ITT books and media that a woman will never, ever understand
>>25305359here's your final (You) for your effort, you may have the last word now
>>25305338As a man you can get that aura glow and mog women socially aswell.
>>25303255Correct. Sounds like Schopenhauer
>>25303281>>25303292I've observed this as well and I think the reason is honour implies there's something more important to men than women. One of my country's most celebrated poets was also a freedom fighter who died in battle with the Turks. A female friend of mine (who was studying creative writing at the time) said she didn't like him "because he chose his country over his wife".
Sorry for not having it in english yet
I've never read the Sherlock Holmes books/stories before I looked up what is considered his best stuff1. The Hound of the Baskervilles2. The Speckled BandThe Speckled Band is dumb, the payoff is dumb, it's full of plot holes, and the writing is 90% (dense, bad) dialog WTFWho actually likes this stuff?
>>25304568You got to remember that this was written for the masses. It's pulp. And it was excellent pulp, at that.Were you seriously expecting Monte Cristo, anon?
>>25304568>>25306188Also, read Study in Scarlet and then progress from there. Then, you can treat it as a saga and not one-shots.
>>25306191You can also start at The Sign of the Four.The Hound is #1 def but other shorts are cool as well.
>dad recently died of als>some anon said this book made him cry after his own dad died>read it to see if it makes me feel better>guts me to my core and now I can't stop thinking about itIt was literally too real. It was like I just watched my dad die all over again. Now I am back to questioning the afterlife again. Thanks.
>>25302565test
>>25304434based ban evading chad
>>25304386Yeah, it made me realize I was simply coping with death to avoid the reality. I honestly wonder what the point is of life. Not that that question hasn't been pondered billions of times. Either my dad is gone forever in every reality or his spirit lives on.
>>25302565Buy an ad.
>>25305862For a short story released in the 1800s?
>"Erm, fantasy and sci-fi shouldn't have grittier themes or complex human relationships, political conspiracies or a blurry line between good and evil, all stories should be le hecking inspiring and also dumbed down for kids and childish adults because... Because they just should, okay?!?!" Seriously don't get why that hack gets so much praise for this line of thinking. I don't even like media like Game of Thrones but there absolutely IS a place for it. Wanting all media to conform to a single standard is absolutely retarded and narrow minded
>>25305679Frodo literally gets PTSD from his adventure.The critique of Tolkien doesn't make sense.
>>25305436>grittier themes Abusive relationships (Sarúman/Gríma), schizophrenia (Sméagol/Gollum), despair and suicide (Denethor)>complex human relationshipsDenethor/Boromir/Faramir, Húrin/Túrin/Nienor, Sméagol/Gollum>political conspiraciesGríma and Saruman's sabotage of Rohan, Gandalf's building up Aragorn, Sauron in Númenor>a blurry line between good and evilCorruption of the Ring, the whole story of the Children of Húrin
>>25305704Yeah i'm more annoyed at the midwits who perpetuate this than anything else desu
>>25305742Another anon has told me this on another board and yeah, you're right. I should have actually checked out Tolkien's other works instead of basing everything just around LOTR and The Hobbit. I take responsibility for my own biased retardation. I'm actually planning on getting into his works once i'm finished with the current book i'm reading, so i can form my own opinion about them instead of just going along with what fans/haters say
>>25305436did you actually read any of his works?
Does reading even make sense with aphantasia?
>>25303462If you actually aren't illiterate, and not a tier 5 Aphantasia-tard, then you are 'multitasking' in this way while reading.
>>25303462This is stupid, you can absolutely read, talk, think about your stock portfolio and watch a movie at the same time. Skill issue.This isn't even "high IQ" behavior, this is autist, ADHD, aspie behavior.
>>25305953(1) he's joking, (2) i think you must have extremely low standards for what counts as meaningful engagement if you're fine with such fractured attention
>>25297322You can’t remember something that’s wrong and also highly detailed? Nigger. Just cause I suck at drawing doesnt mean I can see the scenes in my head when reading. It actually still astounds me that people can’t see things in as clear as detail as real life. I also suck at drawing stuff that I see in the real world but that doesnt take away my ability to clearly see. What an absolute goddamn moron you are you deserve fucking rape you make me so goddamn fucking mad with your idiocy
>>25305970>with such fractured attentionI still retain the information and can engage with it enough to provide feedback and remember the story, so apparently it doesn't matter if you have the superpower that is assburgers.
Your best true crime books?
>>25305847helter skelter
Wiseguy
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>>25305847killers of the niggermoon
>Absurdist Agnosticism with Zen Mindfullness >Absurdist Agnosticism with HedonismHmmmmm atleast I aint worried about hellfire
All dialectics or dichotomies or implications of inconsistency and hypocrisy are meaningless if agnosticism is true. The very meaning of agnosticism is ambivalence between all opposites. Nothing is good or bad, including the goodness of the previous statement.You are a slave to 'whatever', you hedonist desires are neither yours nor not yours since such a categorical system requires some eternal basis (a god) for objective statements. So knowledge is impossible. Whatever
>>25305812Just as Schopenhauer put it, "Again, you may look at life as an unprofitable episode, disturbing the blessed calm of non-existence."
This shit sucked. My wife says I need to read the whole trilogy but holy fuck this sucked
>>25300340My wife and kids and I just read your post and would have to agree. My kids are especially sick of hearing about other people's kids on here
>>25300335kys normalfag
>>25300335I read the first chapter and it was super boring as fuck and trying too hard
>>25302757it's a rule to leave once you turn normie. Please leave us alone
>>25304778how?
Why did the plots of all these old books from /lit/ happen in real life
Gardner talked about it on podcasts. Just look it up
Which kingdom is your favorite?
>>25305514Ignore everything I said (minus the part about the name origin).I genuinely confused Qin with Qing.I will leave now, as I can no longer bear to be here in shame.
>>25303969Wei
>>25303969Shu
>>25303969I always liked Wu just because they're consistently kind of ignored by the other two and most of the times one of the other tries to invade Wu, they're repelled embarrassingly and suffer huge losses, ie Red Cliffs, Shu's disastrous invasion at Yi Ling
>>25303969>control central planes>control all the wheat >control all the cultural centers>control the hexi corridor >control all the major canal lanes>control all the cavalry>control all the natural fortsImagine being a weifag.Might as well be a Yankees+Patriots fan.
How does /lit/ feel about the Idaho ban on libraries?
>>25305627I suggest reading up on the law yourself, as well as the many lawsuits it's already generated. You... you do know how to read, I hope?>>25305642Instead of assuming (incorrectly) what the law is and what its intentions are, you can just read the law yourself, including the intentions from the lawmakers who wrote it.The immediate goal was to restrict certain books from children. Due to 1A laws, the lawmakers had to go about this in a roundabout way: if you notice a book that matches certain "restricted" criteria in a kids-accessible location, you can complain to the library, and if they don't move it then you can sue them.The lawmakers were more interested in the optics of the problem, eg. they could tell their supporters "look, we banned the tranny faggot commie books!!", and ignored practicalities.For example, most libraries don't have any inaccessible sections, whether for kids or otherwise, so they had to somehow create one. For some libraries that meant a ban on entire floors or the entire library itself, because to do anything else was impractical and opened them up to lawsuits.The next, much bigger problem is that the criteria for a restricted book is incredibly broad. The law accidentally banned the bible, potty training books, artwork including religious artwork, science textbooks, etc. If a book described, even vaguely, sex, poop, pee, nudity, or restrictive movement, then your book was technically adults only.
>>25306119>if you notice a book that matches certain "restricted" criteria in a kids-accessible location, you can complain to the library, and if they don't move it then you can sue them.Why didn't they just move the books?
>>25306122Keep reading and you'll find out. I'm excited for you to get there.
>>25306123They could just get rid of those books. They choose not to.
>>25306126you might think so, but it's not actually that simplelike, everyone knows the law is actually about banning faggot books. so if they just got rid of the faggot books, the government would leave them alone, right?well, no, because the law creates a private right of action against libraries. so if you remove only the books the government wanted you to remove, anyone can still use the actual wording of the law to sue you for not removing all the books that are technically covered by the law.
>The "royal we" (pluralis majestatis) goes back to the 12 century>leviathan only written in 1651Uh hobbesissies... i thought we were breaking new theoretical ground at the time...
girls only. I will be doing the gential inspections, as I am a certified mystic and communist.I am Hermione Gart, a failure.
>>25302400Go ahead. Inspect my genitals.
>>25302423ok. youre in.NEXT
Immortal Aphrodite, on your intricately brocaded throne, child of Zeus, weaver of wiles, this I pray: Dear Lady, don’t crush my heart with pains and sorrows.5 But come here, if ever before, when you heard my far-off cry, you listened. And you came, leaving your father’s house, yoking your chariot of gold.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Apples on the small treesare hardtoo late ripenedby a desperate sunthat struggles through sea-mistthe boughs of the treesare twistedfrom too many bafflingstwisted are the small leafed boughs
No matter how hard They try to push, what is degrading is not affirming.
Is it at all possible for a novel with TADC's energy to be popular with 15-25's or is convincing them to read getting blood from a stone?
write fanfic. thats what people in that age group grew up on
>>25303552Yes and it's called Dungeon Crawler Carl. It's already very popular.
>>25303552>a novel with TADC's energyCan we get an example? Write a paragraph
>>25305465>Xhe panic-attacked across the room hyperrealistically.
>>25303552>I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream but with realistic depictions of panic attacks
How are you preparing for our post-literate future
>>25305374Can't discuss what you (not you personally) don't read. This board..it truly is over. Motherfuckers think WH is about the upper crust of society. You can't be arsed to discuss
>>25303962electrical engineers have to get in and use their hands plenty or engineers work on sitedesk workers and white collar workers are the ones being replaced
>>25304865Doesn’t even matter, you have shit taste
>>25305286All critiques of cultural decline and decadence since the dawn of modernity have been proven correct to some degree. It’s not even really debatable anymore. Human societies achieved mass literacy just to make ourselves retarded peasants anyways.
>>25303800>that hairy wrist
