If you want a long, detailed fantasy series that has tons of lore, monsters, magic, gods and whatnot, you can't beat this. The heroes feel virtuous and the villains make you hate them. 10/10 fantasy series here and there's thirty-two books to delve
>>24712187there was a decent adventure (illustrated and text) adaptation. Legend Entertainment. They did a "Gateway" too arguably better than the book.I know, I know, >>>/vr/.
>>24717365The Spine of the World was the Wulfgar novel, and Servant of the Shard was the Artemis novel.Later he continued the Artemis series and called it the Sellsword Trilogy. But that was years and several Drizzt books after Servant came out. I exclusively read in order published because anything but the order the author developed the story in is bullshit.So next up for me is Sea of Swords. Gonna start that one as soon as I finish up the Dark Sun Prism Pentad. It really made me appreciate Drizzt, reading shit like these Dark Sun novels, or even worse that Dragonlance crap. I read Dragons of Autumn Twilight and it was so incredibly bad. Rastlin was alright.
>>24717785>>24717812Continued, Yes Im familiar with Assassins Apprentice. It is top tier fantasy. Drizzt is like candy, or maybe fantastic taco bell. Prism Pentad is like McDonalds that hits the spot. Dragons of Autumn Twilight was like some rancid ass Wendys.Assassins Apprentice is a fine pumpkin soup in a bread bowl on a snowy day. It is real food.I just finished all 16 volumes. I read one of the final ones on a plane and the dude next to me probably thought I was going through a breakup I was tearing up so much. To me theres a Big Five in fantasy:1. Tolkein2. Song of Ice and Fire3. Second Apocalypse 4. Realm of the Elderlings (Assassins Apprentice)5. BerserkIve yet to experience anything fantasy to really compare with these.
>>24717812>even worse that Dragonlance crap>Rastlin was alrightI remember reading Dragonlance novels growing up because they were available to me but I had to read a lot of slop to find a little value. I could see revisiting it for nostalgia's sake. Which volumes would you recommend for the highest quality Raistlin bits?
>>24717999Legends
Is use of the word "I" egoistic or selfish? This criticism is prevalent. Yet the word I constricts a statement to the singular, rather than asserting a universal authority.In this sense, it is actually more humble, or so I think.Are there other reasons the word "i" is less desirable or proper to use?
Is there a book on getting out of masturbation addiction?
the easy peasy hackbook
>>24713838i haven't fapped in like a week but only because walking around horny af is like an all day goon sesh
I tried following a masturbation avoidance guide, but it was too hard!
>>24713856what if i do?
>>24713856>do you masturbate in public
>Pertinently to this they say that Midas, after hunting, asked his captive Silenus somewhat urgently, what was the most desirable thing among humankind. At first he could offer no response, and was obstinately silent. At length, when Midas would not stop plaguing him, he erupted with these words, though very unwillingly: ‘you, seed of an evil genius and precarious offspring of hard fortune, whose life is but for a day, why do you compel me to tell you those things of which it is better you should remain ignorant? For he lives with the least worry who knows not his misfortune; but for humans, the best for them is not to be born at all, not to partake of nature’s excellence; not to be is best, for both sexes. This should our choice, if choice we have; and the next to this is, when we are born, to die as soon as we can.’ It is plain therefore, that he declared the condition of the dead to be better than that of the living.
>it's better for a being that exists to never existNonsense statement.
> Much worse is he who says that it were good not to be born, but when once one is born to pass with all speed through the gates of Hades. For if he truly believes this, why does he not depart from life? It were easy for him to do so, if once he were firmly convinced. If he speaks only in mockery, his words are foolishness, for those who hear believe him not.
Please help me ascend to pure hyperreal shizo enlightenment. I must lose my mind.My interests are twofold:SIGNALS. The utter, endless inundation of images and signals from social media makes my mind lurch and reel. An example is with Charlie Kirk's death today, it's like kicking a hornets nest. A man's death, his sacrifice on the alter of social media summons a frenzy of signals and ideologies, a cacophony of hatred and vitriol. The words, the content no longer matter, it's just injecting emotions into others. (not saying he wasn't a part of it but that's not the point. The phenomena is what I'm after).LANGUAGE. The penultimate artifice. Do you ever notice in your speech or in your thoughts how words you use have utterly locked you into your worldview until the moment you noticed them? Words inform how I process and categorize phenomena, and this feels more and more evil to me. I want out of language.Books or authors I've read or am in the process of reading so far that at least touch on these themes include the following, but I need more:-1984-The Medium and the Light - Marshal McLuhan-Simulacra and Simulation - Jean Baudrillard-Industrial Society and Its Future - Ted Kaczynski-The Technological Society - Jacques Ellul-Nietzsche-Jung-Mediations on the Tarot - Valentin Tomberg
Illuminatus! And ego death medidation.
>>24714794>>24716229Take the RAW pill and read Prometheus Rising and Cosmic Trigger while on weed and acid. Then you are ready to read P.D. Ouspensky's In Search Of the Miraculous and Itzhak Bentov's Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness. After that you see through the matrix.
>>24715245>>24714840/thread
>>24714794Curious, why do you want to ascend to pure hyperreal schizo enlightenment?
>>24714794YWNBMI (you will never be mentally ill)
Thread for discussing the works of Lewis Carroll, his photography, his stories, his novels, and his obsession with children.
>>24717980>'When I use a word,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'it means just what I choose it to mean neither more nor less .... The question is .... which is to be master—that's all.'What word is the master of them all? Was Humpty Dumpty speaking of a symbolic order,of the Big Other?
Our time has come, schoppybros./lit/ is now a full Schopenhauer board. Only today I read a bunch of schoppy threads. Great!
>>24717764>>24717810Guys I cant tell who or what youre responding to or criticizing. As an open minded anon who is a fan of Schopenhauer based on reading of his essays, the linked post was my post, trying to wrestle with the criticism of the post I was replying to criticizing Schopenhauer's understanding of Kant (which I dont even think in principle is necessarily ridiculous, but the anon contexualizing and reminding how Kant is a response to Hume and that not incorporating certain tenets of Kant leaves you open to the criticisms Hume posited that Kant was trying to escape from)So what are you guys responding to specifically?
>>24717837>Schopenhauer based on reading of his essays, Read "On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason" and then his main work until then you haven't read.
>>24717838Im currently reading something else I just browse these threads and this board to learn new concepts through osmosis to develop interest to read in the future in the first place. This was the first Schopenhauer criticism that made sense to me. I just want to know if it can even be addressed or if Schopenhauer even dodges the problem of Hume or if the criticism is apt
>>24717630I'm reading a book on Idealism, and the authors mention that F. H. Bradley's philosophy of the Absolute, despite its name, actually is much closer to Schopenhauer's Will than the other Idealists' Absolutes. I don't know if it's an influence, but it's interesting, nonetheless.
>>24717817>muh schope wonWon what?>m-muh schope said I don't gotta say nuthin So you'll never perform?>m-m-muh yeahSo you didn't win so much as never started?>hey man like I jus like magic n shaheeet m-muh retVrn Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
How many books have you read so far this year?
I don't know how I would find out when I finished and begun each book
Intensely ESL thread.
Lost count at 30, also there are a few textbooks/reference books where I read large sections but didn't technically "read" from cover to cover
not bad but not as many as the last couple of years at this point
>>24717469>more books read means I'm smarter of course.Only if they're quan millz books, otherwise they don't really count
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)
>>24717887snowflake
What's with the zoomer slang? Clankers? Really? This is supposed to be serious.
>>24717971> zoomeroh rly??https://sfdictionary.com/view/3048/clanker
>>24717926 Ok Shlomo.
>>24717906correct me if im wrong, but didnt he suddenly become religious when writing the 2nd book?
>spend a lifetime enriching my mind through classic literature>cultivate an extensive and rich vocabulary>when speaking to others they don't understand what I say and think I'm a tryhard fedora-tipperHow has reading negatively impacted your life?
>>24707269>read most of the /lit/ top 100 before I finish highschoolChildren shouldn't be allowed on this site.
>>24707404>What impression does that give off?You care too much about what other people think. Fix that.
>>24706259If intellectualism were encouraged and nurtured by tptb that wouldn't be an issue. They want you to feel alienated and isolated>>24709265>so retarded you just want to live your life normally socializing with peers instead of having to constantly lie and manipulate artifically dumbed-down people en masseshalom
>>24706418>Drop any of it in a conversation and you'll get confusion or derision as "pretentious" depending on the companyIrrelevant point because accusations of "pretentiousness" are almost always meaningless and arbitrary, and the people who do such things are not worth your time or energy. Unless the person is correcting a misuse of a word, the accusation of "pretentious" should never exit an educated person's mouth
>>24716109Neither /lit/ or 4chan existed when I read those books. I know this is a very difficult and abstract concept for you, but the world did exist before 4chan.
>The old postmodern insurgents risked the gasp and squeal: shock, disgust, outrage, censorship, accusations of socialism, anarchism, nihilism. Today’s risks are different. The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the “Oh how banal”. To risk accusations of sentimentality, melodrama. Of overcredulity. Of softness. Of willingness to be suckered by a world of lurkers and starers who fear gaze and ridicule above imprisonment without law. Who knows.Do you agree?
>>24712335To disagree is not to be filtered
>>24715666Your post just comes across as sad cope, like you've finally given up on using your brain and decided to enter into a sort of numbers-game, a soulless void devoid of creativity, empathy, or anything human, just throwing around half-understood memetic insults you've seen hurled around a thousand times on this board. Like computers playing chess, the pieces are moving but there's no sentient thought.It's truly incredible how this time around, of all times, you've decided to drop all pretenses and get on with pushing for the motive you've likely had since the beginning. And to your motive , I'll say this: I will not enable or legitamize it. Your need for approval is now exposed, and you've exposed it. I guess it goes to show that we were never conversing, we're we? You were always just waiting, trying to figure out a good angle, like a scam caller having some inane conversation while looking for a way to weasel himself in. It's kind of sad, really. We had, at least I thought we had, a discussion of ideas here. I guess I was wrong, you're just another cynic looking to try to win internet points. Like a twitter bot made out of meat.And Pale King's supposed to be about me? You sure? Maybe this whole time you've been reading DFW ironically. Or maybe you never read anything from him at all, and you're just holding on to his name and a few Wikipedia summaries of his work in order to build something resembling a personality. Feel free to scream "projection", that's the usual part of your script, but don't pretend that you care about discussing irony in earnest when you act like this.
>>24716386He's a major postmodernist
>>24710509no it turned out the new artists are tiktokers
>>24717307You admitted to failing to say what you meant and throwing stuff in for shits and giggles and just winging it; how is my not wanted to wade through it all coping? lol. Put in the effort, I will respond in kind.
Books on the correlation between fighting wars, militarization and the GDP? Prefer history books but theoretical works are fine too.
When will US and China team up to destroy the synagogue of Satan and their occult symbols?
Post your own work and critique others.
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Etsy witches really killed Charlie Kirklmao lol jkBut maybe not, you do your own research.
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Books against advertising as a concept?
>>24717934Retard. We are all paying "free" things with our society, civilization, and soul. There is no free lunch.
>>24717783Syrup by Max Barry
>>24717783probably anything by Bernays. the guy wrote the playbook on advertising and PR. you don't need a book against advertising to find it repulsive. it's enough to see how it works. it's probably much harder to find a book that argues for advertising (outside of the business context which is a self-justification of its own ethos).
You should read No Logo
>>24718011By Naomi Klein? Isn't she some kind of shill?
>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."
>>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
>>24716539A wild Thomas Reid appears
