What do you guys think of Dice Man?
Are the follow-ups worth reading?
What is a writers beard? And what is the best?
I vote for the goatee
The Russian "Why bother".
>>9971061
kek, reminds me of the russian fatalism
that's an exit-level beard right here
To people who don't have English as their first language:
do you prefer reading an English translation or one in your native language?
I'm Italian and was interested in reading some German books, but I'm still undecided on the translation. I wouldn't want the books to be butchered by the simplicity of English grammar.
Should I not worry about this?
>>9971040
> simplicity of English grammar
You obviously know nothing of English.
>>9971040
I don't really care too much but generally prefer to pick up English translations to improve muh Engrish to be able to write prose in it eventually.
Do you really have a choice if your German isn't good enough? Learning a language just for reading sounds silly, so might just as well go with a translation of your choice, and maybe pick another if you're not happy with it. Besides, German specifically is such an ugly language for fiction.
After grinding through the brothers Karamazov and Nicholas Nickleby, and temporarily giving them up to read The Problems of philosophy, the latter felt like an incredibly written pleasure to read. I barely even gave a crap about the stuff Russell talked about. Simply going through a clear and non-obscurantist non-charlatanic non-contnental clearly written work felt great.
>tfw listening to an audiobook and doing sudoku while running on an elliptical
I AM FITLIT
I would like to have an honest discussion about Piero Scaruffi's bibliography.
Is 'The Nature of Consciousness' his magnum opus?
Can much be learned from polymath historians that don't do much research of their own?
WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THIS BOOK????
WHAT THE FUCK DID HEMINGWAY MEAN BY THIS ENDING???
>>9970793
That's the power of american ""literature""
>>9970810
The ending was the most depressing thing I've ever read or seen in my life. Worse than the End of Evangelion
That ending tho.... Sad reacts only.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9hagVL-__c
>digging deep into postmodernism
>at the core, it's simply sophisticated tautologies
>>9970757
>OP just found out where the so it goes tattoos come from
it's an over 18s site even on sfw boards
>>9970757
yup. this all came out in the 90's
It was something like
start with THE GREEKS.
I saved it a while back planning to read them all and now I can't find the image.
Any of you remember this and can hook it up?
no1
>>9970663
This one?
>>9970935
That's it!
Thanks now I can laugh at it again hehe
What is the key to getting your short story accepted in magazines? As an asian girl I need you to teach me what sort of assembly of words triggers the white males minds to say 'ah! that is what we white male gatekeepers can appreciate'
if you're pretty they will publish you anyway
even if you're Marie Kondo and you write about tidying your room
>>9970453
>As an asian girl
You've already been accepted.
>>9970453
Write the next evangelion faggot
You still haven't taken the Deleuze pill yet? Look at the kind of pussi this guy gravitated toward him.
>tfw no Claire Parnet to interview me themes from A to Z
>womeme
Went from deluze, to dark deluze to altright/NRx
>>9970120
Probably the only reason why she's with him is because she hasn't seen his nails yet
How the FUCK do you take the hedonism pill?
What books and authors can I read that will convince me that thinking of the future, others, or anything except my pleasure is not worth it?
sturnar
u cant
>>9970058
Helping others gives you pleasure. Doing the "right thing" gives you pleasure. Pleasure isn't just dopamine, it can be something deeper.
Reading the Tractatus now. Ogden/Ramsey or Pears/McGuinness translation, and why?
>>9970006
Your post is perfectly absurd and backwards because you claim to already be reading the book, and in our context it is reasonable to assume that you are(?) reading an English translation of the book. Yet at the same time despite claiming to have already commenced reading some English translation of the book, you ask advice on which one to pick.
So if you're already doing one, why ask about the both? Further, The book is short enough that you could readily do both translations and given the nature of the whole business you would probably actually get some value out of actually reading them back-to-back. Finally, a good catch-all observation:
7.
>>9970019
>7.
naa we can write about whatever we like witty just has sensitive ears
>>9970019
I'm reading a pdf containing both translations as well as the original German. I had just finished the introduction by Bertrand Russell when I posted.
While there would undoubtedly be some value in reading both, I only want to read one for various reasons.
Finished this series recently. Read the Russian original, found the English translation so-so, but enjoyed nonetheless. Anyone else familiar with this?
>>9969991
A fun read, but damn, the lore is fucking inconsistent. For instance, the author can't make up his mind about who Gilles de Rais was. In one book he was a human, in another a Light one, in yet another a Dark one. And there are plenty more errors like that.
How do cross-media adaptions work? Do you just have to get permission from the source to sell it? I'd like to adapt a game with a shitty plot into something with more depth without having to just give into the pit of fan fiction. Like those shitty books (p8c very related) but not written terribly. Could I just send a proposal whoever owns the intellectual property?