Why are Americans so resistant to this man? It seems like he just wanted the best for everybody
>>10377538https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A
>>10378118So you're a jew, right?
>>10378845>USSR rose to international superpower status>Cuba embargoed by its biggest neighbour and most powerful country on the earth, still managed to survive>Venezuelaeconomy collapsed after oil price took a nose dive. URSS and Venezuela went to shit after their government fucked it up. Russia didn't started the much needed reforms and Venezuela didn't diversified its economy. How is that unique to communism?
>>10377625Yes Nietzsche deserves some of the blame. It's because the ideas are bad and putting them in practice leads to innocent people suffering.
>>10377531The road to hell is littered with good guys with good intentions.>>10377554>best for everybodyOh yeah, Communism has such a wonderful track record of economy, human rights and general prosperity in the past 100 years.>>10377624An expected opinion of a filthy collectivist.
Let's start a thread where we take a quote from a book and other anons try to guess it. Don't make it too generic. Looking it up is cheating, obviously.
"Yes."
>>10379909I anchor my ship for a little while only,
>>10380140araby
>>10380166RightLove that story
Waking up to a loud crash rarely means something good is happening.
>Start up short story collection>Feel like it doesn't make sense to leave off in the middle of a story>Now I have to time my reading around where I need to leave off instead of just marking wherever I happen to stop>Get through it far slower than the average novelWho else?
I feel the same about chapters.
Yeah
>>10378996Short stories are meant to be read in one sitting, what with being so short and all.
I have never read something so enthralling and masterfully written as the two chapters where Levin mows the lawn.
>NumbersI get it. There were tons of semites.
That part of Les Miserables where Hugo interrupts a chase scene to THOROUGHLY describe the history of the sewers of Paris for 50 pages. Although by that point you're used to Hugo's rambling and he's sort of become that adorable grandpa that never stops talking about pointless things.
>>10377423The four chapters starting with A Bower in the Arsacides get pretty tedious. Rest of the book is flawless though
Most of The Trial
teen thread
Post your novel ideasit's not like it's going anywhere
>>10379238I'm intrigued by your comicbook arcology story, can you post some? If you know it's trying to say way too much maybe you could condense it to the simple vers and trim to 150-200,000 words
>>10379326sorry, its on a flash drive in a storage bin. I have a hardcopy here but I'd rather not transcribe it verbatim.this is an old print on demand version i put up on amazon. Might be a dead link thou, don't know if lulu.com still has my manuscript on file.https://www.amazon.com/Crash-Flux-Kevin-Battleson/dp/1304362787/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1512901212&sr=8-1&keywords=crash+flux
>>10379380>>10379380I think that edition has some atrocious editing, spelling and grammar errors as well.The one with the green circuit board background is the most current, i think, but I can't find it.
>>10379380no, i guess they do have it on file. this is the 6x9 version i posted after all the edits, should be a clean copy. Really weird tho, can't find the green circuit cover anywhere. Ah, doesn't really matter, it was in pocketbook format anyway.
>>10379157lolwut. maybe 4chan isn't for you.
How much greater were Numenoreans meant to be than normal men?I know they're meant to be taller (Elendil was 7 feet tall) and live longer, but were they stronger and smarter too? What I don't get is how the greatest of the Numenoreans; Isildur, 2 of his brothers and his own personal guard were btfo in the Gladden fields by only 1000 or so Orcs.
>>10375966Power begets corruption,The powerless are near-incorruptible.Yet evil lies in all men's hearts even the kindest of souls, as shown by the fall of Frodo at the very end.
>>10376046I agree with you, good post.The quote you referenced is by Arthur C Clark though
>>10375274they had like three times the normal lifespan of men, and to normal folk were almost indistinguishable from elves (except their height)Isildur was destined to die and was already mad with power from the ringthe two thousand or so orcs (its written that the orcs outnumbered them ten to one) directly ambushed the lead convoy in the war party and attacked Isildur and his men directly. They were also directly from Barad-dur, it was raining, the orcs had the terrain advantage, and they were all tired from just having fought the fucking siege of barad-dur
>>10379940>and they were all tired from just having fought the fucking siege of barad-durBut his death came years after the ring came into his possession, did it not?Or did he write his letters on the way from Mordor?
>>10380048he had it for like 2 years
/lit/ what is your opinion on night vale, is it good or is it another piece of trash from Tumblr?
>>10379544the fanart of it makes me want to kill myself
People who think the show wasn't always tumblr trash simply outgrew their liberalism and haven't gone back to listen to earlier episodes.
valentine's day special was pretty good, and street cleaning daythat's all I remember, didn't get more than 30 episodes deep, and that was when it was new
Like so many things, the fan girls made the community surrounding intolerable. There’s no bigger boner killer than a bunch of fat girls with chunky glasses and pink or blue hair wearing dr Who shirts who run around in circles vomiting fandom quotes inbewteen rants about why they can’t keep a man.
>>10379536Trash
I like these books because they expand your vocabulary. My suggestion goes to, of course, Gene Wolfe.
>>10378652>are used somewhere in 20th century englishi don't recall him saying that and i don't have a copy onhand to check it againstthere are definitely more than a few non-english words
>>10376648Thank goodness
Cactus Tortillas Yecarthy
Revolt Against the Modern World
>>10378956He claims it in the appendix to Shadow of the Torturer I think
What gives a book mass appeal, /lit/?
It has to appeal to 13 year old girlsOr the loathing of older men
>>10380144Imaginative associations instead of fanciful associations.
write whatison your mind
I'm saying this 95% unironically, I have a five hundred word essay due this wednesday and I'm freaking the fuck out about it to the point where I can't enjoy anything.It's absolutely fucking mindboggling how easily this site has become to troll in recent years. People don't even use the word troll anymore. It's we've flat out forgotten that people can hold wrong opinions on purpose in order to farm (you)s.There is zero difference between someone who is ironically pretending to be a redditor and an actual redditor. Most redditors pretend to ironically pretend to be redditors while actually being a redditor. All need to be shunned.Elitism is the only path that leads to quality. It is the backbone of any worthwhile culture.I've been in dozens of arguments that basically devolve into spamming brainlet wojacks at each other. The only time I've soundly outright won an argument with these abhorrent tactics I was flat out dead wrong. One time I got someone so frustrated that they started rabidly shitposting and then I reported them and their post got deleted and they probably got banned. The one day I had it in me to write genuine posts where I admitted mistakes and tried to reach a mutual understanding; longform semi-intelligent discussion it actually worked really fucking well and I got people to agree with me. The moment you insult someone their brain shuts off and they no longer care whether or not their right. They just want to see you lose.Insults on this website can't hurt you unless you believe that they're true on some level.For the longest time I've avoided consuming any media whatsoever because every single good idea I see is one that I can't blatantly use. I didn't realize that the complete reverse of this is true.I've been very happy and content for a long time. It's really annoying to hear normies act like everyone is secretly miserable.I want to fuck this mineral collection.>>10378623That album fucking sucks. Rides entirely on waifu-bait.
>>10379187>The moment you insult someone their brain shuts off and they no longer care whether or not their right. They just want to see you lose.The problem isn't that, but that they are always the same insults.
wtc qt lit gf
>>10378623Very happy and I want exist
>>10378732I die inside when grills like sports/use “dude” tbqh
Dell’uom la prima colpa e del vietatoArbor ferale il malgustato frutto,Che l’Eden ci rapì, che fu di morteE d’ogni male apportator nel mondo,Finché un Uomo divin l’alto racquistoFa del seggio beato e a noi lo rende,Canta, o Musa del ciel; tu che del Sinadell’Orebbe in sul romito giogoInspirasti il pastor che primo instrusseLa stirpe eletta come i cieli e comeLa terra in pria fuor del Caosse usciro;se più di Sión t’aggrada il colle,il rio di Siloè che al tempio augustoDi Dio scorrea vicino, indi tua fidaAita imploro all’animoso cantoComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>10378661>inmaculateMy taylor is rich.
>>10378698>taylorMi sastre es rico
>>10378816
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>>10378369
would it be weird to stop by the local high school and ask an english teacher to read some of my short stories, maybe correct the grammar and such? i'm a high school drop out so i never really got to do that kind of stuff when i was a kid.
It would be seen as weird and you'd freak people out by being a (probably sexually undesirable male) within the victinity of a high school. And you probably live in Murrika where the high school has security guards and is walled off from the community
>>10376823If you can't get a teacher to help you out, send them to me. [email protected] I can't promise miracles but I can at least string a sentence together.
>>10376823high school english teachers won't really be able to help you, but we can. post it in a critique thread.
>>10379509this actually isn't that far off, I work at a school and there's never a shortage of people who think they can be good English teachers but really don't have a strong command of the languagealso just a really weird idea
>>10376823Is there any risk? The risk of a no? Rejection? Is that so bad? You will have to deal with endless rejection as a writer. If they say no, ask them if they have anyone they could recommend. There is literally nothing wrong with asking, you will still have your stories if they say no.
Greetings /lit/,I ask that you may please suggest to me the books that give you the overwhelming feeling of "comfiness"; books that you found so much pleasure in reading that you both couldn't put it down, but also despised the thought of over being through with it. Cheers~
>>10378236Genuinely, Don QuixoteThe story winds itself quite a bit and there is substantial commentary on all things /lit/ to make it not only insanely enjoyable as a comedy, but as a serious literary piece
>>10378236Howls moving castle
I’m The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
>>10378236SOT WEED FACTOR -EAST OF EDENSUTREESo comfy it hurts.
Watership down
Which one should I start with as my first novel in 5 years?>inb4 plebSomeone recommended them to me.
Catcher
Catcher then Karomazoz
>>103779304 3 1 5 2
Karamazov would be my choice, but for your first read in 5 years it may be a little too much.Start off with Blade Runner for now, its easy to read and will give you some time to ponder
Is there any good Finnish literature?I don't see them ever mentioned anywhere in /lit/I never read any but my finnish friend reccomended me this.Got any recs?
>>10380074No, i'm a britbong
Moomin :DDD
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