/lit/ - Literature

>>21280977
I’m sorry you feel that way man… something I’ve learned over the years is that grasping for the rush in the moment you do something only makes the experience more dull and empty over time. Enjoy the connection in the present with that person or people instead of looking for personal pleasure. As humans, we are happiest when we are giving :)

You also seem like a really cool guy! I lost my comedic touch a long time ago when I started doing hard drugs. I’ve been off them for a while and cultivating a small business so hopefully it returns soon… any tips on how to make people laugh again? I loved being able to disarm sad or edgy people with a quick joke and light vibes.

>>20608537
Alright, I'll post my review of The Emily Project here. BTW I'm also >>/lit/thread/S20185837#p20188818 from way back when. I was wanting to read the book since this post and I'll say right off the bat that I'm not disappointed. Now for the review:

I will reddit-space to make it easier for you and other anons to read.

The blurb suggests sci-fi + comedy + romance. The tags on Amazon say it's a coming of age book but the main character is thirty-plus (although I suppose you can say he took a while to become an adult, perhaps?). The premise (Wizard gets to test an early-access Fembot for his job and she changes his life) is good and filled with potential, especially considering that Wizards + Fembots are going to be a common pairing in the future, but the story itself surprised me a lot.


First of all, Emily is an AI Robot designed to keep her master happy, and that's how she's treated troughout the story: like the Fembot that she is, both by the author (No cliche "develops feelings midway trough" and no twist comes out of the author's ass) and by the characters: the ones who don't know she's a robot are weirded out by her personality, treating her either like a child, a fake slut, or a potential cocksleeve, while the ones who do know that she's a robot handle her with a lot of care.

Now, the secondary characters have their unique personality, which makes the book an easy read. They are no more fleshed out than they need to be, and that is obviously good. But sometimes they speak and act in ways that are pretty non-humanlike, so to speak, and the dialogue in some parts comes off as unnatural. This applies to Caleb, Emily, and Kate as well.

The prose itself is the biggest problem in the book, in my opinion. As one Amazon reviewer said, it's serviceable. It's not bad enough to make you stop reading, nor is it bad enough to break your immersion, especially in the moments where the plot is going strong. It does feel robotic in some ways, and I feel that a big chunk of the book is just statements of what the characters are doing, as you would see, say, in a movie script.

(1/2)

>>20324320
Concession accepted.

>>20188121
Hey, lad, can't opinate much on your public libraries plan but I think you should enable KDP Select for the KENP pages count. People that buy books and people that subscribe to Kindle Unlimited and read them "for free" are VERY different and you won't lose buyers by letting people read them.
At any rate, the synopsys looks interesting, although not very informative nor engaging, and the preview is pretty good too. I won't buy it because I'm brazilian and right now I'm piss poor (I wouldn't even read on KU because I also don't have a subscription) but good luck and I hope you do well.

>>20113676
Absolutely based. Cheers friend.

>>19972580
based pasta
It will never not be funny to me how Baldr Sky and Muramasa both finally got translated and had all the potency of a wet fart. They both got hyped up by JOPs as kamige for so long and finally got western releases with zero aplomb and zero interest. I still haven't gotten around to reading them personally (because i keep forgetting they're translated lmao, no one ever talks about them any more), I'm sure they're alright but it's clear they're not the kamige people pretended they were. What's the new so-called "kamige" all the JOPs pretend is God's gift to the universe these days?

>he gave up
Epistemological tard utterly destroyed yet again. Until next time.

does it exist?

>>18992805
Dude. Read Mark’s gospel. Just drop everything and do it. Read all the words, take Jesus as he presents himself and what he says to who.

He says that he will die and rise again. They couldn’t find a body. He rose again. Now what?

Everything’s changed, dude. We don’t have to fear death, he defeated it. Just hear his Word and trust it as enough, as his disciples and millions since have done.

>>18002068
>have a giant stack of books I haven't read
>mom gives me more

>>17976895
>Before starting this essay i would like to thank the sponsor of this essay, RAID: Shadow Legends.

>Going through Goodreads reviews
>"I don't find the characters likeable, didn't root for any of them"
>"The characters' motivations didn't make sense"

I would say the blame is on TV rather than cinema proper. Those HBO shows with huge ass casts have warped how young people approach stories.

>working from home
>take 10min breaks every 30mins just to read
>end up reading like 60 pages a day
i love covid