>>25180226
>One day I'll have a defined personality
what makes you think thats desirable? its when you start dying

>>25180775
Alchemized

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>>25180775
I've only read Half His Age, which I loved.
Avoid it if you are a prude.
I've seen anons praising George Saunders.
I know Anatomy of an Alibi is getting a lot of praises too, but not on /lit/.
I think of reading Heart the Lover, the rating is too high to ignore it, unless ABB uploads the Donna Everheart novel (check the premise, it seems pretty cool) in the next few weeks.

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>>25180003
I don't do it online and don't try to meet any goals, but I track down what I've read and I've read 42 pieces of literature this year, but this includes plays and the occasional essay

>>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.

>>25180659
They 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.

>>25179555

The 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").

>>25180686
they are pretentious and the series is garbage
i feel embarrassed now as an adult that i ever thought pon was good as a teenager
if 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

>>25180783
it's okay anon i am not mad that you are not into my favorite series

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What fantasy series would make the best vidya?

I think Wheel of Time could be a pretty interesting world to explore

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 nature
True. 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

>>25180597
I 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.

>>25178878
Achilles 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
>>25179245
Bizarrely 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.

>>25179245
I dont remember the last part. He fights pretty actively in the war.

Garder and the Unreal Discord deserve be raped to death with screwdrivers

i figured out that dahl's "the enormous crocodile" was really about "the enormous paedophile"

>>25180339
QRD

Any /lit/ authors who do not overstay their welcome?

How to even write horror? Who the fuck is gonna be scared of words in page?

>>25180229
1979 - Star Wars

>>25180208
For 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.

>>25175123
My 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.

>>25180674
Oh 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

>>25180667
counterpoint: the average redditor

>>25180713
I 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.

>>25180680
Racism is not ok. And I say this as a moderate liberal

>>25180802
I'm not really racist anymore but you seem gay, close minded, and retarded if you aren't joking.

>>25180181
>tywin was evil
low iq
>tywin was a genius
Midwit IQ.
>tywin was dumb
HIGH 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.

>>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

>>25180617
russian alcoholics and prostitute wives? I'm sold, what do you suggest?

>>25180604
This. 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.

>>25180620
Anon that’s literally just every piece of Russian fiction to ever exist

>>25180621
Have you considered developing actual taste?

>>25180661
this, SA Corey is better than 99.999% of "canon" authors unironically

>inventor of the quark

>>25180809
Okay, discoverer.

>>25180807
>inventor of the quark

>>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 realist
I 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?

>>25180596
Shit, 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.

>>25179983
Honor 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.

>>25179561
because they're better written then whatever slop you read.

>>25180053
yeah, 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.

>>25180630
Nothing compares to War and Peace.

>>25180630
Other than the Waterloo digression, 'poleon has very little to do with Les Mis

>>25180679
Jean valjean is french Spiderman

>>25179620
degnerate pervert here, never diagnosed, never medicated, still jolly.

well if you were to consult his early life section you would understand why.
degen faggot writes degen books. I like hellbound heart quite a lot tho.

>>25180409
King has more range than Barker.

>>25180491
Writing a bunch of random silly shit doesnt mean its "range"

>>25178800
>So Clive is just a BDSM Stephen King?
Not at all. They are only really comparable in that they both write horror, have film adaptations of their work, and became well known and well regarded in pop culture around the same time.

Their actually writing styles aren't similar at all.
>What are your thoughts on his work
I have enjoyed all that I have read of Clive. The comics he has been involved with tend to be mediocre, the video games were generally not great, and the movies he has had a direct hand in the production are usually decent but not the best of the best.

>>25178795
I think op is referring to a certain state of mine i also attain right before i fall asleep, sort of in limbo as i start to drift off.

Lay back, close your eyes, allow your mind to conjure random images. Flow of consciousness.>>25178762
Enjoy the movie

>>25178762
>>25178981
To expand, it's sort of like meditation. Try to eliminate conscious thoughts. But also, maybe start off with a single thoughr of something you want to picture: rusty tractor
>you picure a rusty tractor
This is where you let if flow from. Let you mind subconsciously summon the next though flowing from the image you are picturung
>rusty tactor turns into a rust spaceship, crasched
>turns into flying spaceship
>turns into space
>you are now flying in space
But yeah, flow of consciousness or watever.

You can use these trucks to lucid dream as you drift off, but you akso got to focus a bit on knowing you will dream and to not wake yoursekf being to conscious. Have not had discipline to really lucid dream in a while but sometimes it happens on accident. Dont beco e to conscious of the dream. It's as real as here honestly.

>>25178762
have you tried falling asleep more often

>>25178762
unclear underspecified desire, what is there to fix, where do you want to have your creative time?

Morning is the better time for learning and doing tasks with high precision, and tapping into learned habits, this is high performance time for making things clean.

Evening or Afternoon brings that drunkenness that's necessary to be creative, once you have used up the clear concepts during the morning, the later day is best to jolt you further away and make strange and far reaching connections, idk, it's just how it is mate.

Be creative in afternoon, make sketches, sleep on it, refine in the morning, and repeat

>>25178981
>>25178991
No other dream walkers here?

>>25180605
>she
There's your answer.

>>25178525
Yes but they won't write books

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

rupi kaur

>>25180678
What will they write?