/lit/ - Literature

Pillars of the Earth
389 / 800-ish

A Feast For Crows
250 / 700-ish (hardcover)

>>1381171
Well I'll be damned.

I wonder if OP really is serious with that.

>>1381164
>Elvis

Nigga, are you serious?

Blood Meridian if he loves deep involved reads that blow your mind, are filled to the brim with endless amounts of violence, and he doesn't like anything happy to happen, ever.

No, because I'm not an evil person.

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I hope you're not actually that ignorant.

>>1380302
Thanks for the nice response :>

Great thread, homie. Love a good history discussion.

I wrote extensively on Hispania under the Roman Empire, predominantly during the times of the Princeps, but also including the Visigothic Kingdom and Justinian's reconquest of Southern Hipsania in Baetica and Terraconensis.

What I'm curious about is this: do you have any insights into the longterm ramifications of Justinian's attempt at reconquering the Western Roman Empire on the Byzantines?

I've often seen and studied what he accomplished with his reconquering, but not what effects this had on the Byzantine's themselves. Did it help or hurt their Empire in the short/long term and why?

>>1372567
Except it's terrible. The plot is terrible, the characters are terrible, and the writing is itself terrible.

It's basically bad fan-fiction in which the author inserted her self as a horribly designed Mary Sue. She has literally written a novel about her imagined love-life with a vampire. (And you have to wonder about a guy 100 years old still trolling high schools for women. As a matter of fact, why the FUCK would someone 100 years old subject themselves to high school at all?)

The books are ultimately degrading and damaging to women, as well as romance, society, and writing in general. Nothing redeeming comes from them. They are a black hole of awful from which there is no return once the event-horizon of shit is reached.

But sure, why not, let's have a woman get raped and beaten while comatose by her boyfriend, who gnaws their demon offspring out of her, which her friend then wants to fuck.

Wow, so we got pedophilia, rape, spousal abuse, and .... gnawing open people.... all listed as positive qualities in a romantic relationship. Sure, fuck it, why not.

This whole thread is pretentious.

Give me Calvin and Hobbes and fuck off.

Book: Buy it, it sits on your shelf as long as you wish.

Kindle: Buy it, Amazon deletes it whenever they wish, you don't actually own the book, in 10 years you won't be able to show it to a friend or reread it or hold it in your hand because it is just a cloud of digital information that has no real physical substance. (And because Amazon deleted it from your Kindle 5 years earlier)

/thread

Revelation Space by Alistair Reyonolds

Alistair Reynolds
Perceived as best: Revelation Space
Actually the Best: House of Suns

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>>1371105
>Though, I doubt Sansa did it, she doesn't seem like the killing type
I wasn't Sansa, remember? Dontos tells her that her hairnet is magic and will save her. Then one of the pearls or whatever is missing. This after the Queen of Thorns (Margaery's grandmother) fusses with it.

It was Olenna Redwyne. She killed Joffrey. Elaborate plot.

>>1371094
>Ungregor vs Brother Sandor, the world's shittiest monk
I laughed so loud at that that I choked on my cereal.

I would love to see that.

>>1370783
I think you're right actually. I can't remember, I'd have to pick it up and check. However, I can't imagine that this is going to end well for Victarion.

That's a cointoss.

Either:

1. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
or
2. A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin.

Tough choice. I love both.

>>1370757
> I also still want an answer to why I should follow the golden rule, if I don't want to.

I honestly don't know. I'd have to consider it. As I said, it's merely a compass by which I guide my own actions, broadly at least.

>>1370742
>What makes the Islamic moral code (objectively) "worse" than the Western one?
Because one is based in Middle Ages mysticism and anti-woman theology, and the other is based on reason and the Enlightenment. Generally, of course.

It is the general problem with anyone who purely defines their morality in terms of religion. You can use it to justify anything. And that, invariably, leads to cruel behavior towards other human beings.

I don't think it's really arguable that beating a rape victim to death with a rock is more cruel than to not.

>>1370725
>You don't seem to be seeing the self-evident truth that you can't tell people that they *should* follow the golden rule.

Why oh why do you keep making this about morality? You have taken this so far off on a complete tangent. What does this have to do with eating meat?


>You also don't seem to see the contradiction of talking about "moral codes" justifying everything, promoting one, but then deriding another because it makes you feel a little unhappy.
I wasn't talking about moral codes in the first place, friend. Other people brought up that point and I responded to it that eating meat is acceptable in the general confines of most Western societies and within a world with no objective morality. I was specifically addressing eating meat, which I still am.

Furthermore, I have never said that all moral codes are equivalent. They are not. Had I been saying that, then certainly, I'd be contradictory in deriding one.

But as I said, my argument as to sentience is more in lines with scientific rather than philosophical argumentation.

>>1370710
There's nothing contradictory about it. What possible contradiction have you found? I also fail to see why you're mad, I was rather enjoying this. I like being challenged on my views, I like having to think about them.

If I'm challenging yours, maybe you should just take time to consider your own beliefs and not get angry about it.

As I said, I'm doing everything I can to avoid a discussion on morality, because that has NEVER been my point, from the start.