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>>9467792
Longreads and Gutenberg

>>9467808
>ask for short fiction
>get recommended longform nonfiction

thanks though, it looks kinda cool. i'll keep it bookmarked.

already know about gutenberg

>>9467822
Short fiction online tends to be fan fics

http://ebook.bike/

is pretty good sometimes for self submitted novellas

that looks fucking awful, but what i've learned from pirating a billion self-help books is that you can't judge them from the title, some with cingey titles are amazing, and some with titles descent enough that you could read in public are total shit, so tell us any good take aways you got from it?

i heard a podcast called "overcoming nice guy syndrome" that was really good, maybe the author was one of those dudes? it sounds like it's going to tell you to be an asshole pseudo-chad, but it really was just like "don't be guilty for pursuing what you want" and basically helped dudes become unspooked by feminism, without explicitly stating that, very tasteful

>>9467786
It's less that they arn't useful, and more if you interested in the first place you're fucked. You either do philosophy, or you refuse philosophy and seek out ways of tricking yourself and/or others.

>>9467809
>thinking philosophy is going to help you in any way

wew lad

Not cool Byron lad

The original fookin legend

>>9467771
>After the party, all involved engaged in sodomy and free verse, after which political discussion was engaged in, and three duels fought. A fine time was had by all.

I liked Fair game by Steve Cannane more but Going Clear is more thorough.

>>9467844
Thanks my elucidated anon friend.

What a wonderful coincidence! I'm about to start reading this as well.

>>9467714
Neither, it regards them both with indifference.

>>9467714
Way to miss the point senpai

It's about trying to ascribe meaning (motives for meursault's crime) where there isn't any.

You completely misread the book.

>>9467661
Are you fucking serious

Kafka: The Metamorphosis. Stear clear of apples and bugs

I've read about four stories in Lost in the Funhouse. Shit is beyond irritating to read, I really dislike Barth's voice.

>>9467492
I've read The Goat Boy. I quite enjoyed it, though I did think Barth was a little heavy handed with university-cum-universe symbolism, I bet in another 300 pages you'll be sick of the same old puns. That was really my only qualm with it.

Overall it's actually what you should expect from Barth: pithy, witty, indulgent, precise, virtuositic command of language.

If you finish it and enjoyed it I would definitely recommend reading his first three books, especially The Sot-Weed Factor which is tied with Ada for my favourite novel, ever.

Barth is trash, and I don't say that to be contrarian

>>9467389

>It's another 'I'm going to to rewrite the Wake!" attempt
>We didn't learn our lesson with Schmidt

>Vernall's Inquest never happened
>Michael never had to kill anyone

Is this Jerusalem? Fuck dude i was just about to start that book too. Is there a guide for this shit online or something?

Few books are worth $50. Just go on bookzz or get the PDF legit if you want for $10 from his Patreon.

>>9467366
ah, didn't know about the patreon deal. Have you read it personally?

>>9467366
pretty sure you can get it for free on his website

They represent large leaps towards the Apocalypse.

because that's when the jews finally managed to smash christianity and open a path to ruling class

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-9pDZMRCpQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHp7sMqPL0g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdZYyY7g8g4

Put it down, come back to it when you have grown older and wiser (read: more patrician, less plebiscite)

Just roll with it. All he does is get rid of punctuation.

Its a shit book by a shit author.

DUDE violence!
DUDE regeneration through violence!
DUDE no punctuation as a literary and stylistic device!

>>9466996
he looks really smart

>>9466998
I had the same thought.

I'm ReALLY intrigued to know his brilliant ideas.

>>9466996
He's definitely great but James Baldwin is the greatest!

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Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

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Reposting from the last thread:

Other than Sabriel and its rather unusual take on necromancy, what are some fantasy works that feature a necromancer as the protagonist? Not strictly in the way that Sabriel worked, mind you.

>>9464850

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Warhammer is far more focused on action stuff, than the actual way magic works and such?

>>9466941

There literally isn't one
Not anything decent at least

The driver of the levibus explained to the passengers that he needed to take care of something, and left. The passengers waited for about 15 minutes when the driver finally arrived to the levibus, but with another person, a travel officer. The driver spoke, “Everyone, my coworker here has an important shift to fill at the Station, so someone needs to leave. A lucky volunteer will receive a generous compensation of 200 credits for doing so!”
No one raised their hand. Then, the travel officer said, with a friendly smile on his face, “No one? Alright then, looks like it’s time for the Randomizer!” He held his iPhone in his hand and selected the special app reserved for the members of the travel agencies, for situations like this. He showed the screen to everyone in the automobile as it scanned all in the officer’s vicinity. It then selected a person almost as an old casino machine would.
“Consumer-11673B?”
73B stood up from his seat with a confused look on his face.
With a cheerful smile on his face, the officer explained, “Sir, I am going to need you to exit the vehicle immediately.”
Shocked and bewildered by what had been decided, 73B made his way to the entrance of the levibus. As he stepped off, the officer kicked him, resulting in 73B landing flat on his face. He skidded for some time on the wet pavement and let out a small groan. He then looked at the officer from the ground, only to be greeted with a sympathetic frown from the man in the levibus.
“Sir, I offer you my deepest apology for this inconvenience. Here is a compensatory sum for this unfortunate turn of events.”
The officer threw the credits at 73B while he lay bloodied, bruised, and baffled on the ground. He picked up the sum of money and counted it.
199 credits.
73B sighed and looked towards the levibus as it sped away, and read the motto on the back of it:

DRIVE THE FRIENDLY ROADS

Boring.

Honestly bad. Save this draft, though-- it'll be important for comparison purposes in the future.
My guess is that you've recently read _1984_, _451_, and/or _Brave New World_. All of these are relatively short compared to the most recognizable works of other genres.
Your world-building needs to be dressed with imagery. As the writer, the names of the symbols ("levibus," "credit", alphanum given names) are the most important signals to understand the environment. However, in human thought, even the most language-capable of us are more interested in the observational and emotional effects of these symbols.
For that matter, even the names of the symbols reveal a distracting adherence to genre and subculture.

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>inb4 You don't
>inb4 With the Greeks

Kindly move on.

>>9466845
Youtube has a lot of his lectures on one particular channel, on matters of Buddhism, Zen, Christianity, Taoism, and random other subjects. He has a good talk about G.K. Chesterton.

Listen to the lectures of his that are on youtube, then decide if he is interesting enough to read