I've enjoyed a few stories from Volume 0, but it's mostly foidslop as you'd expect

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I'm surprised that The Stinging Fly is so good, but I guess I shouldn't be. Nation of poets and writers, I guess. Irish journal. Has a good press attached to it to

>>25180310
I've seen the Stinging Fly recommended before (by the author of Brat when he was posting here), but I don't think I've read anything they've published. Anything good of theirs online you could link?

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>>25180976
Yeah, this one. "Let's Go Kill Ourselves" by Colin Barrett.
>https://stingingfly.org/2014/07/24/lets-go-kill/
GREAT story. The magazine decided to publish his first book of stories (picrel) off its strength and it was fucking killer.

>>25181182
Thanks, that was great. I remembered I've had a copy of Young Skins on my computer for a while, and probably heard of it on here. Were you recommending it before? And my own Irish rec would be Nobber by Oisin Fagan, which I really enjoyed last year. Brat by Gabriel Smith is good too.

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Same here, but the characters are completely different. Why would anyone shed a tear for a band of marauders except for their mothers?

>>25181055
do you look like that

the kid dosent have a contrasting philosophy to Holdens, hes just slightly less evil. nothing about him would warrant sympathy

>>25181055
I was sad about the bear

>>25181055
They’re all just a bunch of evil cunts in BM. That all being said, I don’t care for anyone in either book. Glanton, he’s cool.

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>>25181113
I get it. You hate /lit/, many people on this site do. We hate each other here too; you should go back to /v/ or whatever and hate each other over there.

>>25180884
>tfw too smart to be rich and successful

>>25181008
heck YEAH, the Beatles ROCK
(upvoted, btw)

>>25181301
Not trying to be cynical, but I believe that high intellect and high empathy is really a curse, especially when society is so degenerated. The cultural environment that's being continuously formed around you by less and less intelligent people is more and more demoralizing and it needs nearly superhuman optimism to find a will to create something by yourself that's valuable by your standards.

>>25181307
They’re not the BEST band in the WORLD, EVER, for nothing.
>>25181340
>high intellect
I’m not doubting you, but having that own sentiment about yourself can prove to be more of a hindrance than you’d think since it more often than not comes with a hint of conceit. There are plenty who exist with the same level of intellect, if not higher than you. Once you understand this, you may very well be able to push forward because you can learn from other likeminded individuals more about yourself. I’m not sure if you’re an autodidact or not, but if the latter, my point becomes weaker. Still, convincing yourself that you can do something brilliant without putting that to the test feels empty.

>>25180995
Yes, dialogue should sound natural for the setting and time period of the book. Assuming this is modern day America, they can't be walking around speaking to each other like they are characters out of a Dickens novel. It's slop but accurately portrayed dialogue

>>25181039
something like the top 1000 published books sell less than 100 physical copies

it's all a sham

>>25181269
ah yes, the elusive chad with reddit humor.

>>25181324
I'm speaking from experience. No I'm not talking about myself sadly.

>>25181269
I saw the movie in the theater. There were some hot women, one which was seated next to me and another behind me with her husband or boyfriend, all there laughing at all the jokes. The one sitting next to me looked at me once while laughing but I think she noticed my face was stone cold.

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>>25181236
BAKKER is KING!

the greatest book in the world, the divine comedy, is fantasyslop

>>25181062
Who would want to write about our faggot ass society? The ones who do (women) either write smut or woe-is-me-I'm-not-white DEI slop.

>>25181062
>>Narrowing his eyes at the approaching hoard of T’zendians, Klayden clenched his fist and summoned forth a burning shadow spear…

What's wrong with this sentence though?

>>25181282
>guise the divine comedy was actually le heckin
you have to go back

>>25173472
Nezahualcoyotl is probably the best and most original poet in america, so wrong.
Juan Rulfo, Juan Jose Arreola, José Revueltas and Ibarguengoitia all contemporary novelists that lean on the indigenous side.
Carlos Monsivais and Octavio Paz are heavily indigenous too, first is a chronist and latter nobel prize essayist and poet.
Jorge Cuesta looks quite indian.
Anyways, you are retarded.

>>25180314
Nezahualcoyotl is only original because the tradition he drew from was almost totally wiped out.
I've never been able to take Octavio Paz seriously after my faher told how and why he met him, back in the 70s. Just uncomfortable now.

>>25173472
mestizos are white now?

>>25180314
>Ibarguengoitia
>His father, Alejandro Ibargüengoitia Cumming (Basque + English)
>he studied in schools that belonged to the Marist Brothers (French Catholic influence)
>and was a boy scout (American globohomo imprint)
>he received a Rockefeller grant to study in New York City (more American globohomo)
>Married to Joy Laville (ummmh, indigenous? Ah! No, wait, Anglo influence strikes again!)
>They settled permanently in Paris in 1980 (...)
>Died in Madrid (Hispania!)
Dude, what indigenous side does he lean on?

>>25180746
>Just uncomfortable now.
tell us the story anon

>grrm said he gave main plot points to the show (like Stannis burning Shireen)
So how will the books make it?

I've seen theories that because Azor Again had to sacrifice his wife to make the original Lightbringer, Stannis thinks he has to sacrifice Shireen. I've seen theories that once the Others begin to come south, Stannis feels he has to sacrifice Shireen to save the realm.

>>25180635
Hopefully the book is taking so long (it was almost finished in 2019) because he's rewriting all that dumb shit.

So how do you think Brandon Sanderson will finish the story?

/grrm/ peaked in 2024

>>25180790
Bran ascends to godhood and becomes God-Emperor of Westeros (so basically nothing changes from the show ending), but in the epilogue we'll see a character named Maester Hoid, with one of the most extensive maester chains you'll ever see in the story, leaving Westeros with a bag full of weirwood seeds and a dragon egg.

>>25179294
>socialism begets fascism
As if this wasn't widely known already.

>>25179294
eugenics.exe

>>25180353
North Korea doesn’t have eugenics actually. I literally saw the Korean tv livestream last Friday and they had a documentary/ commercial for the Libre 3 diabetic sensor on it.

>>25179302
everything on the left of that pic is because of the CIA

>>25179778
It’s not Fascism. It’s national liberation where for the time being, liberation from USA/ Europe is what is prioritized.

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The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte by Robert Asprey

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Read this one when you're finished with the others as well.

>>25169460
Emil Ludwig's is pretty good

>>25181255
>englishman comparing napoleon to Hitler
I’m sure this is a fair and reasonable take and not just ethnic and nationalistic seething

>>25181291
Eh? It's a fairly well trodden practice to compare tyrants from different eras.

Are you really unironically looking for parenting advice from 4chan posters who call people chuds? Doubt you’re procreating but this kid is beyond fucked
>you know who would know how to raise a kid? Soibois who had even worse relationships with their own dad than the average redditor

>>25180667
Are you legally barred from owning mirrors lmao. How is it possible to have this little self-awareness

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>>25181077
>voted for trump in '20
supertard
>voted for him again in '24
gigatard lmfao christ you people are so fucking stupid
>>25180627
beat him with a copy of Mein Kampf so every time he sees it discussed online he has ptsd flashbacks and closes out of the tab

>>25181066
>>25181077
dubs
>checked
anyways, I was a neocon until I was 29. my reason: I didn't like brown people so a temporary alliance with jews was necessary to avoid that.

>>25181158
relax, the women I impregnated raised the chud concern. she said the fetus feels chuddie

I'm a literate zumzum and I write good. So yes.

rupi kaur

>>25180678
What will they write?

>>25179266
pynchud was literally nominated for a nebula award

>>25179264
pynchon is a trash ((writer))

>>25180666
i feel like bakker forgot he wrote that she was sentencing people to death and enjoyed it.

>>25175037
It's extremely coincidental that Kellhus just so happens to position the No God between him and the White Luck Warrior at the exact right moment twice. It's also extremely coincidental that he brings the No God to the exact right place at the exact right time to get inserted right as he is manifesting Ajokli, especially since clearly he knows Esme will release him.

So, Kellhus somehow using the No God against the Hundred doesn't seem that far fetched.

As for him hiding in it, yeah, the missing trinkets on the carapace do get mentioned several times. But more telling in this is that the White Luck Warrior sees Malowebi in the Decapitant. That is, the Gods can see the people in them just fine, and presumably they can see them even better in the Golden Room since it is basically on the Outside already (a bubble floating on it as they say).

So, the second head seems like a red herring. The No God is a place where the Gods obviously cannot see. The other option is the scenes on the Outside seem to show Kellhus potentially constructing some sort of place for himself. So that could simply be it too.

But the No God is obviously the ideal tool if you actually want to somehow defeat or change the Hundred, since it starves them to death.

As for Kellhus seeing the No God, that's pretty clearly what the original vision was meant to show. It being Ajokli the whole time would be a plausible retcon, but it could also just be the No God and Ajokli only comes in when Kellhus comes to him as an "inverse prophet." The No God seems pretty thoughtless when destroying things, but if it is the "prothesis" for an AI that "reads the code of the world" then it presumably has more to say.

>>25180914
No, not really.

>>25180895
Achamian activates the doll before getting captured. This is literally stated.

>>25181303
Yeah, I remember reading something of the sort as well. I mean, wouldn't he otherwise be surprised by seeing his own doll saving his own ass? Doesn't make sense to me.

>>25180795
>I think of reading Heart the Lover
All the GR reviews are women saying "I am NOT OK this book destroyed me I'm a sobbing MESS." Very bad sign.

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>>25180833
>All the GR reviews are women saying "I am NOT OK this book destroyed me I'm a sobbing MESS."
Yes, this is exactly why I wanna read the book. I like melancholic literature.
The thing that I don't like of it is the fact that, afaik, it relies on flashbacks. I don't like nostalgia baiting in my novels.
Also, picrel (probably).
Hopefully it won't have either thing, or at least the style will make me stomach them.
>Very bad sign.
Why do you think that?

>>25180868
>Why do you think that?
It makes me assume the book is melodramatic, unserious, and chick-lit-adjacent. But I could be totally wrong, I've been pleasantly surprised by some new books I read recently that I had those kinds of pre-judgements about.

I only read two books a month is that too slow?

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>>25181038
>chick-lit-adjacent
Judging by the (female) GR reactions, it shouldn't be that. They wouldn't be crying if it was a cozy read.
About the other two things, I remember Jack Edwards liking it for how mature it pictured relationships. I trust the guy.
The wholesome chungus that is the average GR male user seem to hate it too, so it should be a pretty serious experience.

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>>25179844
>Seething jew
like I said, you people should really be heideggerians

>>25177759
>but but but that's only one letter!!!

Are you attempting to inb4 the thing which proves the extremely restrained relevancy of your assertion? It‘s funny enough that you‘re standing on the claim that I haven‘t read much Nietzsche if I haven‘t read the March 23, 1887 letter to Fritsch; but unless you have an encyclopedic recollection of Nietzsche‘s letters this is all but confirmation of my claim that it‘s uniquely liberal whitewashers who hoard disjointed segments they can use for selective evidence to the disregard of other statements they dislike.

Which, again, would be one thing of its own merit and the legitimate relevancy of one letter if a more nuanced perspective—both pro- and anti-jew in places—had not found formulation through his books, however you would rather subordinate them to the March 23, 1887 letter to Fritsch.

>>25179885
>you can't just cite that letter okay because... because... uh... you can't!
lol
>you're being selective! it's barely relevant!
I'm citing the man's direct thoughts, the ones he expressed to friends, acquaintances, and relatives, free from misdirection, parody, or satire. you're gesturing toward a red-thread corkboard in your head where X passage from Y book is actually secretly ironically jew-hating when pressed backwards against Z excerpt from blah blah blah
>he was actually pro and anti jew in places so its complicated (by which I mean he was secretly anti-jew but it just sounds like he was pro-jew because he admired their conniving scheming underhanded insular jew-y ways, not actually them or their culture)
this is so powerfully retarded lmao
>but but but but one letter! just one letter!!!
okay here's more, let's start with another letter, march 29 1887, also to Fritsch, which you also are unaware of
>Believe me: this abominable 'wanting to have a say' of noisy dilettantes about the value of people and races, this subjection to 'authorities' who are utterly rejected with cold contempt by every sensible mind (e.g., E. Dühring, R. Wagner, Ebrard, Wahrmund, P. de Lagarde — who among these in questions of morality and history is the most unqualified, the most unjust?), these constant, absurd falsifications and rationalizations of vague concepts 'Germanic,' 'Semitic,' 'Aryan,' 'Christian,' 'German' — all of that could in the long run cause me to lose my temper... And finally, how do you think I feel when the name Zarathustra is mouthed by anti-Semites?
here's a draft of a letter he was going to send to his sister in December 1887
>Now it has gone so far that I have to defend myself tooth and nail against those who confuse me with these anti-Semitic canaille; after my own sister, my former sister, like Widemann more recently, has given the impetus to this most disastrous of all confusions. After I actually read the name Zarathustra in the Anti-Semitic Correspondence, my patience came to an end — I am now in a state of self-defense against the party of your husband. These accursed antics of the anti-Semites shall not sully my ideal!!
from a letter to Overbeck, march 24 1887
>The anti-Semites are enamored with Zarathustra, 'the divine man'; and there is a particular anti-Semitic interpretation of it, which made me laugh greatly... [a thorough list of German Jewish artists and scholars] would be a good contribution to the history of German culture, and criticism of it."
from a letter to von Meysenburg, spring 1884

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>>25177294
Like most things Nietzsche his judeo-philia was just him taking the opposite opinion of Wagner to spite him. There's no real thought put into it.

>>25179905
Didn't he hold a grudge against Wagner all his life and write various works against him PURELY because Wagner was notoriously antisemetic?
Wignats trying to push Nietszche is a fucking meme. It's clear literally nobody gas ever read his shit. His sister was the one who mainly pushed le ubermensch interpretation that edgelords believe in nowadays, and she was as much of a total fucking loser as he was. Fuck nihilists in general

>>25180507
That’s just how the language is even in casual conversation. Every other phrase is an idiom. Classical texts are far worse

>>25180723
>Every other phrase is an idiom.
Of course it's not, lol

>>25181185
you are a frog in a well

>>25181210
You are courting death!

Perfume by Suskind sort of