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/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General 2017-06-26 11:35:12 Post No.9682557
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Dragonlance Edition
Fantasy
Selected:
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General:
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Flowchart:
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Science Fiction
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NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
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Blood Meridian is the best fantasy novel ever written.
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Can I get a quick rundown on American Gods?
Is it good, bad? What?
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>>9682564
It's not fantasy. It's good though
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Latro in the Mist exhaustive commentary 2017-06-26 08:01:23 Post No.9682307
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Latro in the Mist exhaustive commentary
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Here is the full Latro write up. I handled this like the short story entries, with a full gloss, which might make for some long/dull sections, but it strives to be a full concordance for references and allusions. Ideally this would have been an annotated version of the novel, but as it is a long summary/gloss section was, in my opinion, necessary. If anyone reads it and catches some typos, please let me know, as I have gone over this one way too many times, especially the first 75 percent of it.
https://pastebin.com/E9dMK5Uv
ps - anyone who says Wolfe is not serious literature or start with the Greeks should read this book and this essay ...
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Aramini — I am glad you are here. I haven't seen your posts in a long while. Sincerely, a follower in youthful admiration of the devotion.
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>>9682346
Thanks - been really busy writing, amongst other things. I appreciate it.
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>>9682355
If you're the real deal Aramini prove it. Record yourself doing 5 one handed push ups and upload in WebM form.
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>favorite novel
>favorite short story
>favorite food
>favorite drink
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Cat's Cradle
Araby
Chicken wings
Pepsi
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>Mason & Dixon by Pynchon
>The Veldt by Bradbury
>angel hair pasta with spicy marinera sauce
>lemonade
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>>9680961
picture unrelated
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anyone else here a hamalton fan
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I hate Americans and musicals
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>>9679736
I hope you realize that Hamilton is propaganda and you're being brainwashed.
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If you've ever visited a used bookstore and been enticed by the way a book looks/blurb reads, bought it on a whim then found it to be great, post about it here.
Extra points for peculiarity.
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Bought this book on a whim because I liked the cover and title. Was a very interesting read, overall a great introduction to the history and many uses of mushrooms in general
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>>9677341
Never done that because Google exists. I Google everything and buy it according to what other people say. How the fuck did humans survive without Google?
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>>9677394
Not even a regular bookstore/library?
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>Co-workers are talking about books
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Well, what books are they talking about?
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>coworkers are talking
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>>9675711
I don't know, I was off steaming hams in another room and got distracted by the aurora borealis.
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What are you writing? /Critique thread/ 2017-06-24 12:17:49 Post No.9675017
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What are you writing? /Critique thread/
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No critique thread anywhere. Post your drafts, story ideas, whatever, anything goes and other anons rate.
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http://www.fluland.com/2017/06/23/red-shift-ryan-silva/
Already had it published, but been workshopping here in bits and pieces over the past month.
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Doubt is the grindstone to the sword of reason.
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I met the owner of a publishing company last night. We talked for a while and he seemed sincerely curious about what my writing. He asked me "what are you writing at the moment?" and fucking somehow I ended up sperging out and basically listing statistics about refugee crime in Sweden and Germany until he said he had to leave. I'm so fucking retarded. Please kill me.
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New Nick Land essay on Jacobin - #3 2017-06-23 07:24:32 Post No.9670089
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New Nick Land essay on Jacobin - #3
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Titled " Modernity’s Fertility Problem." It's less formal than his previous pieces and is the first time I've seen him tackle the queer issue.
http://jacobitemag.com/2017/06/20/modernitys-fertility-problem/
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He tackled your posting?
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Jacobin and Jacobite are very different magazines.
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>>9670089
First sentence
>The techno-commercial wing of the neoreactionary blogosphere has an obvious fondness for Pacific Rim city states.
Can anyone extrapolate something useful off this sentence or is it just scribbling?
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Alright here we go
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kys
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Looking for lit that has a "visionary quality": feverish discursions, Pythia on the fumes. Thinking along the lines of Rimbaud or Henry Miller. Any suggestions?
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>mentions smutty hack Miller in the same breath as Rimbaud
kys
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All elude me at this moment, will suggest later
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'm looking for some interesting mid-brow books. Something with a genre spin to it and colorful prose but also with some food for thought. Examples of those I have read would be Book of the New Sun, Invisible Cities, Ficciones, Blood Meridian or Gravity's Rainbow.
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>Gravity's Rainbow
>Invisible Cities
>Middle brow
Are you out of tour mind?
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>>9692313
Damn, I didn't know the term has a negative connotation. In my language it's equivalent isn't really percieved like that. It just means something that's both pop/genre but also high-brow.
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>>9692308
HG Wells, Edgar Allen Poe, John le Carre, Dashiell Hammett, Frank Herbert, Philip K Dick.
Literary equivalent to this?
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>>9692301
The better question is; what's the literary equivalent to this album?
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>>9692309
that is shit
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>>9692314
pleb
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Just found out my library has a book for teenagers on how to be autistic.
Thoughts?
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does it come with a chapter on how to post pictures to an imageboard in such a way tht others don't have to crane their necks?
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Frig off back to >>>/pol/ you racist misogynist nerd loser.
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This isn't a girl board.
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>Young monks and nuns uphold Ten Precepts, whereas laypeople are only advised to do The Five Precepts.
>1. Refrain from killing living
>2. Refrain from
>3. Refrain from unchastity (sensuality, sexuality, lust).
>4. Refrain from incorrect speech.
>5. Refrain from taking intoxicants.
>6. Refrain from taking food at inappropriate times (after noon).
> 7. Refrain from singing, dancing, playing music or attending entertainment programs (performances).
> 8. Refrain from wearing perfume, cosmetics and garlands (decorative accessories).
> 9. Refrain from sitting on high chairs and sleeping on luxurious, soft beds.
> 10. Refrain from accepting money.
Would you last a day as a Buddhist novice /lit/?
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Hahahahahah might as well have just put 'refrain' there fucking life-denying autism.
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I can understand refrain from vice; but fucking singing? You can't play music either?
Fuck those secular hinduists
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AND look how well things have turned out for the fucking budhists!
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According to this you're all most likely middle class folk. Reading's supposed to mean you're smart. Explain.
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>>9691645
Reading != smart != rich
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>>9691645
What if I have multiple pastimes?
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>>9691645
Reading is generally low cost due to public libraries and torrenting, so it's accessible to more people than golfing or tennis.
Also not all books were created equal. Some will be educational and useful and some are pleb tier trash.