It completely mogs Tolkien and every other work in the genre, it’s just THAT good
Even Robert Jordan is superior to Gurm.
>>23394580But what was Daenarys' tax policy tho?
>>23395649It was the one that made everyone happy
>>23395680gay
>>23395649This is covered in detail in the extra 500 pages of mereen content in ADWD: extended edition
Why is the Recognitions considered a difficult book?Did you guys have a hard time with it?
>>23395717I dont read bs dialogue """""novels"""""
>>23395717that had better be a dude
It’s boring
>>23395717book is the prime minister of yammertopia
>>23395721J R is a dialogue novelThis one not so much
> Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods’ roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.wtf is this book?
>>23395642Why? Honest complain desu and the whole Roman Catholic reference at the start they probably don't even do anymore, cus I was raised polish catholic and went to church on holidays and they never did the altare dei thing
>>23395699You don't deserve to be literate. No book deserves to be read by you.
>>23395585He sounds like a real jerk
>>23395585It sounds pretty tasty except for the kidneys but I also just dislike eating kidneys. They smell too much like piss to me, even after being properly washed
>>23395706Why so mean?>>23395753See that's why I'm vegan hehe
Why were sports not as popular during the medieval period compared to the Roman and GreekAny literature or articles on the metaphysics of sport and a Traditionalist account of Sports. These games seem to be degenerations of rituals.
>>23392477This is exactly what you are looking for, OP.
>>23395418Thank you so much, have you read the book?
>>23395477Yes, but I only read the second half which talks about sports. It's pretty good.
>>23392477>90% of medieval artwork is tournaments that look almost exactly like war>They loved fighting so much they only stopped doing it for fun when a war started>guys in full plate armor fighting in the fucking desert>you don't have to pay them they want to go die there>man why did sports fall off so hard in the medieval periodThey realized that making life into a sport makes everyone an athlete, and then plunged the world into 1200 years of nonstop war. Game on heretics.
>>23392569The Dark Ages being a meme is not a claim that the 12th century was a great time to be alive, simply that the cartoonish suffering depicted therein is almost entirely exaggeration. The "Dark Ages" is also a huge (despite having shrunk as it became obvious how much of a meme it was) period of time, and encompasses hundreds of ethnic groups and tribes none of whom had a uniform experience throughout it.The whole thing was just invented to let the renaissance pretend to be more important than they actually were.
>Spend 58 years writing 38 Conan-knockoff novels about your slave girl rape fetish>92 years old with 3 adult children and still going at itHow does he do it?
>>23394260We even have the same ethical beliefs> Lange earned his PhD in 1963 from Princeton University. His dissertation was named: "In defence of ethical naturalism: an examination of certain aspects of naturalistic fallacy, with particular attention to the logic of an open question argument". Lange summed it up in an interview by saying "if one cannot make sense of morality within some sort of satisfying, natural context, then one is likely to end up with no morality, which is less than societally reassuring, or is likely to end up with a competitive plethora of moralities in which ninety-nine percent of the world's population is convinced that the other ninety-nine percent is unclean, stupid, uninformed, vicious, depraved, in need of coercive correction, and such. That too, seems less than reassuring."
>>23394059So I only read the first one, but there is no explicit sex. Not sure if this changes later. So I assume he was just trying to write a fantasy, and a bunch of pervs got hooked on the premise, so he leaned into it.
>>23394251I know Gor used to be pretty big back when he was first writing it. I'm honestly just surprised that he's still pumping these novels out.
>>23394059Sex keeps you young. Maybe he edges for months at a time between novels. Would you want to die when you've got a 100 day nut brewing?
Man is blessed, still able to do what he loves at 92. He was still teaching not that long ago too. https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/82090
Have you ever read the complete works of a particular author? Would you like to?
No but I came very close with Kafka. I think pretty much only the blue octavo notebooks and some of the diaries I've missed. He used to be everything for me when I was in my late teens/early twenties. Can't really see any author ever having that kind of meaning for me again, so probably no and no in answer to your questions, looking to the future.
>>23392934John Zerzan back when I was an edgelord, before edgelordism was defined, or >reifiedas Zerzan would say.Close to it now w DFW, NNTaleb, and Fante.Half way:Dickens, Conrad, Kerouac, VonnegutWant to:Proust (only read le part 1)
>>23394424anyone here read Neusner (900 + books published) or that nigga Elron The Dianetist? I’d like to read random titles from these guys just to see what kind of a mind can barf out that much
>>23393779What is your favorite Fitzgerald work? I believe I have two or three left to go. I most enjoyed Tender is the Night, but I think Gatsby’s reputation is well-deserved and definitely his tightest work.
>>23395600nta but I've read almost everything Fitzgerald wrote and Tender is the Night is still by far my favorite. There's a newer edition that tells the story in chronological order though, which sucks. The definitive version is the original, which begins with Rosemary in Cannes.
When collecting books by series or by author, how much does it matter to you whether all the books are of the same imprint and/or design?Pic related
>>23395040>implyingI took the photo with my phone and then emailed it to myself so I could make this thread on my computer.
>>23394399>only first editions matterWhy? Why do they matter at all. I don't understand this retarded obsession people have with first editions. Who cares.
>>23395155Spoken like someone who hasn't ever had a first edition
>>23395520Spoken like someone who collects funko pops
>>23395155Because they have a clear limit on the amount of copies that exist. Any decent print shop can make a "delux limited edition" run to sell to retards at marked up prices, but that shitty chapbook printed on toiletpaper which ran under 500 copies will always be Edgar Alen Poe's first novel. Just practically speaking, if you want any resale value for your collection it should be primarily first editions.
I have a problem with postmodernism (it hurts my feelings) so I have ventured into Kant.I have also read Pierre Manent and I was intrigued by his idea of social constructivism being paradoxical.I'm a big naturalist.
>>23395135I effort post to procrastinate from work...
>>23395127>You pretty quickly realize every popular thing you've heard about an author is either just like the total opposite of what they think or so totally misrepresented that it has almost 0 bearing on the author themselves or their ideas. I'm not a philosophy student, but part of my studies is political philosophy and this is something I noticed quite a lot.Our professor told us to read authors and not second-hand accounts of them, or especially what we learned about them from the media or school.Reading authors like Marx was surprising in a way.My problem is that I am a bit of a nationalist. I do prefer analytical philosophy (especially Analytical Marxism), but continental philosophy is closer to me, because I live in continental Europe lol.
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>>23393479Best thing he had said but not sure it’s a fair take down desu. I don’t like the post modernists but I have to admit there is some intellectual merit there. Now it’s of course just a sort of political weapon and less of a serious philosophy
>>23392612That it's as pointless as the cultural constructions it decries as pointless.
This is the seal of Kuyuk KhanYou must respect and fear it or your mother will die in her sleep tonight
I respect and fear the seal, great oceanic khan
>You Anglos will never have a Don Quixote. No other language can ever have a Don Quixote. It's impossible, you do not have the language to write a Don Quixote. In the best of cases you can have an intelligent translator to make you see from afar what Don Quixote really is. Either you know Spanish, or you can't taste that. That is only tasted in Spanish, in native Spanish.
>>23395523You cope harder every day in front of the mirror to avoid suicide.
>>23395550https://x.com/YisusMasterOOC/status/1791064335269113951
>>23393432absolutely mindbending cope
>>23393432Mind- and assbroken response.
>>23395588>>23395593It's true. They aren't literature.
do you write notes, anon?"I write [ideas] down so I don't commit suicide later having forgotten the idea. I've forgotten probably two or three major ideas, and it'll make you sick, just horrible. Write the idea down. You'll say: I'll never forget this idea. Ah-uh: you can forget them." - David Lynch
>>23395569tits
>>23395569I only write down my dreams
yup i have multiple notepads filled with ideas and theories of poetry and painting. i recently came to the conclusion that art is about indirection of emotion through the use of various devices. like metaphor or personification in poetry or, line and shape and color in painting.
Hi /lit/ what do You think of this here bit of slang? I want to post it on UrbanDictionary, but the site is having some issues.Todd:>A todd is Someone that often admires Another or notices Them in a positive fashion, but shows Thier emotions or feelings of that in a way that may rub that person the wrong way by making things slightly more complicated for Them in Thier day to day life, but as a some what twisted sign of respect, with a stupidly almost playful intent. Often a low IQ tactic used by shy or awkward personality types to hopefully garner some attention from that from which They notice while not having the nerve to engage in or play into Another in lieu of a lousy inferiority complex.Not as bad as a "wet blanket" though definitely on the very furthest edge of the umbrella. They have, in My opinion, a stronger (if any) intent to foster any decent rapport with that which whom They notice (assuming there isn't one already).EXAMPLE:Eric: Man Lansings girl Angela sure is something else.Manny: Heh. I'll say. Lucky guy. ^_^(Eric and Manny over hear Lansing and Angela speak)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Are you on the spectrum?
"He's such a LeFou"
Are there any?
>>23394344>>23394965Uoh god Jesus she's too cute
>>23387961For your consideration.
>>23393876ironic
I thought steppenwolf was Evangelion-esque
>>23393922Hey, I almost want to agree with you but there are two massive differences between Dosto and Eva. 1 is that Fyodor is too pre-Freudian with his character analysis to ever conform to the negative spiritual depiction Eva has of its characters. 2 is that Eva is too materialist-Kabbalastic to ever say anything true to religious thought; religion is a framework hiding an underlying element of truth ready to be clutched and perverted by the whims of men.They go on completely different ways. With Fyodor you end with a gross perversion of The Way of a Pilgrim, with Evangelion you get the missing link between Schopenhauer and Hegel through a work that understands neither.
>smartest conservative intellectual
To be called a Thinker implies you are adding to the conversation, not one single Conservative has done this in over 100 years.
>Conservative pundits today
>>23393395They hate each other, I don't know why the shock when he said that quote.
>>23393480>homosexual trostkyiteThis. He sowed the seeds of Neocon faggotry for the next century.
>>23393395kek
Is there any novel, poem, or play that arouses you every time you read it? Which excites your imagination, your erotic imagination as much as your poetic or literary imagination? Ever read a novel or story you masturbated to? Which is it?
Pic rel. (Or really anything Kultgen wrote)This "genre" really does it for me. Any other suggestions for books where husband has an affair and leaves his wife? Inb4>Stoner>Rabbit Run
Ulysses
Villon and fat madge. I was going to post it, but it sucks in english and I don't read french. Yes, yes, I know.>>23394554>>23394678Really? I remember the scene where she fucks him being uncomfortably good, but nothing else hit me. It was mostly depressing and acrimonious. Just actual paedos or what?
>>23395508The scenes of intimacy in the first part had a very 'aphrodisiac' (see foreword) effect on me. Not the events themselves, but the way they were told, the way the prose was structured, the sound it makes when spoken out loud. While reading it I felt like Nabokov could be talking about anything (e.g. whales) and I'd still feel aroused due to the way the sentences and words were put together. I was attracted to the written word in its purest form. A very weird experience.I remember the Annabel chapters and the one with Lolita on the sofa being the big ones.
>>23394547No. And I also get embarrassed for strippers. Put your clothes on girl
