You forget 90% of the books you read but 100% of the books you do NOT read
>>24862445So? it's always better to read books. We already knew that you fucking stupid idiot frog
>>24862445I remember stuff about some books I haven't read. Like I haven't read the Dune books but I remember some dude becomes a worm man hybrid emperor
The worst is when you remember things wrong from books.
>>24862460>>24862481frog is epic. you are cringy faggot losers. simple as
>>24862445Funniest shit I’ve read this decade tbfh
Books to help me cope with absolutely vile and vicious anti american sentiment? Im seeing it everywhere, their gross protestant and barbaric derived culture with no real sense of ethics and entirely practiced by people so empty minded, dim witted and mindslaved they put the chinese to shame! I know some american wil probably reply "hurr durr cope and seethe" but my general hatred towards the anglosphere is absolute and I feel that if I don't find a way to fix it I will just end up going fucking mad and killing myself. Show me some good american books that aren't ass and are pretty self aware about american nature like some of Melville's works...
>>24862669Of course it spiraled all the way from reasonable to chud mutt shit. This would be particularly embarassing if you happen to be american too as the lowliest most retarded anti semites are. Antisemitism becoming mainstream is thew worst it should have been kept for the intellectual elites (such as myself) to subtly nod to as the culture of a despotic inhumane slave race. Imagine believing you're dominated by a slave racePagans burnt little kids alive by the way
>>24862044>i-is that a red cup!? AAIIIIEE SAVE ME MUSSOLINIGrow up
>>24862669>I’m one of the last White men>irishOH NONONONO HAHAHAHA
>>24863309You call them a slave race and yet you worship one of them as your Lord and savior and even declaim your ancestors as immoral based on scant evidence and knowing little of why they did or did not do a thing besides. But I’m sure you must be happy as a clam then since this ‘slave race’ is evidently well in hand and all is under your mighty control thanks to our ‘intellectual elites’ who have accounted for every outcome. And besides if we shit the bed and it all goes wrong then it’s the fault of those darn Americans! We dindunuffins! We wuz dey intellectual elites and totally not a descendent of peasant stock.Jesus was a jewish hippie faggot and that’s why he got executed by the way. No refunds.
>>24863596Scots Irish are Anglo-Scots Borderers in actuality and we make up a large and prolific portion of the founding stock of America with famous figures including some of our best generals, presidents and pioneers. Andrew Jackson being one of the best of us.Besides I see nothing wrong with the Irish. They’re good people.
Basically 3 times a week before sleep I think about what I learned from Evola, Guenón, Spengler, Hitler, Goebbels articles, Bible, H. Belloc, etc.Reading a book and then forgetting about it it's like introducing your brain to early Alzheimer aka only instant things matter
>>24863233You're projecting your own brutal materialism onto Jews
>>24863543Subhumans who rule over you with effortlessness hmmm
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>>24863552pneumonia can kill the strongest humanyou think in material terms you are a jew
>hire a personal cook>He put rat poison>you dieOH NO HE WAS WEAK HAHAHA WE JEWS ARE SUPERIOR IF HE WERE BETTER HE WOULD HAVE SURVIVEDGod's greatest Gift is Free Will. Not everyone dies because he or she deserved it
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.
>>24863535>they post that they like it on social media for brownie points (they don't actually like it)So why does it sell digital copies, including to people who never post about it?
>>24863556>including to people who never post about it?there must be men who read this sort of fictionit's impossible that a woman does something without showing it to everyone. women are literally incapable of doing anything for the pleasure of it
>>24863579By definition, if a woman did something and never posted about it how would you know?
>>24863584>if a woman did something and never posted about it how would you know?You mean cheating? I just assume they all cheat.
>>24850035>As a man who understands women very well
What is your opinion on the work of jk Rowling?
>>24855720It was a communal escape for poor and middle class kids in the 2000s.I don't know why younger generations still read it, don't they have their own cultural touchstones?
>>24857612>he's not terminally online enough to recognize copypasta Probably a good thing.
>>24857553>She gets back from le ebin GIRLS NIGHT OUT XD!!! Plastered out of her mind from sipping too much shiraz or perhaps pinot grigio. Maybe she and THE GIRLS even passed around a blunt at Samantha's house. I always find it funny when Gen X women think they're being SO BAD smoking weed. Mouth full of the most expensive cheese available at Tesco and whatever crackers Georgia had to get rid of. She's cackling with laughter and sobbing as she lurches in through the front door. She has zero self-awareness when it comes to her emotions, but defends them with religious fervor.>Clumsily, she makes her way toward the living room where her son is playing video games. She sits down on his lap, suffocating him with her embrace and exhaling the stinking fumes of cheap wine right into his face. For a couple minutes, she rants about what a BITCH Leslie at the office is, before muttering the he's the only on who understands her. Briefly, she looks into his eyes, trembling all over. Then she locks her mouth with his and begins to kiss him passionately. At first he is paralyzed, but his mom is kind of hot and he'll probably never have another chance like this. He's thought about it before. He kisses back and before long she's between his legs, pawing at his penis like the cats she collects. She takes it in her mouth and sucks it like she's back in college. She's STILL GOT IT.This is hot but I don't get the impression that Rowling is like this at all. She actually strikes me as quite prudish. Nevertheless, she DOES have fantastic tits and on that everyone can agree.
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>>24861162Rowling is probably, ironically, more conservative in social behavior than she is politically (she was basically a dyed in the wool leftist until someone said 'women should get to be molested by trannies'). then it became that meme where leftists shove a centrist to the right and then act confused when they accept help from the right.
>1. The non-existence of Yahweh is a necessary condition for intelligibility.>2. Intelligibility exists.>3. Therefore, Yahweh does not exist.Let's see the peanut gallery try to refute this one
If something is completely foundational to 99% of societies in history, including the most successful ones, and the vast majority of the greatest and most intelligent and impactful people in history thought it was real, and every society that didn’t believe in that thing did so for predictable reasons and all suffered the same predictable society destroying problems, and which were all less Darwinistically successful and creative and stable than the ones that did believe in that thing, and none of the underlying assumptions of the worldviews of the people that didn’t believe in that thing were ever rationally or scientifically proven or constructed, and they just emerged as contextual rationalizations for power, which we have the historical records of, and at is also the case that there is in fact there is scientific and empirical evidence that proves that that thing is real but the people that don’t believe in it just pretend like it doesn’t exist, then that thing is probably real.
>>24862105Why are you arguing so intensely for pederasty, how much do you crave the experience of "mentoring" little boys?
>>24862105>scientific and empirical evidence that proves that that thing is realtell me, facebook-boomer genius, what evidence?
>>24862105>that thing is probably real>probablyThis conceedes the entire argument for God.Anyway, the problem is, if we were to assume there was no God, all the things that we see now is exactly how it would look like. There are no grand claims and then empirical proofs of the existance of an omnipotent omnibenevolent being claimed. The hiddeness of God destroys the idea that there is a God from any of the known religions anyway.
>>24861888The final refuge of the religious is literal schizophrenia
and why is it ancient Greek?
welcone to the /lit/ teahousejoin, join, join!https://discord.gg/rUkmHH7hS
>>24862759you hire a nanny fluent in ancient Greek to raise you
>>24862012For whatever reason I doubt that you've read eastern pomoan literature or can hold a conversation in the language
>>24863224>Invite expired
>>24854898>"learning" homeric greeknigga theres only two books, just memorise the words
Does /lit/ like contemporary poetry?
>>24863097I like your poem
>>24862536Because the best writers of verse are writing song lyrics, as I said.
>let's see what the 21st ce reets are up tolmao
>>24862993What do you think caused this collective arrested development? This needs to be studied.
>>24862821>>24862993I'm 100% she's intentionally rage baiting for engagement. Picrel.
Post your recent cops or anything else you're reading.
San diego anon and try to make it to The Last Bookstore whenever im in LA, nice selection and great prices, each of these was ~$3-5.
>>24857176I swapped out a book at a little free library nearby for this
>>24861590No, but I do love me a gently-used...used book. Especially if it's much cheaper than a new copy.
>>24858845>>24858850Kino choices
>>24861715I did manage to get to the last bookstore the one time I went to LA. Cool place. The Gulag Archipelago is on my list. Hopefully you enjoy it.
"There can be only one!" editionPrevious: >>24848643/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)Simple guides on writing:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24863377Lightning was so hawt.
At 30 I am an unpublished literal and figurative faggot. This is my most mature work yet, for what little that's worth. Any feedback would be very welcome. https://pastebin.com/GE89Gp1J
>>24863406identify your weaknesses and apply yourself to overcome them.or you can just never write again.let that insecurity of yours define you.you can just never write again.what do you think is the right thing to do?
>>24863459do you have a website?
>>24863459Basically, it's good (maybe very good, or at least your prose is very good) but my first impression is that you let the story go on for too long, and it should end with her on the water, but you should also not let her vocalize those suicidal tendencies. That should be only implied. If you have a website or way to send you more detailed feedback, I'd be willing to do that.
Interested in seeing how posters on this board score in comparison to /x/, where the overwhelming majority seem to be schizoid sadists or complete autists living in internal fantasy lands:>The CIA uses the PAS for the assessment of characters, its self-assessment online form has 64 outcomes and doesn't sugarcoat anything, if you have bad luck, the test will call you out for being schizophrenic, a recluse, or worse.https://www.pasf.org/pasq/index.htm>To get your type among the 64, take the 'primitive' test first and then type your results into the 'basic' test and take that.The primitive personality type determines your core personality that you developed as a child, while the second test determines whether you outgrew that core personality to adapt well to society, or whether you indulged those core behaviours to become psychologically maladaptive or attain some kind of arrested development. It really does not pull any punches; while an MBTI test will only tell you positive personality traits and leave you to infer the negative, this one is the opposite. Depending on how you score, it will tell you that you're an exceedingly mediocre well-behaved citizen (one of the best endings) or have the profile of a serial killer, autistic shut-in or concentration camp guard.
>>24863210What are your hobbies anon
>>24860236Lol
i got ERA but i was no more than 4 points away from median on all three scores.
>>24863086Not really, narcissists are more like soulless husks who only care about social status and feel genuinely insecure about their status and place and try to reify this by making everyone else think they're amazing, beautiful fashionable etc. They're as deep as a puddle and want to control any discourse around them and in doing so have to put on airs to be presentable in public, and feel superior to others. If they can't do that they just withdraw from public life and spend all their time seething about people they feel are superior to them but should be inferior
>>24863574We just call those women.
>Hmmm, I need a name for these people based on China>I've got it--Ascians! Eugene, you old fox, you've done it again.
>>24862417And this proves they aren't from North America how? Do you have legitimate brain damage?
>i need a name for these characters in my book based on barbaric people from the east of europe... hmmm, what shall i name them?>orcs! perfect!how did tolkien do it?
>>24862063Protip: they're not.
>>24862377In Wolfe's Urth? Nowhere.Continental drift happens. Wolfe's future is set billions of years from now, and the continents will be unrecognisable by then.Some retards conclude TBotNS is set in South America, but fail to notice that the mountains are in the east and the big river runs west. It's all because Wolfe uses words like "alcalde," "capybara," "llanero" etc. By his own admission in the appendices, these words are meant to be "suggestive rather than definitive."
>>24862087It's the result of far future Americans being brainrotted to the point where they can only speak in memes.
Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs).https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Old:>>24846281>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg>Thread Question:Why haven't you read Malazan yet?
>>24863407Must be, since "really cool shit like laser swords and plasma shotguns" don't appear at all in Book of the New Sun except for some passing references in the final book.
>>24863362SF is at its best when it examines humanity as its exposed to new, speculative technology. What changes? What stays the same?Sometimes that veers into social commentary, but I doubt anyone would have a problem with it unless they're looking for something to get mad about.There's a time and place for the cool laser swords but it's generally for people who are younger or not really into reading. When people turn their nose up at genre fiction that's what they're probably thinking of
>>24863362I appreciate Dune's take on water and resources for example because it is timeless, I care not for Stormlight having a character insist "ladies can do XYZ too!!" because it's fairly trite and of the times. So I like timeless forever ponder-able questions and conflicts
>>24863444>ladies can do XYZ tooIronically, it just points out how useless most women are when merit is enforced.
>Dude, life is a struggle, but you should.... deal with it, lol>Also I'm a rich chad who bangs hot women and live like a high-roller, I totally know what struggle is like, take my advice
>>24863388name a more handsome philosopher. hard mode: no derrida
>>24863502what bands and artists and composers do you like?
>>24863383Yes it's almost like his worldview gave him an awesome life
>>24863565Why treat art just as a signal of your own intillgence
>>24863573.. what?
she's already done with:harry potterartemis fowlnarniaa series of unfortunate eventsspook's (aka the last apprentice)percy jacksonearth's childrenwhat now?
>>24861384it's a japanese dog
how do you start with the greeks at 11?
>>24860798His dark materials?
>>24860798Parsifal's Page by Gerald Morris. It's a YA retelling of the Arthurian Parzival story by Eschenbach and many others. Fucking loved that book when I was a kid and the Eschenbach version is much much better.
>>24863559>YA I meant for children, tweens and preteens.
