>>24726560
You could argue Voltaire is a man of his time and would probably be a groyper in the modern day.

>>24727033
I have a kindle copy of that book but the introduction (written by a woman) who had to just self insert her own personal gripes about pronouns in the text put me off from reading. Never understood why women have to make everything about themselves at all times.

>>24727220
breeding your "son" isn't going to propagate the genes

>>24726628
WE GAAN
GAAN NING

>>24726413
>What is your excuse?
I don't want to create, I just like to read and learn.

>>24726170
I'm not a monolingual anglo but I don't speak Spanish. Is the English translation good enough?

>>24726228
It seems intelligible enough but at a heavy price.

>>24726095
>>24726124
Very interesting. I'd like to hear more. What about the sonata is Schopenhauerian?

Very much agree with the Houellebecq comparison!

I would add Thomas Hardy.

>>24726095
>>24726124
>Proust
Damn it, I've already read that one and it was the greatest novel I've ever read. Makes perfect sense now, since I'm attracted to Schopenhauer's ideas.

>>24726068
I’m surprised no one’s said Tolstoy. Harold Bloom (absurdly but insightfully) said Anna Karenina was such a pure distillation of Schopenhauer that it rendered World as Will and Idea redundant. They also strike me as similar personalities. Wagner was most taken up with Schopenhauer, really really enthusiastic about it, but he was a very different person by my judgement.

Just finished Autopsy in Room Four by King. Pretty good. The suspense was actually palpable as the pericardial cut was about to commence. I'm disappointed there ended up being no supernatural element in the story tho.

>>24726802
This was my fave. I read pic related which is meant to accompany it and the only stories I'd include in a best of were The Temple, Herbert West, Juan Romero, The Lurking Fear and At the Mountains of Madness

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>>24727215
Forgot pic dammit

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>>24727218
Those Del Rey collections are kino as fuck!

>>24726461
>>24726479
Have you read his newest horror collection, Not a Speck of Light? I was planning to save it for October and am hoping it's as good as his rest.

>>24726428
AI fucking sucks at writing

>>24726428
bro went on an autistic rant about Brandon Sanderson selling his own merchandise, saying "Back in my day, authors only had to do one thing- write." Do you really think he's going to be pro-AI?

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>>24725543
>So let's say Tywin gets the throne after Jaime kills Aerys.

Would never happen, the other nobility would oppose him as nobody likes or trusts him.

>>24726954
> "Back in my day, authors only had to do one thing- write."
What did he mean by this?

>>24725543
He'd get fucked over big time. Honestly would probably be the best possible timeline. No one likes Tywin, he had just murdered Ellia and her children and sacked Kingslanding. The Rebels and Dorne would probably put him down.

>>24721562
>return to the Self"
Impossible in a buddhist framework, since that Is a form of attavada, and Is considered one of the four forms of grasping that brings ignorance and thus suffering, read SN12.1

>>24721451
Total newbie here.

If I wanted ONE core text on Buddhism to put in a 'Great Books' list, what would it be? Thanks.

>>24726929
Dhammapada

>>24726929
Doctrine of Awakening by Evola

>>24726929
>If I wanted ONE core text on Buddhism to put in a 'Great Books' list, what would it be? Thanks.
MONKEY MAGIC!!!!! UK ENGLISH DUB!!!!!

Or do you mean written only text, not television detourned texts? If it is a written text then Journey to the West. Yes all of it. Bash Daoists. Put. your. heel. through. daoist. face.

>>24727202
Yeah because women don't know what love is so it must be imprinted on them a la Tabula Rasa.

>>24726943
>women's aptitude for whoreness is completely nullified by society
>completely nullified by society
You gotta finish the book first, before making a thread about it
>military-based society giving everyone a very clear hierarchy, structure, and future prospect
>a very clear hierarchy
Who is above the Commander's wife?
>>zero tolerance on crime and deviation from societal norms, ensuring a peaceful society
>ensuring a peaceful society
With a revolution?
Maybe dystopian societies are trully some retarded BDSM fantasy from the author.

>>24727241
I’m sorry you feel that way anon, because if that’s the approach you have to love, I’m afraid you’re going to be lonely for a long time

I wish it was like that in real life, no memes or irony. Everyone would be happier, we’re just brainwashed to think it’s bad

>>24727274
lmao fucking bitch. go back to hollywood

>>24727261
can't think of any, but it made me think of Anecdote of the Jar, the Wallace Stevens poem

>>24727266
>he placed a jar in tennessee

>>24724994
yeah im having a harder time with it than i did with infinite jest. Its hilarious at times dont get me wrong but im still around the spot in the wilderness where quixote says hes going to go intentionally fucking nuts to share the sorrows of the mad goatherd. i was so mad when he interuppted the mans story just so he could talk about his fucking BOOKS

>>24723633
>abridged
You didn't read it.

>>24723633
I do not know what kind of amorphous monstrosity you're reading, but I can assure you it is no Cervantes.

>abridged Quixote
If you hurry through this book you are basically a mentally retarded person.

>>24723757
In terms of actual quality of reading, I'd argue The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire is the standard example of abridgment working. Economically though it was very useful until digital formats rendered it obsolete. I have a large collection of old Reader's Digests which abridged several works to fit them into one volume. Did the works suffer? Probably so, but it made them affordable to the working man. He could own a selection of writings that at some times were quite the bargain.

>>24726848
I have fans on Ao3 but it feels weird and wrong to convert that following to my non-genre litfic. Probably wouldn't even work if I tried.

>>24726854
>Literature is a solitary endeavor and the writer is addressing an individual, not an audience or crowd or society, just (You).
This has only ever been true since the advent of modernity

>>24726906
>can't into present tense
>can't into pedentry
In those days literature was not an art, just a storage medium for other arts.

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>>24726848
>tfw have almost 4000 followers on Twitter
>few hundred followers on Facebook too

I'm going to try to convert this into a reader base when I start releasing a story of mine online in the next few months. Wish me luck, /lit/.

>>24726840
If you commit a great act, many people will read your book.

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1/5
I dislike books

why do you people even go on goodreads, 90 percent of it is adult women reading YA novels

>>24719514
Every time this thread comes up im reminded of that five paragraph long seethe on Carl Schmitt's "Concept Of The Political" on goodreads

>>24724870
Why do you think I want to leave this place?

>>24726982
I have a small circle of friends there

>>24726785
Fascists weren't communist, they do however use Jacobin style politics, which communists also does. This is the essential reason why people conflate the two.

>mustang
Nice, looks like a Player II.

>>24726476
To an extent, yes. Unfiltered access to the internet does stifle creativity in a way. While we have access to unimaginable resources, it’s like being put in a warehouse with an infinite amount of very art supply in the world, then being told to make a masterpiece. The freedom is overwhelming, especially for people with the capacity for creativity.

Limits on resources and access to information, help create more personalized world views that actually have something to say. When everyone has access to unlimited information all the time, especially regarding current events, they often feel the need to curate opinions on everything, and in today’s world where one moment of a “wrong” opinion, creates a strong social backlash, people develop homogenous worldviews with nothing unique to say about it, just parroting a few tastemakers that can get an opinion out fast enough to be accepted by enough people. And even if they do have something worth saying, the internet lets them say it in short-form, and be rewarded with immediate praise from their peers about how “good” their opinions are.

So, yeah. Oppression that limits access to information in some ways, might yield some interesting art

Napoleon inspired authors through his sheer greatness
>Toujours lui ! Lui partout ! — Ou brûlante ou glacée,
>Son image sans cesse ébranle ma pensée.
>Il verse à mon esprit le souffle créateur.
>Je tremble, et dans ma bouche abondent les paroles
>Quand son nom gigantesque, entouré d’auréoles,
>Se dresse dans mon vers de toute sa hauteur

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>>24726467
>ban phones
>abolish rent
>cut the length of the working day
>crush the profiteers

Read Notes from Underground

>>24727235
My name is Chud

>>24727237
Yeah, but I feel like a dumb hick when it comes to books, so Mud is the perfect imagery.

>>24727235
nigger why do you want to read
that's nerd shit

>>24727235
Ulysses
Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest

>>24726396
>Mieville and Moorcock
Lol he was shitposting

>>24726396
i referenced threads here where he actually posted who he was on goodreads. lmao. he's a fucking pseud. his goodreads reviews are an outlet to practice his shitty writing.

>>24726401
Moorcock is indeed better

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>>24726238
>Any goodread reviewers that are /lit/-approved?
Glenn Russell

>>24726235
Something about not liking the GR/Amazon merger or whatever.

>>24726286
I tried reading him and couldn't make heads or tails of his ramblings

>>24726423
this. then maybe like one of his shorter books before creative evolution. he has a pretty good book on laughter that i'm pretty sure freud ended up taking a lot from

>>24726286
Like Nietzsche he was a retard who should only be read through Deleuze's books on him.

>>24726555
Is deleuzes take not a reinterpretation of how Bergson was originally understood?

>>24726555
Deleuze is an overhyped clown honestly which functions as a performative grift for post-leftists.

>>24722820
>Notebook (general ledger)
>idea (category)
> -- [body]

>Note Card (3x5)
>category top right
>subject top left

>Note Card (5x7)
>ibid. more extensive body (long form content; book review/summaries)

>>24722820
I keep loose leaf, and bundle the pages into different piles as I go, usually keeping a diary bundle, one for each story draft, one for random notes that I can pull out and develop, one for copywork and sentence experiments, etc.

I can't keep a regular notebook anymore, as my thoughts and writing becomes too bouncy over the days, and it's difficult to future-proof and index material when I want to revisit later (like with story drafts and sketches, or trying to find a note I made as part of research).

It's nice to then see the different bundles grow, and they tend to form their own body and pattern.

>>24722845
Man I just really don't understand shit like this at all. Look at that phone screenshot. It's something like 50 words of actual text, the rest is wasted space, a e s t h e t i c [kanji] bloat and features I will never ever even think to use and will instead spend hours googling how to remove from my interface. Like always. Why would I want some kind of cloud connecting my notes? Timestamps? Twenty sub-categories with emojis? I just write in the notepad my laptop came with. 10pt times new plaintext no line spacing. I keep my notes as files in a folder if I want to return to them later, otherwise I just have unsaved tabs open so I can add things when I get a stray thought and have it go away when I shut the computer off. Or I use paper. Most of the time, actually. It's better. Three lines per line, cross-written if I don't intend to read it more than once. I'm sure this works for you people, but man, I can not understand the shilling of these "tools" in the slightest

>>24722845
>my lounge kilt

>>24726009
I think most people actually do think interesting thoughts, given the opportunity. They just don't ever give themselves one. Sitting down in a quiet room in front of some paper, forcing yourself to hold up a pen and stirring around in your subconscious will lead just about anyone to time skips and hand cramps, I feel. But follow a person for a day and you realize most people spend effectively no time alone. Those who do will occupy that entire time with distraction or "activity" that prevents them both from ever letting their mind run free for a bit and from sitting down and really reflecting on something. (Which might unfortunately be why I'm here right now, I realize.) Or at least this is what I choose to believe, but anecdotally it seems right