He fucking sucks as a writer. Sure, he has balls and makes some interesting points, but on a purely artistic level, his writing is trash. He has no sense of rhythm or musicality, no ability to construct a character that isn't an obvious self-insert, and no ability to imagine a compelling story. He constantly name drops classic writers and philosophers, as if he could even dream of being on the same level as them, and you retards lap it up, thinking that these vapid references mean that he's actually profound. His popularity is wholly just a result of a marketing scheme. You just like him because of his persona of being the "edgy, unhinged, politically incorrect" writer. If you just think he's an interesting person, fine. But if you actually think he's a good writer and "the greatest new artist of the 21th century", you are a literal sheep.
>>24813796Maybe the english translations suck? The swedish ones are pretty good so far. You've decided that characters and "compelling story" (whatever that means) are your criteria. As usual when someone makes grand bombastic claims they inadvertently torpedo half the canon. Dante sucks because he's done a self-insert and constantly references other writers and philosophers right? Oopsie. Well I guess you retreat to the bailey of "but the rhythm and musicality!". Whatever. Literary fiction as a genre is beset by self-inserts at that. Half the nobel prizes go to some twat writing about a writer or their own relationship issues, or other starving artist tripe. >oh but that's a new--Fuck you. Gorkij's My Universities, Hamsun's Hunger, Dosto's Notes from the House of the Dead/Underground, Turgenev's First Love. Do you even read?
>>24814095i posit to you that the swedish translators improved the texts out of pity
>>24814095>Oopsie>Whatever.Why do you write like a faggot?
>>24814011agree. the humour is slathered on thick but dark and easy to pass over if you don’t have the eye for it.
He was always regarded as somewhat styleless, wtf are you on about. Expecting an actual Huysmans? Do you also think Balzac was a good "Writer"?Compare with the average Goncourt and come back.>>24813802you can't know much about french literature, or poetry
>killed himself because people were making fun of Russel Brandlollmao even
Vampires? In my castle? It's more likely than you think!
We're finally living in a Post-How-to-Win-Friends world
>>24809944I molested a bug for 2 hours but nothing happened
>>24809778All of you here, can't think for yourself.None of you deserve oxygen.
>>24811099>reading comprehension fail.
>>24809978Not the guy who posted but Jews, Gypsies, Ukrainians, etc., are all objects of derision in parts of Europe. It's just New Worlders & Arabs who have obsessed over Jews specifically.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Ukrainian_sentiment
>>24811079Its not that serious. The overwhelming commonality here is people thinking too highly of themselves. Whether here, reddit, x. The internet has a way of making people feel like they're tortured geniuses instead of simply weirdos
how do you guys actually set time aside for reading? I bought a heap of books and I want to get through them, I enjoy reading them but for some reason I'm always busy with other stuff. It's hard for me to actually sit down with a book in one hand because I feel like I'm wasting time just looking at a page. What are your reading rituals? When do you read? Lunch breaks? After work? Weekends?pic unrelated
>>24813813I don't actually read them. I upload the books to GPT and have it create an abridgement of the book. Then have GPT read it aloud, then try to find a YouTube review of the book, last resort would be to try and find a Spotify podcast episode about it.
>>24813831>he doesn't use the summaries to prompt image models to make comic 2-4 panel comics of the entire work in one imageamateur
>>24813813I'm a NEET.I just read whenever I want to. I was never a scroller or phonefag, so teaching myself to read more was only a matter of quitting other habits like gaming. I just turn my monitor off, sit down on the rocking chair (that I got from my grandparents) in my reading nook, and read. No distractions. It's only a matter of forcing yourself when you're just starting out. After only a week or so it became second nature and I've read for at least 2 hours a day for over 4 years now. I'm a later starter too. I started when I was 25 and never really read a book before that.
>>24813813read before going to sleep instead of using phone
>>24813813You should be ashamed to even have such a butt ugly, unfunny, and disgusting image saved to your PC
'zilian hereRate my edition of Mrs. Dalloway
>>24813537I like Polish book covers.
>>24813508Can you post a sentence from the translation? I could not imagine reading someone like her or Joyce in a different language
>>24813508wish I'd bought that, but I own the Penguin editionautêntica's versions of her books are the best
>>24813570Is this the translation of the Kreutzer Sonata?
>>24814056No, Family Happiness
>"I think you can be enlightened and still hate people"Describes the mindset of 90% of Christians, Buddhists and Humanists on this board
>>24810353Jesus never promised it was an Easy Mode religion. Yeah, it's fucking hard to love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
>>24813900Almost like it’s a man made cult created by Jews to destabilize and weaken the Roman Empire after their failed revolt and revenge for the destruction of the temple that led to the dark ages and the collapse of civilization
>>24813900it's amazing how many protestants gloss over this undeniable aspect of the faith
>>24813902If it were a man-made religion it would be easier to follow.
>>24813899Duly noted
what are so good books to get an overview of history if I know literally nothing about it? (homeschooled by my mom who doesn't believe in history)
>>24811530based mom
You are not missing out on public school my man. Failed experiment. Only works in a homogeneous society.I don't know fuck all about world history and can not refer any books to you and I went to school.
>>24812157>assuming you are white of coursehe is indian
>>24812157>read plato before you read historyisn’t that just the same as being homeschooled by your mom who doesn’t believe in history?
Get Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts
The novelist, of course, not the prime minister.
Redpill me on Novalis...Where do I start with him?
>>24812931Ahem, thoughts are sings too, bucko.
>>24812644We make ourselves ever smallerSo that the creature can grow taller
>>24810744Novalis actual body of work is relatively small, the novels and poems are easy to get through and desu his essays and philosophy are rather average. He was a royalist and idealized aristocrats beyond a rational measure.
>>24810744Why is Novalis so underrated?
>>24813828His slimmed down Angloized Iliad insults
Is time a fundamental aspect of the universe, or is it an illusion created by consciousness?
>>24811909Chronos and kairos.
It is both. Time, when pictured as a one-dimensional line, has a beginning point and an end point. The beginning point is the beginning of all nature. The end point is the present. The line of time is whole with a beginning, middle, and end. The critical point of time is the end-point (the present moment). This is like a skin-layer by which the future interfaces with the past through the present. The past is the internal workings of the universal organism; the present is its skin; and the future is outside of the organism. The future feeds the universal organism through ports on its skin - consciousnesses, and this is similar to how a cell has ports on its membrane that allow nourishment to flow in and excretions to flow out. Everything that is felt, touched, seen, smelled, etc, happens on the skin of the universal organism, and all of the various middle-points, or points in the past, intersect with each other and are united with each other. The workings of the past are not stationary or fixed or unchanging. They are always changing and working as the past is fed by the future through the present. This working of the past, as a kind of metabolism, is what creates the illusion of time passing, but time as a whole is fundamental to this organism because it is how this organism is fed and excretes toxins into the future.
Since it’s the same thing as space, I would assume materialism
Time exists so that cause and effect can give us the sensation of experience. >5 M's
>>24811909probably one, but you should usually treat it like the other.
How did "The Rainbow" win a Nobel Prize? It's full of "OMG I GET THAT REFERENCE" for Japanese people pointing with open mouths at random things like kimonos and mountains.
>>24813269novels don't win nobel prizes, writers do.
>>24813301While true, it still advertises their books.
>>24813273>I mean
>>24813583Key word is books and not book.
"Snow country" was the determning one not "the rainbow". My favorite is "thousand cranes".
I'm tired of doomer content. Which philosopher is the most anti-doomer?
>>24809347But Hegel doesn't.
Hubbard.
Camus
>>24809254>startAnd end with them.
>>24808068Nietzsche, Stirner, Epicurus
I understand sci fi poetry is a rather niche appeal. Here’s my first attempt:If there are an infinite number of natural numbers, and an infinite number of fractions in between any two natural numbers, and an infinite number of fractions in between any two of those fractions, and an infinite number of fractions in between any two of those fractions, and an infinite number of fractions in between any two of those fractions, and... then that must mean that there are not only infinite infinities, but an infinite number of those infinities. and an infinite number of those infinities. and an infinite number of those infinities. and an infinite number of those infinities, and... (infinitely times. and that infinitely times. and that infinitely times. and that infinitely times. and that infinitely times. and...) continues forever. and that continues forever. and that continues forever. and that continues forever. and that continues forever. and.....(…)…
>>24810803cool if you're ten. but joking aside, you can do better than that anon. infinity is an interesting concept, but there are better ways to convey the breadth of subject matter contingent on it. making a faux infinite-repetition ("... and THAT, but infinity times!") isn't really clever.
>>24812894What about it being the consequence of there being infinite natural numbers?
How is the young adult novel scene now in 2025?
>>24811787Didn't it go full woke?I remember someone getting canceled (like, literally, the novel was canceled) for writing black characters while not being black herself. The author made an apology letter and kow towed. Someone "graded" her apology letter (for example when she wrote "I'm sorry for causing grief" was corrected by the grader as "I'm sorry for being ignorant and for causing righteous grief by my stupid acts". And the grader was praised for her act of charity and for her warmth showed to the canceled author.
>>24813296>YA novels are for teens (14-18 years of age).>14-18>childrenAmerifats..
>>24813318>Didn't it go full woke?Woke means whatever you dislike so, i guess.
>>24813666Well, would you say the case I mentioned is not woke?
>>24813688I'd call it retarded and I'd never apologize for writing whatever I want to write.
What will you do when you've forgotten everything you've worked so hard to learn from the literature you've read?
>>24813612>is so wrapped up in abominable and inutile philosophies that he can hardly function, let alone see the stench he exudeswhat a wretched state this must be
stop replying to the troll thread
>>24813645just because i am in control of this thread and you can't do shit about it doesn't make it a 'troll thread'. it's just a 'fuck off, pissant' thread, and you're the pissant.
you're not the number 1 guy on the board. you'll never be number 1 guy on the board. you'll always just be my imitator. i love you, i hate you, i curse you to eternal imitation of what you love but hate because you can never have
>>24813692>he wants to be king of shit castleby all means take the crown, my liege.
