What books should I read in public to attract women?
>>24953802I've been reciting the Aeniad this week. It's Fagles, but I've found a dithyrambic rhythm that works for long stretches. It's almost trancelike
>>24953269that's true btw
>>24953868>matchedSo you never met her then since you left it at "matched"
>>24955746Would you go farther with such a girl anon?
>>24953267I'd like to blow a disgusting gifilte-fish-tasting spermwad down her evil throat and watch her swallow
What's your reading plans for 2026?Suggest a book to read in 2026 collectively. I'll add dubs (Jan to Sep, 11 to 99) and trips (Oct to Dec, 111 to 333) to the chart.
>>24953960I want to read the Golden Ass too. Rolling
Paterson by William Carlos Williams
Ni d'Ève ni d'Adam by Amélie Nothomb
Fuck it, Septology by Jon Fosse
Zadie Smith - On Beauty
Could you beat Nabokov at chess?
>>24953109No it doesn’t
i can barely even solve the captchas dog
>>24953669>his dick doesn't come with a sleeveI'd hate to be circumcised
>>24952699Back then only weirdos and psychos shaved their heads.
>>24953663I lol’d out loud.
What does /lit/ think of Hawthorne? Most Americans have either never heard of him or hate him because they were assigned 'The Scarlet Letter' in high school and Amerikkka is an insane asylum, and its public schools are like a suicide ward. But Poe said that "we look upon [Hawthorne] as one of the few men of indisputable genius to whom our country has as yet given birth." And America's second greatest writer, Melville, was deeply respectful of Hawthorne. What does /lit/ say? Is he a great writer, or just great for an American?
>>24955515>completely outclassed by Melvillei don't see how you can say that if you've actually read house of seven gables, so i'm forced to assume you're lying
Has anyone here read The Marble Faun?It's the only Hawthorne book I haven't read beside his his children's stories and also his travel writings which are very obscure and out of print.>>24954702Agreed on the allegory and modern feel of many of his stories. His fiction at its strangest, most perceptive, and flattest is written from the perspective of a distant observer of humanity rather than a participant in it. But he also has some truly wonderful and cozy fantastical stories, pure fireside, hot cocoa kino.>>24955542I've heard this complaint attributed to the fact that American culture and society is young and self-created, so it does not have centuries of slow development in its literary culture and language. In the American situation, you can have great writers but not a literary culture of reviewers, critics, and publishers fit to recognize them.
Young Goodman Brown is kino
>>24955673I thought Poe didn't become popular until after his death?
>>24955679You can call me a filtered plotfag if you like. Having good prose isn't enough to make me develop an interest in the characters or events.
Kill The Slopper EditionStubbed >>24949498>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.
>>24955666It's some deep lore because searching it doesn't say anything besides someone leaking peterson google docs files or some shit like 6 years agogoogle docs is fine, don't be schizo
>>24955682Actual schizo here. Not your computer, not your data. Cloud is by definition not your computer. Nothing you store "in the cloud" is actually secure: the file WILL leak where it's not supposed to. ALWAYS.If you encrypt your file before uploading that CAN be okay but there are metadata issues and then if the key leaks somehow you're fucked. Better to store locally.JUST USE LOCAL SOFTWARE.Word, notepad, kwrite, librewriter, obsidian, scrivener, there's tons of writing software that can meet your needs. Thumbdrives are cheap, tiny, and easy to fully encrypt. There's backup software that runs automatically and easily.It's literally impossible to be too paranoid about software and data security. Airgap isn't even "secure enough."That said to keep it on topic I emailed the ending to my stories to two family members and in the event of my untimely death I asked that the upload everything so readers aren't left hanging. Yeah, the story might leak, but it's a risk I considered and decided to take.
>>24955714>emailed>not put into a bank security box only to opened upon your death
>>24955473I think that, unfortunately, resistors for all their faults are actually willing to consume and buy things. Whereas the average 4chan and Xitter user would rather eat shit than spend money on a product
>>24955243Read Er Gens books
"Chanukah" editionPrevious: >>24940898/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)Simple guides on writing:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24953740>>24955153I rewrote my air war excerpt. I kept everyone's criticisms in mind, especially the above anon with the most thorough critique.>>24955333Thanks for the rec tripsbro, I'll check it out.
>>24955387i recommend you read robert olen butler's book
>>24955655Why would you post on a forum?
>>24955670Not the anon who previously provided his original critique you're looking for, but I just wanted to say that I like your style. It reads very poetic and rhythmic, sort of like a nursery rhyme. I don't know if that's intentionally, given that you're writing a steampunk story (set in the Victorian era or a pastiche of that?), but it works, imo. You may want to refine some of your noun choices, however. "Bloodstream streams" feels too repetitive.
Most recent excerpt from a cyberpunk detective story I'm working on. Please excuse the markdown syntax, it's just the word processor I use.
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.
>>24952710You are confusing lying with being wrong.
>>24950487I would go so far as to say that non-existence has never existed. It's logically impossible, because if existence is to exist, it can never have not existed. Because how could existence have come into existence? Only by something that exists, hence existence must exist for it to exist.
>>24955107I actually don't. Both are based.
>>24950487Read "Genealogy of Nihilism" by Conor Cunningham. It's a tour de force of all the major times in the western philosophical tradition where the core philosophical problem was treating Nothing as if it were Something.
>>24955642So... all of Western philosophy beyond a small selection of fragments from antiquity?
Apologize.
Love Kerouac.>>24951681Based.
>>24951681Read Big Sur, The Town and The City, and Lonesome Traveler.
>>24951133The ending is especially important but why would one be disillusioned by it?
>>24953946Kerouac himself was disillusioned by the prior events of the book, and by Dean especially. He figures it was all for naught.
>>24954102NTA, but pretty much sums up his feelings about his entire life desu.
This book changed my life for the better
>>24947484fpbp>>24948860>foids don't have soulsso it seems.so it seems.>>24949318>>24949327women dont even know if they were raped
>>24954253I'm gonna rape you.
>>24955660>fpbpyou have no clue what that means
>>24950713>>plenty of them are pretty honestIf they are being honest then they simply don't know what they want.
>>24955647So you admit I’m a woman, good.
What the FUCK was Stephen King thinking?
>>24950571True but women got married ~14 (Canon Law confirms this is OK)
>>24950571Fucking your wife is not, thoughbeit
>>24953406>>24953755That's just one example, but it can really be anything. The point is if you feel both girls are there just to lay there and do nothing while you fuck both of them, change that arrangement. If you want to make one of them do something else it can be as simple as separating them. You want the pillow princess to stop laying on the bed and doing nothing, pull her partner off the bed and fuck her standing up. If pillow princess wants to keep having fun, she has to stand up and actually do something.
>>24950724you could say this about any book, the thing is he writes a lot and sells, money is everything and (((critics))) make sure to praise him so people keep buying and retarded fanboys defend whatever shit he writes, but at least stephen knows this.
>>24935192why are you libtards like this?
How do I get into James Joyce if I'm not Irish and I got filtered by Finnegans Wake?
>>24952613Fuck all that shit. Just read Joyce's works in chronological order.
>>24952693Why would he need to read the Iliad, you pillock?
>>24952613>KJV>JoyceHe was Catholic
>>24953157>Pound saw the genius of FW.Errrrr what?>Nothing so far as I make out, nothing short of divine vision or a new cure for the clap can possibly be worth all the circumambient peripherization.
>>24952808all of joyce's ancestors had names like o'grady and murphy and they were catholic through and through. he was as irish as you could get.
Are similar, on the one hand, analytical error or synthesis and on the other, the error between the conclusions of a pair of reasonings that contain equivocity, or especially, that contain a false univocity. The fragmentation of reality into several particular “possible worlds” linked to each other from the outside, under the pretense of universality, is like starting from a whole and its parts, then enlarging the whole to contain itself when a part exceeds it, whereas the whole disintegrates at every moment when it is no longer itself. Aesthetically, what is lost is everything that is not the represented formalization. Ethically, it is aesthetics and in metaphysics, everything is lost.Possessing an absolute Spirit would allow analytical truth. But for us, the seduction of the analytic will remain similar to that of the religious, the latter still being the more desirable. — Even if one admits mathematics a priori, concepts need a posteriori object in order to be true - objects that are contingent to the point of being absolutely fortuitous - for is indeterminate what is possible false. Analytics have lost on their own ground.
bump
Sounds like skill issue
>>24954265Yes, anyone who has studied the Greeks and the idealists can see through the analytics like they’re made of glass. You hit the nail on the head in the second paragraph. External reflection. Some of them proudly align themselves with Protagoras. Like the animulculae in Lucretius it makes you laugh until you weep. It’s not an academic game either, the content of this mode of philosophizing is the world we live in, what Fichte called sarcastically the age of common sense.
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
You ever notice how much rarer it is for female SIs to have kids than male SIs?
>>24951633Most fanfic writers are women and most men don't read at all
>>24951633>Why is asoiaf discourse so gynocentricis it?
>>24955234>SIsSergeant Instructors? Small Intestines?
Aryans and baraths lol haha
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
>>24955475How now, anon?
NEW DANIELLEs JUST DROPPED
>>24955665
>>24955667Does she just sit around taking selfies all day
>>24955708bro...she's a dainty woman...
What's a good book to start with Jung? I'm already familiar with psychoanalysis.I am mainly interested in dream analysis and archetypes, but I have researched and found that Man and His Symbols was not written by him personally, but by his assistants, and is actually a simple introduction.
convince me that this isn't all just made the fuck up
>>24953541i kek'd
>>24953463is there no point in continuing with the collected works after this since this looks like everything of jung?
>>24953539>That's what I did and it gave me the impression he was just a charlatan making shit up (but hey, that's psychology after all)That's what he was, he just read some Eastern philosophy and religion shit, because it was popular at the time, and incorporated it into his Western esoterica sex cult shit. That's his only good book really.
Ok so what Jung do I need? There's 20GB, do I need everything or is there a good collected works or something? I don't know why this guy has 20GB it's way too much.
