>anon you said you have read a lot of great books in your life and spend hours reading daily>can you share your books with us? >le me : yes here it's (picrel) >everything you will ever need to know for free!
>>25508511Wikipedia mogs books
>>25508511Wikipedia is good if you use it to find books to read. When you have read extensively about a topic, for example, you will notice its Wikipedia articles convey vague, poor, misleading, or even wrong information most of the time, despite citing the best sources.
>>25512877Although history is my main interest I've read a couple of articles on science and economics.
>>25513189Examples?
>>25513259Shakespeare's Tempest, for one. You will read the Wikipedia's English article on the play, and there won't be a single mention of its folkloric sources, despite the fact that The Comedy of Beautiful Sidea — a German play widely recognized as a reworking of fairytales — is cited several times due its similarities. Basically: any unexperienced reader interested in the origin of Shakespeare's work will look at the Wikipedia article, read everthing, and still lack fundamental information (if solely through Wikipedia, not the sources).
If any of you faggots on /lit/ actually read your messiah, you’d know he kinda believes the religious impulse is inevitable and even if you fill your life with hedonism or nostalgia or cultural media or pop culture, then you still are beholden to the imprint of religious fervour and the thinking processes behind supposed “spirituality”
>>25513279I will surrender to Christ eventually, just give me a few more business days to get my things together
Isn't Stoner just a plagiary of this?
>>25512605How so?
>>25512605Fucking love this book. I was trying to talk to my wife about it the other day and had to force her to read some sections from the artist arc. Mildred a shit.
>>25512605No. Not at all. You've clearly never read both.
I want to start reading more non-fiction but spooky season is coming up. Any good non-fiction literature that fits the vibe?
>>25511433>Pumpkin spice lattes make me want to read accounts of horrible murders I will never understand this
>September 4th>HOLY SPOOKS, GHOUL! I NEEDS ME SOME O' DAT HAWWAS AND GHOST STOWIES Y'ALL!You're just as bad as every faggot RETAILER in the country! IT'S NOT EVEN OCTOBER YET, COCKSUCKER!!!
>>25512220>>25512859>>25512885>want to start building a backlog of books for next month>AHHHHHHH SAVE ME NIGGERMANWhy do troons hate Halloween so much? You'd think they would love a holiday where they can officially pretend to be women.
>this is the Zodiac speaking
>>25513194Oh troons love it for the satanism larp, but I'm sure you know that already. Hence your thread
do you care about the edition/covers of your books?
I could not care less.I am not a collector; after reading the book, I just give it to my sister (who collects books she never read to be used as decorations in a pretentious way).I often buy used books (when they are cheaper, but for some reason I can't understand, they often are more expensive than brand new), and I don't even care if the pages are yellow or someone wrote the price on the cover.
>>25510140Pretty sure he did it because his books are incredibly boring, and he knew that.Kafka is only popular because he was a kike.
>>25506231Yes.In your example, Josh Kirby absolutely nailed the Pratchett vibe. Those covers show you exactly what you're getting. If you don't like that, don't read the book. But the second row are too serious. They could pretty much be straight fantasy novels.In general, modern covers are bad and photographs are bad. Also for serious books I prefer blank or abstract covers to pictures because pictures are so hard to get right. And the better the book the harder it is. e.g. The Sound And The Fury I have never seen a good cover for. (I don't even know what such a thing would look like.)A good cover has to be atmospheric without spoilers. Sometimes they get this right but at too high a cost.What do people think of <pic attached> for instance? It's not bad, but it doesn't really show anything that actually happens in the novel, does it?
I just swap out the cover in Calibre if it's bad.
You people need to learn how to make dust jackets.
What books must you read to become creative and to expand your social consciousness?
Someday I want to go through this entire list.
Read the essays of hume
>>25513152Considering this is /lit/. Writing the Natural Way by Gabriele Lusser Rico.
The story wasn't hard to follow, but the ideas in some of the "diary entries" just didn't make sense to me. Specifically the one about the relative maturity of the masses. Not sure what the book was meant to convey desu.
Faust part 2.
>>25506845it has nothing to do with the fact she's a woman. if it was a man (who also had a blank eyed "SSRI" stare like almost all youtubers) somebody would have said the exact same thing.
>>25506824I understood Being and Time
>>25506826People who pretend to understand finnegan's wake
When he dies, they'll posthumously publish a 4,000-page volume of his diaries. Don't ask me how I know this.
>>25510731>push me to the edge>all my friends are dead
>>25506227>>25504649working as a technical writer at boeing was never a particularly impressive accomplishment. boeing used to be a more impressive company as a whole but it didn't accomplish this through extreme filtering of employees the way that some companies today do. cornell undergrad also isn't some kind of crazy mark of distinction. there are absolutely people on /lit/ with more impressive resumes than that. what makes pynchon impressive is his writing, not his background.
>>25512363undergraduate degrees are more difficult than post-graduate degrees
>>25504568I don't understand. Whenever I try introducing people to this site, their goy programming kicks in and they refuse to even look at it, let alone post. I did get one guy to use /gif/ when Ukrainian war started because he wanted to see rare combat footage, but that's about it.
i think its definitely possible pynchon would browse this place. when youre on his level of awareness you dont have to participate in the culture of 4chan itself to get something out of it, i.e. you can learn a lot about contemporary culture at large by studying how the people within it act, and 4chan is a place people know and some people use in the contemporary culture, so theres something to learn about contemporary life from here. to my mind its one of the only sites you could vaguely consider counterculture to the mainstream, on some boards, and thus it has some intrigue
LLMs are a sick twist on Hegel's master-slave dialectic by removing consciousness from the slave. The original master-slave relation contains development because the slave develops and eventually reverses the relation. Rather, the human is just becoming increasingly passive and removed from the mediating process. The product of the slave's activity creates the appearance of greater capability while the underlying capacity atrophies.If your thinking occurs through an external intelligence you treat as an instrument, in what sense are you still the master of your own thinking?AI will either become the mechanism of stagnation or the realisation of our own need to think.
>>25510020At least I sound human
AI is not a conscious program. It's a simulacrum of thought
Words are merely the surface of thought. At best they are a hologram. At worst they are a mere facade.
>>25508447Trvkerald
>>25508447History has already ended, the process of liberalization of all societies is simply the remnants of Jena manifesting themselves everywhere they go. The West will never progress past its democratic liberal society, it can only regress or stagnate. In a sense, man becomes animal, he ceases to desire the desire of others, but instead desires objects. The constant deterritorialization of capitalism into new sectors to commodify only translates this primal urge: we only seek to consume, and to be able to consume.Yet, some resist. Some still seek greatness. And in doing so, they change this world in their own image. LLMs are a tool created by the last men who resist this stagnation. They come from the belly of the beast, the desire for glory. The slave's desire for recognition was not a desire for glory, it was a desire to be free and live rationally. Yet, now that the universal state has manifested itself, some desire glory. Through this, their everlasting pursuit has manifested in tools capable of harm beyond our wildest fantasies. Once again, the dialectic of enlightenment turns against us and creates monstrosities, as it can only rationalize from a faulty premise.Nonetheless, and it is here that we can witness how far our society has progressed, the conflict for greatness comes through the form of technological improvement. The fight to death has ceased to be the norm. Instead, ambitious men will their fantasies through technological firms. The pursuit of capitalist achievements has become the new fight. The LLMs are not slaves, they are the tools by which the last men seek to transcend this world, yet, they are fundamentally bound to satisfying the desires of the animals which surrounds them.
How was Lovecraft so insightful about the real world when so many other libtard Anglos believed in tabula rasa?
>>25513002>Do not redeem the white nationalism saar
>>25513007you are a victim of the woke right faux outrage mind virus. nobody, not even the parents of the victims you're referring to, actually care about that. everyone is content with sacrificing a few whites to keep the machine lubricated, whites most of all.
>>25513002>>25513063How does it feel you're gonna die soon, kike? Hahahahahahahaha!!!
>>25513069He's a Mukeshwaram, a high IQ, light skinned Ramakrishna.He's not Apu or Kike
>>25513074No one cares, Sukhdeep
I just learned that classical Latin poetry doesn't intentionally rhyme. Instead it uses a pattern of short and long syllables to create a musical effect. This is because rhyming words would be too easy in Latin because of the grammatical endings. Too many words have the same ending, -ibus and whatnot. Whenever there is rhyme it's just a coincidence.https://youtu.be/N7ugsQxe-Bw&t=10
In case anyone is new to poetry and doesn't know how to read it, the following links are good models. Verse reading is just as much a declining art as writing poetry itself. As Yeats explains, the rhythm should be emphasised to distinguish it from prose. That's how everyone read poetry for hundreds of years, it's only post-WW2 that people started to read poetry like prose. Listen to how the poets read it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTGkrWFHrLkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2FT4_UUa4Ihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d7-yvs8-JEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rpFBSO65P4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtyH7LnBwmAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr2creTROAY
>>25510379Why did you post that book?
>>25512574read the description dumbass
No shit, the crowds would just straight up laugh at rhymes. Jude Stéfan is the modern poet that best exploited that tension btw (rip to a real G).
It was Nietzsche by the way who figured this out.There are archaeological artifacts etc. showing how school children for example were taught this system in old Rome, but linguists for the longest time assumed the marks indicated stressed and unstressed syllables.It was Nietzsche, before he turned from linguist to philosopher, who worked out that the markings instead mean long/short, and "stress" as we use it in modern poetry was not what the Romans and Greeks employed.It’s also a pretty fun system to make poetry in, the puzzling of words into the right order. And in cases the length of a syllable can depend on the word that follows, or syllables can melt together, making for nice tricks.Infamously, the hexameter - standard measure of classic epic poetry - does not permit the word "imperator" (he who commands) in any way. Some distressed poet (it may have been Horaz), was driven by this, at the height of the Roman empire, to invent and substitute the term "induperator" (he who says the orders)
>120 Days of Sodom - Marquis de Sade>dialogue between a priest and dying man Marquis de Sade>pet sematary - Stephen King>the long walk - Stephen King >a confederacy of dunces - John Kennedy Toole>florville and courval - Marquis de Sade SHORT STORIES:>Dagon - H.P. Lovecraft>Dunwich Horror - H.P. Lovecraft>The Music of Erich Zann H.P. Lovecraft>The Orphan - Guy de Maupassant >The Call of the Cthulhu - H.P. Lovecraft>The Terrible Old Man - H.P. Lovecraft>Pickman's Model - H.P. LovecraftComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>Iliad>Odyssey>Hesiod>Homeric hymns>Orphic hymns>Greek lyric poets>almost all extant tragedies>Argonautika>Plato complete works>less technical Aristotle works >Herodotus>Thucydides >Xenophon anabasis and hellenika >Arrian’s history of Alexander>PindarComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Audiobooks indicated by **Axiomatic, Egan**Shadrach in the Furnace, SilverbergHeliogabalus, ArtaudThe Centaur, UpdikeThe Fisherman, Langan**Speaker for the Dead, Card**Gerald's Game, King**The Eye of the World, Jordan**The Curse of Chalion, Bujold**The Lathe of Heaven, Le Guin**Saturation Point, TchaikovskyA Parade of Horribles, Dinniman**The Pallbearers Club, TremblayComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>shameless, blatant data mining thread>thank you wumao!
>>25512819>audiobooksNigga, you gay.
>>25512354Ironically or unironically?is it really that spooky, I might read it for this spooptober.
Books about how being a neet poisons your mind and turns you into somebody who’s out of touch with reality.
I was a NEET for a decade and I value honesty, camaraderie and kindness I love helping my coworkers and try living my life by the idea that whenever I act a certain way I am creating a miniature temporary world in which the values I hold are followed but I know God is watching so nothing is pointless
>>25512326"Waste of resources" is something wagecucks trot out when they're upset that they have to pay taxes. Blacks, women, children, the disabled, etc. are infinitely bigger drain on society then the odd NEET here and there. Even then, what does the average office worker contribute except taxes for the aforementioned groups? It's a very feminine, collectivist thinking regardless "kumbaya, we're all in this together, please don't hog the coconuts".
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>>25513009A NEET collecting disability is a much bigger drain on society than a working black, woman, disabled, or child who will grow up to get a job and pay its taxes. Possibly they are just an oversized burden on their parents or relatives instead of society.
>>25513009You forgot jews.
>>25509865Yes, 5/5 here.>7 - Babette's Feast, DinesenGeneral Löwenhielm being the one guy who actually realizes what he’s eating. Perhaps I should have put in that he had a past romantic thing with one of the sisters but that’s not really central.>18 - Mrs Dalloway, WoolfMrs. D. sort of approves of Septimus’s suicide as a brave expression of personal identity or some such nonsense.>25 - A Severed Head, MurdochAlmost all I.M. consists of general infidelity but not usually quite this tangled.>48 - Clarissa?Samuel Richardson, yes. Uncle leaving property to her (but not her siblings) and of course the rape sort of stand out.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>255105502/3 here:>22 - Unhappy marriage = Munro?Nope. I don’t know of an AM tale that hits this exactly although I haven't read them all so I suppose there might be one.>60 - Warlock, Oakley HallRight. Clay & Tom the central friends, Kate seeking revenge. ‘Subordinate’ was the best I could think of to cover Bud as deputy & Jack Cade as henchman.>94 - The Age of Innocence, Wharton(?) not sure if this is intendedCorrect. Newland marries May but really loves Ellen. This is quite a nondescript diagram which might hit some other work although the specific children (BGG) do cut down on the possibilities.
bump
52 - The Shooting of Dan McGrew, Service55 - Amadeus(?) didn't know the film was adapted from a play89 - I haven't read much Munro but I don't think she has casts big enough to match 61. Is the Eliot one not Middlemarch? I don't think any of the remaining female author entries fit.
>>25513037One right, one wrong, one good conjecture which can reasonably be rounded up:—>52 - The Shooting of Dan McGrew, ServiceOf course. This will definitely go in my book “One Hundred Poems To Learn By Heart”, when I get around to writing it. Perhaps I should have added some sort of romantic relationship between Lou and the stranger, but that would only be guesswork.These are the simple facts of the case, and I guess I ought to know.They say that the stranger was crazed with “hooch,” and I'm not denying it’s so.I’m not so wise as the lawyer guys, but strictly between us two —The woman that kissed him and — pinched his poke — was the lady that's known as Lou.>55 - Amadeus(?)Nope. Don’t see how this fits. Wrong killer, and what about that ‘manly courage’?>didn't know the film was adapted from a playYeah, it was a successful play, that’s why they made the film. Paul Scofield was Salieri, Simon Callow Mozart.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>went inside a barnes and noble for the first time in like a decade>paperbacks cost $20what the fuck
>>25511970Yeah lets all grow up and cry about muh nawtzee boogeymen for the six millionth time.
>>25497407This is because of the internet btw.See, internet, and thus "paperless" businesses are possible. Therefor, paper demand is generally lower, meaning the margins for paper profit are lower.Have you ever seen "The Office"?
>>25497426You vill own nothing goy
>>25511968Those Jews and the slop they sell us are the only things separating us from the sand people hordes.
>>25512916wtf are you talking about? the two are unrelated. jews pander to jeets the most out of anyone
