Do you think Patrick Rothfuss ever regretted writing this line?
>>25260691The frog poster of hollywood.
>>25261644...what does that have to do with what OP said
She could have been a perfect cast for Auri, bros
>>25261644>Current Year +11?
>>25261230>>25253082
>the obvious killer gets killed halfway through>book tells you he got shot in the head, and there is no reason to doubt it as an unreliable narrator>oh shit, really? who is it then>oh, actually, he didn't really get shot in the head, and it was him yeah that was retarded
>>25265355Was it one of the ten that did it? You know they be shooting
>>25265355really deboonked that crimeslop author. Do Dan Brown next
>>25265355explain why you posted this, op, as a manly adult man.
Hyperstitionally prophesies the looksmaxxing phenomenon over half a century before.
>>25265700hyperstition means that the fiction, by its effects on its consumers, makes itself into a reality, which i don't think is what you're talking about
Why is Stephen King so disrespected in the literary community?
Ghost writers, pedo shit, murder porn, libcuck thinking, hypocritical positions politically.
>>25263535King was a good writer, but hasn't been a good writer for a long time.He jumped the shark with 11/22/63.It's a boomer reminiscing about how root beer "just tasted better" back in his days.Doctor Sleep was an obvious cash grab by writing a sequel 35 years later to one of his most popular novels back when he was still a good writer.And he's currently better know for his twitter feed than any of the books he's written in the last ten years. Dude's washed.
>>25263535Quantity over quality
Cause no one buys those pseudo intellectuals' books.
>>25263535Revival was a good book
In a Lacanian framework is there any distinction between a person's dream and their desire? How can you achieve something worth while in this life without giving ground to your desire? Have Lacan's theories proven to be useful for any anons?
/mu/tant here seeking interesting biographies of musicians (especially ones who aren't household names), good histories of record labels, or anything else about music. I'm personally most interested in stuff from the 50's/60's/70's and don't give a rat's ass about classical, but let's say anything goes for the sake of discussion. The best musician biography I've read so far is Eternal Troubadour: The Improbable Life of Tiny Tim. The man was absurd, tragic, and an inspiration to weirdo autists everywhere.
>>25265501https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WV3yF5xKXaQ
>>25265583>I've actually written polemics on the guy.hell yeah, I'd love to read that if it's online somewhere. I'm not attached to him in any way and it's been years since I've read anything by him so some crit would be fun.yeah i've played in a bunch of bands that suck ass too lol, still do. My main project is ambient music but I don't let myself share it on here
>>25264765>don't give a rat's ass about classicalOh, never mind then. For a second there I thought you were genuinely actually interested in music and not just popular/mass culture like a retard.
>>25264765Not a book, but here's a radio program you should like.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSF3FJIHopI&t=3326s
>>25265594Lol wtf >>25265591I want this real bad
I got this from a used bookstore today, I get the impression it's an expensive scholar book but I'm just a layman who's read the iliad/odyssey. Should I have left it on the shelf for someone more educated?
>>25263880isn't that the kind of thing you find out by reading the first twenty or so pages? just open the book dude.
Yes.
Making one because I can't see a relevant thread.Looking to get A Hero of Our Time and Anna Karenina. Which translations should I get of either? AHOOT (heh) has one by Nabokov that apparently has notes which sounds good to me. Will happily answer any questions about translations for books I'm familiar with in the meantime.
>>25265500Anna Karenina I would go for Maudes (Everyman's), Bartlett (Oxford, best notes), or Schwartz (Yale) if you can find it. I would personally avoid P&V but some people like them, and if you've read and enjoyed one of their other translations you'll probably like their AK one too. Rosemary Edmonds is excellent too if you don't mind her getting rid of Russian naming conventions (i.e. Anna Karenin instead of -a). I read her War & Peace and it's the best.A Hero of Our Time I would go for Foote (the one you posted) or Nabokov, but all translations in print are good. I read Foote, Nabokov, Randall, and Pasternak Slater, and none of them are bad. Foote doesn't have any notes though.
>>25265551Thank you for the recs anon, very helpful
>>25265273Just curious – where here is Dunwich supposed to be?
Lovecraft's Massachusetts was objectively better than modern-day Massachusetts.
>>25265466I always pictured it to be near Vermont, or otherwise northeast MS. Though personally I also always thought the city of Arkham was deep inland, not a few miles from the coast.
>>25265469I would like to feed myself to a Lovecraftian entity somewhere within Massachusetts by the end of June.
>>25265272Massachusetts. Stephen King's Maine would be too uncanny. Not at all in a scary way, but in a flat, generic, really bad at writing way.
>read book>listen to musicpick one niggahow can you do both?
>>25261280Autistic sensory overload much? People with functioning minds can listen and read at the same time quite easily.
>>25263410False. The human brain can only process one stream of language at a time. Unless you're listening to instrumentals, music is an interruption.
>>25261280>write book>about to write musicI'm doing it bros!
>>25263453> can only process one stream of language at a timeThis is completely wrong as evidenced by the cocktail party effect where 100 conversations go on, including your own, but you can still process when someone mentions your name in an unrelated conversation.
>>25265653No this is actually completely wrong. It's a category error, not comparable, and the cocktail party effect is not relevant. Overhearing your name is a triggered interruption of one stream of language by another, like trying to listen to vocal music while reading is. It is not processing two streams of language at once.
I found this book too hard to read and it distracted me from the plot and some of the themes. The language was really high level at certain points such that if I wanted to really understand certain passages, I’d have needed 15 minutes per paragraph. That ends up being like 25 hours to read a medium length novel. I didn’t think that was worth it so skimmed by certain parts only comprehending a small part of it and probably missed some clever stuffI don’t know how this book is so popular. It’s very demanding and a lot of normies seem to like it, while also loving junk food lowers common denominator material. I think they’re pretending to seem sophisticated. If it wasn’t BLOOD MERIDIAN and just a random novel with no rep they would have given up after 20 minutes
>>25263341Aren't they making one now? The description makes it sound like this>le evil INDIAN KILLERS the whole metaphysical thing that ties in with the time and setting is what makes it more than just a standard western, could they capture that? Shit could they even make it into a standard western and not a woke one?
>>25260094no yandere gf for you
>>25264318She is wildly hot>>25263752 >le bad white guys killing poor shitskins There is nothing else the movie could have been about, no way to get funding otherwise>metaphysicalI think this was pretty ethereal and hard to capture even in the book
>>25264513>I think this was pretty ethereal and hard to capture even in the bookYes, agreed. The best we could hope for is a non woke Western with more explicit religious/ good and evil themes. Just make the judge outright the devil and the kid some sad sack torn between the two. idk probably not happening.
>>25264775Thing is I didn’t really think the judge was this pure evil character. A lot of what he said was right. Sort of Colonel Kurtz or Tyler Durden type character. Cynical and willing to crack skulls, but actually realistic. No illusions. And in many ways, that ends up being more humanistic. He was badass when he made gunpowder from piss, and when he would dance. Of all the guys in the Glanton gang, he’s probably the most likeable, besides white Jackson, right? The kid is a deadbeat low IQ fag, Glanton is alright but a manlet, Toadvine is alright but again limited cognitive ability.Main thing that bothered me about the judge is how he’d destroy all the artefacts he found, that was pure psychopathic narcissism
>"I’ll use aggressively casual language, like, ‘hey yo, for real,’ or drop a bunch of exclamation points,” said Harvard, a 32-year-old copywriter in Brooklyn, regarding her posts and essays. “It feels so icky to do this, but it’s what you have to do to sound human.”https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/writers-are-going-to-extremes-to-prove-they-didn-t-use-ai/ar-AA22vhHGSo writing is actually fucked at this point, right? I think Altman may have porked our culture harder than his baby sis.
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>>25264246>almost all AI-written text is produced with near-zero effort put into disguising chatGPT or claude's linguistic quirks. this is because putting effort in would defeat the purpose for most use cases. if you were going to put effort into it you'd just write the damn thing yourself.Advanced users will write a skill document that the AI always references.
>>25264246Yet another post insisting on AI's alleged writing quirks without identifying them. Many such cases. Virtually all in fact.>>25264933I'm not afraid of you and your cast Chinese sword, fatty.
>>25262295if your book looks like AI you suck at writing anyway, AI made books are pretty obvious
Literally just write "nigger." No mainstream AI will do it. Ramping up the chud inside you is the only stamp of human authenticity left.
Thoughts?
>>25265082they should use more ChatGPT
>>25265270Maybe /yourauthor/, illiterate. When I was in my early years of undergrad I had professors with actual academic pedigree praise my work.
>>25265434I certainly understand your frustration. I'm frustrated myself. It won't get better by ignoring it.>I'm not calling for prejudice against peopleThat's a dire mistake. Prejudice is not only justifiable and warranted but in fact the only condition that prevents these things from happening. These behaviors are all prejudicial toward men, straight men, and white men, respectively. Prejudice then cannot be avoided, so the only question that remains is who is willing to wield it. Should it be wielded against the people whom created the institutions, perpetuated them, and for whom those institutions were designed to enable for the greatest good of all? Or should it be wielded against the people who have no business participating in them but would eagerly use those same institutions to crush the the people to whom they rightfully belong for nothing but their own immediate interests and without a second thought about the morality and consequences? Keep in mind, the former creates the conditions that have allowed Western civilization to progress beyond medieval serfdom with its aspirations of freedom and equality, and the latter is creating the conditions that will, left unchecked, cause it to collapse to something much worse. The morality of prejudice isn't thoroughly examined absent of that context. It's great that you have moral inhibitions about wielding it, that's what makes for responsible leadership, and that's exactly why they won't be responsible leaders. If we allow our morality and our empathy to continue to be weaponized against us, then they will lose all value and their place in institutions and society, both will ultimately cease to exist, and we will be pushed until we cease to exist. All hope is not lost, though. We had to know the limits of our empathy to find its center and practice it in moderation. We have. It's time to push back. Talking about it is the first step.
>>25265533I'm too low in the pecking order to make any changes but one good trend I've recently noticed is the administrators of my university have wizened up about the dangers of hiring Indians. some other groups like Jews are nepotistic too but Indians have the numbers to cause real damage. t. an Australian
>>25265580No one is too lowly. Again, talking about it is the first step. We can all do that much. Taking larger steps before that is careless, you won't have support. Talking about it creates that support, and that support creates courage, and the courage of one creates courage in more and so on. You either change things quickly and violently (not necessary physical violence) or you change them quietly, before anyone has noticed so that by the time they do it's too late. If we learn nothing else from our opposition, it should be that. >the dangers of hiring IndiansThis seems to be almost universally recognized. That is a fantastic, moralizing signal that things can still move in the right direction. I wouldn't assume that most people will apply the lesson without help to other groups that have already done exactly the same, but it is a starting point.
>long as fuck names for characters, places, concepts etc (had to write them down to memorize them)>weird non-flowing sentences>lots of poetry-ish sounding sentencesIt seems like the author literally translated ancient chinese slang into modern day english, its just difficult for me to read. Anybody else experience this?
>>25261490Read online on novelfire, also epubs are available from the usual sources. There are two versions I think. Get the version that's on novelfire (the first two paragraphs of the first chapter, if they match then that's the right version)
you're basically reading fan-fiction anyway.I wouldn't trust CN -> EN translations unless it's personally done by the author
>>25261490Novelfire like the other anon suggested is good. It has a healthy comment section so the website is fine or the epubs whatever you prefer.If you don't want to go through much hassle, just read from the Webnovel app or site (official one). It has the same translation.
We are so back, bros, chapter 2335 soon...
No way this shitty thread is stil alive
2 Questionshow do you cope with inferiority?for example being a failed writer, poor, ugly, deformed, disabled, low iq, short, small penis, ugly vagina, stinky vagina and so onwhat are your thoughts on suicide?
>>25265414>for example being a failed writer, poor, ugly, deformed, disabled, low iq, short, small penis, ugly vagina, stinky vagina and so onfailed writer is not like these others lmao>Ugly vaginaDosen't exist. You just gay.
>>25265526>failed writer is not like these others lmaoDoesn't have to be. Any failure to accomplish a goal you've given lots of effort to can make you feel inadequate/inferior in the same way as physically being inferior.I imagine thats why sometimes college sports players who fail to make it big or drop off after making it big kill themselves despite their realtive physical superiority that got them to that point in the first place>your gaymaybe. doesn't mean a woman would'nt feel inferior if her vagina looked odd relative to what's expected. women undergo labia surgery so that proves there is an anesthetic hierarchy to what's considered desirable/undesirable
>>25265438It's a concise answer to both questions. I don't have thoughts of or about suicide precisely because of my superiority. I have no reason to kill myself and no reason to be concerned with other people killing themselves. Likewise, I don't think about "my inferiority" because it's strictly a hypothetical that has no relation to the real world and an insecurity that I don't possess. I know as a matter of fact that my girlfriend would never cheat on me, so again, a useless hypothetical. Inferiority is empirical, but for me personally, it's functionally abstract because it's outside of my experience. It is simply the base condition inhabited by yourself and everyone else.
>>25265513based delusionanon all great ventures start off as madness
>>25265414I alternate between burying it deep and proclaiming myself God, and just weeping and wishing to die while getting off on my melancholy.
