Any books where a comfortable loser with weak character turns it around, and not just by luck? Basically opposite of picrel?
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Books for AI sloppa causing epistemological death?
>>24949322This is not a black space.
I miss you :(
I do it because most of the time I have to be authoritative and in control and in charge and when I'm doing it I don't have to be. It makes me feel owned and used and also cute and kinda cuddly and like I'm melting. It's not right and I should stop but when I'm lying there biting a pillow I can't think about anything else.
What is it with Mexicans and always having obese silver-toothed children? Not even blacks are this dysfunctional
>>24945026>>24945039I had to study Christian Existentialism and Kierkegaard as the first philosopher to study in an existentialism course during undergrad. Never found the pull, but his words were certainly moving. It was much later when I realized that Kierkegaard’s conception of the Christian condition where man has to obey God, but God remains a meteor’s distance away and so man requires a leap of faith (this is summarizing it heavily), actually makes Christianity quite appealing as Jesus Christ is not a reincarnation of God, but God Himself and knew what it was to be human and be tempted as He lived on earth. Due to the Christian idea of Trinity, this makes Jesus appealing as He as God knew and felt the human condition. No other major religion has this conception of God literally existing as a human (eastern religions and western pagans have reincarnated gods, but Jesus is God as per the trinity and not a reincarnation). This means that for the Christian the leap of faith is particularly small despite the existence of God in the religion.So if you choose the religious path instead of the existential/absurdist path as Camus put it, Christianity assures that God knows humans intimately to their bones, which is a selling point.
>>24945318do you think brits, french, etc. are annoyed that they had powerful world-spanning empires but didn't make it onto one of the big circles on the weirdo conspiracy chart.
>>24945551He didn't even actually believe in God or the divinity of Jesus Christ, all just metaphorical Geist movement and mutual recognition shenanigans with him
>>24949187>It was much later when I realized that Kierkegaard’s conception of the Christian condition actually makes Christianity quite appealing as Jesus Christ is not a reincarnation of God, but God Himself and knew what it was to be human and be tempted as He lived on earth.That's literally just the default Christian position, anon. That is Christianity.>Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
>>24945026>>24947525St. Augustine's Confessions was also key for me. Compared to any modern reading, this book is a breath of fresh air. It's my treasure. I shift through it again once every year. It's a paraphrased quote by him that we must put "faith before reason." This sounds crazy to an intellectual person, I know, but once we choose to believe, all the correct, good and true reasons will be revealed to us as God sees fit. He doesn't want us to be unreasoning beasts, of course not, but He does ask faith from us and that we will ourselves to believe. Pray first for faith and then everything else will simply follow. This is the leap of faith that most of all is a stumbling stone for those who value reason above all. Put faith before your reason. God bless anons.
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>>24948048What's with the reddit spaces
Why do people write
>>24949665It's fun
>>24949494>>24949663I-it's experimental. Or something.
>Your work is full of errors, you fucking mouthbreather>What errors?>Heh, pay me kid, I don't work for free (this is a thread for writers to discuss work and help eachother).>You used two line breaks for the dialogue!>This was intentional, it's multiple people being asked about the character in multiple locations (this could have been cleared up instantly if the original poster had just stated what he thought was wrong initially).
Any serious book that talks about the cult of ugliness of the modern world? The toxic positivity, the cacophony of clashing aesthetics, the laziness, and the deliberate effort to undermine purity, all masked by so-called moral virtues or freedom? Looking at any vintage photo of a poor street, you see beauty in its uniformity -- much like the beauty found in a military parade. Yet now, even in the wealthiest streets, the only remaining beauty of the modern world can be found by gazing up at buildings that were constructed centuries ago, and that are all getting replaced.
>>24946559>The toxic positivitysurely you must be joking
>>24949635>toxic positivityyou used good word and bad word at the same time.YOU LOOOSE!.- not OP.
>>24946565what cause
I fail to see the beauty in the pictures on the right
>>24946559I guess I could spoonfeed you some books, but you're not going to read them cause you seem stupid
>read a book>it's good>read it again>it's even goodername even one time this has happened
My diary desu
>>24943875VERE ARE ZE BOOKS, LEBOVSKI??!?!!?!
>be french canadian hick>have incredible passion for auto racing and mechanics>have no money, have to steal tools, have to live in an RV with your family>somehow work your way from racing snowmobiles to racing single seaters and get noticed for beating a former F1 champion >get the most prestigious seat in auto racing>almost become world champion but come up just short>stay loyal to the most romantic team in auto racing during their worst era and put up some of the most legendary drives of all time in subpar equipment>be the only everyman in a sport full of rich dicks>finally get a car that can win you the championship >get betrayed by your team>die in a horrible accident The book writes itself. I cry every time.
>>24943875>any Dostoevsky book>Laurus
>>24943875If you liked Ulysses at Stephen's age, you should read it again at Bloom's age.
>>24949363Or, as Tolkien put it in his fiction also, in other words, evil cannot create, only copy or destroy.
>>24947068Women can translate just fine. Iconoclastic ideological motivation should be called out for what it is without resorting to retarded generalizations that merely feed the beast.
>>24947071They are honorary white (unlike jews)
>>24949442No it's not. It's an explanation of why people become ideologically possessed and the rotten fruit such bears.
>>24949723Their values are ultimately just Christianity after people stopped being able to take the Bible seriously. Justin Martyr even asserted that Jesus was exceptionally ugly. Christianity is about taking holiness and making it synonymous with weak, oppressed, downtrodden, penurious, and making evil synonymous with the Prince of this World, powers, principalities, the Whore of Babylon (Rome, Babylon).
I'll start
>>24946966to be fair, no one really talks about or cares about the book anymore
I adore this movie, both cuts
Excalibur
>>24940607>>24936012It was actually adapted a second time after this, Kinkakuji in 1976. i've only seen Enjo, though.
>>24933654Kek
bump
Bump.Second random hint:Of those unanswered, 30, 33, 35, 44, 59, 71, 75, 76, 85 are female authors.
33: Uncle Tom's Cabin?44: Mill on the Floss?
Not a lot of foreign ones left.Remaining I see 2 Japanese, 2 Russian and a French guy.If I can figure out the language translated from I can spot the 1 French guy.2 passages use Japanese names so those are out easily.48 has that Russian workcamp feel to it to me 68 has refid in it which as far as I know is no English word. Meaning it was left untranslated. Usually this means it was a foreign word in the original. Sounds French which one might think means the work is French but no! It would be translated if everything was French and Russians love using French words in their works.So I say the remaining 51 is Guy de Maupassant
>>24949738And even if refid isn't French but some other foreign word I think it still holds up because snooty Frenchmen would never use a non French word in their writing.
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>>24949515I've read the summary and I didn't get it at all lol
>>24949335Awesome. Thank you, I'll be going through all this soon.
Continuing a thought from the last thread, I finished Port of Shadows from Glen Cook. Legitimately the worst book I've finished - I should have DNF'd halfway through. I hate saying that because the Black Company he wrote 40 odd years ago was just so fucking good and this felt like a teenage ghostwriter taking over the reins. A story of no consequence without character growth, action, good prose or generally anything interesting happening at all. To any and all people hoping to read this book series, just skip Port of Shadows. Your time is worth more than what this book has to offer.Has anyone read Lies Weeping? Is it closer to the Black Company we all know and love or is it closer to this mess? Should we all just stick to the old stuff from here on out?
the more I think about these books the more I realise they're perfect...
What are my thoughts on Le Guin and Abercrombie?
Can developing the habit of reading heal my brain from years of doomscrolling, porn addiction and isolation that deleted my attention span, memory and gave me a costant brainfog?
>>24937627part of it is just having less screen time>>24941324*hear
>>24947566>is pasta an invention?Obviously yes
>>24947617>I was addicted from like 07-19 and stopped coming entirely until a few months ago, but I'm back now because this place actually feels like a real fucking website.Uhhhhhhh you sure?
>>24948730>Uhhhhhhh you sure?about what, that it feels like a real website? yeah 100%. the community here is annoying as fuck sometimes but that just comes with the territory, im used to weeding that shit out. this place is way more reminiscent of the old internet than a lot of other places. as long as I don't end up mindlessly habitually checking the same general threads that i gravitate to over and over again for no good reason then I'll be fine I think. If I become one of those people that posts in the same general every time with the same image then I may as well kms tho
>>24944239this guy is kinda wrong about one thingI went through this whole stuff--started by being obsessed with DFW, read and reread IJ and TPK after using them to 'detox' from other forms of media, started working out and engaging with the real world, got a job and whatnot, but I actually found some excitement there, though ultimately all casual talk boils down to media consumption. culture isn't inherently bad, a good book makes a good conversation point and interests in the occult or whatever lead to deeper personal philosophies and something to talk to. a monkish monkey life in modern society means isolation, and dudes usually drop the ball here, but the universe rewards expressions that can notice what is lacking in the wholethat said math books are as stimulating as video games, even more. so is engineering a project or something. it's not like video games, at least mmos and rpgs, aren't devoid of delayed rewards and lots of grinding, the stimulation is usually the same when you can apply a theorem or a little bit of knowledge in real life or see the abstract in it to construct proofs...it's just vidya before vidya camehaving a passion in media can make you a genuinely more interesting person. the only thing is to never just consume, grow interested in producing it, approach it like art, learn not from the passive act but the engagement in the whole, though never let it blind you. it's a passtime. careers and work are pastimes. an excuse to live (and maybe delude yourself into thinking it's necessary, it's something greater) but it's an excuse we all need.this life is empty and cold. we engage in the cold for rewards merely out of boredom, and that's alright. but don't live for anything less than your passions, everything else is suicideit helps to have good passions and addictions. mine are women and video games desu. discover yours
>7 books completed>12 books behind schedule
What were the books and what are your thoughts on them
>>24949416>working a lotQuit>playing more games than usualKill yourself
>>24949460>QuitI will soon>Kill yourselfno, thank you>>24949458Blood Meridian, House of Leaves, Ada or Ardor, Earthsea, King in Yellow, Witcher: Claws and Fangs, Ferdydurke.Half of them were amazing books I want to reread, the other half were worthless slop I don't want to interact with ever again. I'm not going to tell which were which
>>24949373Any non-zero amount of books is a good amount of books, so good job, anon. It's constructive to feel this way, and it lets you look ahead to the next year with a goal in mind. If you did seven, aim for eight - any more will be a bonus.>>24949475Some hefty ones in here, that easily could have been 2+ smaller books (especially Earthsea, if you mean the collected edition?). Don't let it get you down.
>>24949452It is to me. I don't actually care what you think I just posted it for my own admiration. I like to talk to myself a lot, too.
Good night frens.Tell me your:>favorite poet>favorite playwright>favorite composerSo I have some new comfy suggestions.
>>24940941>Marina Tsvetayeva>William Shakespeare>Claudio Monteverdi
Fernando PessoaEugene O'NeillErik Satie or Federico Mompou
>>24940941Mayakovskiy, Dante, MiltonAristophanes, GriboyedovRachmaninov, Bach
>>24940998>Ravelbased
Quite the pretentious pseud thread you have going here.
>another mid whore catapulted into fame and fortune for existing That's it. This has gone too far, the woman problem HAS to be addressed now. Simping is an epidemic that is destroying society and it's only going to get worse.
>>24949026U gay or something?
>>24947980why are modern men such simps?
>>24948297WOULD WOULD WOULD WOULD
>>24948297Small tits just don't do it for me.
>>24949478Because rape isn't legal. Yet.
Need a book for when I have an insomnia spell and can't sleep. I don't want to doomscroll my phone so it seems like a good way to get back into reading.
>>24949522On the Heights of Despair by Cioran. Doomer stuff from an insomniac.
>>24949522fucking any of them.
>>24949522Despite the subject this book will put you to sleep. It worked for me, I recommended it to roommates in uni for the same reason, and it worked for them.
>>24949530You people get filtered so easily, it's just a chunk of non fiction in the middle of a fiction text. Just get an espresso or something and chug through
pic rel, i read it when i'm up at 2am trying to get back to sleep. I've been reading the series for 9 years, I'm almost through the first book, it's a sedative so strong it should be illegal
