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What does /lit/ think of the halo novels?
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>>24656000
Are there any good video game novelizations? I assumed they'd all be pretty meh. The only one I've read is picrel and it was ok at best.
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>>24656003
I heard the Doom ones were pretty good. They were written by the same guy who wrote the dirty bomb novel One Second After.
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>>24656003
this book is so nerd-core that it turned my dick into an authentic vagina and then proceeded to make it dryer that the Sahara desert

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these cunts have to be on their last legs
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>>24654731
To be desu a 2007-2009 netbook would be kino as a typewriter.
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>>24654805
Hold on. Honest honestly desu tbf .
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>>24652580
Someone compiled a bunch of writers writing wherever the fuck they want, to frame it as evidence for their self help article? You really think buddy only wrote in his car?
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it's the wisest use of space
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e-ink is such a fucking scam

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Is anyone else tired of the anti-intellectualism on 4chan nowadays? It's unironically getting to the point I'll open a thread about a somewhat complex subject, and every single post is some variation of "lol don't care." Why are people even on this website if they have nothing to say about anything?
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>>24656025
Summer is eternal.
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>>24655125
No area is safe from the Brownening
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>>24656066
zoomering*
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>>24656066
this
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>>24655125
Yeah, but what did you ask 4chan?

qartheen edition

ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_Page
Blog: 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:vm4n1jrzsdy
General search: http://searcherr.work/
TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chapters

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>>24655602
I find it weird how he could just laze around with his animals when the books make it apparent that they (especially the snow bear) don’t like being controlled. He is the equivalent of a violent and abusive shaman, if shamans were the ones who possessed others (it’s usually shamans being possessed by the spirits).
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>>24655603
They blow up the city in one single night
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>>24655603
Warlocks in kings landing? Preposterous.
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Are Valyrians just incest Numenoreans?
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>the brown people from Naath are the most (and only) pacific region in the whole asoiaf world

why did george make white people the most evil and cruel in his books?

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Will this really make my writing more efficient?
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I'm just use ed to write everything. I
had to choose between joe, emacs ,
nano, vi, and ed and Nano and even
Joe pissed me off for some reason,
and emacs and vi were not worth so
effort to do it. So i used ed. I do all of
my programming in javascript or forth!
I didnt need a word processor because
I learned how to prepare HTML pages
and hook it up with JS by hand. Twenty
years I have been writing in circles. And
King Index Card rules my offline domain.
Thank God for Index Cards and junior
legal pads! I am a slave to bitchy wymym
and Big Black Tea.
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>>24650933
Holy bloat
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i use google docs because i'm afraid of losing my files...
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>>24655189
You should have multiple ways of storing backups. Google has been known to lock people out of their accounts.
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>>24652857
>Sounds like /lit/ggers suffer from skill issue
TRVTHNVKE
/lit/fags will spend hours and hours making threads, watching videos on jewtube, reading blogpost and investigating on: the best pens/pencils, the best software for writing (FOSS, paid etc) the most comfy desk, the most ergonomic chair, the best pc or typewriter (and endless debates about which you should use if you want to be a "real" writer) and will read book after book on grammar, style, writing techniques and tips and tricks. All to write on a unnamed page "The" after staring at it for two (2) hours and then hopping into 4chinz/vidya/porn for the whole day and forget all about writing in a few months (they will still go to the writings generals to act like crabs btw)

How come Kafka's father failed to make him tough and he ended up a whiny pussy instead?
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>>24655662
Jewish genes?
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He was tougher than deep fried shit fused into melted rubber you cockeyed pinball
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it's almost like a series of uncontrollable bad events took place in Kafka's early life

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Post and discussion about any type of history book.

>Mark Twain by Ron Chernow

>Before he was Mark Twain, he was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Born in 1835, the man who would become America’s first, and most influential, literary celebrity spent his childhood dreaming of piloting steamboats on the Mississippi. But when the Civil War interrupted his career on the river, the young Twain went west to the Nevada Territory and accepted a job at a local newspaper, writing dispatches that attracted attention for their brashness and humor. It wasn’t long before the former steamboat pilot from Missouri was recognized across the country for his literary brilliance, writing under a pen name that he would immortalize.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219158332-mark-twain

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>>24653866
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-BZ3r5_KEfU&pp=ygUMcmVhZ2FuIHNtYXNo0gcJCa0JAYcqIYzv
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>>24601980
>This is exactly why I don't read history books if the author is a woman.
Same, unless it's Barbara Tuchman.
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Any good books about the Gilded Age?
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>>24655799
Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons is quite good although a little biased, you might guess which way from the title.
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I'm going to buy and read a book you people rec'd. If it's bad, I won't ever trust you again.
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>>24656075
This one:
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>>24656075
You're right, I have already decided. The book is The Neverending Story by M. Ende.
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>>24656083
I never recommended that shit
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>>24656090
My bad. It's Mirror in the Mirror by the same guy.
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>>24656080
Holy shit.

How to I explain to my dad that 'mindfulness' is fake and gay.
He keeps reading the superfluous guru books like deepak chopra etc. and I don't know how to tell him he's consuming bullshit without putting him on his back foot. People tend to recoil or double down when they perceive that someone is trying to "control" them. He took an interest in the bible and philosophy in the last couple years, but he's reverting to his pseudo-buddhist comfort zone.
Any advice on how to steer him in the right direction?
non-christians need not reply
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>>24654875
>theurgy for tards

Blanking out your thoughts is just that— null. Get him:

>The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle (the only way out of what he's reading is through)
>The Doctrine of the Buddha, George Grimm (dispells schismatic syncretisms post-Pali Canon, specifically the past 70 years of NuAge hippy nihilist versions)
>Strong's Concordance of the Bible + a KJV with Strong Numbering & Apocrypha
>William Blake's Poetry
>Gary Wayne's Genesis 6 Conspiracy
>Windswept House, Malachi Martin et. al. Fatima/demonic possession/Cold War church infiltration books
>Nathaniel Gillis vis-a-vis demonic possession if he shows UFO interest (crossover)

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>>24655115

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>>24655225
Why are jeets so obnoxious and annoying? OP doesn't want your opinion, what's so hard to get?
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>>24655232
OP is a christjew moron trying to proselytize his dad who is on the right path.
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>>24654875
>deepak chopra
Isn't he a Hindu?
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>>24655226
Thanks a lot, these are some good recourses.
>>The Doctrine of the Buddha
very interesting
>>Windswept House, Malachi Martin
What are the must reads? I already have the jesuit one. Also my dad was raised catholic but left the church before I was born and I don't think fatima is legitimate.
>>Gary Wayne's Genesis 6 Conspiracy
I think about Genesis 6 a lot and I'm not excited to hear yet another alt theory about it lol but I'll check him out.
>>Nathaniel Gillis
Cool I'm glad to find this guy.

I'm intrigued by the Quran but I feel a instinctive sensation that I shouldn't read it
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>>24655956
I still think it's unethical to call people to be just eunuchs for life, or they break the moral code of priesthood. I am glad God let Buddhism persist so that Catholicism was proved to be righteous even in the darkness of the commands of man. Fortunately things are different now
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>>24655940
Gotama was a great philosopher and founder of a sect which endures, so, much respect for him; kinda like Socrates.
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>>24654626
no, this is https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/jacob/5?lang=eng
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Read it but don't expect great literature.

it's basically,

>for allah is the most merciful and haters will burn in eternal hellfire

x1000 and in between is some biblical fanfic as filler.

the Tarif Khalidi is a good translation that is usually overlooked.
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written by a pedophile to promote himself.

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>My entire political outlook no longer consists in anything but the bloodiest hatred of our entire civilization, contempt for all that it has produced, and a passionate longing for nature. But that is not something anyone will understand who felt so enchanted by the industrial exhibition. Well, you've got your exhibition, an exhibition in the pillory, with all your industrious workers! That I ever set store by the workers as workers is something I must now atone for grievously: with the noises they make, these workers are the wretchedest slaves, whom anyone can control nowadays if he promises them plenty of 'work'. A slave mentality has taken root in everything with us: that we are human is something nobody knows in the whole of France except perhaps Proudhon at most - and even he is only dimly aware of the fact! - in the whole of Europe, however, I prefer dogs to these doglike men. However, I do not despair of the future; only the most terrible and destructive revolution can make our civilized beasts "human" again.
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>>24655016
Wagner perceived that the drama of The Ring, whose characters inhabit the landscape of the hunter-gatherer, required him to reinvent such a natural world. The forests and rivers, the fires and storms, the dragons and mermaids, the voices of the woods and the birds—all these are recreated in The Ring, with a freshness and poetry that owe everything to music, but with a directness that recalls the rich tradition of German children’s literature. (All children have been brought up on this literature, even those who have never read a word of it, since it is the literature that created childhood. Christmas is only one of its many by-products.) The god-haunted, dream-enchanted landscape of The Ring is the first thing that modern producers hasten to air-brush from the story. For it creates the context for religious awe.

Looked at in that way, we can see Wagner’s Ring cycle as a bridge between two far more humble productions: Grimm’s fairy tales and the Lord of the Rings. Grimm influenced Wagner and Wagner made Tolkien possible. Indeed the emotions that are stirred by the cinematic realization of Tolkien’s rambling story are a faint echo of what would be felt, were The Ring to be performed as Wagner intended, with every single stage direction realistically obeyed. This would be the film to end all films, the Gotterdammerung of our modern era, in which Wagner’s moral would be apparent even to the unmusical. And almost certainly it would be banned.

Tolkien’s passion for the medieval world arose, like Wagner’s, from a lifelong religious quest. Unlike Wagner, however, Tolkien did not have the ability to remake the religious experience through art. He remained a ‘good sad Christian at heart’, but with a talent for pagan fairy tales. His novel has smatterings of the great conflict between good and evil, and an abundance of mysteries. But it does not re-create the experience that Wagner has always in mind in the tetralogy, which is the experience of the sacred. The Ring is not merely the greatest invocation of primeval Nature and the hunter-gatherer world in modern art. It also abounds in moments of genuine religious awe: Brunnhilde’s announcement to Siegmund of his impending death; Sieglinde’s blessing of Brunnhilde; Wotan’s farewell; Siegfried’s first encounter with Brunnhilde—and so on. Virtually all the turning points of the drama are conceived in sacramental terms; they are occasions of awe, piety and transition, in which a victim is offered and a promise of redemption received.
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>liberal artist disdains people who work for a living

Many such cases.
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>>24655975
This. That he can say that with zero self-awareness is astonishing.
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>>24655975
>>24655998
He's talking about 19th century factory workers here, not farmers. The point went over your heads.
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>>24655975
>>24655998
>t. Retards.

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What does this actually mean?
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I don't know but with that noggin he must have been right

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Has anyone seen the Kerouac-Buckley interview on Firing Line? It's top kek. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYgv7ur8ipg

>drinks a fifth of whiskey before the show
Based
>mocks the other panelists and exposes them as pseuds
Very based
>drunkenly shills for Catholicism the entire time
Extremely based
>compares himself to Dionysius the Areopagite
UNFATHOMABLY BASED
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>>24653812
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>>24651695
ok paggy
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>>24651943
The cult of health and the cult of sickness are equally disgusting
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>>24651593
>Kerouac was only 38 here
he had a rough life
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>34:50
>you're a great poet and we admire you
Kneel

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I was reading pic related and considering that Jesus may be real, but then I started reading Justine by De Sade and realized that I was wasting my time with this Christcuck nonsense.
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>>24655992
I'm >>24655844
The majority of students are there for the "bible college" factory. Their degree consists of rudimentary core subjects (to appease state standards), surface level theology, some form of social study/sociology/psychology, and public speaking. They probably take Spanish so they can live on a beach for "mission work" during the summer. They attend chapel a fuck ton, go to bed at curfew, marry a chubby brunette attending the music and worship program, and run off to a church where they live their life as a youth pastor or summer camp administrator. They pump out 3-5 children, and all of them repeat the cycle.

A select few students are interested in preaching, writing, and church organizing. Their coursework is more focused on church history, actual theology, they typically study Ancient Greek, and find themselves to be not much different from the secular literature students at the state university a half-hour away. Most go to grad school, where they specialize in one area of seminary study. Some reach for a PhD.
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>>24656007
Oh they're those fuckers. They did not like me back in high school because I lacked something. Now that I know who you're talking about let me congratulate you on your decision to drop out. I can see why all the library time might kill their love as most of mine's only grown from toiling in shitty climates in isolated rural areas doing scientific work, and that I'm much more spiteful and pessimistic back in the modern suburb world of Americana. Have a pic of a frozen swamp for your reply.
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>>24655628
I recommend you read it in backwards order of sections. That way you can follow the arguments like breadcrumbs. Alternatively you can start with #2, but it contains roughly half of all the material at least in part. So read that as if it were a book like John or Ecclesiastes. And read the rest as if they were like the epistles of Paul or Law of Moses. Indeed much of the Law of Moses is repeated.

Trust the Lord, he does not want to decrease you, but to increase your intelligence.
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>>24655968
Verily the Book of Mormon is true, it is from ancient Africa, and it confirms the Bible and the Qur'an, which itself speaks of a certain Sabian people: these people are they who produced the civilizations remembered in the Book of Mormon.
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>>24655628
You should read the New Testament first..

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I once heard someone say Houellebecq is like a modern day Céline but isn't that bullshit?

Houellebecq claims to represent some kind of rebellion against the system or whatever but he has many friends who are Jewish & he is an islamophobe.

Céline was the exact opposite of this. He was rabid antisemite.
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>>24653995
Celine would be against Islam as well. It just wasn't as big as an issue.
Celine went off emotion. Wellbeck is purely logic. Celine wouldn't have been able to rationalise the evils of the modern world like Wellbeck can, but he'd chud out about it all the same.
Wellbeck is a drunkard degenerate. Celine was simply a sexual degen.
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>>24654113
Houellebecq always struck me as more of a Chud. Always explaining frustration with performative reason which consistently ignores a progressive solution to problems. It's more of a rationalization than true pure logic, it's not fainted either, most of the observations made in his novels are made by frustrated depressed avatars.

Celine is so much better
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>>24654078
They called those "acquaintances", zoomer. Not everyone in your immediate social circle is a friend.
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>>24653995
Houellebecq is MAGA. Céline is far right.
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I might read Céline once I'm finished with Maupassant
Should I just read Voyage?


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