More useless than the Oscars for finding genuine masterpieces
>>25348550The nature of the prize itself, its conditions as founded and the expectations for what is to be honored, prioritize claptrap such as "humanism", "idealism" and so on. In other words, truth itself is not a priority. When, in high school, I read that awful book called "The Dwarf" by Pär Lagerkvist, its front cover proudly announcing that the author was a Nobel Prize winner, when I found the book itself to be interminable, this was my first indication that the opinions of the Nobel people are bereft of value.Nor is the illegitimacy of the prize limited to its "soft" categories (Dylan, Kissinger, Arafat, Obama simply for being a black guy who got elected and not being that awful awful Bush who we all hate so very very much*, etc). In recent years, in one of the science categories, it was awarded to those deemed most directly responsible for the mRNA vaccine technology which precipitated the covid jab.*By way of disclaimer, I also personally hate George W. Bush , and therefore don't defend him with the above remark. The point is that the only real reason why they gave Obama the prize was for the reasons just given.
>>25348550Toni Morrison winning one killed its credibility
>>25348550List five books that should've won a Nobel.
>>25349282Fuck you on about. Beloved is mandatory literature study
>A prison becomes a home if you have the key.Anyone read this poetic powerhouse?
Good Bad and Ugly
>>25348579can't be good obviously because he's still alive
Anti human.
Are his predictions about the future of humanity truthful and sound? I am interested because I am reading important lessons for 21st century, his book.
grosses women out and made a clown of himself talking down on vidyagenuinely hope this psychotic globalist faggot (he is indeed gay) dies a painful death
>>25348496That’s the healthiest looking photo of him you’ll find, it’s probably photoshopped. In reality he’s a frail and weakly looking AIDS patient jew
Picrel is the German subjunctive forms of "to be".These are the English subjunctive forms of "to be":• be• wereDid it ever occur to you that maybe English is not a great language?
>>25349721>so its purity is a mark in its favour too.
>>25349777Yes, English is the most phonemically-conservative Germanic language. In other words, it sounds most similar to Proto-Germanic out of all Germanic languages.
Meanwhile Portuguese
>>25349794No, the most conservative language is Icelandic. English went thought the great vowel shift, and before that centuries of frenchification.
>>25349818completely untrue
>"It was a dark and stormy night..."
>a fost odată ca niciodată...
>>25349767>ca daca n-ar fi, nu s-ar mai povesti
I wrote a short story, a sci fi horror. Cosmic Sonics. If anyone has any critique it'd be greatly appreciated.>https://pastebin.com/ZG06mcSu
>>25349481"A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us."
>>25349481We have /wg/, /wng/, and /sffg/, yet you chose to kill a thread with this. Jesus Chris.
>>25349618I'll take something like this over another religion or gender/romance circlejerk.
>>25349481So, I made it the whole way through for some damn reason, and here's my initial impressions:Good:1. The core premise (rapid mutation induced by audio signals) is intriguing and legitimately unsettling. I see an element of King's Tommyknockers, Heinlein's Puppetmasters, or I Am Legend here, and all of it seen through the perspective of the creatures that used to be human.2. The sheer randomness of the sonic effects is also interesting: some become invalids and die, the "successful" specimens become nigh-invulnerable abominations fusing random debris into their bodies. Those even less lucky regress into pre-human or even pre-mammalian beasts. The post-humans consider this acceptable.3. All the characters do have unique voices; that's hard for even plenty of published authors to pull off. And the I.R./Specs dynamic actually is endearing. Bad:1. "Archaea phonic cosmic sonics" is not a good way to start a non-humorous story, at least in my opinion. The cheery sing-song tone which pervades Cosmic Sonics is very hard to take seriously, it's frankly impressive that I made it past the opening performance, and I don't know if I would have had I not been running it on TTS.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25349481>>25349820Ugly:1. So very, very Infodumpy. The whole thing feels like a worldbuilding outline haphazardly turned into a three-way conversation. Pip is often less a character himself and more a walking microphone through which the reader learns of the mutants' world; that's pretty much all he is after mentioning off-hand that his wife took a near-miss from a tomahawk missile and wants to use the downtime for some upgrades. Basically, when it ain't open mic night, the story is 90% characters sitting in a booth or a jeep and recounting the interesting stuff that already happened.2. The asylum riot is confusing, chaotic, hard to follow, and feels to me like it should be the climax of the story rather than something told as a distant recollection. We get a blow-by-blow of a fight that happened 13 years ago, while the current air-raid sirens and explosions outside the diner get glossed over in two sentences. It feels like there are other things happening in this story that should be more pressing to the main characters.Assessment:It doesn't suck, but it's a rough and early first draft at best. Personally, I would restructure it quite a bit: use the performance and convo with the janitor as a framing device, set the main part of the story back in the riot/asylum breakout, then epilogued back in the present. But that's just me.
When you say you read one book a week what does that actually mean? Theres a huge difference between reading werther (150 pages) which you could accidentally do in an afternoon, and les miserables (which is well over 1000 pages), so how maybe pages per week are you supposed to be reading?
>>25349693does it matter? 1 book is 1 book.
>>25349693It’s a meaningless quantification of reading habits. Yes a bigger book will usually take longer, but a 1000 page novel could potentially take you less time than a dense philosophical text only 300 pages long.
>>25349693>so how maybe pages per week are you supposed to be reading?All the pages in a single book.
You can read more books if you comically reduce them to the most absurd degreeFor instance>the sorrows of young werther: boohoo some chick doesn't like me I'm going to kill myself>infinite jest: dude television is like a prison dude >blood meridian: dude le wild west was le violent
>>25349693when you read one book a week you're trying to impress people. You think reading is a numbers game, or a competition. You probably identify yourself as "a reader" and take pride in it because that's your one thing in life. I'm not impressed by how fast people read or how much they read. I'd be impressed if someone read a single book and could tell me something about it other than the a basic plot summary. That's all these "book a week" types can do. Spit out plot summaries.
>hates people>hates love>loves war>says "it is over" and "nothing ever happens" verbatimAny other chudlit examples?
>The Divanfhallucinated aislop
what are some good old magazines to read? I'm trying to be more analog and love books, but want more casual reading. I like playboy, heavy metal, wired, maxim, hustler, muscle & fitness, penthouse, field & stream, and scientific american.
You might like OMNI.
>>25341937Just buy some Nat Geo special editions, they can be quite fun. I got a copy of picrel for Christmas and really enjoyed it.
>>25341937NatGeo and Playboy (unironically for the articles) are pretty good. If you like Scientific American you might also like Smithsonian or Discover.I also like Popular Photography but if you're not interested in photography then I wouldn't recommend it.
Death To The World
>>25341937Soldier of Fortune is surprisingly entertaining.
What are some unexpectedly good authors?>pic rel made me realize women can actually write
>>25347575Melville. I thought he was just propped up by Americans because of national pride, but I was completely and utterly blown away.For lesser known authors, Potocki, Huysmans and Döblin.
>>25347609my sister tried reading moby dickshe gave up after 100 pages of nothing happening
>>25347575women were always great writers you absolute moron
I'm trying to read more because despite my unintelligence I would say I am a pretty curious person when it comes to certain topics. My main issue is that I struggle a lot with reading comprehension and me being stupid doesn't helpHow doomed am I?
>>25348148>I struggle a lot with reading comprehension and me being stupidYour picrel. Proceed slowly and deliberately. Annotate a running commentary in the fewest words possible at the top margin; leave the bottom margin for future corrections. Take a page, and reduce it to the shortest statement capturing it. We are all that retarded beginning, or entering the new and unfamiliar.
>>25348150This guy is right, follow this path OP
Keep on reading. Don't be afraid of reading literature you don't understand - eventually you'll reread them with more knowledge. Even if you would not - a sense of mystery and weird will do you good by providing you with more unusual ways of looking at things thus stimulating your imagination and giving you more approaches to everything.Most literature incorporates ideas from earlier literature - so reading everything is important and eventual rereading will almost always will keep unveiling more ideas you had previously skipped.When you're ready - try going with greeks, being one of the earliest literature pieces in western civilisation they tend to affect almost every other book directly or indirectly. Plato is a bit obnoxious, some foundation ideas of his logic can be somewhat questionable, some of his logical conclusions are actually fallacies, but it still helps to know, what other people had used as their ideas' foundations later.Also read about autism and adhd, just in case - if anything you might learn about certain things of perception and communication you had never suspected to exist, no matter if you're autistic or not - and this knowledge allows to make much more sense of everything else, especially as there were quite a lot of autists amidst scientists and philosophers, but far from all of them, so learning, what they (and you) don't see, will help you to understand better.
>>25349570Thank you Anon, that's very kind of you. Good advice. I did start taking notes with the book I'm currently reading, I do tend to overthink sentences a lot though and I struggle with abstract concepts but hopefully that will improve with time>>25349572I will, thank you Anon. Love the skinnypig btw
>>25349706Good point. I used to read more when I was younger but it was mostly Stephen King or Charles Bukowski. I want to eventually be able to read and understand authors like Kierkegaard or Dostoyevski, from what I've heard I really like their ideas and their view of the world, I think that's the beauty of philosophy and literature, that despite how lonely and bleak the world sometimes is, there are people out there who feel or felt the same way we do and therefore we can feel less lonely and more understood as a resultI'm also interested in the ancient greeks but it's another thing I have to work my way up towards because as of now I'm struggling with even books that would be considered simple
ye olde: >>25323801>Recommended reading charts (look here before asking for vague recommendations):https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg
>>25350203>One of his channels he's doing Sanderson and it's kinda funny how he's managed to put into words both my critiques and praises of him.Interesting maybe Ill check out what he says about Sun Eater
>>25347638Besides what's already been mentioned, here's slightly advanced babbyAn Inhabitant of Carcosa Les Xipéhuz (sci-fi)The Family of the VourdalakSheThe Temptation of St. Antony The Golden Key Captain Vampire The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner The Invisible Giant La Vénus d'Ille An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier StreetThe Judge's HouseComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>westeros>easteros
>>25350682>>>/lit/grrm
>Leftland>Rightopia It really do be like that.
>The sorcerer Virgil had himself chopped in pieces and placed in a cauldron to be cooked for eight days, thus to become rejuvinated. He had someone watch out that no intruder peeped into the cauldron. The watchman was unable, however, to resist the temptations. It was too soon. Virgil disappeared with a cry, like a little child. >I, too, have probably looked too early into the cauldron, into the cauldron of life and its historical development, and no doubt will never manage to be more than a child.
>>25349556i'm hella blazed rn but uhh the first part sounds like the guard ate him. then he says he's like the child? tf
>>25349556ask Chadgeebeedee
>>25349556Kirk did philosophy too early it turned him into an anxious eternal manchild
>>25349557Kierkegaard BTFO
>>25349550Virgil was a sorcerer? How did he end up in the Noble Pagan circle of Hell?
So, /lit/? Which is worse?
>>25349603But are they really wrong, though, thirdie?
>>25349401>DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN GASLIGHT PEOPLE???oh wow reallyLike the article has a unique purpose of showing the extent of people's agreed hallucinations but it definitely doesn't deserve a whole thread on /lit/. This is low effort low quality.
>>25349606If you are framing it in terms of right and wrong then you haven't read or failed to understand OP's post.
>>25349626Disingenuous response.
>>25349649Calling my response disengeous won't changed the fact that you missed OP's point. But that's expected from someone who can't see beyond their own brainwash.
I don't want to live in a world where unconditional love is frowned upon
>>25345781>The message people take from the book is "the boy takes from the tree until it's destroyed". >It's not like it would be hard to write a story where the boy took care to replant trees showing a cycle of regrowth, and "giving back". But instead the tree is just stripped and killed. This is the mentality of a virus or parasite where the host only exists to be used until it dies.there's a reason the book is from the tree's perspective, anonthe actual message of the book is "my love is without limits, there is nothing i wouldn't do for the person that depends on me". it's a message every normal parent understands the second they hold their new child.obviously the childless don't get this and i don't blame them, though if they have pets you'd think they get it a little bit. however, the real evil people are the moms that resent their kids because they can't go out as much and they have to cut back on Netflix. they're the ones that react with shock at its message.
>>25348449>the moms that resent their kids because they can't go out as much and they have to cut back on Netflixever hear a mommy tell a daddy i wanted to get an abortion in front of the toddler
>>25348455literally yes lol. i was a teenager myself and it was at six flags with my friend's family. his baby sister was 10 years younger than him.
>>25348502
There are two competing takeaways from the semi-tragedy of The Giving Tree:"I will never be as foolish as the Giving Tree!"or"I will never be as uncaring as the boy!"But the only way to apply these lessons is to first identify people whose traits align with either character. When it comes to something as latent as love, poor judgments are inevitable. The bitter people will see everyone as a possible Boy, but the empathetic people will see everyone as a possible Giving Tree. The bitter people are defensive, the empathetic are vulnerable. All the Giving Tree does for its readers is expose and magnify the dispositions of these people.>>25341093>>25341188The bitter>>25340934>>25341128The empathetic
