>>24631386
Probably Mick Herron

David Mitchell?

>>24631689
Nolan is an actually a Borges fan.
>Another source of inspiration is Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The director has called Memento a "strange cousin" to Funes the Memorious, and has said, "I think his writing naturally lends itself to a cinematic interpretation because it is all about efficiency and precision, the bare bones of an idea."

>>24631387
This.

>>24631508
Interstellar is better.

>codefags create their own destroyer

get BTFOed nerds

>>24630983
Religious purposes.

>>24629995
is this the wall-e timeline?

>>24629995
>study philosophy
>can get a job at any place because I know everything
Give me fries with the burger coddy

>>24629995
The job market is hopelessly cooked. Zoomers like her need to focus on becoming more attractive so they can marry a financially stable man and start having his children. No concerns about job interviews/applications, office politics, or job loss from A.I./jeets as a wife and mother.

>>24631242
after watching the movie (which I did like), I bought the first 3 books in one shot. first was OK, second was interesting to say the least (very X-Files), but man I just don't have what it takes to read the third...

>>24631795
Isn't Wolfe's method more in line with Harrison's philosophy? BOTNS wasn't exactly filled to the brim with maps and appendices and most of the "worldbuilding" requires you reading between the lines.

>>24630605
picked up
I'm on the stars my destination now, Gully Foyle is a great MC. Fuck Vorga. Kill Vorga.

>>24626043
1. Likeable characters
2. Worldbuilding
3. Plot, as long as it passes a minimum bar of interest. Once the story has sucked me in the plot becomes optional.
4. Titties

>>24631002
>and severely harming them if they even think of disobeying
I haven't really seen Japanese ones that aren't straight up porn. Typically it seems very tame, more tame than even vanilla romance at times.

It's quite an engaging read and up there in terms of Ballard's ouvre, less science fiction than his earlier works but captures the essence of aspirational psychopathology that would define his later novels. It's been a long time since I read it, think it was the first Ballard novel I ever read. If you like High Rise you will probably enjoy his works more generally. Have not seen the film adaptation.

>>24630174
A mythopoesis of the function of patriarchy in High Fordism as foundationally rooted in the most modernist of arts: architecture. You ought to be prepared for what normally happens in myths, I'd suggest reading Robert Graves White Goddess.

yes, it's great, make sure to check out his other great novels - Super Cannes, Concrete Island, Hello America, The Drowned World, also his short stories are amazing

>>24632173
Btw, I think the American Standard Version (NT only editions) are the best renderings of Westcott & Hort's Greek NT.

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>>24632190
Btw, I don't read the Textus Receptus. It was compiled later in the 16th century whereas the Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus were among the earliest near complete Gnostic/early Christian texts.

>>24632214
Btw, the Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus predate the major textual interpolations and doctrinal edits found in later medieval manuscripts (e.g., the Textus Receptus). This proximity gives scholars closer access to the original textual traditions that shaped early Christian and proto-Gnostic thought.

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The Awakening: Kellerman, Mathew: 9781738067602: Amazon.com: Books https://share.google/nNWwNfwoHofg2j02r

Try mine.

>>24627601
You don't have to commit to Amazon only and can publish print and digital on both Ingram and Amazon at the same time. Just make sure you own the ISBN rather than letting Amazon give you one for free. Then you can publish it in multiple places.

>>24632153
Yes i'm thinking about books.by but i need to justify paying them for at least the first 10 orders. I also need a copywrite editor, and anons' reviews, etc

>>24626388
>>24626395

I'm new to this board but /lit/ got me into literature, having a /lit/ magazine is actually such a genius idea and is so cool. Hope to see more in the future and ill definitley check these out.

>>24626388
Didn't this turn out to be a scam with the guy stealing everyone's work? Not to offend anyone or anything, as I'm honestly ignorant of the situation, I just recall some explosion of negativity concerning this a year or so ago.

If you put aside 5 hours to read instead of goon or game that's 100 pages. Depending on the book it's not that bad at all for a first time. You could realistically read a thousand pages book in 10 days. If you can't stay focused on the same book then read multiple books at once and switch them up when you get tired. That's what Rousseau did. Also don't use 4chan because (You)s are always going to be at the back of your head.
You'll get better at it with time -- provided you don't stop doing it. It's a muscle

>>24631688
I managed to get to page 22 and now it's telling me to read a 28 page long appendix... it's gonna be so hard... :(

>>24632128

Close that book and pick another book if you genuinely feel like it's a laborious task. Come back to the same book later, and you'll find it easy to get through it.

>>24631605

As nobody here asked it, I'll say it then. What's the book that you bought?

>>24632172
Okay it looked pretty intimidating but 7 pages into the appendix i'm mostly getting it and it's pretty enjoyable to read actually.
>>24632222
The book is behave by robert sapolsky! I thought it was more about psychology and evolution but turns out it goes into the actual neurons and shit which i know nothing about so i was really intimidated but he actually explains it pretty well so yeah it seems readable.

>>24630258
I had an idea that Aerea died when she was older and that she had a son who became an old curmudgeon that everyone despised, he would have claimed the throne during the dance of dragons but no one would care.
Then he steals a dragon at the end and flies off into the sunset

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>>24631363

THE ending being: you're never going to finish it...

>>24631363
“The ending” is just the show ending but with more background characters like Skahaz mo Qandak, Irri, Jiqui and Darkstar doing filler side quest stuff

>>24615354
>The Undying attack Dany for no reason
Why did they do it

>>24630742
I think the one by Burton is gay as fuck (I didn't read it though) but some french guy got rid of these parts and turned it into a nice book of neverending stories.
200 years ago all of Europe knew about Scheherazade and the 1000 nights and it was gradually enhanced with more stories and turned into what we know today.

>>24629622
I really did want to like it but the stories are just kind of very bizarre and hollow. They have some cool moments, but the characters are just like
>I got mad and killed him with my sword, then I saw it was my son and cried, and I got mad so I killed many more men, then I saw my wife fucking a black slave and I killed them both and cried
The characters are impossible to care about and have no discernible personality or virtues, while the myths themselves are usually too weird for me to find entertaining. Like the one with the old man of the sea or whatever that jumps on people's backs when their guard is down then sits on their shoulders and beats them with his legs, eventually strangling them or something. It's like the most random shit possible somehow became culturally embedded

>>24631191
>Like the one with the old man of the sea or whatever that jumps on people's backs when their guard is down then sits on their shoulders and beats them with his legs, eventually strangling them or something.
That's hilarious dude

>>24631165
You have it backwards. Antoine galland’s baby version was written in the 1700s from an abridged text known as Calcutta I. Burton’s was made from the complete Calcutta ii version discovered in 1832.

>>24629622
how many dumb bitches had their head dislocated from their body because of that book

>>24632219

I'm currently reading Confessions of A Mask. Good prose with relatable topics.

The best book oat for me is The Book of Disquiet. It is comforting and comfy, i felt understood and seen by the author who suffered from the same issues.

wait arent you just supposed to use bots on some russian irc channel to get free ebooks?

>>24631931
You can but they're a bit limited compared to the behemoth that are shadow libraries

>>24631937
ive never once not gotten what i wanted though and ive asked them for shit that i cant find anywhere else or shit that released hours ago

>>24631878
Used a vpn and it didnt help shit. What country are you switched to? Is it blocked in the US? Wtf happened???

>>24632097

The Netherlands, also works in Japan. And no, it's not blocked in the us, consider picking a different VPN, like Proton. It's the one i use and download books flawlessly with

Even my blandest slop nears 300 followers now and here nobodies worship some statlet and try to mock my numbers. Sad!

>>24632105
how well's that translate into patreon bucks, bucko?

>>24632105
FFF-anon gets comments about the dilemmas of parenthood and childrearing
What engagement is your work inspiring?

>>24632036
>>24632051
Really? I'd be happy to hear someone got their rocks off reading my stuff. Now, that's creative.

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>>24631393
That's one meaty paragraph.

>through like crabs in a seabed’s exposed pipeline
WEBM classic. Wish I had it saved.

It's very descriptive like your last work, reads alright. Is fine. Probably won't blow up on RR but I'll read and rate once you post it.

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>>24631952
>Where the tension between them comes in, is that Johanna at the time was a semi successful author of cheap romances and thought very highly of herself. Arthur, as we know, also thought very highly of himself from an early age. What made Johanna seethe was Arthur's unwarranted confidence (bordering on arrogance) without having anything tangible to show for it. This is best seen in this interaction:
>>Unfortunately, the published dissertation earned, at best, lukewarm reviews. Indeed, the most stinging might have come from the young man’s mother, who asked sarcastically whether his book [The Fourfold Roots of the Principle of Sufficient Reason] was for pharmacists. Schopenhauer retorted that his work would still find readers when not even a single copy of her writings could be found in a junk yard. Undaunted, Johanna Schopenhauer spat back, ‘Of yours the entire printing will still be available’.

>One time Goethe was impressed by young Arthur's intellect, saying that by proper grooming he could become a literary genius, and she said something like "only one person in each family could be a genius" (referring to herself). She even went as far as badmouthing Arthur to Goethe, and was one of the reasons the relationship between Schopenhauer and Goethe worsened.

>>24630394
Why not just...read the fucking essay?

>>24630836
It's just kikes being contrarian to engender division

>>24631952
Based. They don't make moms like this anymore.

>>24632211
Here's one now