Subject says it all. I lost my old copy and was wondering if anyone who read the super long version could attest to it being good.
Also i know damn well that you cuckolds have read it, it's fantastic, so let's skip the t. genre pleb comments.
>>8359787
The SF Masterworks edition from Gollancz is a bog standard hardback, but that makes it more durable than any paperback. It can also be found cheaply, and I like the cover, pic related.
That black one with a bit of desert on it.
Reading this one now because it was cheap
Religion involves doublethink and is orwellian.
>>8359776
How so?
>>8359776
Turned away from religion when I read.the passage on how in Christ women, men, Jews, etc are the same
Pure SJW nonsense
>>8359790
Taught from birth that it's better to believe than have skepticism. Any religious person who's honest with themselves will tell you belief in god is not rational. It's simultaneously having two contradictory realities and accepting one because it suites the doctrines which you're supposed to.
in your opinion?
>>8359752
Lolita
>>8359752
Gravity's Rainbowkek
In Search of Lost Time
hey /lit/, I wanted to know your opinion on my opening line. Im working on this novella and I what I want to focus on the most is imagery. I wanted to ask your opinion about how good the prose is and where I should improve, also if it works as an opening line at all.
here it is:
When thunder strikes, three hundred thousand volts of electric anger whiplashes through your body in a second; scorches your skin tissue, melts your bone, reduces you to nothing on the ground, as your soul seeps out through your skull with the red, viscous liquid. This unfortunate calamity befell one Dr. James, who was seared to a crisp as he walked home to his precious wife and son.
so how is it /lit/? I would appreciate any constructive criticism, like what I should work on or what im doing ok (if anything at all). thanks
>>8359688
It's a bit shit
Thunder is the sound, pal.
>>8359720
can you elaborate?
Reading List for all those interested in philosophy.
Any more you got guise?
>>8359639
Philosophy is useless. Science is much more objective.
>a bunch of dead white males
It's just missing Heraclitus. Otherwise, it's an OK guide.
when writing the Divine Comedy
read this http://www.dailysabah.com/feature/2014/02/27/divine-art-or-plagiarism
its the brown version of KANGZ
>>8359657
Hehe Muslims are simply inferior to the white man
That talking about the Liber Scalae Machometi? Yeah, we're taught about that in highschool while reading the comedy. To be fair, saying it's a rip-off completely misinterprets the intertextuality typical of religious/mystical texts: everything is a flux of sacred ideas and images borrowed from any source (namely, Greek and Roman writing were read as prefigurative of Christianity, which lend them an aura of holiness making them suitable for reutilization) and rearranged as the author (or maybe God, if you think about them as divine conduits) pleases. I think it's a wonderful methodology, as an aesthetic and a literary "ontology".
Now, the last line of the article (hurr durr you take from Islam then insult it, even though they put in a more jadedly ironic way) is the kind of bullshit you say retrospectively when you don't like an old book, so it should be disregarded.
Are his lectures good?
His Hegel was mostly on point for beginner teir
They're great.
Penn Jillette has his own lecture series now?
rofl how much does it suck being a white person and trying to get published in 2016? knowing it's only going to get harder lmao.
1. But it isn't
2. Change your publisher, the ones pushing for quotas from the top are fascist idiots
t. leftie
>>8359619
Marlon James (irredeemable top tier sjw) points out that unless you are publishing pap for white women nyt/Pulitzer fiction readers it doesn't matter what you write or who you are, you ain't getting published.
>>8359644
>tfw half black second generation Immigrant in Britain
How good do I have it lads?
How many books do you read in a month? How many are fiction?
>>8359567
fiction is for nu male cuck leftists
REAL men read FACTS, not emotions
Depends on how many words there are in said book.
>>8359573
I've moved onto non-fiction recently. Honestly, I prefer it to fiction.
Currently reading pic related.
(though it's not entirely fact-based, of course)
I consider 1/week a minimum but usually it is 2-4 a week. Of course this depends heavily on what I'm reading, if I'm reading a 1000 page Russian novel while being busy I might not finish it in a week. But I could also read 5 short philosophy books if I go on a zero books (the publisher) binge.
Sometines I don't read any fiction in weeks, sometimes I read a lot of it. Fuck routine.
Anyone have any experience with Scrivener?
Is it worth dropping 40 bucks on?
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>>8359550
just download it mate
>>8359550
I find it super useful, both for writing fiction and for writing theses for uni, but I got it on sale for half price.
It's definitely worth it, but maybe wait for a sale if there's no rush.
Do you have any favorite French authors from the 1800's? What is your favorite book by him?
>>8359495
Balzac, Lost Illusions
Hector Malot.
Nobody's Boy and Nobody's Girl
>>8359507
Came here to write this
Le Peau de Chagrin a close second
What's a good publisher/edition for Shakespear? UK/Amazon preferred, especially looking for Hamlet.
Will this be good? https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0199535817/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1470317022&sr=8-2&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=oxford+shakespeare&dpPl=1&dpID=51Yr1bNTUFL&ref=plSrch
>>8359481
Arden.
>>8359503
This if you don't mind being drowned in footnotes
>>8359503
Thank you.
please recommend some books that will make me feel happy about my life and less alone.
>>8359477
I was a lonely prospectless unloved bitter loser, but then I took the redpill.
Now I know that because I am a white heterosexual male with a conservative world-view I am inherently superior to women, blacks, nonwhites in general, and degenerates.
Also, the redpill has taught me that women are worthless holes that you shouldn't waste your time on.
TL;DR I am now happy with myself, because I know my worth.
Here are my recs
>Mein Kampf
>Schopenhauer's 'On Women'
>Evola
>The Culture of Critique Series
>Decline of the West
>The Bell Curve
trenbolone
>>8359482
low tier bait, 1/10 for effort
Why do people on this board read philosophy (especially ancient)?
You do know 99% of philosophers were 100% wrong and are incompatible with science?
>>8359363
You made this thread 2-3 days ago.
Search the archive.
I'll save you the trouble, though:
>TL;DR you're a retard
>>8359363
Science hold up a mirror to a mirror.
>>8359363
Agreed. Just look at r/academicphilosophy. It is a mess!
Why are people so fucking comfortable talking about things they know nothing about?
The amount of idiots in bars who are right now confidently talking about economics, international relations, counter-insurgency, philosophy and so on despite the fact they've never read a single book on those subjects is astonishing. So is the amount of people on Facebook ranting against "Keynesian economics" or the "military-industrial complex" based on five-minute youtube videos they've seen.
What caused this shit? The internet?
>>8359356
Definitely. Before the advent of the internet no one talked about subjects they hadn't studied in a rigorous way.
>fucking 'normies' reeeee *inserts pepe the frogman of virginity*
>>8359356
t. vapid millenial
>>8359356
> hurr durr only let technocrats speak!
fuck off and not /lit/related
Sage!