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What are some good reads about libertarianism and the natural rights of the individual?
>>8093544
>natural rights
Atlas Shrugged
>>8093544
Yeah there's a lot of great books written about poorly emotionally developed people projecting their insecurities onto whacky political beliefs
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>people think it's impressive to speak multiple languages with the same character set and 50% vocabulary overlap
Sorry but I don't even consider these people bilingual. Come back when you know an Asian language.
>>8093464
I know Japanese, everyone assumes I'm a weeb.
>>8093492
If you can't read novels without a dictionary you don't "know" a language.
I'm six chapters in and my shit-tier sense is tingling. Am I wrong about this book or should I have already dropped it?
>reading YA poo in loo
Why did you ever picked it.
>>8093368
Because 'The Old Man and the Sea' was already loaned out to someone else.
keep reading. I recommend picking up "Eat, Pray, Love" next
Hi /lit/ What do you think about polish literature? Do you know: Mickiewicz, Słowacki, Sienkiewicz...? What's your favorite authore and book? What do you think about polish sentimental literature in XIX century?
>>8093165
awful
awful
awful
Poland has no good works prior to the XX century, and they're all poetry or drama
*maybe* prose if you aren't picky, but very, very little of it
>>8093169
Well, at least we've got the most develope literature in East Europe(expect Russia, but who know?). Compare us to rest east europeans and you understand, that we are closer to West than to East
>>8093185
but who knows? are you fucking serious? who in his fucking right mind would even compare the two together?
So I'm working on a short story series
It's based around battles and reworking them
but in fiction stories, what are some big/famous battles?
(such as battle of Mordor, helms deeps, et cetera)
I just want a big comprehensive list of y'alls favorite fictional (can be horror, scifi, fantasy, anything) battles
So let's make a list, and if possible, WHY you like that battle
Raskolnikov's battle against the pawnbroker and her sister.
Don Quijote's battle against the windmills.
>>8093164
Battle of the 300 Champions
literally just look it up
Every time I try to write something with muh swords I get this nagging feeling that Im not capable of describing a believable fight no matter how much I read on it, wish I could learn fencing or some HEMA shit but I live in the middle of nowhere and that is simply not possible.
Same with large scale armies, Im reading The Art of war but I wish I could find something that went on autistic detail on the tactics of an encounter.
hey guys just letting you know there's a great discussion on the merits of YA vs literature going down. if anyone would like to chime in.
what do you think the effects of only reading YA is on the human brain? why don't YA lovers deviate from the genre?!?
https://youtu.be/U2jPMOxc17c
the YA fans are currently going full retard.
Being over 17 and still reading YA just lets me know you're mentally and emotionally still a child.
>>8093099
>Being over 17 and still reading SF just lets me know you're mentally and emotionally still a child.
>Being over 17 and still reading The Greeks just lets me know you're mentally and emotionally still a child.
>Being over 17 and still reading fiction just lets me know you're mentally and emotionally still a child.
>>8093126
lol trueeeerr
How do you use literature to learn foreign languages? Have you a special method? What kind of literature do you prefer for learning?
Learning Russian right now and prefer short story's from Tschechov
Genre fiction. Dead serious.
>>8093018
How do you approach a text in foreign language? What level are you?
I like to read the text several times, each time I try to get deeper into it, in terms of vocabulary, grammar and sense
>>8092995
>>Tschechov
>Tschetckof
fixed that for you, this one is the real spelling I swear
Which is better?
i haven't read either because they're both shit
>>8092813
They're both good in their own right, but my heart is closer to Haldeman's message than to Heinlein's.
>>8092813
Starship Troopers. The Forever War is quite bad.
Is there any book that'll help me deal with my insecurities?
the bible
a therapist
>>8092554
Can't afford, anon.
Looking for fictional or biographical books about WWI veterans struggling to adjust to civilian lives in the post-war period. Preferably veterans from the losing side.
Already read The Outlaws by von Salomon (not a WWI vet but lived in the period and was a solider).
>>8092469
holy fuck triggered
Graves' Good-Bye To All That is partially about your question.
Borchert's The Man Outside is all about a returning veteran and how he can't adjust, but of WW2.
Brittain's Testament of Youth is a bit more of the female perspective of a WW1 nurse and what she struggled with after the war.
>>8092469
whose grave is that?
I'm offering to critique a chapter of your work, in exchange for a critique of a chapter of mine. I'm gonna be up for a few hours more, so I've got some time to kill. I've got a complete novel out to beta readers, but they aren't getting back to me... some BS about graduations and jobs getting in the way.
Anyhow, I'll post a picture of myself holding up a note with your post number on it, that's how you'll know it's legit. Yes, I'm fat. Yes, I'm hairy. Yes, I'm bald. No, I won't kill myself.
The link...
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>>8092289
Manly af
>>8092289
dude you look like a penis, lmao
Has anyone ever been able to rebut Betrand Russell's "Marriage and Morals"? Even Einstein said the work was brilliant.
>Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.
>The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with a serious affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.
>Even...
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Also, any rebuttal to his "Why I am not a Christian"?
> The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. When you hear people in church debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible and not worthy of self-respecting human beings.
>There are a great many ways in which, at the present moment, the church, by its insistence upon what it chooses to call...
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>>8092164
>attraction to one person cannot coexist with a serious affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue
If you truly meet someone that you love you'll care enough about them to realize that no one else will ever make you as happy as they do, saying that you are equally attracted to two different people just means that you aren't sufficiently attracted to one partner to make the thought of entertaining a second partner not worth it
>faint traces of a monogamic instinct can sometimes be perceived
Having sex with just one partner repeatedly is best because you feel comfortable and loved, which makes the quality of it much better. Sure, if both you, your partner, and a third sexual partner are all equally comfortable with the idea of an open relationship then I'm sure that having sex with multiple people would also be pleasurable, but for some, if not most people, sex with just one partner is preferable and the most pleasurable. For some people that might not be the case, but for most it is.
>Russell's father allowed Russell's mother to sleep with Russell's tutor, and Betrand Russell grew up to be a genius and win the Nobel Peace Prize.
He was raised in an environment where open relationships were okay, so it makes sense that he thinks they're best. Just because he thinks they're the best doesn't mean everyone else should feel that way. People are allowed to have different opinions on entirely subjective topics like this. Entertaining a serious debate on this subject is like having an argument about which color is objectively the best.
>>8092164
Wow aside from his stance on science as a set of tools, that guy sounds retarded. No wonder the west seems to be sliding into oblivion.
Has Russell ever heard of the emotion called jealousy? And even if there was a case for polygamy, you would have to radically recreate society in order to change such an institution as marriage, and then even if he had a better model, there is no guarantee mankind would choose to follow it and not devolve into chaos. Pleb-tier
Cyberpunk edition
What's your favorite Cyberpunk book/story? Is anyone still writing it? Why has every other subgenre tacked "punk" on the end of its name?
Previously: boards.4chan.org/lit/thread/8086364/sffg-scifi-and-fantasy-general
>>8092089
I swear to God, if anyone says Snow Crash...
>>8092094
WHY YOU DON'T LIKE THE 'ZA?
Can anyone remind me of that one novel that was about a murder mystery in the singularity age? Altered Carbon?
Is being on 4chan "reading?"
>>8091288
Technically, yes. In the sense you want it to be? No.
>>8091295
could you explain the differences between reading a book and reading a forum?
>>8091307
One's being a lazy piece of shit
One's being a less lazy piece of shit
I'll let you figure out which one's which
Why didn't he win the Nobel Prize?
Because the Nobel Committee hates Argentina.
Nobody likes Argies.
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