ITT: The Most depressing book you read in high school for English Class
Based teacher teaching me how to hate communists from an early age.
It's not a book and I didn't read it in high schoolBut read the story The Little Match Girl by HCA
>>25305045Had to read Little Match Girl and Child in the Grave when I was like 10 years old. I think they're the reason I've turned so melancholy.
>>25304951This is more from history class but When My Name was Keoko by Linda Sue Park. It essentially highlighted how horribly the Koreans were treated under Japanese occupation. Nothing as dark as some of the books already listed here but it is just depressing to think about. There's a really disturbing moment though when the children are being taught how to use spears to kill someone that comes close to them. Then our teacher followed that chapter up by discussing how in other Japanese occupied territories, children and women were taught to kill themselves in a last ditch effort to avoid getting raped by American soldiers. So I might be biased and having what our teacher taught us also affect how dark I perceived the book. But yeah it's truly creepy what some countries did during WWII to civilians.
>>25305659>some countries
Science fiction has yet to have a book that justifies the existence of the genre
Did you ever read what they call Science Fiction? It’s a scream. It is written like this:‘I checked out with K19 on Aldabaran III, and stepped out through the crummalite hatch on my 22 Model Sirius Hardtop. I cocked the timejector in secondary and waded through the bright blue manda grass. My breath froze into pink pretzels. I flicked on the heat bars and the Brylls ran swiftly on five legs, using their other two to send out crylon vibrations. The pressure was almost unbearable...’
>>25305162Lost me at "my breath froze into pink pretzels"
>>25304931kek
blindsight
Solaris
Why, even in the final battle, did the good guys not also start using avada kedavara?
>>25305330because batman
>>25305330Pretty sure they fuckin were, mate.
>>25305330In hindsight it's so silly that the big final battle happened inside a school.
>>25305353The children were the only ones stupid enough to oppose the good guys.
I've read all the big names in philosophy and literature in my 35 years of life and I still don't get the meaning of life. I'm as lost as I was when I started. Can someone help me?
>>25305469Why is love the meaning of life?
>>25305470Careful we got a gangsta over there
>>25305490You want meaning in life? Suck my pishadeel ya finook
>>25305484Well, I can't logically prove it in some objective sense. But it does reduce suffering, creates connection, transcends ego, makes existence more bearable or beautiful, and allows genuine concern for beings beyond oneself. I'd choose that as a guiding principle.
>>25305069that's subjective truth. objective truth relies on reason and evidence.>>25305099>So you live by reality?In accordance with it, yes. I learn what nutrients my body needs and eat that, learn what workouts are best and do them. Learn how human society functions and promote the good and thwart evil. Learn what the best qualities are in a mate and choose wisely so I can have a harmonious family unit, etc.It's a continual process of determining what is true, and that information will reveal how to best act in accordance with it.
>4.8 stars on Amazonis it that good?
Why do beards make bucks look so zesty?
>>25305453Because they’re always so faggy about how they groom it.
>>25305455Same goes for their hair. They fuss over it more than their own women.
>>25305473That's called dandyism
Gucci Manes book is way better. And he wasnt a fucking CO pretending to be gangster.
So-called ‘unfilmable books’ simply don’t have the proper story structure conducive to an interesting movie, the popular aura around a book being ‘too violent’ or ‘too complex’ or saying the niggerword too much is just misguided and dumb.Basedtuber Video-Essay Meridian (Or the Evening Redditness in the West) is probably just the most notable example. The first two pages alone would require at least 45 minutes of screen time for what amounts to really boring character exposition for The Kid in a visual format. The book doesn’t give a good motive or reason for his actions other than ‘he just felt like killing’ because it doesn’t have to, a script would have to shoehorn something entirely novel and likely summarize it as a whole.There’s a few scenes that could possibly translate well to film (Judge’s introduction with the preacher, Captain White’s excursion, any of the big battles, Judge’s speeches, the ending) but 2/3’s of the book is just the gang putzing through random landmarks and surviving in the desert for no real operative purpose, interrupted with some scalp hunting. Members also just die anticlimactically to little drama or fanfare, which makes sense in the book but wouldn’t translate to screen (with the ferry massacre as a possible exception).Cramming everything into a <150min film and somehow incorporating a through-line plot that doesn’t butcher the book and ties into the actual ending is what the ‘Unfilmable’ aspect is, not the Tarantino-style violence required on screen.Juxtapose BM with No Country For Old Men and you can easily tell the latter was written with a movie script in mind. McCarthy was a nobody writer when he wrote BM so he likely never would’ve expected (or even wanted) it pitched for a film. It’s simply that trannygoon and his basedtuber-ilk did irreparable damage to the reputation and aura of an otherwise interesting novel by a pretty good American storyteller.
You can absolutely film "unfilmable books" as long as you change enough shit so it translates to the screen.That's why people use the word "adaptation" when talking about turning a book into a movie. It's just a transfer from one medium into another of a concept or idea.
is if on a winter’s night a traveler unfilmable? or is second person just like a found footage movie or something? I always thought found footage was like the equivalent of an epistolary novel. maybe second person is equivalent to a pov shot, something like hardcore henry
>>25299906I could see Blood Meridian Working akin to that incredibly long Director’s Cut Tarantino did of Hateful 8. Yeah Blood Meridian would be a shit hour and half, but it could convincingly be made into a longer project. Seven Samurai is 3 hours long, attention spans aren’t always shit
>>25300164>Greatest, Terrible Book Ever MadeSaar
>>25300204The film adaptation of Catcher in the Rye should be Mark David Chapman walking around in New York before killing John Lennon
I don't really get it. He wrote some good comics, some decent books, but like, overall in the grand scheme of things he was very average even for the standards of genre fiction. Why (prior to his cancellation ) was this guy fucking everywhere? why did every other genre book have an introduction or blurb written by him?
>>25304972Night's Master by Tanith Lee
>>25301808>>25301845>>25305032He's ethnically Jewish but he's also a Scientologist, as are his parents. I'm sure that helped is career quite a bit.
>>25305202He should do a right-wing grift like Kevin Spacey. He really has nothing to lose from trying.
>>25305202eggless karenkino
>>25305631Is there a scientologist lobby in literature? There is a jewish one, obviously, but I can't really think of many famous scientologist authors besides the founder himself.
How come he hasn’t been debunked in over 100 years?
>Freud>JungJust read the sutras you stupid westerners.
>>25301831>Jung is for boring white guys who want to feel like they're living out a mythopoetic struggleStop being anti-white.
>>25299615Adler is fundamentally more correct than any other psychologist I've encountered, but Jung and Freud are not incorrect either, and they at have the advantage of being far more entertaining writers, especially Freud. The issue with Freud as a thinker is that nothing he says stands up to any logical scrutiny, his thoughts don't build linearly on each other, and he is as likely to drop a genius poetic idea as he is liable to justify it with the most moronic bumbling resultant of the great blinders put on by his fetishes. My favorite example of this is his theory on the sexual recession of 5-10 year olds presented in Moses and Monotheism. I know little about anatomy but he states that children sexually develop until that age physically, and then slightly recede until puberty. He argues this is due to an evolutionarily instilled fear of the father, and the need of the species to delay sexual competition as much as possible with the sexual dominion of the primitive father, who supposedly raped all the women of the family and killed any sexual competition that might occur. I think it's an interesting enough idea, and he argues for it first by pointing out that humans are the only species with such a stagnated development. This obviously isn't full proof evidence, as chimp and gorilla fathers commonly behave in the manner he suggests the primitive human father did, but have not evolved such a defense mechanism, but it it still a fun progression of the idea and at least reinforces that the evolutionary aberration is a response to neuroses. Where the thread unravels is the next point of evidence offered -- that infants have a fundamental fear of large animals (which is largely untrue, but in so far is it is true, is explained by the same simple evolutionary concepts and/or mystic epigenetics that Freud employs to justify the fear of the Primitive Father), and that this fear is largely a misappropriation of the evolutionary fear of the father into abstractions.This is obviously the stupidest train of thought one could imagine, and I would like to assume most readers minds are incapable of such blundering idiocy. When I came to that point I was unimaginably ashamed I had made it that far in the book, but I continued reading and experienced the same rise and fall two or three times more in the remaining 30 or so pages.This is all to say that Freud is likely more disprovable than any still relevant thinker, but he still contributed a great deal of excellent poetry and furthered thought in the process
>>25299639That is true but Freud is also rather explicit his theories apply to more and more complex civilizations and cultures, parts of the Jewish psyche are progenitors of the germanic nations psyches given the worship of the Old Testament by protestantism, and the English consciousness has inextricably homogenized the rest of the worlds cultures due to the gravity of Anglo-American culture and empire. The whole worlds resources are monopolized by Babylonian-Jewish banking and distributed by its 3000 year old value system, it would be absurd to pretend we don't have some of the devil of the Jewish psyche within all of us. Freud offers some opportunity to step back and see our cultures perversions as a first step of escape, his psyche being more fallen than the average gentiles means he cannot be completely correct but he makes for an excellent canary for people with the removal to avoid blind orthodoxy
>>25301521neurotic fags are the only people who have contributed great works to culture though, I just think Dostoevsky or Wagner are way better for neurotic fags than Freud
really? that's it? i don't see what's all the hype with this one. Should have known it was the ultimate mid wit tier reading when Jordan Peterson mentioned this is his favorite book. Everything is just spoon fed and shoved down your throat. Treats the reader like they're too retarded to have reading comprehension, he couldn't find any other way to make it just a bit more subtle? Hemingway unironically hard mogs this sht
Epic, epic for the win
>>25305068Crime and Punishment is Dostoevsky's most simple, normie-tier novel. Which is why its the favorite of simpletons, its the novel with thinnest spiritual depth. Even a child could read it without missing anything.
>>25305068>>25305513PS: Jordan Peterson is schizophrenic retard, and the fact that this is his favorite book only strengthens this fact. I recommend reading the house of dead, or brothers karamazov.
>>25305068None of what you said is true.
Is Power of Now the only decent self help book?
Just read 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
That guy simply had a mental breakdown and then spent 3 months sitting on park benches.
>>25300633basically the self is illusory so you shouldn't identify so strongly with thoughtsbrain uses you, you're not using the brain-- which sucks ballsmeditation is the tool to help practice disidentification with thought and not being dragged around mentally in a swamp of rumination and other bullshitthat's what i got form reading a few chapters a year ago
>>25303178the park benches thing is real btw. enlightened people spend a lot of time on park benches.
>>25300633It's badically a primer on ego dissolution. Very good introductory book for Western readers.
>be me>glorious data hoarder and pirate>pirate movies, porn, music like an absolute madman>fill up terabytes of hard drives>literally can't get enough of it>but then there are ebooks>suddenly get this weird guilty conscience>I actually love literature and want to support the authors and the book market>still pirate ebooks sometimes, but I actually buy a lot of them too>money feels well spent>even go to IRL author readings (turns out not all good authors are dead yet lol)>look around my town>all the cozy local mom-and-pop bookstores are completely dead>only one soulless megachain (Thalia) left>everyone I know just buys from the Bezos overlords anywayComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25303205>then buying books secondhand is no different from piracyA secondhand book is still an original one. The autor got at least a few cents for buying the book. On the other hand a pirated book is just a copy.
In the past I spent hundreds and hundreds of dollas on ebooks and books. Enough is enough. Nowadays I pirate all books. They already earned enough from me.
>>25302817>>even go to IRL author readings (turns out not all good authors are dead yet lol)This is my policy. If the author's still alive and I read & like the book, I'll buy it.You can't justify to me buying for Brave New World on an e-reader, or LOTR, or the Bible.
>>25302866On paper it's nice, but wouldn't the local population — who I imagine struggle as this looks like a third world shit hole — benefit from having an active fishing industry to help move the economy?
>warning: take following post with a grain of salt, I hate marketing so I'm probably incorrect>>25303384>>25303205Both of these takes, as well as the implicant assumption in the OP, is that you're buying a book to support the author. That's not the game that's being played. The game is market advocacy. When you buy a book on say, late HRE politics, you are signaling to publishers that this is a topic worth investing in. That there IS a market for it. Buying it legally secondhand at most, signals to retailers that this type of book is selling. It does not signal to publisher as much that they should pay an author to write this book.Let's look at the top books being sell, and who is their market.>fantasy romance: woman/woman-adjacent audience>Christian folk-lit: Christians>feminist-thriller: womenThese are books people are buying. That have a market.
What happened to the internet spirit of writing fiction and short stories on personal websites, like diaries and blogs? I was looking at Angelfire after it died, and so many things were lost. Ted the Caver barely survived because people archived it
>>25302991Web2.0 happened
>>25303013I get around 300k unique users a year on my wordpress blog still.
>>25302991>gingermoth
>>25302991Nobody read them. And then people stopped posting.
DEI & “trans” “gender” ruined everything it fucking touched
What was it for you?For me it was The Green Knight
>>25304793Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
I hope The Way of Kings gets a film adaptation and cops a 15% audience / 0% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes.
more like The Brown Knight hehehehe
The first thing that comes to mind is Artemis Fowl, but I wasn't dumb enough to go see it because it was obvious the film would be shit from the teaser where the fairy letters were all original and weren't actually a cypher for anything. Watched a ton of reviews though and they were all hilarious.
>>25304808>Dragon not fuckable enough?Dragon was plenty fuckable, but they refused to let Eragon fuck her
...not like this....
>>25305287Then that also debunks what Nietzsche said.
>>25304381That's not Euler.
>>25305018dunning kruger is strong with this onewhat you said is irrelevant to nietzsche's point; the point isn't the truthfulness or not of mathematical statements like pythagoras' theorem nor their utility, but that we wouldn't have played with these ideas if we had disregarded them from the start because there's no right angles, no straight lines, etc... in the visible world
>>25305222Measure twice, cut once.
>>25305369Bugman tier
>The case of a man of 36 with a cardiac neurosis may serve as an example. He was an obviously extraverted type, and his wife was introverted to a pathological degree. They got a divorce. He then married an extremely extraverted woman, lost his cardiac neurosis, and became a typical introvert with the feeling that this was his true nature. >He was a successful businessman who from humble beginnings had worked his way to the top. His originally introverted disposition was kept under by his hard struggle and energetic will, but had to be married in the form of an introverted wife and paid for with a cardiac neurosis.In the case of 4chan posters, you most likely all identify as introverts and act in such a way, so you should consider the opposite case.What if you are an extravert forcing yourself to live as an introvert due to circumstances and/or trauma rather than a natural disposition? Or do you believe your "original" or "true" type is the same as your current type?
