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Religious Over and Under tonesJesus in SpaceEdition
Recommendations:
>Fantasy
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>What are you currently reading?
>What are some of your favourite SFF Novels that did subtle religious inserts?
>Who...
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Gene Wolfe is a cool guy
>>7692308
Liara best waif...
no wait, wrong general
>currently reading
Canticle for Leibowitz
>favourite religious inserts
Neither of them were subtle but I liked how Book of the New Sun and Mistborn handled it.
Questions that don't deserve their own threads
sup?
I've never read a book before (not counting children's books when I was small) because I get bored quite easily.
Could anyone recommend me some books that might get me into reading?
>>7685767
You have no attention span. You will always be a plen
>>7685767
robert bolano - 26666
umberto eco - the name of the rose
fyodor dostoyevsky - the fault in our stars
>tfw your worst short story is the only story you've managed to publish
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>>7697606
website?
>>7697606
>complaining about being published.
get the fuck outta here.
>>7697614
Submittable
I want to be a huge sellout who writes a YA trilogy that gets adapted into a four-part movie series. What elements do I need to include besides a post-apocalypse, all adults being useless or evil, and shirtless dudes?
>>7696742
Interesting hook, it has to be both similar/identical to YA and yet have a unique element to set it apart
Plotholes, forced drama, ugly teenage female protag.
>>7696742
Get a sex change or something.
What is the most nihilistic and misanthropic book you've read?
>>7694172
Nothing by Janne Teller
The Bible
>>7694177
I didn't say teen depression
What literature would you recommend for people with below average IQs? My IQ is 90.
hypersphere
read the fucking sticky cunt
>>7682916
My son's C-grade GCSE creative writing assessment.
What should I read specifically, if I have absolutely no background or prior reading in philosophy and want to eventually read and understand pic related, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Kant, Kierkegaard, Derrida, and Stirner (not necessarily in the order I listed them)?
Not Hegel, this guy simply couldn't express himself in a proper way.
Also
>start with the greeks
I know it's a meme but start with the greeks
Plato and Aristotle set the basis for western philosophy so it is necessary that you start with them.The reality is that both Plato and Aristotle can be hard to understand but they are absolutely necessary.
Modern philosophy starts with Descartes so you must absolutely read the Meditations after Plato and Aristotle.
know Kant front to back
the rest falls into place
this is the best advice you'll ever receive
i've seen quite a few posters on here who have gone here/went here. i was wondering if anyone could help me out.
i'm 22, have been working and living on my own for a few years. did not go to college right after high school because i had no idea what i wanted from an education. i found out about st johns a few months ago and i'm convinced it's exactly what i want from a school.
the problem is, i'll be 23 next november in my freshman year. they don't do transfers so none of my community college credits count at the school. i know i'm not super old or anything but i am wondering if i will stick out/not relate to my peers/have a bad experience because of my age. i've almost convinced myself not go recently but i also really want that kind of education so i'm not sure.
any advice would be greatly apreciated. if there is another great books school that would be more suitable for me please tell me about it.
>am I too old to go to school at 23
Give us another o.
>>7697772
i know, i'm a huge faggot. i know that most of what i'm saying is faggotry, but i still experience it and want to know how much of it is true.
I was a mature student about your age at a public university and no one gave half a shit ever
Also I banged teenagers
Not sure what that place is like though
>reading plato's euthyphro
>19 pages of fine-tuning definitions
>they end up back where they started, and reach no conclusions
what the hell was the point of that?
discuss greek philosophy here
> what the hell was the point of that?
>19 pages of fine-tuning definitions
QED
>what was the point of Plato actually trying to get me to think of the topic discussed rather than spoon feeding me an answer
>>7694317
That's the whole point. Please, be bait. He was saying that when you get down to it, everything is subjective. What is pious to one is impious to another.
>/lit/ tells you a book is shit
>you read it and find out it's basically a masterpiece
have this ever happened to you?
Nice half-assed bait you have there.
>>7695276
Yes. With the Harry Potter series.
>/lit/ tells you Atlas Shrugged is absolute garbage
>"Please, it can't be that bad. I mean, it's 1200 pages long! I'm sure she knows what she's talking about!"
>1200 pages later
>mfw
Goodreads Thread with a twist, post your age and how long you browse 4 chan.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2408134-sebastian
28/~12years
>>7680643
>28/~12years
I believe you.
>age
> how long you browse 4chan.
You could be a little more creative pal, like 'when was the last time you let an albino man lick your anus'.
I like the twist.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/15135024-preston
26; December 2005.
ITT: we post our meme trilogy.
Same IJ, meme-typos GR, Oxford World Classics Ulysses
I managed to lose Infinite Jest (possibly destroyed in a drunken tantrum) and I don;t own Ulysses
I have the penguin deluxe version of GR with Frank Miller's cover art, pic related. I like the paper
Anyone here with visual snow? I have had it for about a year, and it negatively impacts my reading ability and level of comprehension.
I have learned a couple of tactics and strategies to deal with it so far:
a) reading with a pen to help guide the eye
b) using several light sources pointed at the text to dampen the static noise
c) never read outside, only use artificial light sources
The biggest downside is that I no longer can enter the reading "flow" where time and space becomes irrelevant. My ability to concentrate is not as good as...
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JESUS CHRIST THANK YOU BASED OP, I NEVER KNEW WHAT I HAD HAS A NAME. THANK YOU!
>>7697667
I got few little "floaters" in one eye, its not really noticeable unless I put effort to notice them, optician said something like minor op could be done to correct it but I am scared of any kind of op that involves my eyes so yeah
>>7697667
As somebody with 20/13 vision, your pic is my fucking nightmare
How is one afflicted with "visual snow?"
Were there any books that helped you out of crushing loneliness and insecurity?
Read meditations.
On another note (and to help you make recommendations), high school drop out, dissapointed parents, physically (technically mentally) deformed (not a troll it is quite likely when you realise all of those three correlate).
Should I an hero? I'm 21, will life just get worst? I hear people start becoming progressively unhappier beyond 30.
Killing yourself is the gayest thing ever
Fuck off faggot
You have a really annoying way of articulating your thoughts. I would have guessed you're even younger than 21. Though 21 is still pretty young.
>>7685799
>Easy way to help yourself out of bad feelings
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maude Montgomery
>hard way
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
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What does the third guy mean?
If you read on and on, you’ll eventually just forget about the world and be happy. Because the books are so good.Obviously.
>>7696951
>books
>good
>>7696943
If you own enough books to stack, you can get a pretty nice view.
