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Christianity is literally a pleb religion for the most lowly of slaves. How on earth is Christianity any different from Islam if both encourage peasant mentality and blind submission to one's master? Clearly the West's achievements came from some other philosophy than one made for the world's greatest underachievers.

>Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.” (Luke ix, 62)

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From his Goodreads profile, written by him:

>It all began when Pat Rothfuss was born to a marvelous set of parents. Throughout his formative years they encouraged him to do his best, gave him good advice, and were no doubt appropriately dismayed when he failed to live up to his full potential.

>In high-school Pat was something of a class clown. His hobbies included reading a novel or two a day and giving relationship advice to all of his female friends despite the fact that he had never so much as kissed a girl. He also role-played and wrote terrible stories about elves. He was pretty much a geek.

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>For the next seven years Pat studied anthropology, philosophy, eastern religions, history, alchemy, parapsychology, literature, and writing. He studied six different martial arts, practiced improv comedy, learned how to pick locks, and became a skilled lover of women. He also began writing a satirical advice column which he continues to this day: The College Survivial Guide. Through all of this he continued to work on his novel.

>Now Pat teaches half-time at his old school as an assistant-sub-lecturer. He is underpaid but generally left alone to do as he sees fit with his classes. He is advisor for the college feminists, the fencing club, and, oddly enough, a sorority. He still roll-plays occasionally, but now he does it in an extremely sophisticated, debonair way.

This is the current "king" of the Fantasy genre. Is there a more JUST genre anywhere?

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ITT: we give the poster child book for each 4chan board. /out/ is pic related

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I really enjoy the infograph flow charts of different collections of thought/authors. They were actually what got me to start reading outside of genre fiction, I really enjoy the sense of completion, arbitrary or not. Post your best faggots.

Other infographs besides flow charts also appreciated, as well if anyone wants to contribute OC. Dumping my collection so far.

>LF "works after resume with romans", william gaddis,

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My son is just about 9, homeschooling, and loves to read. I'm looking at books to populate a shelf, for his reading enjoyment. Recommendations please?

So far I'm getting him:
Big Friendly Giant
Harry Potter 1
Navigating Early
Charlotte's Web
Puss in Boots

Picture Unrelated

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is he the only professor of literary criticism who hasn't completely bent over a table for the ludicrous, hateful Resentment School of the left?

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Travel to a far away land!
A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsey
Out of a Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
Son of Man by Robert Silverberg

Old thread >>7973352
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg (embed)
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg (embed)
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg (embed)
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg (embed)
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg (embed)

>What are you reading right now?
>Got any tourist books like those mentioned above?
>Post your favorite book cover

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What's the funniest book you have ever read /lit/?

Got any reading suggestions for those of us who enjoy a chuckle?

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That's something that's been lurking in the dark.

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What's his best play?

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https://archive.is/DXLx8
>When die-hard “Harry Potter” fans first heard that J.K. Rowling was writing a sequel to her beloved seven-part series, they couldn’t wait to get their hands on the book. Then they realized the sequel wasn’t going to be released in book form — she had turned it into a play.
>“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” is set to debut in London at the Palace Theatre on the day before Harry’s birthday, July 30.
>But today, Rowling announced that the script of the play will in fact be released as a two-part book, at 12:01 a.m. on July 31, 2016.
>“Pottermore is proud to be a key part of the multi-platform effort that will allow the epic eighth Harry Potter story to be read and enjoyed by a wider, global audience,” said Susan L. Jurevics, chief executive officer of J.K. Rowling’s online home base Pottermore in an announcement on the site.
>The play was not written by Rowling herself. English playwright Jack Thorne wrote the script based on “an original new story” Rowling wrote with Thorne and theater director John Tiffany but never released as a book. It is set 19 years after the end of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the series’ last book.
>In “Harry Pottter and the Cursed Child,” Albus struggles “with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted,” the announcement said. “As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: Sometimes darkness comes from unexpected places.”
>These addendums are the cause of much debate among fans. Some see them as Rowling’s aim to please her ginormous worldwide fanbase; others say it’s an attempt to squeeze more money out of a franchise that has already collected billions.

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GO!!

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Post weird books you've found.
https://www.nostarch.com/mg_regressionanalysis.htm

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What is the most abstract concept or idea you have come across in lit or philosophy? No math or science!