What the fuck is wrong with him? Why is he such a lazy retard who can’t finish the series?
>>247340292 and 3 sound about right. I like the story in a feast for crows and a dance with dragons but it does have a ridiculous amount of shit going on. The side projects are pointless and no one reads them. He’s also incredibly fat and lazy.
>>24734035Some of the side projects also include games and TV shows. He's spread himself remarkable thin for a man so corpulent.
>>24734034Editors could definitely be a problem. However, he’s still lacking in his writing speed by wasting time on side projects
>>24734022People who are fat all their life are lazy and take the path with instant gratification.Eat more food or use my brain and write a book???
>>24734040People who make good art or books seem very impulsive to me, or perhaps zealous for their work. I wish people like this could listen to their fans, not on topics of what they should do in their art, but on the speed they produce it.
>killed wife>mogged every Beat writer>mogs every post-modern writer (including Pynchon>one of the most successful and influential writers of all time and never had to sellout or write slop for the masses>lived a genuinely interesting life and corresponded with genuinely interesting people>was a messiah-like figure to boomers' favourite rockstars, even though he didn't care for them or their shit music>lived till 83 despite being a drug addict for most of his lifeNo wonder he makes /lit/ seethe so much. He lived every writer's dream.
>>24732365That's a reach. He certainly didn't advocate drug addiction. He forewarned others of the dangers. His addiction theory also extends to an analogy of state power and control.You type like a drooling /pol/tard
>>24730201>one of the most successful and influential writersMore like completely forgotten and with no legacy
>>24732365>cultural Marxism by attacking the traditional familyHis views were similar to Plato, Buddha and Nietzsche that state should raise children so that men should pursue their interest for the progress of mankind and not remain chained to the shackles of family. You are just retarded slave.
>>24733556>no legacyKek, Pynchon, Patti Smith, David Cronenberg and Thomas Ligotti are still alive.
>>24731730>He "predicted" it in Cities of the Red Night.>>24731945>He also predicted it in Naked Lunch.>>24732303>You do know that AIDS has been traced back to the early 1900's now right?>>24731748>Give me the redpill on Burroughs.He didn't predict it. He created it.
Post a movie and get a book recommendation.I'll start.
>>24733794Clownflesh, Tim Curran
>>24732871The Fortunate Fall by Raphael Carter>>24733024The Business by Iain Banks>>24733543Lurid and Cute by Adam Thirlwell
>>24733544Nothing says artsy fartsy like Big Trouble in Little China, an Adam Sandler movie, and Killer Klowns from Outer Space
>>24733898macbeth
Its amazing how you can take the greatest literary works of all time, some taking years if not decades to write, and make them look like shitty college psychology textbooks.
>>24724411WE ARE YOUNG
the ones on the right piss me off the most
>>24733998That looks like a gum wrapper
>>24730458What’s the concensus on /lit/’s latest homegrown masterpiece?
>>24734004we have Conan at home but also he's a wizard
Any kino type nonfiction books like The Long Goodbye but only the parts where Gould is driving around at night and doing things. Only thoughts are maybe like Hunter S Thompson but without the politics and gay moralizing more like that quote with the riding motorcycles
movie was better
>>24731809movie was better
>>24731809The book was pretty good
Clearly the book needed more pointless tangents about (misunderstood) chaos theory
They did the lawyer dirty in the movieHe was awesome in the book>>24732278Nigguh, its a side parallel in the abstract explains not only WHY the whole venture went wrong but was inevitable because they were trying to control for too many factors at once.C'mon Anon
>>24731809Worst book I've ever read, and one of my favorite movies. Dr. Grant is a complete fucking retard in the book and the pacing is terrible.
This is what I read over the Summer AMA
>>24733495you are not as intelligent as you think you are
What the fuck does AMA mean and why do I see it everywhere lately?
>>24733713i am entirely unable to distinguish intelligence in other people and even less so in myself
>>24733717"Ask me anything"
>>24733495I read:>Unqualified Reservations>War in the Age of Intelligent Machines>Human Use of Human Beings>JR>Difference and Repetition>Logic of Sense>Essays Critical and Clinical>Philosophical Investigations>Genealogy of Morals>Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics>The Critique of Pure Reason>The Birth of Biopolitics>Journey to the End of the NightComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
can anyone who knows what they're talking about recommend a path/point of entry to analytic philosophy i am reading fear and trembling and there is direct reference to hegel who i attempted to read but find unparseableall the overviews of western philosophi i can find are school of life type self help bullshit so i have nowhere left to askthe first reply to this will inevitably be some glib meme free of content like "start with the greeks" or "read the sticky". i dont want to become a specialist in ancient greek/pre-greek literature or whatever the fuck that "how to read a book" chart is doing.the charts posted to the sticky are all sophomoric memes made as a joke by schizophrenic groypers who all they do is collect and curate wikipedia abstracts. swaths of that shit just no one outside specialist historians is ever reading. you cannot tell me the original Lavoisier's Elements of Chemistry is a worthwhile time investment relative to how commonly it is recommended, by people who don't realize they're recommending it. You can't tell me the typical poster is writing with a working memory and understanding of the contents of Fourier's original Analytical Theory of Heat. This is an educational trajectory an 8 year old with google search would imagine.
>>24732373real accessible analytic philosophy. paradigm work meant for laymen
>>24732373You won't understand any philosophy without reading the Greeks.
>>24732680What's up with the difference between Cambridge and Oxford in the field of intellectual history?
>>24733811Couldn't tell you. I just know the major early analytics were at cambridge. I suppose Frege was another but he was Austrian or something mainland European I forget a Google search would tell.
Interesting thread. Ill chill here out of curiosity aswell, especially analytic philosophy which seems to dominate debate circles online.Personally for me. I wanted to get into philosophy a long time ago, back in highschool. Having any idea that theres a "start" to philosophy is a bad idea. It simply comes to you. People said Plato was the best starting point, and I started with Plato and never finished. Years later. I come across an audiobook of the republic and fall in love with Philosophy again.It was during a time where I was desperately seeking some sort of "clarity" just an idea of where to even start finding value. And I think Plato, in the Republic specifically, tries to tackle concepts that can essentially be reduced to "what does anything actually mean?"After years of going through what you did, of Pop philosophy videos that were more self help than philosophy, but yet not being able to get into actual philosophy (to be fair I have adhd, so reading books in this technological age is incredibly difficult for me) Plato was the breakthrough I needed. But I dont even know if it was actually plato as I attempted to read one of his books when younger (dont remember which)My point ultimately is. Philosophy is VAST it covers so many different topics. Trying to read a history of philosophy with a genuine interest in philosophical questions wont work. I think it can work for somebody who doesnt actually care about philosophy as a way of life. But is just curious how ancient people thought. I sort of view it like the sorts of people in the modern day that read books by minorities to "get some perspective" because they lack any of their own to relate to an other in the first place. No real human needs to read a book about another person to understand them. You'd just talk to them.Anyway I got a bit off track there.Step 1: Have an interestStep 2: Seek philosophers that try to aaddress that interestComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Help me find the right book.My dad is knocking on death's door. He has a month or two.The only thing that gives him peace is reading. He has spent a lifetime reading and has read pretty much everything well known.He doesn't seem to like scifi or fantasy anymore. Just historical fiction and fiction.His favorite books are shogun and king rat by clavell. His dad loved them too and he spend time in a japanese camp as a prisoner, so they're connected that way. I also think generally he likes stories that are kind of fairytale like, as shogun is.Currently he seems to really like books like book thief, he is constantly talking about ww2 jewish stories. I think it's dumb, but he's been a decent dad and I want to help alleviate his pain a bit. So I'll endure and ask: >recommend me jewish propaganda fiction.
There's the rest of Clavell's books (Tai-Pan, Gai-Jin, etc.), but you probably know them. The Long Ships by Bengtsson is a completely different time and setting, but has that almost fairytale quality of adventure, encountering new culture, hero gets the girl. Highly recommend.
>>24732677yeah ofc, he read them all.>>24732661perfect suggestion, but it's the book he recently read and liked, which is informinf my question
>>24732743>but it's the book he recently read and liked, which is informinf my questionFUCK lmao. Has he read We Were The Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter? Historical fiction abt Jews escaping the Holocaust, he might enjoy that too
>>24732746I don't think so. I'll get it for him, thanks bro.>>24732677Long ships is a good suggestion, also goes on my own list, thanks bro.
>>24732203Not Jewish, but The English Patient is WWII. Pray his last moments aren't in pain.
>enter local used book store>READ BANNED BOOKS placard on every wall in the young adult section
>>24733958mine still has stop asian hate flyers
Many such cases.
From the Gospel of Matthew>And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
I've been samefagging in this thread and calling myself an anti-semite, lol. I was hoping for more responses, but there were few takers of the bait.
>2025 and people are still trying to run the DLC of a schizophrenic desert tribal dietyGrim
>>24733364>video game metaphorYou need to go back.
>>24732682It's the Bible, it means whatever you want it to mean lol
>>24732949Please try not to hate anyone. You can criticize whatever behavior without going so far that you hate them or see them as inhuman.
Notable Authors: H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti, Robert Aickman, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood, Shirley Jackson, Richard Matheson, Stephen King, William Peter Blatty, Robert Bloch, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Edogawa Rampo, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, M.R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu, Brian Evenson, William Hope Hodgson, Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long, Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin R Kiernan, Laird Barron, Jack Ketchum, Stefan Grabinski, Peter Straub, and many many moreDiscuss your favorite horror tales in both short and long form. What have you read lately? What do you want to read? What's a work of horror fiction or an author who you want to recommend?
>>24733320Not to mention that audiobooks are comfy af and are often free on YouTube!
Reminder to buy some candles and a candleholder. Reading spooky stories in the dark in bed is much better than reading them in bed with the lights on
>>24733734Great way to ruin your eyesight.
>>24729306He also wrote a morkborg module
>>24731947I didn't get around to this last night, so tonight's the night! Why hasn't HorrorBabble done a recording of this by the way? The only narrations that exist are incredibly shitty and amateur.
where in the Bible is The Book of Sheen?
>>24732690Kek
>>24732711He said in the documentary on him over and over that the only reason he never reformed was because he never had to face any genuine consequences for any of his behavior
>>24732711I don't understand regret. Why do people continue ruminating on bad things that they did in the past? I can't relate at all, and I've made more mistakes than most.
>>24732670At a guess, he probably fucked Feldman but after Feldman came of age
>>24732248https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QS0q3mGPGg
I don't get it, what happened to the girls?
their vaginas inverted and became outies and now they're ftms who wear bowling shirts and take woodworking classes
It was all merely psychological for the passengers... unless it wasn't. The ending is deliberately giving conflicting evidence about whether the warping really happened or whether it was just some kind of delusion.
Could he have saved the modern left and prevented them from turning into what they've become if he lived?
People should stop thinking in terms of left or right and start thinking in terms of dogma and heresy.
>>24733223>conspiracy theories are ubiquitous and and can negative consequencesis that so? *chortles*
Did he care? I feel like no one gave a shit about any of this stuff before social media.
>>24733909>he hasn't read The View From Mrs. Thompson's >he hasn't read Up, Simba!>he is not aware of Johnny GentleMuch to consider...
>>24733939>retardSeems so. But good job on chewy picking g and ignoring context/everything which does not support your views such as the right in IJ being represented as a bunch of morons who cripple themselves and fight a completely pointless battle that only exists on paper.
