Flesh by David Szalay has wom this year's Booker prize.What did we think of it?
>>24876560I like historical fiction, and I've got an academic loyalty to him.
>>24872904>István is a virginal fifteen-year-old when he embarks on a relationship with married 42-year-old woman
>>24873139literally written with gpt damn
>>24875581No. Those foids are all over LitTwitter.
>>24877413How soulless do you have to be to think this reads fine? It reads like a shopping list
Any books that help make this easier? I was raised Christian and would like god to be real, but my years of contemplation and research have led to me to believe every shred of evidence says he doesn't exist (besides one paranormal experience as a kid). The only issue is I can never truly secularise and move on with my life because:>1. The ever present fear I am being deceived and that God will hit me with a heavy hammer of suffering to bring me back to him.>2. The fact that the only four people I truly care about are Christians and my deconversion will bring them suffering from anxiety.>3. The existential dread that we are alone on a rock and there's nothing preventing extreme suffering or death coming our way (this is easier since Christianity doesn't guarantee safety anyways).I know some of you will think I am a pussy and I won't call you wrong, but I'd like to overcome this.
>>24875066Saw a kid reading this book. Not sure what it's worth but the description sounds like it fits.Personally I have been atheist for a long time, but recently found evidence of what could possibly be a heavenly afterlife. In Nikola Tesla's thoughts on the aether.
>>24875066What you need is The Doctrine of Awakening.
>>24875066This book will give you a good philosophical grounding for your new found atheism.
>>24875066have you tried reading religious books?
>>24875066>1. The ever present fear I am being deceived and that God will hit me with a heavy hammer of suffering to bring me back to him.There is no release from existential dread (fear of God being one of the terms for it) besides drugs and entertainment. Yes, you are being deceived, but God-willing you have enough time to go through the journey that lies ahead of you. God-speed to you.>2. The fact that the only four people I truly care about are Christians and my deconversion will bring them suffering from anxiety. You're talking about your character trait - agreeableness. It cannot be corrected by reading.>3. The existential dread that we are alone on a rock and there's nothing preventing extreme suffering or death coming our way (this is easier since Christianity doesn't guarantee safety anyways).As in 1., existential dread is ever-present. If you're certain that the best way forward is to cast your only dread-management-system aside (since Christianity does provide the Way to eternal life) because your empirical methods either failed to prove God (how?) or outright said he doesn't exist (how?), then you'll have to bite the bullet or commit to things like absurdism, existentialism or meditation.
Are women capable of writing anything other than hagiographies?
>>24873641Are you capable of writing about a book you actually read.
>>24873641No. They're all hags.
>>24876422what about the dykes?
>>24875850>read.>>24877786Still women. Hence, Hags.
>>24874989I bet you think "white people caused slavery" too
>there is a timeline where he didn't kill himself, lived to be as old as gurm, and we have a ton more Conan kinoIt hurts
>>24876537Why would you need to have a lot of world building if they represent primitive forms of: the aryans, the egyptians, the indians, the chinese, the rusians, the nordics, the greek, the romans, the iberians, etcliterally just learn history faggot, i though you were chud but apparently you are a fag
>>24876537I do respect it to be honest, I don't think I could ever name an arid, wartorn borderland ruled by various coalitions of tribes "afghulistan"
>>24876537>It's not world building on the level of Tolkien.Tolkien had an entire lifetime to write, and the Hobbit was only published when he was 45, LOTR when he was in his 60s, not to count the Silmarillion and all his other unpublished works either. Howard wrote Conan, Solomon Kane, and all the rest of his works before he was 30. Of course his writing was never as complex as Tolkien's, but what is there reveals a breadth of creativity and vision that gets extraordinarily close.
>>24876567I agree that he had great creativity and imagination and do enjoy the Conan stories. I jsut hink they're a different form of literature than Tolkien's works.
>>24874442How many Conan stories are there?
I found myself listening to her videos on the background in a similar fashion one would mindless listen to a woman talking about some inconsequential triviality she dedicates her life to. Like how you would listen to someone who thinks Addison Rae's new boyfriend is newsworthy or whose biggest problem is choosing between lipstick and lip gloss.This needs to stop before my brain is completely gone. Are there any good looking youtubers talking about lit-related topics? I already know all the greasy males that are not completely garbage.
>>24876474No its Melissa
>>24876701I don't understand how I'm 5' 6" but have boned a decent amount of girls while being autistic. Something has to account for this.
>>24877044My mom has a degree in interior decorating
>>24877666>Although she may consider settling if you have Tom Cruise syndrome and have a pretty face
>>24877021blud literally stole my thoughts and past experiences and made my post for me
Post books that received little mainstream or academic attention but have nonetheless been very influential.
Is OP from Seattle by any chance?
>>24876380review kek
>>24876479How is this book? I've seen it twice or so already.
Ah, I must have stumbled on the schizo general
>>24876468It didn't start with SomethingAwful. Settlers was big with bizarre spooky wrecker MKULTRA style left wing sectarians like the Austin Red Guard.
Essential dinergoth literature?
>>24876227let him cook
>>24872385Lol u mad
>>24876227i find the term useful for explaining the kind of extremely online superficially-goth-identifying-but-not-really-goth i see a lot of on twitter and wish i was, but ain't because i'm not american
>>24868994why would you care what kind of literature a pumo and dump whore is reading? the only thing you should care about is how sloppy the toppy is
>>24872245>Liz Viscous is everything you are sayingeven the discord-nerd-queer stuff?
Why 120 days of Sodom so popular among Zoomers despite the fact the book is out right degenerated?
>>24875491You're not needed here, Danielle.
>>24871071still waiting on an answer to this
>>24867176You can tell she's overweight from the inhuman proportions of the thighs.
>>24876973>>24876932>>24876973>we’ve done sweet fuck allthought so.
>>24875670Cringe never went anywhere. It just has a different name because Zoomers can't cope with the truth.
Fitzgerald said there are no second acts in American lives, do you believe that?
>>24875360if you want look at how fitzgerald ended up you can read his last novel. essentially his nerve were fried from his relationship with zelda and he drank himself silly well into his 30s. no second acts in american lives is poetic and perhaps partially tue, but only for the ones who don't pull their shit together
If you take TRT, then you are a transmale.
>>24875360No; after all, The Great Gatsby is about a literal nobody from South Dakota becoming an extremely wealthy socialite by simply exploiting a law that wasn't in effect until 10 years prior.
>>24875360I like Thompson's take: >Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.
Donald Trump is already on his third act. Scotty boy is wrong.
Both awful. What is some good fantasy?
>>24862903
>>24862903>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb6rSooDNQIHe read his own book for free on his youtube channel lol
>>24862903>Gardens of the MoonTried to read that book, literally could not make it more than 20 pages in. Dullest pile of shit I've ever tried to force myself to read, I have no idea why it's so highly regarded.>>24868819>Gardens gets the balance wrong. it tosses you into the thick but doesn't do enough to buy your interest to overcome all the names and locations and stuff you have no context for. he gets the balance right from there onward, and there are some insanely good books in the series. if nothing else give the next book a shotMaybe this is the problem I had with it, literally all I remember about Gardens is that I found it dense and boring. Had no desire to even finish reading the first book, let alone pick up any of the others.>>24863688TOaFK I remember being really good, but I also haven't read it since I was 12.
>>24862903Read Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself trilogy were good. I vaguely remember his Half A King trilogy was good. Most of his books are solid I think.
>>24862903have you heard of Joe Abercrombie?
I railed Jennifer Egan in a Pittsburgh 4-star hotel in 2019.
>>24874644If you're going to lie about banging an author, you should at least pick a young and hot author. Like the chick who wrote the Divergent series.
>>24876294Or Sarah J. Maassive Tits
>>24876315kek
>>24874644>A visit from the goon squad
>>24874644
I've read La part maudite and Histoire de l'œil. I'm wondering what /lit/izens think of him.
>>24875113You don't have to like a thing for it to be true and I think there's plenty he's correct about on the level of human behaviour and societal activity, though his philosophy has little to say about cosmology/ultimate reality. I really really want to somehow get a copy of "Story Of The Eye" to Kaitlyn Katsaros as a gift to see if she jives with it if it's ever possible, she and his thinking are in such alignment they're like a corroboration of each other & it'd be a cool instance of making highbrow and lowbrow culture meet such that all distinction is extinguished, something I find novel.
>>24875113boringtheres better shock lit out there you dumbass boomer
>>24875113He was pretty based, a little juvenile though, head in the clouds and all that
>>24875113ALRIGHT BATAILLE FAG I CONCEDE I WILL READ YOUR STUPID FUCKING SCAT FETISH PHILOSOPHER OKAY?!?!
>>24875121Like Billie Eilish?
What writers would I enjoy if Mishima is my favourite?
>>24873082>Definitely check out forbidden colorsI will; thanks anon.
>>24870120How are Stendhal and Mishima alike?
>>24870119Can you think of anything more interesting than starting a militaristic cult, no less in the wake of your country coming to terms with its murder of millions, and commiting ritualistic suicide after staging a symbolic coup to restore power to your emperor who you believe should be re-established as a divine authority?
Yusanari Kawabanta
>>24870119He was just an interesting guy with some unique works. There is no great mystery, here, unless you're being intentionally obtuse.
I know this board is chock-full of anglo's reading le classics, but I prefer to just dumpster-dive in second-hand stores for my /lit/, never know what you will find. Yesterday's trip:1. Het Bureau by Voskuil - first volume in a long series of day to day happenings at an institute dedicated to creating an atlas of volkish culture.2. Schaduw over de Habsburgers - small volume about the downfall of the Habsburg monarchy.3. A biography about newspaper founder Henry Tindal4. A poetry book showcasing poems for most cities in Zuid-Holland.5. An old yellow book about nuclear submarines.
>>24874280If you think a simple question is some kind of commandment, there is something wrong with you.
>>24872243tnx anon, I just was considering english translation. German illiteracy is so crippling its impossible
>>24874880>there is something wrong with you.oh u dont gotta tell me twice :()
>>24867617>3. A biography about newspaper founder Henry TindalThere is literally only one large biography about that man and his entire family of fuck-ups.
Sort of. I like to go to Lulu and read the free previews of self published slop.
Post good biographies you've read. I just finished puc related. I think Stubb does a good job of explaining Swift's unconscious system of thinking and engaging the reader with the context of early 18th century Britain, but that the whig party position is assumed to be familiar to the reader.
>>24876318
>>24876004
Mark Twain
>>24876323Do you not think 18th century politics (and especially 18th century politics) contained within it political-philosophical strains of perennial relevance?
Jonathan Swift is a cannibal. Fuck him.
