Books against advertising as a concept?
>>24717783Im also very interested.
>>24717783Kierkegaard's The Present Age.
>>24717783Wallace, David Foster. "E Unibus Pluram" A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do AgainYou might like itAlso maybe Manufacturing Consent
>>24717783The QuranMaybe Marx as well
>>24717783What's bad about it? We can have most services for free nowadays thanks to it. I don't even have money anyways to buy the things from the ads so it's a winwin for me.
>muh common sense"Common sense is stubborn; it stubbornly believes itself secure in the force of its inertia, believes the non-conscious secure in its primordial gravity and opposition to consciousness; believes matter secure against the difference that light brings into it just in order to reconstruct the difference into a new synthesis at a higher level. In northern climates this stubbornness perhaps requires a longer period of time to be so far conquered that the atomic matter itself has become more diversified, and inertia has first been set in motion on its own ground by a greater variety of their combination and dissolution and next by the multitude of fixed atoms thus generated. Thus the human intellect becomes more and more confused in its own proper doings and knowings, to the point where it makes itself capable of enduring the suspension of this confusion and the opposition itself.""As regards philosophy in its proper and genuine sense, we find put forward without any hesitation, as an entirely sufficient equivalent for the long course of mental discipline – for that profound and fruitful process through which the human spirit attains to knowledge – the direct revelation of the divine and the healthy common sense of mankind, unconcerned with and undisciplined by any other knowledge or by proper philosophical reflection. These are held to be a good substitute for real philosophy, much in the way that chicory is lauded as a substitute for coffee. It is not a very pleasing spectacle to observe uncultivated ignorance and crudity of mind, with neither form nor taste, without the capacity to concentrate its thoughts on an abstract proposition, still less on a connected statement of such propositions, confidently proclaiming itself to be intellectual freedom and toleration, and even the inspiration of genius."
SchopenGod already debunked this guy doe
>>24716613>SchopenGod>God
>>24716539I have never read anything by Hegel but after reading those quotes, which made me laugh out loud several times, I think I like him. I think it has to do with putting him in the proper framework which is that of an eccentric German philosopher in the 1800s. If you treat it as part comedy part philosophy it's a lot more enjoyable.
Hegels writing can be summarized by the acronym TLDR
>>24716539>umm, ackchyually i am really, really, REALLY smart and you are not and neither is common senseif upvotes existed in the 19th century, hegel would have a lot of reddit karma
Sorcery, Wizardry, Witchcraft, Psionics, and General Magic and Powers 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: >>24567943
>>24715989>Okay, so how would you add other abilities to the different elements then?Of the top of my head: Highly proficient benders can turn their bodies on their own elementEarthfags can sense people through the vibrations on the ground, travel through the ground without being crushed by the pressure, create earthquakesWaterfags gain an immense speed boost underwater, can breathe underwater, travel the deep ocean without being crush by the pressureFirefags are immune to extreme temperatures, have thermal vision and can create heat related miragesWindfags don't need to breathe at all, can fly, can modify atmospheric pressure on a small area
>>24717395>Earthfags can travel through the ground without being crushed by the pressure.horrifying
>>24716036>Can you honestly say you can think of any other time a elemental magic system was done even slightly well besides ATLA that wasn't just thinly flavored game mechanics for a more complicated system of rock paper scissors for strengths and weakness?Have you ever heard of the webcomic Aurora? >>24716047>Meaning > matter. So like powerful curses that take time,I'd love to hear more about this concept, just how much time would you think it should take for stuff, and what about things that each element can be used for besides manipulation of the physical element itself? Like, maybe fire magic can enflame emotions?>>24717395Neat ideas! What about elements beyond those four, like Light or Darkness (besides obvious shit like being able to see in the dark for the latter)?>>24717450I'm getting claustrophobia just looking at this! The Hell?
>>24717738>Powerful curses Nta butWaterfags can curse you with: Make you feel as if you were drowning. If you try to swim you will sink immediately. Whenever you try to drink water, the water disappears before touching your mouth.Earthfags curses: Make you feel extremely heavy. If you try to grow plants, seeds never sprout and if you try to touch crops, they whiter in your hands. Sandstorms follow you around.Firefags curses: Make you feel as if you were burning. When you try to start a fire, it will always fail. Stuff around you randomly ignites and burns you.Airfags: Severe shortness of breath. Pleasant aromas turn putrid to you, if you try to travel through air, strong winds will make you aircraft fall or crash.As a bonus idea for lore: The first curse of every bender has a less aggressive version used to train newbies
>>24717908Cool. Like metaphorical elemental curses
Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs)https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg>Previous:>>24703379>Thread Question:Post quotes or highlighted passages from books you've read (so we can admire or make fun of it)
>>24717839I've devoured every bit of Conan and Kane there is. I'll check out this Forgotten Warrior book even if the cover is... concerning.
>>24717889That's not the cover I have, idk where that one was issued. It's got a lot of action and Correia writes it very fluidly. He's not as eloquent as Robert E. Howard but he knows his strengths and keeps the plot moving.
>>24712823>Fucking Likaro!- Bakker, Second Apocalypse
>>24717887Fair. Hopefully Ruocchio's upcoming fantasy series won't have any gay shit and will be an easier recommendation around here.
>>24717887snowflake
Write your suicide note with your best prose.
>>24712349Coming from darkness Saw faint stars flickering Now darkness again
>>24708431good post
>>24707955I have decided to commit suicide because my supply of BBC has been cut-off. I hate you all.Sincerely,-a loyal slave to BBC.
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Have you guys read Paradise Lost?
>>24717815>paradife loft
>>24717815I've read it a dozen time.
>>24717853I often read old fonts such as this in this way. It's kinda comfy somehow. But you can also train yourself to read it as an "s".
>>24717815I had to read part of it in high schoolIt was good. One of these days I might read all of it Not sure what to think of it though. It's like a fanfiction of Genesis, right?
>>24717898Mostly Satan's origin story + the story of Adam and Eve, and I really like how Milton fleshed them out. In book 10 (books 11 and 12 in later editions) he summarizes the rest of the Bible in a rush, and I thought that part was a slog.
Notable Authors: H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti, Robert Aickman, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood, Shirley Jackson, Richard Matheson, Stephen King, William Peter Blatty, Robert Bloch, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Edogawa Rampo, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, M.R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu, Brian Evenson, William Hope Hodgson, Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long, Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin R Kiernan, Laird Barron, Jack Ketchum, Stefan Grabinski, Peter Straub, and many many moreDiscuss your favorite horror tales in both short and long form. What have you read lately? What do you want to read? What's a work of horror fiction or an author who you want to recommend?
>>24717321Wicker Man created this genre
>>24717243Stephen king’s number one good boy over here
Which one do I read next? The ones marked in red I've read. I'm thinking of Pickman's Model.
>>24717886Ibid
So I just finished The White People. Overall I liked it but it was definitely very obtuse and mystical. Did Machen really deliberately include obscure esoteric references in the story? I feel like there's a connection with the spiritualism that was popular in the in 19th century. Are there direct allusions to alchemy and other magickal sciences that even the more-than-average reader wouldn't understand? And further, this makes me wonder about what kind of person Machen was. Was he in the Golden Dawn by any chance? >>24717891Thanks bro I think I'll do that.
My dad bought pic related for my birthday when I was seven and I've been passionate about history ever since, and reading ancient Greek historians got me into Greek literature and philosophy.
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These books turned me into an orientalist/slavophile
Torch EditionStubbed >>24709839>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'.>Advice for Noobs!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Don't use adverbs or adjectives. Only use precise nouns and verbs.
>>24717900he said calmly
>>24717900he proclaimed with authority and conviction
>synopsis apes the style of ye olde classics>injected with a list of memes and buzzwords to sell the storythere's such a thing as mixed communication, and this is it.
>>24717900I sometimes inject the most egregious adverb I can think of where it's not even needed just out of spite, the author contemplated retrospectively.
This is Schopenhauer's influence just on the surface:>Those who have cited his influence include philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche[26] and Ludwig Wittgenstein,[27] scientists such as Erwin Schrödinger and Albert Einstein,[28] psychoanalysts such as Sigmund Freud[29] and Carl Jung, writers such as Leo Tolstoy,[30] Herman Melville,[31] Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse,[32] Machado de Assis,[33] Jorge Luis Borges, Marcel Proust,[34] and Samuel Beckett[35] as well as composers such as Richard Wagner,[34] Johannes Brahms,[34] Arnold Schoenberg[34][36] and Gustav Mahler.[34]>InfluencedAnjos, Assis, Bahnsen, Beckett, Bergson, Borges, Brahms, Brouwer, Campbell, Einstein[9], Fet, Cioran, Dilthey[10], Freud, Gray[11], Hardy, Hartmann, Hesse, Horkheimer, Huysmans, Jung, Reve, Kraus[12], Ludovici[13], Ligotti, Mahler, Mainländer, Majorana[14], Mann, Maupassant, Michelstaedter, Nietzsche, Proust, Rank, Reve, Rilke, Ryle[15], Santayana, Schlick[16], Shaw, Schoenberg, Schrödinger, Solovyov, Spengler, Tolstoy[17], Vaihinge,r Volkelt, Wagner, Weininger, Wittgenstein, Zapffe, Zola.
>>24716366I'd imagine it exists outside of human consciousness, if we're going by a realist interpretation of Schopenhauer's doctrine
>>24717616Like I get why Jews are hated but whats the point of being obsessed like this?
>>24716318Schopenhauer is also a transcendental metaphysician though
>>24717627That's true. Pseuds I should say
>>24715938See >>24717867
Have you ever read a book that was simply too hard for you? I remember reading The Killer Angels when I was in elementary school and it being just a bit over my head. I think having trouble with that book is part of the reason I never developed an interest in the Civil War.
>>24717568>>24717575>>24717637>>24717643>>24717659Have any of you lads ever read a book that was simply too hard for you?
>>24717675it was a bad idea to start a thread with charlie kirk if you didn't want people discussing charlie kirkblood meridian
>>24717545I'm ESL and I tried Ulysses in English this summer. Had to drop it at Aeolus
>>24717545Simulacra And Simulation by Jean Baudrillard literally made me feel like a fucking retard trying to read it
>>24717568Holy fuck rightoids are same as SJWs. These are same people who celebrate when trannies commit suicide and cheered Derek Chauvin. I remember all of the memes when Christchurch shooting happened.
Is there anything inherently wrong with vividly describing natural bodily functions other than that they might offend the puritanical sensibilities of some readers?
>>24717821You like girls pooping don't you squidward.
>>24717821Provide context and an example.
>>24717821No
What do we think of "La Comédie humaine"?As a social retard, I need to learn. I got no empathy but I'm too much of a retard to be a machiavellian dude
>>24717226Of course nobody does, but I'm pretty sure lots of people in here read at least part of La Vie Parisienne.I enjoyed Illusions Perdues, as sad as it is.
>>24717230I have only finished Eugenie Grandet and Pere Goriot myself. Both works are greats in their own right, but I feel inclined to prefer the former. I specially like his reflective tone on changing social structures. It makes one think about how much this world has changed since the 18th-19th century bourgeoisie paradigm shift
I've only read Goriot and I only really like Rastignac's med school buddy and the Fag Prison King. Was a good novel.
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>>24717131Haven't read much out of it but from what little I did read I concluded that it is like reading Buffon's natural historyYou will gain very little if you read it to learn, as information about common animals is all stuff you already would know and there are better texts about them out there anyway, while what is written about exotic animals is laughably inaccurateStill it is super fun to read about his description a crocodile, especially accompanied by illustrations, as it ends up being zany and weird and novel in a way, you just have to get past the chapter on the household cat firstLikewise everything surrounding Vatrin is a joy to read even though he more often than not seems closer to a weird fantastical reptilian creature than an actual realistic human, while it will be much less fun to read about Goirot and the tired archetype of the vexed father sacrificing everything for his ungrateful spawn. Just read King lear instead if you are interested in that
Hey /lit/ i wanted to know what your favourite book is because I'm curiousMy favourite book is Alice in wonderland and Alice in wonderland through the looking glass
>>24717857Nta, but those books are insanely creative and fun
>>24717857i think because it was just super wonky and nothing made sense to her and everything she did didnt make sense to anything else both the books are complete nonsense in such a percurlier way up is down left is right
Why did he hate manlets? THE MANLETby: Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)N stature the Manlet was dwarfish–No burly, big Blunderbore he;And he wearily gazed on the crawfishHis Wifelet had dressed for his tea."Now reach me, sweet Atom, my gunlet,And hurl the old shoelet for luck;Let me hie to the bank of the runlet,And shoot thee a Duck!"...
>>24717857Never read them but I like cute little girls and tried to play as little girls in video games; something about the smallness of girls made everything more terrifying. Actions I consider inconsequential become calculated risks for girls at least where I live. Perhaps my perverse thoughts impose fear upon them but seeing a cute girl with her parents always brings a sense of calm to me. Imaging the deciet and ill intentions others would do unto little girls is horrifying.
>>24717877great now im fucked up for life thank you for leaving your favourite fucking book
Post your own work and critique others.
>>24716407This is dogshit. Fucking embarrassing drivel.
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Etsy witches really killed Charlie Kirklmao lol jkBut maybe not, you do your own research.
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