I just finished reading Journey to the West for a book report. holy shit Chinese books are awesome. Does anyone have the china /lit/ recommendations?
>>24948241The difficulties with Three Kingdoms and Water Margin for the English-reader are the number of characters and remembering their names and plot lines, as well as the really really fast pace of the plot. Otherwise, Water Margin is very fun and easy to read.
>>24947549Poetry is also a lot harder to meaningfully translate because it's so tied up in form.
>>24948810Give it a rest man. This "poetry can't be translated" thing has been a dead end non-point for centuries. Just read some. Read this, for example.
>>24947522YOU UYGURYOU HAN HATE FIERCEWHY YOU ARWAYS FUCKING RATE
>>24948830I didn't say it's impossible, but it's a lot harder and more subjective.
Is it O.K. to be a luddite?
>>24948108A jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite with KOReader installed. Amazon's ecosystem is absolutely awful but they make the best hardware.
>>24947268yeah i get the cheap ones at dollar tree and thrift stores
>>24949414>jailbrokenwhy tho?
>>24949349I'm superior to everyone with all of my unread books, nigger!
How do you actually overcome post-modernism?
>>24949553>unironic trad cath larp
>>24949568Like Socrates but in a different way
>>24949586>I don't believe in it, so nobody else does either!Poor theory of mind, Anon.
>>24949586Im Muslim ideally they would be Muslim but I'd rather have them going to mass and at least being somewhat conservative
>>24949598Option A: you're a hypocrite Option B: you're a LARPertake your pick
2025 is almost over. What's the best book you read this year?
>>24949439Do you think getting old makes you prefer non-fiction which is why old men read nothing but Stephen Ambrose?
>>24949471> Do you think getting old makes you prefer non-fiction which is why old men read nothing but Stephen Ambrose?Yes
>>24947281Gates of Fire
>>24947281Paradise Lost
>>24949471weird cause as i get older i like reading fiction (used to read only non-fiction).
I like to read philosophy although I don't understand like 70% of what is written. Actually I like to read smart people, people with soulfulness, I like to learn the truth about reality even if I can't grasp it with most of the part.I'm currently reading Spengler's main work and it's good for the part I do understand.Thanks for reading my blog.
>>24949062If you're interested in Spengler read Vico and Herder too
>>24949062same here. i'm retarded but i do absorb some of the good parts.
Any recc.s for non-fiction books that aren't just a biography, or a dull reference/history of x book?
Washington's Immortals
>>24948190Never miss a chance to recommend this book
>>24949422Holy shit, the guy from Minecraft and Jumanji??
Dodge City
Unwilling Eldritch Horror of Slop EditionStubbed >>24943213>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.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24949526Stub just means the story was written purely to milk dosh and was never meant to go anywhere beyond that, so you should be glad the author signaled clearly and saved your time.
>>24949540she cute
>>24949547Sure but that also applies to trad pub books and all books on kdp and ku
>>24949572yes
>>24949547>Stub just means the story was written purely to milk doshWhy?
What magazines are /lit/?
>>24949212Name some fucking magazines, asshole
>>24946453Literary magazines are all woke trash. The last thing I want to read about in literary fiction is anything about Trump or Black Lives Matter, but they are all obsessed to the point where I dont even want to submit to them anymore.
>>24948105i checked again and you can if you're not a burger
>>24949491>not a burgerdoesn't count
>>24949435Kek. Binked ya, huh? No worries. The anons who want to read will follow my advice and have the opportunity to learn about new, interesting writers.
So they adapted a Pynchon novel for filmI've never read Pynchon before but like"One Battle After Another" - what the FUCK is this turbo jogger leftist power fanstasy bullshit?I always realized Hollywood is a bunch left-leaning cucks but holy fuck they outdid themselves with this one.The level of blatant propaganda is on par with fucking commie films of Stalin's era or something.This guy made "There will be blood" and now this what the fuck. This movie doesn't even feel real, it's a caricature of a movie.Tell me bros is Pynchon cringe plebbitor shit like that and not based? Le speaking truth to power
>>24946217Paul Thomas Anderson has ousted himself as an intellectual lightweight.Upon further reflection:>The Master wasn't that good>There will be Blood was anti-capitalist drivel>Magnolia kind of holds upHe's a good VISUAL director, in that he makes films that look well made and gets actors to perform well, but the CONTENT of his films is just straight up garbage.I doubt I'll watch any of his films ever again.Back to Pynchon>Vineland had very little to do with the plot of this film.>Vineland is a relatively boring novel, so adopting it to screen would've been a fool's errandComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24949550>Paul Thomas Anderson has ousted himself as an intellectual lightweight.This interview is pretty funny:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2LoMmncuug
>>24946217I watched this movie and had a lot of laughs and thought it was entertaining and delightful. I haven't thought anything else about it.
>>24949550>Pynchon being the best novelist of the 20th century.kek. Pynchon wouldn't be in the top 20.
>>24949600way to out urself as a 'let
What did I think?
>>24946201Dr. Seuss books are genuinely lightyears better than most other children’s books, and this is obvious as a father reading hundreds of different children’s books to my kid.
I utterly loathe how The Grinch has become a part of Christmas mythology. Stuff like yard decor and Grinch photo shoots is like seeing Facebook minions posting IRL.
>Doesn't steal ChristmasFucking false advertisement
>>24948627We got a Grinch here that needs some bullying.
>>24946201Agreed. Really curious why schools pushed him so hard.
I read approximately 300 pages today and it’s only noon. This doesn’t feel all that different from doing nothing desu. Unless you’re actively learning something, or you’re artistically obsessed with a specific kind of fiction, most “reading” of fiction is just passing the time.
>>24948794I wish I was an aristocrat…>>24948803Uh-huh…>>24948814But those are rare and I think it’s also subjective when it comes to personal attraction towards a certain novel or some such.
If you're not trying to do anything special with your life then you're retarded.If you're actually trying to make an impact on the world in some way then just read books that will make you closer to that aim. If you're trying to be an artist or a politician just tell yourself that reading well written fiction improves your rhetoric.
>>24948925I guess I was aiming to fulfil my potential, whatever that may be. But I’ve never been the sort to terribly believe in myself. And I’ve always been inquisitive and indecisive, so I always ask myself whether that book or film has the “thing” that will lead me down a certain road. So I try a bit of everything.
>>24949055Curious why you picked these two books?
>>24948707This. Reading nonficton leads to a better life. Reading fiction is a hobby, a fun source of entertainment.
Why is it that all great minds of antiquity thought that love was more than a crude neurochemical reaction? Would they have been redpilled if they were alive after the 20th century when advancement in chemistry demonstrated that love/eros is basically just a powerful drug? Honestly explains many things about the current perception of love in relation to modernity.
>>24945804What is love and emotion?>Neurotransmitters crossing the synaptic gap and binding into a holeHow does a shape going into another shape cause feeling?>Uh.. erm.. it just does!
>>24946386yes i would fuck you i would live with my soulmate and be happy
>>24945823i was gonna write this but while i was waiting for the countdown i saw u already trvked it out, thanks bruh. u can see happiness in the root "hap" which is like luck or fortune, the pursuit of happiness is not to feel good about your life or whatever ppl think it is today, they mean the pursuit of happiness as taking chances to success, failing fast and failing often to use a contemporary phrasing.
>>24946457>Maybe it's American capitalist brainrot, but here, in EstoniaActually you’re on point here. The state of “relationships” in the US is, well, awful. I look at my married friends and envy none of them; ALL of their wives are terrible imo, but that’s what they settled for and their reward is constant anxiety and weekly therapy sessions with their wives. I’d share the bleak perspective of some of the anons here if I didn’t travel as much as I do outside the country. Remember, here in the US most children come from a broken family/a non two-parent household, so things are kind of fucked here.
>>24949606it's not like the wives are living it up. most wives resent their husbands. that said, it's not like marriages outside of the west are "happier", people just don't feel entitled to be happy. marriage is just something u endure like childbirth or old age.
>evil cannot *uurp* create*plagiarizes Wagner's Ring Cycle*
>>24948051celtic, normans were only a minority in the aristocracy
>>24947882>may have influenced TolkienIt'd be a hell of a coincidence
>>24945653Or, uh, perhaps they were both drawing on the same mythic corpus.
>>24948034>Saxons are not Germanic
>>24945872In the Norse version of the story there is, the Andvaranaut ring
So has everybody on this board just read Fagles' Iliad translation? I know we're all actively avoiding Wilson's translation, and I never see Lattimore mentioned, so I assume for everybody on here the go-to is just Fagles.
>>24938203>I know we're all actively avoiding Wilson's translationwilson's translation is pretty good, actually. don't believe the shills
I have read the Emilio Crespo translation, which is btw far better than any english translation.
>>24942777I'm so intimidated I can't stop laughing.
>>24942800I'm with this anon. Seems like Green found the perfect mix of readability and translation accuracy by being close to the original meter but dropping it.
>>24949370>La colera o diosa barf
This book changed my life for the better
>>24948842It's past your bedtime, sonny.
>>24946749I've eaten girls out and I've jammed it in raw with no foreplay and gone deep enough to make them cry from cervix pain while choking them, biting their nipples, slapping their asses, pinching their clits and pulling their hair.It depends on the girl, but I'd say about 70% of them genuinely prefer the latter. They don't say it but they normally don't have that hazy fucked-well look to them after normal vanilla kissy kissy clitty rubby lip biting treat-me-well-and-eat-me-out-maybe-anal's-pushing-it sex.To me the interplay between man and woman (and why the early chapters of genesis capture human drama so well) is that of either being your toy or you being hers. Women prefer to be used and abused, at least during sex, maybe less so everywhere else. They're incorrigible little girls at heart that demand discipline outside the bedroom and rough manholding inside.Why is it like this and why this sort of behavior is so prevalent in women regardless of race and status, I do not know. A vestige remains well into their menopausal years, even.
I’ve been with my fiancee for 10 years and I still have trouble finding the clitoris
>>24949340He’s totally right, the straightest thing you can do is pretend to be one of your own cam whores over the phone so you can bring your customers to climax
>>24949590Cool it down anon I'm about to squirt
