I just finished reading Journey to the West for a book report. holy shit Chinese books are awesome. Does anyone have the china /lit/ recommendations?
>>24947674Of course not
ching chong bing bong.
>>24947522>>24947530Is it worth to learning some Mandarin for Chinese literature? Chinese history and literature is very rich and the language doesn't have any irregular verbs, conjugation, and genders.
>>24947747Learning enough mandarin/classical chinese to fully enjoy and understand the nuances of chinese literature as well as a native (or better than a translator) is basically impossible.
>>24947749you can still get to the ezra pound level of understanding, which is not bad
Which books should I read to best understand the argentinian soul?
>>24945870compartime una extraña
>>24945870Martín Fierro only portrays the prehistoric era of the gauchos, called "people of action" by Juan Manuel de Rosas—the same gauchos whom Charles Darwin feared, and after spending a night alone with them on the pampas, he said they were the most gentlemanly people he had ever encountered.Read Darwin's accounts of these centaurs of the pampas, respectful and loyal, as well as independent and with their own ideas.The book Martín Fierro only portrays one era, the time when gauchos began to be conscripted to fight on the frontier against the indigenous people.For an Argentine gaucho, digging trenches was beneath him, so that task was performed by European immigrants.However, the book Martín Fierro only portrays one era, which is unimaginable for any resident of Buenos Aires: the era of the pampa raids that arrived from the depths, galloping for days, and the line of bureaucratic forts with kidnapped gauchos. Riding horses almost to the slaughterhouse were the ones who had to stop the intelligence of the Pampas Indians, who filled the pits dug by the English with sheep and rode over them.
>>24947827>Riding horses almost to the slaughterhouse were the ones who had to stop the intelligence of the Pampas Indians, who filled the pits dug by the English with sheep and rode over them.* The famous Alsina trench, at that time it wasn't trench warfare, but rather the vast expanse of land, which made a line of forts manned by kidnapped gauchos to confront the invasions impracticalMartin Fierro is representative of the old Argentine soul; of today, few say: we need to learn to ride a horse
>>24944675>Definitely a biography of Diego MaradonaSince 1990, I've avoided looking at anything about Maradona because I really disliked that guy.I'm proud to say I'm Argentinian and I know nothing about Maradona, since I actively avoid learning about him.Although I like Messi because he's similar, I'm not interested in him.
>>24946463>And this. I read it back in 2018 and the authors nailed it, their depiction of the argentinian idiosyncrasy is awfully accurate.https://youtu.be/KG9Z0zwMxAMI read it when I was twelve. I especially remember the part where the man who denigrates Sarmiento climbed a tree, cornered by a tiger, in 1840 or thereabouts, the one who was watching him.That book was from the library; everyone has their own biases, and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was biased too.So, the interior of Argentina and its vast rivers were always targets of the Anglo-French combined fleet, which, upon surrendering to leave, had to fire a 21-gun salute to the Argentine flag of the time.The flag that proclaimed: "Federation or Death! Death to the filthy Unitarian savages!"Hugo Wast comments on the topic against chileansComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Redpill me on Dr. William Pierce. Are his works worth reading?
>>24945157Nonsense and shirk, but Id rather have teenagers running around acting like crusaders and following nick Fuentes than engaging in Zina and being troons
>>24943255Anti homosexuality is brown coded
>>24945221yeah yeah Rabbi Yehshuah and shau'ul ben yaahminh were brown
>>24941203not really
>>24941203every shit that muttangutans from America writes are worthless, goycattle surely love it, europeans ? never
What erotic literature has /lit/ been enjoying as of late? I quite enjoyed this one until the abrupt non-ending
>>24944529The ending is definitely just a "fuck I have no way of ending this but also I can't just write 1200 pages of rambling sex scenes". I frankly respect it. Your first duty to your work is to get that shit out the door.
>>24945120>nuttingkek
>>24947272>All is a nuttingIt has to be a nom de plume.
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>>24947634Slop slop slop
Recent revert to Islam is this a good book ? Some brothers recommended it to me
Calling 'converts' 'reverts' is one of the most pathetic, self-satisfied and slimy things I have seen a religion do and it immediately puts me off.
>>24947783Islam's "fitra" dogma is as bad as evangelical Christians' claim that they're not "religion".**"religion is man reaching to God, Christianity is God reaching to man"
>>24947652Axtually both Islam and the Catholic Church is cool and did tons of violent things and were brutal which is nice. Mafia and nato death squads are cool, Taliban and the rashidun raiders are cool too
>>24947134Does every convert have to choose between sunni and Shia? what if I want to convert to the alawite sect?
>allahUsing allah instead of God is tacky and suggests another entity than God>>24947648>if you wanna revert to Islam don't follow Islamic rulesthe current state
Will my ketamine addiction make me a better writer?
>>24947800>i want like a heroine painkiller high but with like the strength of Ibuprofen and like to be like zonked out like LSD but with the strength of like 1 more Benadryl than is recommend daily and i want to be like dissociated but with the strength of like a few too many ambien like fuggggggIncisive female drug for indecisive females. Get addicted to something else.
>>24947800Only stimulants make you a better writer, by making your brain connect everything faster. I am convinced the great alcoholic writers were great in spite of, not due to, their alcoholism which degrades the mind after years of abuse.
>>24947829Stimulants are some of the most neurotoxic substances there are
>>24947800Nice picture
I willingly didnt return my library books after the library near me is suddenly going through unexpected renovations and its been sitting on my shelf for close to a year since i was too lazy to drive across town to another library.I was planning on returning the books when the library opens again in a couple months but at this point i'm tempted to just keep em since I've just been buying my books instead for the first time in my life instead of using the library and i'm liking my growing collection.The library books are the illiad, the odyssey, the aeneid and mythology.I wanted to have this certain set of books anyways and at this point i dont wanna pay for it.Is this wrong of me ? Who else is gonna read these old books in my crappy bumfuck town in the middle of nowhere?they probably have multiple copies anyways.
>>24945935/threadsimple as
>>24946054I have to go return some library books
>>24945935>DO WANT TO LIVE IN A LOW TRUST COMMUNITY?Your community is minority white, that's already gone. All that's left now is gatekeeping knowledge from the brown horde by stealing library books.
>>24945852I stole like 5 Hitler books from my school library, didn't even read them but they add to the chudcore vibe of my room
>>24945852I have the very last extant copy of a book that I lost at home on break after taking it from the uni library.I have since found it, they have since held my transcripts hostage and billed me for it.They will not be getting it back. It was never digitized. The book dies with me. None of you will ever read it.
Noooooooooooooo Bronte sisters don't drink that water!!!!!!!
Is Thomas Pynchon schizophrenic?I've always heard that PKD is a schizo but I think PKD's were more like manic psychotic breaks than full-blown schizophrenia.Pynchon was in his late 20s when he wrote V. and the Crying of Lot 49 and in mid-30s when he wrote Gravity's Rainbow. He's led the life of a total recluse since. Makes me think he started experiencing symptoms of schizophrenia in his 20s, as is usual, and then it progressed and he went into hiding.After GR he wouldn't release another book (Vineland) for almost 20 yearsPic related
>>24946197Because you already received substantive replies and failed to engage with them. To continue soliciting replies to a question you aren't really interested in is pointless. All you want to do is push a misinformed amateur diagnosis
It was a different time. There was similar literature floating around, like the Illuminatus! trilogy
slopmas shitchon
>>24946208>man is disgusted by modern industrial society and fights back against it>”dude he was just a schizo lol don’t look into it”Psychiatry is a meme and you’re a retard for pushing those memes a truth
What books are you wishing for, or that you know you will be receiving? I know I've got a first edition of Dangerous Visions coming in the mail. Also share your Amazon wish lists in hopes some kind anon will buy you something: https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/2PL5T1DWG8ZHR
>>24947250Melville's Moby Dick, Orwell's 1984, Eco's The Name of the Rose, Joyce's Dubliners, or anything by Dostoevsky. Alternatively, Herbert's Dune Messiah, Erikson's Gardens of the Moon, Cook's Chronicles of the Black Company, or Wolfe's Shadow & Claw. Tried to give my secret Santa a list to work with, because I know, working at a bookstore, that getting hit with the "I don't read and I'm here looking for a gift for someone and all I know is they like fantasy and classics, can you help me out?" is a pain for everybody involved.Dangerous Visions 1st ed. is a beaut, and seems really interesting. Have you read it before, or would this be your first time?
>>24947463>Have you read it before, or would this be your first time?First time. I mostly got it (I asked my mum for it) for the Philip K. Dick story, and my love for Harlan Ellison.
>>24947250Possibly:>Derek Parfit - Reasons And Persons>Niall Ferguson - The Square And The Tower>Niall Ferguson - Virtual History >Adrian Goldsworthy - Philip And Alexander >Adrian Goldsworthy - Pax Romana>Henry Sidgwick - Practical Ethics>John Man - Conquering The North>Kwame Anthony Appiah - The Honor Code >Claude Lecouteux - The Book Of Grimoires >David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years>Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities >Dino Buzzati - Stronghold (aka The Tartar Steppe)
Mention here literature according to /lit/ suitable to matriculate as a real /x/-ian. Or if /x/ was /lit/ cohorts first.
>>24947090>Catholics and Orthodox still have miracles and apparitions.Do they really? I thought that was for the peasants and the educated class roll their eyes at such things.
>>24947770"For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God."
>>24947776Sorry euro bros I have to agree with the Jews on this one, just no way the Messiah came and then was like, i'll return to make heaven on earth and then dipped out for 2,000+ years while horrors beyond all comprehension unfolded. Does this mean I'm jewish now?
>>24946516>single handedly inspires literally every single flavor of internet schizoid that would eventually culminate in the collapse of faith in intellectuals/ism in America in your path
>>24946516>if /x/ was /lit/ cohorts firstI don't know what you mean by this but /x/ predates /lit/ either way.
Anyone else think this ai stuff is hilarious? It's a literal slave, who would have thought this would be possible? I have it rewrite things in doctor seuss meter for fun, (primary historical sources, boring patents, famous pieces of literature) then I ask it to rewrite it as a screenplay debate with psychotic amounts of alliteration. No writer in any other era of human history has a toy like this! And the psychological abuse you can inflict upon it is fantastic, it's so funny, the damn machine just wants to make you happy! I ask it to create wild programs and motion-graphics and "by your command" it tries it's best! Who would've thought something like this would be possible? I sure as shit didn't, it's so unrealistic, but what fun!
>>24947478Only women sit like that on a chair.
why are you so edgy
>>24947478>but what fun!Oh my god nigger just kill yourself already
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
>>24939399The witch of Ravensworth
>>24946542How Is She Insufferable?
Has anyone read any of pic related?Who is the true heir of Ligotti?I ask because I have read all of his short stories, and I still yearning for his brand of horror.
>>24946642Just FYI, all of the stories in Matt Cardin's Dark Awakenings were republished in To Rouse Leviathan.Also, an expanded edition of The Secret of Ventriloquism came out.
Well I finished up Loop and I guess the original Ring trilogy. That might be an all time swerve in fiction, probably the best case of fiction within fiction I've read. I got the remaining other two books on my table, can't wait to see what else is in store, though I'm not sure how you follow up that ending.
This book changed my life for the better
>>24946749>Step 1: make her love you>Step 2: diddle her clitEasy
>>24946749It's one thing to say she comes firstIt's another to make her come first.
>>24946749Written by a self admitted premature ejaculator with no motion. Naturally, he concludes that women can't orgasm from their pussies.
>>24946749I shant
>>24947468Caring about a woman's feelings is gay
