Why does it seem that all anyone on this board wants to write now is either fantasyslop or sci-fislop?I have seen some decently skilled writers throwing themselves away writing the most derivative, infantile, autistic, Royal-Road-coded shit imaginable:>Narrowing his eyes at the approaching hoard of T’zendians, Klayden clenched his fist and summoned forth a burning shadow spear…Just stop! Is this all because you’ve watched a small handful of fat guys be moderately successful producing this gutter oil? Why can’t you write something real? Do you have no real life experience to draw from?Just downright right peculiar, thas’ all.
>>25181062There is nothing in the real world worth writing or reading about All adventure, discovery, masculine optimism and spiritual yearning is absent from the modern world and from newer generations
>>25181093>>25181111
>>25181068>>25181088What is your favorite piece of literature and why do you like it?
>>25181072Jane Austen
The real world sucks and is getting worse. Those genres offer escapism through imaginary worlds so far beyond our own they can only be captured through imagination. I prefer hard sci-fi that still captures the selfishness and greed of modern humans
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
>>25180978Forming a triplet from another player's discarded tile
Any good sffg where mahjong plays an integral role in the story?
>>25180978Prince of Nothing, of course
I miss playing pogs as a kid.
Chat, is that poggers or what?
ITT: we post pictures and recommendations for liturature based on the pictures.
>>25180728first fragment suck donkey dongs
>>25180735is there any rationale behind this or are you just not a fan of bleep bloop-arpeggios
>>25180425Not sure why but The Tempest is the fist thing I thought of>>25180457Samuel Shem - The House of God>>25180739Something on AO3
Is there a quintessential Napoleon biography?
>>25175833Ridley Scott's movie doesn't hold a candle to Bondarchuk's Waterloo.
>>25169460What about Patrice Gueniffey's book?
>>25169540I'm currently reading this and it's great
>>25169460
The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte by Robert Asprey
Thoughts? Im up to chapter 12 and so far its been fairly compelling.
>>25180120Gutting ≠ permutation. It was fucking gutted. Islam is more of a permutation
>>25180035Book is great. But most only need the documentary desuhttps://odysee com/@MonsieurDePhocas:0/E.-Michael-Jones---A-Goy-Guide-To-World-History----Full-Version:2
E. Michael Jones thinks conversion makes you a gentile. Read K-Mac instead
>>25180035>Thoughts? Im up to chapter 12 and so far its been HEBREW NONSENSE.fixed it for you, OP.
admit it, /lit/.there are definitely instances where the film is better than the book
>>25180982you sound like one of those morons that judge films by their "literary" value as opposed to the qualities that make them films
>>25180697Yeah true. The book is mediocre genre shit. Alain Delon’s looks, the Riviera locale and getting rid of the gay subcontext really elevates the story.
>>25180982Atheist shmuck. Die
>>25180668One ruins the other for me. I can't read most King's books because I've seen the movies and I think it's a waste of time if you know the script beforehand. Same with the books, don't want to watch the movies because I have a mental image of the characters and scenarios I don't want to replace it with jew slop cinema.I don't watch movies at all anymore, but a movie based on a book is an absolute no no for me
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
put anyone, fiction, politics, philosophy, math ect.accepting putting two in same grid if they are similar and important enough to you as each other
>>25180147I think you may be confusing Carl Jung on the chart with Ernst Junger who is not on the chart
>>25179037kek
>>25180134Nigga this is some entry level /lit/core. If you've been here 5+ years you should've read most of them already.For reference, I read:>Iliad (once), Odyssey (twice) I liked the Iliad more though>some of his greatest (Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth) and started my way through his early plays chronologically (up next is Julius Caesar)>Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained>V., 49, GR>Moby-Dick, Pierre, Confidence-Man, Piazza Tales>Dubliners, Portrait, Ulysses, the first page of FW before dropping it>Nigger of the Narcissus, Heart of Darkness (yet to read any actual novel)>Crime & Punishment, Demons, TBK (didn't like Demons)>Buddenbrooks, Magic Mountain, Doctor Faustus
>>25180225huh. youre right. nevermind, my bad, sorry man
>>25180267If you weren't a newfag you'd know /lit/ likes the Iliad more.Shoehorning pynchon in there is just proof you've only heard of these other Classical greats. Unless you're literally 18 or something
Thrice greatest edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>25103936>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>25179670For me it's ἐϋπλόκαμος
>>25179135https://voca.ro/18KvD4LRXnOt
>editio princepsWho can write an entire book or at least a well written essay completely in Latin?
>>25180450it's not doing it the problem, is finding a reason to
>>25180893I see people sometimes claim to be able to do stuff like this and even to have better latin than a given Roman that isn’t Cicero. I take the position that if you haven’t done it, you can’t say you can, because you haven’t proven you can, and you’re just being a braggart like many classicists.
How the fuck does this get published?
>>25180847Was this traditionally published? What even is this? Where is this from? If my eyes get cancer, I will hold you responsible.
>>25180847cuz that's the modern standard qwuakekekekek
>>25181032It's from the new York times best seller written by Andy Weir.
>>25181039Well, I don't want to dump on someone's work, but this is not of a style that I could cope with, I think.
>>25181039>It's from the new York times best seller written by Andy Weir.It's from the JEW York times best seller written by SOME JEW.fixed it for you, so now you can see the underlying issue/problem.Pro tip: "the most important book of the year!" (it almost certainly is not)pro tip: "the most important book of the decade!" (it definitely isn't)
>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?
>>25180807>inventor of the quarkAnyway, it just so happened that he lived in a period where computer/internet usage was not so integrated and needed for proper functioning in urban society. You shouldn't mistake this correleation for the very reason that he was good at writing obscurantist non-canonical novels for midwits.
>>25180807>inventor of the quark>greatest writer at the time of his deathPynchon is still kicking, I don’t think he’s as good as what other people think, but he’s better than McCarthy. Not a fierce competition in the 2020s regardless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrUy1Vn2KdI theres a mac in the background of this interview visible at 0:26 lolif you know how to parse the overwhelming knowledge online computers are actually an incredible asset. a few decades ago all of the knowledge we have wouldve been paywalled behind college tuition, but now the only wall to understanding this stuff is time and discipline. cheer up. the potential for personal development is higher than ever
>>25180953>pynchon>better than CormacLol
>>25180953Pynchon is garbage. Much-ado-about-nothing writer
Why are women so obsessed with Harry Potter?
>>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
>>25180144>Wouldn't get your hopes up, she disappeared from everything a few years ago.Unfortunate, she cuteLooked better with the harry potter glasses desu, they suit her face. >>25174478 >>25177336 >>25180838 look kinda mid
There is nothing after death.
>>25180813>and the sense of a unified individual persists.We wake up different people each day based on experiences (of the previous day)
>>25180813If there is no continuity of the brain, why is there a continuity of the soul-brain connection? Why is my soul always attached to my ever changing brain?
>>25178252Memory is in the brain. Personality how it is shaped.Even if identity, a particular awareness perspective, survives it would be like a Alzheimer's victim but unbound by spacetime. You won't remember ever having lived.
>>25175226If the Universe is a computer, it either goes in cycles or it gets stuck in some state. If it doesn't get stuck, everything that is happening now will repeat after some (potentially very large) period of time. Point being, even on pure materialism, you cannot make that claim.
>>25181091Quantum reduction is likely the fundamental proof against a computational world, a computer will ALWAYS halt at some point. It is literally impossible—because it doesn't have actual understanding or awareness or will or calculation; it doesn't 'grasp' that 2+2=4 that's just somewhere in its memory represented by an arbitrary logic gate sequence. (Otherwise there wouldn't be infinite possible CPU architectures.)So reduction proves there must be intentionality essential to the very substrate of spacetime.There are no gaps.
But if you think the writing is extremely amateur then are you implying you could do better? That you can actually write something that entertains a lot of people? Can you really, amateur?
This thread is dedicated to John, Paul, George, and Ringo.
>>25181008Stfu weeb subhuman. You're lower on the totem pole.
>>25180878People liking slop instead of the right movies or books used to upset me a lot as a teenager and I was all like wake up sheeple but really as an adult why does it bother you? I wouldn’t read Andy Weir but his fans don’t affect you at all.
It's not that bad.
>I-I COULD DO BETTER I JUST DON'T WANT TOthe cope on this board is unreal
Im about the DNF this 2D charactersBoring, slow plot Awful writing Why do Reddit tier 3rd grade reading level chumps love this crap?
>>25180906In terms of SF? HyperionChildren of Time The Locked TombCulture Series Fantasy:MalazanFarseerFirst LawGeneral Lit:Catch 22Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25180957bookmarked some of those, thx
>>25180770The first half of TDF is garbage. The book really picks up about halfway through. Keep reading.
>>25180994which ones did you "bookmark"?
>>25181025>Keep Reading No
Are these good books for kids to read?
>>25180162Kids have been going as they're favorite characters for decades, gramps.They still sell plenty of traditional scary stuff at halloween stores, but they're mostly for older kids/teens, and adults.
>>25165399Animorphsfags are even more annoying than Harry Potter-shits.
>>25165399That's the least funny incarnation of the virgin/chad meme I have ever seen.
>>25159915One of the two series i actually enjoyed reading as a kid, yes.
>>25180771Its not reading
