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pls respond, at least my jap friends

>The GREATEST Japanese science fiction novel of all time.
It says that on the cover. Doesn't that answer your question?

>>9948967
marketing
I want to know your opinion because you are real people

schöne???

can someone explain to me his use of the word 'pneumatic' ? seems like it is used throughout the novel to refer to plump women in a neutral way [sometimes they self-refer as pneumatic, whence the "neutral" I guess] but for some reasons it sounds very close to a back-handed compliment (airhead... that was what I thought when I first read it)

also im not a native but I believe it is not used outside of this book

>>9948843
> having a well-proportioned feminine figure; especially : having a full bust

Go to a convention perhaps

>>9948671
Edit your query letter famalam.

On /t/ there's a Great Courses thread, if you do a little link-hopping you can find the series titled "How to Publish Your Book." Download it, watch it, and pay attention. Pretty solid advice, especially concerning the query letter.

Outside of that, try and get some short stories published. It's a means to an end, but it's also fun to enter contests and do the submission process yourself. Having published a thing or two lends you credibility.

If you're too lazy to do either of these things, you really have no business writing a novel in the first place.

>>9948754
what contests do you submit to? I write science fiction

Guys who like women are weak world af
Real men fuck cute shotas

>>9948590
How do you show a girl you're liking what you're reading?
>>9948609
But that's illegal, and legal is only cute in 2d.

>>9948590
No, you will BE a pussy.

I honestly can't think of anyone else other than some people who only wrote like one or two books

>>9948582
Tolstoy's FICTION. All of it.
All specifically literary Whitman=Leaves of Grass and some short, lovely prose pieces.
More than a few here have read all of Pynchon's and/or McCarthy's books without giving it a second thought.

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>>9948582
sempre cara mi fu quest'erma imageboard

Jesus, this is why you should proofread even 4chan posts. So many "so fars," and that "obnxious" typo.

Apologies!

>fantasy

No. Go away. Waste your time elsewhere or with something else.

>>9948551

Did that word make you think of dwarves and elves and stuff?

If so, perhaps I should find a better description.

they all look so fukn good boys, which one do I read first?

>>9948521
BotNS

>>9948530
which?

>>9948509
He has an essay collection called "Sjelens Amerika", but I don't think it's been translated to English.

>>9948509
Autumn is really disappointing. Paulo Coelho tier tbqh

>>9948509
Pretty sure he is /ourguy/

Byzantium, Japan, Nordic mythology, Slav mythology

>>9948448
Bump

>>9948452
It's that time again

Bump

Here's a free Yale course, with lectures and syllabus included:
http://oyc.yale.edu/classics/clcv-205

If you like lectures, search torrent sites for Kenneth Harl's Peloponnesian War course

The Yale guy also has a really good book on the Peloponnesian War which makes reading Thucydides a lot easier. (Incidentally, the Yale guy was Harl's PhD supervisor I think.)

The Yale course uses Pomeroy's book Ancient Greece, which is OK. It also has a shorter version for dummies that you shouldn't get. Personally I prefer big clunky books like Bury & Meiggs History of Greece to the Death of Alexander, though a bit outdated, and the intro chapters can be more boring than you want because they are mostly archaeological and "big history" (guessing about trade routes and daily life, rather than getting into traditional Ancient Greek narrative history). Might want to skip ahead.

Thucydides is fairly hard to read, and helped a lot by the Landmark Edition of his book which includes maps (though I think the translation is older and slightly stuffier than more recent, more readable ones).

Herodotus is easier to read and has a Landmark edition too but you might not need it, and I think its translation is TOO readable and its giant size not worth it. A library card helps with this, to avoid wasting money.

Xenophon concludes Thucydides' account and his major works can be read pretty easily.

Plato is Plato. Lots of good books on him. For Aristotle, I'd recommend Rist's Mind of Aristotle, at least the introductory first two chapters, to get a plausible overview of Aristotle's thought that is concerned with historical plausibility and not written by some modern Aristotelian analytic philosopher with axes to grind.

If you can stomach it, Windelband's History of Ancient Greek Philosophy is still good for a traditional summation of the various philosophers, but it's hard. Most people probably wouldn't read this anymore, but it was helpful to me because it was thorough, and so many books are afraid to be thorough these days.

Faux and homo-sexualis

>>9948412
as a normie, you can safely delete what is written

>>9948412
post the essay or it didn't happen

>>9948293
Sight without Glasses by W.H. Bates. Worked for Huxley

>>9948275
lol no

What is the Black Sun?

>>9948279
The Black Sun is a third planetary body knows by all ancient cultures from vikings to aztecs. (((Officially))) it is when the moon goes infront of the sun, but if you you nerd yourself into the topic youll find out its anything but.

>>9948203
I'm a fan of Nazism. I'm redpilled. Let's take back our white women. Praise Lord fucking Kek

>>9948203
Rommel hated the Nazis and wanted Hitler dead. This has to be in the back of anyone's mind when evaluating Rommel and all he did and didn't do in ww2. He remains an enigma, lucky in war, unlucky in assassination plots.

>>9948326
he was hardly even involved in any assassination plots

he knew about it, in so much as he was approached and turned them down and didn't say anything afterwards about it

this guy was fucking avant-terrible. its hilarious. kis.

>>9947985
This dude came to my college and crashed at one of the areas party houses. I'm under the impression he does that a lot. He put on a pretty entertaining show. Props to him for doing it, I agree though, the cloud videos are absolute shit.

And I'm not sure he ever made anything all that great

>>9947985
I don't know who he is, but I still want to kick him in the teeth.