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>>8378734
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>>8378734
I think this thread would be more relevant in:

>>>/int/

and it would receive more inflammatory responses

>>8378756
Inflammatory responses? Good, I want people to get butthurt about their own ignorance.

Of course she was right. Most people are just fucking lazy and would rather read Infinite Jest and fall for the "I'm smart because I read haha" meme and dismiss anything that doesn't fall within their short-sighted mantra. Ayn Rand lived through hell and she realized what it took to fix the world, but much of the literary world is leftist as shit, so Ayn Rand is pretty much satan with a typewriter for them

>>8378735
Shit, man. It makes me sad.

>>8378722
because most of /lit/ hasn't actually read her and just repeats memes they see others posting.

>>8378647
Read, adopt and practise the Extropian Principles if you're into transhumanist philosophy.

>>8378647
If you like GitS, you'd probably like Ghost in the machine by Arthur Koestler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_R._Bunch

Moderan.

>>8378553
no
Worst american writer

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>>8378553
Yes

I made friends with the man with no face that some have secretly seen down here. He told me his story, in the afterlife he accidentally stuck his face out for a look as a life force wave was passing through and it took it completely off. He has no face at all, but this didn't stop him and didn't effect what we were doing together. He was with another boy (we were kids in this space) and they were trying to make an escape path horizontally from this space when I got there and there was an old man there next to a singularity deliberating about an escape path vertically up a time spout. After some time and deep thought (those two almost took off horizontally, which would have been bad, they could have got lost) we all molded into one being taking on the different functions inside and traversed to the higher dimension.

>>8378539
George R.R. Martin makes good sf short stories.

>>8378580
GRRM is shit.

link last thread please? im on phone and im also incompetent

>>8378481
Aubrey-Maturin series read by Patrick Tull.

>>8378481
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDGKK6y8OtQ

>>8378518
I prefer this version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sHk75RqEmE

just read Thucydides and fuck off

Weak bait. Sage.

If you're honest, do yourself a favor and read some history and philosophy, then ask yourself the same question, than maybe ask others

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>protagonist is a young hip writer who's misunderstood by society

bonus points if they have the same drug problems as the author did

Retarded frogposter.

>They're not published
>Nobody reads their work
>They can't make a living from their writing

>>8378299
Agreed, came to this conclusion when I was a youngin.

>>8378591
Everyone does, I think. Some people then keep questioning about it and some don't though.

A good measure for whether someone is smart is whether they figure this out before they're 15

>>8378270
Tom Bombadil.

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>be created by God for no reason
>created to be super excellent at everything, but have an itch that existence is nevertheless pointless
>constantly desire to create new things, to find some way out of the problem of existing
>God creates a bunch of other dudes like you
>they all immediately start prancing around like fucking fairies, unlike you they are just happy to be there
>they create a bunch of lesser things
>all of those things start prancing around like fucking fairies
>get annoyed
>create something that isn't just a "prancing fairy that creates more prancing fairies"
>add actual meaningful differentia to existence by doing so
>everyone gets mad at you for interrupting their fucking prancing
>say fuck it, i'm going to create something that undoes the act of creation
>start making interesting versions of Prancing Faggot Fairy #89811-B
>the result of your actions is that the world actually becomes interesting
>existence now has actual character, meaning, morals, spiritual struggle, instead of just being The Cosmic Container in Which We Prance
>entire history of the world that people later read about so avidly is basically "The History of Stuff We Did Because Melkor Did Something Else To Make Us Do That Stuff"
>history itself is your doing
>all you want as a reward is to die
>they lock you in a big fridge instead

>>8378309
JUST

>>8378236

Do Black people even like sf?

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What's wrong, lit, trying to take revenge on those girls who rejected you?

>women and blacks get accustomed to the low standards they're held to in everyday life
>eventually find an area where everyone is held to the same standard
>now it's not fair

>>8378111
Sounds like you're trying to get us to give you ideas for your homework. You're so lazy or stupid you can't even put in the work not to make it look like a writing prompt. Maybe you should consider dropping out, school clearly isn't for you. It's okay though, there's a shortage of workers in the trades.

>>8378151
This.
Do it OP, there's still time for you to learn how to be a mechanic or carpenter or something

'Heimlich' is the German for 'homely', therefore the Uncanny (or unheimlich) can be described as an unfamiliar or uncomfortable feeling within a familiar or comfortable place. For example, in Darren Shan's novel 'Lord Loss,' the protagonist discovers his childhood home to be bleeding through to a demon world. The familiar furniture is fused with webbing and an unearthly heat hangs in the air, despite Grubbs knowing exactly where he is and what his surroundings should look like.

I'm sure there's a more high brow example but this was the first one that came to my mind :)

>>8377977
Ender's game

Fuck you there's literally bees crawling coming into my room from a crack in my ceiling and you have to make this fucking thread.

>>8377977
Frank Herbert's "Hellstrom's Hive", while isn't exactly featuring aliens, is a fine book.
And I think you might like it regardless if "the bee people" are from this planet or not

>>8377910
Any. Jailbreaking can open it up a bit more.

Get them one with the front lighting like the paper white if you can, really good if you're bedridden.

>>8377916
thanks! I'll check them out

All of them support downloaded books right out of the box. Just need to convert them to a file type it can read.the program calibre is really good for converting your library and loading it onto the device.

>>8377669
Depends on the interpretation. Julia Stills plays her as a feminist, omitting the final speech. In some interpretations, she is speaking while mocking the words. However, in Shakespeare's day she was likely antifeminist.

>>8377669
totally anti-feminist, but shakespeare's criticism/performance these days is all about mental gymnastics

even harold bloom is honest enough to acknowledge this

>>8377739
Other examples? I'm curious.