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 No.7[Reply]

and the one you're reading next.
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>>125
Read Anne of Green Gables a long time ago. Can't remember much of it but remember it being a comfy read.

 No.219

>>142
>modern life
>growing up atheist/agnostic but finding God as an adult
>drug use and addiction in youth
>chan culture
>internet culture
>the beat generation
>boomer to millennial/gen z dynamics
>ect

 No.226

>>7
The autobiography of Donovan.

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>>142
its so short and easy to read i gave a relege the other day and was glad i did since I took some low dose clonazepam the first time i read most of it. Definitely some extremely hard hitting subjects and tons of stuff painted either from Honors various perspectives at different stages of her life and how they molded her, mixed with the same kinda wrap about people she knew. The books main focus is the "culture war" and how it goes on within us just as much as it does without us. Its a very naked lunch style book in the sense that every chapter its own separate short story with some overlapping characters. I know for a fact that WSB and JK were influences on her writting style, and Kerouac was discussed briefly as having been a huge influence on the dimes square literary scene over all in the episode where Honor was featured on the RedScare podcast (for all intents and purposes a new favorite, although im not much of a podcast man, this one is a diamond in the rough)

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>>228
after looking at the book even more for a reread it dawned on me that its actually written in the exact same format and writing style as Naked Lunch and even the content is similar.


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 No.246[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Talk about your favorite illustrators, the most beautiful books you have ever seen and share some illustrations with other enthusiasts of this almost extinct art form.
Starting off with some classics.
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>>500
This is /art/chan now.

>>498
I must say that I've enjoyed these illustrations greatly and the music is good as well. Looking at great art and listening to a guiding music. Crazy how a bhutanese basket weaving forum is able to outcompete art history majors on their turf.


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 No.367[Reply]

Do you listen to music, compagno? I need to listen to something when I write. I only turn it off in moments where I need an almost monastical focus.

We had a music 3x3 sneak into the book thread. Since the /a/rt thread seems to be active - What do (you) listen to?

I recently discovered NTS Radio (https://www.nts.live/radio) and it has changed the way I expand on the music I already like. It's crazy that they're able to offer this for free in this day and age. Especially with the variety. More niche music is probably cheaper to license, but the sheer scale of tracks waiting to be listened to is astounding.

Given that with music you can easily tell if you like something or not. I suppose it's no surprise that more e/lit/e music can still be discovered easily, while the only way to actually discover new literature seems to be by hanging out in a Florentine xilografia forum, hoping someone shares what he found in a alley bookshop recently.

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 No.240[Reply]

Is this it?

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>>240
always has been, always will be

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>>240
>There was a land of Cavaliers and Effort Posts called the Old /lit/. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind…

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>>243
Holy Kino

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>>243
I got a little misty eyed


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 No.99[Reply]

Better than Moby-Dick and only 250 pages

 No.101

Technically anything under 300 pages is considered a novella

 No.122

>>99
It's true. Melville and Dickens just ripped off Carlyle.

 No.131

>>122

George Eliot, Borges and Nabokov too

 No.236

>>99
Started it and the first two chapters feel like a long drawn out preface. It is a little funny but I don't know if I'll stick around for the rest. Probably give it a few more chapters before I drop it.


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 No.150[Reply]

God is traumatized.
That's it.
Think about it.
Everything starts to make sense from this perspective.
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>>160
That's correct. God is wounded in a sense.
His creative act of Schöpfung is his attempt to cope with this disturbance.
An attempt at healing his wound.
Who or what inflicted this trauma?
Has he brought it upon himself? Who knows..

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>>159
>It was revealed to me in a dream.
>God might be eternal now but this does not mean he always has been.

Are you a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?

The Prophet Joseph Smith said in the King Follett Discourse:
>First, God himself, who sits enthroned in yonder heavens, is a man like unto one of yourselves, that is the great secret.
>If the vail was rent to-day, and the great God, who holds this world in its orbit, and upholds all things by his power;
>if you were to see him to-day, you would see him in all the person, image and very form as a man;
>for Adam was created in the very fashion and image of God;
>Adam received instruction, walked, talked and conversed with him, as one man talkes and communes with another.
>…We have imagined that God was God from all eternity.
>These are incomprehensible ideas to some, but they are the simple and first principles of the gospel, to know for a certainty the character of God, that we may converse with him as one man with another, and that God himself; the Father of us all dwelt on an earth the same as Jesus Christ himself did, and I will show it from the Bible.
>…what did Jesus say?
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>>150
It would seem that it is the Demiurge that is a reflection of our own trauma made into a divine image. God himself is the very totality of all things, and therefore does not have the one-sided, limited nature that would be necessary to be subject to trauma. However, as limited, one-sided beings we humans may look to the figure of Christ as the exemplar of how we ought to handle our distress, that is, to be willing to embrace it on for the glory of the Almighty.

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>>162
>An attempt at healing his wound.
Wounds are commonly accepted to be Yonic… you do realise what you just said about God.

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>>214
Makes sense if you think about it.
Associations with the spear of Longinus piercing Jesus’ side also arise.


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Summer is just around the corner and I'm on the lookout for “summer books”.
What do I mean by that? I believe that there are certain books that you can only read, appreciate and really immerse yourself in their atmosphere at a certain time of year. An example of such a summer book for me is Albert Camus' “The Stranger”, where I think you can only really get into the mood when you read it in temperatures of at least 30 degrees Celsius and in the blazing, stifling sun. A similar book would be Jean-Philippe Toussaint's La Télévision.

Do you have any other ideas for summer books to read this summer?

 No.216

A Happy Death is another good summer read by Camus. But if you're looking for something more obscure, try David Kalakaua's The Legends and Myths of Hawaii. Its a fantastic high gothic collection of Hawaiian myths and history of the Island Kingdown, collected and written by their last King shortly before the downfall of the kingdom and annexation by America.

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stern's other men's daughters or thompson's f&l:lv

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I once read The Leopard while on a scorching hot vacation in Italy (albeit not Sicily) and it did add to the mood. Also if you do some research on the topic all the street names start making sense (they're all called either Via Garibaldi, Mazzini, Cavour or Vittorio Emmanuele, in every single vilage).


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A thread dedicated to the underrated genius that is Walter Moers.

Thread theme: https://mythenmetz.bandcamp.com/music

Which aspects from Moers' books have had a lasting impact on your life and personality?
Or if you're a casual reader: which parts did you find the most interesting?

For me, it was:
1) The concept of the "Orm" as a divine force that bestows creative inspiration upon writers during moments of profound artistic brilliance. (The City of Dreaming Books)

2) The idea of a Silver Thread as a fateful force that pulls towards one's destiny and leads towards true love if you follow it to the end. (Rumo)

3) The statement: "When you are loved, you always love back at least a little."
(regarding the mountain Hutze Fredda in The Thirteen and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear)

Which book is your personal favorite and why?

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nice music. reminds me of the Thangorodrim, one of my all time favorites. https://thangorodrimsynth.bandcamp.com/album/dagor-bragalloch-remaster.

will definitely look into this guy. I'm always interested to look at some new German language authors.

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>>209
>Which book is your personal favorite and why?
I've gotta go with Rumo, mostly for sentimental reasons and because I could identify with him the most as a character.
The epic division of the story into two parts Obenwelt & Untenwelt captivated me the most, the coming-of-age-narrative during my formative years, the characters (Rala, Smeik, Nachtigaller and his Lovecraft arc, Grinzold & Löwenzahn, Gaunab, the Blutschinks, General Ticktack, … man I fucking love this book) and overall the genuine creativity and immersive worldbuilding.
Truly vom Orm durchströmt. I consider it almost a perfect story.
City of Dreaming Books is a close second though.
Then for a long time nothing, then Ensel and Krete, the 13 1/2 Lives and the Schrecksenmeister.
The Island of a Thousand Lighthouses was a pleasant surprise recently.
A Wild Ride Through the Night deserves a honorable mention even if it's not Zamonia.
The fable book was okish but I didn't finish reading it.
The rest can (and should) be safely ignored in my opinion.


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Do you know any good book about time paradoxes?

https://open.spotify.com/track/7ey2mawPCIN8VjI4V8MkEN?si=UJfjRaqZSHSYXuefUwd-dA

https://youtu.be/mjq4pjvyPRA?si=11b9ZGkmV9pJRXTE


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>>208
PSA: No fucking threads with some shitty topic xyz and then a “books on xyz” so that it can pass as literature related. It's low effort, low IQ posts like this that have ruined /lit/. Shilling isn't the problem per se, but at least make some effort.


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 No.89[Reply]

So, this is what you guys were up to while 4chan was down?
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>>89
>>89
Ive been so bored I actually started reading again. Imagine.

 No.115

>>89
litizens need a place to go

 No.123

>>89
I conducted a series of discourses with my father. He's only going to be alive for 19 years, so I guess we better fit that theory in now.

 No.185

>>123
Have you thought about writing about your family? That's something I often come back to. The dramatization of what is subtly out of the ordinary that characterizes your relations to friends and family. Trying to dramatize and literally process what has actual value to me: attachment and care. How do you phrase that, how do you structure a story who's chief subject is the perception of the ordinary and what is subtly out-of-the-ordinary but not quite extraordinary.

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>>185
Look thanks for the compliment, you probably know me from an irc Board. (yes a board).

You're gesturing at Drama. What kind of story do you have to write? Problem play? Brechtian anti-catharsis tragedy of the value-form's self abnegation? Comedy? Guignol?

My relationship with my father is regulatable, so doesn't "exceed" the social norm requiring a play to teach us how to regulate such a Passion of Affect into regularity and sociability. Plus if I knew how to regulate disaffected proletarian academics *I WOULD DISREGULATE*: aRISE you workers from your SLUMbers….

So whaddcha wanna do: rewrite me Merchant of Venice with Shylock as a Tragic Hero forcibly elevated low to high by renouncing Judaism for the love of christ. YOU MAY NOT REWRITE ANY PRIOR ACTS. YOU MUST PRODUCE ACT5:2 5:3 5:4 and 5:5. By 5:5 Shylock must have voluntarily reconverted to Christianity due to a flaw inherent in him and be raised despite his will to an end that was fated. YOU MAY NOT MAKE SHAKESPEARE'S VOICE CALVINIST.
If you can complete that then we can talk about making a non-Lyric moment between my father and I.


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