/lit/ - Literature

>>23319845
>I'm not sure I feel invested enough to go on.
>Shadow of the Torturer felt like a really big prologue that had to end at a specific point so the author put lots of filler, with some enjoyable moments.
>Should I stick with it?
I felt like everything after the first Act was filler in Dune.
Aftet chapter 22 which ends "book I - dune", most of the remaining 26 chapters in "book II - the muaddib" and "book III - the prophet" are various levels of filler, except the Vladimir Harkonnen chapters.

Dont you fucking tell me it takes all 26 chapters to explain how Paul ingratiate s himself with the Fremen. He wins their respect and worship and a wife among their people at the end of a single fight, 3 or 4 chapters into meeting them.

Paul's psychic visions added nothing to they story, but I'm told this is because in they 1960s, the cia was studying tks psychic powers of shrooms, and Frank Herbert was in on this. Reading about someone else's drug trip is more boring than hearing someone's dream.

With or without this context, the magic potion that united the community telepathically but for whatever reason we're not calling it telepathy was stupid.

The genius 2 year old daughter who kills a man at the end is also stupid.

Fuck Dune.
I still genuinely enjoyed the beginning, tho

>>23319799
This post made me laugh the hardest which is insane since it really just reduces to a standard complaint that something is off topic.

I guess context is everything. OP was the perfect set up to this as a punchline.

>>23320129
>Most right wing men are low testosterone too
That not what Horsey comics say about us.
Can't be toxic masculine without that Test.

>>23320116
>Every aspect of modern Chinese architecture and fashion is built around concepts imposed upon them by colonialist Europeans and Americans, BUT YOU ALREADY KNEW THAT YOU DISINGENUOUS FUCK.
Forgot to mention, that wh*tes get exclusively hired because of imposed beauty standards.

https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/asian-fashion-brands-white-models/

>>23318594
>>Racism is power plus privilege.
>Let's dismantle your idiotic definition.
Oh boy. One of these "facts and logic" blowhards.
>If I hate old Asian men, let's say I think they're all pedophiles, and I see one walking down the street and punch him in the face, am I a racist?
Yes
>Is that a racist act?
Fucking YES shithead
>If instead of punching him in the face immediately, I follow him to the airport, get on his flight to Beijing, and then punch him in the face in the airport after landing, am I no longer racist because I don't have power and privilege in China?
Every aspect of modern Chinese architecture and fashion is built around concepts imposed upon them by colonialist Europeans and Americans, BUT YOU ALREADY KNEW THAT YOU DISINGENUOUS FUCK.
>Whether or not I am racist is not dependent on my real-time GPS coordinates.
THIS IS WHAT FUCKING /POL/ TARDS ACTUALLY BELIEVE.
CAN YOU GET FUCK OFF MY BOARD NOW?
PLEEEAAAASE?

>>23318371
>Nazis are dumb retards that could have just solved their problems by kicking the jews out
Only delaying the inevitable.
Simpletoremember.com has a list of all the times jews have been kicked out.

>>23318456
>Anon proves anti-Semitism doesn't exist
Based

>>23319700
>destroy OR devour you
What does he mean? Like white men going native and nigging out or does he mean cannibalism?

>>23319741
Troons vs mindćucks. Who would win?

>>23313050
>>have to live in a world where brainlets think Marx [...] [was] at all intelligent or thoughtful in anything they ever wrote
Das Kapital is tedious and boring, but damned if it isn't a serious trial to understand what he's saying on a sentence by sentence basis.

>>23313042
Red Hill me on that.

>>23313004
I'm nearly 30. I've spent most of my life watching anime, and TV shows and the only books I read were to get the source material of a film I thought I would enjoy.

This is a pretty terrible way to find books. Many anime are based on manga which in turn are based on light novels, which have all the dumb story of an anime with about as few as 9 pictures in the entire book, including the cover.
The writing usually doesn't sell itself well on its own.

I remember spending a few months reading a Star Trek book called "the first adventure" because i was obsessed with the idea of not even starting star trek until i could consume whole franchise chronologically. It was a shit book that doesnt have an ending. The book just stops.

Nhk and durara were comfy and
enders game 1 was insanely gripping, but enders game 2 (with the Portuguese church) was longer to get through and enders game 3 i didn't get past the first few chapters before i felt like i was reading a bunch of bullshit.

2001 a space odyssey was incredible and so was they sequel 2010, but i made the mistake of watching the movie 2010 halfway through, and now I'm so disgusted i can't finish the book.

MY POINT IN WRITING ALL THIS is that i was surprised how interesting I found the Illiad or the Old Testanent once I started reading them. Emile by Rooseau and Technology by Ellul were fascinating and very gripping and an experience I've seldom had with literature before, since i never tried to read anything truly great before and after recently reading Dune, i feel disgusted by science fiction in general and try to avoid anything written after 1900 unless its French or extremely practical.

>>23312758
All communist revolutions had the backing of the banks.
Wherever lessons you think you're learning on revolution don't really matter. If you are pushing a globally destructive agenda that Blackrock and Google like you will get free money and free advertising.

>>23312874
>don't cite anything
Haha, what a bunch of made up bullshit
>cite a quality indepth and detailed book which itself cites numerous other studies.
Lol you only read one book? Haha, well i didnt read it, so that means your dumb for not reading an undefined number of additional books on the subject.

I really need to study the art of manipulative argument. The way you moved a previously non existent goalpost was quite effective for low attention span people who are unable and unwilling to read an entire paragraph.

>>23312645
>>Self-help slop
>Hahaha. Nice term.
Did you never hear of disposable low quality content referred to as slop before?

I would like to formally welcome you to 4chan. I hope you enjoy your stay.

>>23312604
I remember a listener submitted a message to Ryan Holiday back in 2019-2020ish asking Ryan to talk about Trump who's such a stoic mind to deal with all the bullshit that gets thrown at him with aplomb.
Ryan was like
>lol Trump is anti science and magical thinking. Character matters.
Any one believing the last two words wouldn't be interested in voting for a vegetable, so he doesn't bother mentioning Biden by name as I recall.

I was disappointed by Robert Greene's frequent need to take nameless potshots at Donald Trunp
>a business man would never make a good president
That only serve to make the book feel dated.

>>23312575
You're literally the only person on the entire board mentioning it right now.

>>23309411
>Livestock is a gigantic mess. Then you get into herds versus packs versus colonies (ants) versus hives (bees) versus sounders (boar but not pigs) versus murders (crows but not other birds)
Homer Simpson taught me that one.

>>23312356
Therapy has been proven to not carry any higher effectiveness based on age or training level of the practitioner whatsoever.

Anyone can walk in and do this shit.
Someone who has friends doesn't need a therapist and someone who doesn't have friends probably isn't doing well in other areas of life and probably doesn't have several thousand dollars to fork over to some dork with a paper hanging on the wall asking "how does that make you feel? Must be a chemical imbalance. Want some drugs?"

Read "Cracked: the unhappy truth about psychiatry" by James Davies to learn what a sham it is. I have it on audible, but it's probably also on YouTube, so pirate it if you want.

>>23311983
You've deleted two other more substantive threads this morning.

>>23311942
>Dostoyevski
Its spelled with a y at the end.
Dostoyevsky shills don't even know how to spell his name.

Fun fact. A name ending in "-sky" is usually jewey
jewe[y]/sk[y]
but a name ending in "-ski" is usually white
>wh[i]te/sk[i]

>>23312306
Go back to /pol/

>>23308623
If you're carrying old yellow books with the autographs of ww2 figures, i hope you have a serious solution to keep them protected from water damage and and air damage over time.

I also hope you don't read the original, but instead read a copy.

My grandfather never had something so valuable but he compulsively bought 2 or more copies of a given book, so he could read one and keep a clean bookshelf copy of the other.

>>23311048
>chinese themed cover
>girl boss murders a little boy
Is this a book about the lover of the Chinese emperor, mentioned in 48 Laws of Power: "Destroy your enemy totally," where the lover fucks the chinese emperor with his barren wife's permission and then smothers the child she gives birth to knowing everyone will assume the wife must be to blame because she was jealous.