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moat cailin editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>25581657
>>25625833>>25625831>>25625820>>25625792What the fuck is this cringe fucking shit
Braavos would be my first place to live but I'd settle for Pyke as well. I'd also choose the 800 mile stretch between The Twins and the Dreadfort just living as vagabond outlaw because obviously I'd never get bored.
>>25625898>BraavosYou can't even walk around with a sword on your belt without being accosted for a duel.
>>25612421> often putting down older classic writers in the processDoes he really? The egoistic audacity of such a mediocre writer masterbation his own ego. Even more famous midwit authors like Stephen King don’t make themselves look like simpletons by putting down their betters.
>>25610523Nothing in ASOIAF makes any sense from a worldbuilding standpoint.It is entirely carried by the characters.It's a case study that even if you suck as a worldbuilder, you can sell your world with strong characters
Recommended books about anticommunism? It can be about opposition to communist regimes, refutation of communism or memoirs from ex-communists.
Give us some book about pedopfiles or with large age differenceDo NOT recommend me that Lolita shit. I read that not understand shit. Man in love with his dictionary.I must read some books about pedophilia or a book with a big age difference. Do NOT say Lolita.
>>25625719Lolita.
Jerry is right wing clearly>pro-Greater Israel/Revisionist Zionism>whines about cancel culture>Epstein and Weinstein defender>barely any blacks on his show>defended Kramer after the racist outbursts
>>25625719>those tits>pedophiliathe word really has been diluted to the point of meaning absolutely nothing now
>>25626076all jews are cousins, they were a tribe of a few hundred who wandered the desert inbreeding for thousands of years
>>25626042I mean zoomers are probably the most conformist generation in a long time so if some blue hair feminist tells them to jump they say how high
Post and discussion about any type of history book.>The Greco-Persian Wars by Peter Green>The long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire and the fledgling Greek states reached its high point with the extraordinary Greek victory at Salamis in 480 B.C. The astonishing sea battle banished forever the specter of Persian invasion and occupation. The massive Greek victory, despite the Greeks' inferior numbers, opened the way for the historic evolution of the Greek states in a climate of creativity, independence, and democracy, one that provided a model and an inspiration for centuries to come.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/307159.The_Greco_Persian_Warshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Persian_WarsPrevious thread: https://warosu.org/lit/thread/25510774
>>25625581>>By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions by Richard Cohensell me this book
>>25625629If the history of fencing already appeals to you, you'll like it.
I’ve come to the end of the beginning of my study of Ancient Rome. I’ve read all the great Roman historians and I’ve read Scullard, Syme, and Goldsworthy (Gruen is on my list). Giving recs for beginners is easy. Give me Ancient Rome recs for someone who is already (if just barely) past the surface level of knowledge on Rome.As always, much obliged.
>>25626130Did you read Didius Julianus and Herodian?Like isn't half Didius' writing lost?
>>25626168>Didius Julianusmeant Cassius Dio
Is It Halloween Yet? Previous >>25623040
>>25626146yeah. well i’m not really talking about you, just in general. my dad used to say ‘don’t trust short people’. so much of life is seeking to compensate flaws. survival tactics. once you can’t get a girl or whatever it is the mind has to find some compensation and hold on for dear life.
>>25626153But it'll generally pick the closest coping mechanism. We're all bitter in some way, but some of us take that and become dictators, while others become drunks.
>>25626156the drunks are the real heroes out of the two
fuck shit up and start a riot
bought an air purifier.
Nazis are le bad
>>25625282That's a very good book, I recommed it.
>>25625923>It was kind of an unfair fight thoughMaybe the master race shouldn't have picked a fight they couldn't win then?
>>25626148because its not really about that, but the fact that supranational organizations shouldn't exist to make fights unbalanced.
>>25626162Maybe the master race should be smart enough to know this supranational organization would stop them, etc etcYou can't cry about "fair" in a war of conquest and domination.
>>25626164sure ya can. the United Nations should understand that if they can occupy a country, then it gives the right of the Axis to occupy the building of the United Nations, both are territories. Just because the United Nations building belongs on the soil of the United States is irrelevant. I mean if we imply all actors in a war are fair game, then so is NGOs.
requirement: character has to off themselves
>>25625905If it was a 20 year old girl whateverA 40 year old lady with kids who has a secure life and isn't fucked up on drugs or something? It's edging out of just being kind of gross into actually being somewhat vicious.Say this to a woman and she'll give back something like "Yeah ok when we're scared we're scared for our lives, when you're scared your scared your feelings might get hurt" no matter that our feelings are what puts their lives at hazard to begin with. It's not a fair distribution of power, that point is obvious, but that doesn't change that a lot of the time it's two sides of the same coin. In Bourdain's example though it wasn't her life her attacking his emotions put at risk, but his life. Do the old Reddit gender swap and see what that story looks like if his cheating got her to kill himself. I don't think incels have a thought process that is sound, but that doesn't mean that every idea they might think must be incorrect. This post is also a little too "Look what they did to my boy" to be making it about a guy I never met. But whatever, I guess today I'm the fag.
>>25625449Yeah I kind of get it, getting played by a whore like that is horrible. However I don't know, it makes me thing that we're all very fragile in the end and when I sit by myself and contemplate the chasm of my soul I sometimes wonder if I would an hero if something like that happened to me
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>>25626140The show changed the way travel and food television was done. I can see it being harder to appreciate coming from a background where half of the travel YouTubes you've seen are basically doing it by Bourdain's book, but it was very different when it was new. When the show came out The Sopranos was still on the air, during the big shift in the second half of the 2000s where TV started getting a lot better and movies started getting a lot worse. I could also say that his book is a better than the show but the book was the first one to really show the restaurant industry to the world, so like the show it changed its genre. I think he just had an instinct for that, finding a way to do something that was a little more meaningful than the way it was being done up until then.My dad didn't like Bourdain. Thought he was a self important cool guy. But I never saw that in him. He liked travel like I do, he worked a real job for a long time despite having more artistic tastes than most people like I did, he liked to see the different minds and people around him not just blab about how they did pizza different or whatever, he wanted to have a full, real life. It was a show about food, yeah, but I think it was done right and was a show about other things as well.
>>25626165i’m with your dad. i can see how he appeals to certain types of people though (i wont elaborate on what types).
Hey do you like your ereader but think it's running a bit too well? Wanna make it more bloated? Here's a bunch of useless features! Start by installing an overlay that adds 3-4 extra steps to every action and then see how many plugins you can cram in!
>>25625459Ridiculous. I use koreader with bookshelf on my kobo libra h2o and it runs just fine. You must just be stupid. And gay.
>>25625459Ereader fags just like buying new tablets and following a tutorial. Its like building LEGOs.They won't use it, the only purpose is to sit on the shelf and make them feel accomplished while they shuffle their hordes of ebooks around every new tablet they get and bitch about not being able to figure out how to use calibre.
Dialis editio>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>25580183>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>25625265The doubt I have is I thought the meter has certain feet that are fixed iambs. Maybe you could point to another choliambic example from Martial that has a long/spondee in that position? If it's not actually a rule that the syllable should be long, that would be a satisfying explanation. Otherwise, if there's no counterexamples, why rule out that Martial intended the -o to be pronounced as short in this particular case just because it's normally treated as long?
>>25625767He was so retarded, he didn't even know how to pronounce "ideo."
>>25625809What a sussy baka
2000 years from now there will be fierce debates over every single surviving instance of irregularity in English, someone will declare Tennyson the standard and decide Jefferson didn’t know English.
Anthon, Charles. Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1824, 41–44.https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Elements_of_Latin_prosody_and_metre_%28IA_elementsoflatinp00anth%29.pdfPages 41-44; p. 43 specifically lists ideo and shows the mentioned Martial verse as an example of ideo sometimes having short o. Page 41 explains the general rule in more detail.
Why do right-wing grifters like pensandpoison and that Joon girl complain endlessly about “Marxism” and “wokeness” allegedly killing the artistry of modern literature when right-wing conservatives were pumping out all sorts of slop novels in the 90s and 2000s? Picrel, for instance, was about a state governor covering up his daughter’s death from a botched abortion because he needed support from abortion rights orgs to win his re-election and is later exposed by a Christian news anchor with prophetic powers; this crap is no different from a Sally Rooney novel or “Yesteryear” just neocon/Evangelical in orientation with the same dogshit writing style. Tons of hypocrisy and ignorance on the part of the “anti-work” literary critic crowd.
>>25612308All I remember about him is the book about angels and demons fighting with the woman trying to escape the New Age cult.
>>25612506>Right-wingers have no ability to feel or express empathy (if they did they’d be leftists).he did the meme
>>25612277Artists of both political sides make good and bad stuff. The 90s also had Robert Jordan doing amazingly in fantasy and he’s right leaning (libertarian monarchist.) Today, we got guys like Curtis Yarvin, Jordan Peterson, Bronze Age Pervert and Mike Ma all having written compelling works all representing different types of right wing.
>>25616474even if that's true it doesn't disprove the other anon's point that Islamic countries have more of an issue with hardcore Muslims than atheists/people wanting secularism. I don't remember the last time a "socialist" or "communist" militant group in the Islamic world did anything spooky.
>>25612277I want to know how much these right-wing grifters actually care about literature vs to what extent they're merely pandering to their "anti-woke" audience.
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>>25621474His novels aren't bad
>>25621435Anne of Green Gables seriesLife of Pi - even though it's a jeet
>>25625891Life of Pi is overrated trash
>>25626147It's a interesting read about liking comfortable lies over uncomfortable truths. It's easily one of the most relevant books for the era. Shame that everyone gets caught up on the parts of the book that don't matter.
Take the test and find out which philosopher you are most in agreement with:knowsoda.com/philosophyI did 104 questions.
>>25626035What two positions? There's one position and whatever the fuck these retards cooked up.
I STAND BY MY BELIEFSIDEALISMNOMINALISMHOLISMSOULFREE WILLEGALITARIANISMTHEISM
>>25623089half of these questions immediately make me go "depends on how you define it". kinda shit survey.
Are there any Marxist books or write-ups about the ongoing AI revolution?
>>25622568Absolutely Tiananmen
>>25604845hell yeah dude fuck work
>>25599219Marx? Not a fan.
>>25604845>Its ownership and deployment are political-economic questions>public ownership of the infrastructureIn other words, as with every Marxist, you want someone else to do the work of inventing, building and producing; and then you decide who gets the goods, inevitably rewarding people who didn't work as hard more than they deserveYeah that system is totally sustainable, sure...
>>25626150the idea is that ai renders work obsolete
UH OH! editionPrevious: >>25612894>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Banned Authors:Ty JohnstonKarl WagnerStephen KristiansenDavid GemmelKazuo Ishiguro>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffgComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25625920>why are the future and past lumped together???gee i wonder
>>25625920Yea, science fiction is way less popular and mooches off of Fantasy to keep the thread alive. There's been like half a dozen separate attempts to split up the general and create a science fiction general by uppity twerps like you, and you always come crawling back here because you can't even last a week without fantasy chads to bump for you.
>>25625618>Do you ever go back and reread books from when you were younger?I did that years ago, went through my old book collection and reread stuff from when I was in school: Redwall, His Dark Materials, Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia, the Hobbit, and the Riftwar Saga. Some of it held up, some of it didn't.
I want to like this since I liked the anime but it's written in a really annoying manner.
Haven't read a page in a day or two
