>>24646874
>Oh yeah I love George RR Martin
>What's your favourite book from him?
>He writes books?

>>24644125
Sanderson IS the best man for the job. Who else has experience finishing a sprawling fantasy series? Sanderson does. Bonus points for not making every old fan hate the new books.

Look at what the TV writers did. Look at what movie writers do (Star Wars). That's the average outcome you're dealing with.

Sanderson is a good teacher. He understands writing on a level other than just a writer. That's probably why Wheel of Time wasn't a complete disaster. He might be able to do it for asoiaf too.

I might've glazed him here, but he's basically the only one that has experience doing something like this.

>>24646864
Fuck yourself you disingenuous nigger. You know perfectly well what I'm talking about.

There are actually people on /lit/ who read and enjoy a Song of Ice and Fire? Didn't this board have standards once?

>>24647396
Funny how newfags like you actually know nothing about the boards they are posting on. /lit/ has had ASOIAF generals long before the tv show became a big hit, it was a massively popular book series on here prior to 2010. Then the more popular the tv show got, the less accepted it became on /lit/ to talk positively about the books.

>>24644071
>criticising an economic approach makes you a dyed in the wool marxist
I know all you faggots are intellectual babies but come on.

>>24643096
Yeah there was a girl who was doing all that shit when I was in college, the problem is everyone including the professors aren’t going to ever say anything to them. It’s gay as fuck, literally, it’s all just very gay and sterilized now. I didn’t regret my classes at all I studied some good stuff, I just ignored any pining for outside the class work. Nobody interesting especially not men, want to help cry about the patriarchy. Where are we even supposed to go with it all? Yeah I’m sure society will be better after you
tear down every sign of masculinity.

Whats worse I think it’s necessary, this is the only way liberalism can be transgressive, by constantly seeking to integrate more equality and breakdowns of traditional norms. And fighting the man for expanded rights to minority groups, there’s literally nothing else to do. Going back is pure cope too. University amounts to a daycare and debt trap while the real game changers start and run businesses. Technology is the only thing worth a shit anymore because it’s still cool and there’s nothing women or gays can do about it.

>>24643096
>It's insane to me that more than 25% of applicants want to write about gender.
They dont. They want to write about their favorite movies, tv shows, celebrity gossip, schlick lit, and any other inane thought that pops into their head, and gender studies is the vehicle that allows them to indulge in their hobbies while pretending it's for the greater good of humanity.

>>24647321
Son, examine your workplace collectively.

>>24647337
Tech just looks cool from the outside. Most of it, 99% at least, is really fucking lame. Designing an algorithm to manipulate shoppers into spending an extra 10 seconds on your digital marketplace is a total waste of a life. The worst part is that you need to be a high IQ asshole graduating from the top universities to even have a shot of doing that at a FAANG company.

Tech autism, especially surrounding AI, is also ruining other fields. It's very easy to get a STEM PhD with a low level of understanding in your field of specialization, so long as you incorporate AI, which is what half of recent graduates are now doing. AI just obscures everything in a way that removes the capacity for penetrating insight so it's a perfect project for a midwit researcher. Why does this artifact appear? I don't know but I can train a neural network to recognize it!

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>>24646040
>Starmer is a great example of a man who knows he's ruining his political career but seems to prioritise Israel more, for whatever reason
Starmer is married to a kikess and their spawn are all raised as kikelets. He's a member of the tribe.

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Not even young Evangelicals support Israel anymore.

>>24642934
Sounds like a retard who was wrong about everything.

>>24646886
every prediction marx made has come true. go read something nigger

>>24646886
>And yet every one of its predictions has been wrong
I can't tell if you're joking, sarcasm doesn't really translate to text but the rate of profit and middle class have been shrinking for decades at this point

>>24646336
>decouples work from material goods
That's how capitalism destroys itself, the rate of profit shrinks over time. Automated factories won't magically delete themselves when capitalism ends

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Every prediction Marx made has come true, except for the revolution.
Why is this? Is the proletariat just retarded? Or do we have to wait 2 more weeks?
Or perhaps, Marx was wrong, and class consciousness does not naturally permeate as a result of the material conditions of the working class.
What do you think, anon?

>>24646587
seems pretty superfluous

>>24646590
should a wind blow, what shall happen to the flame

>>24646372
you put your clitoris inside so it's safe

>>24646468
Judaism is authoritarian, centralized, oppressive and cult-like.
>>24646426
The dispute was about “Socrates’s corruption of the youth” — whatever that means.

living among normies and midwits must have been hell for him

Reminder to actually read his letters.
He went from friendless internet (books) incel to grass (and pussy) toucher.

Niggerman

>>24646350
>His best stuff
In no particular order:
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Haunter of the Dark
The Shadow Out of Time
The Whisperer in Darkness
The Colour Out of Space
At the Mountains of Madness
Supernatural Horror in Literature
The Call of Cthulhu

One of the things about Lovecraft, for better or worse, is that he was a dyed-in-the-wool antiquarian and as such your mileage may vary. IMO his best stuff is generally where he's really immersed in New England and those stories are much more enjoyable if you have enough knowledge to set the scene.

>>24643416
>was he the archetypal chud?
Nah sounds like he was a shit cunt from /pol/.
[s4s] would never have fucked anyone and maintained the pure love of cats.

For me, it's The Dunwich Horror, and The Outsider.

>>24644858
What's a play? Is it like a poem? Does it read like the Iliad?

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I fucking hate anthologies like this that aren't 'complete works of' style anthologies. What's the fucking point of leaving something out? It just means people have to go and track shit down.

Bought a bunch of Greek theater anthologies at a used book store a while back and stuck them on the eventuality shelf, recently checked with dismay to discover they were not Lattimore or Fagles because I didn‘t know what the fuck I was doing at the time.

Yeah I might buy an extensive set which corrects this oversight.

>>24646906
Oy vey just pay extra for the missing works

>>24646906
some books are better than other books, anon.

strawman
appeal to emotion
cowardice
malaise
intentful ingenuity
weak aura

>>24647377
Fallacy fallacy

>>24647371
>I don't really get his position
You succinctly summarized it though

thoughts and words aside, fix your eyes upon the absolute radar dishes affixed to either side of this gentleman's powerful jaw and high cheekbones, the hair of a man fourty years his junior perched upon his head .. my intuition tells me the same thing this his physiognomy and words do — the protection and conservation of the natural world is the single most important pursuit in the world today. all else is suicide of varying duration.

i prefer the Siberiade

"stanislaw lem" is an anagram of "satanism well." you have been warned.

Klapaucius is the more reserved, wise, and conscientious one.

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>>24643217
But also "Wise Stallman"

My favourite story was the first one. Based Trurl always getting himself into trouble.

>>24646836
Go to the ghetto nigga

>>24645328
Percival Everett wrote books across different genres. They feature black people but the themes are rarely if ever about colonialism or racism. One of his most famous books, Erasure, is actually a criticism about black authors always writing about that crap because it sells

>>24647275
i grew up there, nigga. plenty of abstract thinking from myself and any other black person i knew.

>>24647276
I should write a book called Fuck. Would be better than the rest of the shit in barnes and noble

Chester Himes wrote some great comedic buddy detective novels. It’s like a mix of boondocks and pulp fiction.

>Straighten up!

>Sound off!

>>24647318
Haha, you pro-tranny. Tranny luving barren golem.

>>24646084
>It must be really insulting to a writer (or really any kind of artist) to have someone say you should just hand over your work
Bro he could just finish the books if he didn't want the heat

>>24646745
>not a single farm in sight

What do they eat?

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>>24646946
>That will be all, Grand Maester.

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Wow…just….WOW…HAVE YOU NO HEART???!! HAVE YOU NO COMMON DECENCY??? HES JUST A SWEET OLD MAN CANT YOU SEE HE OWES YOU NOTHING???? CANT YOU JUST LET THE MAN LIVE??? THE AUDICITY TO COMMENT ON HIS MORTALITY LIKE THAT???? WHERES THE RESPECT. WHERES THE HUMANITY?? THEYRE JUST BOOKS GODDAMMIT YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO HARASS GEORGE LIKE THAT, HES NOT YOUR BITCH!!! LET ME GET THIS THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULL YOU CRETIN. YOU. ARE. NOT. ENTITLED. TO. SHIT!!!! IF I WAS GEORGE ID SAY TO HELL WITH THE BOOKS IF THIS IS THE THANKS I GET. I HOPE HE NEVER FINISHES JUST SO YOU CHRONICALLY ONLINE ASSHOLES DONT GET YOUR WAY!!! IM ABSOLUTELY LIVID AT THE BEHAVIOR OF THIS TOXIC FANDOM IM LITERALLY WEEPING RIGHT NOW! MY HEART IS SHATTERING INTO A THOUSAND PEICES FOR POOR GEORGE, I CANT FUCKING TAKE THIS SHIT ANYMORE!!!!! LEAVE GEORGE ALONE YOU FUCKING CHUDS!!!!!!

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Stephen is a weirdo

>>24645084
>Stop doing this if you want people to take you seriously.
Stop doing this if you want people to take you seriously.

>>24645274
this. never read horror lit, never watch horror films.
just don't do it

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>>24644507
That part of the book came as a dream at the very end of a series of unreal happenings and was accompanied by an overbearing sense of dread that they were lost forever. It is a final goodbye to the Losers as we knew them and they knew each other. All the interactions with It were symbolic. Why shouldn't their victory over It be as well?

it's not literature, you fags

>>24644724
I granted he was likely serious. Your response doesn't change anything I've said. Maybe we could consult a more mature version of Camus? Oh yeah, we can't. He died the cool philosopher. He gets the benefit of no changes now.

Philosophy is bad. Camus is particularly bad.

I don't know, I've asked all over and I'm getting no good response to this. But I find it unsatisfactory to just label Camus as a vibes-based philosopher given how much he invoked lucidity and logic in his writings. It must have made sense to him.

>>24645576
Youre right, but the biggest lesson to learn is /lit/ is dumber than you think. You would never get a good answer here, because hopelessly philosophy is closer to religion than we often think, and it is a sad reality. One can rationalize criticism if the "meaning" speaks to them enough.

Theres no logical engagement with Camus.

This >>24644741 answer is the closest thing to "good" youll get.

>>24644741
>The body's judgement is as good as the mind's
why?