is it possible to live a happy life without romantic love?
>>24712759And is like 6ft for some reason
Names to be forgotten within a season
>>24696762ExactlyRomance is a childish mentality. Women are incapable of love
>>24696762You have to be very weak to be threatened by a woman.
>>24712798>drains your bank account>destroys your social rep jokah laugh
so when does it get good?
>>24710237This, the book could have perfectly started with her suicide and flash backed into how she got there and it would work.
>>24710756Record scratch, freeze frame, you're probably wondering how I got here
>>24710622Pevear and volkhonsky
>>24710683I agree. That stream of consciousness would have been such a mike drop moment
>>24710683So that's the only scene you liked and it's only because of muh technique? The absolute state
Anyone read these? I'm trying to get through to a disillusioned woke baddie about the absolute state of our society. She's a cop and weird mix of chud and woke.Also, I skimmed the /lit/ archive, and there seems to be a couple Seattle lurkers here. I'm down to grab a beer or whatever you book nerds do lol
>>24707798>>24708718So is this just the author shilling his books here? Yea I'm from the area and I hate kikes and niggers as much as the next guy, but why would I read an ostensibly bad fanfic about it?
>>24707798utterly moronic. nothing more than wish fulfillment. the antagonists are actual drooling retards and the protagonists are constantly surprised at how well things go for them. civilians are all super on board with TND. couldn't finish. i can't imagine the kind of person that can slog through the whole series. turner diaries was much more tasteful>>24708718look, the fans can't even rotate text.
>>24707798Seattle lurker is a pseud who hardly reads.>Chud and wokeJust unite with the people to take out the government and establish self rule. Cops, military, pentagon spooks are all unconstitutional. though we need a healthy militia to help protect those who can shoot for shit. (from the fascists)>>24710104Nazis suck ass. They're the oligarchy's attack dog and you "chud" types are getting ready to welcome back authoritarianism+racist bloodletting Yeah, nazis come from liberals
>>24710131>>24710155read this 1 next
>>24710131not me lol, idk about this guy tho >>24708718I went on a nice rage scroll of /pol/ after dealing with enough of /h/chudrama (xD), and found one of the rare non-brainded poltards posting the op image. Living in Seattle drives me nuts. The people here are so intent on transing the kids, you wouldn't believe it unless you lived here. And bro, the fucking shit I see on the street at night, like straight up people in bondage gear throwing all ages """"raves"""" with everyone high on """"molly"""" (meth).bruh......
Which one is better?
I hate pdf fils
epub, not even a competition
>>24712583PDF when I want to read an exact range of pages. Epub when reading fiction.
>>24712692I noticed my kindle now displays epub pages properly instead of "location 1593", but it doesn't work for all epubs --- i dont know what's the variable yet
>>24712583My app doesn't let me copy/paste from PDFs
Is there any book/writing that ACTUALLY deals with the problem of evil?Most apologetics online just go "free will" with no elaboration and that's it.
>>24699197>Mad made covidAssuming you typoed "man", you are very wrong.
>>24697977>Evil doesn't exist. It's purely a social construct.You aren't making sense. Social constructs exist. Therefore evil does.
>>24712226>(1):God's will is for him to judge and for you not to judgeAll good so far>(2):God's will is to have children be born with incurable cancer and die of agonyThat is not God's will, that's a cause of the fallen state of the world. But since you can say that it's God's will to allow to world to operate within this fallen state-, God's will is explicitly for us NOT to will suffering onto others. I've said this two posts ago and you've yet to address it.>Next, ethics and morality are a framework within which to ensure fairness, maximize positive outcomes, and encourage buy in from participantsThese absurdities betray your never having read the most fundamental notions of ethics.>to ensure fairnessHopefully you can see how this is a modern notion which for the most of history has never been thought of as serious. Surely you agree that up until not even a couple hundred years ago people thought slavery and serfdom were moral, disregarding "fairness".>maximize positive outcomesWhat are the positive outcomes you have in mind? Economic progress? To the detriment of spiritual? Societal? Infrastructural? >encourage buy in from participantsThis might be the most ridiculous of your assertions. EVERYBODY agrees that it's moral to remove from society at least some type of people. Whether it is migrants, extremists, most notably criminals. But you can feel free to disregard any of those criticisms, because, and I sincerely ask you to answer to this question>you refuse to think through anything for yourself and instead rely on servile obedience to authorityComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24697616>Tfw God coughed on you and gave you **CAN I GET A WITNESS HOLY GHOST POWER!**
Job
I don't get it.
>>24710954>Strange that the supposed peak of a genre has large parts that are only fine.It really isn't the peak, lol. I like Lotr but a lot of authors after Tolkien one upped him.
>>24709787sounds like you have bad memory and couldn't remember the previous 200 pagesskill issue
>>24711122I have no problem remembering it, it's just a terrible way to deliver a story. Why cant Tolkienfags concede anything about the faults of the books
Am I the only person in the world who read the iron tower trilogy first?
>>24711122200 pages of worthless nature description is quickly forgotten since it's non-essential information.
>but then, thought Mrs. Ramsay, realising that James was tugging at her, to make her go on reading aloud the Fisherman and his Wife, she did in her own heart infinitely prefer boobies to clever men who wrote dissertationsFinally, a female character I can relate to
>>24712453The lighthouse is a penis. the father and son are taking Cam to prevent her from becoming a lesbian like lily. Cam copes by escaping to dreams but makes it to the lighthouse.
>>24712761But what about my aristocratic butch dyke who left me in the river to drown :(
I fucked up /lit/. I did some heinous shit that's coming to bite me, and I'm going to lose all my friends over it (without question). Give me some books to weather the storm with.
>>24712588Idk if it was drunken groping then depending on your friends you might salvage it.
>>24712541>tfw your rapist sleeps with another woman
>>24712477not a book but you never had friends to begin with. it won't make you feel better but consider the moment you lose them all not as a loss but a liberation and opportunity to find real friends.
I never really got the point of friends as an adult.Work friends yeah. Girlfriends yeah. But hang-out friends? What am I going to do with them?
>>24712756laughing mostly
Why buy a $200+ ereader when you could simply read epubs and pdfs on your phone w/ the ReadEra app?
>>24712221How long do you reading sessions typically last under those settings?
>>24710971>ereader >phonebattery life
>>24711109App name?
>>24712366Librera FD. Get it off f-droid.
>>24712468Big thanks m8
why is western literature/writing in general so much better than any other region?not just books, but really any medium. seems like no other region of the world is able to output something meaningful,except asia on rare occasion, but they still can't hold a candle to western works.>durrr u just don't know bcuz u only speak english!!!most of the greatest western thinkers ever didn't speak english either. anything worth reading or watching has been translated by now,this is a solved problem. there is no library of great works in a distant land that hasn't been printed in english.
>>24710175>seems like no other region of the world is able to output something meaningful,except asia on rare occasion, but they still can't hold a candle to western works.Correct. If anything the biggest treasure trove we're missing is all the lost Greek/Roman literature. Plus not being able to translate Linear a.
>>24712532>yunnanese originnot really. the urheimat of lao/tai people is said to be in guizhou but there are speakers in yunnan (mostly xishuangbanna--the tai lu) and elsewhere (the chuang, who got sinicized).
>>24712569oh ok, thank you. >>24712551why is it correct?
>>24712625Actually it might be Guanxi
>>24710175>why is western literature/writing in general so much better than any other region?Lol. Western lit is greatly held back by the English language itself. >anything worth reading or watching has been translated by now,>TranslationsLmao even
Good /lit/ posts
>>24703713That's me except without belief in God. I hated myself and other people for the better part of my 28 years, this world brings me nothing but disappointment yet i'm too attached to it's few pleasures to just end it all. And ironically, the shittier things are the more attached to the status quo i am yet that same attachment won't let me fix my shitty life.
>>24712064I'll explain the relationship.From the right, none of the distinctions are relevant because they're all just a bunch of lying thieves. Marxism is crack for losers. It gives them purpose and indulges their jealous resentment of people who are better than they are. So these people are a chronic source of troublemakers, whether deranged losers rioting in the streets or sniveling academics pushing ideas like restorative justice. The thing they all have in common is that they are the enemy that needs to be defeated. It does not matter what they call themselves.>>24712149Marxists are always fighting with each other because it's an irrational ideology that promotes grievance mongering and scapegoating. They are full of anger and butthurt and have no faculties of reason or truth with which to find common ground. The moment they have no suitable target to unify them, they turn on each other viciously.
>>24712149You're correct but for people who insist on a left-right distinction, conflating all leftists with the bluehaired idpol crowd and all rightists with neo-nazism is politically expedient. Everyone knows deep down it's stupid to carry on this way but we all do it.
>>24708042haha
He has like 3-4 good plays and a couple nice sonnets.
>>24712398Obviously I am only a humble American attending a cultural exchange universitie in France and have my own biases about relevance, but I was actually surprised by how respected American authors and the American educational system is in Europe! I would estimate every one in five French person I speak to asks me about pragmatism or transcendentalism, and from the look on their faces when I'm reading an American novel in English at le diner, I can tell no matter how full of food their bellies become, they are always starving to discuss American letters with me. >>24712481These kind of books don't get much attention here.
>>24711431>purposefully omitting: Macbeth, King Lear, Merchant of Venice, Othello, Titus Andronicus)Why?
>>24712580>These kind of books don't get much attention here.the past decade of popular media would say otherwise dishonest-kun
>>24712508This is the almost universal opinion outside of online tradlarpers with an unwarranted superiority complex and T.S. Eliot.
>>24712677How fascinating! Because I don't care what the universal opinion is when it's so aesthetically and critically wrong.
Do you read military books about strategy?
>>24711023>Read stuff by pic related as well. A disciple of Clausewitz, whose theory of war was more an effort to grasp its essential nature, rather than of Jomini, who expounded a system of rulesAnother thing I find interesting is the dictum that the essence of war doesn't change but technology changes the form or character. If you have heard about naval suicide drones being used in the Black Sea, essentially it's the same principle as fireships from the 17th century. I'd note that some of the underlying principles of tactics are different at sea than on land, but at any rate, the same is true of anti-ship missiles which can travel 100 kilometers out to sea from a launcher installed on land. It is historically the case that naval forts (like guarding a harbor) always had a big advantage over wooden sailing ships, because cannons installed behind earthworks could blow those vulnerable ships away and be practically invulnerable unless they could be attacked from behind (on land), which is how we got marines (naval infantry).Or the drone attacks on Russian bombers hidden inside shipping containers as a modern-day "Trojan horse." These are ancient tactics but they are regularly refreshed or updated because of changes in technology. So some of the interesting things about the "theory of war" from Clausewitz and his disciples is about that relatively unchanging essence across thousands of years. It's almost like thinking of an art. The technology is the science part. So warfare is like a combination of art and science. In reality it's like a head-on car crash but that's the theory anyways.
Can't recommend this one enough.
this is required readinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lcXMr5hB9I
>>24710786games are good
>>24710866this one's peak
Fight club was a good novel about such phenomenons. Gothic violence is another. Do you have any other kino with a similar feel?
I really should read this at some point
Futurist Manifesto
>>24712141is this the one that was chud literature or something?
It releases today. Will you be purchasing it at your local bookstore? I plan to buy it today. I plan on supporting the known 4chan user, Jordan Castro, by purchasing his second novel, Muscle Man.
>>24711311the guy's pen name is jordan castro and it's not about being a gay latino in aids era san francisco? the fuck? if u want to make a campus novel about some mope u should have used a name like charles waspington or some shit
>>24712638There's actually a foil to Harold in the novel named Casey. It seems like you'd be interested in Casey as a character. You should purchase the novel.
>>24712640I'd rather purchase a pound of onions. (I hate onions.)
>>24711307You know who ELSE will be purchasing it at a local bookstore?
>>24712701Max Lawton?
