Treason Editionfuck the pretenders in the subjectless thread. long live the true /sffg/
Previous Thread >>8547034
>Some links you won't click:
>Fantasy
>Selected: http://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg/
>General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
>Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
>Science Fiction
>Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
>http://imgur.com/a/90laS
>General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ >http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
Best treason/betrayal moment in a work of Science Fiction? In a work of Fantasy? Go.
The Shadow Campaigns series has a pretty good build up to a betrayal in the 3rd and 4th books.
>>8555870
Gollum for me because Frodo and Sam are rather weak so I was really worried that something bad was going to happen. I could see the betrayal itself coming a mile away but my worry for them kept me really engaged in LOTR
>>8556524
Any other fantasy with non-fighters as protagonists? I swear some authors need to learn that simply saying their protagonist is talented isn't an excuse for them to be good at everything
How lit are you?
20/100 and have another 5-10 in waiting. I think I'll probably try them all at some point.
Dab
>>8574990
>Fight club
>hitchiker's guide
>do androids dream
>HARRY POTTER
>silmarillion
>the hobbit
>Dune
holy SHIT what an awful list
44/100
Not too bad.
>start reading more classic literature
>begin to develop an actual sense of aesthetic taste and objectivity
>realize almost all recent books within the past 20 years are garbage
What are some objectively good recent books?
>>8572251
Authors to read you are too autistic to read that are objectively good, that you haven't heard of because you aren't read.
Svetlana Alexievich, Mo Yan, Doris Lessing, J. M. Coetzee, Herta Müller, Alice Munro
>>8572333
I already answered your question. Go out and read, you can do it
Are his books still good if you're not a Christian? I know Dostoyevsky was a Christian so I was wondering if the religious themes in his books are ultimately about showing the flaws of atheism (or if he just doesn't understand their views, etc). What do you think? Are there any atheists/non-religious people here who read Dostoyevsky?
Was an atheist in high school, agnostic for the first three years of college, and then I read The Bible, Dostoevsky, and some others, and some other stuff was going on in my life.
Now I'm a theist.
>>8571521
Camus wasn't a Christian, but he was heavily inspired by Dostoevsky.
I think one should be able to enjoy books that contain criticism of your worldview, otherwise you wouldn't get to read a lot at all.
How do you create your own ideals? If you accept current society, then you're just being a sheep. If you reject current society's ideals, then you're just being an lonely edgelord. How can you become the Übermensch?
You need to absorb a lot of radiation from a yellow sun.
>>8566063
he didn't get that far is the problem.
you have to wing it from here
>>8566068
QED Carcinoma is ideal
no /co/ or /a/ fags allowed
>>8566222
Co/a is all i have that isnt on my kindle
>>8566262
>Co/a is all i have that isnt on my kindle
Do you use the old "Kindle Keyboard" or do you have the newer "Kindle Touch"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TvSiYu8z2M
Autumn is coming, lads.
Do you have any specific comfy reading setup for the season?
>>8564461
YEah a lonely night in the sac with myself in my poorly heated 100 year old apartment.
my bed + electric blanket + your mom + a book till i fall asleep = good times
>>8564483
Which book though?
Who else infinity (∞) tier knowledge?
Ma. AMA
>>8571214
you mean ask US anything
>>8571217
Of course. I don't care about such tiny insignificant things
Post your stack, post what you just bought, rate, give recs
14 dollars for these lil paperbacks
Right two are what I'm currently reading along with mythology by Edith Hamilton on the kindle, left is some selected books from the backlog that I'm trying to pick my next read from. What do y'all think
I haven't read anything in a while.
I should get to it before things get out of hand.
Post your poetry and others rate it
I will start
Atop a mountain, my goal is set
Thin air and anxiety cloud the mind
The birds frolic and the fog drifts
The white rope I have been walking on creeks and tightens with every step
It connects mountain to mountain
The past and the future
One step forward feels like three steps back
Am I good enough?
Time will tell
>>8555701
bump
lets get this shit started c/lit/s
>>8555701
Not bad. Has vitality. But the "one step feels like three steps back" is a big cliche. You're probably going for that 'epic' feeling, right? It seems a bit forced. It's not bad at all though.
I ate a tart
And had a big fart
I went to shoot a big string of spit
But accidently my pants did I shit
ITT: The most sexually attractive writers.
>>8572860
Unless you meant the most sexually active
>>8572862
fuck off please
My type is Mademoiselle Marisha Pessl
the dadaist movement was right
so was your mother
Not
Literature
>>8564779
and my father to be quite honest. they conceived me and they were born at the same time because dada means father I guess and DUCHAMP MADE URINOIR
What's the most disturbing piece of literature you have ever read?
>>8561806
The Communist Manifesto
>>8561806
my own diary tbf (to be frank)
>>8561806
calling it "literature" is pushing it but some of the "guro/snuff fantasy stories" of asstr are so disturbing a fucked up that they literally make me hate humanity. I'm not gonna name any specifics as I don't wanna look back there but they make A Serbian Film look like Barney.
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he is always number 1 or 2 on "smartest men ever list"
>don't want to here shit about...but there could be an african boy in some village who was never known
the man did literally everything
>>8560784but only his novels and poetry are of any worth
>>8560774
Do you retards have to talk about blacks and women in all threads
Haven't been in here in a while and there seems to be no active thread for our beloved language, so let's go.
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Anyone knows if there's a good translation for the Bible in Spanish?
The Italians have all the Latin versions, the English have the King James, and the Germans the Luther. What do we have?
I've sampled a couple and decided to go for the Reina Valera, but it feels so torpid and lackluster when compared to the aforementioned... there's no poetry, no musicality to it.
So other recommendations will be appreciated.
>inb4 learn Hebrew/Ancient Greek
It's far behind on my priority list, I plan to tackle them in about fifteen or twenty years .
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Also wanted to mention I finally picked up some ebooks I downloaded from Abelardo Castillo, after that anon who kept pestering everywhere with the author some months ago.
El evangelio is kind of okayish, just a nice and simple thriller which didn't leave me too excited to go on with his writings.
Thankfully I didn't just leave it at that –I felt like there had to be something more to it–, and later grabbed his Cuentos Completos, which in their juvenile impetus feel much more daring and exciting than his mature oeuvre. The guy certainly knows how weave an interesting tale and handle the pace, but in these he combines that with the lust for something more, he dabbles into stream of consciousness-like passages and uses other devices that are much more compelling to the reader, so if anyone else is planning to read him, I'd recommend you to go for his short tales first (which seems to be the only medium Argentinian writers are fit for –the only exception being Marechal–, as they usually end up falling short when they try to go for the longer formats).
PS — What the hell is wrong with captchas? When did they get so annoying?
Según yo la de Jerusalem es la mera mera Biblia en español, pero no se compara con las que mencionaste en términos literarios.
>>8553647
Argentine here
The only long novel I like by an Argentine is Bomarzo by Manuel Mujica Lainez. (I dislike Rayuela).
The only Spanish translation of the Bible of high literary quality I know of is only of one book. El Cantar de los Cantares by Fray Luis de León.
A modern artsy translation is impossible because modern religious people understandably prioritize accuracy to the greek and Hebrew texts.
The only modern Argentine writers Argentine consider remarkable is Cesar Aira.
>>8553768
>not liking Borges
Are you some sort of pleb?