/lit/ - Literature

>>21802178
Scrappy adventures propped up by religous symbolism and mindfucking sci-fi concepts.

>mere mention of BotNS
>summons a storm of shit flinging schizos
Every time

>>20850687
Filtered hard

explain to me why he fucked his grandmother?

The Greeks really are everything. All this time dicking around.

>>20305374
>tfw headmate gf gives you a handjob while you are trapped in the prison hole of a larp wizard village
Why didn't Thecla fuck men, by the way?

Books on how to change your personality entirely?
Books on how to treat your underlying mental illness?

>>20060779
The real question is how this guy is able to bang every woman he meets 5 minutes after meeting them.

>>19870407
It's been fucking forever since I read these books so excuse me if I schizopost for a bit. All I really remember that there were a bunch of references to Moby Dick. I think the very friendly snake is supposed be that question mark sea monster or some shit. The island might have been a stronghold for VFD before it got abandoned and later run by castaways. Ishmael might have been a VFD leader before he became a cultist. The island is supposed to represent "paradise" for the castaways who are persuaded by Ishmael to stay away from the outside word and remain ignorant for their safely. The Bauldeliers and later the arrival of Olaf and Kitt bring knowledge which obstructs the illusion of escapism. Olaf poisons paradise both literally and figuratively by challenging Ishmael's ethos. The radishes parallel to the apple in genesis in that they both bring knowledge. With the case of the raddishes, it's the knowledge of the cure for the poison. Ishamael's reluctance to use the radishes at end might be because he'd rather have himself and his people die than break the illusion. The snake/sea monster is the personification of mystery which is what strives people to want to obtain knowledge and leave blissful ignorance. This is why the Bauldiers and later Beatrice end up leaving the island at the end of the book. The island is a cope for those that want to abandon all that they know but are compelled by intuition to leave "paradise" to an unknown fate. To the reader, their paradise is to be satisfied with a concluded story but are denied so when not all loose ends are tied.
>>19870407
>Was he trying to do some kind of "religion bad" posting
Probably, the New Atheism movement was big in the mid-late 2000's
>>19870544
I think it's implied somewhere that they fucking died
>>19870621
It's obvious that it was meant to be some free masonry/ Illuminati shit that uses Fire Departments as a front.

>>19869216
BotNS has all of those except intense battles.

>>19496327
I can't believe they let this literal cuck write the forward to BoTNS.

>>19288261
Have sex with hookers. Seriously it will change your life. Also lift weights and read good books (nothing written after the year 1900)

>Dr. Talos's genesis play in BoTNS
pure, unadulterated kino. does the rest of the series live up to this or should I stop reading at the end of this book?

And we'll never get him again.

>>18464370
Feelsbadman. He'd probably get a lot more satisfaction out of reading those books than getting drunk again, and he'd feel fresh and healthy the next day instead of rough. Such is drug addiction. I bet you'd really enjoy talking about the book with him too, I know I'd love to have someone irl I could discuss it with. I bought my best friend Shadow of the Torturer but he's never going to finish reading it, and even if he did slog his way through it I can already tell it's not for him.

>>18305718
I love this guy like you wouldn’t believe

>>18291682
Wolfe, McCarthy, Melville

Shadow of the torturer , constantly re-reading extremely comfy

Any recommendations for someone obsessed with BOTNS? Already read Cage of Souls, which was pretty decent, but nothing really scratches that itch.

Any recommendations for someone obsessed with BOTNS? Already read Cage of Souls, which was pretty decent, but nothing really scratches that itch.

Just finished the castle of the autarch , there was an anon who said that he didn't read the urth of the new sun because Geneman wasn't planning on writing said book but rather was pushed to write it by publisher
how the fuck can you make sense of that bombshell at the end ? i'm hoping to find answers in the 5th book for you my dear reader i hope that you will take the wolfe pill

>Dating 10/10 qt as I'm travelling north
>She's a bit wierd but the sex is good
>Get to our new home thats by a river
>qt 3.14 is afraid of water
>Has a complete breakdown and decides to go back again
>fuck it go then
>I find new chicks along my travels
>Mostly slave and soldier bitches
>By the actions of a time traveling version of myself and some living plant I become an all knowing God King
>Feels good man
>Finally back in Nessus
>Decide to find out more about qts family
>Meet her grown son
>Fuck he looks just like me
>Fuck he is my dad
mfw I've fucked my grandma. Why didn't my future self warn me?!?!

I committed the whole passage to memory a while ago, but haven't tested myself to see if I can recite it perfectly in quite a long time, so here I go:

What struck me on the beach - and it struck me indeed, so that I staggered as at a blow - was that if the Eternal Principle had rested in that curved thorn I had carried about my neck across so many leagues, and if it now rested in the new thorn (perhaps the same thorn) I had only now put there, then it might rest in everything, in every thorn in every bush, in every drop of water in the sea. The thorn was a sacred Claw because all thorns were sacred Claws; the sand in my boots was sacred sand because it came from a beach of sacred sand. The cenobites treasured up the relics of the sannyasins because the sannyasins had approached the Pancreator. But everything had approached and even touched the Pancreator, because everything had dropped from his hand. Everything was a relic. All the world was a relic. I drew off my boots, that had traveled with me so far, and threw them into the waves that I might not walk shod on holy ground.

>>15294687

The second one is more of a swarthy swashbuckling adventure type novel with lots of brooding and self pity on Locke's part. I believe the author was going through a divorce and basically wrote it in the depths of his despair.

With that said I enjoyed it for what it was and really think the third one is quite good too.