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The one that finishes books properly.

>>10004531

>At first, I thought Game of Thrones was going to be shit just like Wheel of Time

King certainly knows how to banter

King is superior if only because people rate him pretty fairly. I don't think *anyone*, even people completely lacking in self-awareness, claims that he writes masterpieces or that he's an uber-genius.

It's because of that sober opinion of him that I think people will take King seriously in the distant future, whereas GRRM will just be a small footnote in textbooks about LotR and its influences and about HBO.

>be kelmomas
>be the worst character 4 books running
>have the most unbearable PoVs
>end the world, get everyone killed

Really fitting, when you think about it.

>>10004487

which Bakker book has the most/most graphic gay sex? Does it just gradually increase with each book chronologically, or does it spike in specific books?

>>10004503
It spikes

TTT has probably the most of it in the original trilogy, then either TGO or TUC in the second one.

Answer me, you fucking assholes..

>>10004469
Why not both?

She was a sublime metaphysical poet, of course she wasn't an atheist or agnostic.

easy on the carrots

>>10004442
a scroll, just bust that shit out on the train and loudly exclaim your immediate reactions to the text

>>10004442
Anything on the /lit/ wiki

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>>10004421

>>10004423
Prince of Thorns

>>10004267
More of that delicious prose anon

my diarrhea desu

I recently bought one of those $50 kindle fires and am mostly pleased. But having never used a kindle or e-reader I'm a little let down by the text to speech function not picking up where I left off or continuing to read when I want to click out for a minute and even making me reload the file after I've close it to do something else sometimes. Pretty gay imo. But maybe they make it more difficult for people like me who don't actually buy audiobooks and just want to load their own pdfs. I don't know. Anyone else have one of these things? Seems like a steal for $50.

The Recognitions

>>10004261
>vaporwave nostalgia shot
>obviously false text of someone TALKING JUST LIKE ME AND MY DIRTBAG FRIENDS IN THE TWITTER GROUP DM

what anime is that though?

>>10004261
there was a lot of that in Kathe Koja's "Skin".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0IVvxrmI44

>>10004235
I e never seen any of the Shrek movies but based off of that clip are you suggesting that I should make him a bit of a dofus?

I do actually kind of like that idea. I just realized that you guys probably get questions like this occasionally, forgive me for not following protocol and if I posted this in the wrong place.

>>10004230
>How does I make him lovable?


you can't. Thieves place their welfare ahead of yours. they are inherently assholes. not even Jack Vance could make Cugel loveable.

>>10004210
The Leftovers.

>>10004210

I'm dreading the new adaptation, I just don't think it will be as good as the 80s series.

I'm going with Satantango

>finna
why do people say this? where did it even originate from? fine? find?

>>10004144
i think it's short hand for "fit'n to" and op is a confused fag who doesn't know shit

Harry Potter

Tundra

>>10004119
can you be 100% sincere to me and tell me, as one person to another, if that is worth reading or not?

>>10004110
Stoner.

no exit by sartre

ive never seen it, only read it, but its probably the only thing i would actively want to see. maybe some of beckett's work too, i guess.

Anything by Ionesco.

The Greeks

>>10003981
me

>>10003981
Anyone who can write what I can't

Also a lot of quality poetry. One of my favorites by Al-Maari a blind irreligious poet, who was also a vegan:

>You are diseased in understanding and religion. Come to me, that you may hear something of sound truth.

>Do not unjustly eat fish the water has given up, And do not desire as food the flesh of slaughtered animals, Or the white milk of mothers who intended its pure draught for their young, not noble ladies.

>And do not grieve the unsuspecting birds by taking eggs; for injustice is the worst of crimes.

>And spare the honey which the bees get industriously from the flowers of fragrant plants; For they did not store it that it might belong to others, Nor did they gather it for bounty and gifts.

>I washed my hands of all this; and wish that I Perceived my way before my hair went gray!

A African Muslim Philosopher Al-Jahiz in Risalat mufakharat al-sudan 'ala al-bidan (Treatise on Blacks)

> Everybody agrees that there is no people on earth in whom generosity is as universally well developed as the Zanj. These people have a natural talent for dancing to the rhythm of the tambourine, without needing to learn it. There are no better singers anywhere in the world, no people more polished and eloquent, and no people less given to insulting language. No other nation can surpass them in bodily strength and physical toughness. One of them will lift huge blocks and carry heavy loads that would be beyond the strength of most Bedouins or members of other races. They are courageous, energetic, and generous, which are the virtues of nobility, and also good-tempered and with little propensity to evil. They are always cheerful, smiling, and devoid of malice, which is a sign of noble character.

> The Zanj say that God did not make them black in order to disfigure them; rather it is their environment that made them so. The best evidence of this is that there are black tribes among the Arabs, such as the Banu Sulaim bin Mansur, and that all the peoples settled in the Harra, besides the Banu Sulaim are black. These tribes take slaves from among the Ashban to mind their flocks and for irrigation work, manual labor, and domestic service, and their wives from among the Byzantines; and yet it takes less than three generations for the Harra to give them all the complexion of the Banu Sulaim. This Harra is such that the gazelles, ostriches, insects, wolves, foxes, sheep, asses, horses and birds that live there are all black. White and black are the results of environment, the natural properties of water and soil, distance from the sun, and intensity of heat. There is no question of metamorphosis, or of punishment, disfigurement or favor meted out by Allah. Besides, the land of the Banu Sulaim has much in common with the land of the Turks, where the camels, beasts of burden, and everything belonging to these people is similar in appearance: everything of theirs has a Turkish look.[11]

I rember liking al-Ghazli in school. We only read Rescuer from Error.

>>10003899
Bonhoeffer's The Cost of Discipleship for Protestants
Chesterton's Orthodoxy for Catholics
Both are entirely worth reading whatever your persuasion, or non-persuasion.

On the Christian Doctrine by St. Augustine and How to Think about God by Mortimer J. Adler.

>>10003960
There isn't nearly enough love for Bonhoeffer on /lit/ or in general