Thread 514200810

Why don’t maleoids read anymore?

Are they stupid?

>>514200810 (OP)
Is it necessary to post peoples youtube name?

>>514200810 (OP)
>Fiction
Nah

>>514200810 (OP)
>Men, you NEED to read fiction.
>OK, I'll read Hemingway.
>Noooo, not that fiction!

Nothing makes women's cunts prolapse in a bloody purple mess like telling them you like Hemingway.

>>514200810 (OP)
i like to read smut written for women to self insert as the girl and fuel my agp

>>514200810 (OP)
i stopped watching YouTube while eating a meal and started reading instead and it's been a good experience so far

If more /pol/tards read books then maybe they'd stop using the suffix "-oid" in this idiotic way.

>>514200810 (OP)
This guy gets pussy and books are his pussy tickets. He would not make this video if he was ugly

>>514200810 (OP)
Young men should learn to write, direct, and act.

>>514201145
Good choice.

whatever you do, dont read crime and punishment. holy fuck that book is actual christcuck mind-poison

>>514201042
You dont read nonfiction either

>>514200810 (OP)
read what?

>reading fiction past the age of 19
most "serious" fiction readers would get filtered by a basic ass fucking sonnet

>>514200810 (OP)
I read. The men I see read are all gay nerds who read genre fiction and Warhammer books. For me, literature had a local peak with 18th and 19th c English novels.

>>514200810 (OP)
I read about 50 warhammer books this summer, and honestly, I wish I hadn't.

>>514200810 (OP)
I prefer non-fiction

>>514200810 (OP)
dostoevsky has become a normie meme. it is a pity but people are just reading it because it is a socially beneficial thing to say you have done.
there is more to be learned from non-fiction than fiction in general although the classic works of fiction are valuable. but the modern popular fiction is largely not.

>>514201545
he has hair. if he was bald he'd look like a rapist

>>514202338
You are unitonic hipster

>start reading The Picture of Dorian Grey because it's supposed to be a classic
>all I know about it is that his portrait ages while he stays the same, making him some kind of immortal
>sounds interesting, I'll give it a try
>it's chapter after chapter of the faggiest shit ever, two guys talking about how this twink is so beautiful and they want to be around him all the time and it's their destiny to stare at his face, etc
Yeah, I don't think reading is for me. It's too homo

>>514202598
Modern fiction is a fucking joke.
I remember walking into a bookstore almost 10 years ago and thinking I had entered some kind of irl tumblr art piece. Shit was so on the nose.
Every displayed book was either a fiction about a disadvantage minority, a fantasy book byba female author or a book about how fucked up Trump is (even though this was here in Australia).
I'm pretty sure that the publishing space underwent the same cultural subversion that we saw play out in Hollywood and in video games, except because left leaning women were already the dominant demographic in that segment the takeover was even more extreme, recieving zero pushback or controversy.
Anyway reading is okay. I go through phases of reading. I'll find an author I enjoy, like Philip K Dick or James Ellroy or Raymond Chandler and read a bunch of their books. But all it takes is one shitty book that I can't be fucked finishing and I'll stop reading for months or even years.
Also just to prove I am not a turbo autist anti-SJW neckbeard, the last book I really enjoyed was Ice by Anna Kavan. Would recommend it.

>>514200810 (OP)
People read quite a lot, all social media are basically walls of text, who knows how many paragraphs equivalent to a book a person reads daily on xitter. Even TikTok lately has shown that people watch videos with captions and text in them
The problem is that all we read is useless retarded crap

You need to read things that challenge the way you think and see the world, but people today are too pussy to even challenge themselves and their core values, bunch of faggots with fragile ego

>>514200810 (OP)
I read 4chan 24/7 so basically I'm a scholar

I read chinese webnovel slop, the concepts are interesting.

>>514202566
pitiful.

up your game.

>>514200810 (OP)
>read fiction
Not gonna read your bible

>>514201145
The Old Man and the Sea is one of my favorite books. What's yours?

>>514200810 (OP)
I do read tho. My favorites are "The Eminence in Shadow" and "I'm the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire". Both series are incredibly kino

Yukio Mishima is a fucking meme, I read Kyoko no Ie and it left me bored to tears. DNF

>>514200810 (OP)
I just read non-fiction on how things work and how to fix things, maybe when everything stops breaking around me and needing fixing I could find the time to read story books.

>>514203480
I'm reading the complete short stories now. The reason women hate him is because there aren't many women in his books. The Old Man and the Sea is like that.

I do read lots of fiction,

>>514200810 (OP)
At the moment I am bouncing between Kissinger and The Dark Enlightenment by Nick Land
>read fiction
I rather not, the real world is strange enough for me

Why do AI authors want me to pay to read their slop? I don't think anyone here realizes how badly kikes want to prop up their AI bubble. They pay $5 to generate a shitty book, then sell the book for $10, and pay NYT or whatever prestigious institution to shill their book as a fake best seller.

>>514200810 (OP)
reading is for midwits
>hurrdurr let me take whatever this god knows writer have for granted, and let it shape my ideas instead of me nooticing and coming to my own conclusion!!!
history is least cucked but it's still way altered than how things were, so don't even read that too.

>>514201597
I read it younger but I dont remember how is it mind poison? Elaborate pls!

>>514200810 (OP)
I've never read a book in my life but I can say with complete confidence that humpty dumpty is story about God, and suicide, and irreversible grief. You can't learn that from a book.

men already read fiction
it's called /pol/

>>514203480
Great book! And it is not prohibitively long.
I also like Jack London. He is a race realist in many of his books. He would not be printed today I guess maybe they censor those parts. You should buy old prints.

Reading fiction allows you to exercise your moral sense. Your task is to judge the characters, the narrator, and the author. It's quite possible to finish a book and think they all should be hanged. You have put your moral sense into practice on a hypothetical situation.

>>514203901
this was my favorite book as child
https://freeread.de/@RGLibrary/EdgarWallace/Anthologies/TheMixer.html

>>514203788
>Kikes
>It's all fucking retarded white zoomers form silicon valley, California trying to be the next Facebook/uber and grab an easy buck before everyone notice the scam
>The male equivalent of "I wanna be an only fans top model and buy a house and a ferrari'

>>514203202
Most americans are giant fags yeah. It's in their blood, hence why they suck off negroes so much and love being cucked. Stick to Russian authors or European, they are way more based.

>>514203202
>read gay author
>surprised by reading gay stuff

>>514203480
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Hot spanish pussy...

>>514204010
>Your task is to judge the characters, the narrator, and the author.

do you just read things with the intent to get mad?

I read Katawa Shoujo recently, it was /lit.

=)

>>514203930
Thomas Carlyle is beyond based and people should read more of his works, sorry but I looked at your chart and I needed to state the obvious.
Anyway your chart is missing the following book. If you want to understand the ancient world, well Rome, and how the state and family functioned this is the book, I read it after Evola but it would probably be better to read it before.

>>514204036
This is the only book I've ever owned

>men need to read
>NOOOOO MEN STOP READING YOU'RE JUST DOING IT FOR ATTENTION

https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/performative-male-trends-books-matcha-pilates-attention-b2811124.html

>>514204063
>Oscar Wilde
>American
And it's the French who have been the biggest negro worshippers and sexual deviants for centuries

>>514203202
But what if
twink look like this?

>>514203975
I really enjoyed The Call of the Wild by Jack London. There isn't mention of race, but his ability to write a compelling book about a dog is remarkable
>You should buy old prints
Like 1st editions?

>>514203687
Women are narcissists so of course they hate anything that's not about them.

>>514204276
>american accused of being a faggot
>no, it's the french

>>514203857
Because is a purely Christian book and therefore poison.

>>514204137
Lots of times I do. I like to read things I disagree with, so that I learn more about why I disagree.

>>514204286
Oh shit, would fugg

Here's a starter kit if you're new to fiction. Reading is an excellent brain exercise; expanding intellect/taste will make you a much developed person not caring about the opinions of others.
These books should give you enough background and reference point to venture in any direction of serious fiction.
Protip: avoid w*men authors, they're absolutely worthless. In all my reading, I only found two I'd be confident to recommend and they were both autistic alcoholics, not fembrained holes.

>>514200810 (OP)
>maleoids
it's moids, dumbass

>>514200810 (OP)
This is the only fiction book you NEED to read.

Everyone should read this gem, the Austrian painter itself said that Doctor Stockman (The protagonist of the novel) was the closest thing to his idea of what a man should be.

>>514200810 (OP)
I’ve read most of the classics. I even have a little group of basically disciples in a reading club. Many thousands of hours, and now I can effortlessly call for ire with Homer, evoke Tacitus, Cicero and Flavius, explain Kant, Hegel and Hume, analyse with Schmitt and Huntington. I do all this because I want to, and I don’t care if others don’t want to do it. My experience is that people care little what you’ve read and they respond badly to name dropping. Only a select few are able to appreciate the treasure trove of scholars and even that is besides the point. I’m blessed enough to have my Window to the ancients and have given up the idea that what happens on the streets is ever much influenced by the world of books. Only charismatic and active people that also have the scholarly bildung will influence the streets, and the scholarship is the smallest aspect of their relevant abilities.

>>514201145
Why do women hate hemingway?

>>514204235
I liked the manga vagabond and the alien moral and cultural norms of chinese protagonist in webnovels
or the entire new genre conventions and worldbuilding of xianxia novels.

Only in contrast does it become obvious how christianity and medieval chivalry traditions have shaped
everything we do and see in the world. Assuming the perspective of the other is the only way to see oneself.

Thomas Carlyle never had that opportunity. The story of urbanization and industrialization are still raw and new in asia
different archetypes and plots dominate there many that have been forgotten in the west.

I even read some court intrigue and the one thing they do better is lovecraftian horror.

>>514204639
its male romance?

Good thing I stopped being male 2 years ago :3c

>>514204484
>they were both autistic alcoholics
>alcoholics
booze and books appear to go together for many, not me i can read or i can drink but I can't do both at the same time
it might be different for writing

Reading is not just for the "story." It can be for the language, perhaps for complex sentence structure like Charles Dickens, Henry James, or Marcel Proust, or perhaps for idiosyncratic structures like Henry Miller. Or it can be for narrative complexities like William Faulkner.

This is analogous to how one might look at a painting. There is the story that the painting is of, but there is also how the story is told, or how the brush strokes are done, the colors used, whether concrete or abstract, or impressionist or expressionist.

The story is, it's a bowl of fruit. Yes, but how was that bowl of fruit depicted? To me that is literature. The bowl of fruit, or the story, is just the pretext for the art.

There are the obvious reasons why people read less and less like other newer forms of entertainment. I feel like reading among men though has been influenced by manosphere red pill stuff "oh you read fiction? Only betacucks do that! You should only read books that teach you something!"

I mostly read fiction and occasionally some non-fiction but the truth is that non-fiction often is alot more boring.

>>514204835
men reading in public makes women seethe these days

>>514204809
Drunkenness is bad for comprehension, but it can stimulate writing creativity for some free-style ideas you'll then edit soberly.
I used to read stoned as a teenager, but after discovering kratom (red one especially) I only need some ambient music on headphones for peak reading experience.

>>514200871
Well it's an ad the he didn't pay for, so it's kinda the point.

>>514204828
paintings of food are a protestant phenomenon which the dutch did to restrain their appetite

>>514200810 (OP)
reading is white people shit and zooms are nogs^^

>>514204991
>VALIS
>The Illuminatus! trilogy
/lit/ has good taste, color me shocked

>>514205090
Could be. Or it could be not about the bowl of fruit at all. You can get a dozen students to paint the same bowl of fruit, and they will paint it a dozen different ways, some better than others, according to some standard or other. That is what it's about, to me. The story hardly matters. I want to see how they did it.

Take a story about a haunted house. They're all about the same. But some people do it better than others. That's where the art is. You had to write about something, so do a haunted house. But once you have the subject fixed, whether a haunted house or a bowl of fruit, everyone will do it differently, and it's that difference where the art comes in.

That's why I hate movies. They are all about the story. Other than that, they're all done about the same way, like it's the same person making every movie, just about different stories.

>>514205186
Philip K Dick would be /pol/-/x/-/lit/ poster if he were alive

>>514200810 (OP)
i've read for at least an hour every day since kindergarten. i'm 37

>>514204991
fuck moby dick, it is a sci fi novel about whaling not a character study of an obsessed captain hunting himself

>>514200810 (OP)
Crime and punishment is so fucking boring dont fall for that meme

>>514205186
I looked up Valis and the first thing I got was a reddit thread where people said he is a m1s0gynIsT durrr

I fucking hate redditors so much it’s unreal

>>514201599
sure he does, that's not that hard to believe, we're all posting on a politics board which means we at least have a tentative interest in politics and current events and that requires reading at least the news or threads on here. most of the core userbase of /pol/ has likely at least dipped their toes into political theory or read shit like julius evola or kevin macdonald or whatever.

>>514205493
Moby Dick is amazing until Melville blindsides you with a random dry encyclopedia of whale facts. Gravity’s rainbow is also amazingly written but 200 pages in and literally nothing has happened narratively. Is this nigger Pynchon ever going to get on with the fucking story?

I read this today. Good shit.

>>514205647
>blindsides you with a random dry encyclopedia of whale facts
filtered
anyway you guys are reddit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3JkBXslZUE

>>514203857
it slave-moralities about killing people to fulfill the will to power, and also has a sympathetic female prostitute character where you have to feel bad for her because she was forced into it to provide for her family because her dad was an alcoholic

its pretty much the anti-thesis of redpilled

>>514205575
Literary R*ddit is mostly w*men who unironically read contemporary female fiction (fantasy chad porn) and think that progressive scolding passes for book critique.

I collect quotes from books. Just say it somehow.

Her grandmother spoke to her often of men and she spoke with great earnestness and she said that rash men were a great temptation to women and this was simply a misfortune like others and there was little that could be done to remedy it. She said that to be a woman was to live a life of difficulty and heartbreak and those who said otherwise simply had no wish to face the facts. And she said that since this was so nor could it be altered, one was better to follow one's heart in joy and in misery than simply to seek comfort for there was none. To seek it was only to welcome in the misery and know little else. She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all. --Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing, 1994

I have heard it said that one wins the devotion of dogs by mixing a spoonful of their master's urine in their mash every day. Divine tries this. Every time she invites Archangel to dinner, she manages to put a little of her urine into his food. --Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers, 1943

He was a man, and he hated the sight of himself in long underwear. She was Maria, and every blemish on his underwear, every button and every thread, every odor and every touch, made the points of her breasts ache with a joy that came out of the middle of the earth. --John Fante, Wait Until Spring, Bandini, 1938

At Capracotta, he had told me, there were trout in the stream below the town. It was forbidden to play the flute at night. When the young men serenaded, only the flute was forbidden. Why, I had asked. Because it was bad for the girls to hear the flute at night. --Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929

>>514201256
This is based.

>>514201256
I mostly read YA lesbian novels

>>514205745
>ackchyaully
Shut the fuck up. It’s jarring and gets plopped right in the center of the actual narrative

>>514203704
I'm reading a thousand sons rn, fuck me i thought dark angel books were boring

>>514205647
The whale facts show what it is. Moby Dick is a sci fi novel about the cutting edge technology of whaling and how it fuels the american society
the white whale is a fantastical aspect of this sci fi story a mere prop to explain how america tames nature.

Later attempts to hallucinate a deeper plot or character study into is purely driven by the american desire to have one of the greats also. Nationalistic delusions.
Lovecraft on the other hand is underrated because the mechanism of imagination and storytelling is undervalued while ambiguity, introspection and frankly realism are overvalued.

>>514200810 (OP)
Read it. Good book.

>>514205921
tranny

>>514200810 (OP)
femoids "read" but the books they read are literally porn. That doesn't count

>>514205745
i am only half way through the video but unless this guy turns it around he is the very definition of reddit. how does he not get it

>>514205834
But he had not continued very far when, feeling weak, he left the crown of the road and sat down on the path, which was high, and edged with thick neglected grass. He knew, as he did so, that it would not be easy to get up again, as he must, and move on again, as he must. But the feeling of weakness, which he had been expecting for some time, was such that he yielded to it, and settled himself on the edge of the path, with his hat pushed back, and his bags beside him, and his knees drawn up, and his arms on his knees, and his head on his arms. The parts of the body are really very friendly at such times, towards one another. But this was a position that could not content him long, in the fresh night air, and soon he stretched himself out, so that one half of him was in the road, and the other on the path. Under the neck and under the distant palms he felt the cool damp grasses of the ditch’s edge. And so he rested for a little time, listening to the little nightsounds in the hedge behind him. . . . But this was a position that Watt, after a short time, found himself unable to sustain, and one of the reasons for that was perhaps this, that he felt the moon pouring its now whitening rays upon him, as though he were not there. For if there were two things that Watt disliked, one was the moon, and the other was the sun. So, settling his hat firmly on his head, and reaching forward for his bags, he rolled himself over into the ditch, and lay there, on his face, half buried in the wild long grass, the foxgloves, the hyssop, the pretty nettles, the high pouting hemlock, and other ditch weeds and flowers. —Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1953

>>514200810 (OP)
>reading fiction
that is a big waste of time.
I do read, But I read nonfiction.

>>514205834
The world’s no fun anymore,
only machinegunfire and arson
starvation lice bedbugs cholera typhus
no lint for bandages no chloroform or ether thousands dead of gangrened wounds cordon sanitaire and everywhere spies. —John Dos Passos, 1919, 1932

Passing under the viaduct along the Rue Broca, one night after I had been informed that Mona was ill and starving, I suddenly recalled that it was here in the squalor and gloom of this sunken street, terrorized perhaps by a premonition of the future, that Mona clung to me and with a quivering voice begged me to promise that I would never leave her, never, no matter what happened. And, only a few days later, I stood on the platform of the Gare St. Lazare and I watched the train pull out, the train that was bearing her away; she was leaning out of the window, just as she had leaned out of the window when I left her in New York, and there was that same, sad, inscrutable smile on her face, the last-minute look which is intended to convey so much, but which is only a mask that is twisted by a vacant smile. Only a few days before, she had clung to me desperately and then something happened, something which is not even clear to me now, and of her own volition she boarded the train and she was looking at me again with that sad, enigmatic smile which baffles me, which is unjust, unnatural, which I distrust with all my soul. And now it is I, standing in the shadow of the viaduct, who reach out for her, who cling to her desperately and there is that same inexplicable smile on my lips, the mask that I have clamped down over my grief. I can stand here and smile vacantly, and no matter how fervid my prayers, no matter how desperate my longing, there is an ocean between us; there she will stay and starve, and here I shall walk from one street to the next, the hot tears scalding my face.
—Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, 1934

>>514205834
“Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,” Holly advised him. “That was Doc’s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That’s how you’ll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.”
—Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 1958

For a long while—for many years, in fact—he had not thought of how it was before he came to the farm. His memory of those times was like a house where no one lives and where the furniture has rotted away. But tonight it was as if lamps had been lighted through all the gloomy dead rooms. It had begun to happen when he saw Tico Feo coming through the dusk with his splendid guitar. Until that moment he had not been lonesome. Now, recognizing his loneliness, he felt alive. He had not wanted to be alive. To be alive was to remember brown rivers where the fish run, and sunlight on a lady's hair.
—Truman Capote, “The Diamond Guitar,” 1950

All night he had tried to guess what fancy had beckoned her out and whither it might have led her; he had searched by the stream by which she had prayed to the stones and the pool where she prayed to the stars; he had called her name up every tower, and had called it wide in the dark, and had had no answer but echo; and so he had come at last to the witch Ziroonderel.
—Lord Dunsany, The King of Elfland’s Daughter, 1924

>>514206109
travis bickle, cinema enthusiast

>>514206015
I don’t agree. The obsessive story is there. Melville just gets carried away and clearly didn’t have a smart editor to tell him to put all that shit in an appendix

>>514201042
I've come to hate historical fiction. For example to kill a mockingbird. It's propaganda about a nonexistent court case with an innocent black guy. Multiple generations have been brainwashed by this book because it's required literature in school.

They don't teach us about a real court case in which a black man accused of murdering a girl was found innocent by a white jury. How could that happen? And why did this event form the ADL? Strange isn't it?

>>514202338
Before I came to the above conclusion, several years ago I read heart of darkness. It was pretty funny the way English men viewed the niggers they employed. Totally accurate in that aspect.

>>514200810 (OP)
I read shounen manga

>>514206112
Man carrying thing is peak performative woke male

I know the word is overused, but he fits the original definition. Woke be + self-deprecating virtue signalling humor

>>514206101
That word stopped being offensive a decade ago you're going to have to come up with something new, sweaty.

Men still read older works, they just don't posture on social media like faggots about it.

>>514201597
Rome at it's peak:
>welfare state
>plebian power could overrule patrician senate
>cosmopolitan
>diverse
>bisexual drag queens

>>514200810 (OP)
I read holocaust books when I need a dose of fiction

>>514201042
How to tell you don't read at all without tellinf us you don't read at all

>>514206160
Most fiction is real to a greater extend than nonfiction and what the story tells you about reality is in either case subject
to the creativity, limits and introspection of your own mind.

You have to experience a Chinese protagonist one time to understand our western ones. Something that was hard to impossible in centuries of the past
a true non christian, non western tale.

Stories about the mandate of heaven, about destiny, karma, violence and retribution but about love and ancestors also.

>>514200810 (OP)
>READ FICTION
I like Dune
>NO, NOT THAT FICTION
Lovecraft abd some cosmic horror?
>NO, NOT THAT FICTION
Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings or Silmarillion?
>ABAOLUTELY NOT
What fiction?
>MY BORING ENGLISH MAJOR RECOMMENDED LITERATURE

>>514206451
>to live alone is the fate of all great souls
that one hits close to home, not that i am great but i am alone
What work by Schopenhauer should one start with?

>>514206257
It is not there. The story as about whaling as a technology and how it drives american industry.

>>514206566
It's not the genre, it's the book. It always has been.

>>514206566
Lovecraft gets stuck on details so much it oftentimes loses the big picture for me, I plan on getting back to it one day though

>>514206605
Picrel, you can download it for free on both known ebook websites.
Schopenhauer can be a little challenging at first, but he'll genuinely improve your life if you push through.

>>514206745
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtRl1ORuAFc

>>514205979
It's hard to respect someone who isn't a whale enjoyer.

>>514206894
I actually keep a mirror of project Gutenberg on my home server so I should be able to find a copy on that. Thanks anon

>>514207084
You're welcome, Anon. I'm always shilling Schopie because he helped me so much (despite the pessimistic outlook).

>>514200810 (OP)
All the new fiction is horrible, and most kids start with newer stuff.

>>514207182
What's it like being an incel?

>>514204639
He's laconic in his writing style, which women dislike as it's not descriptive enough for them
His work is also very male-centric

>>514206320
or how about the book "a time to kill" based on a "true story" of White men gang raping a poor, innocent black girl in the south and the father killing them and going free. The real story? A black man in the south raped two White girls. This bullshit even got a movie produced by kikes, wherein the most famous line the lawyer for the black father uses to sway the jury is: "imagine if she was White".

>start reading some classics of fiction.
>Start noticing sometimes the writing is weird as if trying to make a definite point or reference to something in an awkward way to tie to the story I have no context for.
>Look up author
>Author was a member of the golden dawn or one of many other "secret society" occult clubs.

Hard to get into fiction when I keep noticing this shit.

>>514200810 (OP)
Crime and Punishment is jewish slop. Did you actually read it? The plot is basically:
>If you chud dare kill the jewish usurer you will akshually go insane from remorseeeee. Don't ever dare to harm an evil person!!!

>>514200810 (OP)
You just need to read Classic greco/Roman

>>514207182
KEK its hilarious how women all resort to the same psychological outgrouping tricks.
>you're an incel/virgin
>oh you have a wife? You probably beat her!
>you can't make women cum
> sex sex sex sex sex
>I'm a woman and all I think about is how anything relates back to sexual selection and gratification
>trust the science
>no no no, not that science!
fucking annoying NPC programmed bots

>>514207667
I'm always suspicious of stories with the theme of
>Revenge is actually bad!
Because that's the exact type of morality I would want people to embrace if I intended to fuck them over in some way.

https://annas-archive.org/

This might help out some Anons

>>514207325
I'm not celibate involuntarily, not a virgin either. And Schopenhauer most certainly wasn't incel, he was rich a fucked dozens, possibly hundreds of w*men in his youth.

>>514207507
I don't doubt you fren
but do you have a source or that?

>>514207775
>>trust the science
>>no no no, not that science!
Kek, my favorite bit

>>514200810 (OP)
>fiction
I'm not 12 anymore.

>>514207875
https://sfcmac.com/a-time-to-kill-john-grisham-changed-the-actual-story-to-fit-the-narrative/

Dostoevsky is a clumsy, sentimental hack and most of his stuff is just tedious propaganda, in the most literal sense of the term. His only real saving grace is that he can be extremely funny. Fyodor Pavlovitch being a menace in the monastery, Raskolnikov drinking one glass of vodka and immediately passing out in a bush, Stepan Trofimovitch dropping broken French into every sentence, all very funny. It's a shame he took his talent as a comedian and decided to use it to batter the world over the head with a crucifix.

>>514207836
Sure you are, i love how you put an asterisk in the word "woman."
Only plebbit fags do that shit.

>>514206894
I just started this. The first 2 paragraphs did not disappoint. Thank you.

>>514203857
In the end, hero finds peace in Jesus

>>514200810 (OP)
>1pbtid
VERY cool.
70% of the publishing industry are women, they choose what actually hits print. Guess what they choose? Female authored books for female readers. "Taken by a Werewolf Billionaire" and other such smut. We're not reading that shit because we're not the target audience, we're not meant to. They don't publish what we're interested in and, in typical woman fashion, complain that we don't read it.
I have Cook's Black Company to finish, any recs /pol/? I've already read Clavell's Asian saga (King Rat was the best one).

>>514201145
Pinko

>>514207182
Schoppenhauer is anti reddit, whenever I read him I hear a grumpy
voice who doesn't mean it. As in it is a true observation but he engages in hyperbole
or two dimensional caricature because something pissed him off. There is care and warmness behind that mask.

>>514208084
Based

>>514208042
He was the OG christcuck. I wouldn't call him christian.

>>514200810 (OP)

If the typical zoomer or Genxer read Crime and PUnishment they'd probably get inspired by it to go out and murder an old woman with an axe to steal whatever money she's got lying around the house.

>>514208242
He truly believed that you can find relief from painful existence by immersing yourself in art or research; only a secretely warm person would do so. His love for dogs and flute playing is also telling.
>anti reddit
Precisely, their forced conformity and faked empathy is what he criticized the most.

>>514200810 (OP)
Fiction is ridiculous. I always ALWAYS read only like halfway with fiction. Im just not learning anything. Im just distracting myself....1984, brave new world, hellraiser, starship trooper, lord of the rings, sure its all well written but it just doesnt hold my focus. It all becomes so predictable.even non fiction feels like i already know it all so I stop reading altogether. Although im still trying to figure out evola. Im under the impression his books were best for his time and not today

>>514200810 (OP)
Anybody ever read don quixote in both spanish and english? Started reading it in spanish but gave up. I don't want to read the translated version because apparently it loses a bunch of its prose but quite frankly it's probably going to be missed on me anyways. Spanish Brosnan, is it worth it?

>>514207986
thanks mate

>>514208317
Oh yes, i want to hear this stupid shit you moronic leaf.
What brilliant generation are you on?

>>514200810 (OP)
Women, you need to shut thr fuck up.

Imagine being older than 15 and gushing about Dosto.

>>514208476
The thing with fiction is that it's mostly for retards. Reality is so interesting and crazy that it completely blows away any fiction. Lord of the rings is nothing compared to WW2. Reality is already stranger than 1984. All you need to do is just study reality and history.

>>514203704
Ummm, I really dont think the hoes meant 40k

I read more than any of these BookTubers

I tried reading the silmarillion last month but I got a few chapters in and quit. I know I’m a pleb for stopping but it was just so incredibly dry. The stuff about Melkor was fun though

>>514206451
GO TO THE BATHROOM
YOU ARE SHITTING YOURSELF

>>514208601
He's just another silent generation false flagger, ignore him

>>514205790
>unironically embracing Nietszche’s ideology

Nietszche loved Dostoevsky even though Crime and Punishment makes Nietszche’s ubermensch concept look foolish.

>>514204275
>Maira, 34, is deeply suspicious of men who read in public and thinks she can spot performative males a mile off.
Some people can't possibly comprehend the ideea that not everything is about them. A dude is just chililn in a public space and reading something? HAH, NICE TRY CHUDDY, I KNOW YOU WANT TO LURE INNOCENT WOMEN.

>>514203704
I just started reading Xenos, wish me luck.

>>514208543
She fucks hot muscular Black guys, I think.

>>514208966
If you wanted to read something you'd do it in a quiet isolated place. Reading in public means whatever you read is shallow information. You can do it, but it's way inferior.

I need some help, guys. I think I might have some form of aphantasia or mental retardation. I'm reading Tolkien right now, but I find it really hard to visualize the landscapes and what some of the characters look like in my head. Does anybody else have this problem? What should I do about it?

>>514208884
The mother was a BPD socialite who drove his father to suicide, spent the heritage on a bohemian saloon and ended up poor. As Schopenhauer predicted, his work ended up immortal while her books are forgotten and she's only relevant as mother of a genius.

>>514200810 (OP)
No, fuck off normalfag larpers, don't ruin my only hobby I like
>>514201145
Faulknercels, our response?

>>514200810 (OP)
that book gave me nightmares fr fr

>>514209326
She however perfectly described him in her letter
It still perfectly describes modern day nerds and redditors

>>514200810 (OP)
>1 PBTID

Publishers went woke long before Hollywood. Feminist garbage is everywhere and men pushing for masculine concepts struggle to find a publisher. Not surprisingly, men don't want to read books aimed at women.

>>514200810 (OP)
>maleoids
>stupid
Might be bait but if you really are a woman, you should kill yourself

>>514209222
That's a rare condition, most likely you just need to exercise your imagination. Read slowly, try to paint the pictures you've read in your head, no matter how obscurely. The Hobbit the best possible starting point.

>>514208696
Fiction and non-fiction cater to different needs. The main purpose of non-fiction is to transmit information. You read it to learn. The main purpose of fiction is to transmit an emotional state. You read it to experience emotions, by simulating minds and situations that you normally would have no method of experiencing. Sure, non-fiction can also be entertaining and emotional, fiction can be informative, but broadly speaking the main purposes of each type of writing are the ones I mentioned. Both are extremely useful and valuable. You don't have to favour one over the other, you just have to pick quality works. You can't get what you get from The Karamazov Brothers by reading non-fiction (or you could, but you'd have to read a lot more and do a lot more work). You can't get a good understanding of the history of WW2 by reading Sven Hassel or something better. It's just two different purposes. What you're saying is like saying „why watch a fucking horror movie, chuddy? you'd be better off watching a true crime documentary!”.

>>514209456
>#believeallwomen

>>514209222
I sometimes have to go back and read the same sentence two or three times because I’m distracted in my mind as I am reading. I need complete silence and to read very slowly to imagine everything critically . Especially in Tolkien where there are so many similar names and passing characters

>>514208836
>>514208836
I don't even think silmarillion was ever meant by Tolkein to be read. It wasn't published in his lifetime and was intended to be a framework for the universe he'd created as some kind of ultra nerdy hobby project. It's cold and sterile. In fact the best stuff he created was book one of the LOTR. Some little gossipy petty minded farmers in a cosy corner of the world is far more entertaining than all that grandiose eschatological shit.

>>514200810 (OP)
Publishing was taken over by feminists and they made fiction into pozzed propaganda, driving away male readers. Like with schools, they are trying to cope with decreased male involvement while being 100% ideologically committed to everything that repulses males
Feminism is an explicitly anti-male ideology.

>>514209222
Do you have a frame of reference for what he's describing? For example, Gormenghast goes into detail describing a castle with period-accurate terms and if you can't properly build a landscape, orient the castle in the proper cardinal directions, scale it, then build it in your mind, the shit won't make sense. But you can't do that unless you've already looked at maps and landscapes and castles.

>>514209497
>>>/trash/77460099

>>514201042
you lack a soul

>>514209201
Parks and coffee shops can be quiet. Finding a quiet bench and reading in the park for 40 minutes is a chill way of spending some extra time outside.

>>514208446
>His love for dogs is telling
What a stupid opinion. Violent rapist criminals often love dogs. Redditors too love their hecking furbabies. A truly warm person has compassion for his fellow man even if he acknowledges their failings.

>>514209564
This makes me feel better. I thought I was “missing out”, and then I felt like the odd man out for being so bored through the whole thing. The hobbit and the two towers were my most favourites. I’d like to read other Tolkien stuff for sure but I don’t know where to begin after my derailment

>>514200810 (OP)
I read every day all day. I'm reading right now.

I bet niggers bring the average down. I can read 10 books a year but if 10 nigger read 0 books a year it brings the average down. This is why white people shouldn't have to be grouped with or counted among the lesser races. Our crime stats would be wonderfully low if the niggers would stop shooting each other.

>>514209556
This is why you embitter people around you

>>514208543
>foids working out to actually have an ass
Great
>foids getting biceps for no fucking reason and ruining their bodies
Every fucking time

>>514209222
tolkien sucks. a lot of people say he is good but it is not the case. read a 007 book like From Russia with Love, it is a bit easier of an entrance into fiction imagination

>>514208601
>What brilliant generation are you on?

The one that doesn't dress up in womens' clothes to go into a school church service to massacre little children in a densely packed congregation only manages to kill two of them when a blind man could get a higher score

You guys are double failures; failures for being deranged schitzo killers and then failing at even that.

i'm what you'd call an intellectual, half my life is reading
so fuck you, on my free time i'm going to want something that's loud and bombastic with big flashing colored lights and loud noises and big titty bikini babes

One problem with reading is it's sort of low bandwidth.

Currently I'm reading and replying on 4chan while also listening to a podcast. Sometimes I'll have 3 or 4 things going at once. I'll be playing a videogame, and listening to music, and listening to a podcast and browsing 4chan.

And then there's the book I want to read. I open it and read a chapter and get extremely bored and then I go do something else. There isn't enough stimulation in reading a single piece of text from a single author when I could be multicasting 4 or 5 pieces of content into my brain simultaneously.

>>514207805
It wasn’t revenge. He just plotted to kill a woman he thought no one liked and ended up killing two people. He thought he could rationalize away murder as some superior person of history who can kill in order to bring about a progressive change.

In reality, he was just a low-life who needed money and post hoc rationalized killing for it. However, because he wasn’t a mentally deficient sociopath, it bothered him.

Has nothing to do with revenge. It has to do with not pretending you’re above it all and that you can engage in criminal behavior through superficial reasoning. You actually do need some morality.

>>514208537

There's some wonderful bucolic scenes of great beauty in it like a watteau painting.

For those of you that hate fiction, you might want to consider that your WWII histories are more fictional than a good Evelyn Waugh or Flaubert novel, though Thucydides and Herodotus are well worth the effort and French memoires untranslated especially from the Ancien Regime and the French Revolution are superb.

>>514209664
It's supposed to mean that he still found enjoyable things in life he officially wrote off as meaningless, worse than nothing. In regards to other people, he prescribes compassion to their suffering, but little personal consideration to their opinions or actions.

>>514209906
You're not describing a problem with reading, you're describing a problem with your fried attention span.

>>514201042
Sometimes fiction contains more truth than non-fiction

>>514203202
>it's chapter after chapter of the faggiest shit ever, two guys talking about how this twink is so beautiful and they want to be around him all the time and it's their destiny to stare at his face, etc
same experience but with Plato's Symposion instead

>>514209524
I've already read The Hobbit and liked it a lot, I'm struggling with LOTR right now for some reason.
>>514209559
I feel this. Sometimes my mind just wanders. Too many characters.
>>514209568
>Do you have a frame of reference for what he's describing?
No, not really. When he is narrating stuff like hollows, heathers, multiple sloping hills, going all directions, and valleys and ravines. That's what I'm struggling with. Not to mention I couldn't even describe to you what Sam or Pippin or Merry looks like.

>>514209675
I got the impression his family just got greedy and were desperate to find something that could be published for some moolah.

>>514209906
You need to allow yourself to be bored and only do one thing at a time. I think your life will become more driven and focused if you can figure out how to enjoy that

>>514200810 (OP)
>maleoids
The average woman's book is erotica, that doesn't count as a book.

>>514210154
Considering the mtg cards and the rings of power, you’re absolutely 100% right

>>514210021
Iove books, I've read thousands. And my attention span isn't fried, it's just that my throughput for information is higher than a book can manage. Like imagine information transferring through a cable, like a USB cable. I've upgraded to a massive throughput. I can absorb multiple streams of data at the same time all the time, without effort. But a book isn't like that, I can't multitask a book. Even having on music might distract me from the book and draw me out of it and kill my immersion. So lately I only do audiobooks which I can listen to while performing 2 or 3 other tasks. My ears can work in parallel with other parts of my brain but when reading, I have to tune out the world to a high degree to get the most out of it. So reading is just too much effort for too little information gain.

>>514208543
All that training and I'd still rape her effortlessly

>>514203202
Hint; it's derivative of Huysman's A Rebours, to the degree that the book he obsesses over is in fact A Rebours. And A Rebours is required reading it really is.

>>514200810 (OP)
I read over 100 /lit/ classics and various other books

It is just entertainment and simply not that pertinent to the modern world, insights and philosophy included. Making nigger immigrant savages out of civilized countries and killing elite is more purposeful than reading books.

>>514209906
i'll tell you what it's higher bandwidth than podcasts and youtube documentaries
i cannot believe people who can listen to an hour-long youtube essay on history (that's just paraphrasing wikipedia) when they could learn the same shit in 10 minutes if they picked up a monograph

>>514200810 (OP)
>read this
>a video
kek

>>514200810 (OP)
Reading is for fags

>>514209222
Read manga. I'm being serious.
I had also sort of lost my imagination in a way from years of this hell world as an adult. I noticed it much like you where when I was reading I found myself just absorbing words from the text as if I were studying a technical manual.

I started reading manga and in a short time all that mental magic started flooding back. And no I'm not just imagining anime stuff.
It's like I needed a kickstart to my imagination in this way and the way to do it was to physically have the words associated with somewhat complex images.

>>514208965
What does the Übermensch have to do with a sperg who decides to kill some old lady? Raskolnikov was a complete spiritual nigger. The absolute opposite of the Übermensch.

>>514209647
Fair enough.

>>514200810 (OP)
Girls at work are reading ACOTAR aka fairy porn.

I read comics

>>514210433
Interesting, OK. What kind of manga do you like? My buddy is reading Berserk right now.

>>514200810 (OP)
Sorry I only read black library publications

>>514200810 (OP)
We read manga and light novels now kiddo.

>>514210262
>Iove books, I've read thousands.
kek, sure buddy.
>And my attention span isn't fried
You said you read a chapter, get extremely bored and do something else. Typical fried attention span. If you were a high throughput savant-type, you'd have no issue reading a book for as long as you like. People that can easily deal with getting information from several simultaneous sources have no inherent problem with getting information from a single source, just like people who can run marathons have no problem with a brisk walk. Being able to multi-task information input doesn't make it harder to get information from a single input.