>>24890933
As an American, if I was going to do a literary tour of London, I'd visit
>Sherlock Holmes Museum
>Whatever is the oldest/biggest/most important public library
>Watch a Shakespeare theater performance
>Room 101 at MI5
>various palaces and castles
And outside of London but not far away
>Oxford University campus
>Jane Austen's house

>>24890933
>any good /lit/ taking in place in London?
Nope.

>>24890933
That's probably the most common /lit/ location after New York

George Gissing

>>24891102
Machen set a decent amount in London too

>>24890933
Sherlock Holmes. I think there is a tourist spot for him

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>>24890021
go fuck the goats achmed

ZUTT ZUTT IN THE BUTT
ZUT ALORS !!
this is the best
http://www.google.com/search?q=prophet+of+doom+craig+winn

>>24890021
>Read a book
>Think about what I have read
>Thinking is an action
>Every book I have read has spurred me to some level of action
checkmate dorkwad

>>24890021
A mindset of someone who does things only for money. Merely surviving. I thought the productivity cult was a western thing but I guess it's just human nature.

>>24891235
Globalization slowly turns every country into USA; it's mostly a western thing and you shouldn't mistake it for some universal pattern.

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>>24890021
if it hadnt been for the miracle of humans creating longform narratives, you'd still be a fucking goat herder -- oh wait.
>goes for a takedown on me
>produces pistol
>then produces rapier
stand or be delivered, goatnigger

>>24889802
tonetta deserves way more credit. His early stuff is legendary.

I'm reading River of Doubt

Alefantis?

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the second half is structured poorly but it's still a great read

>>24889802
Personalism by Emmanuel Mournier

A Tale of Two Cities
I like it more than some other Dickens works I've read. The Jackal is literally me. Mr Lorry is my favorite character though.

>>24891229
I'm not Christian however I think you might be missing the point. The idea is that without an absolute arbiter of morality then everything is subjective. Even Christians will admit not believers can be moral. Most atheist philosophers will also concede this as well.

>>24891249
and what if YOUR interpretation of the bible is different from MY interpretation of the bible? same shit

>>24891370
Alasdair McIntyre and Cornelius Van Til both talk about this

>>24891229
That's the problem with centralized religion. It cannot look beyond itself, and therefore can never imagine that 'different' can, in somewhat rare cases, also mean 'better'. What you see here is just bitter xenophobia, where being a decent person has become synonymous with the absolute rigidity of the religious system one subscribes to

>>24891249
So? There's no good or evil. Might is right.

>>24891108
My copy was published 10 years ago by the Library of Wales. Not sure if they're still printing it.

>>24891230
I own the exact same one
>>24891108
Just buy the library of wales copy. i checked on US amazon guessing youre an american and its for 10 dollars and theres the exact same version going for 10 quid in the uk

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read it last month, preferred the first half to the second, everything degenerated, which was what he was going for. was good but prefer his other stuff

>>24891108
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B0DYPJWB7N/
This one doesn't look too bad

>>24891417
the bit when he goes back to (or at least imagine he goes back to) the decadence of romano british wales is one of the best parts of the novel

>>24890609
>Hylomorphism is a far better proposal
tradcath cope, hylomorphism doesn't actually solve anything and is not even entertained by anyone who knows what a hox gene is

>>24890711
>>lays grounds to logical positivism and the general skepticism we enjoy today.
Not even that. He introduced how cause and effect relations be reduced into simple mechanical objects, which plagued the evolution of science.

>>24891015
>>Next to no one has been a pure cartesian
There are still plenty of dualists out there.
>>he is remembered for being a PIVOTAL thinker, not an ending point.
Look: there are other philosophers who actually predicted how things would go and develop in future, which makes them a great and important figure. What did Descartes do in that regard?

>>24891337
>and is not even entertained by anyone who knows what a hox gene is
This statement is quite literally meaningless.

>>24891211
You're a monist? Okay, explain multiplicity in a monist worldview.

>>24890043
>Source: my rectum
Cool story bro/sis/furry.
>>24890018
The adults (i.e. not you) are talking about de Vere for the sonnets and Lord North for the major plays, also Middleton for some of the more obscure shit.
https://dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/the-full-faq-on-north-and-shakespeare

>>24890740
Why

>>24890006
All of those were actually true.

He had a clock in Julius Caesar.
How did he not know clocks weren't around in Rome?

>>24890740
if I agree with North as the true author of the plays, where does the de Vere wrote the sonnets come from?

>>24889139
You absolutely do not need to send a new query to every agent. Just change any comp titles to fit ones from the agency or agent and maybe pick up on a detail in their profile and add or subtract based on it.

Why do publishers expect you to write a whole manuscript they won't even read in order to submit it to them? It's crazy how worthless they think peoples' time is and how devalued writing is. I should send in a pitch and some sample pages and get paid upfront to write a book for them if they're interested. This isn't a charity

>>24891363
yes

>>24881198
>publishing
Mainstream publishing means that you're looking in to making a profitable CONSUMABLE PRODUCT. Not a work of art or any of this shit.
Profitable publishers know what makes money and what doesn't and unfortunatelly that usually is slop. The only exceptions being veteran authors that already have a sizeable and profitable following.

If you aren't mass producing slop you have no choice but cover the risks yourself by self publishing or find some hyper niche publisher that aligns with your work.

>>24891371
>cover the risks yourself by self publishing
It's literally free to do this btw. There's absolutely zero (0!) downside other than maybe getting evicirated by the critics or letting down your fans.

>>24888095
>beautiful people arent better at anything other than socializing and having sex
the beautiful are terrible at sex because they think being beautiful is enough. Cunt will lie there like a fish 9 times out of 10.

>>24890113
just have your mom do it, like a normal person

>>24888005
Have you ever wonder why hollyjews never cast attractive asian women? Its because it would alienate the roastie audience

>>24887921
I mean it's not like Bukowski was that great of a writer. He also literally looked like a chimp.

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>>24888002
google "asuka wrestler WWE" she is like 45 and has similarly obliterated the wall
>>>/pw/19291001
something in the water in that orient

>>24886764
>bombs
I didn't realize you could download and read those... What's in the chatgpt thing?

>>24877118
>>24877908
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiisiJu_fE8

>>24878230
Hmmm how about no?

>>24891338
This is AI. There's no way.

>>24877194
>>24886802
>the latest version of the list
the latest version is almost strictly worse
it's shameful how they've shoehorned in garbage like Kate Chopin's Awakening in a desperate attempt to include more women

>>24891395
>The writing is just wonky and awkward most of the time. Maybe I'm just too used to Tolkien and his masterful writing, but it's just offputting. It's written with the subject matter of an edgy smut fanfic, with the subtlety of a children's book.
You basically just summarized it all, but the villain is kind of cool and I remember liking the concluding sections which made the first third checkpoint worth getting through.

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>>24889690

What was his argument against God again? From the quotes I've seen he says that Christianity isn't believable anymore but how exactly does that disprove God?

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>>24879603
But what I said was, fucking her AND Sartre.

>>24889690
Would you fuck one to fuck the other? I'll let you decide.

>>24879603
Nigger.
>>24891276
Don't reply to the retarded nigger, anon.

>>24873586
I think Nietzsche is a pretty cool guy. He writes about ubermensch and doesn't afraid of anything.

>>24888028
>they didn't leave extra space in the box for future volumes
Even Gurm's publisher has given up.

>>24888028
Because he will die in my lifetime and someone else will finish it

>>24888028
I don't read unfinished series BECAUSE of asoiaf.

>>24889771
>leave some extra space
>book ends up being too big to fit in it.

>>24888028
Why read absolute fucking trash seems like the more pressing question.

>>24889117
I'm as upset as you about my LLM detection failure. I was blinded by the prefect rating. Although I do have one human review from someone I don't know that I didn't even pay for. Crazy fool must've read the thing on a whim, it wasn't even part of an exchange. See it on Long River or Quality Books.

>>24889147
>>24889147
Stop measuring your success by the praise of literal nobodies and start measuring it by the quality of people who hate you. I'm not going to read your shitty book or look up it's reviews, come back here when you write something actually worthwhile and post a direct link if you're not a pussy.

I think that’s based. Do you really want an internet where an author can’t go shill themselves anywhere and has absolutely no chance of getting their work read

>>24889183
Hate from nobodies like yourself too lazy to even read my material is not quality hate. Quality hate would be like some dogshit 'tuber or X user trying to organize a review bombing.
>post a direct link
see>>24886639

>>24890072
No on is going to pay for your book with that kind of attitude.