>>24948329
He's not that bad desu. Recently he has admitted that his Dawkins-esque atheism phase was cringe and he's more open to religious/spiritual views as opposed to flat out disregarding them.

>>24948329
Pray for Alex. He wants deeply to believe

>>24954478
Unfortunately Dawkins is bad at philosophy but those contemporary discussions are gay, noone is even trying to change each others views. It's all about being "charitable". Someone like Jay Dyer is still actually debating but he's also not very good at it.

>>24954439
He's 6'2"

>>24954290
>my fantastical universe origin story
What would that be?

>>24954674
Voice is one of th hardest things to develop, particularly because it isn't just what they say, but how they say it. What characters are you writing? I'll see if I can help.

>>24954674
>supposed to
wdym
if you cant do it, i guess you werent supposed to

Make up bs rules
>this charecter is brish, he will say stuff like colour instead of color
>this charecter says buddy after every sentence
>this charecter, has a tendency, to really, really, be punctuated
Etc. Just come up btw bullshit

Holy shit what the fuck is up with captcha today

Make up exaggerated qualities for your characters. Loud, abrasive, quiet, a cunt, genius, retarded, people pleaser, loveable, fair, unjust, gluttonous, etc.

Then, be subtle as you're writing, but always be thinking: "This guy is an asshole but fair, what would he do/say in this situation". After a while he sort of becomes a part of you and the words flow effortlessly.

>>24954317
qrd on kafka?

>>24954317
trippy shit mang

>>24954317
Pretty pretty good

nice picrel. found a bigger one on reddit and saved it.

>>24954317
I have only read The Trial and I really hated it. I thought I would like it, but the book was genuinely difficult to finish due to how boring it was.

>>24951097
Graduated a little over a decade ago and I can't remember most of the books we were assigned, but it was a mix of classics and more modern books.
>Lord of the Flies
>To Kill a Mockingbird
>The Great Gatsby
>Animal Farm
>Fahrenheit 451
>The Bluest Eye
>The Giver
>Tears of a Tiger/Forged by Fire
They also let us choose books of our own to read and do reports on.

>>24952743
imagine getting assigned shit like the joyluck club or the house on mango street as a teenage boy. that killed reading for me for years.

>>24951097
graduated HS in 2010, small poor city in new england. I only recall getting assigned reading in middle school, stuff like "the giver", "my side of the mountain", "holes" etc. In high school you only got assigned reading if you took the level 3/4 classes but I was advised to sign up for 2s because there was less homework. Lotta drugs and violence at my school, they weren't bothering making kids read shit.

It's not just the US and it's because of AI.
My friend's daughter has no books assigned for next year, because schools know that they will just open chatgpt and type "Give me a summary of X".
You know which schools haven't done this? Private schools. In the future, the true distinction between marginals and the educated will not be degrees or works, but eloquence and literacy.
>What books did you read?
One Hundred Years of Solitude
House of Dolls
Madame Bovary
The Tunel (Sabato)
The Stranger
These come to mind at least.

>>24951097
The vast majority of people fall into three categories when it comes to assigned reading:

a) read it, hated it because they were forced to read it
b) skimmed it, didn't absorb much of anything
c) never read it, just bullshitted or Sparksnote'd their way through

We tried to treat English like a STEM subject, when it is much closer to an art. By doing so we accidentally brought up multiple generations who hate reading - or view it as childish - because it was a souring experience in school

Giving kids tools and experiences and letting them find their own way has been provably much more effective than forcing them down one specific path

>>24953322
It's simply the fact that the less intelligent you are and the more emotional you are about your perception of reality the easier you are to grift. Racism has zero scientific support, but the point of racist screed is never to actually provide challenge based on evidence, it's to gain political leverage by appeal to oversimplifications. The entire enterprise is based around hand-waving, cherry-picking and counting on simplemindedness. Your post provides excellent examples of such, for example, this entire sentence:
>Even if they'll tell you otherwise, nobody is going to be happy a nigger is approaching them on the street at 2AM or all the silicon CEOs are becoming Indian and Chinese.
Is one long string of stereotypes, racist prejudices and conspiracy theories. But that doesn't matter, because it has accrued the layers and layers of racist assumptions passed memetically among the people it's meant to recruit, such as: black people are scary, Asians are ruthlessly competitive or hard-working or nepotistic (the particular variant of the belief changes to fit the situation). None of these were ever meant to be examined, because they're meant to appeal to a public conditioned by repetition of anecdotes and largely unaware of any discourse around the racism beyond what loudest racist can hock at them, online or offline.

>>24953211
LMFAO Palestinians started killing Maronites snd they defended themselves

The state of Shi'ite 3rd worldism posters

>>24953211
>shiites are in many ways more Christian than peoples whomst call themselves Christian,
Shiitesnare not even Muslim and to be Christian is to believe Christ died and is the word made flesh which all muslims deny...so no your post is wrong. What are they putting in the water in Latinx countries

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>>24954054
>to be Christian is to believe Christ died and is the word made flesh
Christians believe Christ lives and muslims also believe Christ lives. Christ-killers believe Christ died and they love to crucify the word of God with e.g. the eruv system
does Christ recognize these pastors who say every day Christ is risen and then participate in kidnapping and slaving and preach the Book of Joshua against gaza? no, He hates pharisees

>>24954091
>Christians believe Christ lives
christians believe Christ was the mesiah and Muslims do not they believe he was replaced. the average shiite would cut off ur hand for saying this to him lmao

why are schizo latinx posters like this? i also dont care about jews or palestinians I just want my welfare money and EBT and to watch star wars all day, ZOG controlling america does not bother me as 99% of all people worldwide are cattle, including me

>>24954270
What I mean is that religious writers like Hawthorne and Milton can’t help but impose their black-and-white good vs. evil moral frameworks on their stories, so that everything winds up cleanly separated into good guys and bad guys and the story always resolves with some kind of edifying religious moral. I prefer godless writers like Shakespeare who present us with complicated and contradictory people struggling in an indifferent universe. To me that’s more interesting and more real. His characters have more depth and don’t feel so much like symbols designed to teach us something.

>>24954289
Hester isn’t presented as a woman of ‘pure angelic dignity,’ nor is Dimmesdale presented as a wicked corruptive abuser. You should read books before you talk about them, and you should seek therapy to reconcile your hatred for women which presumably stems from their not wanting to touch you

People should read The Blithedale Romance.

>>24954121
house of seven gables is perfect. fiction doesn't get better than that.

>>24954121
>Melville, was deeply respectful of Hawthorne.
That's certainly one way to put it

>>24954318
I think you’re correct that Hawthorne’s biggest weakness is the allegorical mode he writes in, which has some inherent limitations, but I would suggest that he writes the good form of allegory where it’s more ironic and ambivalent and intellectually sophisticated rather than straightforward moral didacticism (for example, Young Goodman Brown strikes me as less a dull lesson on “good vs evil” and more an exploration of some of the contradictions of believing in The Elect). I think some of his fables also feel shockingly modern, go read something like Wakefield and tell me it doesn’t feel like Kafka-before-Kafka (if you don’t like Kafka though obviously this might not mean much).

Would the mf listing the Lord of the Rings trilogy as three separate entries please stop?

>>24953394
Post your nominations

>>24954093
Sirens of Titan has got to be one of the most extremely shit books I have ever read. Dull prose, boring, predictable plot, not really very funny either. Sorry.

Why has nobody nominated Malazan it’s literally the greatest series of all time.

I can't wait until we have 100 arbitrary books, almost all of which are the random faves of a single anon, due to lack of voting. 100 is far too many.

>>24954396
i think that's a weird tradition that completely ignores the french and russian revolutions.

>>24954396
Blah. Dropping words and letter because I'm tired

>>24954398
>russian
Bakunin and Kropotkin

>>24954355
>sacrificed material quality of life
Yeah, but not willingly lol

>>24953620
I'll buy it and post it in the stack thread <3

To every post giving authors or titles : Cheers bruvs, much appreciated (can't >> you, the site thinks I'm spamming)

>>24954179
This list looks pretty good.

>>24954240
They are, but they are one each, they are real, and there are plenty of things written about them.
A fictional society where the people in charge are actually selected on their altruism or their dislike of domination, and where as a result some things go well and others go to shit, was more along the lines of what I was looking for.

>>24952646
He's not saying "white people bad" you are just trying to make yourself a victim

whats this book about? worth reading?

>>24954046
Yes and yes

>>24953938
>Weissman doesn't mean whiteman
>Blicero meaning bleached isn't a reference to whiteness
>Rockets have nothing to do with Cold War ethnicities
>SS uniform has nothing to do with Nazis
>South African whites being villainized has nothing to do with Europhobic racism

Maybe you're a good troll because you got me to respond, but that's quite ridiculous.

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I've just read pages 132-133 and I've gotta say: When it clicks, it clicks. *emphasis your own

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>>24954601
My webnovel idea. I'm currently building a backlog so I can release one or two chapters per week until I die... drowned in a sea of Patreon bucks, hopefully. Please tell me what you think of this simplified summary:
>American gets isekai'd to medieval fantasy world
>he swears to transform this backwards, primitive world into the perfect America the Founding Fathers had in mind when they signed the Declaration of Independence with his modern knowledge and newfound, ever-increasing magic powers
>people across the land love him as he liberates them from their abusive feudal lords and kings
>this love turns into hatred as he and his army impose conscription amongst the "liberated" peoples of his emerging nation as he struggles to take on one of the few warlords in the world who isnt a weak pushover
>he eventually wins and keeps on conquering and annexing nations, but tensions, conspiracy, betrayal, and rebellion only increase as his power grows and he gets more and more paranoid and insane
>Women, their beauty, seduction, passion, support, and betrayal are a big part of the story. MC is handsome, well-educated, artistic, seductive and falls in love relatively easily, so love and lust are always present in his mind and relationships.
That is the general blueprint. Every nation and the battle with or against its respective rulers, rebels, collaborators etceterea is an arc. I plan to end it with him conquering the whole planet and becoming immortal, or, continue adding arcs forever as he gets isekaid to new worlds and dimensions (not all of them medieval).

Someone mentioned this reminded him of Napoleon and Overlord (the anime i assume) in the previous /wng/. I've read Napoleon's biography, and I plan on watching the movie starring Joaquin Phoenix, yes. However, I must clarify, that I watched Overlord's first 2 or 3 episodes and dropped years ago without any intention of continue watching it, since I consider it boring and pointless (just like every piece of media in which MC starts overpowdered instead of growing one step at a time).

Opinions?

>>24954664
As a european, that sounds like shit, and if there is no magic it will just be lots of teaching how to make modern technology rather than political intrigue. Maybe the anime Gate is more similar than overlord.
I wouldn't read it though there is lots of idea guys but not so great executions

>>24954664
The honest answer is that anything can work if the execution is good enough. Though I have to say that sounds... ambitious and where's the "hook" for the typical RR reader?

>>24954664
>>American gets isekai'd to medieval fantasy world
Stopped reading here.

>>24954326
Think about this way.
You're an academic from a privileged family with multiple advanced degrees from Oxford and Harvard in English, Linguistics, Foreign Tongues, and Literature.
And yet you still can't pen one sentence, let alone one play, as powerful as any of a butcher's son without any higher education.
It stings. It shows that all your analyzing, all your searching for biographical details, feminist lenses and subaltern discourses, all the A+ knowledge of rethorical devices and plot structures and narrative tropes, and all the degrees concomitant with it, and even you high income high class family with enough money to do fuck all but write, doesn't make you smarter or better at writing than a butcher's son.
So it's necessary to invent a comforting lie that maybe Shakespeare was a noble in disguise and support it, even despite the fact that many a writer didn't need advanced academic humanities education to write better than an academic.
A fart fetishist did it.
A proto incel from Providence did it.
Even people with math degrees did it (Pynchon, Wallace), and did it way fucking better than you, English Studies PhD teaching at Oxford.
A bum with a cowboy fetish did it.
An ESL Pole who started learning English in his 20s did it. And better than you.
And, most insulting, a Russian ESL pedo did it.
Why even stop at classics.
A feminist girlboss wrote Harry Potter, more relevant and successful than an your theses about the olfactory politics of melanin in the Dubliners.
A pedo wrote and writes better and more popular horror than you.

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>>24954350
>>24954430
the new captchka keeps phonefags out

>>24954681
new captcha is 100x easier on phone wdym?

>>24954681
Yeah, it doesn't.

>>24954326
hey silly, it's just clickbait

>>24953984
Looks probably good enough to me. I'm assuming the prompts were something like this.

A) Boys, read the books of the good poets!
B) The slavewoman waters the great pear tree of the garden.
C) The beautiful pants of the field delight the happy farmers.

>>24953984
almost perfect, but in one of them you made a noun-adjective agreement error

Finished Familia Romana. Gonna do Beeson’s next in terms of readers, but also got some loeb’s and the vulgate.

What is a good dictionary site to use with Beeson’s medieval latin primer

>>24954157
yes, these were the prompts

>>24954351
then what is the correct phrase? pls help

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>>24954684
I've only read Julius Evola's The Doctrine of Awakening, as far as the subject goes, and I've read Bhagavada Gita and some vedanta.

>>24949733
Agreed. I wanted to like this and it killed me.

Lovecraft is perfect for this.

>>24953392
Agreed.

What you need is an engaging book that is hard to approach. Somehow your brain is interested enough to try to follow it but it takes so much energy you fall asleep pretty quickly.

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"Gormenghast" by Mervyn Peake will bore you into submission in no time.

>>24953057
God isnt real but I guess if it saved you I'll give it a pass

>>24953057
Is this intellectual bypassing or is this spiritual bypassing?

>>24953057
Skimmed it. Nothing caught my positive attention in it.

>>24954591
No book can do that. Only you can do it to yourself.

>>24954603
You can’t skim a book like this. You need to spend time with it, read it slowly over a few days or even weeks. Lit it simmer.