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>>7882285
This book was trash. It would've been good if it was less than twenty pages and not written by Dave Eggers.

>>7882292
I don't understand why people write things like this. A Brave New World and 1984 are still perfectly readable and relevant. I understand modernizations of films but it's not look books as a medium became better to read in the modern day.

>>7882285
i thought it was good the way 1984 was good... decently fun read and aggressively making its point again and again (and again and again...)

wish more people read it.

Yeah, you're the only person that does those things.

yeah well I used to roll them into cones and insert them into my asshole, the first paper page being gradually stretched by the other cones, until my anus was forced wide open by the piled cones of book paper

>>7882077
Dude I do not still do that.

I haven't eaten a book since I was like... ten.

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>>7880746

I call this the Brandon Sanderson effect.

The first book in every one of his series are sober introductions to the world. He presents the separate threads of different characters, and then slowly winds them together into what will appear to be a compelling story. Every setting is unique and interesting in it's own way, with their own little twists on magic systems. He's a great worldbuilder, and really draws your interest into it.

Then, in the second book, he reveals that the whole thing was just an anime crossover fanfiction all along. Har har, good one Brandon! You got me again!

Stormlight Archive was absolutely the fucking worst in this. I thought the first book was fantastic. The last section of the second book completely ruined the series for me. One moment, we're running along at a normal pace through a lovely world with interesting characters, next minute

>TALKING SOUL EATER WEAPONS LOL
>KALADIN IS ACTUALLY GOKU LOL, LETS GIVE HIM A SUPER SAIYAN FIGHT
>THE KNIGHTS RADIANT ARE ACTUALLY POWER RANGERS AND THE STORMFATHER IS ZORDON, LOL
>I KNOW YOU HATE HIM BUT SZETH ISN'T ACTUALLY DEAD, LOL. HE'S ACTUALLY AN EVIL SUPERNATURAL COP NOW! WATCH HIM GET INTO CRAZY ANTICS WITH HIS PARTNER, EVILDUDE MCDONGLOVER!
>OH, YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED IT, BUT I JUST KILLED THE MAIN VILLAIN OF THE LAST BOOK AND A HALF IN ONE SCENE! LOL!
>REMEMBER THAT CUTE PAINTER GIRL YOU PROBABLY HAD A CRUSH ON? SHE HAS PTSD AND A GIANT SWORD, LOL! I LOVE LITTLE GIRLS WITH BIG SWORDS, DON'T YOU?
>LET'S JUST MAKE ALL OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS POWER RANGERS, LOL, WOULDN'T WANT ANYONE FEELING LEFT OUT. TALKING SWORDS FOR EVERYONE!
>REMEMBER THOSE COOL MOUNTAIN DOJOS FROM DRAGONBALL? LET'S JUST THROW ONE OF THOSE IN THERE.
>ALSO, IT'S BASICALLY SET IN THE WORLD OF WARCRAFT UNIVERSE, LOL. SORRY IF I DIDN'T MENTION THAT BEFORE!

Look at that face. Tell me you wouldn't punch that face if you saw it.

>>7882080
I'm glad I never read him. I'm generally distrustful of series longer than War and Peace because I believe the author has nothing meaningful left to say after a certain number of pages in a single work.

>>7882082
The Blade Itself is a pretty terrible novel, I can hypothetically see why you'd like the first few WoT. At least it has some kind of warhammer type of quality with lots of info on fictional worlds.

I don't read female "writers" and I think my life is better for it

I would totally like a vigorous femdom handjob from a younger Dona Tartt as she criticises my writing.

>>7881979
>those freckles
if you post more qt grills you can continue this shit thread

Kierkegaard is a spook

Kierkegaard is a gook

In the trash

>>7881760
punch him and call him a fag in front of everyone

I spook him

>>>/b/
>>>/mlp/
>>>/v/

>all dune but no destination void
>asimov
>aristotle

>no Harry Potter
dropped

>>7881608
> all dune

>>7881437
>two thousand and sixteen years since the birth of our lord and saviour jesus christ
>reading writing manuals

>>7881440
I want to be a screenwriter. Anything I write has to at least superficially conform to this shit or some talentless cunt working as a script reader will have a paint-by-numbers critique of my work that makes no sense to any cultivated person but is enough to put the kibosh on anything.

>write clearly
>use simple words
>this is when you properly use a semicolon

Writing manuals are a bunch of bullshit; they only want to make you write like a and for plebs.

>>7881299
only if you proves to be russian like the rest of us

>>7881328
its alexander, please let me in :(

>>7881299
https://discord.gg/0ssJKGTbo2pwEiQC

And another one, from Faulkner:

>It ran in his knowledge before he ever saw it. It looked and towered in his dreams before he even saw the unaxed woods where it left its crooked print, shaggy, huge, red-eyed, not malevolent but just big—too big for the dogs which tried to bay it, for the horses which tried to ride it down, for the men and the bullets they fired into it, too big for the very country which was its constricting scope. He seemed to see it entire with a child’s complete divination before he ever laid eyes on either—the doomed wilderness whose edges were being constantly and punily gnawed at by men with axes and plows who feared it because it was wilderness, men myriad and nameless even to one another in the land where the old bear had earned a name, through which ran not even a mortal animal but an anachronism, indomitable and invincible, out of an old dead time, a phantom, epitome and apotheosis of the old wild life at which the puny humans swarmed and hacked in a fury of abhorrence and fear, like pygmies about the ankles of a drowsing elephant: the old bear solitary, indomitable and alone, widowered, childless, and absolved of mortality—old Priam reft of his old wife and having outlived all his sons.

The Peregrine is nothing but divine prose

>Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down. The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim of the sky glows to a deeper blue, to pale violet, to purple, then thins to grey. Slowly the wind falls, and the still air begins to freeze. The solid eastern ridge is black; it has a bloom on it like the dust on the skin of a grape. The west flares briefly. The long, cold amber of the afterglow casts clear black lunar shadows. There is an animal mystery in the light that sets upon the fields like a frozen muscle that will flex and wake at sunrise.

>>7881280
Dope. I checked out the goodreads summary:
>From fall to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregrine falcons across the flat fen lands of eastern England. He followed the birds obsessively, observing them in the air and on the ground, in pursuit of their prey, making a kill, eating, and at rest, activities he describes with an extraordinary fusion of precision and poetry. And as he continued his mysterious private quest, his sense of human self slowly dissolved, to be replaced with the alien and implacable consciousness of a hawk.
I have to read this now. Thanks, anon.

In fifth grade our teacher asked us to write a short story for a citywide contest. The topic was "Going on a holiday in the future". Me and my best friend handed in some stories and we both won a prize. He got the first place, me second although he wrote a very generic story while mine was a bit more critical. He qualified to take part in a nationwide contest but my school asked me to write something together with him. Eventually we made the top 3 and got a winner's certificate, an invitation to meet the mayor and a free buffet. Pretty lame.

>>7881291
did ur mom go nuts over it

>>7881220
It was some annual state writing competition. The winners had their short story published in anthology together. And one story from the two categories were picked as the winner and given $1,000 I think. I didn't get the money.

>>7881052
Book/movie horror is dead.

Comics are where it's at.

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>>7881052
b-b-bump

>>7881052
As a fan of horror, I feel like this thread mirrors the market.

Maybe Joe Hill? He's better than his dad.

you mean contemporary

i've got one for you: the latest dictionary

>>7881045
LMAO

I myself have only read one book published in the time frame of 2010 - present, Sense of an Ending. It was okay.

>>7881022
>Sweephen Hawkings.mov

>>7881022
>Does /lit/ like Stephen Hawking's books?
he is too much of a pleb

He did a couple semi-important things. However he is not nearly as important as the media makes him out to be.

I wonder how much philosophy, including philosophy of science, Hawking has actually read. Or Richard "Region specific" Dawkins for that matter. I do agree, and so do quite a few contemporary philosophers, that philosophy uses its own mechanisms (what's left of cartesianism, phenomenological reduction, orientation towards art and politics, focus on language and/or logic, etc.) to avoid the difficult task of studying science (which became effectively far too complex for the philosopher polymath of times long gone). Still, interdisciplinarity is the way of the future so I see no reason why philosophers couldn't contribute by specializing themselves (into epistemologists, ontologists of various kinds, etc.) and leave behind the broad, all-encompasing views that link fundamental elements to political movements and the like. Or, perhaps, this may in fact allow the creation of new views that go beyond individual synthesizers, so that we would talk about arepublican view of Being rather than a hegeian one, as silly as thats might sound. instance.

This is what hawking believes in 2010, after his career in physics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-dependent_realism


Model-dependent realism is a view of scientific inquiry that focuses on the role of scientific models of phenomena.[1] It claims reality should be interpreted based upon these models, and where several models overlap in describing a particular subject, multiple, equally valid, realities exist. It claims that it is meaningless to talk about the "true reality" of a model as we can never be absolutely certain of anything. The only meaningful thing is the usefulness of the model.[2] The term "model-dependent realism" was coined by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow in their 2010 book, The Grand Design.[3]

Model-dependent realism asserts that all we can know about "reality" consists of networks of world pictures that explain observations by connecting them by rules to concepts defined in models. Will an ultimate theory of everything be found? Hawking/Mlodinow suggest it is unclear:

In the history of science we have discovered a sequence of better and better theories or models, from Plato to the classical theory of Newton to modern quantum theories. It is natural to ask: Will this sequence eventually reach an end point, an ultimate theory of the universe, that will include all forces and predict every observation we can make, or will we continue forever finding better theories, but never one that cannot be improved upon? We do not yet have a definitive answer to this question...[4]
—Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design, p.8

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I know I read a few in fourth grade, thinking I was cool for reading the more "mature" horror series (the lesser being Goosebumps).

But I don't really remember what happened in any of them or even how I felt about them. Guess they just didn't make an impact.

>>7880983
>thinking I was cool for reading the more "mature" horror series

Same senpaifam, I just read them at first to be cool but I actually ended up really liking them and read most of 'em.

>>7880923
I never even heard of this before. Too bad. I'm sure they might've been fun to read when I was like 10.