Where have all the serious, urbane, book-reading men gone and why have they been replaced with women?
>>25182290This is the third version of your position that you've told now and each time it gets more incoherent than the last. Your new position is that publishers should just continue with their losing strategy of catering to women even though it's losing them male readers faster than it's bringing in new female readers. It's funny how you retarded shitlibs hate men so much that you would rather sink an industry than admit you were wrong and try to market serious fiction for men again.
>>25179887Women read (gay)Men listen to audiobooks
>>25179887I'm two books away from a mental breakdown.
>>25182269because women are DEI'd into cushy HR jobs making way above what they deserve. Men become tradie or wagies, with either body or mind too tired to do anything after work.
Men don't brag about it as much.
Haram or no? I am becoming an autodidact, but I still need to read a ton more... Should I wait until I am less ignorant or should I write while I learn?
It's illegal
>>25183249Philosophizing without a license? Fucking sicko. Reported.In any case, I would advise writing while you learn, but I wouldn’t make that writing public.
Can some Aristotle Christcuck please explain to me what differentiates Aristotle from Plato? From everything I've read of Aristotle, it just seems like he was embarrassingly filtered, like a 12 year old atheist. Please, if there are Aristotle tards out there, justify this nigga's existence. I'm at the point where I believe that the only reason he exist is because Jews want to portray Christianity as a consequence of his metaphysics which are ultimately retarded.
>>25182930Not fond of either but from what I recall offhand>Plato believed in metempsychosis while Aristotle believed it was at best unproven>Plato believed matter was shaped by form while Aristotle believed that form was the result of the expression of an innate property in matter>Plato believed that good ethics were the result of knowledge of the absolute supreme good while Aristotle believed they were the result of intelligently engaging in deliberately good actions
>>25182930chicken thing mainly
>>25182930Aristotle:>A is APlato>A is whatever you think it is unless youre retarded
>>25183000>metempsychosisI can only think of Ulysses now when I hear that word, hah.
the walls of tyrosh 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: >>25132678
what are the most popular & likely fan theories i should research before the sixth book comes out?
>>25182756Dornish master plan
>>25182756Zero, they're all wrong. The true mark of Asoiaf writing is that nothing will go as expected.
>>25182456He has a very bleak outlook on death. Why does death have to be transformative negatively? What I do agree is that has to be in a way definitive, if you come back then you will have to leave at some point. And Gandalf does leave, just as Frodo.
>>25179872DuneSword of Shadows (which actually will get finished)Book of the New Sun
Ginger Snaps edition.OLD: >>25125217
>>25183290Steve Perry/S.D. Perry write a lot of Alien extended-universe stuff (and a lot of other franchises). They're pretty good, very established. I've had a couple books from them since I was a kid. Dead Space: Martyr is also really good.
Who is the most horror /lit/ band and why is it Current 93?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twMK4lAn01s
>>25183329Can someone please tell David Tibet to republish The Moons At Your Door?
>>25182903I got that but I was forced to use an ebook to read it because I don't like the double-column text on each page. It's just too small for me.
>>25182967>>25182975>How are Robert E. Howard's horror stories? Are they any good?They're great. You have the stories that draw strong influence from the writers he liked (Lovecraft, Machen, Doyle and Kipling) and you have the more Howardian horror stories that have either have a lot more action and adventure or draw from the tales of his native Texas and the slave folklore of the plantation south. get the del ray horror stories because it has more stories, howard's poetry and some good artwork to go along with it
how do they expect me to take this guy seriously? when his whole motivation is"I WANNA HAVE GAY SEX NOW, I WANNA HAVE GAY SEX NOW, I WANNA HAVE GAY SEX NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!"?
>>25183005Did the holocaust not happen in Harry Potter?
>>25183194it didn't happen anywhere
>>25183195touché
How do you expect us to take you seriously when you're reading children's books
>>25182882He was right about everything and that is why the elites of the magical world hated him. If the mages took control of the world, World War II would be averted and so would be all the evils of cold war and modern world.
What a slog
It's an homoerotic romance. It talks about gay sex from start to finish.
>>25183308Did you read the /lit/ annotated version from a few years ago?
>>25183318It’s a well written homoerotic romance though.
>>25183346Won't argue with that.
I gooned to the sex scenes in this book when I was 10
You masturbated. ’Goon‘ does not mean that.
>>25183061>when I was 10When I began the series the first four or five books had come out by that time. IIRC the sex doesn't start until quite a few volumes in. I never finished the series though and I've always kicked myself for that. Got halfway thru book 11 when I stopped.
>>25183061For me it was when Yabu gets a handy from that kid in Shogun
what books to read to a baby so that it does not go full chud
>>25183213>Can't stop thinking about children's genitalsLooks like you have something in common with Emily Youcis' dad
>>25183233>dodges the pointI accept your full and unconditional surrender.
>>25183208not at all, it's simply asymmetric warfare with no rules of engagement, the bioleninist autoimmune infection has no consistency or rules either in its corrosive action, hence it ought to receive none in return, everything you hold dear is to be mocked attacked and weakened relentlessly regardless of its internal consistency, weapons are meant to be offensive they don't have to be sharp on all sides just the side that hitsso the clown yelling nigger on a plane is a punk hero of the humble people against the boring old moralistic establishment, deal with it
>>25183256Also, because a literal schizo in a burger king crown is less mentally ill than any tranny, ever.
>>25183256The end result of this one sided vice signaling culture war is an algosorted rw echo chamber that funnels people into terrorgram channels where they swap cp and groom kids into being mass shooters. You can always justify it by imagining the other side is worse and you'll always have someone to affirm that viewpoint because it's an echo chamber. This is "actually existing" yarvinism as leftoids say.
How do I stop doing this?
>>25181820posts like this are why I still come to this shithole
you basically have to develop discipline for it, like how you force yourself to go to work every day at the same time you basically just have to force yourself to read X amount of pages every day no matter what
>>25183209Reading shouldn’t be a chore, friend
>>25181785She is clearly preggo.You can tell from the breast bulk and face.Fat women have fat stored in their chin, and she doesn't appear to.
>>25181738Turn off your computer and open the book. It's shrimple
Philosophy of Flamenco books? Specifically philosophy: not history or art of flamenco.
>>25178871do you want us to go out and live life for you?
There is a small section on flamenco in Derek Bailey's "Improvisation: its nature and practice in music." I think that the field of critical improvisation studies might be the right track for you.
>>25178871My half-Japanese cousins are unironically accomplished flamenco dancers in a city-not-in-Spain
>>25182411very nice, were they in spain at one point? In my region there isnt much interest in flamenco sadly i thought about maybe writhing some dance schools, but as i said i need practical experience so they probably arent interested
>>25178871lol why would any of us know. theres probably like 2 other spaniards on the board.
put anyone, fiction, politics, philosophy, math ect.accepting putting two in same grid if they are similar and important enough to you as each other
>>25180134Nigga this is some entry level /lit/core. If you've been here 5+ years you should've read most of them already.For reference, I read:>Iliad (once), Odyssey (twice) I liked the Iliad more though>some of his greatest (Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth) and started my way through his early plays chronologically (up next is Julius Caesar)>Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained>V., 49, GR>Moby-Dick, Pierre, Confidence-Man, Piazza Tales>Dubliners, Portrait, Ulysses, the first page of FW before dropping it>Nigger of the Narcissus, Heart of Darkness (yet to read any actual novel)>Crime & Punishment, Demons, TBK (didn't like Demons)>Buddenbrooks, Magic Mountain, Doctor Faustus
>>25180225huh. youre right. nevermind, my bad, sorry man
>>25180267If you weren't a newfag you'd know /lit/ likes the Iliad more.Shoehorning pynchon in there is just proof you've only heard of these other Classical greats. Unless you're literally 18 or something
>>25181141>If you weren't a newfag you'd know /lit/ likes the Iliad more.I only said it I like the Iliad more because I reread the Odyssey, but not the Iliad. I did so to prepare for Ulysses, not because I like it more.>is just proof you've only heard of these other Classical greats. Unless you're literally 18 or somethingAre you projecting something here?
Pizarnik, Trakl, Kafka, Perec, Ballard, Eliot, Bernhard, McCarthy
I'm at a point in my life where I think I have a pretty good idea of what most people are like if I spend enough time with them, even if they aren't open about it. Except rich people, especially rich women. They're completely opaque, I can never know what they truly think or whether they really believe what they're saying. There's some non-rich people who also do that to me, but *all* rich people do it. It's like being unreadable is the essential skill to get there.I also recently heard of the "novel of manners" genre, is there something like that for the modern west?
>>25183059nigga any post without proper structure aint good wtfsamefag???
>>25183084Bad post
>>25183094Rude :/
>>25183059>>25183084Not a samefag, but I wrote it in almost a stream of consciousness style with minimal editing, so anon's criticism has a basis. In fairness, I was trying to synthesize a lot of the thread's points, not address specific posts.
>>25183052>>25183099>>25183084it was a good post The only people with control of their own time are really rich people and really poor people, the only difference is that really rich people have to keep up the race and really poor people have to sometimes race really hard
>What is /phil/ Philosophy General?A general for readers, students, and armchair thinkers interested in philosophy, whether it be Western, Eastern, analytic, continental, ancient, contemporary. We discuss primary texts, secondary literature, online lectures, podcasts.>Why read philosophy?Politics, science, psychology, etc. all began with or were inspired by someone who thought philosophically. Basically, if you are interested in just about anything, philosophy will help you better understand that subject. Because it is at the foundation of every conceptual institution made or discovered by humans, it is in the underbelly of human experience, and so it is worth taking seriously.>Why study philosophy formally?Surprisingly versatile and undervalued. Phil majors consistently score among the highest on the LSAT, GRE, and GMAT. Strong pipeline into law, policy, ethics consulting, AI alignment, and academia.Previous thread >>25146787
>>25181781What do you think about heidegger?
>But when I see an older man still engaging in philosophy and not giving it up, I think such a man by this team needs a flogging. For, as I was just now saying, it's atypical that such a man, even if he's naturally very well favored, becomes unmanly and avoids the centers of his city and the marketplaces--in which, according to the poet, men attain "preeminence"--and, instead, lives the rest of his life in hiding, whispering in a corner with three or four boys, never uttering anything well-bred, important, or apt.>Gorgias 485 d-e
>>25179996I only read from Aristotle forward. Dialogues confuse me.
I like Camus but I disagree. One must in fact, imagine Sisyphus blowing his fucking brains out, or repeatedly slamming a sharpened rock against himself.
>>25183080cool
Which hero from the three Greco-Roman epics is /lit/'s favorite? Picture of X-fags missing the point of the Iliad attached for entertainment purposes.
>>25182974The first half mirrors The OdysseyThe second half mirrors The IliadIf you think about the plot, you'll get it. He is undoing the conquest of Troy.
Imagine talking about the Trojan war and not discussing the primary sources
>>25183189Anchises' speech in the underworld is more kino than anything in Homer.
>>25183189>>25183304>Virgil shills appear for the aeneidOk what translation since i guess im missing something? Im guessing a lack of knowledge of roman history has also hindered me>inb4 learn LatinI havent even learned greek yet. Dont wanna do Latin 1st
>>25183127>if you remember the Iliad it is foretold that Aeneas can’t die because he’s foretold to found a great kingdom after Troy fallsAh yes I remember I didnt like it that he had plot armor.
