rate my book collection
>>25394950>Shinobu figureYou're inherently a bro in my eye. If you liked Blood Meridian then be sure to check out some of Corncob's other books. Suttree in particular is highly rated.
>>25394950I kind of envy a small all killer no filler type collection like this because mine is too big and a lot of stuff I could throw out or sell or don't care about.
>>25394950This feels like a typical /lit/ user shelf
>>25394968>automatically assuming a larger collection has to have fillerngmi
>faced allegations of misogyny and sexual assault>married a 19-yo girl as a 41-yo old manThis was like every single male author back in the day
>>25394335Anons never used to talk like this years ago, I'm pretty sure the user demographic has aged considerably and this is the new cope concerning the collective neurosis concerning relationships with women
>>25394421I recommend you read up on the feminist revolution in the 70s, the PC culture and new man era of the 90s. The 70s revolution are the boomers. GenX were the people just peaking in the 90s. Millennials were at most 9 years old.
>>25394266My lust died the second I wrote the average feminine nature on paper and stratified it according to its moral nature. I am now convinced that the only thing you are supposed to do as a soul and as a man is to wrestle your own flesh into submission, find God and develop a prosperous and altruistic relationship with our creator in order to escape this prison. 99% of women are half humans with no souls, everything they strive for and enjoy is ultimately evil in its nature. The very core of femininity is absolute evil that seeks to devour good men with the same glee and joy you'd get from stomping out some dorky kids sand castle.Once I realized why women are the way they are, it's like I've finally been enlightened as to why hermit monks become hermits in the first place. It's all a lie, its all a joke. This planet is a prison, women are archons who genuinely don't give a fuck about anything but they have to pretend to have interests beyond themselves just so men don't become suspicious and notice the huge disparity in the nature of each gender. It's not a complimentary nature, it's completely one-sided and parasitic. The entire role of women is to entrap a mans life force and pull another soul into this false reality incarnation trap. That's all they were designed to do. Satan takes a hold of their hivemind vessels with comedic ease and no resistance. They are all beyond corrupt, they fall apart once a month and endure pain unless they fulfill their ill-natured task. There is nothing in this world worth striving for besides Gods love. There is absolutely NOTHING in this world that is worth your place in heaven.
>>25395630Wasn't talking about that. I do not give a shit what two adults do consentingly no matter how far apart they are in age. I'm talking about he was an insulting, disrespectful asshole to everyone almost all the time, was aware of it, and never understood why anybody would seek his approval on anything when he was misanthropic and considered his written works (and everyone else's) to be fucking terrible.
>>25395519Said the generation who canceled OccupyWallstreet for not being diverse enough and that invented SJW culture.
I've been wanting to read some of the ancient histories and my main reason for reading is an interest in military history. I find that military history is far easier to follow with maps and diagrams, having to keep Google Maps open on the side to follow things is a huge pain. Do you guys think the translations are of a good enough quality to be the 'definitive' modern publication of these works, or would I be better off reading other translations and just using the Landmark maps?
They are excellent. Better translations might exist but these are very well done and the plethora of maps, commentary, and explanations are wonderful to have.
>>25394818Seconding this assessment. There are better translations of some of these works (Pamela Mensch's translation of Herodotus and, of all people, Hobbes's translation of Thucydides), but as a starting point, the Landmark editions are great, with helpful apparatuses all over them. The soft-cover bindings start coming apart at practically the first reading though, and they're kind of unwieldly if you aren't reading them on a desk.
>>25394818> Recommend 10/10 except they need to do Polybius next.Book was supposed to be out in 2019. Keeps getting pushed back, I think the main author is actually dying at this point.
>>25394839>i don't believe caesar at all reallyReally? I know the archaeological evidence doesn't hold up for some of the battles, but I thought most of the propagandising was related to how how he totally had to subjugate all of Gaul because those stinky tribesmen wouldn't leave him alone.
I stopped paying attention to these when I heard that about half of the Caesar book is locked behind a website for some reason. Put the entire book in the book or I'm not going to buy your book at all.
99% sure this is a retarded question but why is nationalism still a thing? I mean the idea of nation states. Since technology and transportation all but erased borders, why don't people organize themselves based on ideology, instead of an arbitrary piece of land they happened to be born on? Why aren't there Oranias everywhere made up of people deciding to live together and make their own rules?Even if it's logistically impractical for some reason, why don't we see more attempts? everyone is still obsessed over muh cunt like it's a divine right to be bound by bureaucracy out of your control. A citizen is nothing more than a resource of the nation. Nationalism is stupid in the first place because a nation has no values, one has to ascribe their own values onto the nation which often clashes with reality. It's even difficult to define a nation and in many cases we can arguably observe multiple nations inside one state, just look at africa and asia for example.I guess I'm surprised that out of all ideologies, everyone agrees we must either mold muh country to my ideals, or institute globohomo world government with my ideals.
>>25395559labor is a cost, not a value
>>25395553I have read marx, but the thing is...I also read basic economics as well as had a detailed education on 20th century history. So I fully understand how wrong Marx actually was, especially when it comes to first principles.
>>25395029It takes real effort to type like a redditor, I applaud.
>>25395018Why don't you imagine the material steps it would take to end national sovereignty and you'll understand why it hasn't happened
>>25395553So leave then. We're not going to become communists so quit beating your head against the wall.
>setting: america>plot: road tripName a better combination.
>>25395299>setting: eastern Europe >plot: road tripThis.
>>25395299>setting: Colonial southeast Asia>plot: BoatsThank you Conrad.
>>25395299>setting: france >plot: cuckoldry/adultery can't beat that.
>Setting: Ancient Greece>Plot: They cut the fattest ox, broil then with barley, easy the choicest cuts, mix the wine, perform their libations and drink the whole night, repeat the next day.
>>25395299Hmm. Not all those really have "road trip" vibes for me.A few (obvious) suggestions:— Travels With Charley (John Steinbeck)— The Road (Jack London)— Lost Continent (Bill Bryson)>better combinationSetting: Darkest AfricaPlot: Victorian gentlemen adventurers discover lost civilization, fight savage ape-men, etc.
Can you name another writer who misunderstood the book he wrote?
>>25394007Film Adaptation by Quentin Tarantino
>>25393417I kind of get it. Heroes always are terrible people, they achieve great things, but with great costs.
>>25393599such a retarded concept. let me spend thousands of years enacting a species-wide eugenics program that will kill trillions in order to select for THE OPPOSITE of the trait that I want in this population.and then it actually works because herbert was, well, retarded.
>>25394108like a firefighter. he saves a bunch of people, but in order to do that he denies the flame their flesh as fuel. and that's equally as terrible. one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. it's all in the eye of the beholder, really.
>>25394470Firefighter is not heroic, not in the classical sense.
How would you rate Wishbone's library?
none of these kids' shows succeeded in getting kids to read, did they?
>>25395743I was already reading but the show made me enjoy reading more
>Go on a walk in nature, mind starts racing at 100 thoughts per hour, get very excited and jittery, feel like I'm opening up new avenues and learning more about myself and about the world>Get back home, immediately feel like shit, realize my ''ideas'' are dull and trite, that I should worry about more pressing matters like learning how to fix a sink or get a better job, confidence is shot back down to below zero, run away to [insert mindless activity here] so I don't have to face my stupidity, end up writing 0 words that day>Wake up feeling like hopeless garbage for having wasted another day and lost a thousand thoughts again, have to wait until my daily walk to get hyper.How do I break this cycle? I have genuinely been stuck in this loop for too many years.
>>25394884Walk more or start to run. Nothing more luxurious than taking a walk in a nice area with a clear mind on a nice day. And after your walk, if you need to fix your sink, you should fix your sink.
Read Jung and cure your depression
>>25394884>Go on a walk in nature>feel nothing>Get back home>feel nothing
>>25395086Clearly your problem seems indeed to be a mild depression. "Mild" because you still feel good when going out and have your mind bubbling when you feel good, "depression" because you are crushed by oppressive and/or self-loathing thoughts the moment you step back into your home.The usual advice apply, sleep schedule with enough hours before midnight, diet without junk food and processed sugars, exercise, therapy, and doing things you love (you're doing good chilling in the woods).I do think that a clean place and little possessions can be helpful too, they are for me.But you're right, your present struggles are about how you feel about your literary production, so here are some more specific ideas, that were hard-earned :- As I said already, some things not for you to judge, especially with your skewed mind. You are not wrong when fearing delusions of grandeur, but the moment you start feeling like shit and saying "it's not as good as what others write", you are taking an equally delusional and sterile road. Your job is to do the best you can, and produce things that ring true to you, that you are no ashamed of because at least they ring true to you.Of course some people are more spectacularly talented than others, have had more practice time, etc, but they couldn't write the same things than others write : to each his own life, mind, thoughts, style. Your job is to do the best you can, and make things that ring true to you. You are not a good judge of how it may ring in other minds. You're right when saying that seeking external validation isn't the way, you must seek your own validation, in the way of a feeling of truth and pleasure.- Everyone is just as retarded as you. In the same way your judgement is sordidly skewed and your mind partial and irrational, such is the sad state of every human mind, even the great ones. If you're humble, sincere, hard working, and don't take good or bad critics as the say of God but rather the say of flawed minds, you are on a truer and happier path.- Try abandoning "auto-reflexivity", I mean thoughts about yourself. Practice dedicating the entirety of your conscience to the outside world, by discarding thoughts about yourself. For me, it alleviates the crushing feeling very effectively. Besides, you seem excessively self-absorbed at the moment, in a rather sterile way. Discard sterile thoughts, keep fertile ones.- Stop looking and thinking at things in the world (that includes you) like you already know them. You are burdened by your sick ego, break free for some time, and you will heal.You will die in the end, like everyone else did or will, before having understood life or whatever ; just do the best you can, be kind, sincere, aware of your own and everyone's imperfection, and don't burden your mind with sterile thoughts.
>>25394884Try >>>/out/
This was complete nonsenseAnd not nonsense like deliberate literary nonsense, I mean nonsense nonsense
>>25393072That's odd. Maybe it's because the Knight is Lewis Carroll's self-insert and he realizes he can never be anything but an old, kindly, somewhat comical figure to her.
>>25392908It was ambiguous. I interpreted OP’s statement as referring to my question, not to the book, hence my elaboration.
Can someone explain the whole "Alice in Wonderland is a take down of mathematics" thing I've heard thrown around?
>>25393501This guy probably >>25393040
>>25393501There are lots of hidden jokes and references.Example: Quarternions. Some guy called Hamilton (I think) invented them in the late 19th century.Quick mathematical recap:Take the number -1. If you keep multiplying it by itself, it goes -1, 1, -1, 1, etc. It cycles round with period 2.Now there are things called complex numbers, where i is the "square root of -1". If you keep multiplying i by itself, it goes i, -1, -i, 1, i, -1, -i, 1 . . . . So it cycles round with period 4.Quarternions are a system with 4 different components (1, i, j, k) which are basically "like complex numbers but more so". If you get a quarternion, and multiply it by itself, it cycles round, and gets back to the start with period 8 (I think. Not an expert on these.)Lewis Carroll would certainly have known about these since they were cutting-edge when he was at Oxford. There's a plausible theory that the Mad Hatter's Tea Party is a sort of riff on these. There are four characters at the table (Alice, Mad Hatter, March Hare, Dormouse) and they cycle round the table, sort of like quarternions, moving into each other's place and eventually getting back to the start.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Would you abide by the license agreements or do you pirate used books?
>>25393446no legit publisher has ever put a copyright notice like this in their books because they know its legal bullshit.
>>25394490yeah, it's just trying to guilt you
Umm, no. Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus US Supreme Court 1908 (not a typo: 1908) and subsequently codified at 17 U.S.C. s. 109(a) (2012). -- It's why we used to have used book stores--now sadly disappearing.
In the future the American Library Association & the American Publishers Association will have unprecedented power over the enforcement of copyright law. Used bookstores will be outlawed and lending books will be declared a form of treason. Piracy or theft will elicit the consequences of the old days: summary execution. Bookstores will be guarded by Thought Police and the employees will be union members.
>>25393470akshully it's called Ruthless Fae and the authors are these two Bri'ish Roses
>you're not supposed to focus on the book's story, the important thing is the author's skillful use of words to build the prose>you're not supposed to focus on the movie's story, the important thing is the cinematography and the way the director perfectly positioned the camera at that specific minute in order to catch the light in this manner>you're not supposed to focus on the game's story, the important thing is how the gameplay is elevated by the architecture of the level to make it intuitive for anyone to beat it>you're not supposed to focus on the play's story, the important thing is to focus on the actor and how he deliver's the line in such a unique manner that completely elevates the writingWhat fucking media am I supposed to ingest if I want to engage with the story first and foremost?
>>25393623>it would be like music with no harmony. Without harmony it is just nonsensical noises and not musicThe state of this board everyone. this is who you are arguing with online.
>>25392412Meanwhile all the style in the world can't salvage a fundamentally bad story.
>>25394216Is this true? It depends on what exactly we mean when we refer to style. For instance Knausgård's Struggle series - the story is entirely unmemorable banal, basically useless (I can't remember a thing about it - his father dies?), but is salvaged by his detailed almost free associative writing style. You could make the same argument for Proust I think. Whether or not this is "style" or some other thing is arguable. But both those books don't really have a good "story" and yet are well appreciated.
>>25393857I think ideas can be valuable of course, but an idea by itself is not automatically art to me. It is only a piece, which may or may not be worked into an artwork. But an artwork is ordered complexity, it is a holistic thing, and an idea by itself is of course not holistic.>recsWittgenstein is a philosopher of language and logic, not art, so I wouldn't recommend him for this or for just jumping into without some preliminary reading. Honestly the wikipedia page on family resemblances is good enough for you to understand what it's all about. My own thoughts on art fit strongly within the framework of Jung and Nietzsche, so I guess read them thoroughly if you want to know what I'm about. I don't think something has to have a story to be art, an instrumental song for example is an artwork, but I do think storytelling is the greatest art and I think prose is there to serve storytelling in novels.
>>25389528Unironically the only correct answer desu
>Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions...men that sit idly caucusing and ballot-boxing on the graves of their heroic ancestors saying 'it is well, it is well!'> New Spiritual Pythons, plenty of them...as ugly as were ever born of mud, loom huge and hideous out of the twilight Future on America; and she will have her own agony, and her own victory, but on other terms than she is yet quite aware of.>What have [Americans] done?...They have begotten, with a rapidity beyond recorded example, Eighteen Millions of the greatest bores ever seen in this world before—that hitherto is their feat in History!"Was he right?
>>25394970NTA but that's not a very Christian mindset, please don't give people emotional reasons to dislike Christianity.
>>25394873When you reach a certain point of wisdom and favor in God's eyes all of your enemies start to become insanely retarded; they eagerly line themselves for wilful self-humiliation. So when I stated that Europeans tend to turn mad from being obsessed with us he immediately flew into a rage and started talking about my cock.
>>25394976I'm not sure what you mean; I was quite generous with him, I was merely disappointed he didn't write anything worth replying to.
>>25392655This almost seems like an intelligent thought until you realize he is writing from the context of a pro-confederate during the civil war. He thinks he rejects the enlightenment but in fact only prefers other forms of liberalism than the one immediatly destroying his.
>>25394448Bless you anon, you have redeemed america a little bit>>25395243The CSA deserve far more respect than the yankees, at least they stuck to the founding principles of america and weren't outright hypocrites killing in the name of industrial expansion.
i'm trying to get into reading. is there a limit to how long you can read? is it like video games where you can play 12 hours straight. let me know.
>>25394264Same. I slopped the latest four books in a couple of days at each release
>>25395561Oh come on. Monster Hunter is more fun than reading.
I guess about 2 hours.I get so sleepy after that. Even if the book is good.
I can do six hours easy, occasionally eight hours.
>>25395615No.t. gaymer
Did you manage to get rid of puer aeternus? How did you do it?
>>25393001If it makes you feel better, I am just the first 2 posts.
Hero's journeys
>>25392700Working on it OP and have been getting very far. Here are the biggest sources of success I've had:1. Do psychological work as often as possible. Analyse all of your dreams. Read psychological theory regularly. Question your own beliefs and history, etc. If you have any other complexes like parental complexes, depression, anxiety, etc. those need to be cured first. Get therapy if you can afford it. AI chats are a better substitute than you'd expect if you can't, BUT you should know the theory so that you can correct its mistakes.2. Control your environment so that you don't get pulled into things that make your ego weaker. That includes addictive things like social media scrolling, gaming, fapping, drugs, gambling, etc. Remove the triggers, install blockers, set time limits, or whatever else works for you to replace these behaviours with mostly long form activities that require real effort.It also means removing people who are a bad influence, so any narcissists, junkies, etc. Especially parents.You need to keep your mind clear to have the best success, with no brain fog. This give you the ability to resist the stress that you are going to take on. The single best principle I've found is "One thing at one time in one place". 3. Build the momentum. When you're under the pressure to revert to bad habits but you do the right thing anyway is when you experience the biggest psychological shifts, and that efforts compounds as you keep going. Whatever you do just keep it going and if the temptation to relapse gets so intense that you can't think straight then step away from everything and either walk or sit in total silence until your mind calms down. 4. Mundane things are the key. You should expand your comfort with feeling bored. You should expand your comfort with doing one thing only and not doing multiple things. A simple routine is good. Exercise is good. IRL social connections are good. Reading long, complex books is good. Don't make these into an elaborate plan, just choose any old thing and get started. >>25392820Jung is a realist, he's just not a little bitch. Dismissing everything challenging as magical nonsense is for intellectual and spiritual cowards. He speaks a lot about collective trends, and they are where most normoids get caught because they are mentally weak and just get pulled around by forces bigger than them. Inner work is like exercise for your mind, and it means you won't get pulled around like that. It's not like sociological forces are somehow non-psychological.
hawk puer, aeternus that thing
>>25392872>the most puer aeternus post ever madei know of many, and i don't think there is a way to help them externally, change has to come from within. like what could you possibly tell to this retard that would change his mind know what i mean? complete waste of time
Talk about poems/poets you like, post your own work, and critique others.
I have a fantasy of last resort, that my trove of schizo musings will be "found", like Emily Dickinson's work. Everytime I look at a publisher I see their photos of their authors, and they're all npcs, farmer's market boomers, and thin-skinned Xitter gremlins, and I get put off. I've been holding on to work I'd like to publish for the last five years.
>>25393558I share a very similar thematic profile to you. I love your work. Your lines regarding Acher and the Pardes descent I draw from too.
My love she speaks like silenceWithout ideals or violenceShe doesn't have to say she's faithfulYet she's true, like ice, like firePeople carry rosesAnd make promises by the hoursMy love she laughs like the flowersValentines can't buy herIn the dime stores and bus stationsPeople talk of situationsRead books, repeat quotationsDraw conclusions on the wallComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Anybody else here write narrative poetry?I've been at work for years on a story told partly in prose, but also partly in verse.
>>25386014My hair got so longThat I look like a homeless slob.My lips still taste of alcohol,Guess I never sobered up.The world that I was born inHas already passed away.Now I see you walkingWith the guy you chose today.Everyone keeps moving forward,I'm still living yesterday.I'm still a Peter PanWith a little child inside.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
