He's the best author of our (millenial) generation.
>>24797844Because 4chan is a bunch of midwit chuds obsessed with ancestory and doomerism.
>>24797844The Boomer Gen X and Millennial generations were entirely weaned on greater and greater technologies that infatuated and deluded the ego with free dopamine, inflating the I so beyond sensual reality they cannot imagine any world existing outside of the pleasure spouts. Gen Z's developing years took place after the development of said technologies ceased. This means that even though through now Gen Z has been endlessly blinded by the same pleasure simulacrum they were reconciled to the mortality of the Idols and themselves while the three prior generations tantrum to the grave as a toddler who replaces teat with pacifier with thumb. They are completely intellectually worthless. Gen Z know wisdom and love are the only immortal things as opposed to technology and the self, yet not pursuing them frequently enough because its easier to use social media multiplayer video games porn and forums face friction with the outside world and study still have contributed nothing intellectually.
>>24797844i wrote a novel about ross ulrich. are you going to read it?
>>24797844>a chinese man rediscovering his taiwan heritage>this is what you got from reading Lin
>>24797300BROOOOO PSYCHEDELICSMUSHROOOMSELL ESS DEEE, DEE EMM TEE
What the fuck was every single one of Alexanders' companions' problems?
>>24797502The Christcucks were shit but Julian was also a Shabbos goy
>>24797528No, he was a Helios worshiper.
>>24796146Is it true that all her books are about BL?
>>24798107No.Friendly Young Ladies is about bi-sluts and The King Must Die is a really decent retelling of the Theseus myth
>>24796146Is it worth reading? I've been looking for some historical fiction set in the classical era
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart
>>24797505I love this painting
I want to read books so I can spend less time on 4chan but I'm actually really stupid. I'm unable to comprehend what I'm reading most of the time and I keep stuck analazing a specific paragraph because I just can't get it.Is this improvable as a person with low IQ?
>>24796537you don't need high IQ to readit's a skillstart with something simple like children's books
>>24796741>Start with simpler books and gradually build your way upUnironically old advice. Computer screens and video games are the main culprits in our lower attention spans, so it takes work to undo the damage. I always recommend the Little Prince as a starting point
>>24797897*good advice
>>24796537Probably, yeah. I watched a video of a man with 70 IQ (mild mental retardation) who said he'd gotten smarter by reading books. He didn't sound stupid at all, I'd never have guessed he had a low IQ. Also, what kind of books are you reading? Just pick the ones that you find interesting and if you don't understand a paragraph, simply skip it.
>>24796537 There are people that are dumb and maybe you fall into that category of not being able to digest a paragraph or a complete thought. There are a few of those people. But I don't think you are, even if you're you shouldn't think of yourself as such. Reading is a muscle that you train and our modern environment is set up in ways to drive ourselves away from reading.Short form content, fast food, spectacle movies, drugs, it's all barriers to read. Remove them. Let yourself be bored. Then, start to read some stuff you like. Slop. Nothing hard, something that turns pages on its own for you. Fantasy, historical fiction, romance, I don't care. Something. And if you read enough genre fiction, you will want to read something more. Read some short stories from authors that only fags on /lit/ care. Pick and choose. You are ready to read.
Who do you think is the best author whose work only gained attention and praise posthumously?
>>24796495Who did kafka better than kafka? I love his writing but he was clearly a career man who wrote for shits and giggles.
>>24796510He was the original twink.
>>24796495Typee and Omoo did. Moby-Dick was a financial failure, and his later novels sold even worse. He died in obscurity.
>>24795154>Dickinsondon't know why people revere this bitch so much
>>24796495They sold poorly you gigapseud
What are the five languages one must learn to enjoy literature?
>>24797649t. American
>>24798094You have an actual argument? Or you just looking to spout /int/-tier bullshit and shit up the thread?
>>24797546Kys, J*w. Persians have a lot of good poetry and esoteric Neo-Platonist stuff.
>>24798097If you knew more than one language you'd know that reading translated literature is a completely different experience than reading it in its original language. Words carry meaning and culture and translating is just about finding the meaning of a word or sentence that is closest to your language, without ever being able to fully grasp the original sense. The better the style of an author, the more you lose during the translation.Of course if you're reading some cheap novels for teenagers or books that aren't considered literature it doesn't really matter as you'll get the big idea anyway, but when the words and sentence structures themselves become as important if not more than the message of the book, there's no decent substitute to knowing the mother tongue of the author.
>>24798173The meaning and culture of a language can only be obtained by spending decades immersed in it. If you do not have decades of immersion in a language and its culture, then your grasp on it, even though you know the words and grammar, is facile. Now tell me, what is more valuable: your facile self-taught understanding of a language you learned a year ago, or the translation of a scholar who has devoted a lifetime to translating the best literature from that language?
Welcome to /pg/, where we read, write, and discuss pulp fiction.No, not the Tarantino film, but the classic genre stories from early 20th-century magazines printed on cheap wood *pulp* paper. These tales offered thrills for the common man and let imaginations soar. Though the magazines are gone, the spirit lives on, and here at /pg/, we explore the worlds, characters, and stories they inspired. So come on in and join the discussion!READ PULP!- The Eldritch Dark: http://www.eldritchdark.com/- Luminist Archives - Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction: http://www.luminist.org/archives/SF/- Luminist Archives - Fiction Magazines: http://www.luminist.org/archives/PU/- The Pulp Magazines Project: https://www.pulpmags.org- Project Gutenberg Sci-fi: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/68LISTEN TO PULP!- The Cybrarian’s Conan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmd1kGz5gLg - HorrorBabble's Clark Ashton Smith: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeNNKRLWxwoMd3hyVZOXrZKy3TJfeTxRd&si=pHdZhOqvZyZ4Zv2vComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Should I bother to read Hour of the Dragon if I already read The Scarlet Citadel and I’m going through all the other stories? Reviews say it’s the story is a copy of Scarlet Citadel that incorporates tropes from his other stories into novel-length. It’s long and reviews seem to indicate that it’s good but not great.
>>24796786It is his counterpart to "the call of cthulhu".>how was robert e howard able to write so many works yet with a robust and timeless styleHe is older than the modern purist genrefiction, because of this he and his friends' have such an eclectic style.
>>24759795Not Wodehouse but similar, to this day three men in a boat by Jerome k Jerome remains one of my favourite book. Very funny and comforting read.
>>24759323>>24759228Ironically enough, Moorcock had to latch on Conan through his invention of the "sword and sorcery" label.
>>24759316Dwight V. Swain - Techniques of the selling writer.I self-studied his ideas a lot at a time but I failed to produce anything worthwhile back then. Maybe i’ll re-read my copy again and try.
If He lived longer, could he have had any hope of getting on Shakespeares level?>inb4 he was shakespeare dum dumNot getting into speculations just wondering of what could have been.
>>24796852who'swhose denotes ownership
>>24796902Yeah, autocorrect.
Real nice how I make a thread and the discussion is absolutely nothing like what was prompted by the OP, stay classy 4chan.Anyways whats your favorite of his plays? Mine is as previously mentioned Doctor Faustus, as I am literally him(damned soul waiting for hell)
>>24797243Only read Hero and Leander but I love it very much, interesting to see where the style of Alexander Pope emerged from. My favourite detail is that when we meet her at Venus's shrine, Hero is sacrificing turtles' blood.
>>24797243Tamburlaine probably inarguably has the greatest poetry, while Doctor Faustus is a much better organised story, and yet the seething envy and cunning of The Jew of Malta is really great, clearly an original character in English drama that laid the basis for Shakespeare's less devilish Shylock, and all those plots twists and eventually Barabas falling into a boiling cauldron while screaming curses is fantastically exciting.I am not of the tribe of Levi, I,That can so soon forget an injury.We Jews can fawn like spaniels when we please;And when we grin we bite; yet are our looksAs innocent and harmless as a lamb's.
Classics written by woman > classics written by gay manExcept Melville, he gets a pass
>>24797971All the classics written by women were written by dikes or subs so it all comes off in the wash.
>classics written by gay menThat's at least like 75% of them
>>24798113Contrary to his name David Faggot Walrus was in fact a prolific heterosexual. God bless the dead homie.
>>24797971Melville is overrated and Im sick of pretending that he's not. He just goes on pretty common quasi-philosophical digressions and treats them in a pretty common way and people just soi over it.
>>24798159Who is good then? Enlighten us
How do I get into chud philosophy?
>>24797398Hegel first and foremost.You have to learn to grift and learning dialectic and applying it to your scam is the bare basics. It also makes arguing against lefties a breeze.
>>24797454>>24797498Is he one of the "modern art is le bad" morons?
>>24797477It’s good and there’s also the Ascent of Man which followed it. That one has more factual problems now but both of them are good representation of the grand narrative of history with Great Men at the center of proceedings, everything they’ve spent 70 odd years trying to break down and deconstruct. It’s actually bizarre trying to lecture whole generations who have grown up knowing nothing of that original grand narrative on how their thinking is wrong and the hot new thing is… the exact same shit their parents and maybe grandparents grew up hearing about. Somehow they’ve kept the illusion of novelty and rebellion going while being the only voice in town. Anyway, beside those documentaries you can also try the Durant series of history books. Again the material is dated and sometimes wrong but it tells history in the grand fashion. More up to date attempts to tell big history include Burzun’s Dawn to Decadence and Davies’ Europe. They are more influenced by later history writing.
>>24798057> Good think i already have that taken care of on my substack blogim are profesonal writter folow me on soobstack
Leo Strauss is a neo-reactionary LARPing as a conservative, he's a good spot to begin with political philosophy wise to the side of Plato and whatnot. Ignore his mega-jewish neocon ex-commie followers.
Satanic panic edition. Old >>24736100
Rather you like Joshi or not he’s right about a lot of writers. Most of the big paperback kings of the 70s/80s wrote subpar hackslop that’s been completely forgotten by everyone. When’s the last time you sat down on a plane and saw someone next to you reading Bentley Little? I slightly disagree with him on King (I think his first five or so novels, and a lot of his earlier short fiction are essential) He’s also gay as fuck for being so petty about Bairon. But he is a jeet after all, there entire culture is based around spite.
>>24797208>He’s also gay as fuck for being so petty about Baironhe's wrong about a lot of things but right about barronnever seen the appeal to his stories
>>24796961My condolences on the molestation
>>24797208I'd agree that at least Night Shift and Skeleton Crew are essential short fiction, but are there any specific novels you're referring to? Rage is one of the first 5, and there's no way that's an essential novel.
>>24797208I'm a big fan of Brian Keene, he writes great pulp horror slop. Joshi eviscerated him in an article and I just remember being shocked at how MEAN it was. Like, it was personal. Joshi is an asshole.
dunk and egg walking in the woods 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: >>24768472
>>24797594>refuses to remarry and sire more heirs even after his only viable heir gets sent off to the kingsguard, leaving a dwarf as heir to Casterly Rock.>At the same time he demands his widowed daughter to remarry and start having kids as soon as her husband dies and wants his dwarf son to inherit the largest province in the continentTywin being obsessed with getting Jaime out of the kingsguard instead of just finding another blonde chick to pump babies into makes NO FUCKING SENSE
>There's a rock>It has a big castle on it>It's called Casterly RockBut why is the giant rock with a big ass castle on it called Casterly Rock?>Reason, the original owners were named CasterlyThe American Tolkien, everybody!
https://youtu.be/GwlBLWu_duE?si=iTZObCwHmyaUqyt1&t=408may or may not be confirmation dany doesn't die
>>24797954Like what? Did he post a blog?
>>24798023
In a recent study published by John Hopkins University students were asked to write a translation of the first few paragraphs of Bleak House in clear, modern English. They were given dictionaries, access to the Internet, and as much time as they needed. Despite this, 49 of the 85 students failed to do so. Sentence after sentence, they could not grasp what Dickens was saying; i.e., they were incapable of figuring out who or what a sentence was talking about, did not understand the imagery or metaphors, could not translate long or complex sentences into shorter, simpler ones, and could not identify the main ideas being described. As such, the researchers deemed this group to be "problematic readers"
>>24781386The Harvest fete season was just wrapped up, and the Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable. November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters of the earth had all but evaporated, and it wouldn't be ideal were you to meet a Megalosaurus 40ft long or so, waddling like a gargantuan lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke blowing out of chimneys, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes attending a funeral, as if the sun itself had passed away. Dogs, unrecognisable in the swamp. Cars, not much more so; covered in mud up to their wipers. Pedestrians, bumping each other's umbrellas in a general display of irritability, and losing their footing on the street-corners, where thousands of other pedestrians have slipped and slid since early morning, (if the morning had even arrived), adding to the mud upon which they walked, at intervals remaining on the pavement where they could, each adding to the crowds.The fog was all-encompassing, from the river where it passes over islands and grassy-fields; where it flows grimly across the shipping lanes and through the filth of the polluted city. Fog on the marshes in Essex, fog in Kentish town. Fog seeping into the rears of cargo-ships; fog hovering above the yards, and floating among the towers of large ships; fog hanging over the sides of the Dutch-barges and narrow boats. Fog in the sinuses of Greenwich OAP's, wheezing in front of the T.V. in their living rooms; fog in the vape of the afternoon toke of the moody manager, down in his small office; fog cruelly nipping at the toes and fingers of his apprentice in the smoking area. People stood at random on the bridges, and stole glances over the walls into a gloomy sky of fog, with fog all around them, as if they were up in a helicopter that flew through the misty clouds.Outtake pipes of central-heating blew hot air through the fog in a variety of places throughout the streets, much as the sun may from the sodden fields, be seen to hang by a farmer and his son. Most of the shops turned on the heating two hours before opening time — as the radiators seem to know, for they have a worn and clanging start.The raw afternoon is rawest, and the dense fog is densest, and the muddy streets are muddiest near that ugly brutalist eyesore, a fitting ornament for the threshold of an ugly corporation, Temple Bar. And right next to Temple Bar, in Lincoln's Inn Hall, at the centre of the fog, sits the Lord High Chancellor in his High Court of Chancery.Never can there be a fog that is too thick, never than mud and swamp too deep, to assort with the blind and clumsy nature of this High Court of Chancery, the most immoral of unethical people, views the day within the sight of the skies above, and the ground below.
>>24795189dime-a-dozen reactionary grifterit’s embarrassing that even VAUSH was both quicker on the draw when it came to reacting to this article and had a much more informed take:https://youtu.be/wc7IS0lMjc8
>>24781386uhh the line about the soot being depressed snow was good
It's a shitty muggy foggy street and this dude things that it's really epic and horses are getting mud spattered on their blinders. Also there's pollution.This writing honestly isn't that bad, does it really need translation into "modern" retard english?
>>24797773>dime-a-dozen reactionary grifter>VAUSHI can tell that you didn't watch the video I linked.Sad. Many such cases.
Why do we never mention the library and always talk about pirating? It's like a legal form of pirating and you can watch cool movies too with Kanopy.It it a psyop to destroy trust in communities and make posters scared to leave the house?
>>24797235The war on drugs was a colossal failure. I don't know why we still insist on fighting it.
>>24797767>dewicate feewingsYou trannie faggots cant stop thinking about kids lamo
>>24784124>have to commute to a library>have to browse for a relevant book>coin toss on whether or not they have the book>if they have the book, it's worn to fuck and i have to return it eventually>if they don't, have to go through the whole rigamarole of having it orderedversus>go onto libgen>download a book>???>profit
>>24798130You can put holds on books online now. I bet even eastarn european shithole libraries will let you do it.
>>24784714i had many beautiful summers in the public library reading program as a kid. arguably the reason i came to love literature, since my english classes in elementary and middle school were mainly slop. had 3 different teachers assign ellie weisel. the librarians gave me aesop, owl at home, and the phantom tollbooth.
Books that show how incelism leads to homosexuality?
>>24798036You seem to think this /pol/ or /b/. It isn't. This is /lit/. Please leave.
>>24798042Fuck off Mishimaposter
>>24798036The NSA has been posting here and other "social media" to MKultra the weak minded. Is there a book for this yet? I donno. Maybe the guys on /x/ know one.
>>24798036middle class non workerism does have a correlation with homosexuality yes.maybe because of idle hands lead to idle minds which leads to deviant practices. I guess general books on otaku/neets/etc. would suffice. forgot the name howeverbeit'vent.
>>24798036It doesn't. But incelism + tranime do lead to trannyism.