admit it, /lit/.there are definitely instances where the film is better than the book
>>25180741>implying subvertculture in literature didn't predate tv by atleast a thousand years
>>25180682>solves the shaky cam aesthetic>perfect set design>long shot to pop the camera nerds>anti war dub is in itlove that adaptation
>>25180668You can make a great film out of a shit/mid bookYou can't make a great film out of a good book
>>25180818counterpoint: eyes wide shut
>>25180796Honestly one of my all time favorites.
A New Age of Politics is to come where force and strength reign. What books should I be reading to be amongst the dominant political force when the time comes? I have already read Evola, Jünger, Spengler, Hegel, Schmitt, Habermas, and I have also read Breker's own writing, which has galvanised me. But the clock is ticking and I do not feel ready.Also books on getting rid of homosexual feelings are highly requested. I have not seen anywhere where the Great Thinkers talk on how to get rid of such feelings so I am very lost
>>25179722>>25180236>>25180258You have been found out vermin
>>25180265What are you trying to say? Speak plainly if you mean something.
>>25180236>sexologyi.e you are a faggot and you care less for socialism, liberalism, pacifism or any of that as long as you can coat your pp in another man's poopoo
>>25180303Naziiiiiiiiiiiiiiii kys
>>25179754My man, do I have the book for you. Attached is a link to the manifesto of MATTHEW C HARRIS, sometimes titled as DEATH sentences, the single greatest political author of our age. You're welcome. He's all you're going to need.https://transfer.it/t/O4zUJR0HhLQA
Do you believe that you read books at a high enough level? If so, how did you achieve it?
>>25179452He may be an asshole but he’s probably right.
>>25179446What makes a book good or mediocre?
>>25179475Honestly most humanities degrees most likely land you something like a pretty well paid job in HR, where you get to fire the dumbasses that studied computer science thinking that'd get them easy money without having an ounce of intellectual curiosity about it.
>>25179494>hr fires people based on lack of intellectual curiosity???
>>25179487If you don't know, you're ngmi.
You have eyes but failed to see Mount Tai! EditionStubbed >>25172742>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.
I wrote myself into a corner.The scene is about two fighters and suggests that, in-universe, the veteran champion is going to win against the underdog.But meta tropes essentially dictate that the underdog will win.So, if the protagonist lampshades the outcome, does it leave the audience believing the trope will be played straight, or that the acknowledgement means it will be subverted with the underdog losing?
>>25180808Maybe you wouldn't have this problem if you didn't dully explain everything to death before anything has even happened
>>25180599you completely missed the point. It wasn't that men can't exist on their own, it is that a world of only men has no straight men in it. Your ramblings are completely unrelated.
>>25180815what did I explain?
>>25180808what the FUCK is that font rendering?
Why are women so obsessed with Harry Potter?
she cute :3
>>25174411I don't care about harry potter, who is the girl?
>>25174411despite that women no longer marry in their late teens and early 20's, women will never stop obsessing over school twice as hard as when they made the most important decision of their life at that age. they still make the most important decision, only its not between chad and brad, its between mammon, satan, or hecate
>>25180032She's a Russian nanoceleb.@begi_krolik_begiWouldn't get your hopes up, she disappeared from everything a few years ago.
>>25179228Yeah we need to have it more often
Chtorr editionHere we discuss any kind of science fiction and fantasy.>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
>>25180659They called the series and its fans pretentious. To be fair though he used to be quite active back then, defending those books.They also said the series is overly convoluted and cryptic, which is somewhat true though not necessarily a drawback. They also mentioned not being able to relate to the characters, which makes sense, since most of them barely read past GotM anyway.
>>25179555The Centuries on Theology have the main stuff about God. Obviously, Dionysius the Areopagite is in some ways more direct, and Proclus and Iamblichus for Pagans, but Maximus talks about practical matters and asceticism more, and often frames his stuff in narrative stories from Scripture in ways that are helpful for dialogue desu.But I also relied pretty heavily on von Balthasar's book on Maximus and some other ones. Maximus himself embeds the metaphysical stuff in a lot of practical talk and Scriptural metaphor, but Balthasar brings this out and introduces a lot from the Cappadocians, Dionysius, Origen, and Evagrios too. He helped me realize that Maximus and co. aren't just doing Proclus and Plotinus (Lossky makes this point well too) which then helped me realize the Islamics are distinct too, especially the later Persian Illuninists. Interestingly, Neo-Confucian (roughly medieval) Chinese though has some pretty close similarities to Islamic, Byzantine, and Scholastic thought through sheer convergent evolution (including hylomorphism and form centered teleology, although they call form Li, "pattern").
>>25180686they are pretentious and the series is garbagei feel embarrassed now as an adult that i ever thought pon was good as a teenagerif someone told me that was their favorite fantasy series, it's an instant sign that i'm either talking to a teenager or a manchild and that it's time to exit the conversation
>>25180783it's okay anon i am not mad that you are not into my favorite series
What fantasy series would make the best vidya?I think Wheel of Time could be a pretty interesting world to explore
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.
If every man raised their sons to be like Hector instead of emotional autistic retards like Achilles the world would be a better place. Hector wasn't perfect but he was a great man
>>25179066>Achilles is a force of natureTrue. But please, men, find yourselves other heroes to imitate and relate to because I don't want to keep being forced into bisexual scenarios to accommodate you.Only some of you will understand this lol
>>25180597I blame the hand women keep forcing in Achilles' life against his consent.Somehow because Achilles' loves men, women feel they have a kinship and can self-insert into his story??? I dont know the reason really.If women want to make a female version of Achilles a la Skyros, which then prompted the creation of plays in which women would act in his role then they would do better choosing a hero that even wants association to females in the first place so that kind of shit stain doesn't linger around my life.Good fucking lord Im sick of women and their sexuality. Such bad feelings all around.Youd understand if you were being sexually harassed by men.
>>25178878Achilles is not meant to be an emulatable ideal hero. He is basically a god-king trapped in mortal form because Zeus subverted the succession prophecy.>>25178905>>25179245Bizarrely he's the only one who goes to Elysium according to Homer. Is this some sort of compensation for fucking up his marriage? Who knows.
>>25179245I dont remember the last part. He fights pretty actively in the war.
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>>251802291979 - Star Wars
>>25180208For one thing the author came out and said that they intentionally made it as propaganda to slowly nudge people farther left. For that reason alone I gave it a skip.
Have video games had positive influence on anything? It seems like their popularity has just made everything a little worse.
>>25175123My girlfriend read some of this, it sounded fun.
People will clown on me for this, but I lost respect for him not supporting a draft in the US to help our allies fight Iran.
what books to read to a baby so that it does not go full chud
>>25180674Oh I meant chud in the sense of internet racist misogynist whatever. I'm fat but I lift weights and haven't ever really had problems getting women (surprisingly). Is "chud" just gen z for "incel" now?t. 30 year old boomer
>>25180667counterpoint: the average redditor
>>25180713I have never spent time in reddit so not sure exactly what that means. You seem like an expert though so i'll take you at your word.
>>25180680Racism is not ok. And I say this as a moderate liberal
>>25180802I'm not really racist anymore but you seem gay, close minded, and retarded if you aren't joking.
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
>>25180181>tywin was evillow iq>tywin was a geniusMidwit IQ.>tywin was dumbHIGH IQ
>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.
>>25180635Hopefully 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
I'm nearly finished with the expansedwhat the fuck am I supposed to do next?
>>25180617russian alcoholics and prostitute wives? I'm sold, what do you suggest?
>>25180604This. Cleanse your brain of genreslop cortisol-dopamine loops by reading Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe or some Browning poems or maybe (my favorite) Pope's Odyssey. Basically, eat better mindfood.
>>25180620Anon that’s literally just every piece of Russian fiction to ever exist
>>25180621Have you considered developing actual taste?
>>25180661this, SA Corey is better than 99.999% of "canon" authors unironically
>greatest writer at the time of his death>had a vast library containing tens of thousands of books on every subject under the sun>reached advanced proficiency in math and physics for fun (a member of SFI said he matched most professors in those subjects)>had a large circle of friends from every discipline; his best friend was the inventor of the quark>didn't own a computer, use a smartphone, or have any internet presence whatsoever, not even an email addressCan we just admit that computers are the bane of creativity?
>inventor of the quark
>>25180809Okay, discoverer.
>>25180807>inventor of the quark
What do you think about D.H. Lawrence? Have you read any of his novels/ poetry?
>>25180575>If you have read a Lawrence novel in full and know what realism is, then you should be able to explain what makes him realistI dunno bud, it's probably the way he meticulously describes the material conditions of coal miners and their families across hundreds of pages!
I find it interesting that he wrote beautifully despite very much not reading like "beautiful", polished prose, such as Nabokov's. Reminds me of Dostoevsky in this sense.
How are his italian travelogues?
>>25180596Shit, i read something about a trip to Sicily and was bored to tears, but then again I’m severely depressed and reading is just going through the motions of turning pages and seeing words.I remember him taking the train and meeting people in small villages - the book didn’t leave a big impression on me.
I picked up a collection of Lawrence's poems and short stories yesterday from the library. 'Odour of Crysanthemums' is a short story - about 20 pages or so. Much of the writing was mediocre but his description of the wife's interior as she comes to terms with her husband's death, and reflects on the years they spent together, is fascinating.Some of his poetry is great. In a poem I read last night, he reflects on his experiences as a schoolteacher:>When will the bell ring, and end this weariness?>How long have they tugged the leash, and strained apart>My pack of unruly hounds: I cannot start>Them again on a quarry of knowledge they hate to hunt,Other poems are terribly simple and make you wonder if he was trolling.
Literarily speaking how did these books gain so much popularity among a certain type of white woman?
>>25179983Honor Levy does seem to be one of the best young women writers after Mossadegh.
>>25180211*Moshfegh
You should read Clarke's Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrel, it's goddamned fantastic.
>>25179561because they're better written then whatever slop you read.
>>25180053yeah, most people don't even know schizoid even exists, including mental health professionals. honestly props to your therapist for figuring it out, but I don't know if recommending a book based on your disorder could be considered good practice.
>Les Miśerables>War and peaceWhich book captures the essence of Nepolean as a historical force more fully?
>>25180630Nothing compares to War and Peace.
>>25180630Other than the Waterloo digression, 'poleon has very little to do with Les Mis
>>25180679Jean valjean is french Spiderman
