The hotel staff, I think, considers us useless freeloaders who have come to America – land of honest laborers with crewcuts – to eat them out of house and home. I know all about this. Everyone bitched about parasites in the USSR too, bullshitted about how you had to be useful to society. In Russia the people who bitched were the ones who worked least. I've been a writer for ten years now. It's not my fault that neither state needs my labor. I do my work – where's my money? Both states bullshit about the justice of their systems, but where's my money?
>>24738318“NazBol” is a meme ideology, sure but the more I think of it the more I owe the failure of the USSR and its complete and utter dissolution to its multiethnic makeup. All of the minorities in Crimea, in the Stan countries and Asia- all of them revolting and causing problems were what led to the failure of socialism not socialism itself as an ideology. A racial state with closed borders and extremely marginal outside influence is the only way for communism to survive in the current time. If communism were adopted in the US it would immediately fall to minority infighting- think about it. They love rioting but they hate each other.
>>24740118It's dissolution had to do with the design of it. They were completely unprepared for a scenario where Russia would secede from the USSR.
>>24731216Limonov was a KGB plant to try to stir dissent among the russian emigres and native socialists in America, and still failed because even his new left communism was too communist for american socialists.It's mindblowing how people just swallow hook line and sinker the story that some guy whose parents had kgb connections somehow married a super model in a time and place where they were incredibly rare and then left on an Israeli visa at a time when even actual jews were hard-pressed to get one of those
>>24738398>this is inspired by reality>also i love gay sex with niggersI think I'll take his word for it. >>24738403Are you forgetting the part where he was vehemently anti-Putin?
>>24742314As discussed in Memoirs of a Russian Punk, his father worked prisoner transports. He wasn't particularly high ranking, just a Lieutenant in the MVD. His involvement with American trots was similarly minimal. He went to some meetings, tried to fuck some girls, and ditched them when he gets the butler job from His Butler's Story. Throughout the memoirs, he describes himself more as an individualist anarchist than a communist. Not sure how difficult it really was to get the israeli visa. He describes several other non-jewish poets getting them, and even continuing to pretend they're jewish in America to fleece money off other jews (lol). This conspiracist narrative seems to be based on a quick skim of Wikipedia rather than a careful reading of the books themselves.
It's time for the weekly stack accountability thread! Post last week's stack, this week's stack, and share your progress.The regular stack thread is mostly just people showing off how much stuff they bought. This thread is about being accountable and actually reading.I finished up the last 300 pages of Burton's Wanderings in West Africa. Andrew Robinson's Lost Languages, a book about deciphering lost writing systems, finally came in at the library so it moved to the top of my stack. 70 pages in it's fascinating stuff. I also read 60 pages of Antiques Magpie. It's pretty much just an assortment of factoids and anecdotes about antiques, kind of like what a Reader's Digest overview of antiques would be like. It's not particularly good, but it's decent to pick up when you only have a couple minutes.
>>24736386Perhaps you should try speaking to it in Catalan.
>>24742058I read Pakenham's The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 a few years ago and generally liked it. It's a broad overview of the scramble for Africa. It's a good starting point if you're interested in African colonialism broadly rather than wanting to focus in on one particular area. Be aware that the author really likes the word humbug.
finished them all except stirner
Hold me accountable bros.
>>24742344Without question this is by far the most valuable stack. It's also not your stack :(
Any other books written in this format? Aphorisms, random thoughts, lists. The Weight of the World by Handke also ticks this box
Jean Baudrillard's Cool Memories series
>>24741141Culture and Value, WittgensteinMinima Moralia, AdornoOne-Way Street, BenjaminThe Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon
>>24741141Emil Cioran works
I have finished 0 novels this year. How do women manage to trudge thought so much slop.
>>24740674Bussin for real no cap
>>24738488cute pepemost girls really just love reading YA pulp and smut which is very easy to read quicklyI myself love reading Horus Heresy between what I have to read for classI believe in you anon
Novels are for pseuds.
>>24738488>Pick game you like>Pick similar book in theme>Read it while you play the gameWhat's so tough about it?
>>24738488If you can't finish a single novel then maybe you need to get better at deciding or learn to enjoy the parts that aren't easily enjoyable.
Fun With Math EditionStubbed >>24732394>What is /wng/ — Web Novel General?A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more>Why read web novels?Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.>Why write web novels?Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.>Advice for Noobs!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24742165if only it were thus cyan amphibian, if only it were thus.
>>24742216>be me>reference Slaughterhouse 5>change number to 9>keep getting comments about le Worm reference>i've never read Worm>mfw
>>24741692Those are called gamebooks with Fighting Fantasy being the most famous oneThere's also solo solo tabletop RPGs like Rangers of Shadwo Deep but you need almost as much stuff to play them as a regular DnD group would.
>>24741746What's wrong with that? Plenty of stories are just recorded and embellished DnD campaigns
>>24741843Thank you. A lot of things are still up in the air and will have to be fixed before the next chapter. >>24741742better to wisen with a crowd than to be a fool alone
Remember that manual labor is the only path to salvation, and everything that doesn't contribute to energetic maintenance and surplus creation is by definition evil. Books are evil, writting them is a waste of calories.
>>24742351>writtingESL or Retard?
>>24742353Both srry
You're a very confused young man
Have you ever regretted slogging through a book and wasting your time on it?
This book really hurt you
>>24740944Yep. Savage Detectives was a fucking slog, not sure if I want to try 2666
>>24740944Yah, this is probably the most common subject of discussion I have had with readers: how much of a book do you read before you call it quits? Do you finish what you start?
>>24742194I'm a completionist so once I start something I cannot really quit it unless it devolves into the extremes. The book I posted is a 450 pager so I stomached through it, but wouldn't if it was 1.2k words long.The only things I've given up on are various TV series (but mostly on the first episode) and Hitman: Absolution
Have you read dune?
>>24741069I read the first book 4 times and others in the series once. It gets worse with each entry, literally just read the first book.
>>24741069I read it recently for the first time. I thought it was great. I swear, I love stories where scarcity is almost a character in the story.
>>24741069Reading currently So far it's just like based Star Wars
>>24742164Messiah is good too. The rest aren't good even for SF standards
>>24741069yeah, I didn't care for it.
How come so many opera singers have curly hair?
>>24741911Vocal cord vibrations influencing scalp. That’s my theory.
>>24741911Gilbert and Sullivan were opera weiters
>>24741911big if true
Especially during 2010-2020 it's literally the White Guilt the book
>AAAAA, ARIOCH! MY SNOW WHITE CHEEKS ARE BEING SPREAD BY THIS APE CHIMERA! ARIOCH, AID ME NOW!>Ah, Elric, dearest slave, I see you are having your fill of Theleb K'aarrna. Or more precisely, I might say your filling of the Ape Whose Speed Shall Never Be Spent.>It is so.>Alas, child of chaos, now is not a good time for me. There are queer happenings I must attend to with my fullest attention. Even now you keep me far too long. You shall not have my aid but you have my blessing. Good luck.>Moonglum anchored his brows, giving him the look of bear provoked out of a deep slumber, "Fat help he was."
Oh great. Our daily dose of "Don't Read dis!!"Fuck off, frogposters.
Elric's complex character>Yeah i killed the white race u mad?>nooo i didn't kill him. stormbringer did.>Arioch save me
>>24740639Because Stormbringer
>>24740639need a movie/serial (but if they do so in anno MMXXV it will be woke))
>Writes about himself visiting hell>Curiously, all the people he hates and his politcal rivals are in hell>Writes that Plato and Aristotle, people the founders of western thought are amazed and honored to see him and are like "Wow! The amazing Dante I can't believe its you">Aristotle (appearing from the smoke): “Truly, Dante, you are wise beyond all philosophers.”Dante (hands on hips): “Yes, yes, I know. But why are you here, Aristotle?”>Basically standing there wtth his hands on his hips like "Yes its me, hello. Now Why are you here?" x 50 and dishes out judgementThis retard is fucking hilarious
>>24739841Oh, you always say that.
>>24739350>Another Dante thread by someone who didn't read the poem and doesn't even know what the contents of the latter 2/3rds of the poem are.Yes.
>>24741474Based. Real readers prefer Ariosto
I read Inferno and while it was interesting and entertaining, I don't see why people think it's so great
>>24741660thats the problem with people who only read the inferno (mostly in prose) as if it was pulp horror fiction i would be embarassed to confess ive read the inferno only
Post your own work and critique others.
When you post so much that people don't even respond to you so agreeably so the only thing that really gets you going is ragebait and your own personality
>>24740920Loan out a prosody from the local university library. You've got work to do. It's free verse but also doggerel! >A full moon appeared tonightx / / x/ x/>It really was an enamoring sightx / x x x x// />The stars, they sparkled with such dazzling lightx / x / x / /x />yet none could compare to that which was most brightx / x x/ x x / x / />in this beautiful, beautiful, gorgeous night/ x /x/ /x/ x/ />as it filled itself with what I perceived as delightx x / x/ x / x x/ x x/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I once did meet a golden-haired angela soul so kind, her eyes so crystal bright her shining smile did hollow point my heartI once did love a golden-haired angelevery day when prayin' to God, her name I sangbut life did show me, love's a lie; I mourn'dI once did meet a flaming-haired angel
>Trying to write something more meaty>Seem to always just default back to iambic/ limeric even when I don't want toI can't help myself.
>>24741624>>24741621Thanks. I like mine better thoever
Is there really any difference between spending 2 hours reading a great book vs 2 hours reading a shit book vs 2 hours watching a movie vs 2 hours watching TV vs 2 hours scrolling? Any way you're just killing time, not really accomplishing anything.
>>24736099Why is that scrawny homosexual wearing XXXL clothing?
I like threads like this because they're not about specific books, so I don't feel left out because I don't understand the context of what everyone else is saying.
>>24736172i mean you don't have to do anything, but doing nothing, or not thinking critically about the material you consume only hurts youyou will thank yourself in the future for bettering yourself and making use of your timeor you can remain ignorant, not care, and not learn anythingbut no one else really cares what you do, except you
>>24736172You're right, for you specifically there is no difference.
>>24736145Me
It's not friend / enemy, it's enemy / (temporary) ally. This is Machiavelli's metaphysics, a step further, grounded and detached. Discuss.
>>24742255Nothing in Schmitt's theory contradicts what you're saying.
>>24742263it does. there are no friends, there are allies.
>>24742276What the fuck do you think Schmitt means by friend?
>>24742276https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amicitia
>>24742280A friend is specified by sovereign which includes no anymosity. An alliance is something that both parties agree on. Two parties that are inherently at conflict.
What are some genuinely fun books
>>24740922Catch-22>>24741071They're not exactly laugh out loud funny but they're incredibly entertaining if you enjoy assholes and general banditry.
>>24740922Gargantua and PantagruelDangerous LiaisonsThe Count of Monte CristoBouvard and PécuchetExercises in StyleLife: A User's Manual
>>24742182>Bouvard and PécuchetSounds fun. Which translation would you recommend?
>>24742090Very true and why I recommended Mason & Dixon
>>24741725>turned into a lolcow and BAWWleted everythingsours the memory
