It's that time of year again! Vote for which books you wish to see on this year's top 100 chart. You can vote for as many books as you want. If there are any books not on the list that you wish to vote for, request the author and title ITT and they will be added. Responses can be changed after submitting.Voting closes on the New Year, after which will be the tiebreaker poll. To prevent spamming, a Google account is required to vote, but will not be collected or stored.Vote here:https://forms.gle/LqHa5xS1q5CVikem6
My votes:-- Woolf, 'The Waves'-- Tolstoy, 'Anna Karenina'-- Sterne, 'Tristram Shandy'-- Sophocles, 'Tragedies'-- Rhys, 'Good Morning, Midnight'-- Ovid, 'Metamorphoses'-- Nabokov, 'Pale Fire'-- Melville, 'Pierre'-- Eliot, 'Middlemarch'-- Donne, 'Poems'-- Brontë, 'Wuthering Heights'
>>24952878please become my gf
>>24951578Add:-Thomas Bernhard: Correction, woodcutter, The loserEmily Dickinson: PoemsWallace Stevens: PoemsE.E. Cummings: PoemsRobinson Jeffers: PoemsAnonymous: The Upanishads
OMG!!! Im so happy right now I've been waiting all year!!!!!
>>24952619Did you ever think that there are no good books anymore?
Two Weeks Left Edition>Old:>>24936611>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
>>24952794it is either good or bad. One will never know until he or she actually picks up the books and starts reading
>>24952827It’s not slice of life thoughbeit, every chapter has action and fighting, death and conflict, culminates in a big battle, etc etc. I just used a real life hike I did as the basis for the journey
>>24951556>but how could anyone hate Simon?He was annoying, and his story, while good, wasn't cool enough to compensate for it completely. Anyway, I didn't truly hate him in MS&T, to be honest. I started to hate him way more in the second series, where he is still the same whiny bitch despite having been a king for thirty fucking years.>And the ending is insanely good, if you aren't tearing up and smiling at the Rachel the Dragon bits then your heart is calcifiedNah, I loved the Rachel parts too. It's everythig else that I hated:>Pryrates's plan (makes no sense)>Pryrates's death (the most clicheed Hollywood villain death imaginable)>Simon barely playing any role in the end>Simon becoming king (makes no sense)>All those good guys somehow surviving and escaping unnoticed
Looking for science fiction akin to Blindsight. Preferably single tome too. I really liked the exploration of ayy mothership and descriptions of contact with them.
>>24952797>it's hard to remember side character #16 from Army #7, on continent #3.For e-reader chads, you can install a custom dictionary that provides context/summaries for characters or events you may have forgotten. Very usefulhttps://www.thefictionary.net/authors/fantasy/steven-erikson-and-ian-esslemont-midkemiaFor everyone else, there are useful fan guides that explain things going on:https://www.reddit.com/r/Malazan/comments/1f4e4hy/malazan_guides_and_pdfs/
What's /lit/'s opinion on banning or regulating all forms of fiction and music? Plato wanted poets banned from the Republic, Robert E. Lee distrusted fiction and novels in particular. Not an advocate for it. Rather, I'm just interested in knowing how people would even consider such a thing. As well as whether or not it would do people good in a time where we seem to be inundated with fiction.
>>24952902>in order to be moral we must not allow freedom, and annihilate all immorality on earth by forcethis is actually the bluepill, the redpill is that we're ontically determined to morality (as overriding will to hierarchy) by a historical accident that happened to our brains (logos as spinal catastrophe). each present moment of decisive action is a deliberating value judgement that irrevocably destroys a freedom issued only from logological reflection on the infinity of a possible as against the finitude of an actual act. this has to be the redpill because redpill implies possibility of systematic transcendence on the side of the subject - inscription, that is to say, of the condition (the state of nature) into the subject's own self-conscious decision-making. which it does: ontical determination to order as will to hierarchy inspired by logos implies ontological possibility of an ulterior organization of thinking, and an entirely different style-of-life
>>24952919thats called schizophrenia, physicalism is correct.
>>24952919>physicalism is correct>>(logos as spinal catastrophe)your point? the knowledge drawn from a series of analogies across different polar arrangements discovered at the basis of the chemical, hence biological, hence physiological, hence neuro-psycho-sociological form of Man is still mortgaged entirely on the latter as a rhetorical figure, as the philosophers who seem to have sparked this discussion in the first place would have reminded you. presupposition of totality is a truncheon against thinking, not the outcome of it.
>>24952921>>24952933>schizophrenia>>replies to selfwell we're all our own caricatures now aren't we now aren't we now aren't we.
>>24952556>hating funmuslim tier
>digs giant hole>throws all of the books and people who read books in the hole>500 years of peace and prosperity and the founding of the wealthiest, most advanced, most prosperous civilization of human historyUmmm.... book xisters, our response to mr. shi hunagdi?
>>24952828after reading like 200kg of books it's obvious he was right
>>24952828He should have read more alchemy books
>>24952828Isn't this the guy who drank mercury?
>>24952828I don't give a shit what the chinks do.
>>24952828Anyone who has tried to learn Chinese will sympathize.
What is the oldest book you've read that really disturbed youI just finished reading Matthew Lewis' The Monk and was surprised by how brutal it still is after over two centuries
>>24919376Sell The Monk to me bros. It's only $11 for a copy on Amazon and I'm very tempted to buy it.
What's the best Stephen King book out of these to read: >Gerald's Game>The Long Walk>11/23/63>Cell >Eyes of the Dragon>Rage>ThinnerThese are the only ones I'm interested at all in reading. I'm also wondering if anyone could recommend books or stories similar to King's novelette Jerusalem's Lot? I couldn't care less to read the book, the prequel was fucking awesome though.
>>24919376>The Accusations>Lewis was accused of unoriginality because he essentially created a "pastiche" by borrowing plot motifs, characters, and entire scenes from various European sources. >This practice was not as strictly policed as modern copyright law dictates, but critics used it to malign Lewis's literary standing, especially once his identity as an MP was revealed.
>just read George A. Romeros' "Clay"Holy shit.
>>24923511Ooh, gonna have to look up Fear of the Deep, I love oceanic horror.
What magazines are /lit/?
>>24946453A couple of good ones in this thread, but does no one here really read the NYRB or the London Review? Would have guessed that those are the ones that /lit/izens would naturally gravitate towards. Admittedly they're left leaning so that might but some people off, but most of the articles are written well enough and there are always a couple of exceptional ones in most issues. I actually just got my holiday issue for the NYRB.While we're on the topic does anyone have any suggestions for print magazines covering geopolitics that are European based? I've given Le Monde Diplomatique a try, and the articles are decent, but too short for a monthly magazine imo.
>>24946453jewrag
>>24946453Plough Magazine, The Lamp Magazine.
>>24946453The New StatesmanThe Spectator2000ADPrivate EyeThe Beano
>>24952766Perhaps the only decent answer in this thread >>24952784Bit childish but soulful
The best I've read this year
>>24949657why
>>24949657half of the book is a train ridealso he didn't have to kill that poor Luty on train tracks
>>24949657Why has it not been translated?
>>24952909Comes out in January
>>24949657I bought it 3 years ago, read 20 pages and it's been sitting on my shelf ever since. I don't even remember why I've stopped.
It is not exactly well known in modern circles but much of Hemingways writing had fetishistic undertones for the sexual fetishes be possessed. It is well known that in most of his novels the main women has some sort of ratchet short haircut. Lady Brett Ashley,Maria and Catherine Barkley all had very intense details on the short hair they had. Further most of his wives had short hair and it was a subject of contention for His first wife Hadley Richardson and a mainstay with his second Pauline. Further the topic of women on male anal stimulation comes up in some of his works but more overt. The garden of Eden book truly is the embodiment of the Hemingway sexuality. Hemingwaybros how do you cope with the great man’s man writer liking women with boy haircuts and getting his buddy tickled. Personally I enjoy it.
>>24948659Farewell to Arms is his best novel. That said, Hemingway really shines most in his short stories. If you only read one thing by Hemingway, the Finca Vigia collection is the one to go with.
>>24944831If you can't disconnect author from his work and distinguish fiction from reality then you are genuinly low IQ. Or are you just brown? Do you also think Hemingway got shot in his dick during WW1 since Sun Also Rises is about that? Do you think Agatha Christie was serial killer since she wrote about murders?Do you have inner monologue? Can you imagine hypothetical situations?
i love hemmingway, short haired girls, and getting my ass eaten, but i do not believe hemmingway ever alludes to assplay in any of his works. he keeps it very vague and what is hinted at seems very vanilla.
>>24944831So a closeted, repressed twink.
>>24950447Read the garden of Eden it’s literallyAbout women with short hair who tickle bussy. It is quite well know that Hemingway enjoyed assplay
Behold! The brilliancy of Danielle Chelosky's genius! Terror is one of my favorites from Danielle's little book called Female Loneliness Epidemic, and it is little. It's only 4in by 7in and 0.25in thick
>>24951967>her alcoholic grandfather believed she had been murdered and replaced by a Russian spyHack writers have this insatiable need to add random shit that pops up on their head. It immediately pulls you out and makes you think of their indulgence instead of the story. I bet she was so proud of herself for coming up with this hacky passage.
>>24952105Her tits have the perfect shape.
>>24952102I have a weird problem with vaginal sex. I need to slow down and be intentional about the thrusting so I can actually feel the vagina's grip and warmth. Trouble is, most women like it rough and fast, and there's no sense in trying to spice up my slow gay thrusting with spanking, that ends up making the sex humorous; even I end up audibly laughing, then we both have to stop laughter forcibly because the sex isn't over yet and I still need to cum.Anyways, good thing a lot of women don't care that much about sex, specially older ones, but my biggest problem is that I find most women a bore. My hope is someday I'll find an interesting one.
>>24952884>that ends up making the sex humorous; even I end up audibly laughing, then we both have to stop laughter forcibly because the sex isn't over yet and I still need to cum.& this is bad why?
>>24952863Yes, they are lovely
>>24952186...Bluetooth? It's a screen that displays text. What the hell do you need Bluetooth for? Don't say "audiobooks," since at that point it's all the same whether you use a phone or e-reader.
>>24952224What for? The internal storage of any e-reader can hold literally tens of thousands of books....It's fucking comic books, isn't it?
>>24947416>>24947434imagine reading pic related on an ereaderereaders suck whenever formatting is important to the text
>>24952546I don't understand color ereaders. If you want to read magazines or comics or multimedia why not use a tablet?
>>24947416>buy a used book on ebay>find a 20 year old photograph halfway through the bookYou poorfags will never understand the pure sovl of reading books.
Penguin always seem to have the best covers but it seems gay to just have a shelf of Penguin stuff. What do?
Collect what you like and call others retards for having inferior covers. Simple as.
I think it's impossible to make money off of sharing abstract knowledge. Can you prove me wrong?Because I've tried to make money off talking about philosophy and its just futile. I thought of the 48 laws of power for instance and then I realized that book is just obvious hot garbage.I thought of so many other things like economists, internet bloggers, and even psychologists. And they're all either just spewing lies and falsehoods, writing a whole load of useless filler, or making money in some weird abusive way like taking taxpayer dollars, embarrassing college campus kids or something like that.I think if I could go back in time with the best writing possible, I couldn't convince anyone that the Earth revolves around the sun in a way that makes me money...
>>24952773I think it's impossible to make money in general. I just can't seem to do it no matter what I do. Sucks not being from a decent family who can set you up with a bullshit "job".
>>24952840>wah wah my family didn’t give me handouts Shut up faggot. Make some money like a man.
>>24952773>I think it's impossible to make money off of sharing abstract knowledge. Can you prove me wrong?There are many people who make a living solely from technical blogs
>>24952773It's not impossible because people have done it and still do it. What you mean is: it's very hard, and a lot of factors go into it. Yes, indeed. That's not a particularly unique insight.
>>24952773the only way to make money through mere knowledge (so not skill e.g knowing how to do x but rather knowing that x) is through deceit and corruption, see charles ponzi and wallace fard muhammad or joseph smith.
>Cat's Cradle>Quetzalcoatl
>>24951812I couldn't finish this book. It was terrible.
>>24951812THE.MEGABITCH
>>24951812this kind of requires you to pronounce "Cat's" like "Katsu," korean fried pork cutlet
Best writers for increasing your vocabulary?
>>24949924I would say most author between 1750-1850
>>24952282You can't count
Hemingway
>>24950722Sublunary is so beautiful.. thanks anon
>>24952871You aint seen nothing yet, apropos Donne:Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admitAbsence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.
Redpill me on Dr. William Pierce. Are his works worth reading?
>>24949071>but pierce is a faggot sodo you think if you just keep repeating that without any evidence it'll magically become true?
>>24951910pierce is a faggot and a pornographer>>24951395how about all the scenes where jaeger cups his posslq's boobies and she asks him when they can do something about the white birth rate and he says later honey i need to do improbable terrorisms>>24949476do muslim terrorist manuals come with sex scenes in which the terrorist protagonist refuses to get his concubine pregnant
>>24951910>>24951395>>24949476by the way this is what a heterosexual racist sounds like
>>24952109so is your entire "proof" that Pierce was supposedly gay that the fictional character he created didn't immediately impregnate a female character?not sure if you're dishonest or just really that stupid
>>24952223Is this real? Ngl this is something a 15 year old would write
