>Imagine a person stepping on a bug and killing it without even realizing it/doesn't really care
>Now imagine humanity/earth is that bug and the person is some kinda evil god demon type thing
Are there any books that are similar to this mood?
>>9231019
Lovecraft
>No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us...
>>9231019
How does everyone feel about 1Q84?
Never read it.
No intention of reading it.
I'm guessing it's shit.
IQ170 here. Don't read it. Trust me.
I'm reading it now. I nearly end the first book. It is very comfy
So now that the dust has settled, what does /lit/ think of 2016 in books?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/2016/books
>>9230923
The Very Hungry Caterpillar looks pretty good
>>9230923
my wife likes #20
my 2 year old son likes #26
that's about it from that list...
So, did the Brotherhood exist?
>>9230892
Yes, in that they are a group of secret spies seeking out those that would join them so they may then be rehabilitated
nothing exists, baby. nothing.
also, they were all robots but they didn't know it.
>>9230892
Who gives a shit, keep it in the sci fi general pleb
How can you be honest? Is such a thing as sincerity in fiction even possible? What the fuck can you do? How can you write the truth?
be naked. make the irony of your "truth" part of your voice.
>>9230858
But how?? Who can write like this?
>>9230868
knausgård
I started reading a story I wrote almost two years ago and I'm shocked by how good it is.
I've never been published and only started writing a few years back, but my writing now is nowhere near as good as that short story I wrote back when I was just getting started.
How the hell did I get worse at writing?
>>9230844
detox for a while
as in, stop writing for a few months
>>9230857
It's not like I write on even a weekly basis
>>9230880
>It's not like I write on even a weekly basis
That's why you got worse at writing. It's a skill you need to maintain and nurture.
Is there any real point to being cultured? For example, reading literature, listening to classical musicians, going to the theatre, and so on... Are they truly higher pleasures? Has one lived a better life if they regularly partake in such things?
>>9230813
Only if it makes you a person pleasurable to be around with.
There is no point to anything.
Being cultured is a substitute for actually having experiences.
What is that old saying?
"The man who did heroin and died at 25 lived more than the man who did nothing and died at 80"
A shitty saying, but something similar to that.
Better in a hedonistic way? No, not necessarily.
It's more about keeping certain aspects of culture around. It's tradition and ritual and the subtle pleasures that come with doing things that aren't as instantly gratifying as jerking off, watching anime, or posting on facebook.
I don't have any Greek to start with
greeks are not white
Disgusting.
Rights are imaginary, especially the right to own a business.
>60 pages of monologue
How did she get away with it?
SOCIALISM REEEEEEEEE: the book.The funniest part is how the history of the soviet union proved her to be correct
What is your opinion about the animal farm book wrote by George Orwell?
>>9230649
Do your own book report
it was aight
>>9230649
I read it when I was 10. I thought it was awesome. I just reread it to my daughter. She is 6. She thought it was sad. I thought it was heavy handed.
What's some good hedonist /lit/?
>>9230545
Pic related is good.
inb4 the angry /pol/ proselytizers.
Hogg, by Samuel R Delany
Changing a few chapters maybe, or an ending, or changing it so much that it's essentially another plot?
(and with both versions published of course)
>>9230538
The Magus is one example that comes to mind. Author revised it to make some things more apparent, and easier to understand, and made the book worse.
>>9230538
Mary Shelley
Whitman
>>9230538
Woah I never seen this rare DFW before
Who was right?
>>9230431
Whose pure ideology was closest to a livable truth?I think it should be obvious
Idealism and Pessimism are both delusional
>>9230431
Only about women
How can other countries even compete with superior russian literature?
idk, Oman's literature is the best of the world imho
It's on a goodreads entry with his name on it and I still can't settle on whether it's fake
>When you read Harry Turtledove, but mistake the American Civil War for the Russian Civil War
Stop thinking
Really made me cogitate
>>9230203
Stop memeing and do something productive with your life, you complacent precocious young boy.