewolfe are. The story is without a doubt elevated massively by Wolfe's prose and storytelling style, but I can't help but feel the attraction to BOTNS is due to these tropes that people beg for time and time again.
>>24977246BASED>Overall, I found nothing unique in Wolfe. Perhaps it's because I've read quite a bit of odd fantasy; if all I read was mainstream stuff, then I'd surely find Wolfe unpredictable, since he is a step above them. But compared to Leiber, Howard, Dunsany, Eddison, Kipling, Haggard, Peake, Mieville, or Moorcock, Wolfe is nothing special.>Perhaps I just got my hopes up too high. I imagined something that might evoke Peake or Leiber (at his best), perhaps with a complexity and depth gesturing toward Milton or Ariosto. I could hardly imagine a better book than that, but even a book half that good would be a delight--or a book that was nothing like that, but was unpredictable and seductive in some other way.>I kept waiting for something to happen, but it never really did. It all plods along without much rise or fall, just the constant moving action to make us think something interesting is happening. I did find some promise, some moments that I would have loved to see the author explore, particularly those odd moments where Silver Age Sci Fi crept in, but each time he touched upon these, he would return immediately to the smallness of his plot and his annoying prick of a narrator. I never found the book to be difficult or complex, merely tiring. the unusual parts were evasive and vague, and the dull parts constant and repetitive.>The whole structure (or lack of it) does leave things up to interpretation, and perhaps that's what some readers find appealing: that they can superimpose their own thoughts and values onto the narrator, and onto the plot itself. But at that point, they don't like the book Wolfe wrote, they like the book they are writing between his lines.
>>24977290>Then there is the fact that every character you meet in the story turns up again, hundreds of miles away, to reveal that they are someone else and have been secretly controlling the action of the plot. It feels like the entire world is populated by about fifteen people who follow the narrator around wherever he goes. If the next two books continue along the same lines, then the big reveal will be that the world is entirely populated by no more than three superpowered shapeshifters.>Everyone in the book has secret identities, secret connections to grand conspiracies, and important plot elements that they conveniently hide until the last minute, only doling out clues here and there. There are no normal people in this world, only double agents and kings in disguise. Every analysis I've read of this book mentions that even the narrator is unreliable.>This can be an effective technique, but in combination with a world of infinite, unpredictable intrigue, Wolfe's story begins to evoke something between a soap opera and a convoluted mystery novel, relying on impossible and contradictory scenarios to mislead the audience. Apparently, this is the thing his fans most appreciate about him--I find it to be an insulting and artificial game.>I agree with this reviewer that there is simply not enough structure to the story to make the narrator's unreliability meaningful. In order for unreliable narration to be effective, there must be some clear and evident counter-story that undermines it. Without that, it is not possible to determine meaning, because there's nowhere to start: everything is equally shaky.>At that point, it's just a trick--adding complexity to the surface of the story without actually producing any new meaning. I know most sci fi and fantasy authors seem to love complexity for its own sake, but it's a cardinal sin of storytelling: don't add something into your story unless it needs to be there. Covering the story with a lot of vagaries and noise may impress some, but won't stand up to careful reading.
Thoughts?
I am a recovering fash, and in 2026 I wanted to do a lot of additional reading on Marxism, Socialism, etc. I have already ordered the Marx-Engels reader, but I am always looking for more. I've been reading this stuff voraciously lately and feel like a changed man.
>>24973271You should be a good citizen and read John Stuart Mill.
>>24973271Good book, gets into the history of the Paris Commune and the french leftist movement around it. One of the best breakdowns of Blanquism I've seen.
>>24975381Bumping this thread with an irrelevant "true."Even 19th-20th century fascists were skeptical of capitalism and saw it merely as a pragmatic tool for the enrichment of the proletariat, prescient of Dengist reforms. That's not to say they were communist or Marxist strictly speaking, but they very obviously assimilated Marxist critique of capital as you said.
>>24977248There are multiple modes of anti-capitalism. Marxists seem to think they're unique in that respect.
>>24976296>of whom Goebbels started out as and of which the “socialism” in German national socialism was rooted within.Reading Goebbels' diaries on his fascination with Strasser, and Strasserism in general, and his initial disdain for Hitler -- extremely interesting from a historical perspective.
The first 11 are basically unreadable. This is a case of people pretending to love books they sacrificed too much time to, except maybe LOTR. Even people who love the bible, like me, admit it’s mostly unreadable.
i havent read the 11th book, but as to the first 10 I have no idea what you mean. How are they unreadable?
Just because you can't read them doesn't mean everyone else suffers from the same mental deficiencies.
