What the FUCK was Stephen King thinking?
>>24941306>if anyone tries to do that much writing theyll probably have lots of creepy fetishes in there as well.Speak for yourself. Sexual preferences maybe will shine through your works but not everybody has a creepy fetish.
>>24944804Ruthie Crockett. Ben is friends with her high school English teacher, Matt Burke. They talk about how she struts around without a bra on a few times. The hunchback that runs the town dump is obsessed with her and takes her as his vampire bride after he's turned. They sleep in a discarded chest freezer in the dump.
>>24941306@grok what percentage of novels contained sex scenes prior to the jewish consolidation of the publishing industry
>>24945621Basically none, because that happened in like the 1910's.
>>24944804Ruthie. After the MC speaks to her class they converse about her sexy lisp and mimic it. The guy who runs the dump also pervs on her and the vampire offers to make her his for his help. She's last seen coming out of a refrigerator or something with him at the dump.
Saw a girl on the train reading this book whilst drinking wine from the bottle. Anyone here also read it?
leftie doomer whores love right-wing men for some reason.
>>24945401>(Accolade)>"ITS THE BEST BOOK EVAR" -Another author friend or journo friend.>-TITLE-No book with this cover layout has ever been worth reading. Not even once.
>>24945401>nick cohen>In May 2023, Jane Bradley reported in The New York Times that in addition to Siegle, several other women had come forward with accusations of sexual misconduct against Cohen, and that the British media had failed to cover the story.[2][7][8] Furthermore, Bradley revealed that Madison Marriage of the Financial Times actually had the story earlier, but was stopped from making it public by FT editor Roula Khalaf.lol. also i'm guessing one of the examples is cicero's bitching about caesar and one of the others is the fucking french revolution, which liberals also opposed
>>24945417no they don't stop lying
>>24945580They cannot stop thinking about depraved fascist perverts that read poetry
>he's literally me
People forget that Mary was the daughter of one of the only serious female philosophers in history, and that we have proof that after Percy died she put serious work into putting out a complete, well-edited edition of his poetry. It's not like she was some retard.
Percy wrote Frankenstein and parasocial foids get assmad when they find out their #SciFiGirlBoss was a thot with a husband willing to share credit for his work.
>>24945602Wow, you're crazy. Lol I educated you.
>>24945634Gaslighting isn't going to change the fact you were wrong. My suggestion is that you match the strength of your opinion to your knowledge level so the next time you run into someone smarter than yourself (which is a LOT of people) you won't end up so embarrassed.
>>24945605>People forget that Mary was the daughter of one of the only serious female philosophers in history>female philosopherNot important enough to remember, lol.
“Dagon” was one of the first Lovecraft stories I read and is probably one of his more famous, even if the plot is cribbed from Arthur Machen. It’s got great style:>“Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity.”The audiobook is great if you want to read along:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWnV5vBScD0
>>24941722I'm reading him right now.
>>24943513I'm starting to feel the same way but I'm almost done with his collected fiction so I'll push through it. Plus, he actually has a couple atypical and refreshing stories interspersed throughout his career which helps to keep you going.I think you can only enjoy Lovecraft for more than a few stories if you're sympathetic to him as a person and his quirks and fixations.
>>24943965Felt this way about Charles Dexter Ward. Mountains is too iconic and has too much mythology exposition to skip imo. And I actually like all the arctic and mountain description, it's quite unique in his work.
>>24945222>very detailed synopsis for what would have been a novel of epic lengthgood
>>24945209it explores the themes of panspermia, intelligent design as opposed to creation, and civilizational decline due to biological evolution. anyone who knows as much about planetary science as lovecraft did will appreciate the accuracy, detail, and efficient exploration of origin theories provided by lovecrafts science fiction. it is not only the first of its genre but like the scientific work cited it is definitive>>24945222it is finished content because it explores its themes and poses lovecrafts philosophical point that if men refuse to recognize the gods of the earth their flying conveyances will of their own will fly them to the court of the daemon-sultan azathoth
Sneaky Snakey Snake Edition>Old:>>24929120Recommended 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
>>24944981I feel like the black company should have ended when they beat up the giant ancient evil trapped who was freed by the cult and the black temple/castle
>Tolkiendrones>40kidsWhich group is worse?
>>24945331Sandersois.
I'm almost caught up with dungeon crawler carl. It's pretty ok.
>>24945521I'm reading through the first book (after I tried the audio book which was a big mistake) how do you deal with the "humor" it falls flat to me and seems to be outdated by 15 years at least. The book using terms like "incel" un ironically also throws me off. I think the audiobook made things worse for me because the delivery of the jokes sound like marvel quips so now that I switched to reading I still associate it with tired quipping.I'm so sick and tired of the cat and the overused jokes and dynamics. Footfetish jokes, masturbation jokes etc. Does it get better later on? Because the peripheral themes are cool and I like the alien villain race. Just the humor is grating on me.
holy shit, my cracker ass is sitting down, listening and learning. why didn't you honkies tell me that africa, america and australia has thinkers equal to, nay superior, to those dusty ass mayo greeks and christofascists???
Boo dykes, man
i don't know where to use it but,"Every ideology is tainted with the stupidity of their followers."
>>24943962She was incredibly rotund, he had no plan for how he would even begin to conquer a tower of pale, white, stretched flesh, that immense.
>>24943962>originalkek
>>24943962>ideology>their?
>begin novel by writing "My expectations we're extremely high-" as that will perfectly lay the foundtation for the story that revolves around a quest which is filled with constant misary and disapointment.>some critisize the novel for being "disapointing"Were the readers retarded?
>>24943962"niggas be dumb, all above their towers of cum, I stand firm and strong, willing and avoiding to belong,to their shit and crowd, I remain free and proud"
>This schematism of our understanding in regard to phænomena and their mere form, is an art, hidden in the depths of the human soul, whose true modes of action we shall only with difficulty discover and unveil.
>I don't get it
>>24945182hwat?
>>24945033How is transcendental logic related to (formal) logic? Kant says that in logic, reason considers only its form and abstracts away the matter and denies that there could be a special logic for a certain matter. But later in the antinimoies he wants to show that the most basic form of proof (reductio ad absurdum) doesn't apply in the context of the questions there, for the negation of tha absurd is equally absurd there.so I am baffled.BTW, we have currently a thread on "informal logic" (textbooks). We should go over there and harass them there.
>>24945340>a science of pure understanding and rational[2] cognition, by means of which we may cogitate objects entirely à priori. A science of this kind, which should determine the origin, the extent, and the objective validity of such cognitions, must be called Transcendental Logic
>>24945497Yes this is one of the passages to which I was referring I wonder how he squares it with RAA not being valid in all contexts etc
Better than Stephen King and no one on this board even talks about him.
He looks like he's been a homosexual pedophile ever since he left the womb.
>>24944392So... based?
>>24944392his beast house books actually just detail how much he wants to fuck teenage girls
>>24944240For a few years in the 90s, my Mum exchanged letters with him. He also sent her some rejected artwork for one of his books.
>>24944392I just read The Cellar and there are outright graphic pedo scenes.
Do Tolkiendrones realize that fantasy existed before Lord of the Rings and that it suffered greatly from Big Fat Fantasy and other sloppy derivatives that grew like viruses from Tolkien's wen? https://voca.ro/1Rwc7lMX0hfT
>>24941455>fantasy existed prior to tolkien and he was a poor example of it and i hate him>tolkien invented fantasy, and i hate him because the genre isn't what i want it to beeither way you're a homosexual
modern fantasy sucks because it's written by communists. it wasn't the inventiveness of the "worldbuilding", it was tolkien's ideals. his ideas of beauty, of justice, of right and wrong. those are what made his works enduring classics. the genre is shit because the secular dykes and faggots writing it now only idealize ugliness and evil.go read your GRRM diarrhea and rape stories and let tolkien be. it wasn't for you. it was never for you.
>>24945601Your sanitized manchild escapism slop will always be there for you to (not) read.The rest of the world is moving on from boomer infantilism.
>>24939820What an absolute cunt of a person. He'd absolutely be seething over Shakespeare or Milton or Dante or any other stand out titan regardless of their actual impact and greatness.Fuck, I imagine this fuckwit has issues with The Epic of Gilgamesh being about the emotions between friends and losing them.
Propose creating a separate board for fantasy. There is always seething about it which seems not lit related.
What's the big deal here?
>>24945547They didn't even fuck. They had an "emotional affair."
>>24945574I don't really buy it. RFK Jr kept a journal of all the women he cheated on his first wife with. He doesn't seem like someone who would settle for pictures of holes.
>The campaign staff awoke to see their former intern, Olivia Nuzzi, on the front cover of the Daily News. >Inside the paper was an article bylined by Nuzzi in which she told a rather unflattering tale of her experience working on Anthony Weiner’s mayoral bid.>Now, Team Weiner is firing back. >TPM called Weiner’s communications director Barbara Morgan to discuss an unrelated story Tuesday and she went off on a curse-filled rant about Nuzzi, describing her as a fame hungry “bitch” who “sucked” at her job. >Morgan also called Nuzzi a “slutbag,” “twat,” and “cunt” while threatening to sue her.
>>24943578So, given she’s a whore, what you’re telling me is there’s a chance?
>>24945615If you are older than her and can give her material things you are right in her wheel house
I'm an NPC retard who's trying to break free from social programming. Recommend me 1 (ONE) book that will help me become smarter.It could be anything, but preferably non-fiction, with no flowery bullshit prose I won't understand on the first read, and something that deals with modern problems.
>>24944759To understand which opinions have been installed into your OS you need to know who benefits.To know who benefits, you need to have deep understanding of a field.This cannot be done with a single book or even a single lifetime.Inevitably, the majority of your ideas and opinions will come from without. We do live in a society.
>>24944759https://www.readthesequences.comi also third this suggestion: >>24944883
>>24944759
>>24944759here you go OP
I said NON-FICTION. I thought you retards on this board could read. I'm trying to become smarter, not waist my time on some author's dollhouses-in-print
>>24945345Right, sorry - I meant 4, of course.
>>24945365>Right, sorry - I meant 4, of course.That’s more like it. "The Arrival Of The Bee Box".
>>2493031946: The Wasp Factory by Banks?
>>24930314Could 32 be Borges?
>>249302972. The Great Gatsby?4. must be the Bukowski one but I don't know him well enough to answer5. The Old Man and the Sea6. Room with a View7. La Belle Damme Sans Merci10. The Third Policeman
>Christian writer creates Christianity-destroying argumentI'm speechless>but he also refut-"Dude just have faith or you'll become a murderer/go crazy lmao" is a weak counterargument.
>>24945466The first Christian writer created a Christianity-destroying argument>What is truth?John 18:38
>/lit/ tricked me into reading Freemason propagandaI feel violated
>>24945056It's a cyclical thing with these secret society conspiracy things. You believe in them, then you dismiss them as silly, then you start to be skeptical again, then you think they can't have much power, then you read some more and realize it can't all be coincidental, and so on. I'll never forget Nixon's leaked rant about the Bohemian Grove and shit like that where he complained about their literal faggotry lol. Must be tiresome after a while.The French are big into that stuff as well, or used to be.
>>24945034Filtered. Freemasonry is only one of the many, many perspectives/guises the book takes. Catholic, Muslim, kabbalistic, esoteric, mercantile, platonic, empiricism, scholarly, historic, romantic. And yes, masonic. They're all examined and ultimately rejected for their inability to contain the whole Truth in them, further compounded by the story being twice, thrice and more removed from the original point of view (a manuscript found decades after the events). And through a happy little accident this uncertainty is even further compounded by there being no definitive version of the book. There's 1804, 1810 and the Polish translator fanfiction, and all of them have a different structure.It's a book of doubt, of philosophical and scientific scepticism, and one that laments the ability for humans to achieve Truth no matter how many systems of knowledge one adopts.t. Read the 1810 version, where IIRC the Velasquez System is introduced, so I might be biased in terms of my interpretation.
>>24945056>being both a fascist and a FreemasonClassic Pound
>>24945056CS Lewis?!
>>24945244great post, you sum up what I love about the book
