Give me one good reason why he isn't the greatest writer to have ever lived
>>24848106I can't.
He literally wrote My diary desu~.
Recommendations for best English translation? Also what’s the ideal volume-number lol
>>24852211Je pensais que je pouvais le lire en Francais avec mon niveau B2, c'est-tu fini pour moi?
>>24852199>great literature (like In Search of Lost Time) is essentially philosophyYikes
Tropical Beach EditionFAQ:>What is worldbuilding?Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"Yes, of course you can!>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.Old Thread: >>24667235
>>24851119Wrong thread. This is as much as a response you'll get from anyone I the honestly-should-be- deleted thread
>>24852358There's never any real discussion going on here, feels like dead internet theory. Sick of the nigger asking retarded questions just to bump the thread and never following up on it. "Okay and how about you kill yourself?" Stupid fucking autism, almost equaling fucking reddit.
Bump
What do you think of a monotheistic religion based around astrological signs and the study of the stars ?
>>24754714Isn't this just a rehashed "what if the Orcs were le good guys" narrative?
Who is your bookfu?For me it's Dorothea from Middlemarch
>>24852104Very nice
>>24850630HEDWIG VOGELSANG
>>24850630Marya from War and Peace.
Thérèse Raquin. For years I've thought about the very simple description of her happily stretching in the nude as being like that of a cat.
The horse girl from All the Pretty Horses. Not sure what to call the opposite of a “bookfu” but I’d bash the brains out of Stoner’s wife in Stoner if I could.
What are all your book related apps?
>>24853758I only need my Kobo Libra 2 and Anna's Archive/LibGen.
>>24853758FBreader and Calibre for PC, ReadEra, Moon+ Reader and Kindle for phone/tablet
i really like myne.it pulls from project gutenberghttps://github.com/Pool-Of-Tears/Myne
>>24853758Moon+ Reader (picrel)AudiobookshelfI use calibre to host the ebooks, and have it set up as a net library on moon reader. I also upload a copy of the ebook to audiobookshelf
>>24854148Forgot the pic...
post some nice covers
>>24846037
>>24846037Sea of Fertility
>>24849716Looks like muslim prayer mat
Books with old-timey style covers are kino
Society already is divided in 3.5/4.3.5 are the cattle, 0.5 the remnants dissidents.The internet is owned by them, everything is controlled by them while we control almost nothing except partially where we can choose to go and die.Diagnosis: We lost, no organization on our side, the NWO is heading strongly toward their goal, which is total control of peoples lives through digital surveillance and technology.While we are all divided between meaningless reasons and most refuse to acknowledge the truth.Christ here, Allah there, YHWH here, Buddha there.Truth is God and pathetically everyone who says they fight the good cause doesn't know it and avoids it at all costs.There will come a point where we have to choose to do what is right or retreat to the mountains in order to die off with the knowledge that we did absolutely jack shit to try and change things.Fuck politics, fuck false religions, fuck scientism, and most of all fuck whoever gave their responsibility up to someone else instead of developing within them the true will.
>>24853935lol bro get a grip.r u christian? ur acting like people are irredeemable. who r u to judge?if not, well, not sure what to say to you without going into a lot of detail. sorry.
Another glowie post
>>24853935How old do you think this quote is?
>>24853935Yea - so that's great, but do you prefer Whitman or Emerson and why?
Alright I'm gonna read the bible and saw this 'thomas nelson' one on amazon for $20. Should I get it
>>24854001The NASB95 and ESV are my preferred modern English translations. Very literal, word-for-word translations, particularly the NASB.. so much so that it can be a bit "clunky" in its wording. The ESV is in modern English, but retains much of the style and beauty of prose of the KJV. The NIV is almost the standard outside of America, but I've never read it.I'm also partial to J. B. Philips "The Gospels in Modern English", though it's a thought-for-thought translation with some paraphrasing. I often suggest it to new Christians. It's on Anna's archive as a scanned PDF. Very easy to understand and a pleasant read.
>>24854026I read the KJV for its beauty.
>>24854053Same, but it's very easy to misunderstand the language as a modern, that's why I like the center-column reference versions that include modern definitions for archaic words and phrasing. For instance in James, where we're exhorted to "be not many masters", there's a note that "masters" in this sense would be translated to "teacher" in modern English.
>>24854001>J. B. Philips "The Gospels in Modern English"Here's a sample. I wouldn't use this for study, but as a first time read through of the Gospels, it's very nice.
>>24854139
>needing to read entire books just to understand a chapter of this bookyep its certified kino
>>24853588checked your dubs
I liked that story where the guy looses all his money gambling after the race
>>24853196None of the stories require secondary literature, except possibly Ivy Day in the Committee Room
Genuinely one of my favourite chapters (or short stories) I've ever read. Masterful.
I found it rather dull.
How is this guy not even relevant ? His Metaphysical and Epistemological arguments about Will-to-live being the Will-To-death and that Death is not a phenomenon of the Will-to-Live but the true halt to life and the will to death strives to die because the Universe is the corpse of a suicidal god.Seriously how the fuck these genius is not popular it's literally the best argument
>>24851627Ad hominem
>gendering god
>>24851272https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/why-a-communist-should-assume-life-is-hell/I don't know what book I got, I already moved it into aback up hard drive and connecting it just to check a title will be too much work.
>>24852213Thanks for the link, that's a nice article
Any got a good short story or flash fiction collection? Like 5-10 pages max.
https://www.bearparade.com/todaytheskyisblueandwhitewithbrightbluespotsandasmallpalemoonandiwilldestroyourrelationshiptoday/
>>24852796>short stories???>news articlesthis is the way
>>24852796A lot of Kafka's stories are really short
The Triumph of the Egg by Sherwood Anderson
>>24852796A Dino Buzzati collection sounds perfect for you OP
Is being anti-reddit a coherent theology?
>>24853546meanwhile, he's using technology invented by the western world, consuming western media.what has russia ever contributed to the world?
>>24853525Those that don't hate their parents don't post here or argue with strangers on vietnamese basketweaving forums. If you keep coming back to argue with the chuddies over how God doesn't exist and you're totally not mad about it, there must something wrong with you>>24853048It's essentially the same thing as Nietzschean-Benoisticist Paganism
>>24853541>>24853546you are fighting headcanons
>>24852533?????
>>24853443your a retard if you think this is true
Post quotes that made you laugh and the book it is from>“Caligula eased the situation by dying”
>his face was smeared with feces and he sat peering at them with dull hostility silently chewing a turd
>>24854028Is that you bataille anon?
>but she had already yanked out of me the coveted section and retreated to her mat near her phocine mamma
>>24853902>I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.Philip Marlowe, Farewell My LovelyAlso, is the Durrant series worth reading? I want to read his Rome and Greece one
>"This is madness, Aurelito">"It's not madness, it's war. And don't call me Aurelito. I am coronel Aureliano Buendia">next page>"Coronel Aureliano Buendia fought 17 wars and lost all of them"100 Hundred Years Of Solitude.
This is the only genre that makes money and the money train isn't stopping any time soon. Short of a puritanical John Carpenter style government, there will always be demand for this shit.The question is, can a dude write successful girlporn? This is the literary question.I'm going to read this milking farm thing and see if I can't get a knack for how women write. I'm suspecting it's a bit like this:>Minimal attention to details and the world, emphasis on personal impressions and feelings; the world as a set of things that make you feel different ways.>Braindead, 12-15 year old brain simplicity. Imagine a Middle School girl trying to "speed download" social gossip updates to a friend.>Vanity, ego, zero accountability, petty delusions, cliches. This will require a bit of research and marketing savvy just to collect up what today's cliches are. Fortunately, women are dead simple and just go on TikTok/Twitter and see what buzzwords come up a lot.>Sultry language.This one's tough. From what I understand explicit, gross language is what sells this shit and is the female equivalent of visually seeing porn. On the other hand, I have a feeling that I could write porn that is vastly more detailed and explicit than what women read and would alienate them. I have a feeling it's just stuff like, "sweaty" "bulge" "heaving" "cock!" "pulsing". Words that sound distinctly naughty but remain vague. It's not about visualizing, even through text, sexual mechanics. It's about breaking social taboos so women feel "naughty" and liberated from their neurotic sexual restraints.>Female attractionThis is tough. How far do you go with "big muscles, ripped body"? How much do women want to read that, and when is it too much? Women like being dominated but they like to feel it was their choice to be dominated. As a man who understands women very well, I don't want to tap into their sexual triggers too accurately because that might lead to a sense of "revealing too much" about female sexuality which women don't like. They like most of it to remain implicit and simple.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Is there any market on Amazon about a story of a virgin girl who is shy and uptight and goes to a nudist resort and ends up getting railed by dudes? I already wrote it, I'm just polishing it up, but I just don't know if it's worth trying to sell. A lot of it focuses on her inner feelings of being inadequate, which I assume women relate to.
>>24853750>Is there any market on Amazon about a story of a virgin girl who is shy and uptight and goes to a nudist resort and ends up getting railed by dudes?that's literally every single girl's "I went to Party City with my best friend this summer" IRLso I assume yes
>>24851239If you want to pretend to be a woman you can just do that
>>24853641>it really... really makes you think...about suicide
>>24851239I don't want to demoralize you but something I have learned about life is that just like in Nature where there's the wolf and the lamb and one eats the other, in human society you have two people: those who grift and those who get grifted. It's just how it is.Now if you are a grown adult and you haven't made a career on grifting yet, it means you are not a grifter. You're basically a lamb saying he wants to become a wolf. You can't. You either have had the grift conditioned out of you from your parents' upbringing or - more likely - you simply weren't born with the grifter genes. You don't have that spark which means you're at the bottom of the human food chain.Literally every single one of these people who make slop which is shit, horrible shit, and SOMEHOW make money from it are all grifters. I've actually seen some fantasy writers who got published and gained a decent public, they are all very aggressive, extremely confident people, it's nothing like the people you talk to on 4chan, they have something special and it's not related to writing. And they can materialize money out of thin air. These authors, before being writers, are charismatic and manipulative individuals with a go-getter attitude so the grift comes natural to them. It's something really deep like your brain's primitive wiring. Most likely you know you can't do it and you're just making this post because you're upset that the grifters are writing books. Writing garbage is not hard, but grifting is a natural talent. You just can't do it. I would like you to tell me one day that you ignored this post and artificially constructed the grift, as a non-grifter, and I'd be impressed and maybe I would find some relief from my geno-deterministic world view, but I know it won't happen. I have seen several people who made money doing this... this shit, this stuff that I never thought would make money and they made money. Why? Charisma and spirit of the grift. You cannot train it, you cannot build it. I am so fucking mad but it's just how it is. If you're not a grifter all you can do is watch out for the day you'll get grifted.
Do you own books from La Pléiade ?Which ones ?
The most "life-changing" books by number of reviews
