Are there any other sci-fi books that have a setting like Book Of The New Sun? I really love Urth and the Commonwealth and its blend of low tech and high tech, its basically medieval setting with hidden pockets of absurd sci-fi tech lurking around waiting to be found. I can see why Wolfe preferred to call it "science fantasy." Even apart from the apparent reality of magic, the setting has the feel of a fantasy setting, it's just the "magic" is extremely advanced technology.Any other books or book series that have this sort of setting and vibe?
>>24782572for the night land you should check the 'revisited' or the 'retold' versionthe original is a chore to read imho
>>24783581>for the night land you should check the 'revisited' or the 'retold' versionNo you shouldn't, stop shilling your shitty hack version of the night land you fedora wearing faggot>the original is a chore to read imhoFuck you
>>24782315Viriconium
>>24782315bump I'm almost finished with the series and will have nothing left to do other than reread it ad infinitum
>>24782608>Vance kind of sucksHonestly, he's at his best writing short stories. But Cugel is actually terrible and made me stop reading Dying Earth.
In a recent study published by John Hopkins University students were asked to write a translation of the first few paragraphs of Bleak House in clear, modern English. They were given dictionaries, access to the Internet, and as much time as they needed. Despite this, 49 of the 85 students failed to do so. Sentence after sentence, they could not grasp what Dickens was saying; i.e., they were incapable of figuring out who or what a sentence was talking about, did not understand the imagery or metaphors, could not translate long or complex sentences into shorter, simpler ones, and could not identify the main ideas being described. As such, the researchers deemed this group to be "problematic readers"
>>24781386What is michaelmas? And what is the passage about the megalosaurus about
>>24783296Everytime i try to read dickens i find it tedious despite being able to read what many consider to be more "difficult". English is my only language and I can read more archaic English. I just haven't enjoyed any excerpt from Dickens
>>24781434That is a deliberate style choice. Like the banging of a gavel or the formulation of a legal document. It's almost like a telegram message, very mechanical and cold, reflected both in the weather/atmosphere of the scene and the contents of it (pertaining to a court of law). It's meant to sketch an unpleasant scene, a scene that makes you uneasy and on edge against the injustices about to unfold.
>>24783888He does have a particular style, but once you get into it, there is no one better. I like the whole first few pages of A Tale of Two Cities, but just consider this little excerpt:France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident, rolled with exceeding smoothness down hill, making paper money and spending it. Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards. It is likely enough that, rooted in the woods of France and Norway, there were growing trees, when that sufferer was put to death, already marked by the Woodman, Fate, to come down and be sawn into boards, to make a certain movable framework with a sack and a knife in it, terrible in history. It is likely enough that in the rough outhouses of some tillers of the heavy lands adjacent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution. But that Woodman and that Farmer, though they work unceasingly, work silently, and no one heard them as they went about with muffled tread: the rather, forasmuch as to entertain any suspicion that they were awake, was to be atheistical and traitorous.
>>24784045>very mechanical and coldmy kind of literature
Who is the current protagonist?
>>24778452very cool that our elites aspire to become literal vampires
>>24784753A change in the course of events is jusssstttt about to begin unfolding unlike anything that has ever happened before.
>>24778400Elon Musk without a doubt
>>24784071>Netanyahu is allowed to browbeat the man. The CIA shot his fucking ear off as a warning not to get in the way of the Mason/Zionist plan. Don't be a fool.He just shut down Bibi's war with his peace plan
>>24778400Me but unironically.
Now that the dust has settled, what would be his opinion about Israel?
>>24777167Pretty much. You can tell pretty well that no one who discusses Nietzsche on /lit/ (or, at the very least, obviously has a bone to pick with his ideas) has ever read him. Read Geneology of Morals and Beyond Good and Evil--hell, just read the first essay in geneology--and you'll have an infinitely better idea of him than most. He's a very obvious read. Problem is, no one reads him despite this, which is pretty ironic.
>>24782638The Ubermensch is perhaps the most anti-semitic idea the Great I Am ever came to.
>>24776029Nukes. Now.
>>24776029Settled? They are about to explode. They wouldn't stop genociding Palestinian babies even if someone dropped three nuclear bombs on Tel Aviv. Maybe four, but who knows.
>>24783336based
Do actual people feel this way? I received this image during autism therapy and was told to record my feelings in my journal every day. They probably thought doing this would improve my symptoms. But I feel this immense emotion that isn't written here. Come to think of it, none of the books I've read ever depicted emotions like this. What about Pessoa? What does First Mate Starbuck feel when he fills his belly on the ship? Even in "The Little Prince," the emotions they experience aren't written here at all.Are all novels autistic? Or did these "experts" genuinely believe this method could be therapeutic?
>>24783171Have you read the book? Captain Ahab is driving this ship into madness, and they might all die from that madness, yet he must calmly work under the captain to serve his duties whatsoever. How can you claim that he experienced such a simple emotion as physical satisfaction?
>>24783171What if I process my emotions by gooning
>>24784787That’s bad anon
>>24783223distracted aint a fucken emotion jfc
>>24784795unfocused, its under bad.
>that embarrassing and cringe era from 2018- 2021 where I was OBSESSED with this guy and basically treated his political views as the word of God>>Now I look back at it and see how much of a dildo this guy is. He wants NATO expansion into Russia and China and holds many other garbage opinions like that which are essentially just mainstream SocDem or neocon but worded with nasty hand grotesque language I can’t believe we used to love this guy on /lit/ back in 2019. That is an embarrassing era to remember..
>>24782195The entire Covid era /lit/ culture was really fucking gay. Book club, Zizek, Greta Thunberg, Peterson, traditionalism and guenon
>>24782719The issue was spam moreso than content. If we just had a single guenon or peterson thread each or maybe two it would be fine. But the shitposters insisted on filling the entire catalog. Not to mention the guenonposters in particular had bad habits of copy pasting walls of texts and being unable to understand any possible criticisms even good faith curiosity without asserting that the interlocuter was hylic and misguided.
>>24780947I for one was never on his bandwagon
Zizek's description of the right-wing populism of the future from around 2011 (?) or so was really prescient:https://youtu.be/ZLFtJGnRehU>>24782700All facts
>>24780947He's basically Hasan but for people with >100 IQ. I never bought what he was selling but I've seen enough of his stuff to get the appeal.
I read some of the "anti-racist" biographies at the public library, and the level of hatred these brown women have towards white girls is insane. There was one with a black girl at some anti-racist seminar just demeaning and making fun of this white woman doing her best to apologize for her implicit biases and privilege. With all these books about race being published everywhere, all these experiences as a diaspora. When is the actual unspoken truth going to get published? the burning resentment and hatred that non-white women have towards white women? Or is that too much for the publishing industry?
>>24784308>No actually, I don't think they do it just to their advantage.I didn't say they only did it because of that doe>I think the only reason you've gotten away with slandering them as KarensIn what part of my post didn't I even alluded to this?>go along and care for animalsI personally don't care for it, but my dad and sister rescue animalsThe rest of your post is pure seethe so I'm not going to address it. I'm guessing you think I said all of that in bad faith because I call white people pinkos>Work to take these anti-white books off the library bookshelves, speak up about how white people don't deserve this treatment.We don't really have those in my country, same with the racial grifting, people have tried to do it but it doesn't stick up here and its quickly dismissed
>>24779524A German mayor just got stabbed by her adopted black kid.
>>24784647>The fact that German women don’t vote overwhelmingly for AfD after 2015-2016You cannot save someone who doesn’t want to be saved.
>>24784495None of this really applies to non-diaspora, it doesn't really apply 100% to diaspora either. I just feel pure hatred and resentment based on race because our culture is undermined and our people are being attacked. Am I being particularly nasty and mean spirited? Yes, absolutely. But this is me being the one nasty person throwing dirt directly back, compared to the hundreds of books and an entire anti-white industry embedded in government and the corporations. But you're right, I'll tone down the hatred and seethe.>>24784699I just don't see young women doing the boatscrote shilling anymore to a sizable degree. Sure, some wealthy ones do. But take a cursory look at any pro-boatscrote protest in the UK and it's all old women. Germany has a whole "Omas gegen Rechts" (grannies against the right) because boomers have to 100% make sure we exist as a dispossessed minority in our homelands, it's really really that important to them.
>>24784110>but pulling the dick out of my ass will cost me : (Just a bunch of cowardice and excuses. You're in the era of "black fatigue" becoming one of the most widely shared and appreciated memes on the internet. The public's ready for it, and you didn't even have to do any of the work. Find your balls and start pushing the envelope. Alternatively, make some lifestyle changes and surround yourself with people you don't silently look down on.
Why do we never mention the library and always talk about pirating? It's like a legal form of pirating and you can watch cool movies too with Kanopy.It it a psyop to destroy trust in communities and make posters scared to leave the house?
>>24784124i saw a cute college girl in the library once. i was 28/29 at the time.
>>24784124IJ checked out by the tome gnomes again
Imagine how cool the library would be if they kicked out the homeless and got rid of the gay stuff and children's section and let people drink coffee and smoke
>>24784124She’s sexy
>>24784714Yes
What's the most emotionally rewarding marriage in literature?
Stoner
>>24784188Romeo and Juliet
>>24784574shit had me smiling like a schoolgirl
>>24784230Didn't she orgasm from a vision of Jesus
>>24784574Yes>>24784676Sad
*shits all over your Christianity*
>>24780235Honestly I blame the average Christian for being kind of a retard
>>24780235The Davinci Code is unironically a masterclass in writing an engaging. Dan Brown structures every chapter in such a way that there's several mini-cliff hangers within a chapter (which are swiftly resolved) before the chapter itself also ends on a cliffhanger, Hardy Boys style. He's no prose stylist, but this particular aspect of his work is genuinely worth studying if you're looking to write something engaging.
>>24782894an engaging book*
>>24782894I agree. Even though it's prosaically a B-tier or C-tier literature, the level of engagement he's able to repeat in every chapter for the whole book is masterclass. He should stop writing his langdonslop and write a book about writing.
>>24780235IMHO the only reason it's famous is because it's controversial. Specifically, what's presented in media as the right "cool kids" type of rebellion, and that's against christianity. That's why the publisher saw commercial potential in it and made big ad campaign for it. Remember that the jew will never miss a chance for shitting on jesus christ and making it part of the culture.
Next week, the Nobel Academy will bestow this year's prize in Literature. Who do you think will win?
>>24771780>Paul SimonThe guy from Simon and Garfunkel?
>>24784216Yep
Apparently Murnane has never left Australia and refuses to fly so that would be a funny win
TOMORROW WE FIND OUT WHO WINS
i do not respect the nobel prize. thridden.
What were /lit/'s favorite books as young boy?
>>24779002>this entire post
>>24783950The part where the baseball ends up in(side) the friend's hand messed with me more than anything in any otherGoosebumps book.Also, that cover is really nostalgic for a number of reasons.
>>24779108Nice, this was one of my favorite books in 8th grade, as well as the WWE Legends and I had some issues of Professional Wrestling Illustrated
>>24783806Oh shit Shiloh, such a sad book.
>>24783950I vividly remember Say Cheese and Die>>24784004Picrel series was my intro to classic lit
>used to play a lot of video games>got bored and stopped>used to watch a lot of movies>got bored and stopped>used to listen to a lot of music>got bored and stopped>used to read a lot of booms>got bored and stoppedWhat now?
>>24784357you never said that
You are probably depressed, find a new hobby and exercise
>>24784293Have you tried Ashwagandha
>>24784293Ur just traumatized u fuckin faggot — go get EMDR and shit
>>24783367I believe in Nietzsche’s dictum that the only way to enjoy life is by risking it. Have you tried speeding?
Which epic poems have you read, anons? And what do you think of the epic? Can epic poetry be written in the modern period? Think ‘A’, Cantos, Paterson, and Omeros.
>>24770157>schizo autofiction in verseThis sounds wonderful
>>24770194Y commedia up top
>>24771243What truths
>>24773596POD?
>>24784775Print on demand
who is the audience for this crap
>>24784572Critical drinker is cringe personified. A middle aged man who rants about women in Marvel movies is absolutely pathetic.
>>24784213Male quirk chunguses
>>24784479>entirely wrong account, stated with full confidence
>>24784655To them it is cultural strategy.To you it is irrational behavior.
>>24784213/lit/