>>24739639
>>24739643
or no..?
nice self-own you dip

>>24739678
copulation with someone you love feels better and fills you with meaningfulness.
copulation with a whore forces you to reflect on your pathetic animalistic nature, diminishing your spirit and connection to divine purpose.

>>24739690
if you're a man, both fill you with meaningless.
masturbation makes you feel worse but there's still no wholesomeness in the afterparty either way.

>>24739700
masturbation is the same. You are just masturbating with a living fleshlight.

>>24739707
somehow it isn't the same (you can't trick your instinct, there's a real life woman there)

And, right now even, more people are reading Kant right now, this instant, than ever in the history of mankind.

>>24739693
nta but yeah. The booked sort of memed itself into me.

Latin is easy
It's the authors who are the problem

>>24738749
>>24738938
Both wrong
Latin is descended from Bantu dialects as Africans founded Rome after building the pyramids.

nova pellicula calvi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5o9XTF_t_Y

>>24739307
the face of the smuggest pedophile

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>>24739307

Helen Dewitt's The Last Samurai is one of the best novels of the 2000s, Lydia Davis and Joy Williams' microfiction is pretty awesome, and Kathy Acker is to die for. Sally Rooney is a bit corny, but she's not bad.

>>24737604
Also Olivia Laing, Rachel Cusk, Louise Gluck, Claudia Rankine, and Maggie Nelson all write some pretty interesting poetic work/ creative nonfiction/ general meditative literature.

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one of the GOAT short story collections…

>>24732155
Op have you ever tried reading any book

tfw no Duras gf to have a toxic relationship with

>>24738510
Thanks for the kind words. I haven’t really tried to market it because I want to make sure at least some people like it. I also don’t think it would do well with a general readership. It’s definitely an acquired taste I think. People who like Vonnegut, Heller and Bukowski will enjoy it. People looking for a John Williams novel aren’t gonna like it. I’ve had mixed reviews here so I’m not sure what to make of it. I’ve been thinking of printing stickers. I’ve started leaving copies of my poetry chapbooks in coffee shops and hotel lobbies.

Sorry to hear about the job situation. Can’t put a price on principles though, so kudos.


I’m glad you appreciated the America themes. That’s what I was leaning into. This land has lots of problems but I love the people here.

>>24738092
this opening paragraph actually got a chuckle out of me. i'm going to give your book a read in the next week or so and rate it on goodreads for ya.

and i wish you and all the other anons on this board who are writers the best of luck with your endeavors it takes a lot of courage to share something you poured yourself into with strangers on the internet.

>>24738814
Thanks so much. Appreciate you taking the time to read it. It takes a turn towards serious by the midway point that will hopefully suck you in.

Also just as an fyi for anyone else. I updated the manuscript on the print and ebook formats on amazon. I also lowered the prices. The print format is 8 bucks and the ebook is .99 cents. I just want people to read the book.

>>24738826
would you do a single book signing and ship it to australia? ill pay you (paypal) 10 usd plus the 8 it costs plus shipping to my post office box
i emailed you about you book already, morriskatlyn if you remember

>>24738873
Sure lol. Go ahead and email me. Might take a few weeks because I need to order new proofs

>>24738488
In truth they do finish their books, they just consume it as audiobooks at 1.5/2.0 x speed while driving, commuting or doing chores around the house. This way you can finish very long books in recrod time. In a book club who invited me in, all other 5 members did this. This is way they love things like Sanderson, who both categorizes and then repeats everything he says 3 times in order for your brain to lock in on the idea.

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>folk arent consiming media raw
I fucking hate this, No i wont watch the Film you enjoyed while high, No i wont watch that Netflix series you watched while pissed, No i wont read the novel you blitzed at mach Speed because youre an add woman

>>24738488
They have empty heads they fill with poopy

>>24738488
They enjoy what they're reading. That's more than can be said about philosophy fags.

>>24738488
>I'm an illiterate fag
>Now how do I make this about women?
kill yourself

>>24739612
There’s no proof of gods existing in the ASOIAF-verse.

>>24729508
I notice that in his statements and blogs and stuff GRRM seems to talk about Wild Cards often but does anybody actually care those novels?

>>24739626
Except the one that lets you bring back dead people and spawn shadow assassins and the one that lets you do greenseeing and warging

>>24739612
the Seven gave the Andals the power to conquer Westeros and cast down the blood sacrificing demon worshippers who inhabited it before

>>24738777
boring and gay fanfic
saying this as a sansa hater myself

>>24735902
So you're agreeing with the quote then?

>>24736741
it's wild that someone would type up something this fucking generic and post it. have you ever had an original thought in your life?

>>24739561
>/pol/turd reading comprehension
KEK

>>24734747
Presumably the same white women who paid an upper caste indian woman thousands of dollars to scream at them for their privilege.

I can see it strategically placed on thousands of white liberal coffee tables, so that the brown coworkers they awkwardly invited over can see it and know they are among allies. Kek

>>24734798
That book predates his entrance to politics.

the medievals had an Indiana Jones tier understanding of Islam

>>24738779
>>24737577
>muh christkek theologian refutes islam
>muh sand mystic refutes christianity
midwit central

>>24739656
Okay. Thanks for your input.

>>24739212
Buuuurp!

>>24738207
Much like the fantasy world trannies have created for themselves that they're real women

>>24738352
Enemy of my enemy is my friend

>>24738207
>a beloved fantasy world that you've created
Very little in Harry Potter is original. I wouldn't say she created it. She more arranged a bunch of ideas that already existed, and not even obscure ones.

She's rich enough that she doesn't give a shit, and isn't going to be bullied by Discord and Tumblr kiddies.

>>24738207
id hoped all troons killed themselves after their beloved story writer announced she despises them.
alas, we cannot be that lucky.

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>>24738996
I have had similar experiences to yours, these "meaningful coincidences". While it's interesting to wonder if they are signs of something deep and mystical, like rips in the seams of reality, it may just as easily be chalked up to the human mind's tendency to narrativise and reduce the world around him into some sort of divine plan.

>>24738986
>Apology of Christ
My apologies, it's the Apologeticum by Tertullian.
The italian version was sold together with De Carne Christi.

>>24738932
>What I always wonder with these "how did they know that..." questions, is why they never ask the person why or what reason they brought up a particular concept they presumably had no reason to.
I didn't think much of it until years later, as strange as that sounds. In the moment, I thought it was just a coincidence. Upon reflection, I remembered this event and the more I thought about it, the more improbable it seemed to me. That's the honest truth of it.
Strangely enough, I had another friend who was also into psychedelics, and a similar very improbable event like that had happened that I also thought it was just a coincidence in the moment. I had been researching a very specific product to purchase and it was imperative to me that no one know what it is I was going to purchase. The next day at work, my friend tells me that he is thinking of purchasing this same product. The product was a hidden voice recorder, which is something completely unrelated to our jobs.
What I'm starting to think is, that maybe people who do a lot of psychedelics gain some kind of Professor X kinda mind reading powers, that's my working theory so far anyways

>>24738419
I think you should go back to /x/ and stay there

>>24738996
I mean you could say that about all human life and individual experiences. Every person's individual experiences in life are astronomically unlikely while also guaranteed to happen when put on an infinite time scale.

>>24738911
To squeeze every ounce of out of life.

I'm looking for an answer. No other medium allows you to consult the result of millennia of lives spent searching for an answer and its question.
I don't think real life makes sense and I don't want to go on pretending that it doesn't have to.

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I work 60 hours a week in construction.... I have like 250+ Films & God knows how many records.... So reading is just a nice way to actively consume art.... Reading, Rocks

>>24739606
cringe

>>24738911
Habit, probably. It's an addiction atp

>>24737552
>>24737970
Nahhhhhh. House of Leaves is good! I think it's a book that you need to read in your early twenties however. This September/October is 10 years since I've read it

What are the best swamp monster stories?

>>24736122
Did you dislike The Shining that much? I thought it is one of his very best novels; very strong atmosphere, great well-rounded characters, both supernatural and psychological horror, a lot of well written tension, just fantastic overall.
Also, which Last Days?

Necroscope 2 was better paced than the first book, but the constant backstory exposition got monotonous, also didn't care for the Cold War espionage stuff. The parts with Thibor and Faethor were great though, anything to do with the vampires was kino, really.

>>24718068
That ending really got me good even if the name was a huge giveaway.

>>24737588
You be nice to our queen, you philistine

>>24735928
I WANNA SEE HONOR'S LEVY

>>24735928
Redditors are only mad because she did a crypto-fash larp. Her writing gives Pynchon which is what Reddit loves.

>>24739115
>Her writing gives Pynchon which is what Reddit loves.
Hi Honor. Nice to see you here ragebaiting again

>>24735928
Why on earth are you obsessing so hard over Reddit?