how do i cope
>>24987672Fuck you. I’m Indian. Quit complaining.
>>24988071indians are whiter than italians
I dont consider Italians to be fully human. They are right about at the same level as the Portuguese to me.
>>24988082Go kneel to your nigger gods you pathetic mutt lol
>>24988084All Americans are niggers. Especially the white niggers.
Can we all agree that he was a mediocre sci fi writer, and that jurassic park was just lightning in a bottle?
>>24987543Genre writer? Sheeeeit, no wonder the ladies are running lit these days.
>>24986421At 6’9, Crichton was probably the tallest writer to ever achieve mainstream success. If I had to assemble a basketball team from reanimated dead authors, Crichton would definitely be my first choice. Could you say the same about your favorite author?
>>24986421Eater of the Dead was alright
>>24987722Ask me how I know you're a woman
Sphere is fantastic, and so is its sequel, Cube.
Recently I got into highly acclaimed literature because I heard it had narratives that were vastly superior to low-brow entertainment (like anything that's not artsy film). So I read Crime and Punishment and I thought it was pretty interesting. But the way everyone acted it was like the book was supposed to give me an existential crisis or something like that. I also read The Great Gatsby which I think was basically just a 1920s Shakespeare play and I think it was just fine but not groundbreaking. I also tried to read Infinite Jest but I think it filtered me honestly. Anyway what do I do? Am I too retarded for this? Should I just watch anime instead or?
If you like lowbrow shit why not enjoy it? Just because something is said to be great doesn't mean you'll enjoy it.
>>24987882I want something that describes a lot of what is going on in my life right now, I'm curious about what people think of as great art to compare it to what I already like, and I want to be more open-minded in general
The way plot is used is why literature is acclaimed. It's a hierarchyTrash fiction is plot above all else for shallow stimulation Great genre fiction partners with plot as a stucture for explorationGreat literature subordinates plot in service of reflection
>>24986891>Should I just watch anime instead or?People who end sentences with "or" are always fucking retards.
>>24986891Yes.>>24987013Dostoevsky is highbrow. Ironically your insistence that something that is also read by "normies" disqualifies it from being great makes you a midwit who certainly doesn't have any qualifications as to quantify what is middle- or highbrow.
what books are essential to understand more the american mindset? i've been living in the US for the past 4 years and still not part of the culture and i think i will never be and that's ok but if i can indulge myself a little bit more it would be beneficial for me career wise
>>24987213Read New Journalism stuff (Joan Didion, Tom Wolfe, etc) and check out Class by Paul Fussell.
>>24987213The Talmud
>>24987213Americans dont have a culture. They're just a loose collection of selfish individuals who worship money and occasionally collaborate with each other in order to steal from a third party. Their idea of friendship is being slightly less likely to fuck each other over as long as its convenient and they dont have something the other wants.
>>24987581>As has been said already, there are very few topics that have one cohesive "American" perspective.This. There so many "Americas". People say America is shallow. America is just busy. America doesn't have time to help you understand it.>>24987213In my humble opinion, to understand the American mindset, you have to look around, and watch people, there is no book that captures it. I'm one of those assholes everyone hates, who claims that America has an extraordinarily rich culture, because it is an amalgam of so many cultural influences, and by virtue of violent collision, facilitates so many cultural experiments.Examples Twain, Faulkner, Steinbeck, you can't really understand why they wrote what they wrote, without looking at the late 1800s early 1900s south, or the great depression, they were just reporting what they saw, through the lens of a story. Their characters were just vehicles for you to feel what they felt, as they explain to you what they understand about what they are seeing. Reporting the world as you experience and understand it is the most American act. But reading an old report can't explain why it became this.With industrialization, it gets even crazier divergent, when you see legit literary geniuses using emergent pulp genres.Like, I consider Borges, and Kafka to be great American authors, because they describe the experience of coming to understand America so well. It's emerging from confusion, and realizing how you're trapped. America is just you navigating the oppressive force of people conquering a space, and each other. It's dimensionally infinite, but there's only as much to understand intellectually, as you can or will reach for.William Faulkner's America was not Cormac McCarthy's America.William Burrogh's America was not Dennis Johnson's AmericaComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24987314Ah right, America has 1 culture: the black culture.
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.
>>24984784I'm fat, bald, ugly and poor. Will you marry me?
>>24987787You will need know math and and C++ to break in HFT.
Pretty much everything worth doing is learned by doing it. So really learning is always learning by doing and the whole school thing is bigly impractical since there is a lot of learning but little doing, so its not much learning then.
>>24987259>For Calc RudinRudin doesn't teach you Calculus, but assumes it as a prerequisite for analysis.
I have a calculator and an internet connection. I dont need to know math.
I'm 1/4 of the way through this book, and it's almost too sad to finish.
It's actually quite life-affirming by the end, he gets some young pussy, he writes a book he's very proud of even though nobody reads it, and he loves his whore daughter.
>>24987842Finish it, trust me.Teaches you how life can be.
I'm 66% through the book. What does John Williams have against cripples?
>>24987950What teaches me how to change it's direction? Der Steppenworf? I don't want to end up like Stoner.
Alone Once More EditionStubbed >>24982319>What is /wng/ — Web Novel General?A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more>Why read web novels?Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.>Why write web novels?Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.>/wng/ authors.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24987267The advice I got a few times is that you need a hook at the top and a pithy quote at the end that you bold for emphasis.>One man will end a war that has lasted centuries.>War hero Lawrence Mengde has done everything in his power to ensure that the Imperium and the Confederacy's century-long war finally comes to end. All he wants is to observe history, not to change it.>But when the Imperium hurls an asteroid fortress towards the capital planet, Lawrence must question his own role in the everlasting carnage. Does he remain the dutiful soldier and lose everything, or does he become the tyrant he spent his life opposing?>Peace, at any cost - but only he can avert it being the peace of the grave.Or something like that, I guess. I don't know what you're aiming for.
>>24987376Because people want social validation, you idiot. Don't act like that isn't a normal, healthy behaviour for a sane human being.
>>24988011If our society didn't make it impossible to move a finger without money, I wouldn't give a fuck if anyone reads my stories. Fuck your validation. I only write because nobody else produces the stories I actually want to read.
>>24988068Why are you writing a web novel then
>>24988075>I only write because nobody else produces the stories I actually want to read?
If you had to summarize the meaning of this book and it's sequels very briefly, what would it be?
Same as The Secret, I would imagine (Positive thinking)
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How much am I missing by reading picrel without having read the Bible beforehand? I’m at Part 2, and it’s the best thing I’ve ever read.
>>24986986Those four years of penal servitude Dostoyevsky spent in Siberia he spent in the company of murderers and thieves, no segregation having been yet introduced between ordinary and political criminals. He described them in his ''Memoirs from the House of Death'' (1862). They do not make a pleasant reading. All the humiliations and hardships he endured are described in detail, as also the criminals among whom he lived. Not to go completely mad in those surroundings, Dostoyevsky had to find some sort of escape. This he found in a neurotic Christianism which he developed during these years. His emotional life up to that time had been unhappy. In Siberia he had married, but this first marriage proved unsatisfactory. In 1862-63 he had an affair with a woman writer and in her company visited England, France and Germany. This woman, whom he later characterized as ''infernal,'' seems to have been an evil character. Later she married Rozanov, an extraordinary writer combining moments of exceptional genius with manifestations of astounding naivete. (I knew Rozanov, but he had married another woman by that time.) This woman seems to have had a rather unfortunate influence on Dostoyevsky, further upsetting his unstable spirit. It was during this first trip abroad to Germany that the first manifestation of his passion for gambling appeared which during the rest of his life was the plague of his family and an insurmountable obstacle to any kind of material ease or peace to himself. Just as I have no ear for music, I have to my regret no ear for Dostoyevsky the Prophet. The very best thing he ever wrote seems to me to be ''The Double.'' It is the story - told very elaborately, in great, almost Joycean detail (as the critic Mirsky notes), and in a style intensely saturated with phonetic and rhythmical expressiveness - of a government clerk who goes mad, obsessed by the idea that a fellow clerk has usurped his identity. It is a perfect work of art, that story, but it hardly exists for the followers of Dostoyevsky the Prophet, because it was written in the 1840's, long before his so-called great novels; and moreover its imitation of Gogol is so striking as to seem at times almost a parody. Dostoyevsky characterizes his people through situation, through ethical matters, their psychological reactions, their inside ripples. After describing the looks of a character, he uses the old-fashioned device of not referring to his specific physical appearance anymore in the scenes with him. This is not the way of an artist - say Tolstoy - who sees his character in his mind all the time and knows exactly the specific gesture he will employ at this or that moment.
>>24987029Yeah but the people he describes are like people IRL. Remember, Russians are actual human beings with vivid inner lives, not repressed castrated neutralized faggots like the westoids.His writing is functional, no more and no less. Sometimes he conveys very powerful and precise feelz, so to have your writing be "merely functional" im this case actually means great mastery.
>>24987043Dosto is essentially sadomasochistic, he loves dwelling on characters who revel in how depraved they are, but who also prostrate themselves in the just punishment or humiliation of their depravity. Again, sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes imply the exact situation he adored, all the violence and sexual intrigue he desired so much, but with the approval of his super ego since they ritualistically degrade themselves in a kind of spiritual fetishistic pleasure in confessing, being punished, and then being "redeemed". It's lurid and partakes of a sick kind of gratification in self flagellation.
>>24987328Again, that's what people are actually like. You just have a skewed view of human nature because you live among robotic westoids.
>>24987716If you read Dosto's novels, they are chock full of a grotesque macabre fascination with suffering and shame, with murder and sex and the subsequent groveling misery of those who find themselves in such situations. This type of tripe is 100% on the level of a typical harlequin romance novel, but because it's some old Russian who added Christian Orthodox themes as an accent to the sadomasochism, /lit/ eats it up. It's perverse. Dosto essentially perpetuates a kind of Samsara, a constant cycle of animal impulse outbursts followed by shame, guilt, and regret, but since these mechanisms are woefully insufficient to actually affect a better way of expressing these impulses, it simply fuels a further cycle. How does Dosto purport to redeem these aspects of humanity? Is it to integrate them? To accept that they are rightful parts of the human experience and to work with them to self actualize; to transcend and include? No. His worldview firmly states that they must be brought before a higher power, judged as sinful, and repressed forever. As I said before, this enterprise is utterly futile, since its objective is to destroy what is human, to snuff out the very spark that is humanity. Thus the cycle of indulgence (the inescapable humanity) and self flagellation (the divine judgement that such things are sinful and abhorrent). There is nothing profound, nothing transcendent here, just shallow fetishistic pleasure taking of the lowest tier followed by the harshest condemnation and repentance. Both sides of this coin forever restrict the other to its worst form, forever traps the victim of this ideology to a lifetime of misery and self hatred. It's vile in the extreme.
You do have a basic understanding of how human language works, don't you?
>>24987960This filtered you? Wow, how sad.>>24987961Name the mistake.
>>24986942so we should talk in African-American vernacular mayhaps?
>>24985487>>24985525good books on language + philosophy of mind?
>>24988020You filter yourself. You need to study argumentation.
>>24988030You're gay
one of those books you immediately start re-reading once you get to the end
>>24987215IN ENGLISH, DOC
>>24980343I do with pretty much every text I like. If OP means by "re-reading" as just flipping some pages back, to contemplate a notorious scene or chapter you liked or were intrigued with.
I have farts with more substance than this thread.
>>24975922I wonder what the incest-couple stands for symbolically.
>>24976282Lol
>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
>>24987626Greek being so low does not compute. Especially below "Other".
>>24987933it's only counting direct or near direct loan words looks like
>>24987933I think Latin and Greek are at least interesting. French, not so much.
>>24987954"French" substrate is just a different form of Latin.
>>24987004Amerimutts aren’t straight
>average English speaker is Indian>average French speaker is African>average Spanish speaker is a Mutt (Indian + Native + Iberian + African)>average German speaker is brown>average Dutch speaker is arab>average Swedish speaker is arab>average Russian speaker is mongol>average Italian speaker is on death's doorIs it over for Western literature?
>>24987536telling that you only see opposition as third world. by being racist(?) you actually lose sight of what makes you dutch(?) in the first place. international banter with european countries.
>>24987538think every brown person is red from the sun.
>>24987541calling other ethnics brown is standard banter. not sure what's got your panties in a bunch.
>>24987559just making a point - in europe we’ve thought dutch people were fucking awful since before we knew india existed.
>>24987526>>24987536my novel delivers a powerful polemic against the dutch. i wonder if they will sperg out and mishandle it like their whole nexperia debacle
the fourth blackfyre rebellion editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>24949686
>>24987263I'm glad he knew how to bathe
It's over.
Uhhhhh Radmure gang, do we still exist?
>>24987224>picIs that a Brindled woman of Sothoryos?
>>24988027>Is that a Brindled woman of Sothoryos?That's a gorgeous valyrian lady of house Targaryen, chud.
Victoria EditionPrevious: >>24975069/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.
>>24987631>who did not cotton to philosophers in particular or brown mouse in general.>The meaning of cotton shifted from "to get on well" to "to get on well together," and eventually to the sense we know today, "to take a liking to." The "understand" sense appeared later, in the early 20th century.What in the goddamn? Pretty cool excerpt thoughbeit.
>>24987631First thing from someone itt that I read till the end, good job anon, give me a chuckleI imagine the brown mouse looking like Chesterton btw
>>24987652disagreeIt's cute
>>24987706>he can’t even finish the few paragraph excerpts that anons post in this threadGet some help nigga. Or at least stop scrolling tiktok. Goddamn.
>>24986825>>24986810Victoria was not actually published, so it doesn't even qualify.
