Who here /writessmut/? Sometimes I write ' normal' stuff, but I always have the time of my life writing weird porn. Writing your own porn is great:
>caters directly to all your fetishes
>supreme feeling of power when you can masturbate to your own work
>even if it's kinda shit sick fucks on the internet will love it
Jesus Christ that picture is unsettling
then the woman dies at the end, the protagonist feels sad, and it's remembered as an artistic masterpiece in its fetish category for years to come
>>7373056
Kek, it's true though
ITT: nonfiction based books.
Give me your best with a short summary of what it's about.
Pic-related is about the invention of childhood, its golden age, and its titular disappearance.
I'm looking for the best book on espionage and spies.
Anyone knows anything?
ITT: nonfiction recommendations.
>>7372653
Slightly related:
The Kekoo's Egg
It's about the first case of attempted cyber espionage in the US by German kids paid by the Soviets. It may not be up your alley if you're not that much into computers, there's a lot about the early Internet.
Serial killer with a collapsing Soviet union as a backdrop. Brilliant. If you're into serial killers, this is one of the best.
>genre fiction
>novels
>>7372631
quality thread
>>7372635
>Quality threads.
I recently finished Dawikins God Illusion. I don't want to discuss this book because it was basicly >muh darwinism, but i admit that this book made me feel insignificant as a human being. There is so much going on in this world and the universe, that anything we do actually doesnt matter.
What are some books that make me feel tiny and insignificant. I'm talking popular science cause im stupid as fuck and won't get the theory of relativity and stuff like that.
Where do you usually lurk? You aren't from /lit/ i presume?
God Illusion is an alright book. It's not popscience but it ain't exactly a philosophical treaty either. It provides a well executed set of counter-arguments, built up on an extensive bibliography of academic works and research. It's not really meant to elevate the reader to any sort of higher mindset.
/lit/ hates Dawkins because of the symbolism associated with the new atheism, wh the "fedora-man" meme ('meme' in Dawkins's sense) which is nothing but a huge spook. This whole subject is much more interesting in my opinion, since it really shows how easy it is to manipulate people, even those siting in holographic ivory tower of internet intelligentsia.
It's funny that those who think of themselves as being ahead of the flock of TV-watching 'sheep' and immune to being guided by there nose are usually the ones who fall for the most obvious of manipulations. Just show them a way to secure their own masculinity in an indirect way; for example by bashing an emasculated 'fedora tipping' atheist, and they will forget all principles of forming an informed worldview.
It's mostly the fault of Christians that lost their battle against atheism in the late 00s and could no longer manifest their faith on the internet, so they had to vent their frustration by using guerilla warfare ad hominems. Perhaps atheist are also to blame for kicking the dead horse a little bit too much...
Anyway - Dawkins is an ok writer. By no way is he an amazing author that will go down in history for centuries to come, but he went through the struggle of laying down the concrete blocks, that we now take for granted. More over, he never allowed to get SJW shit on his legacy, by repeatedly pointing out their bullshit, which shows that he has a certain beliefs and he is ready to fight for them; a trait that he deserves a lot of respect for, especially in today's academia.
Ummm... what did you want OP? right...
First read 'The Last Messiah' by that norwegian dude. Its really short, should take you less than an hour.
Read some Lovecraft. Start with 'At The Mountains of Madness'. If you want less fiction and more of a stream of consciousness kinda thing go for 'The conspiracy against the human race' Thomas Ligotti. Many people shit on him here, but i know some people that liked him.
If you are not scared by math you might want to give 'A Road to Reality' a try.
Personally I found "The Selfish Gene" much more depressing.
>>7372688
>>7372688
Thanks for the tips, ill look into that.
Actually read Mountains of Madness allready a couple years back.
>Where do you usually lurk
I lurk /lit/ now and then and got to know some really good books (and a lot of junk too) and i actually got into Dawkins because he got bashed on this board.
Hes got some good points, but what i really liked about the book is the picture it paints about our world. For example the small probability that someone is even born on a planet like ours. Really got me thinking, and now i need more stuff like that. Not necesarilly religous stuff. Ill probably look into Hawkings universe in a nutshell too.
>>7372585
I don't see how your own life can seem insignificant to you. In fact it is much easier to argue that 99.9999% of the universe and 99% of what happens on the earth is in fact not significant to your life. Your life (and the things influencing it) is ultimately the only thing that matters. So what I want to say is: the perspective is a bit weird. Of course your life is insignificant to the universe, but the universe is not a sentient being; and your life might very well be significant to a lot of others (friends, family etc.). But I digress.
I think that you feel the most helpless and tiny when your own life is in the hand of others, i.e. your decisions cannot change your life (or you are in a loss-loss situation). If you want to read about this, you can start with Kafka (being powerless and seemingly unable to change their destiny is often a key feature of his characters). Other books are Journey to the End of the Night by Céline, which is about a dude who is kind of stuck in a low social class for his whole life or Homo Faber by Max Frisch which is about a guy getting constantly fucked by bad luck.
I know these are maybe not the kind of books you were explicitly asking for, but whatever, they are good regardless and maybe you'll enjoy them anyway.
>>7372688
>unironically using the term SJW
And yet you complain about "fedora-man" memes. Recs aren't too bullshitty though.
Here pic related is one of my fav fedora pics. I think it kind of ironically satirizes both fedora wearers and posters alike by Cranston's hyperbolic tipping. Don't you like it as well?
They still read fiction.
>>7372495
>I dont try to pack as much joy into a life of suffering as i can
>I think my false erudition and philosophy will matter in the least
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
>>7372516
This, but without the religious tone
>>7372495
>Hasn't read enough Continental philosophy to know that the fiction/non-fiction dichotomy is a lie.
What is the best school of literary criticism?
>>7372487
>best school
>thinking hierarchies should exist in lit crit
>not fully embracing the post-modern modality of intersectional studies consisting in themselves of complex and inter-meta-textual multiplicities, divergents and breaks/flows which organise the mechanic assemblage into the falsely perceived totality we may call a 'text'
>>7372487
Bardolatry.
>>7372487
my school nigga
we smoke dank kush
and inject 3 (three) proetions erry day
in blessed hopes
we become enlightened gigga nigas
>now analyze that
What are some psychology books that will help me over over-analyze peoples every action and word?
>>7372454
oxfordbibliography has a great psychology section. Just use it with bookzz
>>7372454
>going to work at a place like that
Hey Giancarlo, do you ever get the feeling we're the bad guys?
>>7372479
>good guys
>bad guys
Well spook'd my friend, as long as you are acting in your own best interest you have nothing to be worried about
Who are the great literary fat girls? Writers or characters both, just so long as they are qt jouflottes.
>>7372345
Gerty Stein
Doris Lessing
>>7372365
icantfaptothis.jpg
>>7372345
Why forgot the last picture of the set
What are some good lit tattoos?
Tattoos are not /lit/.
>>7372306
Tattoos are for slaves, cattle and other types of living property.
Tattoos are haram.
How the fuck do I git gud?
>>7372279
drugs, depression; really any mental malaise or heavy perspective shift/widening experience
>>7372288
Do I have to just write when I'm drunk?
>>7372290
No. You have to write while you're drunk and sad.
So, how long did it take for you to read The Holy Bible?
About 6 months.
60% of the Old Testament was just a fucking slog to get through and I read it on and off a lot, forcing my way through most of it. At least I can say I've read it from cover to cover now.
I have only read Genesis, John, and Revelations
>>7372188
damn...
you read other books while reading the bible right?
How do you feel about the use of internet colloquialisms in literature and journalism?
I came across this example of it, by the 59 year old Houellebecq no less:
>It’s unlikely that the insignificant opportunist who passes for our head of state, or the congenital moron who plays the part of our prime minister, or even the “stars of the opposition” (LOL) will emerge from the test looking any brighter.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/opinion/how-frances-leaders-failed-its-people.html
Is this to become the norm now?
It is the abbreviation for the French opposition party you mong (L'organisation Libérale)
>>7372165
They wouldn't use that abbreviation so casually in the New York Times for an American audience, m8. Houellebecq is lmaoing.
>>7372159
It's the job of literature and journalism to reflect current culture. It can go nowhere without referencing popular slang, or internet memes.
What is the strongest argument for the existence of God?
Also, post Richard Dawkins getting destroyed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKe4fshETQ4
>>7372148
not /lit/
>>7372148
The universe is not old enough to achieve this level of order by random chance.
>>7372162
That's a terrible argument though.
Are there any books on comparative study of significance of numbers in mythology / religions/ occultism?
>>7372142
René Guenon studied comparative religion.
Maybe you'll find what you want there. I never read him, is on my to-read list.
>>7372236
i just want the numbers
>>7372142
I don't know this is but Google said this was similar
Rogerson's Book of Numbers: The Culture of Numbers from 1001 Nights to the Seven Wonders of the World
Does your literary aesthetic charm women?
I was reading The Brothers Karamazov when I met my current gf. Its absolutely divine, would not want a non-literary oriented gf at all
>I was reading The Brothers Karamazov when I met my current gf. Its absolutely divine, would not want a non-literary oriented gf at all
>>7372016
IKR. I wanna say its bait but my gut is telling me OP is srs.
4/10
>>7372008
It worked with Marilyn Monroe and that one guy.
