Does something like this exist in Western literature? An amoral main character with no sympathetic qualities, yet whom you're still supposed to root for?All the examples I can think of a "villain protagonist" either are actually an anti-hero, or you're waiting for his downfall.
>>25209983She is his waifu
>>25178600Starship troopers as a movie has almost nothing to do with the book.
>>25212320What does that opinion have to do with anything I posted?
Even a basic bitch good-but-ruthless Xianxia mc induces pearl clutching and moral outrage. The west simply isn’t ready to put morality to the side when reading fiction.
>>25212404Western literature is irrelevant. Nobody cares about it anymore.
It's over for bookchuds.
>>25211562nah fags are cool, they men after all. nothing gay about presenting ass to a homie now and then!
>>25212357Is this fucking fourth wing?
>>25211695Men go on adventures to try to find women better than the ones at home.
>>25213634Yes.An excerpt from the first Dresden File's book, which people like to point to as an example of male-gazey writing, for comparison.
I don't care if you want to lose yourself in triple-layered troemellian post-irony sarcasm, just don't drag your jewish, poc, queer, or female fans down with you ...
>at 24, before kpop became a thing, if I approached a girl I got hurled racist slurs at>today at 34 I get to be threat profiled for being 'that old guy' at the bar or festival jfl.
>>25213832>you're always desiring itWomen are always desiring it also: look at their reading habits. Gooner slop. Just not with you.
>>25213820The other guys are *kind of* right but the actual answer is that the two world wars disproportionately killed off brave, strong men who refused to take any shit. We are disproportionately the great-grandchildren of the leftover dregs.
>>25207879that's not to say we can't just act like coons and play grab ass if we wanted to. sexual harassment is completely based on vibes and you can't ontologically ground legal doctrines in "vibes"
>>25214001>You can say whatever you want but the vast majority of people are not going to disregard their female family member's choice of romantic partner just because the law allows them too.like I said, idiots.
>>25214006you seem upset I decided to ignore your schizo-spew. I'm sorry, next time try making coherent points.>>25214016sure, and that's why I don't feel sorry for rape victims. I shant be doing that.
What am I in for?
>>25211554>By the way it is all fakejust like your mom's orgasms>God doesnt exist.neither does your dad. your mom spends most of her time on her back with random strangers
>>25211430is there a third option between Aquinas and Bonaventure then? the nominalist/realism split is a false dichotomy.
>>25212534Nicholas of Cusa
>>25211458>>25211460So 4chan administration will just make users do duplicated posts so the site statistics give the illusion of activity increase from now on?
>>25211424An unfinished Q&A book
>he considers himself "well read">he doesn't know german, french, italian, latin, greek and dutch
>>25210619I feel like you are trying to make a point because you have a vague idea of what the Dutch contributed to world history but no idea what they actually wrote. No meaningful Dutch contributions were written in Dutch. Erasmus, Grotius and Spinoza wrote in Latin. Huygens and Leeuwenhoek wrote in French. Commerce was done in the language of the customer you were doing commerce with, which is why the Dutch are so multilingual. The Dutch themselves do not care to represent or spread or develop their language. During colonialism, we explicitly forbade Indonesians from speaking Dutch.
>>25210676English is far an away the best language for science since the second half of the 17th century, ie after the scientific revolution.
>>25213768Here we see the sad, destitute modern Western European, who has been taught that his culture is irrelevant, marginal, even nonexistent. According to headmaster Mahmood, the Dutch didn't even speak Dutch or write Dutch. The VOC wrote to each other in French, actually. Please don't consult any primary sources, just trust the experts.
>>25213890What made you think my culture is irrelevant just because i dont give a shit about the language? And what do you think you're getting out of reading VOC logs except empty performative posturing? Go read actually great Dutch thinkers like Grotius or Spinoza, or Jan Tinbergen, who founded econometrics If you want actually great Dutch economic thought.
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I wrote this when I was 14:Marxists are worse than Al qaeda. Karl Marx brought hell to millions because people misinterpreted him for a century. A one world society can only be realized when people like kasu realize that the ultimate goal of the us and its allies is the exact same thing as Marxism. Collective security is already a reality, once nations realize that they don’t have to waste their resources on maintaining these useless armies, then can then be used to clothe, feed, and house every man woman and child on earth. In 2010, no nation can attack another nation. Each nation is dependent on other nations success for their own success. Notice how I’m not labelling myself as an “-ist” or copying this from someone else’s wordsIs this good for a 14 y/o?
>>25213191because a 14 year old is supposed to listen to adults and remember a bunch of slogans that adults tell him. later on he can become coherent
>>25213191being an anticommie at age 14 just means you are led by patriotic propaganda so I would say you lack critical thinking skills
>>25213191>Notice how I'm not labelling myself as an "-ist" or copying this from someone else's wordsThis makes it very apparent who wrote it because you are terrified of being labeled or being seen as something that you're not. You grew up in postmodernism and it reeks of it
>>25213191are you a girl?
>>25213191Sounds like you got hopped up on Monster and Jordan Peterson but it's fine for a 14 year old, I mean it's not "rumi from kpop demon hunters is goonable aye yuh frfr no cap"
What does /lit/ think of Dr Seuss?
>>25213884>>25214024Do kids still read Dr Seuss or has he been relegated to the dustbin of history with the rest of the mediocre cishets?>>25214142Kino>>25214202>>25214152Dilate
Russia sucks
>>25213884He had a nearly unparalleled understanding of what small children enjoy--bright colors, rhymes, nonsensical humor, etc. That said, viewed from adulthood, his books might be mistaken for psychological programming meant to turn American youth into Soviet sleeper agents.
>>25214228ah yes, crazy eyes and nature tattoos. searching for approval on tiktok.
>>25213884He was pretty cool, first children's author to adapt postmodernism to children in a way that made sense with the surreal landscapes and avant-garde naming/rhyme schemes, at least for kids' books it had never really been done. It was just stuff like Heidi or Anne Of Green Gables, which occasionally had illustrations for younger readers, or Great Illustrated Classics type things with heavily adapted versions of classic literature for a 2nd-3rd grade reading level
Why can’t female authors write men? Why is every book written by a woman centered around a woman crying about woman problems?
They can't write women very well either. Women's lives are wholly performative: the vast majority of women are primarily and principally concerned with their beauty and seducing men, which means they are simply unable to look inwards - a prerequisite for writing and appreciating great literature. This is also why the best female writers are femcels.
>>25206888I read a Jhumpa Lahiri story where the man feels guilty for months because he saw a picture of a woman in a magazine that he was attracted to
>>25207602"my grandmother was so opressed, she couldnt vote while her brothers were forced to die on the western front! :("
>>25207602>hysteric gibberish wow you do a great impression of a dumb roastie cunt
>>25206888>why can’t female authors write?fixed it for you
>I said finally, “women rouse me to disgust, my wife has made intercourse with women impossible for me, I can’t deal with them. They’re always having to be serviced, undressed, fucked. They’re panhandlers and parasites by nature, in everything from intimate relations to the economics of the normal joint household in society. I can’t live with them anymore. The main thing is, I can’t service them—take the initiative, make the first move. What I need now is someone to service me—caress, kiss, want me—rather than wanting and being ingratiating myself. Only from men can I get all this.Yeah, I'm thinking based
>>25211153>Only from men can I get all this.Fucking kek gay men are more like women than women themselves or even trannies. There is no escape for a straight man, no escape, not now nor in 1000 years. Marry a whore with a 4 digit body count or be alone forever, we were just born in the wrong times. These are the hardest times in history for a straight man who knows about jews
>>25213625ah, meme group think.how refreshing
>>25211269Australia is pretty nice once you can deal with everything trying to kill you
>>25211685A girl "genuinely fall in love" with you meaning you be a 6'5 gigachad who looks like handsome squidward.
>>25211153sounds like he’s a little sissy>>25211192Villains that are actually just evil are based, actually.
>700 pages of nothing happening>then 2/3 of relevant characters die WTF
>>25213711The first 1/3rd of the book is just the introduction.
I loved this book.
>>25213502I use this book to store my all my cash money because that thing is so thick
>>25214048Yeah. I know. And it contains some of the best content in the book. Have you actually read it?If anything it's Part 3 which is the weakest as it's replete with disjointed action and unsatisfying dead-end plot threads, especially if your copy puts at Tikhon's as an appendix rather than at the end of P2
>>25213502his best book btwCrime and Punishment reads like juvenilia after Demons, and TBK is overlong and focuses too much on Dmitri being a retard and not enough on Ivan's poetry and dreams
Worth reading?
>the urge to live in a giant cathedral, ring its bells in ecstasy and look over a gothic city while sitting atop of a gargoyle
>>25210277>automatedThat’s satanic so I hope not but it’s probably the case
>>25210285by far
I like the scene in Andrei Rublevhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XLh7eit1eA
>>25209399>gypsies and thieves are actually the good guysRomantic literature was bad
>>25209399Notre Dame is the first novel in years that I've DNFedApparently it picks up during the second half, but the rest is literally just interminable pontificating on Parisian architectural history, laced with fragments of a tedious narrative of drab moralfaggotry
the hills of norvos editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>25156285
>>25212985write it down as best as you can and then consume other stuff and write that down too, then after a bit try putting all that together
i feel the Winds of Winter coming...
Who's who here? Alfyn is Alf, Baldrick is very cunning. Rollo from the Vikings or from something else? Are women also references to shows or something? I asked /tv/, but I didn't get any replies
>>25212926He's a TV screenwriter. He can write dialogue and episodic hype moments. That's it.
>>25193816Yeah the story has barely reached the second half of Act 2 lmao
>>25203696Japanese cinema from 50s to 70s in general is extremely kino
>>25210921She cute
>>25210929Very!
Anybody read this?
how are the books on seijun suzuki? anybody know? there's a couple. i'm mostly interested in learning about his later films
"So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself."I always liked the character of Judas Iscariot, since I was a child. The fact that he misunderstood Jesus teachings and sold him for 30 pieces of silver just to regret it and commit suicide thinking his sin was unforgivable even though he could have repented. What books have that feeling? Misunderstaning, wanting to do good but ultimately failing to and living with guilt?
>>25213390Of course not, you clown. The Pharisees were already looking for Jesus to do exactly that; Judas just ratted Him out.
>>25211872I understand what you're saying but I mean a retelling where Judas thought he was essentially doing Jesus a favor, and a favor to the entire nation of Israel too I suppose. By putting him in that situation he was guessing Jesus would be forced to reveal his true self. I think this might've been a novel that was turned into a movie. The Last Temptation of Christ perhaps? I'm not sure though. But it seems like an interesting retelling I'd be inclined to read either way.
>>25214027Already exists and it's calles Judas Iscariot: Apostle-Betrayer by Bulgakov (no, not that one).
If Jesus was actually god he would have forgave him, the fact he didn’t and sent him to hell when he was so important to the plan is sad. Praise judas
>>25214145Universal Reconciliation says that Judas is forgiven and will meet us all in Heaven.Christ is King.
