What the FUCK was Stephen King thinking?
>>24950716>Why don't women ever run a train on a man?that would be cool.
>>24951353fuck off, pseud.this is just another "king bad" thread.we get these daily, *all* SK should be in ONE continent thread to limit the sprawl.
>>24951367>"sex can exist without horror, but horror usually not without sex">[calls person making fun of him for that a pseud]Projection.
>>24951345>not really.Yeah I came the first time I read Ben Drowned
>>24951304I've had a 3 some with two girls but they expected me to do all the work, fucking both while they just made out on the bed, I want 5 girls who fuck me with fury while I just lay back, like IT a real fucking train.
Good night frens.Tell me your:>favorite poet>favorite playwright>favorite composerSo I have some new comfy suggestions.
YeatsPinterBeethoven
>>24949741>Oh no! familiarity with high culture, canon literacy, and taste that isn't purely ironic, meme-based or pop-referential. On a literature board, of all places. Clearly everyone here is just trying to seem smart. Better devalue it quickly so I don't have to participate or feel inadequate.How does it feel to be a gargantuan, insecure faggot?
>>24947744Have you checked out Berwald or Stenhammar, they are severely underrated and my favorite Swedish composers, check out Berwald's Third Symphony especially if you haven't (the other symphonies are comparable in quality too all incredible)
>>24940941Spenser (if including novelists Dostoevsky) ShakespeareWagner/Debussy
>>24949741>pretentious pseudPot, meet kettle.
Desperately reconcile with your irredeemable faith, sheep.
>>24951164>And if you say it isn't we will kill youYou forgot to post the gigachad bro
>>24951166I'm sorry i don't live in the land of illegal sporks and butterknives so i dont know any arabs
>>24951446Prove it
I was once in love with a girl who liked this guy.Probably should have realised sooner it was never going to work out lmao.
>>24951527She couldn't bring herself to believe in you
sansa editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>24922194
>>24950986How does one find themselves a sexy spaniard seductress?
>>24950729I think they deleted it, fuck
THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE MINIONS OF FEVRE RIVER
100 threads of /grrm/? Here’s a little blast from the past from the /tv/got/ days.>https://vocaroo.com/1oAadeMoX4Wn
>>24951523neat
>If there is a danger, it lies in the Negro music and dancing that has been imported into Europe. This music has completely won over a whole section of the cultured population of Europe, to the point of real fanaticism. It is inconceivable that the incessant repetition of the Negroes’ physical gestures as they dance around their fetishes or that the constant sound of the syncopated rhythm of jazz bands should have no ideological effects.Was unc spittin fax here?
>>24950751This is retarded. The inclusion of strong and persistent rhythm doesn’t eliminate the capacity for melody and longer forms. Listen to the Black Saint for an example
>>24951168A small handful of rappers from the 90‘s genuinely lived the image you‘re projecting, as could be said for a handful of artists from any genre. The fact that this doesn‘t pertain to the vitality of the music nonwithstanding. Any rap you hear published today is either a media creation or some kid with a Soundcloud.
>>24951229This is just Middle Eastern music, brought to Southern Italy and Iberian Peninsula by Arabs.
>>24950883Rhythmaxxing is the intellectual's choice.Most people simply do not have the brain power to hold two basic rhythms in their head, let alone multiple complex layered rhythms with changing signatures and patterns.
>No, kill the beautiful instead. The horrifying ugly monsters must destroy the beautiful
Which books should i read to develop a bronze age mindset?Not BAPfag btw, i just really like the bronze age. The epitome of masculinity.Could be fiction or non fiction, dont care.
>>24951444Tl;dr commie faggot
>>24951490Bro is struggling against an unstoppable force (progress) lmaoooCommunism may have never worked, but name one time resisting progress ever worked LOL
>>24951497WW2 was an effective halt on progress
>>24951490uh oh meltie
>>24951431On the contrary you shouldn't read ANY books whatsoever, just become a brute
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?
>>24947749>>24947747>>24947549>>24947522Quit samefagging you ugly chink and get off my board.
>>24947749>implying this will helpChinese isn't like speaking American.Average Chinese Story:>general xi looked at lao tsing "we musn't mistake the trees for soldiers, every remembers what the duke of wu says on tuesday">Lao tsing nodded "of course, when traveling on a donkey, look to past red mountain thrice".>Pei Mei interjected "when eating in wu, toast the scholars at wei". all present nodded in agreementEvery other sentence is a reference or idiom drawing on some other story or historical example. You can't understand Chinese /lit/ unless you know Chinese /lit/, or want to constantly be on a wiki like you're playing a turbo-wizard MMOJRPG. Might as well just read the translation as about as much will be lost for a non-native who can't possibly understand all the context.
>>24951501that's what I was implying
>>24947522OP, Journey to the West is a really long multi-volume work--how long did it take you to finish reading it?
>>24947522>>24947530Read Fortress Besieged. That is all
Would anyone be interested in participating? Seems like a nice alternative to Wikipedia reading
>>24951220>post cover in OP>summarize topic using chapter headings>ask some questions at the endDo this and people will participate in your thread.
>>24951220I listen to it in audio version. Can't recommend picrel enough to Americans.
>>24951332Audio can cripple many of these. For such thin volumes they can have a ton of illustrations and graphs. They are not described in audio. Really depends on the content.
>>24951220These short introduction books are awful. Even as introductions they fail. Wikipedia is better, and wikipedia is a festering pile of shit and falsehoods.
>>24951470It is just supplementary materials. Read real textbooks, listen to VSI and all will be ok.
>Pessimist that actually killed himselfOther examples?
>>24950762Michelstaedter
>>24951298Is this a song?
>>24950762>Other examples?anyone who's killed themselves throughout all of human history
>>24951453this dude has a way more defined chin than me..
>>24950762Wasn't there a philosopher who was also a convicted rapist?
I've noticed that a lot of sophist philosophizing is based around this concept of "nonexistence". But it seems obvious that "nonexistence" just isn't a real thing right?How can something exist that by its own definition does not exist? It's just a nonsense idea made up of circular reasoning. There cannot exist a thing that doesn't exist. Everything that exists exists and there is nothing else. Existence by definition is an all encompassing concept. You can't logically accept that things exist and then turn around and say there are things that don't.And logically the concept of nonexistence is already nonsensical but if you believe in determinism the idea really just gets defeated many times over.
>>24951290>is just you casting a net over two different detailsThat's how words work. Reality is never contained in them.
>>24950487Does a magical unicorn inside the sun exist?
>>24951442It does. You just mentioned it, goofy.
>>24950487Nonexistence exists as a metaphysical form. All the things that don't exist are that way because they conform to the form of nonexistence.
>>24950487>How can something exist that by its own definition does not exist?There are pretty much no things that by their own definition don't exist. If we want to be nitpicky, let's go all the way.
>can't win over blacks>can't win over poorfags>outright enemies of blue collar workers>not taken seriously/ seen as useful idiots by their intellectually inferior middle class liberal pragmatic allies >can't/won't win over the armed forces>can't/won't win over the intelligence agencies>can't/won't win over the politicians>decent success rate with middle class children (dropped by junior yr), academics, homosexuals and trannys.Is there a book which explains how this leads to revolutionary success or should i just see all the le-science-of-hisory 2-more-weeksism from the past 200 years?
>>24950477>Is there a book which explains how this leads to revolutionary success or should i just see all the le-science-of-hisory 2-more-weeksism from the past 200 years?these ones, though i feel like most active communists would argue a crisis that could've causes revolution a hundred years ago would just cause further consolidation now. ironically there's not enough competition.
>>24950906How does Lenin get away with writing such banger books? I guess future communism will simply be the third world struggling for power until the struggle finally goes global
>>24951342You all took this as an excuse to debate communism as a theory.I'm asking about the practical marketing strategy as a movement, which no longer seems designed no to pick up the teaming masses of have-nots and win via numbers.Instead, it is catered to picking up the members of the various protected classes (truly protected , not just "we're with you!") in society and stringing them into a loose situational financially/numerically inferior alliance with no prospect of victory democratically/militarily.
Marxism has become too intertwined with third worldism and African terrorists to be appealing to the average white man.
>>24950477In places where communism is tied to some kind of ethnic or national identity, (Russia, postcolonial nations) chuds love it and libtards hate it. Honestly that just disproves communism even more, showing that tribe is far more important to people than class.
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?
>>24951009>Men still in the current age are facing trouble getting custody for their child.>Men stillYour phrasing makes it seem like you mistakenly believe that it was "harder" for men to get custody in the past. Pre-1900 that would have been entirely unheard of. Women have more rights and legal privileges now than they ever have.
>>24951189trvth nvke
>>24951006I'm madly in love with my Japanese girl gamer wife. We cuddle every single day and the sex is great. Sometimes she just walks around the house saying my name to herself like it's a spell that makes her happy. It could all come crashing down one day, but if that ever happens I'll just pick up a high school girl at a train station and marry her.
>>24951006>So the question now is, how – if anyhow – should a man of intelligence pursue women?You ask women you’re attracted to on a date, if they say no then that’s fine you move on to the next. You get used to the idea that not everything is meant to last. You look for a woman who genuinely interests you and you don’t settle for lesss than you want. Most men problem is they settle or put up with nonsense. You can control your own fate but you can’t be a pussy about it. There’s no simping here because you aren’t afraid to lose anything and just move on if it ain’t right. Marriages always end too late, those motherfuckers knew earlier it wasn’t right but stuck around anyways because of societal expectations or whatever. Just dump your retarded gf it’s not rocket science.
>>24951131Personally I think i should be able to empty my balls into any woman I want.
Should I reread this series as an adult?
>>24951452>Is it typical sequel slop?Pretty much. It adds a bunch of new POV's and protagonists. Percy isn't even in the first book. It also starts to break the "lore" if you care about that sort of thing. It's also when Rick Riordan started to become libtarded.
>>24951452>>24951459(me)I should add that it's no coincidence that the book that focuses the most on Percy and Annabeth, House of Hades, is the best one in the sequel series.
>>24951382I'm not going to tell you not to and it might be that that's the itch you need to scratch, but as far as YA goes it's pretty much "passable". Not something to truly cringe at at, but also aimed squarely at boys aged 13 +/- 2 years and with the dubious literary worth that that implies.For my money, the YA series that have held up the best to me are>His Dark Materials>Mortal Engines quartet>Bartimaeus trilogy>A Series of Unfortunate EventsSo yeah, if you want to indulge in YA I'd recommend one of those instead.
>>24951382I think the prose is more the slog than anything. It's pretty fun reading the core case level up over time. Even passing knowledge makes the greek monster reveals a chore to get through. I would not reread it without double fisting with an actual Greek mythos book.>>24951461Ain't that the one that turned Nico gay for Percy?
>>24951487>Ain't that the one that turned Nico gay for Percy?I don't remember. It's possible. I just remember Percy and Annabeth being in hell for most of the novel being awesome.
Mention here literature according to /lit/ suitable to matriculate as a real /x/-ian. Or if /x/ was /lit/ cohorts first.
>>24947922>much lower castes that constitute the activity on that boardIt's funny when newfags roleplay, looking at /x/ the same way some redditfag looks at 4chan (an unholy bastion of no civility), when /x/ is one of the few genuine places of discussion left over on the entire website. No shitposting on any other board is somehow MAGICALLY (get it, retard? an /x/ joke!) worse or different than whatever goes on /x/.
>>24948892You're right anon, I may have been 'newfagging' with regards that board.
>>24946516*Repudiates your atheist claims to process divine knowledge*>>For, if they profess to know how to bring down the moon, darken the sun, induce storms and fine weather, and rains and droughts, and make the sea and land unproductive, and so forth, whether they arrogate this power as being derived from mysteries or any other knowledge or consideration, they appear to me to practice impiety, and either to fancy that there are no gods, or, if there are, that they have no ability to ward off any of the greatest evils. How, then, are they not enemies to the gods? For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or fine weather, I should not believe that there was anything divine, but human, in these things, provided the power of the divine were overpowered by human knowledge and subjected to it. But perhaps it will be said, these things are not so, but, not withstanding, men being in want of the means of life, invent many and various things, and devise many contrivances for all other things, and for this disease, in every phase of the disease, assigning the cause to a god. Nor do they remember the same things once, but frequently.
My diary, desu.
>>24946516There's a youtube channel called Interesting Books Reviewed that will have better recs than this thread
Apologize.
>>24951106no, i will continue posting anonymus so you will be forced to come across my commentson the other hand, you still havend said anything of substance, could it be that you are a beatnik and are offended at every critiscm hurled at them
On the Road really reveals two different types of people: Those who finish the book, take the ending as especially important, and are disillusioned. The others take the bulk of the book and are electrified by its energy, wit and exuberance. Me, I'm the latter.
>>24951127tldr
>>24950600To his credit Kerouac was a Republican chud who hated his fans and most of the other Beat writers too
>>24950358he gets boiled down to the adventure roadtrip guy but he was in a mission in search of God. i get it. modernity is gay and stifling. agree with the other comment saying he was teeming with soul. love the starry-eyed christianism. it's romantic and intoxicating.>burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop>>24950634>After reading a bit mor of burroughs i realized hes a bit of a one-trick ponyhappened to me too, anon. he's still great tho.
