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are there any good novels about isolated online communities? or just internet communities in general? the closest i could think of is richard yates (the novel by tao lin) but that's not exactly what i'm talking about.
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>>7997143
Serial Experiments Lain?
It ain't a novel but it's there.
You'd have to be very creative to make an internet community interesting
homestuck was this early on but then the trolls were introduced and it turned to shit
DANKEST MEME Edition
What's your favorite book that is a cheap knock off of another series?
Previously: >>7992428 → #
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg (embed)
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg (embed)
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg (embed)
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg (embed)
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg (embed)
Honorary bad anime fedora edition
>>7995472 #
Recommend Riyria its good
Old Man's War is a good knock off of Starship Troopers
Also reminder authors with Terry in their name are shit, do not read.
How do game of thrones book fans feel forced to experience the new book through the filter of bad HBO writers and bad actors? Has there ever been such a cucking?
>bad HBO writers
But the books's author is also bad.
are the books any good?
never even watched the show. I don't usually like fantasy shit
I've read all of the books and the show is honestly superior. At least with the show I can get my mindless entertainment delivered in discrete chunks. I'll probably finish the series (yeah right, he'll never get around to wrapping it up) but only because I've been cucked by the sunk cost fallacy.
I started reading this today and I binged the first 150 pages all in a day.
I FINALLY FUCKING GET IT. 5 years spent on /lit/ and I finally understand every single one of you going crazy about this book.
Infinite Jest is the greatest literary work since the beginning of humanity.
Ouch, the old edition.
>>7991673
It's 9/10 breddy gud.
>>7991683
lol this bear make me laugh
I know how ASOIAF Is going to end guys! Spoilers obviously. Not going to say source, but it's reliable.
>20 years pass from current events
>Not much changes yknow, slow moving >whatever.
>Lollys' son is all grown up.
>Rape baby ftw
>Rises in rank and title
>Leads army now.
>Kills Euron
>Takes his horn
>Uses horn to steal dragons
>Makes drogon eat Daenarys
>Uses dragons and army to kill all the Others
>As he travels he makes his army bigger >flays all the boltons- all of them.
>Kills every single fray in front of Walter Frey >Walter frey is slowroasted and eaten by drogon
>reunites seven kingdoms under his command
>Flies back across narrow sea
>Unites the rest of the world under his command
>Travels to Valyria on dragons
>finds other dragons eggs
>Takes them and hatches them cause hes a fucking badass motherfucker
>Creates dragon army, has Total control >Cersei cries in the background
>wishes she had let lollys family name the greatest hero of all time after her father. >Cersei kills herself
>Jamie kills himself
>Tyrion long dead from broken liver
>Jon snow long dead from broken vows
>Arya raped to death by the hounds ghost >Everyone important dead
>Lollys bastard crowned eternal king
>GG, WP
>Nobody expects it
>What a twist
>George R.R Martin murdered in his sleep
>Bran Gettin lit af beyond the wall with the children and what not
>Brans face when he watches this all go down through the crows/trees
Sorry for the fucked up greentext in some spots, I rewrote it in the box a bit and guess I fucked up. O well. Also anyone jerk it to the thought of lollys getting raped 50 times by commoners or was that just me?
Nothing personnel, Westeros
Hello /lit/. I'm reading Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, and I am able to understand it without using any secondary texts, but I'd like to read more about the Prometheus myth. Can you suggest me a good book/article/paper about it?
B-bump
How I get into eastern philosophy? Who are the most notable philosophers, and which one should I start with? Please no new-agey shit, if possible.
Reading philosophy is waste of time
>>8000844
And, if this means anything, I'm not a complete novice to philosophy, having read most of Plato's dialogues, most of Aristotle's Shit, most of Nietzsche and The Tractatus.
>>8000844
Does Buddha have his own writings? You should read those, probably.
Hello /lit/. I'm interested in classical books and authors like Shakespeare, Dante and Cervantes. The thing is that I haven't read any classical pieces before or many other books than some when I was a teenager, so should I read something to "prepare" myself for reading classical pieces by starting in some order so that I would "get it"? Or can you just go ahead and read all you want from where ever you want without it affecting your reading experience or understanding the book? Thank you for your time...
>>8000262
Start with Shakespeare, if you can't enjoy him you're basically a permapleb.
>>8000272
What book/books?
>>8000307
Do you want humor, sadness, action, romace, historical stuff, etc? Its all there. Look around and see, you can't go wrong and none of the works are that long so you can power through them if you feel like they start off slow.
I don't know of your level of comprehension of his diction, if you feel like your having trouble, there's a few versions that define words and summarize scenes so you can both enjoy and understand the writing.
Ok, so I read The Futurological Congress by Lem on /lit/'s recommendation. I was searching for sci-fi with beautiful prose and the book came up. Being a fan of Tarkovsky's Solaris, I thought Lem's books would be equally intense and beautiful.
What I got, however, seemed like third rate Vonnegut (and Vonnegut's already third rate). Don't get me wrong. It was a decent and amusing read, which is what I needed at the time. My question is just, should I try any other Lem books? I want to read Solaris. But I'm afraid it'll be just like FC; an interesting idea wrapped up in mediocre postmodernist prose. Thoughts?
>>7998178
You know Polish?
>postmodernist prose
>The Futurological Congress
wat
ITT: We post our favorite sex manual.
ITT: We post our favorite genocide collection book.
>>7997482
Tips fedora and katana
>>7997512
(you)
favorite books of all time. i'll start
-- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
-- Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
-- A Separate Peace, John Knowles
First time on /lit/, but I'm like 90% sure this is how you guys shitpost.
Look what I saw driving today. Is he back?
>>8001789
That's my car. : /
That's my car, OP.
>>8001789
That's my car famicon
Should I read this? The hype surrounding it and the author's image has always turned me off. Is it really as good as some say it is?
I'm about half way though right now. I'm enjoying myself.
>choose all tennis courts
>>8001723
*vapes in your direction*
China is already a world power. It's pretty much colonized Africa already. But the fact is it has a corrupt political system, a disgusting backwards pseudo-Western culture, a brutal legal system and no aesthetic standards at all. It's one giant Kowloon Walled City. Observing China from space is like watching flies reproduce on a piece of dog feces. I'm sure it's fun walking around Guangzhou in your leather trenchcoat, black sports shades and pinstriped fedora while the hunchbacked peasants clack and hurry around your slow-moving gait, but in reality the only reason you enjoy it is because you enjoy a sense of superiority there that you know you will never experience anywhere else as a result of your autism and lack of social grace. Who cares if it's going to be a "major international player"? All that means is that a bunch of figures will change on official government documents. Regardless of muh GDP or muh exports you will still be living as the only semi self-aware human being in a sea of callous clones. But, hey. Who am I to judge right? I mean I'm sure you enjoy taking financially desperate girls who were lucky not to be aborted (forcefull or otherwise) back to your cube-like apartment where you can eat your gutter oil-based food and watch a Chinese imitation of Rush Hour 2 with a Uyghur playing Chris Rock's character. I'm sure it's great wheezing through the smog each morning to teach a bunch of kids who look like anime burn victims how to say "good afternoon!" and "my parents wanted a son!". I wouldn't be at all surprised if your face bears a wide and expressive smile as you stand at your window at night and watch the diesel-guzzling trucks spewing black smoke as they and other vehicles traverse a street lined with the bodies of deceased children. I mean why wouldn't you enjoy the prospect of dressing in your favorite imitation Armani tshirts sewed by some eight year old in Shenzhen and then stepping into an elevator knowing that today may very well be the day it plummets all fifty stories of your poorly engineered apartment building or traps you inside its doors, leaving you to starve as a nation of consumers squat near their bulky televisions and eat rice with chopsticks while watching a reality TV show in which your death inside the aforementioned elevator provides the entertainment. Well good luck buddy, to you and your Samsung wife and your pudgy, asthmatic son who you really didn't expect to look like that.
I have, it is.
The Zen master Hakuin was praised by his neighbours as one living a pure life.
A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned a food store lived near him. Suddenly, without any warning, her parents discovered she was with child.
This made her parents angry. She would not confess who the man was, but after much harassment at last named Hakuin.
In great anger the parent went to the master. "Is that so?" was all he would say.
After the child was born it was brought to Hakuin. By this time he had lost his reputation, which did not trouble him, but he took very good care of the child. He obtained milk from his neighbours and everything else he needed.
A year later the girl-mother could stand it no longer. She told her parents the truth - the real father of the child was a young man who worked in the fishmarket.
The mother and father of the girl at once went to Hakuin to ask forgiveness, to apologize at length, and to get the child back.
Hakuin was willing. In yielding the child, all he said was: "Is that so?"
>How do you interpret this Koan?
>What does it teach you?
It teaches me to do my own homework.
>>8001708
take things as they come
this isn't really that deep a koan
How do you learn to read faster? I know, read more. And, by the way, I know that the speed of reading does not necesarily make you a good reader. I ask because I find my mind wandering very easily when I read, and find it very difficult to use my time efficiently when I read. I see myself reading a passage and pretty much forgetting how to read for a second before I wake up from my trance and have to start the whole passage over again. Does meditation help with concentration? If possible, I would like to be able to read both deeply/thoroughly as well as efficiently, so if you guys have any tips, I'd appreciate the help.
bumpin
Yeah meditation would probably help.
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