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about half-way through this, seems to cover the same themes as the last PKD I read (Eye in the Sky)

>>9706008
>last read

Some erotic fiction from /d/, unfortunately the threads have been purged from the board so I'll never find out how it ends.

It wasn't bad.

Started reading the sword of truth series, it's shit from book one page one but I feel like I need to know what's up.

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Read pic related -- "Triplanetary" by E.E. Smith -- as part of a batch of old paperbacks I picked up at a used bookstore.

I knew it was the "first" book in the Lensman series, but I didn't realize it was a prequel to the earlier-written "Galactic Patrol". Triplanetary is full of allusions and references to Galactic Patrol, as expected. Anyone interested in the Lensman books should read Galactic Patrol first.

Triplanetary gives a rundown of the origins and history of the conflict between the evil Eddorians and the good Arisians that serves as the background for the Lensman. Once the infodump is over, Triplanetary turns into a first-contact story between humans and the alien Nevians, while the evil Eddorian Gray Man attempts to bring the human race into subservience by any means necessary.

The Lensman setting is not subtle, and Smith personifies common criticisms of the genre. The Eddorians and Arisians are respectively so evil and so good as to be metaphysical forces rather than characters or species in any real sense of the words. Anything the Arisians and their allies do is good, and anything the Eddorians and their allies do is bad, and little detailed examination is made otherwise.

Smith's worship of technocratic competence makes Robert Heinlein look like Ursula Le Guin; the main characters are all hypercompetent (the protagonist, held prisoner on an alien starship, literally memorizes everything he sees so exactly he's able to have a superior human starship built based on his descriptions). The nameless mass are worthless; several cities are casually destroyed by weapons of mass destruction, with no apparent hard feelings by either side. Shit happens; it's not like a plot-relevant character died.

The Triplanetary intelligence service, under the command of the Best Dude Ever, secretly controls everything from behind the scenes. They explicitly maintain extensive dossiers on the pathetic elected leaders of obsolete national governments, which they use to control opposition and prevent the public from questioning their policies. This is portrayed not merely as normal but desirable.

Anyway, it's pretty hard to recommend except for someone interested in the history of the genre. 2/5.

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>>9705689
omg that's so wrong you fucking misogynist
go back to /pol/

>>9705689
Hemmingway reaaaaaally overblew all his war experience. Google up some articles on it. He was practically a very secure pussy who never fought in the front lines but wrote like he was a fucking war hero.

>>9705689
Two World Wars back to back destroyed a lot of people's spirits, boyo.

>>9705668
who ever said it did

that title is the most offensive thing I can think of
robs life of all its magical, poetic elements, reduces human relating to some kind of scientific data which you can utilize to attain your poor egotistical goals which undermine vast aspects of life and its beauty

One day you will see the fundamental contradiction in the expression "self-help book", and then the economic exploitation of the poor souls that would fail to see it and can make it a best-seller. But this is not that day.

Part one is basic human psychology, and the rest is all common sense. There is no cure for autism.

didn't read
your gay

>>9705186
you should listen to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmLhqHaMB5E&list=PLACixZkUG8spYB0YI-VlZG94nuH36k8bo

>>9705186
Now the question is what is the modern incarnation of Atlantis?

>>9704818
This is so fucking gay

>>9704818
it's shit

>>9704830
>>9704829
samefag

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>>9704261
Why did you post that picture?

>>9704704
To attract attention and alert /lit/ to the danger of the eternal Kraut.

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>>9704715
Please watch this YouTube clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ztOV2wrrkY

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You know his wife is still alive and prohibits the republishing of his antisemitic pamphlets.

>>9704188
>You know his wife is still alive
jebus it's true, she's 104

>Our French Republic is no more than a great gullet swallowing the negroizing of the French at the command of the Jews. Our governors are a clique of sadistic yids and yellow-bellied masons sworn to swallow us up, to bastardize us further, to boil us down by all the grotesque, primitive means of inter-mixture, part negro, part yellow, part white, part red, part monkey, part Jewish, part everything. [219]

jesus christ this guy was woke

>>9703037
I read The Iliad and The Odyssey and mainly just enjoyed both as engaging narratives tbph. Although they have appeal in other ways too- the historical sense, that these are ancient stories which have been told and retold and had enormous influence, and what I could call the anthropological sense- the feeling of contacting and trying to understand what is in many ways a very alien culture.

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>>9703037
The Classics are a backbone in Western society. These stories are referenced and retold even today, these works have endured so long that they're a part of the Culture without ever having to be specifically named by anyone. I'm surprised you find the Metamorphoses dry though, it's really lively--especially compared with other Classics. There's a lot of subtle details in it's episodic format as well that make it fun to read through over and over again.

When the Muses sing against the Pleiades notice how their audience is a bunch of nymphs. The Muses story (which is better on it's own) also features a rape which the nymphs would be sure to sympathize more with considering how often that befalls them (OP's pic related).

The Perseus Story is a complete farce of the Iliad. It's a story about violence, bloodshed, but it begins with an accident and ends with a an overpowered instrument that should have been used at the beginning.

As for the 'people turning into trees', The Metamorphoses was written with that in mind, it is "The Book of Changes" it chronicles myths and legends which all seem to have something or other to do with a change (physical, mental, symbolic). It's not a coincidence that all the famous myths are included here, Ovid is making a statement that nothing is static, and seeks to aestheticize these changes.

>>9704034

best translation? w/ commentary

Guys like Orwell and Nietzsche can't be produced in today's society.

>>9700248
Sure they can, especially guys like Orwell

gay sex

Holy shit that's awful. Please don't post again.

>Sophie winced as the porcelins cold bite assaulted the soft white flesh of her derriere, that small contradiction of flesh puckering despite her need for imminent colon relief.

>>9699567
Not bad

I like the posters here but think they're too vitriolic. It hurts my heart.

You keep doing what you're doing and you're going to end up as senile as your grandmother, calling out people for collaborating with the Germans in the 1990's and all other manner of nonsense. I guess you'll be happier when you fully abscond from reality.

My feet hurt.

Marcus Aramini.

>>9690391
there are only good books about books. why watch something? go back to reading.

>>9690401
>manlet that /lit/ idolizes for sucking genre wolfe's cock all day
cmon guy, shoot higher, please.

in the UNDERGROUND

>>9712058

nsa.gov
they have a good search engine that can take author, title, and preferred format
then they email you a download link

There is a super secret hidden thread on /lit/ where you can get all the books you want.

>>>>8949083

Don't share or mention it again plz. I can get in a lot of trouble and loose my janotorial status.

>>9712003
Also, she would be the first black author I've read

>>9712003
I read it in high school and was unimpressed. It's typical brown resentment lit and follows all the cliches of writing done by the grievance class. The magical realism is obviously a crutch and becomes incredibly irritating by the story's conclusion. The thought motivating the nonsensical narrative is very shallow and sophomoric and the characters are uninteresting. I advise everyone to avoid this book as it is a waste of time

>>9712009
would you like an award?

why would you capitalize 'pages', yeah?

>>9711982
to emphasise what a small page count that seems for a 3 hour reading session

>>9711982
are you bri'ish, yeah?