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If heads need to roll to stop it, so be it.

You stay away from those cursed books kid

I think it can be used appropriately, especially in dialogue since it can serve as characterization. I feel edgy when I use it narrating though

>>9632114
There's a very short introduction on consciousness although I haven't read it.

>>9632114

Julian Jaynes - The Origins of Consciousness.

Great attempt to describe what consciousness is. Eccentric and weird attempt to describe its origins. It's a shame that Jaynes never lived long enough to develop his own theory of the mind.

>>9632143
Thanks for the recommendation. I believe I've heard of this before. Doesn't the author claim that ancient man didn't understand where thoughts came from and believed that he heard the voice of the gods in his mind?

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Damn fine writer too

>>9631918
What would you recommend to read first?

>>9631944
>>9631918
monitoring for this.

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>>9631844
I know that you're probably just baiting but this is how I honestly feel. How could people who were living in completely different societies write stuff that still has meaning in the modern world?
Maybe anime is superior after all desu

>>9631854
are you serious? because i don't believe you are

anyway, no one is forcing you or OP to read anything...

>>9631866
I am reading, but mostly stuff that /lit/ considers "YA"

>>9631754
thats dustin hoffman

Modiano. Had never heard about him before, but turns out it's one of dad's favorite so I ended up borrowing a few books from him. Truly an excellent writer that I might had never heard of if he hadn't won the nobel prize

>needs help to enter step 1 of literature

kill yourself

open the books fucknigga

>>9631464
DONT READ THE FUCKING PLAYS

THEY ARE MEANT TO BE PERFORMED.

READ AND THEN WATCH.

DO NOT JUST READ.

How does everyone organize their booklists? With Word? Excel? Notepad?

just use goodreads

>>9631715
Fuck Goodreads. I'm not using that shit so somebody can datamine my shit. I just want a simple offline tool.

This is the first sffg thread I will answer sincerely and not reply "genre shit, take it to sffg".

I've read around 700 books in literature and still consider Dragonlance one of the most fun and exciting among them. It's derivative, sure, but the character dynamics and sense of adventure still summon affection from me.

bumping for attention to distract myself from everything

comfy and enjoyable series, op

>>9631376
>Plato

None

Maybe try some of Socrates' writings?

Might have been fun to read but now you've told us your plot you're never going to write it. Do you even know how you'd write it, scene by scene? What are your characters like? Do you have a sense of prose? Have you ever written anything before?

>>9631370
How about instead of writing this garbage you use that type to start with the Greeks so you're not as much of a pseud redditor faggot.
Your idea screams like something the loud insufferable pseud retard in a community college Phil course would love. I'd suggest suicide if you had the depth of thought to be capable of it.

>>9631370
I can sympathize, because I also had these edgy ideas about putting God into some work when I was young and stupid. They were all bad ideas. So is this one. Also, Interstellar was vapid nonsense, and I cringe to think that's now what the general public thinks science fiction is supposed to be like.

>Society breaks down and goes into chaos, and the scientists realize they have to develop this supercomputer, and using it, go back in time, trying to rewrite history so that the world doesn't end in disaster in their own time.

Honestly, this sounds like the most interesting aspect of it. My advice would be to cut away some of your ambition, and reduce the ideas to its bare bones. So say you take this concept, and then narrow it down to one era you want to focus on, or one event. You ought to realize it's been done before. I read a collection of short stories from 1969 a while ago, and two of them dealt with this theme. One presented the idea that Shakespeare got his work from a time traveller attempting to verify whether his ideas were actually his, the other a time traveller impregnating an early homonid in order to spread his own genes across all of human history. The latter was quite well written, too. Oh, and then there's stuff like Hard to be a God, from the same general time, which deals with a communist agent observing -but forbidding from interfering with- a semi-historical society.

You can see, that one idea already presents a world of possibility. The entire pre-amble God as a supercomputer is not needed.

>>9630956
his eyes seem reversed.

>>9630965
They look far more laboured over than the rest of his face. I think that's what makes the portrait so unsettling.

Satan was an angel, so...

>>9630915

Not at all. If you're interested in all this you have to start with Kant, Hegel, and Marx, then Freud and Nietzsche. From there all 20th century is your oyster. You'll miss some Greek refs but you pick that up pretty quickly.

>>9630951
>If you're interested in all this you have to start with Kant, Hegel, and Marx, then Freud and Nietzsche
why are those necessary?

>>9630962
you'll soon understand

>>9630806
Can't speak to the others, but the argument in Looking for Alaska is that romantic and/or emotional intimacy is better and/or more important than sex. Green describes sex as awkward and cuddling as the tightest shit ever because that's a reflection of his personal beliefs on the subject.

Basically, the madonna/whore complex, but without a desirable whore.

Decent reply, seeing as the rest of /lit would just say hes a cuck and move on. Thanks!

>>9630854
why isn't there a word for and/or

>watching youtube videos of a retarded monkey

>>9630782
>retarded monkeys
They have operated a spaceship into space and made it back home...

>>9630786
you must be a retarded human

>He lived his ideals to the fullest and expressed no regrets or resentment.
That's just it: you can do all that and still be a naive edgy kid. I haven't read the book but come on.

>>9630755
>lived his ideals and...
That's why people think hes a naive and edgy child

He went into the wilderness without even having a map. Hubris!

Even savage peoples do not wander blindly into unexplored territory.