What Redditors are saying about Honor Levy>holy fuck I wish I never read this>the worst people i know are excited about it>it’s astounding how poorly she writes>The one excerpt I saw is literally the worst thing I’ve ever read in my life>You couldn't waterboard me into reading a full book of that, Jesus ChristIs she our girl?
>>24735928I was stupid enough to follow /lit/'s advice and try to read her. Holy hell was it bad. If this is peak GenZ we are royally screwed
>>24738926You're a philistine you jew
I hate women but I honestly wish her the best. I am completely rooting for her.I also think she owes me sex
>>24740525we hve to start a thread of poetry dedicated to our beauteous queen
>>24735928lit version of lena dunham
Especially during 2010-2020 it's literally the White Guilt the book
Has any woman in the past 50 years written anything worth reading? Picunrel I haven't read it
>>24737604Also Olivia Laing, Rachel Cusk, Louise Gluck, Claudia Rankine, and Maggie Nelson all write some pretty interesting poetic work/ creative nonfiction/ general meditative literature.
one of the GOAT short story collections…
>>24732155Op have you ever tried reading any book
tfw no Duras gf to have a toxic relationship with
I'm reading Surprise, Kill, Vanish by Annie Jacobsen. It's a history of American Military Black Ops since World War II. It has some amazingly gritty real life adventure stories in it.
>reading Demons by Dostoevsky>feel bored all the time, my desire to read it drops with every page>eventually drop it at the 400 page mark after procrastinating for like a week>pick up Gravity's Rainbow>immediately absorbed, read 50 pages in one sittingThis marks the 2nd realist novel that I dropped in a row (the previous one being War & Peace).GR? I haven't laughed this hard since Ulysses (Cyclops had me roaring). Slipping on a banana peel? Putting a banana pajama pants? "Incoming mail"? Corporal Wayne? Giant Adenoid? All the fun little songs? Now that's more my style. Give me goofs and gags, not soap opera drama.
>>24739070Great, you do you!
>>24739070It wears off
>>24739070>Dostoevsky>Realistic>Ulysses>not Realistic
>>24739070anna karanina is boring. war and peace is better.
>>24739070Based and read-for-fun pilled
Fiction book about extra dimensional and experiencing spiritual journey such as the spirit leaves the body (death,etc)
>>24739775This >Look at this screwdriver! You can build nice birdhouses much easier with it!>But... you could also stab your own eye with it if you are fuckin retarded>Lets ban screwdrivers and all tools altogether!
>>24740060I hope the next time you trip you stop sleeping entirely for days and start hearing voices thinking it's the end of the world. Should've used your tool better you tool lol.
>>24740071another kind and friendly drug addict
>>24740071Let me guess:>thought that starting with low doses and working your way up is "reddit">no or a shitty trip sitter>no nature and/or private space accessible >screens, screens, screens>shitty bad vibe music (rap, metal etc.)>smoked weed or drank alcohol with it >zero meditative or breathwork or similar experience>tried to control it, didnt let go>cant into introspection or interpretation at allWith at least 2 or 3 of those Im dead on
>>24740590Forgot caffeine inducing anxiety looping
Why don't more authors use incest as a plot device?
Nigga are for real?
>>24740384name actual literature
>>24740416no u
>>24739984True but that makes it kinda hot.
Is George R.R. Martin not enough for you?
I find myself sympathetic to Tyler. Mormon cult parents, a homophobic society, autistic. And then you have a toxic fascist society that wants to feed him to the wolves. What other stories are told from the perspective of those hated by an evil blood thirsty corrupt society. I’m aware of the Jesus and the New Testament gospels along with Grendel. Any other suggestions?
Literally who?
>>24738847>really useful people (the United Health CEO is the better example of this
>>24738861you think you can run a fortune 500 company? you didn't even finish community college
>>24738861You don't seem to understand. You're not thinking about it from the system/corporate/government's point of view, even if you don't like them. Actually think about this. As far as the corporate-governmental system is concerned, the various major players are useful if they do their job and generally help make Line Go Up and maintain existing order. The victim was a CEO of a Dow constituent, included in everyone's retirement plans, one way or another. Voters. If people start feeling emboldened to kill CEOs and politicians en masse, then this not only threatens the stability of the established order, but it also poses a threat to the other politicians. Whether you like them or not is beside the point, the point is to consider their perspective and what is rational for them to do. It is quite rational for them to use state power to put Luigi Mangione down, especially since his fanbase is worrying in itself.
>>24738877Well of course the perpetrators know what's coming. But they are suicidal to start with, so it's not going to dissuade anybody.
tyrion stroll 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: >>24704184
Was he autistic?
>>24740155>He is beyond lazy.I don't think this is laziness. This is apathy. George just doesn't care all that much about religion. His apathy towards religion runs so deep it's subconscious. That's why he writes religion the way he does. Put another way, if he were religious or had a deep interest in it, The Faith of the Seven would nauseatingly autistic in how detailed it would be.
>>24740512The only things gurm is nauseatingly autistic about is cunts and food
>>24740512it'd be kino if there was a fracture between the learned understanding of the "Seven facets of one Godhead" vs. the lay interpretation of "Seven names means seven individuals, simple as" that resulted in heresies that had to be periodically stamped out by the Faith
>>24740603>I'm gonna stop ye right there, Septon Patrek. That's partialism!
I was quite surprised, after thoroughly reading through the masterworks of this King, by some falsely considered the godfather of nazism, to promote an almost full equality of the female gender and describe the Aryan Germain as an otherwise tolerant, non-nationalistic, unprejudiced towards foreign nations, individualist man who doesn't go to the temples and resents priests with a passion. He wants nothing other than to contribute to his community and who would, if necessary, even sacrifice his life and all his wealth for it. He is a man who does not love authority and who is good to his slaves. Spreading the message of justice and fair government, with violence if necessary, is the true Aryan's sole concern. They lived inside their rural farms, democratically organized under the head of an uninfluential federative King. Unfortunately there are not many of them left, as Gobineau explains in his book. To say of oneself that one is an Aryan, is almost the same as claiming to be a true genius. But who other than a true Aryan would dare to accept such worldview? Combining the idea of racism with a love for all humanity is a step few people dared to make.
>>24739802>Also about the attitude of the superior to the inferior races, the Negroes, for instance. R. says the greatest triumph for the intellectually superior person is to win the love and devotion of those beneath him, whereupon the Count [Gobineau] says such love can be found among Negroes, but not mulattoes.>We come back to the subject of race, wondering which theory is right, Schopenhauer’s or Gobineau’s. R. feels they can be reconciled: a human being who is born black, urged toward the heights, becomes white and at the same time a different creature.>‘Negro slave owners etc. as extreme consequence of the conqueror’s becoming far more savage than the animals.’
>>24737357Ugly chinless blob thinks he's ''the master race'', many such occurrences
>>24739929Schopenhauer believed whites descending from the brown race, had their skin gradually bleach by influence of the climate, and therefore white skin represents a deviation from nature, often seeking to be corrected by the tendency of white men to fall in love with dark featured women. He seemed to have attributed no moral or intellectual advantage to white skin
>>24739929>>a human being who is born black, urged toward the heights, becomes white and at the same time a different creature.
>>24740475kek
>“In law school he had committed acts which had formerly seemed to him of great vileness and had inspired a feeling of self-loathing in him at the time he committed them; but subsequently, seeing that such acts were also committed by highly placed people and were not considered bad, he, without really thinking them good, forgot all about them and was not troubled in the least by the memory of them.”Is it accurate to say that the Death of Ivan Ilyich is about the life and death of a closeted gay man in 19th century Russia? Isn't that the real reason he loathed his wife so much? Why his only happiness in his last days was when he could wear his legs around Gerasim's neck? (And wasn't that kind of exploitative?) I suppose at that point, he just didn't GAF anymore.
>>24736708That’s not from his diary its from a work of fiction and his wife always mocked him for it in their later years because she was a hysterical bitch
>>24736708That's very interesting!
Gosh he loves Gerasim>“His moral sufferings consisted in the fact that, looking at Gerasim’s sleepy, good-natured, high-cheekboned face that night, it had suddenly occurred to him: And what if my whole life, my conscious life, has indeed been “not right”?”
He hates his wife so much>“Her clothes, her figure, the expression of her face, the sound of her voice—all told him one thing: “Not right. All that you’ve lived and live by is a lie, a deception, concealing life and death from you.” And as soon as he thought it, his hatred arose and together with hatred his tormenting physical sufferings and with his sufferings the consciousness of near, inevitable destruction.”
>“He hates her with all the forces of his soul. And her touch makes him suffer from a flood of hatred for her.”
Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs)https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg>Previous:>>24729043>Thread Question:Do you need supplementary material to enjoy books? I'm talking art, music, etc. based on the property? Does it help you visualize what you've read better?
Are these legitimate fantasy books or just smut? How hard is the bdsm, does it reach the disturbing level?
I recently read a book by Liu Cixin titled 'Devourer.' It was very entertaining, but somehow I didn't like the presentation.The actual 'message,' that is, what the author wanted to discuss, was handled later in dialogues. The plot itself seemed generic. Just a Trojan horse. Moreover, many things were simply left out.
>>24740493Erotic fantasy. Something that doesn't really exist anymore.
>>24740493>being disturbed by BDSM fantasiessoft cunt
I'm only interested in heroines that are likely to do anal.
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?
>>24738398Wow, he wrote three fictional memoirs about a guy just like him where all the facts conveniently align with known facts about him. What are the odds?
>>24738844>all the factswell where's the proof then?
>>24738920
>>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.
This was recommended by /lit/. I'm almost done reading it and I think this book has at least 5 or 6 typos, the most of any book I've read so far this year. How does that happen
If you see this cover, snag it: the most valuable book from my thrift store finds (+$500)
>>24739747The Hero With a Thousand Faces and The Secret Teachings of All Ages
>>24740236I am admiring
>>24740236Good condition copies with this cover are going for $20 on ebay.
>>24740236how does that make sense? this is the cover i had growing up on our bookshelf. no way it's worth anything
Uncial edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24697657>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.
>>24740541>But you don't start studying any language by reading the most advanced writings, people would call you a moron if you jumped into learning english with Joyce or Milton.Tell that to a good chunk of Latinists.>>24740553>>24740565Trvke
>>24740574>Tell that to a good chunk of Latinists.To be fair to those Latinists, it's far more of a pedagogical issue. The prevalence of LLPSI is a good sign that things are slowly changing for the better in this regard.
The only reason educated people in the past could read/write fluent Latin is that they spent the first 20 years of their life doing nothing but study Latin for 8 hours a day. You "hobbyists" have no chance.
>>24740565Not only that but the reconstructed pseuds don't even nasalize -um, -am, -ens-, etc.
>>24740582Yes and that’s exactly why they confuse the absurdities of their pedagogy with the difficulties of the language itself. Their timeframes imply Latin is harder than Mandarin or Japanese.>>24740586Gee I guess I should be like those PHDs on forums claiming 10+ years of nonstop study that still ended up having to read LLPSI to finally learn to read.
Weekly World News ed. Weird fiction & sci-fi/horror welcome as well :)Old: >>24702117
The Great God Pan is going to be the best title posted in this pathetic, disgusting normienigger tier thread.
>>24736912I enjoyed it. If you're an animal lover you're going to have a bad time
>>24740429I fucking hate stephen king. I hate the way he writes, I hate the way he talks, I hate that he's a pedophile and nobody seems to care, I hate the way stephen king novels always pop up in horror discussions just because he wrote a million books when he was fucked up on cocaine
>>24740591None of them are even good.
>>24736100As a kid I was 100% convinced these were legitimate news articles, since they were sold on the racks right next to Time.
