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Post a movie and get a book recommendation.
I'll start.
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>>24742592
Warhammer Gotrek and Felix
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Jacob's Ladder
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Eden of the east but more occult. I already know Last Days, it has a shit ending. Prove me wrong.

>>24743477
Thats a hard one. Mayyybe genuflect or vurt.

>>24742290
The holy mountain
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>>24742290
Also to add
https://youtu.be/5ricWUAj1QA?si=3jWiM-_EFKc81VuF

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A woman saw a man enjoying life on his own so she decided to ruin his life and destroy everything he cherished out of sheer jealousy: the book.
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>>24743171
You just told us you skimmed the book, anon.
Go back and read it through.
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>>24743171
it's okay because the woman is cute. besides gilgamesh is another propaganda piece from gays living in babylon to encourage men to fuck each other instead of cute girls.
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>>24743186
I read it and his summary is accurate.
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>>24743186
I just did and I'm still right.
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>>24743171
Nothing's changed. Nothing ever changes.

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>tell mom about Nick Land because she keeps saying ridiculous Elizabeth Warren-type shit like "we just need more regulators to fix capitalism"
>she tells everyone in the extended family that I'm a groyper, and she's devastated

Does this happen in your neck of the woods?
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>>24743611
Fuentes is actually incredibly informed and I doubt you've ever watched him outside of short clips. I was """""""alt right""""""" from around 2015 but always wrote off Fuentes until current year almost entirely because he has so many vocal detractors that essentially, and effectively psyoped myself and many others into just writing him off, "oh he's a gay mexican catboy don't listen to him." But really he is incredibly funny, passionate about his beliefs, and informed politically and historically. He has said some retarded things as jokes, and he has presented some retarded statements as facts, but he is a human man after all, and is thus fallible. His heart is in the right place, and often his mind is too. The only point upon which one can truly take issue with him is his avoiding legal trouble as an inciter on Jan 6th. I myself haven't fully decided yet if it is not just a series of explainable factors that saw him avoid the long overreaching arm of the law, and not that he is an asset of the intelligence services (I don't believe he is).
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>>24743811
Humanity has existed in its anatomically modern form for two-hundre-and-fifty thousand years. Capitalism has existed for about one one-thousandth of that. But sure, the status quo is our true nature and will never change. Buffoon.
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>>24743456
>i told my mom about a schizo e/acc guy so now she thinks i am a schizo con guy
You see there's your problem, wouldn't happen if you chose an ideology people who go outside have
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>>24744027
Go to bed, Nick.
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>>24743456
Tell her that groypers are based.

When she asks "based on what?" you should laugh at her maniacally.

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I attempted to earlier this year as a quick, easy read but fucking hell, the writing was infuriatng. I can see how it inspired Stephen King. And I could already tell the vampires were going to be used as an analogy for blacks and hispanics making LA a considerably worse place to live but "they've got feelings too!" I lost interest when he mentioned how he wanted to fuck a female vampire for the umpteenth time.

Robin Hobb's fiction has been translated into dozens of languages and sold millions of copies. At age 73, she should be able relax and enjoy her last few years of life as an esteemed author, right? Wrong. In blind polls, readers much prefer AI stories to her stories. And boy is she PISSED.

https://mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-ai-vs-authors-results-part-2.html?m=1
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They should have told the readers that the AI was written by a woman, then I'm sure they would have preferred Robin Hobb.
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>>24744022
Guarantee you'd get similar results with Franzen or something.
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>>24744011
Robin Hobb is a woman? I always imagined them as a bloke, not going to lie.
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>>24744011
I took the test, the first and last stories (Jenny Wurts and Robin Hobb) I got right, they have a distinctive style and read like an actual short story and a scene from a novel respectively. The rest were a toss-up because they were vignettes, which AI is good at. I think the real difference is that AI will always put out something that's ok and human will vary anywhere from dogshit to a masterpiece, with fewer masterpieces than dogshit, so it's not surprising AI is better on average because it's always average. Story 2 and story 6 were total crap, in fact I wonder if the author of story 2 (Chris/Miles Cameron) deliberately made it nonsensically vulgar to try and game the test because he thinks AI can't write rude stuff. I was surprised by story 6 (Mark Laurence) because it's not a story, just a "quirky"monologue, which is exactly the type of thing AI would write.
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posted it again award

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Why don't more authors use incest as a plot device?
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pic related has a TON of incest and it actually matters in the plot
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>>24742717
Because It's utter mentally ill dogshit.
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>>24742865
Of course the plebian would call perfection insanity, this is a given.
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>>24742888
No, it's a mental illness, almost exclusively populated by stories about gaslighting and bitchy crap,
It's not incest and doesn't belong here. Go back to your containment board if you care about it so much.
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>>24742717
You meant father x daughter.

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Is this person correct about Dosto and Tolstoy?
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>>24744020
He pretended at being poor and created literature which favored the interests of the state. Satisfied?
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>>24742597
No, because that person isn't me and I'm always objectively correct about all things
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>>24744015
Tolstoy is an okay novelist, but nowhere close to the likes of Melville or Joyce.
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>>24744039
>Melville
one hit wonder
> Joyce
genius. best writer of the 20th century.
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>>24744053
>one hit wonder
Pierre, Confidence-Man, Clarel. I like his short story collection more than Dubliners.

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You have until September 22nd, 6:00 PM GMT to fill one /lit/-sized textbox (3,000 characters) with writing inspired by this piece of art from /ic/.
https://countingdownto.com/?c=6577554

Poetry, prose, greentext, etc. are all fair play as long as your submission fits inside, and exists soley within, a single textbox posted in this thread.
(That means no off-site links and no text-as-image attachments!)

Each entry will be carefully read by three judges.

Your judges are
• a normal dog !!71U6V9o4HL7
• NomenNomenK !J1INgaNFCk
• ineptia !!/7cMIiSCHvi (me)

We will decide the winners—1st, 2nd, and 3rd place—following the submission deadline.
Additionally, a Strawpoll for “Readers’ Choice” will be created afterward, so that everyone can have a say on who the winners should be.

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“It was impossible not to notice Rhonda”
by Anonymous
>>24737366
>It was impossible not to notice Rhonda as she walked past you.
Good opening sentence.
>Not because of her bright neon tops
Already evoking the image.
>or the clacking of her heels across the lot.
You hear “clacking,” I hear “click-clacking:”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckwGQgnlb98
>sweat masked by cigarettes and a faint hint crusted body fluids.
“hint OF crusted body fluids.”
>She wasn't attractive and there was no signs of that she ever had been.
“She wasn’t attractive, no sign she ever had been.”
>But I wasn't looking for attraction.

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>>24737366
>>24743909
>That came later as I tugged along the highways to the memories I'd bought.
Real skin-crawling stuff, anon.
I also love how a physical truck is essentially “a phallic-looking thing that tugs its load,” so there’s an entendre that the MC is just truck driving when their orgasm “came.”
>I guess my thing if you break it down was to induce fear in these whores.
Again, no “I guess”—your MC was so precise about wanting power and respect, so have them either be super knowledgable or totally ignorant as to why they do what they do, because this in-between-ness of “Eh, maybe?” is not gripping.
Comma-separate “if you break it down”
>to induce fear in these whores.
The word “induce” already has “in” in it, so frack deeper with an “into.”
“to induce fear into these whores.”
>Heck I'd beat them…hell I might even
>Heck…hell
I guess this is kinda character-quirky, going from darn to damn.
>I'd put a knife to their throats or pull out a gun.

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>>24737366
>>24743910
>Rhonda could usually be found on the TrukOasis lot.
Your piece would be much stronger if this was your second paragraph, cutting out the two that came before.
>her eyes would light of with the fear I chased.
“light up”
>I guess I took out my frustration on her
Your third “I guess”—the conversational tone should be freeing, not hamstringing.
>As I drove past the TruckOasis the tonight on my return trip
Remove the second “the.”
>I saw a man with a flashlight looking through the brush
Woefully weak verb, “looking,” for this action.
There’s “combing;” “picking;” “plodding;” “scanning;” “sidling…”
>my rotten pecker was engorged as I came to realize that I may soon become a wanted man.
Wayta destroy any pretense of this actually being a serious attempt at creative writing.

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>The grass smelled like wet
>The drive-in smelled like vagina
>And I cried

You wrote nothing very hot
And close-up totally anti fecund
Hey u tried

I appreciate the constrained-writing exercise, anon!
But sincerely, thanks for participating!
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>0 votes on StrawPoll so far
>No clamor for judges’ results
Said I’d give my ranking in 12 hours, but given the accommodating silence, why not tackle the feedback for the remaining submissions first?
So another day or two.

>>24743368
Hope you feel better lol.

Thoughts on James Rolfe's Gnome Cave?
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>>24743636
>98 pages long

Surely not...
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>>24743677
> Can't james learn to read before writing ?
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>>24743698
damn I'm going to keep my money next time I see a homeless person.
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>>24743408
It's no Munkey Cheese.
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>>24743566
Other than the plagiarism, which wasn't his fault and he immediately took responsibility and fired the guy involved once it came to his attention, none of that shit affects you or is immoral in any way.
This is like being mad at Harrison Ford for being in a commercial. Wow how DARE YOU peak creatively years ago! I'm so angry!! Grow up, he doesn't owe you... what, a more interesting autobiography?

If he was at least doing gambling adverts or something then you could have a point, but he has legit done nothing wrong, outsourcing a lot of his productions so he can focus on other things is not immortal in any way. if you don't like it just don't watch it?

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Who is your favorite writer from the Land of Dixie? Personally I'm going with the obvious: Faulkner, although Foote and Percy are steadily catching up. Toole is up there too.
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>>24743870
Winston Churchill
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>>24743870
My homeboy Willy Styron
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Is that a confederate hat there on his wall?
Kek

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Hi again,

few days ago i posted that i started getting into reading as a hobby and a form of self development despite how cringe that sounds.

I read 5 books this year:

Nietzsche's Zarathustra
Blood Meridian
Notes from the Underground
Hunger
Stranger

Now im trying to read pic related,

Any thoughts or counter-recommendations?

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>>24743819

The other two I am planning to read next:

Nausea by Sartre
The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
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>>24743819
>I want to develop some love toward being alone, living in solitude and being happy with myself, as im going through a painful period in my life.

This is an error and you will regret it. Read Tolstoy, Chesterton and the Confessions of St Augustine. The Consolation of Philosophy perhaps also. Then volunteer at a homeless shelter or doing something for disabled kids, etc, where you can have direct and positive engage with other people. I assume that you're quite young, but you will sorely regret cultivating yourself into the kind of gloomy, aloof loner that you're aiming to be.

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Remember that manual labor is the only path to salvation, and everything that doesn't contribute to energetic maintenance and surplus creation is by definition evil. Books are evil, writting them is a waste of calories.
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>>24743178
Erotism, the cursed share, the internal experience
In that order. Maybe start with story of the eye as a novel of introduction
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I like when I have my suspicions about people who seem to suck confirmed before I waste time reading them. Thank you OP.
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>>24743185
I’ve read Story of the Eye. I got nothing out of it and don’t at all see what it has to do with what you’re saying. Also, I don’t see what sort of salvation the accursed share offers?
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was this dude marxist or not? I keep seeing him lumped in with all the other french pedo marxist of the era, but from what I have glimpsed from the wiki of the Accursed Share, it has nothing to do with how the wealth is accumulated, just what do we do with the excess.

It seems reasonably applicable to either a communist or capitalist society? please let me know if the retarded one here.
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>>24744004
bataille thinks economy exists to waste resources, to the party, to the sacrifice. that is the point of accumulate in first place according to him.
is the completely opposite of all economic systems that assume the accumulation of resources to effectively organize it is the beginning of economy.
its a very sui generis notion of economy who nobody followed.
>>24743198
just dont read his novels. there is nothing of his thoughts in it. the guy have a brilliant mind but he is a mediocre writer in all senses. its not even edgy enough in this place and time
he dont shine by his imagination but by lucidity of thoughsts. so just read whatever essay. in my personal taste i think the internal experience is his best book.

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Post your own work and critique others.
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>Trying to write something more meaty
>Seem to always just default back to iambic/ limeric even when I don't want to
I can't help myself.
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>>24741624
>>24741621
Thanks. I like mine better thoever
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e^(pi(i))+1=0

I have no idea what it means

Yet it is the most profound thing that I have ever seen in my life
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>>24742914
multiplying by -1 flips directions
like a turn by pi
multiplying by the square root of -1, if we do it twice is the same
then maybe, i, once, is a turn by half of pi
this is origin of the idea
to see the complex field
as more than just numbers, but shapes on a plane
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My love, press your lips against the milk, and burn,
tasting as bitter as a blazed hospital.

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Whoever is seething saying the God Delusion is cringe just gets filtered by Dawkings apalling personality & has never read it.

He goes into extravagent depth with citations on everything and visciously debunks Christianity & Islam with archeological, geological, historical & other scientific evidence from every applicable field possible to the point where it becomes as blatently fake as Mormonism.

He also dives into the church organizations themselves & their history of horrendous corruption. You will come out a changed person when you see religions. They are nothing but cults. It's a must read.
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>>24743111
>geological
>As he was now drawing near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen, saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” And some of the Pharisees in the multitude said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.” He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”
Ironic
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>>24743111
>whoever is-

I'd pump the brakes here man, because thats a lot of assuming.
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>>24743124
The lack of responses to this post is telling that atheist is just an anti-Abrahamic knee jerk ideology
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>>24743111
I am not impressed with secular morality and secular ethics.
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Why don’t you also point out the fact that Dawkins admitted in an interview Fine Tuning is a solid argument for God.

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It is completely beyond me why anyone would be a "spinozist."
Why believe that everything is actually just one thing and then that this thing has the right to be called "god" instead of just nature? Why don't you just become a hindu or something?
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>>24743275
Spinoza was the og western civilization destroying secular Jew. Marx? Freud? Adorno? Marcuse? All copycats of the first. Bro was being called an atheist when most Europeans didn’t even think it was possible. A true pioneer.
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>>24743968
Dunno, if the Jews put an eternal ban on you and your soul, you must have done something extremely right.
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>>24743999
It's like backwards Chabad-tier Jews in a pre-emancipation context freaking out over the first guy to invent being a "secular" intellectual buddy buddy to the goyim. He was operating on advanced Judaism.
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>>24743968
>Bro was being called an atheist when most Europeans didn’t even think it was possible.
Read a history book about 18th century thought, there have been atheists in every era, but especially so after Bacon.
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>>24743275
Read the Timaeus retard.


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