/lit/ - Literature

>>15150246
I use Linux for video games and browsing, I want to use GhostBSD one day but for now I'm not ready to take the leap of faith. Anyways, how is Meditations by Marcus Aurelius?

Hey /lit/, can you recommend some good detective novels? I liked Edogawa Rampo so I'm looking for works similar to his.

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I think at this point he's actually hoping that he'll die before he finishes, so that that way the readers will be able to mentally insert some nebulous satisfying ending, or John Preston their way to trying to determine what the ending was "going to be" for eternity.

What really makes this funny is that when Martin wrote the original pitch for ASOIAF (it's one page long) it was actually very straightforward, and a very traditional and unambiguous sort of fantasy. "The Last of the Dragon Lords of Valyrian," I mean for Christ's sake.

But the character of the story he initially envisioned was soon overtaken by the nihilistic and postmodern attitudes that Martin himself holds. It's actually tragic, because part of the reason that people liked Martin was that he subverted their expectations about fantasy, and in a way speaks to the nihilistic, materialistic core of the modern psyche. People read his novels because in some way, we hoped that Martin knew the answer. Martin must have had a solution for the gordian knot of the postmodern crisis.

Instead, he's just as stumped as we are. He CAN'T finish the book, because there is no answer to the problem. The question itself is the incorrect answer to a higher problem, and Martin was false messiah to a generation looking for salvation from their Materialist prison. He was supposed to provide the answer which is why the desperation surrounding the release of his books has reached such a fever pitch--on some level there is more at stake for the Harry Potter generation than merely finding out what Euron Greyjoy's plan is, they need the answer to an impossible question: If we reject all higher notions of good, evil, beauty and truth, how is it possible to have an ending that isn't totally Nietzschean?

It isn't.

>>11646638
Communists should be locked in small rooms the size of cabinets and starved to death. I wish we could establish a sort of giant facility where we keep millions of these people, any of them whenever they are detected, and starve them to death on camera. I would watch the footage of it on 20x speed every night before going to sleep.

George R. R. Martin, for a number of reasons (he is a Leftist, he is an atheist, he is a cynic, and he is a bad writer) is unable to grasp any of the literary concepts about which he attempts to write. One might think that he is attempting to right "The Real Lord of the Rings," a sort of realist take on a fantasy classic... But that is wrong. Tolkien wrote mytho-poetic epics, more in common with Beowulf than with the modern fantasy novel style that Martin apes.

What Martin does instead is attempt write a classic tragedy, but without understanding ANY of the constituent elements of tragedy. Instead of following the Greek formula of a series of flawed heroic events resulting in tragedy and a final moment of catharsis, Martin simply layers on and on an endless series of sufferings, stalling for time in the hopes that he can find some way to resolve his story without betraying the Godless, nihilistic ideals he himself has championed since his earliest days as a writer. He needs an ending that reveals in its tragedy the potentials of hope, truth and beauty.

But he doesn't believe in hope, truth and beauty. He doesn't believe in love. He believes in love the same way that Sam Harris believes in right and wrong. As ideas that give him advantage to signal to other white upper middle class liberals and Jews. George R.R. Martin has no ideology except the bitchness and cattiness of the urbanite bugman-elite. He has no real ideas about good or evil and I am quite confident that he doesn't actually know what Love is. How could he possible reveal a greater good through his work when he doesn't believe that good really exists?

>>11623439
He won't have one, and the reason for this is very simple. George R. R. Martin, for a number of reasons (he is a Leftist, he is an atheist, he is a cynic, and he is a bad writer) is unable to grasp any of the literary concepts about which he attempts to write. One might think that he is attempting to right "The Real Lord of the Rings," a sort of realist take on a fantasy classic... But that is wrong. Tolkien wrote mytho-poetic epics, more in common with Beowulf than with the modern fantasy novel style that Martin apes.

What Martin does instead is attempt write a classic tragedy, but without understanding ANY of the constituent elements of tragedy. Instead of following the Greek formula of a series of flawed heroic events resulting in tragedy and a final moment of catharsis, Martin simply layers on and on an endless series of sufferings, stalling for time in the hopes that he can find some way to resolve his story without betraying the Godless, nihilistic ideals he himself has championed since his earliest days as a writer. He needs an ending that reveals in its tragedy the potentials of hope, truth and beauty.

But he doesn't believe in hope, truth and beauty. He doesn't believe in love. He believes in love the same way that Sam Harris believes in right and wrong. As ideas that give him advantage to signal to other white upper middle class liberals and Jews. George R.R. Martin has no ideology except the bitchness and cattiness of the urbanite bugman-elite. He has no real ideas about good or evil and I am quite confident that he doesn't actually know what Love is. How could he possible reveal a greater good through his work when he doesn't believe that good really exists?