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>Archive:
https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg

>Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg

>Thread Question:
Why haven't you read Malazan yet?

two sentence horror

When does this Slavic schizophrenic rambling get good?

she's already done with:
harry potter
artemis fowl
narnia
a series of unfortunate events
spook's (aka the last apprentice)
percy jackson
earth's children
what now?

>had a nice house
>had a rich wife
>made a living off of his hobby
>had friends
>cosmic horrors aren't actually real
Why was he such a doomer about everything?

>provides the most surface-level commentary on subjects he doesn't really seem to understand
>stunted vocabulary
>constant use of malapropisms and improper grammar/sentence structure
Is it just because he's American or what?

How many books in a fiction series is "too many" for you? I'd say 3-4 is the sweet spot but 5 is pushing it, anything about that is just absurd padding full of filler shit for more monies.

This is the only genre that makes money and the money train isn't stopping any time soon. Short of a puritanical John Carpenter style government, there will always be demand for this shit.

The question is, can a dude write successful girlporn? This is the literary question.
I'm going to read this milking farm thing and see if I can't get a knack for how women write. I'm suspecting it's a bit like this:

>Minimal attention to details and the world, emphasis on personal impressions and feelings; the world as a set of things that make you feel different ways.
>Braindead, 12-15 year old brain simplicity.
Imagine a Middle School girl trying to "speed download" social gossip updates to a friend.
>Vanity, ego, zero accountability, petty delusions, cliches.
This will require a bit of research and marketing savvy just to collect up what today's cliches are. Fortunately, women are dead simple and just go on TikTok/Twitter and see what buzzwords come up a lot.
>Sultry language.
This one's tough. From what I understand explicit, gross language is what sells this shit and is the female equivalent of visually seeing porn. On the other hand, I have a feeling that I could write porn that is vastly more detailed and explicit than what women read and would alienate them. I have a feeling it's just stuff like, "sweaty" "bulge" "heaving" "cock!" "pulsing". Words that sound distinctly naughty but remain vague. It's not about visualizing, even through text, sexual mechanics. It's about breaking social taboos so women feel "naughty" and liberated from their neurotic sexual restraints.
>Female attraction
This is tough. How far do you go with "big muscles, ripped body"? How much do women want to read that, and when is it too much? Women like being dominated but they like to feel it was their choice to be dominated. As a man who understands women very well, I don't want to tap into their sexual triggers too accurately because that might lead to a sense of "revealing too much" about female sexuality which women don't like. They like most of it to remain implicit and simple.

That said, after I nuke my brain with Morning Glory Milking Farm, I'm going to try a couple more to see if my sense of the format is correct.

It should be utterly trivially to right one of these things after that. They're poorly written and short. I can easily embellish the sexual acts to be ten times as spicy as long as I'm aware of the boundaries, men visualize way better than women do. Secondly, as long as I pander to women, I could probably produce a plot a thousand times more compelling.

I literally need like $50k in my life right now for a couple things and I have a feeling I could just pump out 10 of these fuckers in a series and get there.

When a particularly erotic book arouses me, I tend to masturbate - ferociously during the erotic scenes, and then a slight twist of my foreskin throughout the other junk.
This evening I decided to treat myself to an old-fashion rub-and-tug while I read the entirety of Platform in a sitting.
Y'know it's going well, I'm over here panting to young Thai girls, absolutely cranking my shit to Valérie - she sounds like a stunning big-breasted, thin-waisted lass - then out of fucking nowhere, Houellebecq makes his self-insert character happily give up his girl to another nigga, Jerome, for zero fucking reason.
So y'know, now I'm just sitting in my chair, limp-dicked, feeling like an absolute cuck with zero ambition to either finish the book or orgasm.
Fuck you, Houellebecq, you old gay fuck faggot.

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They hated him because he told the truth.

What are some books about how you feel like you don't actually exist, about how it feels like you're piloting someone and despite that person being "You", you feel disconnected from the world and things happening to you don't feel like they actually are? It's a feel I've had all my life and any advice? I'm not autistic or mentally ill

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I need some recs for "Misogynistic", anti-women, anti-feminist, etc. FICTION, but non fiction can also pass. Novels and novellas that explore female behaviour and the extent of their evil and stupidity and critique them

I read 50 pages of a book today :)

>be comfymaxxer
>we will prioritize making free-time, and spend 90% of our freetime at home
>we will prioritize playing comfy vidya (the most cost-effective hobby in existence, google it), laying in bed watching TV, praying and meditating on the fortunes of living in such a technologically advanced society
>we will live a life of minimalism, to not be owned by what we own, to not have to constantly clean and upkeep things
>we will let go of ego
>we will not have a social life
>we will not start families, anti-natalists to the core, kids and wifes are not comfy
>we will live an active healthy lifestyle to minimize uncomfy scenarios in the future (eating well, no excessive media consumption, no drugs/alcohol, brushing teeth, meditation)
>we will not question authority, just go with the flow
>we will people please, keeping the peace is of most importance
>we will not react aggressively to enemies/bullies, we will smile and nod to all insults, fighting back is not comfy and leads to uncomfy places (i.e prison)
>we will smile and nod no matter if friend or foe
>we will work manual labor jobs that pay enough to live minimalistly, jobs that dont require constant fighting for social status and promotions, jobs that dont have you on call at all times
>only act if life is in grave danger against an active aggressor (rare situation to be in as a comfimaxxer)
If all these other religions can only come up with bullshit that only applies to the olden times/social customs, why can't we form a philosophy suitable for the times we live in NOW? In post-prosperity progressive peaceful 1st world countries.

I cannot deny the Will.

bad period fiction is fantasy-lite, good period fiction is contemporary-plus

is it normal to barely remember anything from the books you've read?

Hi /lit/ I'm new to your board and see there is no HWFWM thread so I'm making one. Why does this series have to be this way? Why does modern lit make every villain white and every brown person good? Why does it take to book 8 for them to tell me Humphry Geller is now an arab when he's been portrayed as white for the previous 7 books? Does the author think I'll forget that Jason is a socialist if he doesn't remind me every chapter?
I have modern literature fatigue.
I forget the other series but some litrpg series:
Hey you see that white cleric? Yep he's going to try and kill you.
You see that black death knight? He's a total bro.
If it happened sometimes I wouldn't mind it's always good to have a twist but when you do it every single time it becomes tired and stale.
I've gave up and have started a harem series "Enchanter" even though I have no interest in the harem themes I just assume it won't be filled with these tripe tropes.
I used to really like Dungeon Crawler Carl but that last book was kind of weak and wandering. Any suggestions?

Are you really reading the book of you are reading a translation

You guy's think Raskolnikov's Great Man Theory was correct? I'm guessing people like Napoleon maybe felt bad for killing people to achieve great things, but they were able to simply handle it because they were great
Are you a great man?

Greetings, /lit/.

For 2500 years, academics and spiritualists have layered their own feeble interpretations onto this text, obscuring its essence with jargon and dogma. We are going to perform an autopsy.

The Method: One page per thread. We will proceed with the patience of water wearing down stone.

The Goal: To collectively approximate an understanding of the Way, or to determine it is, in fact, brainlet-tier nonsense. Both are valid outcomes.

The Rules:

1. There is no "correct" interpretation. The first line itself declares this. The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
2. We're using the Gia-Fu Feng translation. Arguing over translations is against the Nameless.
3. We read one page per thread. Don't skip ahead.
4. We embrace the contradictions. We are here to feel the text, not just understand it.

One

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and Earth.
The named is the mother of the ten thousand things.
Ever desireless, one can see the mystery.
Ever desiring, one sees the manifestations.
These two spring from the same source but differ in name;
this appears as darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gate to all mystery.

Begin.

>Almost twice as many words as the Bible
What the fuck was he writing about?

Could Hegel cure my nihilistic view that life is meaningless and nothing matters?

It is with considerable difficulty that I recall the primal era of my being: all the events of that period seem to me confused and indistinct. A strange multiplicity of sensations overwhelmed me, and I saw, touched, heard, and smelled everything simultaneously; indeed, it took quite some time before I learned to distinguish the operations of my various senses.

More like picrel? Books that show the complexity and depth of human experience and intellectual life before modernity, actually takes them seriously, revives what has been lost or forgotten, etc.

Also, anyone ever utilized the mind palace methodology described herein? I experimented last night and just permanently memorized a list of ingredients on a box lol. Seems extremely potent.

"There can be only one!" edition

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What do they read in china?

I've seen starter-packs and image guides for Green Pill and Iron Pill advocates all the time. But never Indigo Pill. The closest suggestion I have seen is just to read Machiavelli.

Alright I'm gonna read the bible and saw this 'thomas nelson' one on amazon for $20. Should I get it

Was Dante right about so-called neutrals?

Which is your faviroute book? Are the bond books even worth reading, I hear they're pretty different from the movies?

>I am almost amazed that you consider a professional philosopher capable of no confusion in concepts and definitions. Such things are nowhere more at home than among philosophers who are not mathematicians, and Wolff was no mathematician, even though he made cheap compendiums. Look around among the philosophers of today, among Schelling, Hegel, Nees von Esenbeck, and their like; doesn't your hair stand on end at their definitions? Read in the history of ancient philosophy what kinds of definitions the men of that day, Plato and others, gave (I except Aristotle). But even in Kant it is often not much better; in my opinion his distinction between analytic and synthetic theorems is such a one that either peters out in a triviality or is false.

Philosophysisters... not like this... not like this...

Is this the greatest ragebait in literature?

and why is it ancient Greek?

Society already is divided in 3.5/4.
3.5 are the cattle, 0.5 the remnants dissidents.
The internet is owned by them, everything is controlled by them while we control almost nothing except partially where we can choose to go and die.
Diagnosis: We lost, no organization on our side, the NWO is heading strongly toward their goal, which is total control of peoples lives through digital surveillance and technology.
While we are all divided between meaningless reasons and most refuse to acknowledge the truth.
Christ here, Allah there, YHWH here, Buddha there.
Truth is God and pathetically everyone who says they fight the good cause doesn't know it and avoids it at all costs.
There will come a point where we have to choose to do what is right or retreat to the mountains in order to die off with the knowledge that we did absolutely jack shit to try and change things.
Fuck politics, fuck false religions, fuck scientism, and most of all fuck whoever gave their responsibility up to someone else instead of developing within them the true will.

Found this earlier on /x/.
No idea what it means, but it stuck with me.

I recently learned about "copywork". A writing exercise where you copy by hand or retype a great novel. Is this a meme? Do you do it? Which book?

>wife status?
buckbroken

I don't like anything anymore all that much and life is now extremely tiresome for me. For reference I'm a 30 year old obese alcoholic.

Books for this feel?

Oracular edition

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All Classical languages are welcome.

so now that philosophy has been going for a couple thousand years, what is their conclusion? have they've even gotten anywhere? i suspect it's all a meme.

>folds the moment a competent historian debates him
Y-Yarvin bros... what happened?

>Chapter 1: Faggot 1 spies on his mom
>Chapter 2: Faggot 2 doesnt like the sea but also doesnt like land
Why am I reading this dumbass book?

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