What's the most humongous book you've ever read?
>>24968661Faggot.
>>24968128Would not recommend to anyone, this shit was a slog to read
I heckin' love big booksUlysses Infinite JestGravity's Rainbow Against the DayMason & DixonThe Pale King (not actually that humungous)The Recognitions JRThe Instructions The Familiar (3 of 5 volumes currently)Ducks, Newburyport The Tunnel Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
the hungry hungry caterpillar
Reverend Insanity
more?
Imagine sneaking up onto this bloke's porch and tickling the bottom of his foot with a razor blade while he's preoccupied reading his booklol
>>24968801fuck you aussie cunt
>>24968801god i want those feet on the back of my head as you pound my slutty asshole..
Its one of sci-fi's greatest sneak disses on feminism and feminized men.>an emotional female calls for a superior race of beings to come conquer earth "for our own good">a feminized humanity hands the most important job in the solar system to a woman, because we have pretty men now>said female is handed the most important job to keep humanity's enemy at bay and she fails within 10 minutes of having the job. a man held the same job before her for 50 years and forgot how to talk because he took his job so seriously>that same woman takes back control of her company from a more than capable man so that he wouldn't work on a tech that could save most of humanity>said woman then is saved by the same tech she tried to stifle and gets to be counted as one of the last representatives of humanity>a simp who just happened to accidently get stuck with her at the end of the world tries to let her off the hook for her failures. at least we can farm and fuck comfortably in our own universe for the next 10 years amirite!Women and simps will be the downfall of humanity just wait and see.
>>24968395>>24968460Thanks for the recs :^)
>>24967854I watched one episode and that show already seemed to take itself too seriously
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>>24966596What absolutely not ability to read between the lines does to a niggaAnyway I like it, about halfway through the second book now. It gets too much like he grew up injecting Dan brown and James Patterson paperbacks directly into his veins sometimes, but so did I a little so it’s cute instead of unbearable.
>>24966596“For your own good” is a paternalistic drive though.
What are books/stories about curses, and monsters that kill when you look at them. Stuff like these is all I know:>The King in Yellow>Dracula>The Monkey's Paw>At the Mountains of Madness>Who Goes There?>I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream>BLIT>Ring
>>24968746Funny enough, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets.
>>24968773Yes, thank you, I forgot that one. The monster is literally the basilisk.
I also forgot IT. The Mist, too, sorta falls into this category somewhat.
Not a book but you should watch the film Incantation
>>24968792Cool, ty I'll check it out. Also looking for kinos, even though this isn't /tv/. Smile, It Follows, Truth or Dare, Evil Dead, etc.Was also reminded of the Slender Man and Smile.jpg creepypastas.
Books about giant sea monsters?
Is nominalism really that bad? A lot of galaxy brained people seem to say so. CSP says that individualism (his term for the combination of nominalism and the belief that particulars are ontologically fundamental) is "a tool of the Devil if Devil there be" in a letter.
>>24968143God doesn't exist. God is not a being.To say of God that He exists is false. To say that he does not exist is also false. But of these, it is more false to say that He does not exist (Dionysius the Areopagite).>Where is the space for myriads of essences in a God of pure act? There is none. The unmoved mover thinks only of itself.The Divine Essence is God. The Divine Energies are God. Creatures (multiple) participate in the Divine Energies. God is one as cause and many if effect. This is creation.
>>24968161Do Orthos like Eriugena? He's like a weird Byzantine theologian who somehow appears out of Ireland. And he's pre-Schism so they can complain about that.
>>24968161>Dionysius the AreopagiteYo, nta but always wondered, what do you make of him writing that God cannot lie? I always found it weird that God can be beyond being and nonbeing but can't be beyond telling the truth. Though since I've read Dionysius I did come to new understanding of "truth" so maybe that was the stumbling stone.
>>24968161>God doesn't exist. God is not a being.bro is an atheist but reads the Church Fathers kek >>24968171Nothing is beyond being because being is a first cause. And non-being is not. There is no super-genus of being because then that would definitionally have to function as being.
>>24964982If you cannot explain why sophistries and lies are bad per se your philosophy is ridiculous.
Books that give off this phenotype
>>24967032And of course all the lumberjack and victorian gentlemen larp
>>24966264We should start a new classification system.
>>24958924Gayer than /tttt/ and /mu/
>>24958452fpbp/thread
>>24958924Black Rifle coffee trannies BTFO by this post I see
What's your favorite Nabokov?
>>24966053>Foto
>>24965665>>24965725Funny, that was also the one that first came to my mind, even though others are clearly viewed as more 'important' generally speaking.
>>24968136Epstein didn't even read his entire work. Poser.
>>24968136No way did he read more than 5 pages of Lolita if that
>>24968158YOU ARE MENTALLY ILL.
read itNOW
>>24968754you're right start with the Greeks and end with Land
>>24968754>*chitin on chitin scraping noises*You're old hat pal. Last weeks paper.The context for Marxism has long since passed out of living memory, and (more importantly) your aesthetics are very uncool (is there anything gayer than a Che T-shirt? (I don't think there is...)) The future belongs to the AI techno singularity schizos. The 95 have been nailed to the front door by Land and his D-Amp. Amp. fueled UFO cult.
>>24968734You and Land kys
>>24968789..what?
>>24968836don't careread it
Is mysticism real or just your neurons misfiring and making you hallucinate God?
>>24968603Why are materialists so obsessed with hitting someone in the head?
>>24968420NTA, but evopsych is useful for advancing more symbolic forms of psychology like Freudianism and Jungian analytic psychology. I even could make a case they can be complimentary.
>>24968681Evopsych isn't useful for anything, its just pseudo-anthropology.
>>24967750>is direct *experience* of something real, because my belief says it shouldn't beMaterialists are deluded to the max with such questions.
>>24967807Dreams feel like dreams. Every drug I've taken feels like a drug. Even DMT and salvia where I forgot I was on drugs. From what I understand, infused contemplation is not like this.
>dude this book is totally like a COGNITIVE INFO-HAZARD bro>read it>its scp dogshit written by a 15 year old
>>24965289I'm going to read this book because you mentioned it. If it sucks, I'm going to pray to Yahweh to curse you for 10 years.
>>24967906What are some that are good despite being memes? I enjoyed The Secret History and Piranesi.
>>24959589is the point of it that there actually isn't an antimemetics division? it's all a big conspiracy created by people to build their own walls and shadow monsters to fight against? i would read it if that's the case, scp's biggest problem is that everything has to tie back to their massive canon, and every short story in order to not just be entry #3284 in a faceless list of numbers essentially has to boil down to a few random human experiences trapped in a dead end created by the lore.
>>24959589haven't read the new version. original web version had some fun bits early on but went downhill towards the end.ra was much better.
>>24968407>is the point of it that there actually isn't an antimemetics divisionIt's conceptual sci-fi about things that erase themselves from your memory and perception. It's called "There Is No Antimemetics Division" because people keep forgetting even that the division itself exists.I would read your idea though. Reminds me of The City & The City.>scp's biggest problem is that everything has to tie back to their massive canonIt uses the SCP framework but it doesn't tie into the canon. The new version (which I haven't read) actually has all the direct SCP references taken out for traditional publishing.
What are the "edgiest" novels?Hard Mode: They have to actually be good (pic related)
>>24967923Fascists literally are generally disease ridden whores though
>>24968039The most popular filmed version of Romeo and Juliet has her topless with a 16yo actress. We watched it in school.
>>24968501>15>other side of puberty No
>>24964311I've read that exact edition of the book and it was terrible, horrible repetitive language to the point of insanity. I'm currently rereading it (thanks a LOT OP) but this time it's the Penguin edition.The difference in quality is like night and day, wtf? The version I'm reading now is so much better translated/written what gives? Is this how all translations are?
>>24964311Don't read this shit. The slippery slope is real.
Surprisingly Enough(NOT), Common Sense Is Overpowered in Cliché Writing Website EditionStubbed >>24958783>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.
>>24968786>It wasn't the best, it wasn't the worst. 2.5 stars
>>24968802>They were the best of times, they were the worst of times
>>24968738>Also that's not condition 3 (Israeli carry).shit. you're right. the hell is full mag, one in pipe, hammer down then. That, I'll fix immediately.>self important monologue. (I mean, it is first person.)yes, it is. You're getting a look into the character. This is how he ticks. He's far from perfect, and this is how he sees everything. He's looking out and describing how imperfect everything in the city is, and he himself is as imperfect as everything else. City, flawed. People in it, flawed. Him, flawed. His independent female contractors though? Way more flawed, and they popped his ass for money. Those two women were worse than him, as was the described pimp.you weren't meant to look up to him and like him, as if he were some white hat hero. he's flawed as fuck. The point is, that he's not the bad guy in his environment. There's going to be two main sets (if you think of it like a movie) and this set, the city? Is meant to be dark, gritty and violent. The other set, will contrast this dark set. It won't be utopia, but not like the city. I intend for him to (in the transmigration world)...be challenged to changeto groweventually to see things differentlyin some way, get sort of fixedlearnin the end, he'll get his second chance to make things rightas well as have the arc in the other world
>>24968806>>They were the best of times, they were the worst of timesIn england, there was a king with a strong jaw and a fair face? I'm really going back lotta years to high school for this one.
>>24968786I've gotten some that are 4 stars and some that are 5 stars.
>le savages are noble and beautiful >a white man is only a "white washed negro"Holy shit this is cringe, why exactly does /lit/ shill this woke garbage as the finest literature?
>>24968485because it's a beautifully written, richly symbolic tragedy about the inherent suffering of life, the cruelty of God, and the solitude of powerEven beyond this it is one of the finest philosophical books ever written. Metaphysics, epistemology, morality, theology, &c are all effortlessly interwoven by a man who has a far better understanding of them than you ever willThe fact that you're letting it get ruined for you by trivial political qualms only further proves Melville's argumentsAlso it would seem like you haven't even gotten to the point where the Pequod departs, so why are you already denouncing it?
>>24968530NTA but you sound extremely insufferable and pedantic, and it's because of people like you waddling your dick around in your shallow attempt at looking superior that prevents the masses from enjoying old classics, since now culture is associated with arrogance.
>le unknowability of life… of le truth… le meaninglessness… le struggle…le infinite chaos, le whiteness… containing nothing and everything… le god…Western literature has been going in circles for 2500+ years. Arguably all literature, and arguably longer than that.>You have only to rest in inaction and things will transform themselves. Smash your form and body, spit out hearing and eyesight, forget you are a thing among other things, and you may join in great unity with the deep and boundless. Undo the mind, slough off spirit, be blank and soulless, and the ten thousand things one by one will return to the root – return to the root and not know why. Dark and undifferentiated chaos – to the end of life none will depart from it. But if you try to know it, you have already departed from it. Do not ask what its name is, do not try to observe its form. Things will live naturally and of themselves.
For all the anons on this board, take notice:When you see a long hyphen like this one>—Know that post which has it has been made by AI. Humans dont use that hyphen cause it isnt on keyboard, we use -, shorter version.
>>24965986Grok can
>>24965820Semicolon and parentheses bros, we won.
>>24965397I use it all the time—it is an easy shortcut on a Macbook (shift + option + -)
>all this shilling for Apple ITT Fuck off jew.
>>24965600based and red—pilled
