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>>24652177
Arthur C. Clarke wrote some damn fine speculative fiction.

>>24652177
>>How the fuck was he still promoted in the mainstream then?
British "middle class" (upper class for most people). You really don't want to look up what everyone else in the sci-fi community was up to at the time.

>>24647438
Kino beginning, gay ending

>>24649871
you have to be spiritually a woman to care. the words on the page are the same.

>>24648076

This. Any book where alien first contact doesn't immediately turn into an existential threat for one or both parties is a children's fairytale. If aliens came to Earth, they wouldn't uplift us like Vulcans, they would at best enslave us and most likely just exterminate us like vermin.

>>24652550
What's Aragorn's tax plan? How does the Shire manage its sewage and toilets? Tolkein was a hack.

>>24650674
It's doesn't even take that long to re read the series. He also could always ask for help, make a diagram... You know, stuff good writers do.

>>24652553
What language do the ironwood trees speak? Grrm is a hack

>>24652647
Taxes and shitting are more interesting topics because they are relatable to every day life of the readers.

>>24652342
Brandon Sanderson will do it. He is *extremely effective* at not writing The Doors of Stone; his superlative work ethic has allowed him to consistently not write it every day for the last 14 years. And not only that, but he has a history of making hilarious baiting comments about it, such as saying he's confident Rothfuss will complete it eventually! This is the kind of focus and creativity a candidate needs to bring to the role of official non-completer of the Kingkiller Chronicle. Moreover, Sanderson has a proven track record when it comes to handling the unfinished IP of others. He is the ideal candidate to not write this novel.

>>24652657
And if only he had fucked up harder France could have taken over that godforsaken dump off the side of Europe and we‘d be living in a decent world.

>>24652275
this is literally the opposite of the truth though, you get that right? you understand that this statement, if said in earnest, would be cartoonishly and pathetically delusional? you're just baiting, right?

>>24652298
You literally don't know what you're talking about.

Westerners have more empathy and can feel a wide range of emotion when reading something. Easterners lack empathy and their literature expresses their general unfeeling autism.

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>>24652236
>the butcher killed and ate animals because he was born in to it and that's what was available to him
>goes to hell
>the merchant killed his own father, murdered someone's baby elephant, and only considered good and bad deeds as a numbers game and used his massive wealth to pay the fines of 500 people solely to acquire good karma and game the system
>goes to heaven and his praises are sung by all the gods
I knew India was retarded but holy shit, I read that whole thing just waiting for the "by the way this is obviously wrong and retarded" but it was played straight from beginning to end.
What an utterly inferior culture.

>>24652347
Well the problems you list also exist in the west too, particularly under the school of Utilitariniasm. Anything which puts actual end result of your actions (“works” in Christianity) over the subject’s intention would have the same conclusion.

>>24652421
>What are Some good book recs for an orthobro Catechumen?

The Orthodox Church by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware: This is often considered the quintessential starting point. It's a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the history, doctrine, and practices of the Orthodox Church.

>>24652421
I would start with the epistles of Paul and then compare what you’ve learned from the word of God to what you read in the words from the fallible minds of the Orthodox Church fathers. I assure you you will find in those church fathers damnable ideas that offend God

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>>24652490
X for Doubt
See >>24651504 an anon about two weeks ago claimed to have read it and enjoyed it, would love to hear your feedback
See pic related if you want a sci-fi variant that was actually fairly popular for what it was but not xboxhueg. Its direct sequel is one of the best written sf I have ever read in my humble opinion.

>>24652378
>>Brandon's successful business (Dragonsteel) and kickstarters got brought up a couple times and George got all worked up. Said authors shouldn't be expected to do social media or do anything other than write.
Kek. No way he said shit and didn't realize how hypocritical he was being.

>>24652502
>>24652452
tell me what you like about Dan Brown (he's slop! he copied that other thing! most of his works aren't even sci-fi!) but at least he wasn't exploitative lil nigga

>>24652409
Pretty much. Initial comments on the question rushed to defend GRRM and shame the person who asked it as if the commentors, and the rest of the internet, haven't been making the same joke for the last 15 years. But this person got tired of the jokes and asked it hoping for a real answer only to get dogpiled on because the question was worded poorly or otherwise lacking in tact. Now you see people unironically saying shit like "George doesn't owe anyone anything" and "Now I hope he never finishes the books" because condoning fat old cunt behavior now earns them likes and upvotes.

>>24652378
>Brandon got asked a question about hard magic systems and how he creates them. George jumped in and went on a ten minute rant about how hard magic systems are dumb, he hates them, no one wants to read them, and you're a questionable author if you write them.
I sympathize with this sentiment, but unfortunately people do actually want to read about them.

>>24652531
I enjoyed neither
he's 19th century dreadslop

I bitch about Vatican II but then remember the slop flood needed to be stopped somehow

>>24652531
>against nature
>down there
>maybe it was the translation
I can't say it's the case here but I don't trust translations that can't get titles right. "Down there" is AI automatic translation level, it should be "Out there".
"Against nature" is plainly bad and makes it sound like it's about gay saunas (which is worse in the anglosphere because the book is already associated with Oscar Wilde). "Against the grain" that has also been used previously is better although far from perfect which is why they changed it (it refers to social expectations but the book is spent in total isolation). Why not just say "Contrary"?

>>24652660
>it should be "Out there"
if you want to be a pedantic little nigga, it should be "there below"

>>24652665
No it certainly wouldn't be. That's even worse than "down there".

>>24651796
What’s up with black and white side profile pictures? My grandfather had the exact same one done when he was about 19, I’m guessing it was a trend.

>>24652610
It was a trend

>>24652610
It was the done thing, the thing that one would do, as it were

>>24652529
>Bonglish women all age like this
If you knew anything about her you'd know her mother was considered a great beauty, even after pumping out multiple kids, and Virginia resented this to a degree. Virginia always had a horse face and the picture in OP hides it.

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>>24652529
>Bonglish women all age like this
Elizabeth Hurley is hotter in her 60s than any woman you're ever going to fuck.

no shit, christ died like a smelly animal that's the point. thanks for the input mr european intellectual

Sounds Thelemic

>>24652631
Typical midwit take, just assert the opposite of conventional wisdom on any topic and, congratulations, you’re now a (pseudo) intellectual

>>24652631
Yes, we get it, you love the abject.

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Can't be bothered to read AI slopp

>>24652666
I recognize this basement

I quite liked wheel of time, don't get the issue others seem to have with it, some of the middle books are great fun. others are a boring slog.

I did read game of thrones but couldn't stomach reading any more of the soiaf books despite all the recommendations.

>>24650677
>don't get the issue others seem to have with it
>some of the middle books (...) are a boring slog

>>24650854
No I like the middle books, it's the books nearer the end that got boring.
crossroads was a slog

>>24647138
>the devout mormon with poor prose who never writes sex scenes should finish the work of a raging atheist with beautiful prose who overwhelmingly writes about sex and how religions is le bad and manipulative

I just don't get people who think because Sanderson finished WoT, he has to finish all dead author's book series. Even after the mixed feedback on his work on WoT. And Sanderson isn't the young guy in his 30's that he was when he took on WoT, he's pretty deep into writing the Cosmere now. It's no longer his purview to finish someone else's work; nor is George his hero like Robert Jordan was. Have one of gurm's proteges like Ty Franck or Daniel Abraham write it instead.

>>24651081
People are retarded. No big surprise.

>>24652589
This is what everyone is thinking when they see another chatgpt plato thread from you.

>>24652596
you are the only one who is taking the cum inside

>>24652607
Ugh, he even insults like a jeet

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>>24652548
there's another cave outside of the cave
but not all shadows can make planes fly

>>24647950
Just a simple man

One day he'll be more popular that DFw

>>24647846
>I describe how the elites kindap, rape and torture innocent people
He was a whistleblower

Found a copy of 120 Days at Value Village recently. Instant buy even if I don't think I plan on ever reading it.

>>24652620
You did good, one less piece of that dangerous shit out of the market. All booksellers should take that crap out of their shelves and throw them to the garbage.

>>24652215
guys are cringey sometimes with their white knighting but seem wholesome enough. it really comes down to their criticisms of severian whether you can handle them; the rest of their coverage seems ok from what i've heard.

>finish 4th book and decide to take a break to read some slop before 5th book
>eh am I ready to get back into this?
>5th book is immediately weird and crazy
>ok yea, I missed this

I'm about half way done with it. Did anyone else feel like sev talking about why he treats women how he does was GW coping with some criticisms?

>>24652382
perhaps. didn't leguin imply he was a misogynist like 50 years ago? lmao.

>>24652491
fuck her envious bitch. That satanic witch just attacked him for being a Christian man. Why didn't her called out Hemingway, or Harlan Ellison, or Tolkien or anyone else?

>>24652582
she saw his genius and incredible range. even before shadow of the torturer, reading his short stories and 5th head. the man is a fucking juggernaut writer. i think it was specifically about jolenta in the house of absolute which is such a midwit reddit take of the situation.