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Previous Thread: >>24191568 Where do I start with these beautiful humans? What philosophy author do you read to gain will to live as a materialist atheist? 
Wolf Island is the 8th book in The Demonata series and came out in Ireland and England in October 2008 and it is once again narrated by Grubbs Grady. It's title was revealed by Darren Shan on his blog on April 24th, 2008. According to him, "it does exactly what it says on the tin".
Well, the same could be said about Vampire Mountain, surely some would argue. Still, as we not only rejoin Grubbs again but also know our dear Mr. Shan by now, let us see if he also has some more surprises waiting for us.
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>>24167000
Lord Loss I:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24004762/
Lord Loss II:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24017568/
Demon Thief I:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24021566/
Demon Thief II:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24032763/
Slawter I:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24044135/
Slawter II:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24054879/
Bec I:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24070921/
Bec II:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24078640/
Blood Beast I:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24105357/
Blood Beast II:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24125737
Midpoint Reflection:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24128471/
Demon Apocalypse I:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24133399/
Demon Apocalypse II:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24145170/
Death's Shadow I:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24157096/
Death's Shadow II:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24167000/ I want to learn about Marxism. Should I read Marx directly or should I start with another author? This book is nonsense. I expected a true transformation, an acceptance of one's personality and all its flaws after meditation and reflection. Instead we have a loser's fantasy where he meets his perfect tomboy girlfriend at a bar, a Sex in the City tier plot where he learns to tango, then a lame psychedelic journey and the end result is "just learn to laugh, bro". Who is this book for? Crudgy old professors who want to bang 20 year old girls but have trouble listening to the latest rap music because it's not Mozart? This book is retarded and no man can relate to it. If you do relate to it, I feel sorry for you but also envy how shallow your problems are. A complete absence of /lit/ seethe over the author and philosopher known as Bronze Age Pervert ever since USAID got cut off. Curious! "Retro cyberpunk" edition
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Any novels where the bad guy makes his plans just a little *too* obvious? Hey, bros. I need your advice. I'm an almost 25-year-old virgin who has been obsessed with sex since my teenage years. I converted to Orthodox Christianity a few years ago, but due to personal circumstances, I am unable to attend church regularly. I do not want to commit the sin of fornication, but I am addicted to pornography and self-abuse (masturbation).
For the past three to four years, my involuntary celibacy has seriously affected my sanity and productivity. How can I deal with this? Are there any books, articles or videos that might help? I just started university, so I have some hope for the future, but my lack of sexual experience is severely impacting my focus. I also spend too much time on social media. Any French anons that can recommend me some more contemporary French novelists? As you all know I really like Jean-Philippe Toussaint after zipping through his Cycle de Marie. Maybe I'll just keep checking out authors published by Éditions de Minuit. I honestly haven't read a bad book from them yet. How will Christians ever recover from this? Why do so many authors make their writing so overly complex? Wouldn't a good/successful author push for as much mass appeal as possible? Isn't effective communication more important than sounding intricate. what did he mean by this? It's been a while. Post history books
Previous thread: >>24046828 If the plot is irrelevant when compared to the story and the message it's trying to tell, why not just straight up explain what the message is? Anon, what is it like to self-publish a book? Is it worth it? >St. Anthony Mary Claret edition
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old: >>24197067 >All men are mortal.
>All greeks are men.
>Therefore all greeks are mortal.
Lmao did ancient boomers really need someone to explain how logic worked? How did they think before then? Ideally, I'd like to be iskeaid into a world of swords and magic. But I am logical enough to realize this might not happen after death. 
>Saddleback's Illustrated Classics
A Christmas Carol
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24030635
Mutiny on The Bounty, The Mysterious Island
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24127236
Dracula, Swiss Family Robinson
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24129369
The Prince and The Pauper, Treasure Island
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24132139
Kidnapped, Macbeth
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24134278
The Scarlet Letter, The Three Musketeers
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24141643
Black Beauty, Around the World in 80 Days
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24144201
A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24146435
The Last of The Mohicans, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24149289
Frankenstein, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24149782
Othello, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24151671
The Invisible Man, Hamlet
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24158571
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Jane Eyre
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24159940
Gulliver's Travels, The Man In The Iron Mask
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24160885
As You Like It
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24161378
Moby Dick, The Taming of The Shrew
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24163518
The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Time Machine
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24163841
The Merchant of Venice, The Pit and The Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado, The Murders in The Rue Morgue
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24166010
The Red Badge of Courage, A Tale of Two Cities
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24166302
Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24166949
The War of the Worlds, Julius Caesar
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24167480 why did he hate shakespeare? Greetings once again brothers of /lit/
Many thanks for the support for the most recent issue of Tales of the Unreal (Vol. 4)
We are now looking for submissions for a nautical themed pulp throwback anthology
As always the theme provided is not a rigid one, be creative but make it something you're proud of. We're getting enough submissions now that it is time to raise the bar for what we accept
Stories should be between 3 - 5k words in length, please submit to [email protected] opinions on this book by Camus? Disprove the Oedipus complex. Is writing ability largely down to talent? Plenty of people read and read and write and write but produce nothing of note, or rather nothing which won’t be forgotten a decade or two after their death even if they are praised in their time. Can anime book covers improve your interest into a book? No, really, how were they able to figure out which books to add and which to take out? >Good friend for Iesus sake forbeare
>To digg the dust encloased heare:
>Blest be ye man yt spares thes stones
>And curst be ye yt moves my bones.
What did the greatest poet in the English language mean by this? Is this the same person who wrote Hamlet and Prospero's speech in The Tempest? Adversus cochleas editio
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All Classical languages are welcome. What are your thoughts on Joyce's works outside of Ulysses? how can you be a 80 year old man and still be like
>was xyz real or not?
>i care about FACTS!
like, what is it like to live a life trying to rationalize everything? I have finally come to understand that most writings suck because they are fueled by pure intellect rather than wisdom. How do you pick what to read next? Do you choose something at random or try and follow some kind of system or plan? 
>Had it not been for his striking personality and apparently supernatural powers, the Comte would undoubtedly have been considered insane, but his transcending genius was so evident that he was merely termed eccentric.
>The Comte was ambidextrous to such a degree that he could write the same article with both hands simultaneously. When the two pieces of paper were afterwards placed one upon the other with the light behind them the writing on one sheet exactly covered the writing on the other. He could repeat pages of print after one reading. To prove that the two lobes of his brain could work independently he wrote a love letter with his right hand and a set of mystical verses with his left, both at the same time. He also sang beautifully.
>The memoir writers admit themselves at a loss as to how many of the Comte’s statements could be believed. Common sense, as then defined, assured them that most of the accounts must be fashioned out of whole cloth. On the other hand, his information was of such precise nature and his learning so transcendent in every respect that his words carried the weight of conviction
has there ever been a bigger mog in /lit/ history? Reading this book now and it's much better than you guys told me it would be, you lyin christcuck cunts. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” both sparked social change within their readers: Stowe’s novel alerted northerners to the inhumanity of slavery; Sinclair’s novel alerted consumers to the barbarity of meatpacking plants. In both cases, reform followed: the northerners took up arms in the Civil War and subsequently ended slavery, and Theodore Roosevelt passed the Pure Food and Drug Act.
Both of these, however, occurred over a hundred years ago, and it does not appear that any 21st-century novel has achieved the same effect. Why is that? 
This is something I've been thinking about for a long time, looking back through my journals it keeps coming up again and again in various ways.
There seems to be a friction in me between two things, on the one hand I'm very drawn to serious, ethical, clear minded, noble living. I come from a catholic background, not dogmatically believing anymore but I (heretically) view it as mythology and literature, now I'm drawn to the greeks in general. I like eudaimonia, arete, and stoicism a little bit. I want to be chivalrous. I truly try to live with duty in mind. I have a goal in mind for life I'm working towards which I think will do the world good, in a small way.
But on the other hand I'm very drawn to something I can't describe but call 'fae-like'. I can't shake the idea that there's value in being unreasonable, weird, with bursts of extreme behavior. This is affecting my life in a very real way. A story that encapsulates it is how after leaving orthodox Christianity, being generally weird about girls, sex, and romance, I went to see a prostitute. She ended up being the younger sister of an old highschool classmate. I lasted 10 seconds, but she was nice, and after we smoked cigarettes' and talked about how garbage the town we live in is and what the ideal place to live would be. This is genuinely a fond memory, but prior to it, if I stopped and thought about what I thought a good decision was, I wouldn't have made it. But it seems like something good came out of making a mistake, or was it even a mistake? Looking back I couldn't really morally defend it, but I also think it's just kinda based and cool.
I don't know if 'fae-like' is the best term, it probably comes from reading Tolkien, but the gist is that I'm trying to live according to virtue, but also want to respond to this instinct to say 'ah fuck it'. Is this outside virtue, is it just being evil ? or is it actually a virtue to know when and how to say 'fuck it' ? Also humor fascinates me, and it seems at odds with Abrahamic religions and greek philosophical systems, at least the humor I'm talking about. Clean comedy is usually just not funny, it seems intrinsic to humor to push boundaries and to mock serious things. It's about not taking life so seriously. But if I were to have to attribute mockery to angels or devils, it would be devils.
Do you know what I'm getting at? I want to be basically good but not lame. Would appreciate something written which talks about this as I haven't found it yet. Books for a guy who keeps accidentally getting with BPD women? Realistically speaking, should I just stick with non-fiction? Is reading fiction just a waste of time? Why is Kant understandable while Hegel incomprehensible? My favorite self-help writer. Which is ironic since he didn't believe in a unified self. What books will make me wicked smart? What drugs are the best for reading/writing? Has anyone here had experience with Ritalin? Who is on the bleeding edge of science fiction right now? picrel It combines Islamic sufist practices and Hindu asceticism with Schopenhauerian metaphysics. This would be the truest Aryan religion. It would absolutely obliterate the very essence of kikedom. Going to be on a long-haul flight soon, with a decent stop over too. Whats some great recs on novels that are
>engaging
>not too complex cos ill be drinking on the flight
>not so long as to not be able to finish it after my trip (max ~450 pages) I am making a chart of books with characters that embody the 'sensitive young man' archetype to help guide and educate young males of a similar disposition feeling lost. Give me some recs, or similar charts (as far as I'm aware there aren't any)
Books I am considering putting already
>Anabasis, Xenophon
>Parallel Lives, Plutarch
>Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe
>Red and the Black, Stendhal
>Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal
>Bel Ami, Maupassant
>Lord Jim, Conrad
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce
>Wind, Sand and Stars, Saint-Exupery I'm making a visual novel mystery game because I'm a hack fraud who can't get published. Give me your favorite locked rooms in fiction and why they worked so well.
My favorites are the locked rooms in Poirot's "Curtains" because of the culprit's motivations, the melted ice block "suicide" in Detective Conan(though the gymnast roller coaster was also choice), and the sheer pettiness and will to commit behind the "seesaw" locked room in Danganronpa V3. I actually don't like the final locked room in And Then There Were None, too gimmicky and the police should have figured it out immediately, and the Sherlock Holmes locked rooms usually involve long chemistry lectures that while cutting edge for the time are not terribly entertaining Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the best selling work of fiction. My harddrive failed yesterday and I lost the list of books I was planning to read, as well as important threads I saved here. Hug me, anons, or console me by recommending me something from your own list. I also got raped three days ago. >brutally anally rapes god and leaves him gaped and dead in a dumpster
Has there ever been a more absolute and comprehensive dismantling of a belief system? >Starting February 26, 2025, the “Download & Transfer via USB” option will no longer be available. You can still send Kindle books to your Wi-Fi enabled devices by selecting the “Deliver or Remove from Device” option.
kindlebros... What are the best and/or most famous examples of each of these? 
Nietzsche's philosophy of ethics is really a joke. To someone with a keenly developed moral sense, listening to Nietzsche's speculations on the psychological origins of morality is like watching an paranoid aspie theorise about human behaviour -- they just fundamentally don't get it. The claim is that morality arises out of a feeling of resentment on the part of the "slave class" towards those who oppress them. The slaves, angry at their situation and wishing to take revenge on their masters, create the good/evil distinction, according to which the "good" are the powerless, and the "evil" are those with power. And thus what we know as morality is born.
Of course, this analysis is utterly simpleminded. First of all, the only reason that the powerful are given greater moral scrutiny is because their actions have greater weight in the world. They are able to effect the lives of many more people in a more forceful way. Thus for example a man with a gun is more powerful than a man without one, and so the stakes of conflict are higher, and he must therefore act responsibly. It is not power by itself but the USE OF POWER IN AN UNJUST WAY that morality objects to. A man with a gun is not "evil" for just having a gun. The moral person does not resent him for merely having a gun. But if he uses that gun to harm another in an unjust manner, then he is to be condemned.
The analysis also completely ignores the importance of love, or empathy, amongst human beings. This, contrary to the ramblings of Nietzsche, is not an invention of Christianity, but is a human universal, and is the reason we are able to enjoy and immerse ourselves in art. The sensation of pity is not a self-interested one, seeking to gain "revenge" over the masters, or to inculcate that pity for oneself in other people. It is a genuine heartfelt sadness upon seeing another suffering.
Finally, Nietzsche fails to account for the sense of honour and duty that we have. For instance, today I was in a neighbourhood that I will never return to, and had a piece of litter in my pocket, that slightly inconvenienced me. I could have dropped it on the street, but my sense of social responsibility and honour prevented me. I refuse to litter because I have an internal judge, that is aligned with the cosmic moral order of the universe, that tells me I would be a disgraceful person if I littered on the street. This, again, has nothing to do with "resentment of the powerful". >He didn’t buy physics books whenever possible
How does it feel to own nothing and be happy ebookcels? Post a picture, recieve a book recommendation. Books that will disabuse me of the notion that my premarital relations were innocent, happy and childlike affairs and convince me that they were actually affronts to God and his law? What are some good books that explore anxiety and neuroticism, especially free-floating anxiety?
I'm not just looking for books that have an anxious character, but ones that explore the philosophical and spiritual origins of such an affliction. Recommend more books on banking and war pls This shit is theologically bogus and a thinly veiled political allegory. How has a book written by a Cromwell scrotum gargler become so popular and respected? I'll tell you, people are impressed by style over substance. See the French New Wave for further details.
Waste of time what would ancient greek philosophers think of AI, assuming they were able to grasp modern technology? Is Nietzsche really compatible with Marx? Here’s a mix of my favorite books along with some ones I just got. What does everyone think?
Post your stacks taking the ban edition
previous: https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24202689 The true president of the U.S. What wisdom can be gained from fiction as opposed to non fiction? I've started reading more (at all) recently and I'm trying not to be retarded. Have any famous fiction authors given their real names to a main character? >inb4 /x/
What are the quintessential authors for unlocking arcane mysteries? >big bang theory sheldon but from victorian england
>girls love him
why? What did you guys buy recently? Henry did nothing wrong.
Bunny had it coming. Symbolism triumphs over the rigid, stone-carved vision of allegorical stories.
A symbol is infinite—it binds things together, grasping the nature of man through his metonymic needs, his yearning for the divine expressed through stories.
The very word symbol comes from the Greek symbállein, meaning "to throw together, to unite." Contrast this with diabolos, from diabállein, "to throw apart, to scatter." When Saint Paul preached in Greece, he found himself in need of new words to convey foreign concepts—logos, charis, pistis—each an attempt to bridge worlds through language.
By this logic, it could be said that all which opposes or fragments the symbolic is, in essence, diabolical.
Get real. >le weltgeist moving towards progress on your path
>le origin of progressivism and every woke ism today
nothing personnel kid
the idea that we can measure progress as a species is probably the most dangerous philosophical cope there is because there are infinite ways to move goal posts, you want green energy, sure, we need more lithium mines that pollute the environment, you want a cure for all diseases, pharmaceuticals will have you on a perpetual subscription model that will cost you your mental health, you want equality, that means fucking over the middle class tax base for all these dei programs, etc >say nigger a lot and commit atrocities towards Native Americans
>get labeled as “The Great American Novel”
wtf is wrong with you burgers? What is the best "great men" biography?
Bonus points: Ideally someone not born into total privilege. >the sensory organs are all deceptive
>>except for the cognitive faculty. That is entirely accurate for some reason
>also the world could be ran by an evil genie… probably isn’t but it sure would be neat if that were the case How good are his books? What's his best one, or at the very least, the one you'd recommend to somebody who's never read his work before? >In English class
>got assigned to a discussion group at the beginning of semester
>thought we all got along well
>slowly everyone I got along with left to go to other groups
>I am now the only original member of the group ITT: Literature that feels like it may legitimately be evil or harbouring some kind of malevolent spirit. Shit like cursed novels, infohazards, mindfucks etc. Not corny overdone torture porn shit either, retards I think this is correct: Knowledge is not relative to its contrary, Ignorance, but is relative to what-is-knowable.
So then Virtue would be contrary to Vice, but what is it relative to? Has it something to do with moral agents?
Is Virtue in the genus of Good? I think Aristotle made it clear that Good is not relative to Bad, but what is Good relative to, or is it strictly a quality?
He says that Virtue is a quality but also a relative, but does one of these take precedency?
I got kind of confused when he started talking about qualities and then mentioned a bunch of relatives. He clarifies why this is in 11a20. Please tell me about this man and his writing. Let's talk about books that can damage your mental health. For me it was VALIS read at an opportune time. Wrote a 300 page occult spy novel, what now? Give it up for /lit/'s favourite woman writer... Which Moomin book do you recommend? >expect some Adam Curtis shit
>it's actually a solid explanation of why people yearn to be terrorized by dictators, and why it's actually quite psychologically comforting for most people to live under repressive dictatorship Is Mishima just apologist for nobility rule or is it really kino to be servant to rich nobleman?
> you have to clean sometimes and do some errands for your master
> you talk with him about his problems sometimes
> you get free food, housing, pay
> you have lots of time for reading and studying
> you get maid pussy I want to like this Bible
>Just NKJV Old Test and Greek New Test
>Ok but far better if they used Christian Manuscripts or went digging in Israeli desert lol Does anyone have a link to Defunct, the /lit/ novel from some years back?
I want to recommend it to a friend. Thinking about reading picrel, is it outdated? Am I wasting my time? Let's see the poems you're writing. Or if you're not writing any, you can post some written by other people. Or you can just discuss poetry more generally I'm a third of the way in. When does this get good? I'm a grammar school student in my penultimate year. I love English Medieval literature, Chaucer, Malory etc. and I'm particularly interested in Arthurian literature and it's Jungian interpretations. I'm considering applying for a bachelors in English
and obviously eventually getting a Phd. I'm wondering whether or not it's worth it to pursue a career in academia and English Lit and what the Job market is like in the UK and perhaps the US too. >sodality
>seraglios
Are those some kind of codenames for dark academia?
Zoomer here. The text absolutely makes no sense besides being a lewd metaphor for academic career.
5/10 mid, Kafka had it better.
Also
>fingering
>buggering
>piss on a face and shit
>massive dildos
Yeah, I've also worked in university but cmon Sade it only gets more tiresome. Books with good written female protagonists? No YA if possible, as long as the MC is interesting. Books you spot on a coworkers desk that make you instantly open settings and set their character volume to 0 for the rest of your office playthrough? Serious question here. Why are all female literary reviewers fat? 
Solipsism implies that you have complete control over reality, if all there is, is you then why can't you command yourself (yourself being all of reality) however you want? because you're fragmented, that is incoherent or not uniform, but not disconnected. that's why. in truth, monism, the idea that all things are of the same thing connects back to solipsism and solves it.
naive solipsism, or weak solipsism stops at the problem and never goes deeper into the implications. strong solipsism is when you understand the inherent problem of why you can't command yourself and this is where you break out of it. this is why (you) don't have free will, but are possessed by a will. it is not your will it's the will of reality it self, and you are a mere speck in the sea of the all.
so you are part of a reality and not your own discrete entity. if you were your own discrete entity it would mean that you are your own reality ("naive solipsism") and have not only will but true free will.
we have no need for arbitrary "human rights", we have no need for retarded liberalism, or communism. and we definitely have no need for darwinism beyond our genetic code that possess us to compete against and rape one self.
you have a right to exactly jack shit, all there is is this controlled fiction we create and we need to create a better one. I'm not sure what to call this, but most people would probably be resistant to the metaphysical and political implications of this, we must find as many like minded people and extinct all the dualistic solipsistic deluded rest. This book serves as a litmus test for identifying pedophiles: if someone perceives it as pedophilic, they likely are one. I don't just want to read a happy book but rather something that would help me appreciate the world and the people in a much more positive light.
I can't lie browsing internet and interact with people make me become more and more of a hateful person. Why would I be nice if they all deserve to die? Why are there so many dumb fucks out there? I don't like this feeling. Am I smart? No. Am I a "good" person? also no. so why would I have these thoughts in me?
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read others, share feedback, etc. Do you think it's fascinating that these two were exact contemporaries? I do. When you read their writing and ideas they're almost perfectly opposed to each other. They're direct opposites. >much ink has been spilled >St. Leonard of Port Maurice edition
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previous >>24180999 Is journey to the west a good read? The fantastical plot looks really cool but I'm scared some of the context will fly over my head since I'm not chinese Does anybody else shop for books at Goodwill? I'm really excited with how my trip there went last time. I found the Complete Works of Oscar Wilde for only 1.99 :D >“Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say, – Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness. Would that I could keep squeezing that sperm for ever!”
Melville is just a troll Did this really get rejected by 24 publishers? As political satire goes it seems very tame. 
Is this true or an AI hallucination?
>Yes, Jared Diamond discusses China in "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies." He uses China as a key example in his exploration of the factors that influenced the development of civilizations and the disparities in technological and political advancement between different regions of the world.
>In the book, Diamond examines the historical trajectory of China, particularly in relation to its agricultural practices, political organization, and interactions with neighboring societies. He contrasts China's development with that of Europe and other regions, highlighting how geographic and environmental factors shaped the paths of these civilizations.
>Diamond also addresses the reasons why China, despite its early advancements and significant contributions to technology and culture, did not maintain its dominance in the same way that Western societies did. He discusses factors such as the impact of internal political fragmentation, the effects of the Mongol invasions, and the eventual isolationist policies that emerged during certain periods of Chinese history.
>Overall, China serves as an important case study in Diamond's broader argument about the influences of geography, environment, and historical contingencies on the development of human societies. A few weeks ago I read "Can Life Prevail?". Very "old man yells at cloud"-ish until the last chapter. Has interesting opinions about technology and culture, but I'm uncomfortable with his totalitarianism. Where does /lit/ stand on the synoptic problem?
I think the theory about Luke's Great Omission where Luke had a damaged folio copy of Mark with a page missing makes some sense
https://web.archive.org/web/20201101154306/https://sites.google.com/site/inglisonmarcion/Home/luke/the-great-omission I'm just about out of copes Considering that the metaphysical properties of existence are highly vague and uncertain, which assumptions about the other side and the overall meaning of life do you think are reasonable to have?
Blind believers of pre-packaged dogmas like christcucks need not apply. Is the Paris Review still worthwhile? I know the New Yorker is no longer in favor here >Economic system is so powerful that their opponents kill themselves due to the impossibility of conceiving a viable alternative
lol, lmao even 
Dear friend,
First of all, I must say that I’ve been meaning to write to you for a long time. For years, actually. This letter has been in the making since I was a teenager. I'm about to enter the second quarter of my century, and I thought if I didn't do it now, I’d never do it.
I've been feeling very nostalgic lately. Every day I reflect on my life, especially on my art. You know I like to write. And I think about why I write. What is it that moves people to do anything?
I think it's love and pain. I believe that humans were made to escape pain and protect love. I say “protect” and not “seek” because love is inherent in human beings, contrary to what cynics might say. To be alive is to flow with love, and as proof of this I can show you the history of humanity: eras of pure misery, suffering that transcends generations, the worst of the worst. Would we consciously choose to continue an existence plagued with endless evils, if there wasn't a reason to do so? Don't you think we would have decided a long time ago to put an end to all evil forever, that is, to voluntarily extinguish ourselves, if we thought that was the most rational thing to do? What makes our small and insignificant species not choose to self-destruct is what makes it not so insignificant. It’s love for life that moves the world, my friend. It may be subconscious, it disguises itself, it changes shape, but it's there. perfidious bankers of braavos edition
ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_Page
Blog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/
Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/
So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/
Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/
SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdy
General search: http://searcherr.work/
TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chapters
old: >>24184561 *ruins a generation of men* He's so good that you still seethe about him despite Game of Thrones falling off more than a decade ago.
GRRM and Stephen King are the undisputed kings of 21st century literature. No one else comes close. Not even JK Rowling. Hello, anons, due some circumstances I'm a 31 years old dude that never had a relationship with a woman, I'm not a virgin though, but I had so few sexual experience that I may as well be a honorary one. Anyway, I'm looking for a recommendation of books that portray a realistic relationship between a man and woman, the most realistic as possible, I want to know how is it like to be in a relationship. bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk! Is there any good writers in the last ten years? I haven’t found much in the way of good literature that wasn’t old as hell. Any suggestions or links would be appreciated, it could have no recognition or even be your own shit i don’t care. I like poetry as well. Hey /lit/
I have to get to work 2 hours early every day and have nothing to do during that time. I just wanna read some interesting articles about any topic so I can not be bored and to also have stuff to talk about with my coworkers. What are some recommendations? Specific articles or just places to look for them. What is the point of writing anymore when you'll inevitably be accused or at least suspected of using AI... Life is too short to waste on multiple short books, I always go for the long kinos So my desire and hunger for learning the history of the world and my country went to the drain after I turned 14, now at 26 it's coming back. Sadly, I find myself completely lost. Most books cover a few period of one specific country, are there any books that cover either a period or century ALL around the globe? Hopefully something out of the american perspective, no problems with the British. Did aristotle believe, that if a human being was born with all their senses disabled, would this person not know that he exists? Or would that be the exception to "all knowledge starts with the senses"? >change "Allah" to God
>indistinguishable from Psalms 
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