Which one is his best?
Barfly (he wrote the screenplay)
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Factotum >>24952336Great movie, great cast (Charlie's mom from it's always sunny is one of the barflies) but Rourke's Chinaski is very uhh.. well I don't think it's what Buk had in mind. Great performance, but he does his own thing with the character.
>>24952328Pulp. You can tell the man had fun writing it.
>what if... the bad guy, um, like rapes and kills and such?The Judge is a cartoony villain, something you'd find in an Alan Moore comic like The Killing Joke.How does anyone take American letters seriously when you realise the entire McCarthy Universe (MCU) was just made to be a backend of Hollywood slop adaptations?
>>24949609>You are supposed to be able to develop your own interpretation of a text, morally and otherwise, without the author spoonfeeding you.Moral interpretations are the lowest form of literary criticism, and I'm not a moral realist so it's largely not something I care about.
>>24948752Harold Bloom read more than you or I and praised McCarthy's prose
>>24950091>noooo he should have been having sex with 40yo roasties with dry, barren pussys
>>24949972>McCarthy is adapted by Hollywood for a reason Shakespeare is the most adapted author of all time.
>>24948666Only capeshit people aka straight while males give a shit about this author. Modern straight white males are the most standard unipolar people on earth. They somehow love to pretend what they stand for is deep is moving but when you look deep into it it's a carbon copy of what the next guy has to say. Most boring shit ever. No wonder they get shit faced drunk, that allows them to come up with whole new ways to interpret all that.
>>24950345Because like so many other people on this website he is probably an adult convert to I'm guessing Catholicism because he finds the imagery of being a le based redpilled tradcath appealing and is now trying to justify this belief post hoc
>>24950345Because christians are intellectual cowards and natural slaves who want to be told what to think, feel, and believe.
>>24950345A select few eventually encounter something beyond this ordinary life and must construct their understanding of their existence in reaction to this encounter, rather than constructing the staircase to such an encounter using reason as a tool. I hope you and all others who wish to believe but rationally cannot one day are graced by such an encounter and are able to see the beauty in all things in the light of it.
>>24950437What is this truth you speak of?
>>24946402same but i dont feel i deserve forgiveness or grace tho i want it for others idk it is late
>reading a translation of a French authoryou didn't actually read the book (I can't speak French btw)
>>24952103I read it in translation and in French. I prefer the translation.
>>24952084It's less cartoonish and more interesting for it.
I found it quite hard to read I could follow along with the plot easily but the discussions were very hard for me
>>24952398I dont know what you mean by cartoonish. TEP's sci-fi aspects? i thought Serotonin was pretty trivial in its narration and some of its story. the dog sex.
>another mid whore catapulted into fame and fortune for existing That's it. This has gone too far, the woman problem HAS to be addressed now. Simping is an epidemic that is destroying society and it's only going to get worse.
>>24948297She is a viper,a digital succubus meant to drain the vitality of men.
>>24951638Meant to reply to>>24951466
>>24948013You triggered all the losers with this.>They hated Jesus, for he told them the truth.
>>24948013hope she sees this bro
>>24950979I am retarded so the two whites on top look better to me than the doll looking ones on bottom
Which books should I read to best understand the argentinian soul?
>>24951736what kind of people live in the villas of BA?
>>24951891Unironically, niggers
>>24951891fresh princes
>>24947942No wonder this place is such a shithole then >T. Boliviano
>>24951891"Provincianos," Peruvians, Bolivians, Paraguayans, fresh off the boat Africans.
Why yes, half page descriptions of lamps and countertops with the occasional interjection of brain dead criminals speaking futuristic ebonics. It certainly deserves all the praise. Were people really that bored in the 80s to enjoy this?I'm not finishing it. I feel my neurons dying in real time. I was right for putting it off for so many years.
>>24946610This book really fell flat for me. I think it would’ve been better if I read it before I’d seen the Matrix, which seems to borrow most of whats interesting in Neuromancer and present it in a far more entertaining manner
I liked the first half of the book, I wanted more future prole stuff in a cool future cyber city rather than spy action stuff on a wacky rastafarian space station
>>24947622it's fineit's cool for what it is and what it contributed to the genre, and the second half of the book has some neat atmosphere.
>>24946610If you wrote about 2025 and then went back in time to 1985 and sold it as a futuristic novel it would seem boring, a parody of futuristic novels, or groundbreaking for being different.>ok, this book is set in 40 years in the future but it's about a total loserWhat does he do?>he works at a supermarketOn the moon?>no, on Earth, stupidDoes he use a flying car/teleportation device/tube to get there?>no he uses a regular car on a regular roadBut the car is futuristic right?>not this one, it still has buttons and runs on unleaded but there are these things called "Cybertrucks" that look futuristic and they're electricBut the electricity is derived from fusion power, right?>no, it's just coal or wind power or solarOK, so are his coworkers at the store robots?>no there's only one robotComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>short but complex enough to hold your attention>Easy to read without the dumbed down low IQ prose slop of modern fantasy>no political correctnessStart with the pulps
>>24949905>the dumbed down low IQ prose slop of modernI don't think you know what those words mean and that's why you hide them in a greentext faux-quote.>Start with the pulpsPut the pulps in the scifi/fantasy general if you want clicks
>>24949905First poster is an estrogenic ass faggot. Yes OP, you're right. It's nice to read high quality short stories. It helped my zoomie attention span too.
>>24949905Conan rules! I must write pulp and more stories like Conan.
>>24951142This post reads like you're a snarky little faggot irl.>>24949905You should read pulp westerns. They're kino.
Grow up manchild
Man, you're right, Aristotleanon. Christian apologists are the worst when it comes to anally raping the Aristotelian corpus beyond recognition. They don't fucking understand anything. They don't understand dunamis, they don't understand energeia, they don't understand Metaphysics Zeta, they don't understand syllogisms, and they definitely do not understand the four causes. I just had apologist tell me, definitively, that Palamas was a top scholar of Aristotle (lmfao), and that De Anima isn't about life at all, since according to Palamas, only human beings have life because you somehow need "intelligence" to be "self-subsistent" (fucking LOL). Even when you read Aquinas's commentary on passages like the controversial active intellect, you can see him at pains to make the active intellect cohere with the passive intellect into one united soul. And then he fails to do so. But then magically says "but it has to be the case, and so it is." I ask another apologist, is an intellect which becomes everything, something which changes or otherwise remains as it is? And obviously, they short-circuit. Because obviously, that's the kind of intellect that we have, and it can't be active in any pure sense. So Aquinas is wrong and our intellects are perishable in the sense that it is soul. Oh the horror!!! These fucks have absolutely destroyed Peripatetic commentary throughout history, and they polluted literally everything, especially the translations, with the most hamfisted articulations possible to the point where intelligent conversations with them are not possible. Their brains are wrapped in verbal poison. If you ever get caught up in it, you basically have to spend years unlearning Scholastic hackery as it pertains to the deepest parts of the Aristotelian thought to even have a CHANCE at beginning to understand its depths.
OP al-Farabi writes in the Art of Happiness about how the philosopher naturally seeks a community. In 10th century Syria you could easily find other irl autists to talk about Aristotle with. People knew he was based and any educated man was studying him. Nowadays - certainly no one irl. So you go online and lo and behold everyone is fucking retarded, hostile and ignorant. Philosophy is about discourse but it’s become extremely isolating, unless maybe you’re in academia. Notice how the larpers itt think of philosophy as an inert matter to be taken up and transformed arbitrarily by religion. This is really a form of atheism.
>>24947161>especially the translationsidk Greek so I've never read the originals, is there anyone here who has actually done that and who can attest to that statement?
>>24951908Nta, the grammar of his sentences in Greek can veer wildly between simple and contorted, but the vocab is pretty common Greek, except for "entelecheia."
>>24951833Kek
>>24947161That's because the overwhelming majority of Christians only understand Aristotle through reading Aquinas. So if they do actually read Aristotle, then they're filtering it through what Aquinas used Aristotle for.
Sapient Species, Races, and Miscellaneous Sapients EditionFAQ:>What is worldbuilding?Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"Yes, of course you can!>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.Old Thread: >>24748733
>>24952400>willingly volunteeringDepends on how loose your definitions of “willingly” and “volunteering” are.Obviously nobody would do that sans coercion because it’s fucking retarded.
>>24952405Their Emperor offered to put his subjects to work extracting and refining raw materials for the Megacorps of the top world power. The arrangement favors both parties. The royal family and nobility get access to advanced technology that they use to suppress the locals, while the Megacorps get cheap base products they can sell at high profits.
>>24908910Take inspiration from the real world, which is often more interesting that fantasy worlds. Real life Christian alchemists and magicians considered themselves perfectly pious and monotheistic, because they thought magic was a gift from God to the initiated. Also, you had philosophers speculating that certain things we'd call magic were actually natural phenomena, like Thomas Aquinas distinguished divine prophecy, which came from God, and natural prophecy, which was just the natural ability of some people to tell the future.I'd recommend the youtube channel ESOTERICA, he has loads of stuff on historical alchemy. See also this ReligionForBreakfast video on ancient Roman and Christian attitudes to magic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oYOO-xSPa5Q
>>24952477Esoterica is great. I will check out Religionforbreakfast. Cheers.
>>24952437Come to think of it, it's more like geopolitical symbiosis than "colonization".
Is this the life all incels are so envious of? Truth is, most marriages were and still are much of hate towards the partner, if there is no passion to be found. And that happens for almost all couples if the other one is mentally unstable or otherwise literal child in a grown up body. Stoner was too good for Edith, but also a total loser for simping for her in the first place. They ruined each others lives and just kept going on with it. Also ruined the life of their child and made them an alcoholic. Can't tell if that life would be better than being without pussy desu (which Stoner did for most of his life anyway). So the question now is, how – if anyhow – should a man of intelligence pursue women? Just fuck a college pussy for a semester and be reminiscent of it for a lifetime like Stoner did?
Just finished this book today. Jesus it was fucking depressing.
>>24951464cringe
>>24951006It's 2025, we're post-incel now, be it homonationalist, NPNW, NTTW/NFTW, full on doomer, etc. We don't even give a fuck and we certainly don't want to get married. Technically I'm an incel but I refuse to label myself as one and associate myself with the dysgenic freaks and brownoids who do. Get with the times unc.
>>24952364fr bro's talking about incels wanting to get married lmao.
>>24952350Yet, most people live lives similar to Stoner with a blindfold on.
How do I master the English language as an ESL? Is there a certified /lit/ guide?
>>24949930It'sOnlyBecauseGermansMakeCompoundWordsWhereTheyStickSeveralWordsTogetherSideBySideAndThenCallItANewWord.Not because German language is untranslatable, it just gets wordy to do it.
>>24952002Actually being able to follow slang filled, context dependent language use, does show mastery of the language. In the same way that being able to read philosophy or politics does too.You can't follow the complexity of shitposting, without having a mastery of the language.
>>24952227https://warosu.org/jp/thread/43699616#p43708631>There are plenty of "successful" and outwardly well-adjusted individuals who are hardcore "weebs". You faggots are just falling for the blackpill that came from all the ironic weebs and twittertrannies that became "the norm" in the last decade because they're all disgusting attention whores that leech of whatever seems popular in the moment.>Normalfags cannibalizing normalfags is all it is.>To think of an example of why the medium has draw so much negative attention one must only not have the memory of an ant and think back to the /pol/ tourists that spammed the internet with le ebbin anime girls with maga hats in 2016. And all of a sudden anime was for nazis. Then twittertrannies co-opted the image because it drew so much attention and now the same tourists that posted anime girls with maga hats associate the medium with trannies. And somewhere along the way every other faggot crawled out of the woodwork and jumped on the bandwagon.>I hope they all die so we can go back to enjoying our various versions of japanophilia in peace and bliss.>There are so many buzzwords in your post that it's impossible to understand whatever point you're trying to makeYes, comprehension is one thing and essential, to not look foolish like this respondent. But one would still never consider that to be model prose a neophyte should emulate.
>>24949847more synonyms does not equal more technical.
>>24952252>But one would still never consider that to be model prose a neophyte should emulate.I didn't say emulate, I said being able to follow. If someone is able to understand what 43708631 said, then they have a mastery of the English language, because that's full of historical clues, cultural clues, massive amounts of slang, limited punctuation, and breaks grammar rules.People shouldn't talk like that, but the ability to understand that 43708631 wants all the new people to leave the site, so the website can return to being for specific niches related to Japanese culture, does show a mastery of the language.In the same way that being able to understand philosophy shows a mastery of the language. In the same way that being able to follow how politicians dodge answering particular questions, then reroute to talking about something else, while mixing rhetoric, slogans, and emotional language together to create the image/experience in the audience's minds, shows a mastery of the language.There's other ways that will show a mastery of the language, such as being able to read texts from the past, without the updated translations or translation notes. If you can just casually read Shakespeare, and be able to follow it properly, then you know that you have mastered English. As you've been able to be able to follow the contemporary version of the language so well, that you're able to read older styles of the language.Another way is being able to read poetry, and especially being able to write poetry. That's able to show mastery of a language to someone who doesn't have mastery, in a way that the other examples I talked about doesn't show their mastery level.Most people don't master a language though, as they have no need for it. If they have a functional level, then they feel like they don't need anything else. Once someone can order from a menu, make a phone call, fill out a form, and follow street signs, they've basically reached the level of language proficiency that they need for the rest of their lives.
This book changed my life for the better
>>24950544not a big deal if you have more life energy
>>24952300There’s no difference to aesthetic and function in a woman’s mind.
Far as I can tell, the interior of the vagina is practically insensate. And logically so, since a fetus has to go through there.People talk about the nerve endings in the clit, but nobody talks about the lack of nerve endings elsewhere. It's like nobody wants to say the quiet part out loud.
>>24951547you're a silly little guy
>>24946788why would i listen to advice about women from a woman? got any male perspectives?
Behold! The brilliancy of Danielle Chelosky's genius! Terror is one of my favorites from Danielle's little book called Female Loneliness Epidemic, and it is little. It's only 4in by 7in and 0.25in thick
>>24952077Women enjoy my penis but not my personality/person. I assume part of the problem is I struggle to cum from vaginal sex. Blowjobs do nothing for, a handjob even less. The only way I've cum from vaginal sex was by withholding from masturbating for 3-5 days.>>24952073The prose is like that throughout but almost every "story" is something like "I'm going to have anonymous sex with this random hot guy or artsy guy...wait why doesn't he want to be my husband??? Why is he treating me like a whore??? Ugh I'm so fucking lonely and my life sux :( big cry" In total it is 87 pages. Most stories are about 3-4 pages long. Most stories feel the same.
>>24952102I forget to attach a Danielle again
>>24952102You truly have an alpha male dick. People who read a lot tend to have better imaginations and perhaps schizoid and so fantasy > real life. Sometimes makes sex more difficult. One should be grateful for getting that regardless of whether you finish.
Pretty good. I hate when it happens. I used to hoard and collect plenty of stuff and now I don't keep anything I'm not sure I'll need.
>>24951965>>24951967It's better than any short story I've read by a /lit/ user but still not that good and the lack of paragraphs is gay.
>>24945192nice selfie, you fucking retard
>>24949489>https://www.compactmag.com/article/emily-wilson-s-sack-of-homer/So Tolkien, being a deeply uncreative author, calls himself evil?
>>24945827chud nonsense
>>24944446>christopher "pseud-hack" nolan it's a gay book for faggots, who cares if a dyke translated it?
>>24945827she should literally be arrested for this, it's a crime against literature and humanity
