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which fantasy series has the best magic system and why is it mistborn?
*casts the Spell of the Macroid Toe on OP*
*at which the offending member swells to the size of a house*
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Thoughts /lit/
>>7977643
Perfect!
>>7977643
GTFO /lit/ Motherfucker
certain to trigger the intellectual infants in the current Nietzsche thread
I have come across a dilemma in comparison of these two. How does Rawls' 'veil of ignorance' handle past injustices?
It pretty much doesn't IIRC, insofar as it has no impact on the present. It's not important that blacks were worse off 200 years ago, but that they're worse off today.
Also Rawls only intended his entire theory of justice to be applied at a national level.
>>7977638
What if we look at the Indian Removal Act in 1830.
Would you say that people under the veil of ignorance would not require any people of America today to pay repartitions to native Americans because they did not preform any injustices on them, but rather if any of the guilty parties (i.e. Andrew Jackson) were still alive, the society under the 'veil' would find them guilty for currently benefiting off of stolen property?
>>7977681
reparations, not repartitions lol
I wonder how many people on /lit/ even know there's a new book from our lord and savior.
>>7977590
nick smith is a fucking faggot
>>7977590
>From the ordinary to the extraordinary, a discovery in the basement of a new house Richard's family moves to changes his life forever. Frequent dreams featuring six mysterious, lit symbols on a stone wall in a dark corridor have him baffled. One day, the secret is revealed and Richard finds himself with a tough new task of restoring peace while fighting hordes of monsters. Being the friendliest high school kid in town, he is easy to get along with and makes plenty of friends, but he must cope with several bullies, family life, and a new-found fear. What will become of Richard and what do the symbols and his dreams mean?
also, 10 elemental masters is now available in ebook
Pick one /lit/
>Your family does a moderately painful death
>You are financially and time free to spend all your time to write and read for however long you wish without restraints inflicted upon you by society
>>7977566
So I have to pick whether I want my family to die or to be free forever?
I'd have to seriously hate my family to pick their death over paradise.
>>7977571
well i don't really like my family
>>7977566
This is a shitty choice. Shouldn't it be a "you get to be free BUT with a dead family" situation?
I'd do it, btw.
I want to keep up with modern poets but I'm not quite sure how to go about it. So far I've been going to the local (more literary) bookstore and having the people there recommend books but I'd like to start with smaller and broader snippets since so much just isn't that good.
To that end, what poetry publications would you recommend? Pic related? Any others?
Also, are there any trustworthy publishers that I could follow like I do with NYRB and be safe assuming that the works they publish are high quality?
>>7977542
https://www.poets.org/
Anyone?
Can /lit/ help me out?
I'm looking for a good fantasy series to read.
Already read Wheel of Time, Lord of the Rings and A Song of Fire and Ice.
And no D&D or vidya related books please.
read the once and future king you stupid fuck. it's actually not shit like all those other books
>>7977540
the iliad
>>7977540
you can try the First Law Trilogy or the Mistborn series, they're pretty acceptable
ITT: Authors you didn't know were Jewish
>>7977352
>>7977415
kek
if you went travelling what book would you take to read and why?
Not that one, it only takes about 30 seconds.
>>7977342
something non-islamic. ideally i'd make a book with about 600 blank pages and a blank cover, and take that. then nobody could detain me on its contents, except maybe the NSA who would wonder where all the codes were.
Probably some poetry. Maybe something by Keats.
I think it is fitting to the nature of travelling.
Hey /Lit/ I was wondering if some of you might be able to help me find a book I've been looking for. I've been looking for it for about four years now? I checked it out from the library about 2007-2010, it was hardcover. The problem that has impeded my search the most is that the plot (from what I can recall) was sky pirates run around and do politics. It was the first part of a series, but it didn't get much popularity as I haven't yet found it on any lists.
What I know for certain:
The main character was male
The city floated, there was a thick cover of clouds that separated the sky from the ground and it was believed that if you went below the clouds, you would die.
There was a nunnery or city that was razed to the ground in the final chapters, like it was brutally described (or it seemed brutal to me, I would've been 11-14 during this period and honestly? Pretty sheltered)
What I'm iffy on:
I'm pretty sure the nuns, priests were silent
The main cast of characters might have went below the clouds at one point, which catalyzed the climax
The cover was tan, with reds and blues. I'm pretty sure the style was similar to something drawn by Tom Kidd.
With all of this, I'm eighty percent sure it was steampunk, or something similar. I know that gets a bad rep around here and I get it, but I'm not particularly looking for this because it was good, but nostalgia is a powerful motivator.
Thank you for taking the time to read this!
Follow up question: are there any databases that categorize books on plot elements? Perhaps I could check there. Right now I've used GoodReads and then another site someone from the AbeBooks Book Finder sent me (which seems to be missing quite a bit)
sounds like an edge chronicles book
>>7977334
probably a hail mary, but could this be it? it's all about a floating city that appears out of nowhere, and i know the ancestor monk moths are blind, but not deaf.i've never read the book, though
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002UZ5J22/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1
how does one defend Catholicism as the true belief when it's factually built upon a foundation of paganism?
why you think the Inquisition existed, silly?????????
>>7977329
How so?
>>7977329
/lit/ - literature
How good is this? What will I get out of it?
>>7977319
you'll get a better understanding of some niche memes anon. worth it imo
it's very good
you'll get a few good short stories
It's incredible.
Joyce cannot be read, only reread.
eh?
meh.
>>7977311
Maybe if u go into it blind! It's like studying philosophy you need to know context and the works it references. IE Boethius, romance of the road, Bible, and Greek mythology
>>7977311
Shut your whore mouth and get an education.
>>7977448
Also translations are terrible. You should read the original with annotations and footnotes/glosses like Shakespeare
ITT great writers that committed suicide.
dfw
>>7977285
he said great writers
>>7977285
dat feel when what?
>my gaze when i just threw away all my books and stopped reading
anyone else post-literature here?
>realize reading has become a spook
>bookshelf full of books I'd like to have read / want people to see that I've read
>get digital copies of each one, load 'em up on a kindle
>donate all books to goodwill
>haven't read one since
>mfw this was 12 years ago
Yea I dont understand why anyone reads books anymore for any reason other than for posteritys sake. I can learn more about human nature and the world by opening up twitter, instagram, and wikipedia and thinking about each from different and critical angles. All of my notes and insights about modern society will be neo artistically placed in a series of twitter aphorisms, thoughtfully done ig pictures and snaps, and finally the bubulk of theory in a wikipedia article. I am the new artist
>>7977198
Why come to lit if reading isn't your hobby? What did you replace reading with?
