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Who is the best Science Fiction author out there, /lit/?
>>8094661
Kurt Vonnegut
>>8094661
Gene Wolfe
Pynchon
>If someone were to assign to every person in the world the task of selecting the best of all customs, each one, after thorough consideration, would choose those of his own people, so strongly do humans believe that their own customs are the best ones. Therefore only a madman would treat such things as a laughing matter. There are many weighty proofs which confirm that all people have these strong attachments to their own customs, but let me describe this particularly interesting one: During his reign, Darius summoned the Hellenes at his court and asked them how much money they would accept for eating the bodies of their dead fathers. They answered that they would not do that for any amount of money. Later, Darius summoned some Indians called Kallatiai, who do eat their dead parents. In the presence of the Hellenes, with an interpreter to inform them of what was said, he asked the Indians how much money they would accept to burn the bodies of their dead fathers. They responded with an outcry, ordering him to shut his mouth lest he offend the gods. Well, then, that is how people think, and so it seems to me that Pindar was right when he said in his poetry that custom is king of all.
Why do people discount Herodotus based on trivialities about animals in far-off regions when he is sharp as a fucking razor on the stuff that really matters?
MUH REALPOLITIK HELLENE
*grabs pais and shuffles feet*
>>8094581
Because most people are ruled by custom, and it is popular to dislike Herodotus. If you ever find an unpopular thinker interesting you'll be met with ridicule by most. Remember anon: most people are more affected by connotation than meaning.
Thucydides is based too.
"The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must."
>>8094581
>'It's all subjective!! XD'
Take the fucking redpill already, cuck
White customs are superior
>50 books a year? Ha. Child's play.
>>8094489
What a Q.T.
Set meself a Goodreads target for 52 books this year and I'm way ahead of schedule. Pretty easy when you set aside a small amount of time each day to readand have no social life whatsoever.
>>8095236
yeah this
>start reading
>decide to do something else
>realise i have nothing to do and no friends to do anything with
>keep reading
What are my fellow memesters reading and drinking today? I'm drinking pic related and reading a Rémy Martin VSOP, currently at page 400.
>>8094480
Culture and Imperialism by Said. Diluted grape juice.
Have been reading Cancer Ward - Solzhenitsyn
drinking beer with my cousin
meming with goodread profile pics on her laptop
/lit/, who can say this guy didn't finished philosophy?
Protip: You can't
he didnt finish it. he only clarified how it works and why it emerges. it is as if someone described the anatomy of the body and how the digestion works to give the body cells material to build.
in the end it is equals to nothing, because none of us needs to know how our body or mind works for them to work.
when one is done with this guy one is where one started but with a different view of things, as if one first had some magical view of the body and food based on nature gods or magical substances and then after the anatomy class one had the scientific view: one still goes to eat the same lunch and the body still does the same stuff as before the new "insight".
>>8094382
Yeah, but now you understand where the poopoo comes from.
who is that?
Writing General // Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread // Stupid Questions Thread//
(All neatly wrapped in one)
Feel free to ask for critique, ideas, inspiration.
I'll start: What do you do to avoid lazy writing? I'm currently struggling with character development and the easy way out would be to orphan the protagonist. What sort of youth would be free to roam the streets to his heart's contempt?
parents are wealthy and don't care about the child?
parents have many children and can't keep track of them all?
parents are addicts and don't care?
>>8094338
>What sort of youth would be free to roam the streets to his heart's content?
One who dosent give a fuck, parents or no parents, maybe
First we need to figure out what sort of story you're trying to tell, who is this protagonist supposed to be and do?
What's a good place to buy Under the Volcano? Everywhere I go online reviews say that there are typos in the book.
Ya'll got any spicy books on hermeticism, esotericism and all that other spooky stuff?
>>8094014
Sauce on pic
>>8094014
The entire All and Everything series for esotericism that's actually interesting.
Check this list for other dank unscientifically founded memes.
>>8094263
what about the others?
also what do you think of pic related? is it fine or would an older edition be more accurate? since ive heard this one's diagrams are suspect
People who read for pleasure and/or plot:
What is your opinion on these? Worth reading?
Everyone reads for pleasure.
Those books have very enjoyable and dramatic moments, but overall are too long (filled with needless details such as the number of e-mails a character has read and the number of e-mails the character labeled as spam) and will trigger you if you have right-wing political views.
the covers are cool
>>8094341
>Everyone reads for pleasure.
Well a surprising number of people here read to achieve some sort of status or purely to gain skills.
Anyway thanks. Seems worthy of a try since people didn't immediately start shitting on it here.
I liked this book. Recommendations for books with similar themes?
>>8093825
try hesse's other books.
narcissus and goldmund, beneath the wheel, rosshalde, Gertrude etc etc. Maybe Steppenwolf or his fairy tales. Avoid the glass bead game until you've read most of his earlier stuff imo.
Thomas mann was notorious for writing stories with a western theme tied in with eastern philosophy so you could check him out. He and Hesse were friends iirc.
That's all I can remember. I haven't read hesse in over ten years. But I did read just about everything available in English. I recall Demian was my favorite.
But his books always put me in this weirdly romanticized mood. Really cool but EHHHHH it's kind of exhausting to read that kind of thing all the time. Good luck, anon.
>>8093825
what did you like about it?
>>8093825
Probably The Brothers Karamazov.
Were can i read the stories of all kinds of mythology not just the usual run-of-the mill greek?
Pic related; i am especially intrested in original african stories translated to english but i will take Australian ,edgyptian, etc stories as well. Can /lit/ point me were i need to go? Find out in the next episode of Dragon Ball Z!
You're an idiot.
Why would you read about anything else but Greek and Roman myths?
>>8092952
>BlackSands?
ITT: wildly misinterpret the moral of a book.
>only pretty girls get the guy, so ugly girls should just kill themselves
Lord of the Flies: boys will be boys.
He doesn't rape his sister, Phoebe.
Notes from the underground: be nice and friendly torwards others otherwise you'll end up like him
In all seriousness, though.
Is this faggot a hack or is he on to something?
Give us a synopsis, fag.
>>8091390
Hack. I'm not even one of those raving feminists that bitches about anything masculine, but Donovan is just ridiculous.
>>8091390
It's total garbage. Not sure why /pol/ added it to the essential Reactionary reading list. I mean, besides /pol/ being full of retards that is.
Harold Bloom negs every writer who isn't Shakespeare
He just wants to keep the canon from becoming pozzed.
Bloom is basically a condom for the canon. Let's hope he doesn't break/die any time soon.
>>8090892
I was surprised at how highly he valued Freud.
Hello there, my little literary friends. Is there anyone of you who felt disgust and disrespect at English after having learned another, more advanced European language? I personally have been living in Russia for almost 10 years now and reading Russian classics made me really wonder at all those people saying that English is the finest and most refined language. English grammar's rigidity is colossal compared to that of Russian. There are so many things in Russian that don't exist in English. What are your experiences?
>>8078247
>English is the finest and most refined language
Lol, no. Who the fuck says that?
>>8078256
I had read elsewhere on the internet.
>>8078247
As a non-native speaker I quite like English for its simplicity. It's quite easy to write something half-way decent in your language.
Nonetheless, I can see where you're coming from. I love German for its flexibility.
