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Broken Empire, is it worth reading? 2017-08-01 04:52:05 Post No.9833852
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Broken Empire, is it worth reading?
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I have read the first book of the trilogy and I can't say I'm 100% happy with it. I liked most of the scenes of Jorg with the brotherhood but later on in the book the author wanders off and makes things make less sense. The end is very confusing and makes little sense, does his writing and story improve in later books? I love his style but man was secound half of the book rubbish.
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I'm currently reading the second book and its much of the same. The back half of Prince of Thorns felt rushed and disjointed. The flashback chapters feel unnecessary a good amount of the time where they served a semi-purpose in the first one. Part of me still can't get past the setting which feels contrived everytime I'm remind of it.
I'm about halfway through King of Thorns and might power through Emperor of Thorns for completion's sake. I don't plan on trying the Red Queen stuff or anything else from the author
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No, only Dune, Book of the New Sun and Eragon are allowed to have threads outside of /sffg/. Go back.
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Melville and Mccarthy are my favorite writers. Any other authors that have portentous and authoritative biblical prose?
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>>9833843
Steinbeck writes good biblical prose when he feels like it.
Also Faulkner, if you didn't already know that
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>>9833887
I'm aware of those authors, thanks anon.
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>>9833843
Tyndale
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>tfw too intelligent to read fiction
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>>9833759
>he thinks non-fiction is devoid of fiction
top jej
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>read fiction
>can't imagine how the characters look like no matter how in-depth they're described as
>can't keep track of the side characters
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What's the best starting point for it? I've been doing some research, and it seems like Frege's Begriffsschrift is the optimal choice, although Russell and Whitehead's Principia Mathematica and Wittgenstein's Tractatus also seem like good choices.
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>>9833675
that would be a tough starting spot. If I were you I'd just start with the investigations and go from there. Maybe read some russell on names/denoting/atomism beforehand. Starting with Frege can be tricky. That's where I started and it took me a long time to realize how much I take for granted with language and how far back Frege starts, i.e. if you start with Frege be prepared for the absolute ground of linguistic philosophy. Sense and Reference, On Thought, and Foundations of Arithmetic are good intros to Frege. Bregriffsschrift is a terrible idea for a beginner, as is Principia Mathematica. Just get How to Prove It by vellemann if you want to go down the logic route and then a Tarski book on metamath afterwards
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It's all bullshit anyway
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>>9833675
There's really no point in slogging through the Principal, just understand what its purpose was and why it failed. That said, the rest of Russell is absolutely worth reading and follows on from Frege
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I was wondering what some of the better websites you use for free audio books are?
In return I offer a couple humble zombie parkour videos.
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>>9833652
Also this.
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>>9833648
Audiobooks are shit if you're actually trying to enjoy the story. Go learn how to read.
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Recommend a book. Historical fiction, dystopian
Pol related encouraged
Something like my favorites
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
A Clockwork Orange
War & Peace
The Count of Monte Cristo
A Tale of Two Cities
Brave New World
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>>9833564
The Iron Heel.
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>>9833564
Laurus
It is the new meta for the right
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>>9833564
The Iron Dream
Heliopolis
Eumeswil
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Thoughts on Hayek? Going to start Road to Serfdom, curious on your thoughts.
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Have fun! Try Mises and then Rothbard afterwards
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>>9833536
this
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any anons here ever sign up for some? how'd they go? i think i've taken my amateur writing as far as it can go solo and short of being meme'd into going back to school for an arts degree, this seems like the next step.
i'm going to be surrounded by middle aged housewives, aren't i ?
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Are the five Hellenistic novels worth reading?
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>>9833299
Don't know. But the two Roman ones are, especially the one the major part of which is lost (satyricon).
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>tried writing today for the first time in ages
>I realize I have nothing to say and am just meandering to to pad out something that would amount to 3 pages of character description and a singular occurrence of him at the train station
How did I fall so far?
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>>9833273
YOU STOPPED WRITING WHICH DETERIORATED ITS QUALITY, BUT KEPT CARING WHICH LEFT YOUR HOPES UP HIGH
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>>9833273
Maybe "having nothing to say" is your something to say about your generation. Quit being such a submissive cuck and represent the others who have "nothing to say" as well.
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Start with planning the setting at large, the frame of your work, then make your way down the details that are smaller in scope until you get to the individuals. By that point, everything written has a purpose instead of being word vomit on a page.
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Easy general books for understanding /biz/ - aka Business and Finance and other money things specifically Economics? The board of /biz/ barely tells me anything and I'm sitting here rather confused just looking at it. So I might as well ask you people.. Since ofc you're the only smart board on average.
Recently I got this book but it really isn't engaging or exciting. Is there anything briefer and more amusing which I can read?
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Just buy rdd
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>>9833247
Just go on Investopedia, market watch. They have videos, definitions, immersion tools (games), forums etc. etc.
Also if you want to learn abour forex go to Babypips.com
I personally love that website, set an account and do their school of pipsology.
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The World of Economics by The New Palgrave. It's a bit obscure with 0 ratings on Goodreads and 0 reviews on Amazon despite being published in 1991. It's selected from their dictionary which had over 900 contributors, including 13 Nobel Lauterates in Economics.
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Get on my level you fucking nerds
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When I was your age I was up to my elbows in raw pussy
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Stop masturbating to anime and shit-posting about books you've never read, loser
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Your parents are worried about you and your grandparents despise you.
>Promised myself I wouldn't watch the Game of Thrones TV show until I read all of the books
>Just finished Dance With Dragons and there's no knowing when/if Winds of Winter will ever be completed
What's a good(or better) book series similar to ASOIAF that won't disappoint me like this?
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>What's a good(or better) book series similar to ASOIAF that won't disappoint me like this?
The Greeks
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>>9833173
FPBP
Alastair Reynolds is a better writer than GRRM, you should read Revelation Space and abandon the pathetic mental-midget realm that is fantasy. Sci-fi is better. Go fuck yourself if you disagree. The only good fantasy was written by Tolkien, all else is derivative or just outright bad.
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>>9833566
>Gormenghast is bad; The Book of the New Sun is bad.
ok pleb
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I have two personalities: nicest person you'll ever meet and twisted fucking psychopath.
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So we all probably know a bit of this madman. I figured it'd be nice if whoever feels like it shares some personal thought about him (not typical shit as "he united actuality with ideas" or the same in other words, but something personal). For example, I find that his dual conception of reality is shared by those who also have some sort of "poet" element in their writings (I'd say in Plato it is his irony, but also his ideas in some way I'd say are pretty "poetic"), which makes me suspect that some sort of prosaic rethoric leads some thinkers to actually believe in some sort of ideological reality due to a tangle of words in the axioms in which they build themselves (and consequently their nominalization of reality).
Tbh the only thing I'd like to do is to start some sort of useful conversation.
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