This is a real book.
Thoughts?
>>9587828
I don't judge the gateway drug.
Actual segment from the book.
BRAAAAAAAAAAAAP
Cyberpunks disrupting the cloud via independently sourced free-trade nanotech edition.
Fantasy
Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
Flowchart:
>https://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
Science Fiction
Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/IBs9KE8.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
>https://i.imgur.com/IJxTQBL.jpg
Upcoming releases for the month of June 2017:
http://www.tor.com/2017/05/31/all-the-new-fantasy-books-coming-out-in-june/
http://www.tor.com/2017/06/01/new-science-fiction-books-june-2017/
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/best-science-fiction-fantasy-books-june-2017/
http://io9.gizmodo.com/your-summer-of-reading-begins-with-this-epic-list-of-ju-1795668656
Ghosts in the machine
>>9571588
>>9564901
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>>9548752
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>>9577079
The Magician King>The Magicians< The Magician's Land
Prove me wrong
>anon praised Wolfe fans for taking criticism in a reasonable way
>thread is full of Wolfe fans getting mad over criticism
Top kek, Wolfe is a great writer but his die hard fans are autistic retards.
>>9587147
What are you talking about? We barely talked about Wolfe last thread
>mfw logic and reason make it abundantly clear that the soul is just a fairy tale
>mfw Plato instantly gives way under my foot like so much sand
>mfw the house the West built on top of it collapses with it
>The west
And the east.
Wanna know what else is sand?
>tfw you realize the meaning of life is to be found in a bud light-fueled threeway with some 7s from daytona
feels liberating or something i guess
>>9587242
imagine what their buttholes smell like
must be nice desu
>snarky first-person narrator
>ironic frog post
>>9586730
>green text referring to an above post
Who here /creativelybankrupt/?
I enjoy writing, it's one of my favorite things to do - my main hobby, I love doing it with friends, by myself, formulating ideas, and using flowery language, but these last few weeks I've just been trash.
No matter how hard I try, I never seem to improve. My prose is garbage, it's just plain and dreadfully boring - my writing lacks substance and personalty, as well. It's like reading a manual or encyclopedia, rather than a story. My vocabulary is limited, no matter how often I try to temper it, and everything I write is direct - as in, I have no clever phrases or beautiful language.
I'm articulate, but awful.
How can I improve, /lit/?
>>9586593
Live your life. The best tool a writer has is a mind that works slightly better than most and it can't do shit if YOU don't do shit.
Alternatively live in poverty and writing willl definitely inspire you out that hole.
>>9586699
I agree with dub dub anon. Go wander around the city at night and talk to homeless people, that always gives me inspiration. If you live in a rural area, go camping. Do something that gives you thoughts, that you don't get from your normal routine.
>>9586699
>>9586712
Understood, and thank you.
As for writing itself, as in the technical aspects like prose, word choice, and other such vehicles, how do I go about improving that? Just read, so I get more acclimated to writing in an entertaining manner? Do I keep a thesaurus ready?
I want to become more articulate, but less dry in writing.
Where do you buy your books?
Estate sales, Used bookstores, Amazon
East Village Book Store on St. Marks and 1st Avenue.
Greatest book store in the world as far as I'm concerned.
Amazon, Wordery, Book Depository
I find Amazons marketplace to be the best place.
Why is the Bible rated so high?
>>9586464
Posting these top 100's should be bannable.
>>9586464
It's an important and interesting book(s) with history, poetry, wisdom and stories that have been told and re-told in various forms in almost all countries. It is the cornerstone of almost all of ideas held in "the west" and beyond. Pretty much any book written between AD 500 and 1960 assumes knowledge of its contents.
>>9586464
How is the stranger #13 and way ahead of plato, tolstoy, joyce and shakespeare.
This shit triggers me everytime
I know this board hates poetry but it's time for you guys to get some semblance of patricianhood beat into you. Join us as we go through the major works - poems, maybe a couple of the famous essays - of TS Eliot. We'll cover all the basics like Meester Prufrock, The Desolate Land, and Some Quartets and some more in between as we/you see fit.
Recommended you have some basic familiarity with poetry up to the early 20th century, including Shakespeare, Dante, basic idea of the Romantics so you know what he's reacting against, basic idea of Classicism and the Metaphysics so you know what he admired, etc. Though this is by no means necessary.
https://discord.gg/S4TfHkH
Don't be a Redditor. Take the Eliotpill today.
>>9586134
Bump.
>>9586134
How come every goddamn time I enter discord no one's in the room.
>>9586134
Eliot's was a crypto-romantic.
Whoa.....
Sheeeeit.
>>9585736
Kill yourself
>>9585736
I actually like this one. Calling it women of colour is pretty tumblr, but it's not bad
can someone please explain how the special theory of relativity clashes with kant's use of time as a form of human cognition? why wouldn't kant be able to say that the theory is a description like any other, in which our sense of time is implicit?
>inb4 muh op is a retard
im cool woth being dumb. just help me out if you think you can.
pic related is an iphone background mnemonic i made - can post the rest of the series if anyone wants
>>9585361
bump & do post the series please
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>>9585387
How does one reconcile the OT with the NT? How do Christians view/use the OT in their theology? I think all of the philosophizing Paul did in Romans went over my head desu.
fuck your thread, how are the two options blue/black or white/gold? it's clearly blue/gold
>>9584892
Well, I haven't read either but I've heard there are a few reconciliations, or at least relations between the two
Like the amount of days Jesus was dead (or out alone fasting) matching the amount of days Jonah was trapped in a whale. These similarities and others serving as callbacks, and utilizing special numbers I guess, that are often repeated through either book.
I mean to read both, but I found myself going through the first pages of genesis very slowly, as the book I was reading had tons of notes on each verse, a lot of info to take in.
>>9584892
>not subjecting the entire book to anthropological and esoteric interpretation
Write your view on suicide
If you're actually capable of carrying it out, you're capable of living.
>>9582925
you should do it
>>9582962
I know you should, but what about me?
Rate my haul /leet/
upsidedown/10
but actually, are you just getting into philosophy or something? I read mediations when I was -2 years old.
>>9582690
5/10
1337/10 eksde
How's your reading challenge going?
Share and compare.
>>9582677
pretty slow this year desu
>>9582704
To be fair, youre books have a lot more pages than mine. I've been cheating with lots of short books.
Also, >reading anti-Clinton books
You won, get over it.
A few weeks of slacking, but doing pretty good overall.
bewbs
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>>9582205
klimt knew what he was doing