>>24726413
I believe Alexander Pope also loved coffee.

>>24726560
You could argue Voltaire is a man of his time and would probably be a groyper in the modern day.

>>24727033
I have a kindle copy of that book but the introduction (written by a woman) who had to just self insert her own personal gripes about pronouns in the text put me off from reading. Never understood why women have to make everything about themselves at all times.

>>24727220
breeding your "son" isn't going to propagate the genes

>>24726628
WE GAAN
GAAN NING

Read Notes from Underground

>>24727235
My name is Chud

>>24727237
Yeah, but I feel like a dumb hick when it comes to books, so Mud is the perfect imagery.

>>24727235
nigger why do you want to read
that's nerd shit

>>24727235
Ulysses
Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest

>>24726396
>Mieville and Moorcock
Lol he was shitposting

>>24726396
i referenced threads here where he actually posted who he was on goodreads. lmao. he's a fucking pseud. his goodreads reviews are an outlet to practice his shitty writing.

>>24726401
Moorcock is indeed better

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>>24726238
>Any goodread reviewers that are /lit/-approved?
Glenn Russell

>>24726235
Something about not liking the GR/Amazon merger or whatever.

>>24726286
I tried reading him and couldn't make heads or tails of his ramblings

>>24726423
this. then maybe like one of his shorter books before creative evolution. he has a pretty good book on laughter that i'm pretty sure freud ended up taking a lot from

>>24726286
Like Nietzsche he was a retard who should only be read through Deleuze's books on him.

>>24726555
Is deleuzes take not a reinterpretation of how Bergson was originally understood?

>>24726555
Deleuze is an overhyped clown honestly which functions as a performative grift for post-leftists.

>>24722820
>Notebook (general ledger)
>idea (category)
> -- [body]

>Note Card (3x5)
>category top right
>subject top left

>Note Card (5x7)
>ibid. more extensive body (long form content; book review/summaries)

>>24722820
I keep loose leaf, and bundle the pages into different piles as I go, usually keeping a diary bundle, one for each story draft, one for random notes that I can pull out and develop, one for copywork and sentence experiments, etc.

I can't keep a regular notebook anymore, as my thoughts and writing becomes too bouncy over the days, and it's difficult to future-proof and index material when I want to revisit later (like with story drafts and sketches, or trying to find a note I made as part of research).

It's nice to then see the different bundles grow, and they tend to form their own body and pattern.

>>24722845
Man I just really don't understand shit like this at all. Look at that phone screenshot. It's something like 50 words of actual text, the rest is wasted space, a e s t h e t i c [kanji] bloat and features I will never ever even think to use and will instead spend hours googling how to remove from my interface. Like always. Why would I want some kind of cloud connecting my notes? Timestamps? Twenty sub-categories with emojis? I just write in the notepad my laptop came with. 10pt times new plaintext no line spacing. I keep my notes as files in a folder if I want to return to them later, otherwise I just have unsaved tabs open so I can add things when I get a stray thought and have it go away when I shut the computer off. Or I use paper. Most of the time, actually. It's better. Three lines per line, cross-written if I don't intend to read it more than once. I'm sure this works for you people, but man, I can not understand the shilling of these "tools" in the slightest

>>24722845
>my lounge kilt

>>24726009
I think most people actually do think interesting thoughts, given the opportunity. They just don't ever give themselves one. Sitting down in a quiet room in front of some paper, forcing yourself to hold up a pen and stirring around in your subconscious will lead just about anyone to time skips and hand cramps, I feel. But follow a person for a day and you realize most people spend effectively no time alone. Those who do will occupy that entire time with distraction or "activity" that prevents them both from ever letting their mind run free for a bit and from sitting down and really reflecting on something. (Which might unfortunately be why I'm here right now, I realize.) Or at least this is what I choose to believe, but anecdotally it seems right

>>24716328
>>24720380
Read the Benson based on these posts. Certified kino

Just finished Autopsy in Room Four by King. Pretty good. The suspense was actually palpable as the pericardial cut was about to commence. I'm disappointed there ended up being no supernatural element in the story tho.

>>24726802
This was my fave. I read pic related which is meant to accompany it and the only stories I'd include in a best of were The Temple, Herbert West, Juan Romero, The Lurking Fear and At the Mountains of Madness

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>>24727215
Forgot pic dammit

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>>24727218
Those Del Rey collections are kino as fuck!

>>24724291
>>24724306
>>24724310
all three written by they/them

>>24726202
Ain't nothing wrong with that description.

>>24726198
I use the "Ignores data that doesn't fit conclusion."

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>>24724388
You should check out the manga. There are some extra stories at the beginning in which Yusuke spends more time being a ghost. The anime staff wanted to get to the action quicker, so they cut out most of the comfy ghost adventures.

The anime is cool, but it had a lot of padding, as was standard for action anime of the time. You might actually be able to handle finishing it all in comic form.

>>24724381
A disclaimer that the book was written by a Jew.

When the book came out in the 80s most history books were lacking in nuance and promoted America as a purely positive force. Today Zinn seems like yet another woke jew complaining, which he is, but there didn't use to be so many of them so the book provided some needed counterpoints to the narrative of the era.

People who reference anime in conversation deserve to be put to work in coal mines (I say on a Korean glass crafting site)

>>24707955
Me going dead now.

>>24724701
You gon be in dey a long long time, son.

I'll be back as a.i.

>>24707955
Goodbye, cruel world, I'm leaving you today
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, all you people, there's nothing you can say
To make me change my mind, goodbye

>>24719652
>He did a great job exposing the metaphysics of communism and Marxism, and why Marxism is a demonic ideology that destroys the souls of its believers.

Chambers's work is a moral and existential critique of communism, not a metaphysical one. He exposes communism as a secular faith, a religion without God, that demands absolute devotion and sacrifices human dignity for a utopian vision. His core argument is that Marxism is an "inverted religion" that replaces God with Man, and this fundamental inversion leads to spiritual and moral emptiness. He didn't aim at dissecting the philosophical nuances of Marx, but rather in showing the human cost of this inversion.

A compelling storyteller, as someone else pointed out, and a gifted wordsmith. Witness is a very good read.

>>24726830
I mean, his knowledge of Marxism was terrible and his claims are exaggerated at best.

>>24722209
>>24722218
There's a book similar and much more comprehensive than this entitled Political Conversion: Personal Transformation as Strategic Public Communication. He goes over Chambers, Podhoretz, and Horowitz in great detail.

>>24722484
>>24722487
>Her story would have been a lot more compelling had she been a radical anarchist feminist or something before turning right-wing and pro-life.

Correct, and also realize her book is amateurish because she wrote it only two years after becoming pro-life. This was before she became Catholic so she wasn't thinking in terms of metaphysics. It's also why the movie features a lot more political polarization than the book, probably because Abby helped write the script and wanted to play up the good vs. evil stuff. In the film everyone who works at the abortion clinic but her is blatantly evil. In the book, she almost gives them the benefit of the doubt and sees the good in them. Shows how her ideology became much more right-wing in the years between the book and the film.

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>>24726910
Why is this common for him? Wind Up Bird is the same where they bundle three-in-one. Did he look at walmart+costco and assume this is how American's buy/lit/?

Fucking hate this Murakami retard so much. Read the entire Kill the cavalier captain (? read it in Japanese) and it was an absolute chore.

>>24726910
>What is the moral of the story exactly?
Murakami's editor should grow the balls to tell him that his novels are getting too long for his own good. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle was fine, but it wasn't funny anymore when this book came out.

It's not a Saturday morning cartoon, not everything has a moral.

>>24726910
this is the most accurate Murakami summary I've seen so far
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsxWOnxTBQQ

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>>24727111
What in the fuck. If your drawing skills are that bad just take a picture.

>>24719963
Earlier than that zoomer.

I don't know what I hate more. Overly "minimalist" covers or covers that feature stills or a sticker for a movie adaptation.

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>>24727146
Its been happening for decades. OVERsimplification occurred in the 2020s.

>>24727097
Eww

>>24720925
Dosto's an alright lad. A bit preachy a drawn out.. But I really do appreciate The idiot as well as Notes from the underground. There are good things to be said about crime and punishment (the horse dream is absolutely horrendous) as well as his other works.. but ultimately I feel he's a bit too much of a christian apoligetic whose ultimately quite boring.

>>24722142
Go back, newnigger.

>>24725592
I agree. As I have said earlier in this thread, I am waiting for the youth to rediscover Dickens. I think it would be better for them, and Dickens needs some love.

Ikr? Who tf gets into Dosto in their teenage years and early twenties LOL! That's outrageous!

>>24720925

Poor and middle class people trying to act cultured and high class across mediums.

It's why the whole stealth wealth trend popped up in fashion where people where buying loro piana and brunello cucinelli look a likes, everyone is suddenly superfans of kubrick and tarkovsky etc.

Philosophy, economics, politics and the esoteric occult are still mostly off limits because retarded brains cant even larp process it

>>24726531
I would wager that Harry Potter is beloved by more people in the world even after the whole trans debacle.

>I am tired of pretending otherwise
Yes I’m sure it’s soooo exhausting to hide your true feelings about a book, of all things. Melodramatic faggot.

>>24726530
>>24726531
terrible bait

>>24726688
Rude...
>>24726721
Made you bite, at least.

i forced myself to finish it

its only popular becuase people are making tiktok edits out of it since they like anything edginess just like dexter the tv show is booming now, same reason.

>>24722740
Its a woman. Schopenhauer basically said women are supposed to be loved not understood. You'll get it someday.

>>24723497
>women despise space
You've clearly not met my exes, thats all they wanted

>>24723662
Good thing its primarily a thing for guys

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>>24722757
DELETE DELETE DELETE
THIS IS GOING TOO FAR
I'M THE CHAD, YOU'RE THE SO_YJACK

>>24722757
>self-actualization
With social media? That shit limits your self-worth, ruins your soul and destroys communities worse than the television did.