Holy fuck this book is aweful. Its just Perfect McChosen one running about being great at everything and being given an insane amount of wealth and power. Why did i let normies meme me into reading this bullshit
>>9908457
the term is 'mary sue'
>>9908457
It's for 10 year olds, bro.
>>9908457
Just wait till you get to the elf slavery
So, in an honest opinion, how is the Book of the New Sun series? I got them a couple days ago not knowing what to expect.
I've never read Gene Wolfe before if that adds any context.
>>9908313
depend on how stupid you are.
>>9908327
this.
if you're an idiot, they're great. if you have half a brain, it will become readily apparent that these books belong at your local salvation army.
Unless you're really perceptive, you probably won't get much out of it on the first read. It'll just come across as a directionless, anticlimactic story in a fairly interesting setting that didn't live up to its potential.
If you're willing to read it three or more times, though, you'll find one of the most rewarding works of scifi of pretty much all time.
Why are a lot of good writers communist and atheist?
Their minds are liberated
>>9908167
Because it's whats right :^)
Depends on your definition of good writer, but maybe it's because they see everything from all different angles and just decide that's what they thought was best?
Just my thought
>>9908167
camus was a commie?
What does /lit/ think of The Dresden Files?
i've been recommended it in the past on account of my love for hellblazer comics but i've also had people tell me it's schlocky trash. what do you think?
>>9908054
it's literally for children what the fuck is there to say about it
>>9908070
Wrocg
What's the best translation of this work?
The one I'm working on desu
>>9907756
The Norton Critical edition. Always go with the Norton Critical Edition.
None
Italian to English is the worst thing ever
What's your meme score, lads? I just hit 51, myself.
>unironically 92
I have no friends
>>9907643
Which are the 8 you have not read? Do you intend to read them or are they uninteresting to you?
>>9907637
>he actually believes anything is worth reading except Finnegans Wake
How much in how much attempted is controlled production?
How much is the conversation dominated; how much under control and how much of that is good?
How much more should be?
In what ways can things be too personal?
How much is about power?
How many types of power are there?
How close to perfect is how much how often for how long?
What percentage and of what significant meaning can possibly be 'justified complaining'?
What is the nature and value of being upset and to what degrees being satisfied?
What is the nature of anger? Of happy? of worthy feelings and dispositions of relative fine and not.
Some of the best things ive felt are health, prosperity, love, goodness, wellbeing, happiness, security, assurance, various natures and degrees of creations
Dont let the world dismay you into sickness; at any given time most peoples lives are close to infinity good, or at least infinitely ok, if they how often how much not, what can be done?
How much of what is how worthily eating up how much attention?
What is most important?
How many values are their and what are their ranking?
How much is a serious thing?
How important in how many instances is understanding and consensus?
What percentage of the world, ways of life, over time; is unacceptable?
How much is fighting for the days and the nights?
Seeking to come into ones own, everyday is mainly the system successfully functioning; for most, life is a continuous strip of duty and honor, and relief; working by oneself and together; to build up and keep operating in place; and ever farer and wider; subtler and grand; the good attributes of the human world
What are the problems?
And what are our discussions to discover the solutions?
We are a part of the overseers of all events, we have a craving for knowledge, understanding of all interesting and pertinent events, in relation to life and its relations, commerce, politics, justice
Who has how strong a say in the battle of right and wrong?
What should we individually and collectively care the most about?
For most life is relatively fine; who wouldnt want things better? If they could be; but at what kinds of what cost?
Always what does it mean? What does it matter? All about actual and discussion of potential value/s? And the relativity of the accuracy of beliefs?
The worst things in the world are: Evil (having power), poverty (of material, of physical, of mental), ill health, dangerous ignorance, accidents, failing to fulfil legal obligation and desire?
Life can be a lot of work but there are various modes of ease; some for some, many for many; and all the ways to ask how things for who can, should, be better?
What is the least that must be done to assure no evil occurs?
Are the way things are now alright, good and acceptable?
Who overseers places that are not alright, good and acceptable?
How many bad plans should there be?
Who is in charge of good planning?
How much power should good planners have?
How much should one who is not well be helped?
Where is the discussion of how many things in the world are wrong?
How much power should there be to force what is bad to be good? (person, place, thing)
How can we be most certain the strongest and most desiring to be righteous powers are not fallible?
How many deals are made behind the door anyway and how much say can and should the people really have?
It would be so near impossible to not have terrible people exist
(partly because the variously relatively terrible people pleading their case with the persecution of an innocent or other)(the struggle of defining and enforcing, though it is done largely, and largely successfully to degrees already, as law)
Is a poor person more guilty for being poor than the committer of a white collar crime?
If power is currupt, if the system of justice is unjust, is that ok, is that ever good, acceptable? As long as its not hurting too many?
One of the largest reasons we might be interested in the events of the world, is because we believe some of them may be wrong, and we would like to see them righted?
Do we not mainly want everything to be alright?
But what would that take?
How many things, places, people right now are allright and will be, for how long?
How can we define alright, and agree on that definition?
I am interested in Truth, information, the world, importance, value/s, beliefs, arguments, discussions, right and wrong, justice and injustice, the variancies of power and the relative worthniesses of its desires, the relative justifications of complaints, problems and solutions, the arguments for what is and what should be.
Maybe some of what I wrote would inspire some conversation on any potential interesting topic
These statements and questions can be read in a minute or two, but every day and every hour, is full of life, and many lives all striving to flourish, to carve out their own space and tracks. The space of the reality of time and lifes action, desires, creations, and strivings.
>>9907465
>Maybe some of what I wrote would inspire some conversation on any potential interesting topic
You know what else would be interesting? Talking about books.
Which book? Books considered literature. /lit/ if you will.
Trying this again
I always see language learning threads and reading group threads, so why not combine them?
Does anyone want to form a German reading group?
The goal would be to read German classics and improve our reading skills in German. So you'd need to be intermediate level at least.
>>9906848
fuck you! nazi!
I'm down, seems fun.
>>9907080
Holy shit, real life 56%er.
>>9906848
Nice. Depends on what we're reading though.
>Horizontally
>Horizon
I JUST figured this out. I'm almost 30. I feel like a fucking moron.
woah
>verticloudy
>cloudy
What.
The.
Frick.
>>9905795
So this is what it feels like to have ascended.
What are the pitfalls of writing my political manifesto/my diary desu?
t. French antifa
Pic unrelated
>Antifa
Better idea, instead of role playing as a communist revolutionary, how about you role play as Werther in the second half of the book.
>>9905477
>French antifa
Pah, whatever you say buddy
>>9905487
Werther died because of the patriarchal system depicted in the book. Telling of western civilization.
Which writer is literally you /lit/?
For me it's Nietzsche: intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor.
>nietzsche
>nihilistic
This meme needs to stop
>>9904649
OP: no, you're Lafayette Ron Hubbard. you can't write for shit, you lie constantly and you devoted your life to finding a perfect free ride. the high point in your life was when you were on the high seas in a boat paid for by someone else, fondling thirteen-year-old girls in tight pants and slowly starving the rest of the crew to death.
I'm Žižek. I love drugs, smart literature, cinema, love communism, funny, and probably have the most deep psychoanalytic skills into the human and cultural psyche that most of the normie dweebs here on /lit/.
Patiently Waiting Edition.
>What sff book are you currently awaiting to be released?
>What's the longest you ever waited for a sff book release?
>What potential series did you drop after you saw there were release issues?
FANTASY
Selected:
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General:
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Flowchart:
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SCIENCE FICTION
Selected:
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General:
>https://imgoat.com/uploads/6d767d2f8e/21332.jpg
>https://imgoat.com/uploads/6d767d2f8e/21330.jpg
NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
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Any communist or syndicalist recs?
>>9904029
Getting out of the helicopter.
>get nephew books for Christmas and birthday presents
>get him stuff I enjoyed at that age such as Tolkien, and Jack London
>found out recently doesn't read them
>he doesn't read anything
>he just plays video games all day while the books gather dust
>talk to my brother
>try to get him to encourage his son to read more
>say video games will do nothing good for him and tell him to get rid of them
>he gets mad and says video games aren't bad and that they play together and bond
>he says I'm just jealous I don't have a wife and family like him
>tells me not to bother seeing him again until I "get a life"
I'm going to make one last effort to get my nephew into literature again. I don't know how yet, but I will try to give him one more book. I don't think it's too late for him. But what should I give him to give him that one push if he ignored all my other requests? Maybe if I go all out and give him something more adult and patrician, maybe a Library of America edition of Moby-Dick, or a fancy complete Shakespeare, he might finally see books as precious and get into serious reading.
How old is the nephew?
>>9903867
>>get nephew books for Christmas
stopped reading right there, use the term "the holidays" if you expect anyone to read your shit, bigot
>>9903875
Almost 13. Gore Vidal says that kids need to get into reading between 6 and 13 or they will never learn to read well, so there's not much time to waste here.
Have you read Elliot Rodgers manifesto /lit/?.
it's too bad that jewish kid who mowed down all those communists in virginia didn't write a manifesto it would be a best seller
>>9903745
I watched the cuck reviews video
>>9903745
Why would I read the manifesto of someone who attended community college?
ITT: Authors who only get more correct as time goes on
>>9897813
unironically intelligent human being who had foresight into where america was headed.
>>9897813
there was an anon posting his mathematical papers, and was tentatively planning on republishing them along with a biography. Did that anon ever deliver?