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>>8226885
>when op is the king of the pseuds

>>8226885
>when I realize you are a dumb politician poster and probably don't have a single aesthetic image of a sunset saved

>>8226898
>saving images of a sunset
>not experiencing the beautiful futility of life yourself on the moment

They're bad. Not worth reading for anyone at any age.

Why is dialogue such a chore to write well? Every time you include an indication of who is speaking, it makes the writing look uglier, unless you use all kinds of tricks to paint over it.

>>8226844
They have good characters and the books were very planned out with meticulous foreshadowing. If you are a fan of the movies, there are a lot of scenes the books have that the movies don't. Including some foreshadowed things that were left out of early movies because they seemed unimportant at the time, even though they later became major plot points.

Her prose is nothing special but it's nothing terrible either, she is a better writer than most modern YA authors.

It depends on what books you like, if you read mostly light fiction there is no reason for you not to have read it by now.

>>8226759
because this is a literature board and this is not literature.

>>8226766

why not?

I enjoyed him in middle school and appreciate his role in my development as a reader, but I don't plan to revisit his works anytime soon.

The Vedantas (aka the Upanishads)

I mean, shit, its in the name dude

>>8226846
Would I really get something out of those without being knowledgeable about the context?

A Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta by René Guénon.
Then
The Vedanta and Western Tradition by Ananda Coomaraswamy

What a snoozepile

Why would you ever want to read that shite?

what is a stack and why does it deserve its own thread separate from the other two materialism generals we have in bookshelf and recent buys threads

the book is literally hundreds of memes some dead guy came up with

get the george long translation

It's an okay introduction into Stoic thought (Heraclitus is better since Heraclitus is the root of Stoicism, down to his recommendation for a 'dry soul') but not the end all be all of Stoicism.

>>8226470
>the book is literally hundreds of memes some dead guy came up with

so it's a masterpiece?

>>8226453
>Anyone else feel bad for him? He got to be an acclaimed literature writer, but it was the shit era literature

>>8226453
I'm still unsure whether he voiced the 'gravity's rainbow cookbook' or the 'reclusive author' scene. Or was it both?

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> A decade later, he consented to appear on The Simpsons—mainly, he said, because his son was a fan. Showrunner Al Jean remembers a casual, mustachioed figure, son and wife in tow. They discussed private schools and kitchen renovations. Pynchon politely declined a photo-op: “I don’t usually take pictures.” He appeared twice during the show’s run, wearing a paper bag. The first time he didn’t alter a word, but for his second cameo he threw in a bonus pun: “The Frying of Latke 49.”

While I was reading it and for about a week afterwards, I could make better decisions under pressure because it was influencing my inner monologue. It was such a fun read too. Has Weir done anything lately?

>>8226355
The book is reasonably interesting purely for the idea of how a person might survive on mars like that, but the actual quality of the writing is extremely low. It's just awkward and full of cliches, and literally every character in the books is identical. Snarky, sarcastic nerd. Literally every character is Leonard from The Big Bang Theory.

>>8226355
because this isn't reddit

Is Ligotti as good as Cioran?

>>8226339
I haven't read his fiction which supposedly has good prose but I didn't really like his writing style in this. He has a nice way of putting things at times but the style in general feels a bit stunted and tiresome and it can feel like a chore to read, whereas Cioran is a joy to read even if you don't really care for his gloomy message.

>>8226339
Not even close.

people r different r tard

>>8226080

bro u might as well try to convince me Shakespeare sucked i mean come on what kind of blatant stupidity

people get angry with things that go over their heads. just be quiet until you can enjoy poetry. (one day you will; read up on meter and such, and try to write some poetry of your own).

>>8226080
If you're following rules, doesn't it make it harder than writing prose?

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Because nobody wants to watch your retard porn over your shoulder in public. Go find somewhere else to jerk it.

>>8225978
I think you missed my point.....why limit the internet when you can find anything in a book? Is it a matter of images?

Because that is basically admitting that images are more powerful than words.

>>8226003
>i wasn't trolled into reading physical books
>i'd totally be reading about retarded young boys getting fucked in the ass not watching live action 240p of the same thing if the internet worked
it's a library, dude, they want you to better yourself

Act I

The date at wich our story takes place is a bit uncertain, but I like to place it somewhere before the first millenia AD,let's say around the year 800.


We open the curtains an are faced with an idyllic pastoral setting,lush green meadows dotted with specks of red and yellow crawling towards the horizont in every direction,encircled by an endless blue.
A mighty yellow Sun Lords over all creation from high above,indiferent to the struggles of mere men and unyielding in warmth.White cotton-like forms fill the vastness of the sky and flocks of unrecognizable birds ride the winds,breaking the silence with their shrills and trills.
In the distance we notice the faint outline of a lazy river,slowly flowing out of view.
Surrounding it are energetic balls of fluff, running and tumbling,crying and bleating,shyly jumping in the water,one at a time,as if daring each other to do it.
But the sheep are not abandoned to the elements and the fastidiousness of nature,a silent,unmoving guardian watches over them.A tall somber man, with green eyes sunken into the back of his head,and skin tanned by the sun and wrinkled by time.
This is Gelu, a shepherd, same as his father was and his grandfather before him.And,he hopes, as his children will be.He sits atop a small earth mound overwatching the river, a small wheat stalk resting in his mouth-for no particular reason-his hands rest on a long wooden staff that he uses to heard his flock.
His fingers gently run along the ruggedness of the staff from time to time and his eyes dart from cloud to cloud and from sheep to sheep.
Oddly he is draped in the skins of his protegees,white curly flocks hanging from his shoulders,covering his back and a loose,curly shepherd hat hides his dark hair.His feet are bare as he could not afford a new pair of boots,but he does not seem the mind the gentle breeze that caresses his toes.
If you were to ask Gelu What was the name of this land,he would simply shake his head,shrug his shoulders and rise his hands,and answer half-jokingly "The place where I water my sheep".Lost to time was the name of this place,but Gelu didn't care about such things.As long as he had his sheep and his family,he couldn't care less about what happened in the lands surrounding.
But this day was not to remain an ordinary day,for with the corner of his eye,in the distance,Gelu noticed a black spot that seemed to grow larger and larger.He slowly stood up,as if annoyed by the break in scenery,patted the dust off of his legs,and tightly gripping his staff took a step towards the black spot.he squinted his eyes,but the strong light did not allow him to recognize the nature of the shape.Cursing the Sun in his mind,Gelu took another step.

>>8225728
He waited,there rising above the vast greenness resembling a mighty white tree.When the spot came close enough,Gelu finally recognized it.It was a dark horse with a man clad in black riding atop it."Who could that be?" Gelu thought
"No one from the village has a horse as dark as that,nor dresses in such strange clothes"
He waited patiently, albeit a bit nervously for the rider to come nearer.His features began to come into view.He had a long black braided beard,with two little silvery crosses hanging from each braid.His hair was also long and as black as coal,held tightly in one knot.He had blue eyes,piercing,visible from afar,wich looked out of place resting on his rough,wrinkled face.The corners of his mouth seemed to naturally curl towards the ground,and a mean,unfrendly expression colored his face.When he got close enough to Gelu the Dark rider opened his mouth "dobŭr den!" he said,almost in a shout.Gelu didn't understand.He raised one eyebrow."I probably misheard",he thought.
"Dobŭr den",repeated the dark man,this time slower,while staring intently at Gelu.
Gelu shook his head and rested his chin on his staf."ha?" he responded.The rider looked annoyed.A "tsk" sound escaped his lips as he sucked his teeth.he quickly shifted his eyes from the man,towards the sky and then back to the man."salve" he said this time.Gelu smiled,that he understood.He responded with "salve amicis".
The rider looked a bit reasurred. "Quis es?" asked the rider."Gelu" he responded "pastor".The rider stared at the sheep in the background."tuum est?" Gelu nodded,smiling. The dark man gave out an aprobatory hmph while slightly rising his eyebrows."Scis quis ego sum?" asked the rider.Gelu shruged,he never saw the man before.The rider noded while staring at the sky."Ego sum repraesentativum regni Bulgarum" said the dark man with pride."maxime imperium!"continued the bulgarian,in latin."what empire?",Gelu thought.he didn't know anything about what goes in the surrounding lands.He knew about his vilage,Capidava,and the place where he watered his sheep.The only empire he ever heard about was the Roman one.could the dark man be talking about the Roman empire? No,he said something else when he introduced himself.What was it? Maybe they changed the name of the empire."Da that could be it".Well it doesn't matter what they call themselves now.They still speak latin and there's only one "empire".But what do these romans want now? are they happy that he speaks their language?" Gelu scratched his head."et?" he asked. "et Nunc vicus et imperii pars" answered the rider."but aren't we part of the empire already?"he thought.or at least that's what he heard.Gelu nodded. "bene".

>>8225742
The dark man stared at Gelu,as if expecting something more,or something else,then straightening his back continued "et vade in vicum qui indicavit".Well I can do that,he thought,I'm heading there anyway"."bene" he repeated.The rider squinted his eyes and said nothing.They stared at each other for a while,silently,analyzing each other.Then the rider broke the silence again "Quare linguam Latinam scis?"
Gelu smiled.So it was good that he learned it,well his whole village did,but that didnt matter now."unum itio Iudaeus docuit nos castellum.Carus erat" the dark man raised an eyebrow "quod?" "ut boni cives Romani imperii!" Gelu answered closing his eyes and swelling his chest. "Romani imperii?" the rider repeated questioningly.Gelu noded with a smile. The rider snorted and turning his horse around gave out a short laugh "Kha evrei!"and rode off back from where he came while waving his hand. Gelu was puzzled."What did the raider say?Eh" said Gelu while rising his shoulders."doesn't matter now.I should head back to the village".He started walking slowly towards his bleating sheep,turning around from time to time until the dark rider dissapeared over the horizont.

>>8225605
All the time. I'm really insecure about myself in general.

>tfw you read fewer than 3 hours per day
>you read fewer than 6 books a month
>you read fewer than 100 books a year

if any of this applies to you, you don't read enough, and you probably don't actually enjoy literature.

Or you have a job because your parents no longer support your freeloading ways

Homo unius libri

Wiggy is a lightweight intellect compared to Schopenhauer. All that pseudo-mathematical claptrap and logomancy doesn't amount to much next to Schopenhauer's doctoral dissertation, to say nothing of his other works.

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>>8225577
Wait, didn't Wittgenstein reread Schopenhauer's Fourfold Root of Sufficient Reason several times? I thought that Wittgenstein liked Schopenhauer?

>>8225610

Yes and then he met Bertrand Russell and went full retard

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