Does something like this exist in Western literature? An amoral main character with no sympathetic qualities, yet whom you're still supposed to root for?All the examples I can think of a "villain protagonist" either are actually an anti-hero, or you're waiting for his downfall.
>>25204753His rival gets turned into a woman, but it's played for laughs and he's into her. He holds the key to turning him back so he uses it to order him around.
Yellow by Aron Beauregard. It's splatterpunk so its really nasty but the main character gets wronged horribly and gets an equally vile revenge but is so fucked up I hesitate to call him an anti-hero.
>>25209054*he's NOT into her, fuck
>>25209207He may not be into her for romantic purposes but they do dual cultivate together (because it gives him benefits TM), and it leaves bai ning bing trembling, screaming, and moaning in bed.The author definitely has a fetish for this sort of thing, there's way too many characters who get sex changed. Then there's the gay orgy arc and when the (male) leader of the inkmen becomes pregnantFor those of you unfamiliar with reverend insanity inkmen are a variant species of humans, it's not explicitly mentioned but they are basically described as being black people lmao
>>25209983She is his waifu
>is the greatest children's book ever written
yes
>>25211425Harold Bloom suggests this one over Harry Potter, why?
>>25211432The Piper at the Gates of Dawn may be the greatest depiction of a spiritual experience ever writ.>Then suddenly the Mole felt a great Awe fall upon him, an awe that turned his muscles to water, bowed his head, and rooted his feet to the ground. It was no panic terror—indeed he felt wonderfully at peace and happy—but it was an awe that smote and held him and, without seeing, he knew it could only mean that some august Presence was very, very near. With difficulty he turned to look for his friend, and saw him at his side, cowed, stricken, and trembling violently. And still there was utter silence in the populous bird-haunted branches around them; and still the light grew and grew.>Perhaps he would never have dared to raise his eyes, but that, though the piping was now hushed, the call and the summons seemed still dominant and imperious. He might not refuse, were Death himself waiting to strike him instantly, once he had looked with mortal eye on things rightly kept hidden. Trembling he obeyed, and raised his humble head; and then, in that utter clearness of the imminent dawn, while Nature, flushed with fulness of incredible colour, seemed to hold her breath for the event, he looked in the very eyes of the Friend and Helper; saw the backward sweep of the curved horns, gleaming in the growing daylight; saw the stern, hooked nose between the kindly eyes that were looking down on them humorously, while the bearded mouth broke into a half-smile at the corners; saw the rippling muscles on the arm that lay across the broad chest, the long supple hand still holding the pan-pipes only just fallen away from the parted lips; saw the splendid curves of the shaggy limbs disposed in majestic ease on the sward; saw, last of all, nestling between his very hooves, sleeping soundly in entire peace and contentment, the little, round, podgy, childish form of the baby otter. All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.>"Rat!" he found breath to whisper, shaking. "Are you afraid?">"Afraid?" murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love. "Afraid! Of Him? O, never, never! And yet—and yet—O, Mole, I am afraid!">Then the two animals, crouching to the earth, bowed their heads and did worship.
>blocks your pathNothing personal, kid
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and through the Looking Glass.
I kinda wanna get back to philosophy and I wanna read useful ones to use in my life, If you know any more books to read (I already read all of the essentials)Anyways is Erotism good ?
>>25210225We are here.
>>25210255True.
>>25208123lol no
>>25208113>and I wanna read useful ones to use in my lifeThen Bataille is practically useless. The only useful one's in that regard, who are concerned eith living life, are ones like tge Stoics or the Epicureans. You can also try some self-help authors.
>>25209535That sounds extremely retarded, not gonna lie>>25210225Why even bother with this kind of game? It sounds unimaginably childish. Just skip to the end and kill yourself if you're that desperate for novelty.
Did you know Angourie Rice had a book podcast and website /lit/? https://www.angourieslibrary.com/
>>25211397She likes Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf.
>>25210414Moids will say this unprompted but then hate women for reading erotica
>>25210404>>25211285>>25211484It's fine if she don't wanna shave the legs but if she's gonna go and try to do a bunch of cutesy photoshoots with them like c'mon now.
>>25210700Fuck me! I meant to say filthy shaven bullshit. Fuck! I'm a goddamn heretic.
>>25211484Imagine laying your face on her calf and feeling it lightly scratch your cheek.
>age>current book>your thoughts on it
>>>Threadly schizo that thinks people can figure out who you are or where you live by knowing your age, what book you're reading right now and how you currently feel about it having a melty as usualWhy are schizophrenics like this?
>>25211080>retard thinks because he's posting on an anonymous website that he is anonymous >doesn't understand how building a profile works>didn't even say hello to his handlers
19The Birth of Tragedy (Stanford translation)I think I'm too stupid for this book, or at least I'm not familiar enough with Schopenhauer to understand the framework that Nietzsche is working in here. I'm reading it very slowly, maybe two sections a day, sometimes re-reading them again later that day if I really felt lost the first time. I'm traveling right now but once I'm home I think I'll re-read everything I've read up to this point in full and take notes down.
>>25206266>Dune: Messiah>Too much yappingIf you don't like it you're going to have a rough go withe the later novels. From Children and onwards it's more or less a dissertation on messianic figures and the nature of dictatorships.
>23>The Decay of the AngelJust finished the tetralogy, which took me almost six weeks bc my attention span is friedI've seen a lot of criticism of the ending, but I thought it was flawless and makes perfect sense if you've actually been paying attention to the lengthy discourses on Yogacara throughout the series>>25207823You should try Runaway Horses, it's meant to follow Spring Snow but works well enough as a standalone novel
Whats the best writing rig you use or can think of? Posting here because people actually write shit here that isnt code. Idea is something portable for writing at like a coffee shop for instance. Pic is the lolworthy slop image gemini made when I asked. This is way too bulky.
>>25210735I use a Lenovo Duet, tablet with a keyboard built into its detachable cover. Pretty much ideal for me, keyboard kind of sucks but good enough and the ability to detach it and use it with a stylus makes up for that since I can do those things which are difficult to do when typing. Mostly gotten used to the keyboard and it rarely bothers me anymore. Probably going to order a new one soon, just in case the discontinue them, love this thing.
blackberry bold
>>25210735I have a mechanical keyboard, with creamy switches a cute keycaps. The laptop or pc doesn't really matter, as long as its compatible with a writing program. Imagine a stripped down e-ink tablet with nothing but notepad that you can plug your keyboard into. That'd be fun.
>>25210758They finally fixed the kickstand, it works in portrait or landscape now. Keyboard can only attach in landscape but 99% of the time I want it standing up in portrait it is just for referring to my notes, so not a problem. Keyboard has improved (still not a great keyboard butand the hinge seems a better design but I never had any issues with the old one. Only thing that sucks is they reduced the ram to 4gigs, but not an issue for my needs and with ram prices these days I am not surprised.
>>25210735Unironically a smal notebook and a Lamy pen. I wrote a small essay book in this way. Then wrote the manuscript in Google Docs.
If you were famous and publishers wanted to make a READ Poster of you to hang in schools across the country, what book would you be reading? My initial thoughts>The Hobbit >Moby Dick>Catcher in the Rye
>>25210672Chess Story. If it's in schools, I want the book to be small so they don't think reading only giant tomes counts.
It must be a book...>Good>With a distinct title (not too long, potent, memorable)>Preferably with an iconic, recognizable cover>Accessible to high school ages >Somewhat different from the standard mandatory readings
Any Andrei Bitov or Viktor Pelevin book. That will encourage the kids to read soviet and russian postmodernism.
>>25210672Dracula
the hills of norvos 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: >>25156285
>>25208485Extremely based.
oh, it's over alrightI'm sure their tune will change when he dies and the publisher drops them a blank check
>>25211439He'll write more when he can't walk and needs to sit on a bedpan. Demented GRRM will shit out Dreams of Spring in like a year.
>>25211439We are getting winds don't you worry, as for dream? Yeah that'll remain a dream
>>25208466>>25209097I can understand being driven wild and mad by Dornish, Dayne, Stark or Lannister pussy but Tully-pussy really
>>25208333Professor Squirtz?
I hate being drowsy as fuck after lunch.
>>25208566lol just take a fucking nap
I was promised sexy ladies. :|
>>25211400i tried bro/sis but all we got was Lord Vaginamort
So you can just straight up copy Joyce and get published? Interesting...As shit as Pynchon is, at least the genre fiction slop he wrote is original.
Did that drunkard break you so hard that you ended up suffering psychosis or something?
>>25211221All pastas started as individual posts. And do you not see the comedy in being tormented by visions of Pynchon's buck teeth for months, despite only reading 10 pages? "agitated movement towards my personal computer"?I didn't even write it, I'm responsible for:>Pinecone is immunized against all dangers: one may call him a redditor, scat fetishist, pervert, pedo, looney tunes, Joyce ripoff, it all runs off him like water off a raincoat. But call him a glowie and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: “I’ve been found out."
>>25210630It's pinecone
>>25211245Jesus you suck cocks
Is this guy still spamming gaddis and pynchon threads to “take them down”? At least in the pynchon threads he always posted anime pictures so you could fikter his retarded posts. Did his “visual novels are literature but Pynchon isn’t” thread get taken down?
Any more books like this that explain normalfags from an outsider perspective? I read this entire thing in one sitting and it seems to mirror a lot of my observations of them over the years. Redditors don't seem to like it at all which is good sign in my opinion, it means the author is hitting some uncomfortable truths and doesn't sugarcoat things.
the matrix has been broken
Psychology is bullshit for weakling
>>25208576my stance is that you should read the book ;)
>>25208583caveman psychology is still psychology
I dig the cover, very minimalistic. what's it about, do you have a summary
>>25211497Here's the Amazon blurb:>A twisted love triangle between a narcissist, a Machiavellian and a psychopath.>Richard Blake is an investment banker with a runaway inner-monologue, a superiority complex and a short temper.>Emily Ruskin is an opportunistic socialite who specializes in manipulating high-status men to her every whim.>Samuel Bloom is a lone drifter psychopath with a grade school sense of humor and a samurai sword.>Their lives intertwine, leading to devious betrayals, vendettas and extortion, all culminating in a final shocking climax.>The debut story from Nicholas John Boor.>For readers who enjoyed Fight Club and American Psycho, THE DARK TRIAD is sure to thrill.
Do writers have groupies?
>>25209314depends how demoralizing you are for the european people and how much the lodge will fix prostitutes cashing those whore outside to pretend they like you since the semitic masonic lodge also runs the pedo rings that those whores come from...castration in the new fad, so, perhaps a woman with an attachment penis could have groupies.
Yes. Even if you are a mediocre writer with some degree of success you will have women reaching out because there is nothing more romcom than "dating an author." There might be less if you are someone like Evola but I doubt that number is zero. Source: my mediocre writing career
>>25209314Yes, but do you really want to bang litchicks?
I got a message like this to my substack (I have it setup like a book) and I have less than like 15 subs, I would imagine big writers get insane levels of fan mail. When something clicks with people, it just clicks
>>25209314Bitches suck my dick cuz I look like JK Rowling
Every time I get around to actually reading some famous author, I immediately realize that 99% of what I've heard about him is meme shit from people who never actually read him. I've been reading Gibbon, I'm about halfway through volume one (of three in my edition), and despite a decade of hearing "Gibbon's thesis is that Christianity caused Rome's decline" from BOTH online retards and Classics professors, that is very obviously not his thesis. Maybe he really goes ham on Christianity once he gets to Constantine and the Christian emperors (I'm just getting there), but even if he does, the first 300 pages are a sophisticated structural account of Rome's decline, with several interrelated substructures. He's fascinating from a historiographical and intellectual-historical standpoint, because he's clearly drawing on things like Montesquieu (explicitly), French Enlightenment "philosophical history" (Voltaire, Mably), and Scottish Enlightenment sociology, and synthesizing them with late Renaissance and Early Modern methodological innovations, like Tillemont and others in the ecclesiastical history tradition. His Englishness also constantly shines through, to the point that you almost feel you're reading Burke whenever he talks about political philosophy or political economy. What is interesting about Gibbon doesn't seem to me to be anything close to "Christianity bad, Enlightenment good," although as I said I haven't gotten to the Christian emperors yet. It's that he's writing a historical account of independent but dialectically related causal nexuses. The latter are the protagonists of the narrative, not nations or individuals, judged against static a priori criteria as in Voltaire and still somewhat in Hume. Historical causation emerges on its own terms, with multiple structures interacting and causing mutations, even when Gibbon still has Enlightenment/anticlerical priors like Hume or (most schematically) Voltaire, which is a genuine advance in historical method. His coverage of Christianity FITS INTO this style of writing, it's one causal nexus among others. Now I finally understand his importance for the emergence of the field, and I find it amazing that he's roughly contemporary with the Gottingen school. Worse, whenever you actually read something like this you realize that all the "things people always mention/cite/say" are from the first 50 fucking pages of the first volume. I'm never trusting anything anyone says again. I'm only reading primary sources. I will attack anyone who tries to summarize a text or an author to me.
>>25208027Yes this is completely accurate. I have been reading philosophy for 10 years now and every single philosopher has been more interesting than others made him sound and has had only the dimmest, or even no connection with the standard take. You have to read for yourself, never trust summarizes. Frankly some of the random autistic effort posts I have seen here have been more accurate than what ‘everyone knows’ about a given philosopher.
>>25208027Test.
>>25208027Thanks for reminding me to read the English enlightenment authors.
>>25208027Are you any good at math? If so, you will be shocked at how much you've been lied to about modern physics, really science in general, by people who don't understand the subject and are simply repeating what someone else who doesn't understand it told them once
>>25208027true Nietzsche talks about this
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>>25211398in general you want to respect your readers instead of babying with them as the one thing people hate the most is disrespect. that's the whole idea of "show don't tell". even if someone doesn't get it right away it better than making them feel they are being treated like a 5 year old.
>>25211398feel free to do the opposite then and see how it goes
>>25211327sounds like more dominance for Amazon as usual. i'm selling my ebook for $0.99, paperback $5.99 and hardcover $12.99.
>>25211327sounds like more dominance for Amazon as usual. i'm selling my ebook there for $0.99, paperback $5.99 and hardcover $12.99.
>>25211471There used to be a point where making pocket sized books, size not length, with B&N was cheaper. They made it impossible to do now.
