post and talk about your favorites from the junior fiction shelf from your library, pic related was this for me. its like my hero academia six years before it was even a thing, but a year after the movie sky high.
>>25207670Rand? I became a lolbertarian/ancap. Wittgenstein and Kant? Literally fucking nothing, I got filtered hard, but I loved talking about whatever I learned about them from secondary sources. These days I read fiction almost exclusively, probably because of how bad these two filtered me. If I ever pick up philosophy again, I'll be a good boy and start with the Greeks.
>>25207670You’re too right, friend. That’s one good thing though about youth, you can pretty much blast through anything without much care to fully understand what you read. I was a bit of a slacker though. I had to study Macbeth in school, and found it to be tedious. I never studied Hamlet though I’d probably feel the same. But as soon as I left school, I thought I’d read it before watching a play and fell in love with Shakespeare’s stuff afterwards. So honestly it depends. You still ever go back to the stuff you read as a lad?>>25207674Kek, that first part doesn’t surprise meAnd neither does the second. I didn’t pick up either until my mid 20s, and I struggled myself then. I’m rereading the CPR now though. Wittgenstein I will get back around to at some point eve though I don’t really agree with him.It’s funny you mention Subahibi. I heard about that because of Wittgenstein, not the other way around. I don’t really indulge in visual novel/anime stuff. Even still I gave it a try and found it really enjoyable but it was quite ghastly and depressing too.
>>25207695Funnily enough, I didn't even manage to finish Subahibi. I was big on visual novels and I remember everyone hyping it up before release so I prepared as best as I could, but ended up tapping out during Zakuro's chapter. I was too much of a wuss.It did leave quite an impression on me, and it (alongside Black Souls 2) laid the foundation for me to eventually enjoy Gravity's Rainbow. Whatever gets the kids reading and all.
>>25205469i thought molly moon was cute
>>25207663>one time I made myself temporarily schizo by reading Revelations and trying to pattern match it to current eventsPierre Bezukhov-maxxing
Has publishing destroyed entire genres by pumping out series and forcing authors to spread out a story across trilogies or a dozen novels? Or are standalones too insular? Do you prefer series or standalones?
>>25207496I only read stand-alones. Even if I start reading a series, if I liked it, I'm too scared to read the next one- the chance that the author will fuck it up is too high.
>>25207496Series are mostly flops. What famous series even are there? I can't think of any other than Gargantua and Pantagruel, and maybe the La Comédie humaine by Honor the Ballsack. Border trilogy? Way less popular than Blood Meridian. Remembrance of Things Past is technically a single novel in 7 volumes.There's Don Quixote, but I'd hesitate to call a duology a 'series'.
>>25207963A series =/= a serialThe Brothers Karamazov is a standalone, despite being a serial. But the Three Musketeers was a serial that was part of a series of novels.
>>25208102TBK was the first book of an unfinished duology. Dosto planned for Alyosha to assassinate the tzar in the sequel.
>>25208108And yet it is a standalone because the sequel was never written. You can go ahead and pretend the ending is open-ended, but it works as a singular, closed story. Same can’t be said for a real cliffhanger like Gardens of the Moon by Erikson.
How might an autodidact go about giving himself a classical education?
>>25207990So I'm uhh really into based esoteric shit and I read mein kampf already which was based but like I want to uhh like uhhhh you know get more insights into EUROPA like the uhhmm you know the pagan cool based shit not any of that Jewish christcuckery so like is there a YouTube video or did varg talk about the Greek philosophy
>>25207980What is a classical education? I would argue it’s impossible for an autodidact to be classically educated since such learning took place in schools, colleges, universities and academies which are now defunct, superseded, reworked or thoroughly dispossessed of a department for the classics. The environment mattered: being in the classrooms, writing theses, studying in the library, boarding with like-minded people, drinking and smoking and rambling about life and truth in the near-by bars. You’ll never be classically educated on your own: it takes an entire institution. Of course, you could take a degree in the humanities and be lectured by women about women, or by communists about communism, or by homosexuals about homosexuality, or all three about the women, communism and homosexuality of the classics, but you’ll never have a classical education. It is past, gone, evaporated, twisting away in every direction like smoke.
>>25208042Then you're only gay if you DON'T suck dick, and the most anti-gay dick there is to suck (the element which is inverse to a man's own dick) is my own
>>25207980So, in general, most American universities will have some sort of way to find out what classes you need to take/choose to get a particular degree, and most of those classes will have the syllabi available somewhere which should broadly (or very specifically if you're lucky) describe what that class teaches and with what texts. You can then go get those texts yourself and learn basically anything at a university level that isn't highly specialized or hands on. There are also many "great books of western civilization" lists floating around which you can follow.
>>25207980Learn Latin, study Latin grammar, read the classics, and move on to rhetoric and dialectic, the quadrivium; in the meantime, learn Greek as well.There are some online classical education projects that can help, like the Lyceum Institute; search for them and you'll find them.
I’m looking for a book on hair loss, or more specifically, how to stop hair loss.
>>25206825Just take a fin tablet once every 2 days. Cost 10 bucks for a month supply. Balding in 2026 is literally a choice for the vast majority.
>>25206825remember when this guy made a response video for Sam Hyde after Sam Hyde make a response video for Elon Musk (neither got attention)?
>>25206920because woman make fun of us about it.stupid meanie women.
>>25206825This guy got mind broken by hairloss so badly that he is now known as "heatherpaedo" on /int/
>>25206825Not a /lit/ topic. But we'll ruthlessly make it one by turning this into a GREAT BALD CHARACTERS IN LITERATURE thread.Three to kick things off:— HUMPTY DUMPTY (LEWIS CARROLL, ‘ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS’)“And how exactly like an egg he is!” she said aloud, standing with her hands ready to catch him, for she was every moment expecting him to fall.“It’s very provoking,” Humpty Dumpty said after a long silence, looking away from Alice as he spoke, “to be called an egg — Very!”“I said you looked like an egg, Sir,” Alice gently explained. “And some eggs are very pretty, you know” she added, hoping to turn her remark into a sort of a compliment.“Some people,” said Humpty Dumpty, looking away from her as usual, “have no more sense than a baby!” Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Islington edition unironicallyPrevious >>25200011Here we discuss any kind of science fiction and fantasy. The recommendations are deprecated, but we don't have anything newer.>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
I watched The Hustler last night, starring Paul Newman. I noticed that my favorite William Gibson short story (Dogfight) is a ripoff of it, with a holographic arcade game standing in for pool.
>>25207991When Socrates said "the unexamined life is not worth living", he was talking about people like this.
>>25207991The fuck does a pile of bfloat32 matrices have to do with a toaster>>25207896BotNS, blindsight/echopraxia (mild infohazard IMO but good)
Which author made the best magic system and why is it not Brandon Sanderson, but Steven Erikson’s Warrens?
>>25208094I really hate the magic system trope, it's just steampunk-scifi. The point of magic in fantasy is that it can't be fully systematized or understood the way that physical laws can be.
Okay, ive been sitting on this for months and i really cant anymore. im a production assistant at Bantam Spectra, been here for years. i am not going to post any proof because i actually want to keep my fucking job.The manuscript was delivered internally in January 2026. Not a partial. The actual full thing. GRRM apparently finished it sometime in late 2025 and the silence from his blog has been intentional, marketing told him to go dark.We have been in full editorial and layout pipeline since February. The official announcement is embargoed until Comic-Con, but we know hes going to announce it on his blog first because he doesnt give a fuck, with the actual release window being around fall. They want those holiday sales.The book is long, like long long, think AFFC and ADWD in one book, I wont say the word count because that alone would identify the source, but its about 1600 manuscript pages. People will not be disappointed on that front.The marketing team has been talking about a coordinated campaign that involves HBO so theres probably content planned to drop alongside the release, ill let you guys figure that out.Ill check this thread for a bit but i wont confirm or deny details that could identify me. Dont ask me stupid shit and yes jon is back lol
>>25200411>>25201399>TWOW is now the QAnon of /lit/kek, somehow it's appropriate
>>25204280>Weakwingliterally turned 360° and walked out of that thread>>25205354Brown Ben Plumm and the Tattered Prince are executed but still alive 50 chapters later
>>25206194>a real dragon (i think it's tyrion)gods no. Seven help us
>>25200054Yeah so George finished the book in late 2025 but said he's still barely making any progress in a Jan 2026 interview? Either he's massively trolling, which i don't believe, or you're just bullshitting.
>>25207951Turning 360 leaves you in the same position, retard. "weakwing" was a nice callback imo
>awful prose>stole ideas from everybody>never invented his own formula>was neither celebrated nor respected during the years of his life>only became celebrated later in his life because someone wanted to profit off his works and peddle his own garbage>is celebrated so much that people are willingly turning their head from his disgusting bigotryexplain to me the lovecraft phenomena. CAS is infinitely better.
>>25207106CAS's prose was better, and his fantasy cycles were better than the Dream Cycle, but if you're going to sing his praises you have to bear in mind that he liked Lovecraft's work. There's a reason for that. Lovecraft's contemporary horror stories were generally the strongest of the weird tales scene.
>>25207783>a parody of lovecraftit probably was since he ghostwrote it for some woman
>>25207843The Dream Cycle is underrated. Most people I hear from say it's vastly inferior to his Cthulhu mythos stories (the fuck's the difference anyways, the Elder Gods are mentioned frequently in the Dream Cycle).
This is the definitive collection if you want to read the entire Dream Cycle BTW.
>>25207886The dream cycle sucks because it’s an inferior mishmash copycat of Dunsany
>Notes from Underground
>>25207011noted. I've gotten a lot of spite so far. I'll keep reading
>>25206908>The Five People you Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
>>25206908Consider Phlebas
>Fireproof: Memoir of a Chef
Bakker: The Unholy Consult
Good evening /lit/,I'm looking for places to talk about literature with people who don't care about inflating their internet identity. I like /lit/ but the incel stuff is a bit too much for me.I'm very new here so maybe I can just learn to ignore the incel stuff like it's a tic that they can't control.Anyway I appreciate any suggestions, thank you.
>>25207787I haven't read much Russian stuff. Only a little bit of Chekhov and some Dostoyevsky. The names make it so hard to follow
>>25207763No one is going to ruin civilization to placate your whims, sorry. You might as well kill yourself now.
>>25207834you and your maga ilk already have.thanks i guess
I hate Booktok so much it's unreal
>>25207726I suggest ignoring the bait posts. Do not engage. Starve them of attention and they will wither like shrubs in the burning heat of a month of dry summer days. What is a bait post? It’s any post you feel smacks of disingenuousness, cheekiness, deceit, cunning, tomfoolery, jest, spite, etc., any post designed to make you angry, upset, tilted, etc.; low-effort one liners and memes; unsubstantiated statements of delusional import should be probed until they evaporate or condense in solid form. In other words, find what’s earnest.
Saturday EditionStubbed >>25197495>What is /wng/ — Web Novel General?A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more>Why read web novels?Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.>Why write web novels?Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.>/wng/ authors.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25207765is there a name for slop that gas been pre-digested and regurgitated through a sloppy translator?
>>25207781refried slop
>>25206599The collective unconscious is a powerful thing.
>>25203457You should plan the entire web novel before posting a chapter, and I hope you polish it before anyone sees it.
>>25206723This has to be a falseflag
Anyone in Japan interested in these books?1500¥ for Japanese Cinema and 4000¥ for Rashomon.
Fwiw I still wouldn't call myself a Godard fan but for some reason I really liked Pierrot Le Fou and that opened me up to watch more "shitty" new wave films and then I found directors like I guess the perfect example would be Alain Resnais who is very much considered part of the "new wave" but stylistically nothing like say Truffaut or Godard. All his movies are about time/perception/distorted memories. If you've ever seen 8 1/2 a lot of his movies are dreamlike like that. 'What is real, what is a dream?" This type of thing. >many works inspired by french new wave that i like, but i just have a hard time getting warm with the original100% agree actually. And this is why I also hated the genre for the longest time. I would literally watch really old French movies like IDK La Grande Illusion or something and newer ones but I NEVER watched anything from the late 50's or 60's because I thought it would all be pretentious juveline pseudo intellectual "critic turned film director" bullshit or something. >same with solaris. But mirror is alright, way betterAight anon, I actually kind of wanted to see Solaris at some point anyways since it gets compared to 2001 a lot, but I will watch Mirror instead. The IMDB synopsis makes it sounds pretty depressing ngl but I'll see it for sure.>but why do people make photos of the screen in the cinema, ever noticed?Idk I don't go that often, I only go if a specific movie (usually that I've already seen) is playing at my nearest art house cinema. The crowd is usually older normal "educated" people. >thats no way to live, no more hate nowI try to let it out in a positive way.
>>25207949i like these kind of mozies were everything is hazy and dreamlike and you dont know whats real and what not, very cool, will check him out too, one of the only recent movies that really captured me was aftersun and perfect days, aftersun did that really greatbut breathless is exactly what you thought you would hate about late 50s early 60s movies, that part where godard filmed himself getting an interview, tht was the point i knew i will never wattch him again, but i really like bresson, but dont know if he counts as new wavebut i go really often to specific showings of older movies too, one of my few pleasures of life, i get really blasted with hard drugs and nod of to some movie and a few years ago there were like 2-3 other people and they were mostly old quiet geezers and one other lonely nerd, now its always filled with many people and then you hear some stupid prick always tell the girls he dragged to some stupid facts in his nasally voice to show off what a buff he is, and few people take out their phones to make pictures of iconic scenes. What for? Fucking what for? There exist enough screengrabs and wallpapers on the internet why do they make photos. I really start seething over this and nearly started fights over this. And then you hear them talk about this movie and they couldnt care less, they dont engage with it, they go there to be able to say they have seen it, they already formed their opinion they already read everything about this movie before they have seen it and then just repeat to each other phrases they have picked up from these critics, and if the movie is much older they can say it was problematic and this was sexist and this was not cool and uncalled for. They go in and already know what they will say to each other after the movie.But they are not coherent, you will never hear them give these same complaints to their little artcrowd darlings like for example godard. Yes i have a chip on the shoulder and yes you can hurl all insults at me and i wrote myself into rage again, but i just wish i could go back in time when the cinemas werent filled swith these people. But goddamn im happy for the cinemas that they now get more money and appreciation, it just sucks for me personally. Cant just everyone shut up just shut up, be wuiet shut up dont move shut up and wathc the fucking movie, and then these fucking pricks that crack their knuckles every 5 minutes fuuuck
>>25207814Where in japan? Im interested
Essential leftist literature?
>>25204320good list but>No Giorgio Agamben
>>25205597People who post things like, the Chinese are going to come rape you, etc. etc. reminds me of the poem "Waiting for the Barbarians" by Cavafy.Also it gets funnier when you see a lot of Chinese posting online in English being Sinotriumph maxxers but Chinese posting online in Chinese are going into full civilizational self-annihilationism and are like "Xi has ruined everything, our economy is totally messed up, the fucking Great Leap Forward had better net return on labor than this." Their debt to GDP ratio has skyrocketed past the U.S. and E.U. btw.
>>25207987nice
>>25207666Your skull will be opened and its rotten content will feed dogs.>>25207678>You're critiquing like one source of Sutton when he actually had a wide variety of verified sources.The wide variety of 'verified sources' does not confirm what you say, that's Sutton's problem, retard : selective quotation, interpretive overreach, and the systematic removal of hedging language from primary sources. The documents exist. The leap from "this document records a financial transaction" to "Wall Street conspiratorially engineered the Bolshevik Revolution" is not in the documents, it is Sutton's inference and it is a sign that this retard wasn't serious about his methodology. The Hoover Institution which published the trilogy notably distanced itself from his conclusions even while treating the data compilation as useful. Now let's address: >Academic Trilogy SpecificallyFirst, normal commercial trade is not a conspiracy nor a sign of deficiency from a communist standpoint. Sutton catalogs technology transfers but cannot establish that they were coordinated, ideologically motivated or that the parties intended to sustain Soviet power rather than simply profit from contracts. Merely listing transactions proves nothing, retard. Second, the causal claim is undemonstrated. Sutton's underlying thesis is that Western technology was decisive to Soviet industrial survival and development. But the Soviet Union also received substantial technology transfer from Weimar Germany under the Rapallo Treaty (1922) and subsequent arrangements, far better documented, including the secret military-industrial cooperation at Lipetsk, Kazan, and Tomka. Sutton systematically underweights this alternative channel. His counterfactual claim that without Western capitalism the Soviet state would have collapsed is simply asserted.Third, he cannot distinguish categories. The trilogy collapses together government-approved commercial trade, private business deals, humanitarian relief, contracts signed etc. BEFORE the Revolution and Lend-Lease-era transfers. These have entirely different political and contextual meanings and cannot be bundled into a single explanatory framework.>You people think any source of data that isn't from a compulsively lying murderous dictatorship is muh CIA.But you are actually repeating lies spread by the CIA and debunked by actually documented sources, you goy cattle slave. >lmao I love this cope. So they need to temporarily use capitalism because it actually works and doesn't completely fail like central planning does?Hey, retard, the economy is still entirely centrally planned. Hell Capitalism itself is centrally planned today, you fucking retard. You think an entire nation like the US doesn't work with plans and budgeted previsions which are decided by the Federal State?>Why do workers in Taiwan make almost 4x what workers in China make? It seems that communism is hindering their development.Taiwan is China, retard.
>>25207679>Your statist overlords, mao and stalin were literal child rapists LMFAOThese are baseless claims which rely on no historical evidence. The only sources are tabloids and the biography of one of Mao's bodyguards which was published by a Western editor and refuted by many people who knew Mao himself. Another example of Khruschvite-CIA propaganda. >You're a communist, look in the mirror.You literally claimed that Xi's policy lead to China's decline when its rise has been unstoppable, especially since 2020. Sit tight in your cuck chair, cuckboy>They were more economically productive before xi. Now they have decline. It's almost as if central planning doesnt work.Meaningless statement lmao China has accomplished 90% of its 5-year-plans while you bitches pay taxes so Trump can send money to Israel and subsidize the bankers who will put you in debt and rape your children. >You are in a religious cult.No, the only idolatrous fuck is you. You worship transsexual pornography and hot pockets your whore mother makes for you. >You support extremely rich dictators.MUH DICTATORSYou sound like the most castrated liberal ever. Did you take your hormones today, tranny? >They keep shrinking the state side of their economy every year.You keep lying as if Vietnam's 5 year plans weren't openly available on the internet for everyone to see that I'm telling the truth and that you're a lying cuckold who's being raped by the Epstein class. >>25207682Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
What else can be added to this chart?Unfortunately, lots of insane writing goes unpublished, but there is some out there
>>25206545Baby Alex by Quentin Scobie He had a mental breakdown a couple years ago and now spends every day spamming /int/ with deranged child rape fantasies. The book isn't much different desu
Schreber, Nijinsky
>>25206545There's that 1mm+ words Pokemon fanfic. Wouldn't call the author sane.
>>25206545I have paranoid schizophrenia and am a published author. No one really takes notice because I’m on meds. But I still have negative symptoms: low energy, avolition, anhedonia, lack of drive. Mix that with anxiety and depression, and you get my “suicide fuel” literary horror that I’m known for.
>>25208068aah so you are "that" guyim on to you anon, im on to you
>>25208048Her and CHVRCHES can do really good covers. Shame a lot of them are live-only.
>>25207930Saving this for later>>25207946Ooooooh that attachment you sent was quite scandalous
>>25208041>he doesn't love his fellow manWhere's your sense of Christian charity, anon?
>>25208056Scandal is what I do. Scandal is who I am.
Thinking bout Indo mie ramen.
What's all the hub bub about this one?
It is good.
>>25207576>good>every person that's read it says the first 200 pages are torturehmm
>>25207654Your Gaddis thread no giving what you need?
>>25207541It was out of print, hard to find, and extremely expensive when you did find if used. Since it was rare for someone to have a physical copy and a bunch of pseuds were praising it, it built a cult following around it of people who had never read the novel but believe it to be the greatest novel of all time. So when Dalkey reprinted it, all the pseuds went wild because now they could finally read this book
>>25207984Yet nobody actually has read it aside from me. Curious
