Just read it. It sucked. What am I missing?
>>24975722>you sound absolutely unhinged to be seething at a slice of life bookYou sounds like reddit faggots that defend modern h*lywood smearing their wilful subhuman mugs with corporate capeshit on an annual basis "because it's just entertainment bro chillax it's fun". Eat shit and kill yourself, soulless subhuman golem.
>>24976034Ah, makes sense now. You're a /pol/tard.back to your containment board lil pup >>>/pol/
>>24976034Ah, makes sense now. You're a butthurt capeshit subhuman.Back to your containment paddock, pig twat: reddit.com
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>>24976584 is for >>24976536 subhuman, obviously.>>24976764Niggers and other faggots are the main audience of capeshit, animeshit and reality TV, especially the celeb one. Anyone who likes P&P is a philosophical nigger.
The bulk of western fantasy (yes even today) is based on Christian philosophy, or its bastard child humanism. Good and evil, sin and redemption, sacrifice, justice, moral character arcs, etc.The remaining works that aren't, are largely based on some flavor of nihilism or existentialism. There's nothing wrong with this, but I want something fresh. Off the top of my head the only western fantasy series that isn't really based on the above is the Earthsea series.
>>24976362>You've ruled out european pagan writings in your repliesNo I haven't lol.
>>24972441>within a genre that was created by writers like Eddison and TolkienGreat, so the wizard of oz, peter pan, and alice in wonderland aren't fantasy novels. You are clearly using a very different definition of "fantasy" than most people, so your opinions can be safely dismissed in this case.>Also fantasy writers know that they're essentially playing make believeThen aesop's fables fit that criteria, as well as a lot of medieval and folklore. The deeper issue is that as a reader it's impossible to tell what an author truly believes. Did Homer think everything in the iliad truly happened, or did he just come up with a fantastical story loosely based on a real life war (a la modern historical fantasy.) Does it actually matter whether the original author of a story thinks it's fictional or allegorical if later generations believe it to be historic fact? Maybe some of the authors of the pentateuch or mahabharata believed they were writing allegorical morality tales, having no clue that their work would later be taken as the literal word of god by people centuries later.
>>24972229Vampires, werewolves, elves, dwarves, fairies, other worlds, spirits, demons, gods all predate Tolkien. A pantheon of gods isn't very Christian either.
>>24974327So what happened when Cronus overthrew Uranus? Did the world end? No. Odin is going to die too without taking the world with him. These are the two most popular mythologies after Abrahamic religions.
>>24972027A Wizard of Earthsea
I've never personally found any argument against suicide that really convinces me. The more philosophy I read, the more many common objections seem based on instinct or emotion rather than careful reasoning. When people call suicide "murder" or "unnatural" they often ignore that a right to life should also include the right to give it up, and that nature itself isn't a moral authority. If it were, we wouldn't use medicine to prevent or delay natural deaths. The claim that suicide is selfish also feels very one-sided. It can just as easily be seen as selfish to expect someone to keep living with unbearable mental or physical suffering simply so others don't have to feel grief. None of us chose to be born, and being stuck in a life that has become intolerable is a tragedy, not a moral failure. I think society has a strong optimism bias that makes people assume life is better than it really is for everyone. When someone experiences life mainly as a heavy burden, ending their life can be a rational way to take back control over something they never chose.
>>24976419If you're able to overwill your self-preservation, why not overwill your suffering? These are equal choices all things considered.
>>24976419Is there any book that argues in favour of suicide?I don't know anyone who killed themselves who didn't do it for absolutely retarded reasons.
>>24976419There's a lot of possible issues with suicide, but I feel that those can be alleviated in a rational society. 1. Do you have children? Then no, after selfishly bringing new life in the world you don't get to bail on them. 2. Is it an actual rational decision or is it an emotional impulse? A lot of people who kill themselves do so after a breakup or someone close to them dying or something similar, which is just a short-term malfunction of the mind. I feel that in a "society where suicide is approved" you should have to make a 1 year appointment for killing yourself. If after 1 year you still feel the same, then yes carry on with it.3. Is the suicide induced by an unwarranted feeling of entitlement towards material wealth? Basically, if the person about to kill themselves were to be given 1 million dollars, would they still go through the suicide? If yes, then carry on. If no, then you should be killed anyway because you're a bitch and don't deserve to live.Another thing to mention is that a lot of people who "attempt suicide" by pills or jumping or whatnot and they fail and survive, usually don't actually attempt a second suicide, so that's something to keep in mind. (Though imagine it's because they fit in the second criteria of emotional impulse.)So tl;dr: Are you childfree or at least your kids are all grown up? Are you willing to wait 1 year for your suicide? Would you still do it if you had a million dollars? Would you still do it a second time if you failed the first? Then yes, I see no arguments to be made against your decision to do it. Just as not everyone is fit to reproduce, not everyone is fit to live either.
Any conception of reason necessarily negates suicide. Only the living have purpose.Any values whatsoever demands a life to have them. So unless death leads to a better life then suicide is self defeating.
>>24976419How many times must I explain thisDon't commit suicide, go out in a kamikaze strike against politicians, CEOs, critics, insurance bankers, corporate lawyers, lobbyists etcThe argument against suicide is that by only killing yourself then you're wasting a life that could be used to kill actual parasites instead
Philosophy certified high T
>>24976294Whats the difference between "Historical" and "History"? At first I thought historical meant historical fiction but that's also on here.
>>24976797You just know a woman made that chart.
>>24976490Philosophy, literally, means love of wisdom, so yes they do.
The Novel really was literature’s biggest mistake. Fucking midwit magnet.
>>24976816Wisdom ≠ Knowledge. Sure you utilize knowledge with wisdom, but wisdom also employs uncertainty ie: most of metaphysics
Kind of impressive that a man can profess Marxism for decades, study it to its entirety comfortably from the ivory tower of a cushy position in literal Marxist academia under a Communist regime, finding out from a sympathetic position everything that there is to be found about Marxism from its earliest proponents to its latest ones, the least and the greatest, only to eventually arrive at the conclusion that... it's all fundamentally wrong and can never workI mean when even this guy with all his sympathy and effort gave up, it's telling, isn't it?
>>24976154>quantum mechanics turned potential energy into an agreement that is already presumed>most peopleYou're a beta either way today. You trying to know things without an agreement?
>>24976163Newtonian physics is a model used because it works for everything that isn’t subatomic or going at non-relativistic speeds. I take it Marxism is a model? Value in an economy is a quantifiable metric, it needs to have formulas to derive it.
>>24976175What do you propose the agreement to quantify it be based on?
>>24974879Orwell already observed this back in the thirties. It's a fixed characteristic of Marxism.
>>24974879Every other group of people pretends the working class is doing fine, which necessarily means they have to pretend their plebeian degeneracy is 'fine'. Workers don't understand what's good for them at all.
KINOOOOOKINOOOOO ALEEEERT!!!!
>>24972427And it Begins....Keep away Wendigooners
>>24972427the kid stuff was kinda gross tho
>>24976589shut up or we will lock you in your own private virtual reality
>>24972427it's self indulgent sludge written by a 'writer'.
this lame ass nigga talkin to hisself
Why is poetry less popular now than it's ever been? And why are people so bad at pronouncing poetry? I've seen poetry professors read poetry as if it was prose and without a hint of self-awareness.
>>24976765But that's been a feature of most education systems, still is in many places.
>>24974465Honest answer, it feels heavily moderated, probably a symptom of the time. Its just sickly and fake feeling. Here is an example.O, Wert Thou in the Cauld BlastO, wert thou in the cauld blastOn yonder lea, on yonder lea,My plaidie to the angry airt,I’d shelter thee, I’d shelter thee.Or did Misfortune’s bitter stormsAround thee blaw, around thee blaw,Thy bield should be my bosom,To share it a’, to share it a’Or were I in the wildest waste,Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24974465>Why is poetry less popular now than it's ever been?Because it's never been easier to add fitting music to it to create a song instead. Songwriting > poetry
>>24976804Music was always used for great poetry, Schubert composed over 600 pieces specifically for poems. But the music was far better then and so was the poetry.
>>24974465Post a poem of heroic virtues. No whining, no yearning, pure He-Man shit.
if you don't own this in 2025, you don't love literature.
>>24976446get some glasses boomer
>>24966046I use a Kindle Fire so I can play Candy Crush between chapters.
>>24966640I still use my kobo libra h20 that I got ~5 years ago and it's working fine. I really like page turn buttons and the kindle oasis seems to have a horrible battery from what I've heard so I went with the kobo. Seems I made the right choice, see >>24966143
>>24976446I have a 10.7 inch screen, and it's basically the perfect size. What are you trying to do that you need 12+?
SERIOUS question. I'm looking for an ereader with the possibility of using an instant translation/dictionary stuff for reading in foreign languages, japanese included. Will a kindle be able to do this seamlessly without making me wanna kill myself?Plz respond
I need more testosterone filled historical fiction
Sharpe
>>24973522i got bored of this, but if you like Iggulden, then you may as well try his War of the Roses books. But I prefer Cromwell's Arthurian books
>>24973595Isnt War of the Roses just politics?
Bernard Cornwell is the best at this. The Saxon saga is gold.
Is there a point in reading classical works about formal sciences and natural sciences? I'm looking at western canon lists and there's stuff like Euclid, Archimedes, Hippocrates, Copernicus, Newton, etc., but I don't get why people other than historians should bother with all of this. It's mostly outdated and any school textbook seems like a better choice.
>>24975825what about tailbonewhat did galen said about tailbone
>>24975863Idk what Galen said about it, but it's retarded to think it serves no purpose, there's plenty of muscles attached to it. It literally holds your asshole in place.
>>24975863>>24975875Non-shitpost response: the treaty is mainly centered on the kidneys as Asclepiades of Bithynia taught that urine is actually a gaseous vapor inside the body and the atoms rearrange as urine in the bladder meaning the kidneys serve no purpose at all in his schema which Galen refutes
Whats a good history of science besides picrel?
>>24976619that one is no good
Whenever I read literature pre-1960s I kind of amused at how normalized it is for characters to seek out prostitutes. I was just reading lolita and Humbert has many moments with french streetwalkers in the beginning.It's almost like they were a normal facet of men's lives back before internet porn and feminism. It's almost like the concept of casual sex with a normal woman was unimaginable Were brothels really that common back then?
>>24974349Yeah it's fucking crazy. You could just go to a bar where the whores sit with you and hang out like normal women, then you get to go in back and fuck them. In a lot of major cities in North America everything has to happen in black market code words where you can't even talk about exchanging sex for money because it's technically.illegal. If you want a clean, professional cunt to use, they ask for hundreds of dollars per hour.
>>24974349hmm probably is a result of urbanization I bet if you check the history of any city of any historic period you will eventually find some form of prostitution or other forms of sex work
>>24976226Where does one find them bars friends?
>>24974349Watching internet porn is equivalent to seeking out prostitutes. And feminism is freeing women from marriage and allowing them to be prostitutes. This is what life is about. And as a man, your goal is to buy as many prostitutes as you can.
>>24976813>feminism is freeing women from marriage and allowing them to be prostitutesit's about freeing them to pursue high-paying careers so they can date broke but adorable guys like me
309 days until Halloween edition.Old >>24969924
>>24976712My bad, I meant the the first Jurassic Park and I'm currently reading Lost World.Primitive war is a series by Ethan Pettus about Dinos in vetinam
>>24976789I wouldn't read it, but it sounds kind of awesome in a retarded kind of way, lol.
Chugging coffee at 2am I am definitely doing an all nighter.
I wasBorn in a desert (screams)Born in a lion's den!
The list of the Top 10 most watched music videos on YouTube is insanely grim.
What's your favourite budget publisher? For me it's Arcturus. Their books are dirt cheap and often come with tasteful, bright designs, with a wide selection of classics.
Based Bakker Edition>Old:>>24968637>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
>>24975259>>24976253Wasn't the ending confirmed to be that Griffith keikaku'd literally everything to destroy the IoE permanently?
>>24976730I read the first one and didn't contain a single non-plagiarized concept, character or line of dialogue. I do not understand how any editor would allow this to be published.
>>24976732No, you just made that up
>>24976730>>24976733Le Mangeur de Soleil is in convésatíone with other litérateur, c'est ne pas un plagarisme
>>24975110Where is the No-God duology Scott?
This board just doesn't get it.You complain about how the industry is just women writers and publishers now and yet you all talk and act like women.The few who don't, run and hide in 100 year old books as the current time is just a little bit too difficult for them.You were born in the one time that truely needed male writers and yet you ignore the call. Just know that all those old authors you read look down on you in disgust as they watch you let the flame of literature burn out under your watch while doing absolutely nothing.
>>24976761Share something you've written recently. Lits or GTFO
>>24976793Im working on a novel, I may also consider a poetry project of a new type of poetry that the world has never seen before, but the novel has to come first.
>>24976800Nice work, Anon.I've had several short stories and about a dozen poems published, and have been at work on a major project since 2020 that I'm on the verge of beginning to self-publish.Take heart, we're all gonna make it. We WILL save literature.
This board is a containment chamber for idealists who need to justify writing their novels, conflating that with literature still being meaningful. If you disagree, they unleash their pedantic midwittery upon you, choosing to argue over semantics and definitions and completely missing the point. It's basically a place where people who can't accept no one cares about reading anymore come to console themselves, me included.
>>24976800Hell yeah. Admittedly, I'm a better essayist and editor than a novelist, so I don't think I'm going to make the next Great American Novel. I sometimes think it'd be nice to have something of a fraternal literary circle, a digital Stratford-on-Odeon for young men wanting to buck the system. I think the romantic notion of the author being an individual who follows their genius is attractive to a lot of people here for pretty obvious reasons. But it's much more typical for writers to know publishers or other writers, seclude themselves, and then return with their work later. The internet is great for getting good work to the top... but it's fucking shit at developing talent.
