Do you attempt to read things you're sure you'll hate, or things you know you'll disagree with, in order to better understand them? Do you find it shapes your understanding at all or that it just sets up and reinforces your current opinions? I'm a fan of cranks and manifestos, but I'm not exactly planning to start trying to tap the phoenix amerind bigfoot frequency or doing meth and trying to turn myself into a government owned troonputer. Reading some of the less objectionable feminist lit mostly just made me leas receptive to its ideas.
yes. if i dont come up with more refined reasons to both dislike what i dislike and like what i like, i lose the sense of progress i have for my mental life and i get depressed. things i disagree with prompt me to find new words to dislike them. very seldom do i actually change my mind about things because of a rational argument, usually life experience forces me to change my mind. know thy enemy as they say
When someone online mentions their favorite authors are guys like Moorcock, Gene Wolfe and George RR Martin, what sort of person do you imagine?
>>25188438anon I don't want to frighten you but there's literally a skeleton inside you right now
>>25188500Skeletons aren't real lol
>>25188353Someone who likes reading but hasn't read that many books because reading just isn't as fun as just playing games/ watching movies/ going out /etc.
>>25188353>YOU CAN DO ANYTHING, MAGIC SKELETON>cripples the Internet ArchiveI hate him so much
>>25188585>we should gut fantasy because you want to pirate academic books in other languages that you'll never even read
the walls of tyrosh 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: >>25132678
>>25186708>There is so much that can be explored from so many perspectives.No there isn't, they can't be defeated (other than killing the "Night King") so all the characters can do is run away or die.
>>25182397>all for nothingHBO was trash.
>>25188480The Others will have to scout, people can deal with small parties of wights, they still do have limited corpses and can't use all of them everywhere. Killing the night king was the way that it was done in the show, not necessarily how it will be done in the books. It's theorized that because their power is from the weirwoods they may be beaten by destroying the weirwoods either physically or via some magic by warging into the weirwood network. It could be that a lot of the fight is the various magicians trying to get information to each other on how to play their part and discovering that information. Bran obviously play a huge role in that and we will see his time and weirwood net explorations. I don't know why you are all so cynical. Are you all really MAD at George not releasing winds yet? Isn't distance meant to make the heart grow fonder?
>>25188480Sam killed one easily
>>25188374Near 100% Blackfyre. Also, Littlefinger works for the blackfyres too.
History general thread. What have you been reading and what have you to recommend–>discuss? I started this last night and it's kino of the highest order. For fans of Storm of Steel. Next history book I'm going to read after this will probably be Dancing in the Glory of Monsters. I'll finish Ghost Wars eventually.
I thought this was gonna be about nogs doing stupid shit. Instead it's a repeat of grade 10 English class when we did a unit on the Rwandan genocide for some reason.
>>25187652>thought this was gonna be about nogs doing stupid shit.Try The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence. It's kino, basically Africa Blood and Guts on paper.
>>25186952The black cover with a huge swastika on it? That's the one I read. They were all over the place in bookstores back then.
>>25152095What are the best books to learn about Richard the Lionheart?
Are history book audibooks any good? Like are they as good as books for memory retention?
Post books you loved as a kid. Comfy thread.
>>25187668Wait Ted Hughes wrote the Iron Giant?
I loved "Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine." Not only did it introduce me to computers long before Apple came along, it also showed me that you didn't have to play by the rules grownups made up.
this, the MT Coffin Goosebumps knockoffs, actual Goosebumps, Magic Tree House, one series im forgetting where there was a kid named Sticky Washington and another one named Constance and they went on adventures, I Spy books with muh gramma... good times
ITT: we post pictures and recommendations for liturature based on the pictures.
>>25187465Ubik
>>25187465Infinite Jest’s characters were about as frustrating as this, so that.
>>25187409it's a semi-regular thing, idea's been around for a while. search the archives for hundreds like it
>>25187395Meditationes de Prima Philosophia
>>25186107dante and berserk>>25187402jack london. is this not an illustration of jack london?>>25183496"heart of a dog" stars a black dog who aquires human vices, though he is older and shaggier than this dog.>>25181698bram stoker's "carmilla" is about a sexy vampire lady. there's also a sexy vampire in "life for sale" by yukio mishima, but she's clearly stated to be much milfier than jeanette.>>25187385i was only aware of the manga. i cannot recommend the novel as i haven't read it.>>25187394i say kafka has the banal surrealism of the twilight zone. my mother says that "earth abides".
This book is reddit. Pure reddit. I spent the entire time reading it repeating the words "This is reddit, this is memes, this is reddit, this is memes..." under my breath.I fucking hated it. I was writhing around on the floor in front of my sofa for the last 30 pages it was so painful
>>25182658can you retards stop shilling this book? It’s not even that good or weird, but you faggots can’t help yourselves because it gives you an excuses to talk about nigger dicks to satiate your hunger for bbcKys
>>25185191The most annoying posters are the ones who think he's a genius. Like he just knows everything he's writing about and doesn't have a fucking encyclopedia right next to him. Fucking morons. Also, not funny.
>>25187932Seethe more this book kicks ass
>>25188420More like licks ass (as in eats shit)
>>25188534
How many pages per day is a "good" reading pace? How fast does /lit/ get through books?
>>25188290For a dense book, it's like 120-140 pages a day for me, but it's not a race. Just read at whatever pace you're comfortable.
>>25188290I don’t know what’s good, but I shoot for 30-60 pages a day, more on weekends if time allows. I read roughly a book a week.
>>25188351nah man nonfiction is hard on the eyes especially if you havent thought about/worked with the subject matter enough. push yourself a little but dont go crazy. dont lose the fun in it
>>25188290A good reading pace is what you are comfortable with
About 30 today for me but I might get back to it… I’m not telling you what I’m reading.
>You say you've read The Communist Manifesto and nobody bats an eye, but you say you've read Mein Kampf and everyone loses their minds!
>>25188542Then we can say that while capitalism failed to end famines happening in those lands, communism eventually succeeded?
>>25188545If you accept that it did so by the black book figures, sure.
>>25188546I accept that famines happened under communism. I also accept that communism ended famines, put a man in space, and industrialized two rural, war-ravaged states and turned them into global powers.
>>25188415He would have, given the opportunity
>>25188536Wow marx was busy
>t. Midwit
>>25186927>Most nonfictionif you ventured outside of your local barns & nobles youd realize this is delusional
had to go out and buy a second copy of DQ because the one I'd been reading has the tiniest print possible. I like the Motteux translation but this shit was killing my eyes
>>25183386Either of these
>>25188102Give examples please, Im somewhat into history but I usually defer to YouTube for any of that
>>25188191Don’t tell that to all the people in the Camus thread treating him like some sort of prophet.
Would you recommend it?
>>25188495So the answer is complete silence at the lot of iranian people? That can’t be right. Palestine is important too. But Iranian people deserve a lot more than this. Besides, the palestinuan problem and iran are connected. If there is no iranian state, hamas gets weaker, and the Palestinian and Israeilis can work on a two state solution without Hamas dictating them what to do.
>>25188516By iranian state I mean the current state.
>>25186976I support the mullahs sorely because Iranian diaspora are the most annoying people I've ever met. Even worse than Indian nationalists.
Can you two tonguing each other's anus fuck off to /pol/ perhaps
>>25188516How is there complete silence over the plight of Iranians? There’s a war against the country from the most powerful countries in the world with the intention of toppling the government. There has been nothing but hostility from the world against Iran since 1979. You couldn’t even dream of groups like Palestinians having an intervention in their favor >Palestinian and Israeilis can work on a two state solution without Hamas dictating them what to do.There is absolutely zero excuse for this kind of naivety in the current year. You have to be joking. There will never be a two state solution, Israel doesn’t want it and would rather just get rid of Gaza and West Bank, its leaders are openly confessing to desiring hegemony over the Middle East and want to expand their war machine to Syria, Turkey etc in the future.
>What is /phil/ Philosophy General?A general for readers, students, and armchair thinkers interested in philosophy, whether it be Western, Eastern, analytic, continental, ancient, contemporary. We discuss primary texts, secondary literature, online lectures, podcasts.>Why read philosophy?Politics, science, psychology, etc. all began with or were inspired by someone who thought philosophically. Basically, if you are interested in just about anything, philosophy will help you better understand that subject. Because it is at the foundation of every conceptual institution made or discovered by humans, it is in the underbelly of human experience, and so it is worth taking seriously.>Why study philosophy formally?Surprisingly versatile and undervalued. Phil majors consistently score among the highest on the LSAT, GRE, and GMAT. Strong pipeline into law, policy, ethics consulting, AI alignment, and academia.Previous thread >>25146787
So is math synthetic a priori or analytic?
>>25187753>synthetic a priorimental illness
>>25187753Kant says it’s synthetic because it rests on intuition. Hegel says it’s analytic because it proceeds by equality. Fichte says it’s a meaningless distinction.
>>25187838Haven't heard of Fichte, why does he say it's meaningless?
>>25172552Which religion is closest to Neoplatonism? I understand the concept of initiation to kill the ego and to provide an actual pathway to spiritual salvation but the religious models in contemporary Abrahamic faiths don't make any sense to me.
How do I stop doing this?
>>25181785Built for MAGACOCK
>>25181857Pathetic.
>>25186662I have had this problem since I was a kid, amplified by doomscrolling in adulthood. I always thought it was depression but a psych gave me some meth(ylphenidate) and it's helped a bit. I've been trying to enjoy reading for over a decade and it never was an enjoyable process for me despite loving stories themselves. The meds made the act of reading itself super pleasant and I've been honestly confused whether reading was this easy for everyone else the whole time.
>>25181857Unironically, same.
>>25188128he fell for the gaslighting drugs lol.
What does /lit/ think of “the egg” by Andy wier?https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg.html
>>25187303>"everyone's the same, we're all one" kind of bullshitTrue. You're inferior to me.
>>25186639I prefer Hatchling.
>>25186639Holy fuck. I read this as a green text like a decade ago and thought it was gay. Then I found out it was from an actual author years later but for some reason attributed it to Ted Chiang -- I've been avoiding that chigga for years because of it!
>>25186639It's a cute idea.
>>25186639Read "The Egg" by Sherwood Anderson instead, way better than this.
what's your favourite short story?
A Clean Well Lighted Place
A Very Short Story by Ernest Hemingway.
That Saki one where wolves ruin everything
Isolation By David Moody
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