"Sadly, Porn" by The Last Psychiatrist, what do you think of this, is it worth reading?
>>25189578>Edward teachWasn't he a pirate? I know because of one pieceAlso that's a nice ass. Shame that it's not a woman's though
>>25189978>>25189894>>25189881Could you guys talk about the book, instead of doing dogshit sociology?>>25190074I'm pretty sure it's some fake name/pseudonym.
>>25190076anything published online is a glorified substack article, not a "book"
>>25190093Anything published the "traditional way" today is leftist drivel.
>>25189578Thats a reaaally nice ass. And I'm glad its all porn. The only time Ive seen monsters is when women and girls keep trying to force their way in where they are unwelcomed. Whether done of their own volition or someone else coercing them - I dont want them!
why is publishing 100% leftist
>>25189508Didn't say it wasn't hypocritical.>>25189420Case in point.>>25189564Indeed. Problem is the former group still prefers to have a shelf that's 98% self improvement stuff and theology and 2% old potboiler anthologies and LOTR.The sole exception is the funky Mormon Fantasy cadre and people like Jerry Pournelle.Overall it's just not enough people to stage a takeover.
>>25189388It's nothttps://antelopehillpublishing.com/publish-me/
Right wingers cannot create art. This is not debatable. History bears it out.
They suppress right-wingers through various means. Matt Dinniman just had to apologize for being 1% unwoke. Leftists are extremely authoritarian and if your book has right-wing ideas it gets thrown out. If you are right-wing, you get thrown out. Most people don't want to brave that kind of hostile environment. That has shaped the landscape of both readers and writers. Leftists will play dumb about all of this (like everything) and go "erm the conservitoid brain can't handle the written word."
>>25189388Antelope HillImperium PressCountercurrentsPassage Press
>>25190103In rereading Core Competency of the Corporation.
Chip Wars is good also.
the hills of norvos 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: >>25156285
>>25189627My poor boy Quentyn got roasted
>>25189816Have you seen her brother
>>25189829He's obviously still alive.
>>25189655I just want to see what’s in mysterios. Hopefully we’ll see it in the corly show
>>25189230Walk with me, my sweet summer child, and hear the tale of fat pink masts jutting into sopping wet myrish swamps and black nipples brushing against silk until her cunt became the world while in the privy the princess guzzled arbor gold and shat but the more she drank the more she shat until she was shitting brown water and around her the planks of the ship groaned like a fat man taking a shit while she cursed the gods and nuncle smiled as he broke his fast on black bread, bacon burned black, and mulled wine while capon-grease dribbled down his chin and onto the boiled leather of his jerkin for she was wet with love and did she not know words are wind and dark wings bring dark words and a lannister always pays her debts and mayhaps this is nothing but a mummers farce and useless as nipples on a breastplate and the princess has been fucking lancel and moonboy for all nuncle knows and he is the blood of the dragon for the night is dark and full of terrors but where do whores go and jon snow knows nothing and winter is coming and near enough makes no matter so nuncle smiled and dipped the heel of his bread into clam chowder and prayed for half a hundred more heh har HODOR
Was he right about everything?>The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.Holy… he basically BTFOs this board and all its pseuds in one fell swoop, I say.
>>25189699Andrew Huberman is more famous.
>>25189615I only seek out books in the first place when I start to have some ideas and I think someone out there has explored them more deeply and thoroughly than I could. If I try to read a book and I'm not already going through a phase where I'm interested in its topic, I'm not going to read it.
>>25189699Affirming the consequent.
>>25189382consider his time was before the smartphone, internet, television, radio. what "reading" - for every person but especially for "the attention of the general public" - was to him is vastly different than oursthis board, for all its faults, favors classics and more esoteric philosophy/literature than what is fit for 2026's public consumption (like Arthur Schopenhauer); i would hardly say his terms would stand against us here. all that time you spend watching porn, or even posting here instead of reading, however...
this advice didn't stop him from reading and praising "frivolous" bestsellers of his era like walter scott or jean paul richter.Also:>Works are the quintessence of a mind; they will therefore be incomparably richer in content than his company, and will also essentially replace this – indeed, far exceed and leave it behind. Even the writings of an ordinary mind can be instructive, worth reading and entertaining, precisely because they are his quintessence, the result and fruit of all his thinking and studying – whereas his company cannot suffice for us. Therefore we can read books by people whose company would afford us no pleasure, and this is why elevated spiritual culture eventually brings us to the point where we find entertainment almost only in books, and no longer in other people.t. Schopenhauer
Arberry can retire
>>25190044The first syllable is short and can't be transliterated into English really because it's a throat letter, and the second syllable is quantitatively long. Classical Arabic like Greek and Latin uses syllable length instead of stress
I decide on the version of the Krr-An based on the rendition of 4:34
>>25190022Here's a list of reviews of 120 Quran translations from the past few centuries as of last Decemberhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/400288583_Towards_Translating_the_Quran_Assessment_of_120_English_Translations_of_the_Quran
>>25190124Kek
>>25190044Yeah but there's only like 4 English Quran translations that are poetic:1. Arberry 2. Nikayin (a Shia translation) 3. Shawkat Toorwa (partial translation) 4. The one in OP You can get a lot of literal translations but they all ruin the flow of the original language
My granddad really enjoyed Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon and I want to buy him pic rel. Is it anything like Against the Day for those who've read it?
>>25189951
>>25189906OBAA is barely Pynchon. just the general idea of a kidnapped daughter and a failed revolutionary group. actually OBAA is more of an insult to Vineland
>>25189910Who Schulz?
>>25190097Bruno Schulz, a Polish "modernist" and a great prose stylist. Reading him in Polish seems to produce a similar effect in me when I read the denser GR passages in English. Their prose is dense and hallucinogenic/oneiric. >Gdy ojciec studiował wielkie ornitologiczne kompendia i wertował kolorowe tablice, zdawały się ulatywać z nich te pierzaste fantazmaty i napełniać pokój kolorowym trzepotem, płatkami purpury, strzępami szafiru, grynszpanu i srebra. Podczas karmienia tworzyły one na podłodze barwną, falującą grządkę, dywan żywy, który za czyimś niebacznym wejściem rozpadał się, rozlatywał w ruchome kwiaty, trzepocące w powietrzu, aby w końcu rozmieścić się w górnych regionach pokoju. W pamięci pozostał mi szczególnie jeden kondor, ogromny ptak o szyi nagiej, twarzy pomarszczonej i wybujałej naroślami. Był to chudy asceta, lama buddyjski, pełen niewzruszonej godności w całym zachowaniu, kierujący się żelaznym ceremoniałem swego wielkiego rodu. Gdy siedział naprzeciw ojca, nieruchomy w swej monumentalnej pozycji odwiecznych bóstw egipskich, z okiem zawleczonym białawym bielmem, które zasuwał z boku na źrenice, ażeby zamknąć się zupełnie w kontemplacji swej dostojnej samotności — wydawał się ze swym kamiennym profilem starszym bratem mego ojca. Ta sama materia ciała, ścięgien i pomarszczonej twardej skóry, ta sama twarz wyschła i koścista, te same zrogowaciałe, głębokie oczodoły. Nawet ręce, silne w węzłach, długie, chude dłonie ojca, z wypukłymi paznokciami, miały swój analogon w szponach kondora. Nie mogłem się oprzeć wrażeniu, widząc go tak uśpionego, że mam przed sobą mumię — wyschłą i dlatego pomniejszoną mumię mego ojca. Sądzę, że i uwagi matki nie uszło to dziwne podobieństwo, chociaż nigdy nie poruszaliśmy tego tematu. Charakterystyczne jest, że kondor używał wspólnego z moim ojcem naczynia nocnego.
>>25190120It seems to lose much in translation, but then again so does Pynchon when translated to Polish.>While Father pored over his large ornithological textbooks and studied their colored plates, these feathery phantasms seemed to rise from the pages and fill the rooms with colors, with splashes of crimson, strips of sapphire, verdigris, and silver. At feeding time they formed a motley, undulating bed on the floor, a living carpet which at the intrusion of a stranger would fall apart, scatter into fragments, flutter in the air, and finally settle high under the ceilings. I remember in particular a certain condor, an enormous bird with a featherless neck, its face wrinkled and knobbly. It was an emaciated ascetic, a Buddhist lama, full of imperturbable dignity in its behavior, guided by the rigid ceremonial of its great species. When it sat facing my father, motionless in the monumental position of ageless Egyptian idols, its eye covered with a whitish cataract which it pulled down sideways over its pupil to shut itself up completely in the contemplation of its dignified solitude—it seemed, with its stony profile, like an older brother of my father's. Its body and muscles seemed to be made of the same material, it had the same hard, wrinkled skin, the same desiccated bony face, the same horny, deep eye sockets. Even the hands, strong in the joints, my father's long thick hands with their rounded nails, had their counterpart in the condor's claws. I could not resist the impression, when looking at the sleeping condor, that I was in the presence of a mummy—a dried-out, shrunken mummy of my father. I believe that even my mother noticed this strange resemblance, although we never discussed the subject. It is significant that the condor used my father's chamberpot.
This will always be the greatest book I've ever read. No writer has ever ripped their heart out and let the pages soak it up so much, no one has spoken so honestly about themselves, so earnestly and sincerely about the existential terror of everyday life while assuring the reader past all the futility of this world there is still light at the end of the tunnel. Just thinking of Tolstoy gives me peace, the simple thought of him telling me "you are not alone" 150 years ago gives me confidence that I can do better and I can try to make things better.
>>25190036I'm guessing his opinions upset you and you struggle to counter them so you just call him names instead
>>25190036definitely the comment of a high t intellectual and not a seething fragile bug
>>25190080He was countered by Bonaparte, Shakespeare, Clausewitz, Carlyle, and the entire Romantic movement before his flimsy gay ass ever put pen to paper.
>>25190091>appeal to testosterone>uses feminine sarcasm
>>25190099In what ways?
What does /lit/ think of this series? As a retard who hadn't read a book since high school, I thought it was nothing short of incredible.
>>25189965I agree and disagree. I think books 2-4 are god-tier, but I actually really loved 6 and 7. Book 5 was cool but had some manor pacing issues for me
I can never figure out to rank this series, it's just too all over the place
>>25189876It's a bad end to a multi-route mystery visual novel, if you're familiar with the term.
It peaked with Wizard & Glass.
People get hung up on the ending but really it deteriorated hard before that.Also WTF was that throwaway sentence with the junkie having childporn magazines?>>25190049
IF YOU RUN AN ONLINE LITERARY MAGAZINE AND YOU PUT THE POEMS BEHIND A PAYWALL YOU'RE A FUCKING KEK AND I HOPE YOU CHOKE
Anything that upsets frogposters is an objective good.
>Intellectually competent main character>An understanding of history and geopoliticsThis web novel mocks every single Mexican fiction writer, that's both laughable and depressing.Why does Latam literature have to be obsessed with garbage that has nothing happening, but it's written in 'pretty prose'?
>>25186890I already explained why the isekai does not make sense at all.Here:>>25185857And here:>>25185951No, it is not a rational masterwork. It is pretty shitty. It is made for children or juveniles. >>25186907Okay, I can see why you miss most of what makes Rulfo great since that translation is extremely bland. And I can also see why you preffer Pedro Páramo, since it might have better translations.Anyhow, the point of 'her breasts' is that she was his sister and now has become a woman. It is a symbol, a very easy one to get, you know? And like his other sisters, due to the poverty, she will be either whored out or kidnapped by a man.It is actually an ironic and black comedy short story, but also terribly real.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25188256>Anyhow, the point of 'her breasts' is that she was his sister and now has become a woman. It is a symbol, a very easy one to get, you know? And like his other sisters, due to the poverty, she will be either whored out or kidnapped by a man.No shit. How is that deep, or intellectually compelling?I could go to Mexico city interview the prostitutes there and write the exact same shit in like a week.>>25188256It is not shitty, all his syllogisms are carefully made, granted you could argue about the historical accuracy, but it is well above anything that Rulfo ever wrote.
>>25183937ask borges
>>25188726How is your isekai thing intelectually compelling?The guy basically overcomes all problems by fantasy. He writes like a middle schooler.It is as intelectually complex as playing a strategy videogame.And if you like intellectual complexity, learn spanish and try to read Rulfo in the original version, that is intelectually stimulating and difficult. Try to decipher then Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Divino Sueño. Learn grad school math...Literature should be like a puzzle, not a selfwanking exercise. You work on trying to make sense out of something you originally could not. It is an act of becoming. Isekai is the contrary of becoming. Is as if you 'already' had all the tools at your disposal to be god of the universe created by you. 0 real effort, 100% pretentious. Just juvenile and narcissistic.Why did I talk about symbols? You kept saying: "The rural guy was obsessed by her sister's breasts", missing totally the point of the story, which is an elegy of loss. He lost her sisters to poverty. The only sister that probably could have had a noble future lost her livelihood due to rain (the cow). She lost it in the point that she sexually matured, so she is probably fucked.You also said: "Stories about barking dogs", and the short story where a dog barks has nothing to do with dogs barking, really. So yes, I think you are not as intellectual as you claim to be. It all goes over your head.
>>25188101Great post that OP totally ignored by the way.Deserves a (you)
Where have all the serious, urbane, book-reading men gone and why have they been replaced with women?
>>25189575One potentially noteworthy follow-up to this post, by the way, is that in the last 10 years (particularly in the last 5), we've also seen several of those large (non-publishing) firms realize that they can further maximize their returns by focusing on the 'luxury' market and targeting mainly or even exclusively big spenders and high-net-worth consumers. We've seen this largely in fashion, but also in travel, live events (sports, concerts, even theater to some extent), and a few other sectors, which suggests a potential way 'out' of the lowest-common-denominator/widest-possible-audience thinking that has become prevalent. But I am skeptical something similar could happen in the publishing world inasmuch as books are not inherently/intrinsically valuable in the way that luxury goods can be, and to the extent they can be it's not directly related to the quality of the writing.
>>25180581>boolstrue
>>25184372most entertainment/video games/movies/podcasts/whatever feels like babby toys at this point, it's all infantilizing garbage and "deepities" designed to keep you addicted and complacent
>>25189535someone who makes videos like that never had a present father.
>>25189539if you marry the wrong person
I shouldn’t have to strain to understand what an author is saying to get little to no pleasure from it. Reading should be fun, which isn’t to say I read only mollycoddling garbage like Lord of the Rings. But my life is too short for Mrs Dalloway or As I Lay Dying.
that may be the second worst "criticism" of tolkien i have read
>>25188947>>25188949>>25188954https://worldwithoutmoneyarg.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/moorcock-1978-epic-pooh-in-arena-2-anarchists-in-fiction-2011.pdf>Writers like Tolkien take you to the edge of the Abyss and point out the excellent tea-garden at the bottom, showing you the steps carved into the cliff and reminding you to be a bit careful because the hand-rails are a trifle shaky as you go down; they haven’t got the approval yet to put a new one in.
>>25188697>Reading Should Be Fun>posts the most boring space opera ever
>>25189586>space operaYou've never read it.
>>25189586What would you consider to be a good space opera?>>25189929The way that I typically hear the term get used, it simply means "large scope" sci-fi. This may or may not be correct, but I think most people would call The Culture a space opera.
So i have a friend who recently got into audiobooks and he keeps talking about this one and tries getting us into it but it just seems like slop to me,did anyone here read it and what do you think of it ? worth getting into ?
>>25188060To his defense, as an audio book it's a lot less jarring.But the genre is fucking garbage from top to bottom, and these are equivalent in prose to something like Animorphs.t. Also had it recommended by a normie friend, DNF about 30 pages in.
>>25187539You're allowed to try something and make up your mind. I don't like modern fantasy/isekai type stories but I started reading Carl. I got into the first book eventually and then the rest of the series got really interesting. Just realize you read for fun and it's a fucking goofy satire and not something you have to analyze or write a report on. Yes, it's reddit compared to your Baudelaire or whatever you usually talk about on /lit/.Audiobooks can be a personal taste. I read the paper versions. I don't listen to audiobooks and some of the voices in this were annoying to me when I tried it. But people say it's one of the better current audiobook efforts and it gets better as the series goes on.
>>25187588>It’s normieslopftfy
>>25190012you're a normie goof and don't belong on this board.
>all these slop chatbot botsDon't gaslight me, Jesus.
I'm 30 and never spoken to a woman, they're practically alien to me. What books/lit should I read to understand that great unknown?>Inb4 they're just like you memeWe might look somewhat similar but I don't believe men and women think the same
>>25186710Women are looking for the same thing you are. Touch grass as the saying goes.
>>25187176Are you a woman? You’re certainly acting childish.
>>25186710on the origin of species
>>25186710>I don't believe men and women think the same>I'm 30 and never spoken to a woman, they're practically alien to medo you think these two things might be related, anon?
>>25190073Why have spoken to women though?
