It feels like all romance is aimed toward a female audience. Are there any good romance-type books intended for male readers?
Does romance with sex dolls count?
You should heckin read more old books. Some examples:Daphnis and Chloe, An Ethiopian Romance, Romance of the Rose, Aminta, La Gitanilla, The New Heloise, Paul and Virginie, The Sound of Waves.For things a little bit less "naive" but still centering around love there's Dangerous Liaisons (sigmas only), Werther, Adolphe, The Red and The Black, Madame Bovary, Aurelien.My favorites are The New Heloise and Aurelien
>>25010603Fahrenheit 451
at the edge of the world 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: >>24975576
>>25010922If you're male and from the reach you're either gay or a retard
>>25006873Very AIshStill better than the last cover of the anglo version that make it look like a YA novel
>>25010942I remember a graph from 2015 or so with the “best case”, “optimist case” and “pessimist case” for Winds’ release date.The pessimist case was 2022…
>>25010386Bran kind of forgot about the incest
You know any character who makes you not feel like reading other stories because they aren't there?
Writing style alignment editionPrevious: >>24999041/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Discuss the written works below for practice; contribute, and you shall receive.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Shitposters should be ignored and reported.Beginner guides on writing:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHdzv1NfZRMComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25007086Reads very amateurish. I hate the use of caps in emphasis, the dialogue is too expository, too stiff, and even this short passage needed a few more passes for grammar and spelling.>>25008535I'll read it if you post a text excerpt, but I don't listen to audiobooks.>>25010085Very competently written, though I don't typically go in for literary realism as a matter of personal taste. I got the feeling that you were beginning to lose interest towards the latter half and as the other reply mentioned, the ending was perhaps a bit much. It doesn't take away from how solid the piece is overall. Nice work.
>>25010085Not bad at all, but it sounds very autobiographical and you threw in a random plot point to diverge from your rants about door to door sales
Can't tell if I want 3 books, or one big 'un
>>25010859Probably 3 then. Then the one big one just becomes a commitment.
A small excerpt of my novel I'm still working on. https://pastebin.com/Lx6V1NKy
Is the warosu /lit/ archive broken? The reply links have disappeared. At least for me in Firefox.
>>25011066yeah they gone but this is probably the wrong place to make this thread
>>25011067Maybe the admin hasn't noticed. He needs to see this.
How do you write your journal?
>>25008745Analog. I keep them in boxes under my bed. I've tried to keep it digitally because obviously I type much faster than I write longhand but I've never stuck to it and just end up leaving the files behind when I get a new laptop.
>>25008745>>25009351>>25009367kys
>>25009346>I also have to worry about someone finding it and reading it,this happened to me, though it was only an entry that I wrote on pad of paper that I planned to transfer digitally. I still keep cringing about the thought even though almost a decade had passed.
>>25008691Pen and paper. It uses more of the brain.
>>25008691Digital.I would love to go analog but if anyone read my journal I'd find myself on a one way trip to the looney bin.
None More Black Edition>Old:>>25000152>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
>>25011074it's not exactly a great revelation or even an interesting point that people who dislike his writing haven't read his entire body of work
>>25011082The Xeelee Sequence is not his "entire body of work". And ignorant people who read the most unrelated meaningless entry within a connected series of stories should not be going around spreading recommendations or information with their disingenuity.
>>25011091only one anon commented about how much of it he'd read (and even then he clearly stated it as a disclaimer), you're entirely making assumptions about the rest of the comments. suggest you broaden your horizons so that you aren't so defensive about most people here not thinking very highly of your favourite authors
I didn't like Crowley's The Deep. I only made it about 40 pages before I dropped it. The prose was weak and there was at least two sets of ellipses on each page. I couldn't really get into the story or attached to anything it just felt like events were happening and I'm being explained why they're important a paragraph before or after they happen.
>>25011094>you're making assumptions>ugh you're so mad and defensiveRead more before making recommendations and shitting up the thread.
what are some book recommendations for a relatively new person to daoism? im already looking for stores to order The Zhuangzi The Daodejing and Tao: The Watercourse Way from,but after reading these what other books should i get into?
>>25010461tysm anon-san. looking forward to reading.
>>25010492hysterical. but how do they do this?
>>25010506years of practice at getting kicked in the dick
>>25007823>>25008185>>25008186>He thought he could discuss Chinese literature, religion or philosophy on /lit/You MUST be new. I gave up on trying to discuss eastern philosophy here years ago OP.This is a dyed-in-the-wool westaboo canon website, you're really only ever going to get memed on by racist chuds who fucking despise anything and everything Chinese here. But luckily for (You), I can help with a few recommendations.>StoresNigga, just buy from Amazon/Barnes & Noble.Here's some personal recommendations from my own library:>The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Daoism by James RobsonPretty dense, but it's a great rundown of some of the major Daoist canon.>DaodejingYou can literally get a million different versions of this but I'd suggest either the Barnes & Noble Classics version or for an in-depth investigation I'd recommend "The Daodejing Commentary of Cheng Xuanying" I haven't finished yet but it's pretty comprehensive, it covers Daoism, Buddhism and their relationship with one another within the context of the Tang dynasty.>Zhuangzi Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25010713NTAs but thanks. I'll keep all this in mind.
I fucking love this Socrates shit bro
>>25010026>2 Germans>1 Englishman>1 Jew>4 French>Almost all of them are French or GermanLearn to count, lolcow-kun.
The fuck were they supposed to do when he is educating/indoctrinating the youth into his politics, that are at odds with their own
>>25008720I did not know they had /lit/ in the 16th and 17th centuries.
>>25011088Just chill frfr
>>25010083
>When Emily Wilson published her translation of The Odyssey, it quietly but decisively shifted how many readers understood one of the foundations of Western literature. For centuries, English versions of the poem had been shaped by male translators who often filtered Homer’s Greek through Victorian, Edwardian, or mid-20th Century assumptions about gender, class, and morality. Wilson approached the text with a different aim: fidelity not to tradition, but to the language itself.>Her translation pays close attention to what the Greek actually says, rather than what earlier translators assumed it meant. Where previous versions softened Odysseus into a noble hero or exaggerated the moral failings of female characters, Wilson strips away editorial judgment. Words that had long been rendered with moralizing or misogynistic overtones—especially when applied to women, servants, or the enslaved—are reexamined and translated with consistency and precision. A term describing women as sexually suspect, for example, is no longer quietly upgraded to “faithful” or “pure” when it suits male sympathy.>Equally important is what Wilson avoids. She resists anachronistic language that romanticizes violence, hierarchy, or domination. Her Odysseus is clever and ruthless, not automatically admirable; Penelope is intelligent and strategic, not merely patient and chaste. Enslaved women are named as enslaved, not euphemized into “maids,” forcing modern readers to confront the social realities the poem assumes rather than smoothing them away for comfort.>Wilson’s choices don’t modernize Homer—they clarify him. By refusing to insert gendered judgment or inherited bias, her translation reveals how much earlier versions reflected the values of their translators rather than the ancient text. The result is an Odyssey that feels sharper, more unsettling, and more honest: a poem about power, survival, and storytelling itself, finally allowed to speak without centuries of moral varnish.>© Reddit>#archaeohistorieshttps://x.com/archeohistories/status/2008632100296290695
>>25010263just realised i’m talking to an actual redditor
Are you people stupid? AI is going to translate everything anyway, who cares about personal lives of dumb translators anymore?
>>25010270Okay just please stop posting forever. You can't read and you can't think.
>>25010382>just please
>>25004988>>25007997The broader Greek culture was obviously misogynistic to a problematic degree, but Homer himself, as a creative disabled person of highly possibly diverse background with outstanding LGBT representation in his works could never be anything but a feminist ally, whose balanced and human perspectives had to be disguised and hidden both by his contemporaries as well as the later misogynistic tradition. Wilson's translation liberates Homer from the structures of oppression that were forced upon him by centuries of insecure colonizers, finally allowing his voice to transition into how it was truly meant to appear.
Post only the most epic /lit/ deaths
This is maybe the most basedwoke book every written. Masculinity grifters could never show this level of love and care towards men and boys.
>>25008489Cool frog meme, shadilay!
What kind of name is "Bell Hooks"?
>>25010786Literally a nigra cow
>>24996681ah, the classic /lit/ homo-recruitment thread, back again with the comforting regularity of the tides.
>>25010810Not even close but nice try noctulian.
ITT: post good secondary literature. I'll start
>>25010766Honestly the worst book I have ever read. Complete garbage, a few bad medium posts published as a book.
>>25010811>t. seething bunkertroon
i feel absolute contempt for anyone who uses the word based unless they're lil b himself
>>25010766Isn't this the guy that thinks writing tweets is more important than playing with his son?
What's a well respected writer that anyone with average writing skill could probably emulate?I think the average writer could bang out a Tarmac McCarthief novel, apart from the obscure lingo.
>>25009176>>25010129The black reared his head at the sight of the lubricious form of the judge's pale phallus serpentine it wandered gazing out into the world as an infant unborn and yet undesired brought into the world cold and pale and unbreathing. Its pillaric form shone brightly in the void the pillar stood mute upon the black promontory a monolith wrought in obscene geometry. The Judge took to a foul chimeric cacophany of grunting as his member penetrated serene the fistula of the niggers anus dark and unmoving in that sea of serpentine parades the Judge set to stirring up the very soul and the thrice uncottered dreams of the buck were fetched as if a pulque upon the sunborn indigo infant of the world yet unawakened in this land or any other. His breaking came forth as if unbidden into that old night the shadows long and gristled as each thrust was delivered ungouged and unrequited it's eldritch desire can be found buried deep within the hearts of men. As some titan cherubim this pale form let out a cry in the tongues not of man or beast but like to an infernal register unheard in this world since that brought forth tears from the eyes of the watchers and were rendered as stars that danced like naked pygmies upon the bastion of Babylon.The watchers members taken also in hand at their opportunity to arrive unbidden into the bastion of that forsaken womb to bring forth not a child of god but a buck rendered broken upon the firmament which would render the dreams of that infernal race delivered asunder unto the world, writhing and unformed but yet natural in the land that conjured it.
>>25010842>look mom, I posted it again
AI has proven it's extremely easy to emulate Dr. Seuss. The truth is most authors dont have distinctive styles. Can you tell the difference between Barbra Kingsolver and Joyce Carol Oates and Amy Tan? I cant. What about Tom Clancy and James Patterson or Neil Stephenson? You can probably guess based on the subject matter, but based on style? >>25009130Writing in older styles is extremely difficult, because it requires actually being well versed in those books. Whenever someone whips out "thee" and "thy" in their books it's horribly cringe because they immediatly slip back into contemporary English without even knowing it.
>>25010945Authors who don't have distinctive styles should then be harder to emulate.
>>25010842This is a joke but one of the aspects that parodists fail to capture is McCarthy's extreme specificity and control. Notice below that McCarthy modulates the prose such that the areas with monosyllables are differentiated from areas with multisyllabic words, while the parody has the multisyllabics spread out throughout the prose which dilutes the musicality. He will lead the eye through clear imagery then make the ornate comparison, then back to clarity:THEY CRESTED OUT on the bluff in the late afternoon sun with their shadows long on the sawgrass and burnt sedge, moving single file and slowly high above the river and with something of its own implacability, pausing and grouping for a moment and going on again strung out in silhouette against the sun and then dropping under the crest of the hill into a fold of blue shadow with light touching them about the head in spurious sanctity until they had gone on for such a time as saw the sun down altogether and they moved in shadow altogether which suited them very well. When they reached the river it was full dark and they made camp and a small fire across which their shapes moved in a nameless black ballet.
People are reading Richard Werner
>>25009444https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Ac7ap_MAY
>>25009444so are we in another credit pump or is AI "productive credit" according to himalso im not paying for his substack
>>25010884The book is worth it I would purchase it.
>>25010907why don't you just use your brain? it largely depends on whether you view the AI companies as genuine companies creating an actual product or if they're just a ploy to siphon as much money from VC as they can. AKA are they a company or purely an asset? If you take the former view, it's probably productive credit, if you take the latter its a very clear credit pump/bubble. he also writes on other stuff though like how subsidiarity relates to economic "Hidden Champions." Free2readhttps://www.emerald.com/er/article/43/2/524/236828/Subsidiarity-as-secret-of-success-Hidden-Champion
>>25010907It's a mix in the US. Contraction of productive economy in Germany. He has pointed out the ECB will increase credit in certain EU countries and reduce credit in others.
