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post some nice covers
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Sea of Fertility
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>>24849716
Looks like muslim prayer mat
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Books with old-timey style covers are kino

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Society already is divided in 3.5/4.
3.5 are the cattle, 0.5 the remnants dissidents.
The internet is owned by them, everything is controlled by them while we control almost nothing except partially where we can choose to go and die.
Diagnosis: We lost, no organization on our side, the NWO is heading strongly toward their goal, which is total control of peoples lives through digital surveillance and technology.
While we are all divided between meaningless reasons and most refuse to acknowledge the truth.
Christ here, Allah there, YHWH here, Buddha there.
Truth is God and pathetically everyone who says they fight the good cause doesn't know it and avoids it at all costs.
There will come a point where we have to choose to do what is right or retreat to the mountains in order to die off with the knowledge that we did absolutely jack shit to try and change things.
Fuck politics, fuck false religions, fuck scientism, and most of all fuck whoever gave their responsibility up to someone else instead of developing within them the true will.
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>>24853935
lol bro get a grip.
r u christian? ur acting like people are irredeemable. who r u to judge?
if not, well, not sure what to say to you without going into a lot of detail. sorry.
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Another glowie post
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>>24853935
How old do you think this quote is?
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>>24853935
Yea - so that's great, but do you prefer Whitman or Emerson and why?

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>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.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSNZali-jIk2MASsAWVf8N7A8BlSyzPbAFV_BhsA5Ip3SWfMPWKxaXf8Pdb7f0TgFyWis31BzirtPeR/pubhtml


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>>24854047
SAO anime was the super nova, easily, the rapidly accelerating downhill spiral modern literacy's downfall. Litrpgs was exported from Russia where it was super big with this one series over there and it sort of just collided with SAO and Re:Zero's influence.
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>>24854047
western table top and arpg computer games.
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Fate/Stay Night (2004) had canon stat screens.
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>>24854101
No way, D&D novels themselves aren't systemtrash, it's just MMOtists.
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>>24854118
The dnd table top games, the Dungeon Master is basically equivalent to a system.

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Alright I'm gonna read the bible and saw this 'thomas nelson' one on amazon for $20. Should I get it
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>>24854001
The NASB95 and ESV are my preferred modern English translations. Very literal, word-for-word translations, particularly the NASB.. so much so that it can be a bit "clunky" in its wording. The ESV is in modern English, but retains much of the style and beauty of prose of the KJV. The NIV is almost the standard outside of America, but I've never read it.

I'm also partial to J. B. Philips "The Gospels in Modern English", though it's a thought-for-thought translation with some paraphrasing. I often suggest it to new Christians. It's on Anna's archive as a scanned PDF. Very easy to understand and a pleasant read.
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>>24854026
I read the KJV for its beauty.
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>>24854053
Same, but it's very easy to misunderstand the language as a modern, that's why I like the center-column reference versions that include modern definitions for archaic words and phrasing. For instance in James, where we're exhorted to "be not many masters", there's a note that "masters" in this sense would be translated to "teacher" in modern English.
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>>24854001
>J. B. Philips "The Gospels in Modern English"

Here's a sample. I wouldn't use this for study, but as a first time read through of the Gospels, it's very nice.
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>>24854139

>needing to read entire books just to understand a chapter of this book

yep its certified kino
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>>24853588
checked your dubs
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I liked that story where the guy looses all his money gambling after the race
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>>24853196
None of the stories require secondary literature, except possibly Ivy Day in the Committee Room
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Genuinely one of my favourite chapters (or short stories) I've ever read. Masterful.
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I found it rather dull.

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How is this guy not even relevant ? His Metaphysical and Epistemological arguments about Will-to-live being the Will-To-death and that Death is not a phenomenon of the Will-to-Live but the true halt to life and the will to death strives to die because the Universe is the corpse of a suicidal god.

Seriously how the fuck these genius is not popular it's literally the best argument
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>>24851627
Ad hominem
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>gendering god
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>>24851272
https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/why-a-communist-should-assume-life-is-hell/
I don't know what book I got, I already moved it into aback up hard drive and connecting it just to check a title will be too much work.
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>>24852213
Thanks for the link, that's a nice article
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Bump

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Any got a good short story or flash fiction collection? Like 5-10 pages max.
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https://www.bearparade.com/todaytheskyisblueandwhitewithbrightbluespotsandasmallpalemoonandiwilldestroyourrelationshiptoday/
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>>24852796
>short stories
???
>news articles
this is the way
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>>24852796
A lot of Kafka's stories are really short
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The Triumph of the Egg by Sherwood Anderson
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>>24852796
A Dino Buzzati collection sounds perfect for you OP

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Is being anti-reddit a coherent theology?
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>>24853546
meanwhile, he's using technology invented by the western world, consuming western media.
what has russia ever contributed to the world?
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>>24853525
Those that don't hate their parents don't post here or argue with strangers on vietnamese basketweaving forums. If you keep coming back to argue with the chuddies over how God doesn't exist and you're totally not mad about it, there must something wrong with you
>>24853048
It's essentially the same thing as Nietzschean-Benoisticist Paganism
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>>24853541
>>24853546
you are fighting headcanons
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>>24852533
?????
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>>24853443
your a retard if you think this is true

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Post quotes that made you laugh and the book it is from

>“Caligula eased the situation by dying”
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>his face was smeared with feces and he sat peering at them with dull hostility silently chewing a turd
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>>24854028
Is that you bataille anon?
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>but she had already yanked out of me the coveted section and retreated to her mat near her phocine mamma
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>>24853902
>I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.

Philip Marlowe, Farewell My Lovely


Also, is the Durrant series worth reading? I want to read his Rome and Greece one
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>"This is madness, Aurelito"
>"It's not madness, it's war. And don't call me Aurelito. I am coronel Aureliano Buendia"
>next page
>"Coronel Aureliano Buendia fought 17 wars and lost all of them"

100 Hundred Years Of Solitude.

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This is the only genre that makes money and the money train isn't stopping any time soon. Short of a puritanical John Carpenter style government, there will always be demand for this shit.

The question is, can a dude write successful girlporn? This is the literary question.
I'm going to read this milking farm thing and see if I can't get a knack for how women write. I'm suspecting it's a bit like this:

>Minimal attention to details and the world, emphasis on personal impressions and feelings; the world as a set of things that make you feel different ways.
>Braindead, 12-15 year old brain simplicity.
Imagine a Middle School girl trying to "speed download" social gossip updates to a friend.
>Vanity, ego, zero accountability, petty delusions, cliches.
This will require a bit of research and marketing savvy just to collect up what today's cliches are. Fortunately, women are dead simple and just go on TikTok/Twitter and see what buzzwords come up a lot.
>Sultry language.
This one's tough. From what I understand explicit, gross language is what sells this shit and is the female equivalent of visually seeing porn. On the other hand, I have a feeling that I could write porn that is vastly more detailed and explicit than what women read and would alienate them. I have a feeling it's just stuff like, "sweaty" "bulge" "heaving" "cock!" "pulsing". Words that sound distinctly naughty but remain vague. It's not about visualizing, even through text, sexual mechanics. It's about breaking social taboos so women feel "naughty" and liberated from their neurotic sexual restraints.
>Female attraction
This is tough. How far do you go with "big muscles, ripped body"? How much do women want to read that, and when is it too much? Women like being dominated but they like to feel it was their choice to be dominated. As a man who understands women very well, I don't want to tap into their sexual triggers too accurately because that might lead to a sense of "revealing too much" about female sexuality which women don't like. They like most of it to remain implicit and simple.


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Is there any market on Amazon about a story of a virgin girl who is shy and uptight and goes to a nudist resort and ends up getting railed by dudes? I already wrote it, I'm just polishing it up, but I just don't know if it's worth trying to sell. A lot of it focuses on her inner feelings of being inadequate, which I assume women relate to.
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>>24853750
>Is there any market on Amazon about a story of a virgin girl who is shy and uptight and goes to a nudist resort and ends up getting railed by dudes?
that's literally every single girl's "I went to Party City with my best friend this summer" IRL
so I assume yes
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>>24851239
If you want to pretend to be a woman you can just do that
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>>24853641
>it really... really makes you think...
about suicide
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>>24851239
I don't want to demoralize you but something I have learned about life is that just like in Nature where there's the wolf and the lamb and one eats the other, in human society you have two people: those who grift and those who get grifted. It's just how it is.
Now if you are a grown adult and you haven't made a career on grifting yet, it means you are not a grifter. You're basically a lamb saying he wants to become a wolf. You can't. You either have had the grift conditioned out of you from your parents' upbringing or - more likely - you simply weren't born with the grifter genes. You don't have that spark which means you're at the bottom of the human food chain.
Literally every single one of these people who make slop which is shit, horrible shit, and SOMEHOW make money from it are all grifters. I've actually seen some fantasy writers who got published and gained a decent public, they are all very aggressive, extremely confident people, it's nothing like the people you talk to on 4chan, they have something special and it's not related to writing. And they can materialize money out of thin air. These authors, before being writers, are charismatic and manipulative individuals with a go-getter attitude so the grift comes natural to them. It's something really deep like your brain's primitive wiring.
Most likely you know you can't do it and you're just making this post because you're upset that the grifters are writing books. Writing garbage is not hard, but grifting is a natural talent. You just can't do it. I would like you to tell me one day that you ignored this post and artificially constructed the grift, as a non-grifter, and I'd be impressed and maybe I would find some relief from my geno-deterministic world view, but I know it won't happen. I have seen several people who made money doing this... this shit, this stuff that I never thought would make money and they made money. Why? Charisma and spirit of the grift. You cannot train it, you cannot build it. I am so fucking mad but it's just how it is. If you're not a grifter all you can do is watch out for the day you'll get grifted.

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Do you own books from La Pléiade ?
Which ones ?

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ye olde: >>24835665

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

>Thread Question:
What's your favourite decade of sci-fi?
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>>24853991
What. Did we read them same book? Every chapter is almost a self contained adventure story. It's probably like that because of the fact author was a prolific short story writer before novelist.
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>>24854020
The beginning until he leaves the underworld, I'll grant you. Sekenre doesn't do much on his own, he has the ability to travel outside of space and time and does so, but that follows magical or dream logic which doesn't convey the same sense of travel and trials.
In his world, he jumps from Reedland to wherever Neca and Tica are camping, they take a boat and tour to the capital where he stays, up until there's about 100 pages left now. I like the wizard duels a lot, I just didn't know it would have such a strong psychological focus on Sekenre's relationship with his dad, to the point where sorcerous inheritance in this system is a great big metaphor for "sins of the father" and domestic trauma.
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>>24852575
Terra Ignota by Ada Palmer (history teacher), seems to be interested in all that kind of stuff
it really is THE most under-read books I ever came across, written in the last 10 years

Even if it got all kinds of flaws. It's just a very ambitious and interesting series

Got some renaissance history in there. Got some Political history
Some ancient Greek/Homer
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>>24850423
I'm normally not big on authors farming out their IPs but Ringworld is one that would benefit it. Let Peter Watts write a horror novel about the vampires or R.A. Salvatore write a swashbuckling adventure novel about what happened to Seeker. There is so much you could do with the concept that is being wasted.
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>>24853682
it's just that actual good, happy people tend to be friends with other good people and shut blackpilled channers out of their lives. so it's natural you wouldn't personally know many happily married couples

I don't get it.
So Ezra Pound's works are something only a genius could make, but the only reason why he isn't labeled as a genius by academia, experts and readers is because he had the wrong opinion?
That makes no sense all.
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>>24853514
Why do all of you people talk the same?
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>>24853594
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>>24853604
>doesnt realize the rerouting blame from self (jewish) to indians doesn't work any longer
I love seeing wasted effort. Do you know why you all sound the same?
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>>24853594
Ain't nuttin' wrong with being an obsessed slave for BBC, sista.
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i jokingly say i'm this dude reincarnated
jk i mean it

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The most "life-changing" books by number of reviews

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This is the bookshelf of rightwing intellectual Connor Tomlinson.

Is it time we recognise DC/Marvel works as part of the western canon?
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>>24852554
I don't like American Comics but I don't really have anything against anyone who likes them.
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>>24853452
Retard

https://x.com/Con_Tomlinson/status/1984994417233563991
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>>24852554
LOL no.
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>>24853424
The fact that this library seems more fitting for some random autist is quite telling
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>>24853212
>clearly defined races uniting, but not mixing, to fight against the big (((evil))) and his minions
Seems consistent with nazi ideology


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