This book is anti white horseshit. It would be right at home with the modern leftist college student, too bad the system has convinced them to hate anything remotely old and assume it's racist, ironically. I'm convinced melman or whatever his name is was an atheist, because he's preaching his own religion in this book and it's the religion of white genocide that's so en vogue
>>24986080He still regards civilization through the lens of christian meekness as an ideal, and one which in practice is prescribed specifically for White people.
>>24986080Well libtard, your response to these gentlemen? >>24986260>>24986291
>>24982866Is that the prose? Yikes. Never picking up this doorstopper.
>>24984871Thanks, Grok
>>24986054>>24986060>>24986042>>24986074You leftists jerk off your boyfriends with those fingers, after typing such retarded shit?
Dastardly New Age Edition>Old:>>24975110>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
>>24982133This book is vastly better on a full series reread
>>24986591This is the case with all of Malazan. It’s got so many hints and other shit that make rereads fun
>>24986542Kaladin was great in book 1 though.
>>24986585How would you salvage this?
"He had a peculiar defeated quality hanging over him, and yet, underneath, he did not seem to have given up. A vague and ragged hint of vitality lurked behind the resignation; it seemed to Runciter that Joe most nearly could be accused of feigning spiritual downfall... the real article, however, was not there."Joe Chip is Literally Me.
The polls for the main voting have closed. Now it has come for the tiebreaking.>https://forms.gle/eXmHiPgimFmzUwMA6Each book will be scored on a scale from 0 to 4. The scores from all voters will be added, and books will be ranked by their total score.You can edit your responses after voting. To limit one vote per person, a Google account is required to vote, but will not be collected or viewable in any way.The Top 100 before tiebreaking are in picrel. The full information is in this spreadsheet.>https://files.catbox.moe/iek244.odsVoting closes on Jan 7, 23:59 EST. Thank you for voting!
>>24986682>Lolita xDKill yourselves.
>he still reads .pdfs>not comfy .epubs
>>24986071i actually have read on one, your mom showed me your paternity test results on it. the screen wasn't very impressive but on the other hand, phew
I like seeing a picture of a page of an actual book
>>24985961>casually converts pdf to epupper file format in the year of linxu desktopper
>>24985961>>24986043>Amazog shill
>>24986048>tiny dark screenMy paperwhite glows in the dark.
A good 95% of independent bookstores aren't actually for people who read, they're for tourists and rich "shop local" liberals who like the "cozy aesthetic", and they mostly sell trash that you could get on Amazon for 50% cheaper. I hope Bezos puts them all out of business. Fuck you and fuck your locally owned chunguscore Instagram bookstore. Let only the true, used bookstores owned by some 90 year old who clearly doesn't want you there survive.
>>24986590I once went to a bookstore/cafe in Utah that stocked the typical new slop but had a section of old books for decoration only, some of which were interesting. I asked if I could buy one of them and was told that only the new books were for sale.
>>24986590Who hurt you?
>>24986638A bookstore.
I decided to take /lit/'s advice and started reading the Greeks this year. I'm so happy I decided to. Not only did I thoroughly enjoy these works, I felt like I learned a lot about history, culture, myth, and the human condition in the process. I was challenged and felt like I grew.This year, I readThe Iliad (Lattimore) 564 (with notes)The Odyssey (Fagles) 514 (with notes)Herodotus (Landmark edition) 878! (with notes and appendices)Thucydides (Hammond) 685 (with notes)Sophocles (Fagles) 407 (with essays and notes)Hesiod (Lombardo) 103 (with notes)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I read quite a few /x/-related ones this year too like the other guy.^^^ Programmed to Kill gave me a lot of think about, and The Ultimate Evil kinda tied it up into a neat little bow.I also reread quite a lot of science fiction. I was reminded why 2001: A Space Odyssey & Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke, and UBIK by Philip K. Dick are perhaps among the greatest science fiction books of all time, both in terms of emotion, unique ideas, prose, and aesthetics. UBIK especially was good on audio. I also read a good number of non-fiction, including the conspiracy shit; but I also read a lot of Lovecraft and for the first time dipped my toes into other weird fiction. September through October was fun. My place slowed down in November, and ever since I started an absolute tome called Ghost Wars at the beginning of December I haven't finished anything except some short stories. I put a lot of time in November into Wuthering Heights but dnf'd it. My tally is 16 books finished. That's not including short stories however. Overall very good year. Still doesn't beat 2015 though, the year in which I read about 21 books I think. Here's to 2026!
>>24985629the virginia woolf one was good, the rest had a few things I liked but nothing amazing. It's kinda just up to whatever the used book store near me has, plus a cross reference to what one of my friends likes. I have realized we have very different taste though.rec me what you think is a good book anon, i'll read it when it turns up. Currently hyperfixating on books to escape some unknown void in my life so I'll get through anything
>>24985746With Thucydides, my biggest hurdle was the prose in between dialogues and speeches. Like Herodotus (though not nearly to the same degree) Thucydides throws a lot of names, events, and places your way at the beginning of his work, but thankfully it kind of evens out by the 2nd Book/Chapter.Starting with Herodotus was huge, because that essentially became my base layer of knowledge for pre-5th century BCE Greek History, it and definitely enhanced my knowledge of geography around the Aegean.Thucydides' prose was considered dense even in his time, and while the Oxford/Hammond translation was good, it still just felt like mental broccoli at times. Especially due to the fact that Hammond (imo) doesn't really use commas as much as I feel like he could, so sentences initially were kind of hard to comprehend (in terms of their intended meaning) until I got used to how he translated. It is a marvelous work when all is said and done though. If there is one thing I've found is consistent with the larger Greek works (like Homer, Herodotus, and Thucydides) is that the payoff is usually worth the slower parts of the book. When Athens absolutely gets their ass handed to them in Syracuse/Sicily, I felt that section in my chest. I was mentally thinking "you guys had every opportunity not to go down this road", but like most Greek works, hubris did them in in the end. I'll probably return to it way down the road as I loved the speech sections.
>>24986070I want to eventually read 2001 and Childhood's End. I haven't heard of that PKD book, but I'll check it out too.Lovecraft is always a nice palate cleanser in between longer books imo. Colour out of Space or Dunwich Horror are probs my 2 favorites from him (with The Case of Charles Dexter Ward being an honorable mention).I read Wuthering Heights in High School and found it exceptionally boring, but maybe I just didn't have taste back then. It must get ranked highly on lists for some reason.
>>24984094Leviathan Wakes (#1 Expanse) - very good but I put the series on pause because I want to read all 9 back to backWool (#1 Silo) - this is the series I will read next, already bought Shift (#2) and Dust (#3)I have not watched either of these seriesProject Hail Mary - this was my favourite book of the yearAnd then these:Atomic Habits - it was okayPsychology of Money - 10/10 The Little Book of Common Sense Investing (Jack Bogle) - it's good but a little technical. I owed him a read since I put most of my net worth into his products.A Simple Path to Wealth - I would recommend this over the above to any normie but it got too US-focused towards the end.
>When the loud options are moralistic anti-technology on one side and managerial techno-optimism on the other, the vacancy is real. Into that space Land arrives, not with a program, but a jerry can full of accelerants. He offers a style of lucidity that makes refusal of justificatory exposure feel like realism, and he supplies different factions with the same transferable permission to burn what they already want to burn.>Land exploits that vacancy by treating contestation itself as pathology. The slow work of stating conditions, specifying stakes, tracking costs, and admitting defeaters is redescribed as security reflex and primate panic. His central gesture is substitution, the labor of justification gives way to the glamour of inevitability. He swaps arguments for accelerants, then calls the burn insight. Landian inevitability is counterfeit realism, a get-out-of-reply-free card stamped with ‘what is coming.’ If every objection is already a symptom, nothing has to be answered on the merits.>Thus, the space of the reasons is displaced by a regime of selection, time, capital, war, optimization, whatever can be invoked as an external criterion. Behind this move sits a familiar ancestor. Darwinian selection, abstracted into a metaphysics. The Landian trick is to treat selection not as a local operator but as a final arbiter. Whatever survives is taken to deserve survival. Whatever scales is taken to be true. This is how selection is promoted into a theory of justification, and it is also how resistance becomes illegible. If the arbiter is selection, then objections are not reasons, they are symptoms.Actually pretty good. I think the polemics lean a little too heavily on a dated caricature of Land’s thought, but the criticism of provenance as a substitute for justification is sound, imo. If you submit your ethical judgements to the invisible hand of technocapital then every criticism can be framed as a transient pocket of negentropic drag that doesn’t deserve an answer. Of course if in raising your metaphysics to the status of an ethics your position magically becomes immune from criticism, there’s definitely a problem there.
>>24986436>midwit detectedWorry not midwit, your eternal search for muhthority can finally be laid to rest. The Jewish god dies in itself, the Christian god dies for itself, and the gods of various other things like Egypt die underground leaving an empty mausoleum. Go back to your designated midwit activities and shit flinging. Consult pic related, it's a twitter screencap which is about as close to whatever you were looking for as you're going find here you little rascal.
>>24986436Your question highlights one of the key problems with NRX that ultimately lead to its collapse. If your mission statement is to uninhibit ideological competition within the marketplace of ideas, then it is inevitable that such a project would splinter into groups that work exclusively towards consolidating and optimising their own self-interest. The exact same thing happened on the left with intersectionality, which is also currently in the process of self-destructing. There are attempts to manage this crisis post-collapse by way of trustless permission networks, theologically suspended concepts like Gnon, or anti-democratic systems like “no voice, all exit”. But none have really managed to cement themselves as a definitive solution.
>>24986513teenage hands wrote this post
>>24981193>Whatever survives is taken to deserve survival. Whatever scales is taken to be true. This is how selection is promoted into a theory of justification, and it is also how resistance becomes illegible. If the arbiter is selection, then objections are not reasons, they are symptoms.The rest is redundant 'exegesis'. His ankle biters are hiding behind Lilith's skirts, making their less than covert pearl clutching that much more psychotic.
>>24983526>But Land is wrong in his belief that capitalism's victory is inevitable. And no, I'm not a Marxist.I think all of the "our system is inevitable and will subsume all other systems" crowds - NRx, marxists, what have you - will continue to be surprised by the actual trajectory of history. It's easy to project a vision of sweeping historical inevitability onto your ideology or viewpoint when you think you have all the facts, but hardly anyone ever has.
Discuss good narrative history books on any subject.
>>24986544Any book by John Julius Norwich. He's the man who first shoiwed me that non-fiction could be just as interesting and captivating as fiction.
>>24986544This one was a banger
>>24986549Seconding Norwich. Liked his book covering Sicily.
>>24986544
Eh probably doesn't count as "narrative" but this was such a pleasure to read
Why isn't this guy more famous? A lot of his stuff is seriously mind blowing, the type of ideas you'd expect PKD to have if he were born again.
>>24984547I meant it in the sense that it's not his job.
>>24984556Does he have a job?
>>24984730Professional recluse writer Pynching it up in Australia
>>24983250I only liked that one short story about the jewel. Anything else either didn't click or was needlesly long. In fact 95+% of published sci-fi would be better if it were shorter.
bro I have a fucking fever I can barely make coffee how am I supposed to enjoy this
How did someone decide to publish this slimy piece of trash shit 119 years after it was written and not get fucking ostracized, outcast from society or outright killed?This shit is genuinely fucking disgusting.
>>24981088>What comes to mind when people think about Joyce? The Dead, very likelyIt's probably Ulysses or Finnegan's Wake
>>24985034>I don't understand sexual degenerates unless drugs are involved. I've been able to live out my most degenerate fantasies many times, sometimes for extended periods of time, and the result is always deflation and 'oh shit, that's it? I was expecting to feel better', not an addictionyou answered yourself really. You have the fantasy and you put it into action only to have it not satisfy you. Then you have to escalates it because SURELY that will be what completes me.They are chasing a theoretical high that never hits.
>>24981088>Do you know why pedophilia causes even the borderline retards to fly into rage? Because it implies you're too retarded to talk with adults, and lack the intelligence and linguistic skill (ironic, for a literature board) to bed women.this rationale doesn't match the character of the outragepeople don't get indignantly angry at retards, they pity them or get exasperated at having to deal with them. if you're running a store and a downie comes in with his handler, breaks free, and knocks over a shelf in a tard rage you don't blame him, you blame the handlerthis is true even if a bystander gets hurt
>>24981088A lot of words to announce that you've been filtered by Nabokov. It's ok, he's more of a writer's writer, and you're terrible at writing, as evidenced by the verbal clichés littering your turgid effortposts.
>>24980042I'm not a Sade fan by any means, but holy shit Americans are such philistines.You claim to be the land of the free yet at the same time, kill a person for publishing a NOT NICE book.
WHEN>tomorrow morning (Friday 2nd) at 10:00am GMT the character and theme requirements will be released. RULES>1. incorporate the theme and character requirements (creative interpretations allowed) into a piece of writing>2. submissions must be made by Monday 5th at 21:59 BST>3. you must submit using rentry.co >4. link of your piece under a unique tripcode (Namefield: Name + "#" + Password)>5 you are allowed to edit your work on rentry.co page until the submission deadline.>6. entrants must vote or will be disqualifiedVOTING>anyone can vote>a Strawpoll will be made where you can rank your top three: 1st gets 3 points, 2nd gets 2, 3rd gets 1 for entrants:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24986102Here's to another year of insufferable, depressing slop
For last year the competition stopped being done for quite a while no? I remember checking once, can't remember what month but later in the year and saw no one posting on the first Saturday of the month.
>>24986266no, we've been going the whole year, at first it was every saturday and then we pushed it back to friday so that people had more time to write.
>>24986102>I had a pretty rough year last yearabloobloo
I'm gonna join this one :)
Crocodile Tears edition.OLD: >>24978375
>>24986138Same here.
FUCK THIS GAY EARTH. The return of Jesus Christ cannot come soon enough.
>>24986623Because if your singer's surname is Matthews you're cheatinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHlypG2kJuc
>>24986601Buddhism is hella gay. As is Confucianism. You don't need that shit.>t. Daoist
>>24986347Oh fuck off, it's a victory for me.It's fucking funny that I would struggle with something that's essentially just for histrionic teenaged women. And in my twenties instead of as a 14-year-old. It's just ridiculous.
Since we're at the start of a fresh new year, and many anons will either be looking to rectify their /lit/erary errors of the previous one (as multiple threads were made lamenting how little they've read all year), or looking for ways to get better at making the most out of their time, let's have a thread where we share advice, experiences, tips, studies, encouraging words, or straight up nasty remarks regarding building one of the best possible routines you could get, which is reading consistently, and reading well.I'm also curious to know how many of you here do most of their reading on their computers and on their phones, and how you manage to maintain a decent bit of attention for that.
>>24986397>night routines to MIN-MAX your day isn’t retardedDelusional
>>24986397Ur gay niga
>>24986428I read on that flippin phone, dudeski. What do?
>>24986612get you a book dog
>>24985535I bought an iPad for Christmas and I read a relatively small book on it (The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins) and I was shocked at how much faster it was compared to a normal book.I've never read a book on a screen before but I went through a ~250 page book in two sessions of like 1.5 hours each on the couch.I'm not sure on the actual page count because it shows different on the epub format.
Through the years literature and humanities have only brought me poverty and bleakness. If I only had a liking to maths, I would be better off in life. Can you force yourself to like maths? Anyone else in this predicament? I don’t think I’ve ever more than a handful of times used directly, referenced or discussed what I learned reading on a social setting to outweigh the negatives. I feellike all of this isn’t really worth it in the end.
>>24986540mocap data is basically the easiest data possible to collect
>>24986540Your profession is about to be a fossil.
>>24986546>>24986567Either you guys have a grossly inflated sense of AIs capabilities at the current moment, or you think that at any moment they're going to open the irobot warehouses. If my job is "about to be a fossil" then its game over for basically everyone in which case unemployment will be the least of my worries.
>>24986540Engineers are the most annoying faggots in existence.
>>24986643
>Translations are not reading>It is easy>You can not utilise English without French>Women will fawn over you>You might get a French gf
>>24986582Though what French author from the last 60 years is as good as McCarthy?
>>24986308Si tu apprends français, tu pourras présenter tes fesses aux nègres pour être enculé comme le pédé que tu es
>>24986602As good? Idk maybe Malraux if we're being nice. And I like Malraux.Better? Montherlant, Rebatet, Aragon and Yourcenar all died less than 60 years ago I think. I also like Houellebecq and Perec better.
>>24986613>His early successes were works such as Les Célibataires in 1934, and the highly anti-feminist tetralogy Les Jeunes FillesInteresting
French is awesomeRight now I'm reading Stendhal's Armance and I'm considering a Stendhal read through
