at the edge of the world editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>24975576
>>25015236breakspear, showrunner, dunk, gurm, tanselle, egg, brightflame, laughing storm, targ stannis, literally who?
>>25015285last is valarr
>>25015015The Dunk actor has long hair now? Why didn't they make him grow that shit for season 1?
>>25015015Egg already looking rough and too tall. Does not bode well.
>>25015526In interviews he comes across as a very flamboyant theatre kid, hollywood is going to eat him alive. He's pretty charismatic in the trailers though.
>read>yawn 3 times per minute>play video games>alert as fuck as if on cocaine how is it my fault MY BODY PHYSICALLY REJECTS reading?
>>25015408Your attention span has gone to shit. Your dopamine receptors are fried from constant overstimulation. Your brain has regressed to a state where the fast flashing lights and loud noises of your favorite video games have a similar effect on you as jangling keys do on a toddler. It's not so uncommon these days, you simply need less screen time.
>>25015408>MY BODY PHYSICALLY REJECTS anything that isn't a Skinner box/lit/ in 2026.
>>25015408You need to transition from one to the other gradually, start with visual novels.
>>25015498Kek
New year edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24956717>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>25015131I really am that guy, or at least one of those guys, and I'm just talking about through the "Beginner and Intermediate Readers" section (which I supplemented with some additional readers), not the entire spreadsheet. I had many stretches where I wasn't doing much Latin, and then many stretches where I didn't feel like reading yet another reader treading over the same stories. In retrospect, I do think it was helpful to add easy reading volume, but trying to complete the spreadsheet for its own sake isn't advisable for most people. Some of the readers listed are probably not worth reading for anyone at any level.
>>25015186Hey, whatever works for you, I just think it’s silly people get pushback for suggesting the vulgate or patristics (especially when pagan authors from the late period like Ammianus come up). Bet you’re really locked in on the core of the language.
>>25015109Lol it looks like the creator only intended it to be a reference/lookup tool.
>>25015186What was your process for going through it? Did you do rereads? What were the best readers? What were the worst? How was Gildersleeve’s reader?Actually the question about gildersleeve is broader for the general. I know his work is supposed to be very thorough so I was considering his grammar and reader as a way to prove/refine my understanding of grammar.
>>25011142less go
How true is this? And what would be the best (either highest quality or most illustrative) examples of each?
>>25015392I don't see how this is relevant to what I said at all.
>>25010791"This study evaluated the rape fantasies of female undergraduates (N = 355) using a fantasy checklist that reflected the legal definition of rape and a sexual fantasy log that included systematic prompts and self-ratings. Results indicated that 62% of women have had a rape fantasy, which is somewhat higher than previous estimates."https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2009-02078-005
>>25015463Way things are going it won't stay a fantasy for more than a decade max lmao
>>25015463For context, this is what the 62% looks like.
>>25015479>several times a daylol
Has anyone here read Pierre? There seems to be very little secondary material written about it. I can't stop thinking about it.
>>25015409So what are you thinking about it?
>>25015409I read it about three months ago, I don't think I "got it" but I could tell it was good (if even more experimental than Moby-Dick)I thought the second half where he moved to the city and started publishing made a bit more sense than the exceedingly ambiguous (heh) first half and overall the mood was pretty good (it felt a lot more like a Hawthorne work in some ways)Pierre by himself is a very interesting character, mostly because he's basically just another Melville self-insert, though this time focusing on his family and heritage more than the seaOverall I'd rank Melville's short stories above this one but it's definitely got a lot going for it
>>25015409It's a very, VERY strange book. It feels almost postmodern to me in how it refuses to give the reader any sense of resolution. Ambiguities indeed.All’s o’er, and ye know him not!
>>25015476>It's a very, VERY strange book. It feels almost postmodern to me in how it refuses to give the reader any sense of resolution.Having read The Confidence-Man a few months ago, I could've said much the same thing about that.
ITT we name apocalyptic books without kitsch (bible) and pathos (your diary desu).Zombies are okay
I’ll start
>creates the current fantasy genre and its never-dying cliches>can create cool languages and comfy regions, realms>ruin it all by adding "absolute good vs absolute evil" mythos>technological progress is unironically bad, he didn't know about SOLARpunk>the all-creator, Eru Ilúvatar, has no problem in watching kids being rape / eat for millennia>Eru just intervenes to rape humans that just wanted to evolve their species, and also nuke their island>Eru gave narcissism to Melkor and OCD to Mairon and ruined their lives for all eternity so they could "improve his creation" Wtf was wrong with him?
>>25011932tolkienfag browns will seethe at this truke
>>25011930>mfw OP now thinks that initiators and pioneering trendsetters are hacks
They are good children books, I liked them when I was a child.
>>25015378Why would I seethe? I love Tolkien and hope that Allah SWT grants him Jannah. Now the only thing Whites seem to do is push homosexuality and feminism on everyone
>>25015475>Tolkien started the movement that turned fantasy into derivative soulless slopNot the argument you think it is.
The literary canon only exists as a stepping stool for your personal ambition. It exists to inspire but people who wake up every day to go deeper into the world and books are the most boring niggas alive. Yeah, you can explain Hegel's life in detail but can you explain anything about yourself faggot? Are you so ugly you don't even have a romance with yourself? Words are not real. Ideas are not real. They are approximations of emotion. Your emotion. If you're going to be a little bitch and just read all day then you've wasted your life. You're not the lightning. You're not steel. You're nothing. Bitch.
>>25015058lol you spend your entire life on a computer. Zero adventure having nigga lol
>>25015008Nice penis, fruitcake.
>>25014954idk who goatis is but there is some truth to this. Always hearing people talk about how they've learned so much about life and themselves through characters in fiction, or how x book contained 'profound' lines about life, but these same people will mention that they read 150 books in a year. Unless you don't have a job that leaves no time for living a life. What good is this knowledge about life and human interaction if you're putting it to no use? There's a balance to be had, and unfortunately most people who live exciting adventurous lives don't read at all and most people who read a lot are reclusive dorks.Second paragraph is retarded tho
>stepping stoolStopped reading right there buddy, you need to read more
>>25014954i genuinely don't understand what people enjoy in life if they can't find it also in books
Does /lit/ annotate their books?
>>25013169>pretty little baby momentsAre women pedos or something?
>>25013169and women accuse men of "performative reading."
>>25013169I write in academic textbooks and books, because I'm writing in further explanations, other related books, and other details on the subject. It's too make my resources as robust as possible.In regular novels? Never.
>>25014575A stock image is made by a company for other companies to use.These instagram accounts shit out pics like these 20 times a day. That's because there's one company making the props, renting the "cozy" house, hiring the photographer and the editor, and then reselling the pics to the first few of their bot accounts. Then other bot accounts scrape that shit and post it on pinterest. Normies then save them to their "vibe boards".There's a bed pressed to a windowpane in OP's pic, anon. The curtains can't move because they are stuck in between. A 15 years old girl who reads those books isn't moving her bed multiple times a day just to make new pics for her insta. This is not a real place.
>>25013169>that brown handkek
READ. THE. GREEKS.
>>25015132This board can't read Greek or French and never will. They're like /sci/ talking about quantum mechanics while saying it's too hard to learn high school calculus
Id read more if they were more like Charmides or the Symposium.Otherwise I need a condensed version - my head is being tugged in too many directions I can't focus.Maybe if I had people around me willing to read out loud and discuss at the same time it'd get my attention fully.
>>25015136I don't want to read French because French "people" smell funny.
>>25015318You will never learn Greek or Latin or German either
I read sophocles big 3It was good, it was enough
The results of the 2025 poll for /lit/'s Top 100 books.It was a lot of work running the polls and making the chart, but it's worth it to keep this board's annual tradition alive. Thanks for voting!
>>25015280There's no bad prose in the bible if you read the old versions. All modern versions are sloppa of course.I started slogging through the Taisho-era Japanese translation that uses Heian period grammar for maximum hieraticity and it's the most beautiful text I've ever read.
>>25014533Which one is real?
>>25015349Yours. Dunno what the other is from but it is clearly bullshit with the overrepresentation of weeb shit as well as the inclusion of titles never before seen in this board, let alone discussed
>Iliad above oddysey Why
>>25015477It's better, way better. The Iliad is in my personal top 10, the Odyssey doesn't even scratch top 50.
what are some examples of books that are usually released heavily censored and nobody bats an eye?
>>25013292> Homilies Against the Jews by John Crysostom (circa 300 A.D.)> On the jews and their Lies by Martin Luther (1543 A.D.)> 200 Years Together by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1795-1995)> The International kew : The World's Foremost Problem by Henry Ford (1920)> My Struggle by Adolf Hitler (1925)> The Culture Of Critique by Kevin B. MacDonald (20th Century)> A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind by Stephen Milford Goodson
>>25015395are those released in a censored way or just not released?
>>25013292Why do Scottish women hate their men?
>>25013997That sorta indicates that he didn't successfully deal with them doesn't it? Sad!
>>25014165the goal was not to make the book useful for women, it was to humiliate their dead ancestor
Average love story written by a man>Self insert author met a slighty average sweet girl that loves him. At worst shes a little too young for him but aside that its a vanilla love storyAverage love story written by a woman>Self insert is an average shy woman that keep switch hardcore sex between sociopatic billionaries, serial killers, vampires and so on that are all mean to anyone and use her as a fucktoy with some lovebombing in between. They are all also in the 0,30% top of male beautyWhat caused these two oppositive phenomenons? I read a lot of romantic slop books and can confirm these stereotypes are generally true
>>25014326k nice trolling
first story is boringsecond story is less boringsimple as
A Silent Voice was written by a woman and the movie was directed by another woman
>>25002682>>Self insert author met a slighty average sweet girl that loves him. At worst shes a little too young for him but aside that its a vanilla love storyWhat if both love interest are a self insert of myself?
>>25002682>>Young love is a special bond between two people that will last an eternityThat movie wasn't about that at all.It was about how great it'd be if the disabled girl you bullied back when you were at your peak (12 years old) came back into your life and you could apologize and then have sex with her.
Holy fuck...
>>25011248>>25011259t. Has never been to Germany.
what a joke of a thread
>>25014591It could use some BBC sprinkled on top.
>>25014582But christianity was founded in opposition to judaism (the pharises). Judaisers were despised for two millennia, untill they subjugated the church by force of arms at the end of ww2.Whatever you're implying here, doesn't follow at all.
>>25010796He looks awesome here.>>25012144Not so much here.Love the dood. Great philosopher; one of my favourites. Mogs Bergson. I appreciate his autism and exegesis of infinite processes.
He really was a much better writer than Dostoyevsky.
Proto-bolshevik
>>25013112I favor Dostoevsky, but that's just objectively true. He was embarrassingly bad with money (reading his letters is like watching Safdie brothers movie) and never had the time to refine his work.
>>25013118Thanks for the tip Twain.
>>25013754That's Joyce
>>25013143i know russian but i read karamazov bros in a different language because what you said lol
