I'd heard his prose was bad, and I'm far from a snob about that kind of thing, but holy shit.
Even as an ESL I can tell his prose is very simple and corny at times. Some expressions feel so 21st century american vernacular they pùll you right out of the story.That being said I still enjoy stormlight, the only thing I read of him
>>25307805>>25308246>>25308249There's a beauty to simple prose Being able to convey something in a vivid yet short manner. and then there's summarizing what you're writing. Sanderson is the later.
>>25307837I'm in the middle of my first read through RR. The author writes like he is entitled to a TV series or movie. I can respect the grind. The second book was really fun and couldn't exist without the first which is an interesting situation to have written himself into.
>>25307786You need to be white to get sanderson. Unironically.
>>25307786His prose is fine. He's a plotfag so it's no big surprise that it's a bit bland.
In practice my writing with gpt.He gives me a prompt every night and I write a something short about it (like 2 or 3 pages). He then gives me feedback. I write about gangsters, detectives and cowboys. Im very talented.
>>25307220It’s true >Shíshì shī shì shǐ shì, shì shǐ, shī shì, shì shí shí shī. Shī sì shì shī. Shǐ shì shè sì, shì shī shì, shǐ shī shì shí shī shī, shì shí shí, shǐ shí shìshì. Shǐ shǐ shì shì shì shì, shì shī shì. Shì shì shì shì.This translates to:>Living in a stone den is a poet-scholar named Shi, addicted to pork. Having lost his official post, he vowed to eat 10 lions. The lions seemed inclined to interfere. Mr. Shi set up an office, and used his master's influence to dispatch a messenger named Shi to fetch lion corpses, awaiting his time to eat. Only upon eating did he begin to understand the ways of the world. Mr. Shi sent his envoy to the market to observe another man named Shi. Try to explain this matter.Shiiiiet
>>25306104When I try this with my writing the AI kind of acts like I'm retarded and tries to teach me how to read it better in a friendly way.
>>25303579Uncs will seethe but there is nothing wrong with using AI for inspiration or feedback on your work.
>>25303579I USE «CHAT G P T» FOR FORMAL FEEDBACK, NEVER FOR CREATIVE COUNSEL, NOR FOR CREATIVE PROMPTS; IT WOULD BE LIKE ASKING MY OVEN FOR ITS OPINION ON THE BAKED POTATOES COOLING ON THE COUNTER.
>>25306104If you don't role play mindfuck it, it will always eat your ass. Giving it a character and POV to inhabit can help guard against hallucination.
The world appears as a hallucination produced by the synthesis of categories of knowledge.
>>25307983what?
>>25307974yes you are learning little frog
>>25307974Why use the word "hallucination"? As if you went towards blindness? I think categorization helps to make sense of the world, to see better as your age increases. To me, you are born blind and learn to see.
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>>25307974>the noumenal is also futurity yet we are capable of predicting it
Which kingdom is your favorite?
>>25303969Is there a reason why Han China and Rome began to rise and fall around the same time? Was it some environmental shit?
Shu, of course.
>>25304828He is from Shu.
>>25309085It was the style at the time.
>>25308193refutes nothing
was he right?
>>25309228It's more that you guys are just annoying faggots with a proclivity toward being miserable in the first place, retard.
>>25306748Funny how the common newfag from the past 15 years is more obnoxious and vitriolic than the worst of tripfags.
>>25309225>I've never heard him admit the only way he's happy is making others miserableFunnily enough, it was in an interview posted in another spam-botted Benatar thread like a year ago (they have to be spam-botted at this point because fucking come on, there's at least two a week, and it's the same fucking insubstantial OP every time). The interviewer asked Benatar during one of his crying sessions if there wasn't anything he found joyful in life, and he essentially admitted that spreading his anti-natalist philosophy briefly brought him peace.
>>25309273>if there wasn't anything he found joyful in life, and he essentially admitted that spreading his anti-natalist philosophy briefly brought him peaceYeah, that makes sense then.
>>25306041well Karl Marx did say that communism is the abolitions of Jewry>Very well then! Emancipation from huckstering and money, consequently from practical, real Judaism, would be the self-emancipation of our time.https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/Also Benatar literally believed Israel has an unconditional right to exist https://archive.is/0A53y Benatar is a jewish supremacist this must always be disclosed
David Chalmers effortlessly debunked physicalism without falling into metaphysical 'woo' territory.He provides a satisfying approach to the hard problem of consciousness that appeals to those who have no spiritual convictions and prefer to rely on hard, cold logic.
where did he do this? the hard problem of consciousness assumes physicalism is debunked as a rule
>>25309310Why do you even matter or anyone else (for that matter)?
>>25299328Logos suggests Plato, Saint Maximos, and Eckhart were more right.
>>25306808Searle was only semantically a materialist in so far that he equated the independent consciousness as matter in of itself and not one in the same with the activity of the brain as one substance.
>>25309322we matter in the sense that are agents here on earth, in a dimension and reality that we have some control over
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?
>>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.
You are afraid to admit that you don't know nor truly ever fully know. It is not in your capacity to.But you don't need to fully know to understand what gets you closer to knowing. Even the Bible, with it's infinite wisdom, tells you there's countless secrets you will not learn in this world, but only the next. The moment you are allowed to accept that is the moment you'll feel okay with walking in a direction instead of a final destination.
>>25307532Kys you bumped this shit thread at page 10 kys
>>25304843>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.Did you skip St Thomas Aquinas? He gives the answer.What will NOT make you happy:https://www.newadvent.org/summa/2002.htmWhat will make you happy:https://www.newadvent.org/summa/2003.htm
Like instead of war stories, they're stories set in factories and other hazardous workplaces.
>>25308649https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletarian_literature
>>25308649Jungle was cool, even if s*y
Can anyone come close?
back in the obama years i always assumed he was a wacko but then i saw some video of his where he analyzed the trayvon martin case and i was like oh shit the mainstream media really lied their ass off damn, then u start to think hmm what other stuff are they lying about?
>TFW David Duke traveling to Iran to discuss the Holocaust industry in an international conference in 2006
Why is every other race allowed to advocate for their own self-interest, but when white people like David Duke do it it's suddenly the worst thing in the world?
>>25309416Why do you think?>>25309396During the Obama years I was already pretty close to the Pat Buchanan camp.
>>25308169i much prefer his black nationalist books under that nation of islam--sounding pseudonym he had
I am looking for a series that is progression fantasy or adjacent where the main character ends up grappling with the ethics of power and realities of immortality / pseudo-immortality. I don't want any soft-hearted garbage where the author shoves the dick of altruism down my throat like your mom's strap-on, but I also don't want an unhinged psychopath. I want genuinely good writing. I don't care if it's sexually explicit; I'd actually welcome some of that although I'm not looking for straight up porn. I enjoy self-insert power fantasy but as an ancillary, not the main focus. Mainly I WANT A CHARACTER WHO EMBRACES POWER FOR ITS OWN SAKE. Here are some series I have already read in the last few years that are related to one degree or another, I do not necessarily recommend any of them:>Beginning after the End>Grimnoire Chronicles (not bad desu)>Most Bruce Sentar shit>Herald of Shalia>Cradle (beginning great, end cringe)>Millennial Mage (meh, I'll finish it)>Dungeon Crawler Carl (too much of a communist pussy but I'll finish it)>The Wheel of Time (like 4th or 5th reread)>Demon Cycle (first 3 books are great, rest is turboshit)>Heretic Spellblade>The Immortal Great Souls (I'll finish it, not bad desu)>Beware of Chicken>A Thousand LiComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25308600That’s pretty niche. I can only think of vampire stuff
>>25308600I don't read a lot of genre but i'm in the middle of Earthsea and it does discuss power in a way i enjoy, with the obvious jungian shadow concepylt etc. Altough the mc might be too "pacifist" for your taste, but i think in general the concept of power is well explored. You should try it regardless since you sample all that crap, at least Le Guin is a certified good writer in comparison.
>>25308600Are you fine with webnovels and western fiction?
>>25308600Kind of maybe Roger Zelazny. He loves big powerful protagonists who impose their will on the world. Lord of Light, Amber or maybe Creatures of Light and Darkness all come to mind.The Black Company very briefly grapples with this in the later books The protagonist from the thousand li series by tao wong is basically a cultivation sperge\loner.
While I'm glad to see that my schizophrenic incel ideas are becoming mainstream, I'm worried that this in combination with the handful of algorithmic information-bubbles the modern internet now provides is going to result in me developing normie-heuristics and loosen the competitive advantage I used to have from holding obscure and heterodox beliefs, or even the advantages from just from being one of the few people to be "very online." Since chronic-contrarianism is no longer rare enough to beget real-world advantages, I think the best alternative is to find extremely obscure topics that AI will never bring up and that very few others on the planet will know (especially if this knowledge is synthesizable with other fields). My strategy for this so far is to find books written at least before 1970 and go through the bibliography for things that seem interesting. Does /lit/ have any advice for my quest in obscuremaxxing?
>>25306973Used book stores are your friend, but secondhand shops with a bookshelf are your lover.
>>25306973Yeah I know what you mean. Unfortunately I'll be keeping what few ideas and inspirations I have left to myself until I can figure out a way to actually profit from having them 15 years ahead of the curve. Best of luck, I'm afraid.In the meanwhile, please enjoy my low effort shitposts that rarely contribute anything meaningful to the discussion.
>>25306973I’m not glad at all. Normies are too low IQ to understand that shit properly.
>>25306973You must go deeper beyond your current beliefs and dial them up to 999%
>>25306973>Since chronic-contrarianism is no longer rare enough to beget real-world advantagesWhat "advantages" would those be?
There's a real gap in the market for manga adapted into novels. So they are suitable for people over the age of 9. I'd love to read the story of Berserk but i'm not reading a fucking comic book.
>>25307152>paintingEight Bells by Winslow Homer>sculptureThe Riace Bronzes>composition Les Boréades: Entrée de Polymnie>filmMy Darling Clementine>poemSpring Morning by A.A. Milne>treatise The Peloponnesian War>history book The Peloponnesian War
>>25308122Forgot to include my favorite novel, Tropic of Cancer.
>>25308131>Well, I got a flash for you, joy-boy. Party time is over
>>25307505Kill yourself. The anime is much better paced. Removing Wyald, the Bakiraka and that Arab assassin guy while adding to new fortress siege scenes significantly improved the pacing of the Golden age ark.
>>25304518it falls off flat after Schierke is introduced she doesn't fit in at all
Reading Dracula and so far Bam Stroker is just describing way too many things like bitch where is the PLOT?
>>25309257yeah, a faster vampire should have shown up to fight him. failing that, there should have been some critical element to the novel where you learn something instead of think something
>>25309257Yeah man, it should have a scene where the vampire gives a long monologue on his reasoning for becoming like that and wanting to kill him.Boring ass novel.
isn't dracula just a long thing about how eastern europeans are bad unlike brits who are good? seems kinda propaganda slop idk
DIE MONSTER, YOU DON'T BELONG IN THIS WORLD
>>25309257The first few chapters are the best parts. If that filters you, you're illiterate.
Is there any book /lit/ would recommend for a fluent English speaker worried about the degradation of their grammar? I have a lot of grammatical quirks that I do on a daily basis, which I swear were taught to me as correct grammar as a child, but that literally nobody else uses. For example, I'll use a comma to denote possession. E.g. France's ships. The bonobo's hollow. The man's childhood. But I've since learnt that apparently this is just a contraction of "is", e.g. it's being "it is", and that possession lacks the comma, which feels wrong.I also often contract in the plural. For example, "there're a lot of pigs down here" instead of "there's a lot of pigs down here". The latter sounds grammatically wrong, because it's a contraction of singular "is" and not plural "are", but everyone does it even in professional writing for some reason. I just want a refresher on English grammar that doesn't start from baby basics, I guess.
>>25307573>I'll use a comma to denote possession. E.g. France's ships. The bonobo's hollow. The man's childhood. But I've since learnt that apparently this is just a contraction of "is", e.g. it's being "it is", and that possession lacks the comma, which feels wrong.it's called a possessive apostrophe, it's not a contraction when used for possession. whoever taught you otherwise is completely wrong. >there're a lot of pigs down here" instead of "there's a lot of pigs down here". The latter sounds grammatically wrong, because it's a contraction of singular "is" and not plural "are", but everyone does it even in professional writing for some reason. the people who do that are wrong, it's a common mistake. 'there are' is grammatically correct in your example, but 'there're' is not a natural contraction, just say 'there are'.i don't know if you need a grammar book, just read more quality prose. the fact that you didn't know about possessives suggests to me you currently read very little.
>>25307588I hereby declare that it is a natural contraction. There're many people who'd surely agree with me on it's validity
>>25307588No, "there's a lot of pigs down here" is the correct way to write it. The noun that the verb has to agree with is "lot," not "pigs."Also, I don't think "there're" is a contraction that would be used by many native speakers. At least not Americans. It might be used in some obscure dialect, but I certainly have never used it.
Should i read Divine Comedy in prose?I dont like rhymes, it feels like im reading a book from a rapper doing a freestyle.
>>25308139No. Read Longfellow's translation. It doesn't rhyme.
>>25308139>Should i read Divine Comedy in prose?Sure, most verse translations are not all it's cracked up to be.
I've been reading Ciardis and it flows well>sacred justice moved my architect
Charles Norton's prose Divine ComedyDavid West's prose AeneidSamuel Butler's prose Iliad and OdysseyLet the versefags seethe while you enjoy a good story.
