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Sci-fi, Fantasy, and Genre Fiction Anonymous 05/15/20(Fri)17:22:38 No.120 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

"Literature"? What are you, gay? We'll have none of that nonsense in this thread. Come and talk about stories about cool things for men.
>nuuuuh, but my poetry
I will literally beat you up.

What are your favourite books? Who are your favourite writers? What are you reading now? What do you plan on reading, but have not yet gotten around to?

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Anonymous 09/04/24(Wed)10:28:21 No.5766

I finished reading for the first time a book written by Robert A. Heinlein.
The constant seething done by leftist cattle about him seems unjustified.

Anonymous 09/05/24(Thu)23:40:20 No.5770

>>5766
Starship troopers? What did you think of it?

Anonymous 10/04/24(Fri)19:18:39 No.5829

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Finished the Prince Of Nothing trilogy.
Bakker has the most amazing fantasy prose I have ever read. Especially when it comes to describing magic.
Hail him.

Anonymous 10/13/24(Sun)22:06:34 No.5843

>>5829
I've heard that it's a bit philosophical compared to typical modern fantasy slop, and almost as crazy as Might and Magic with the alien shit and fantasy mixed together.
I'll probably never actually read it, I'm trying to avoid reading fantasy, especially series.

Anonymous 10/24/24(Thu)04:53:08 No.5849

>>5843
Prince Of Nothing is the first trilogy and it's a mostly grounded crusades-like Dark Fantasy setting. Although it constantly hints that shit will start going down soon.
It gets philosophical in certain parts, but it doesn't dwell on those themes too long. It prefers to keep a cinematic pace.
I'm not reading it so much out of love for Fantasy, as much as Bakker's prose being really good.

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The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings / The Silmarillion Anonymous 03/26/20(Thu)21:16:43 No.45 [Reply]

Use this thread to discuss anything related to J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium.

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Anonymous 09/17/24(Tue)09:39:56 No.5783

>>5630
>fantasy fans
you mean redditors who fap to Amiri putting men in their place before sucking an entire orc tribe dry ? i wouldn't call them fantasy fans they're just degens who picked fantasy as an aesthetic background for their sick fantasies

Anonymous 09/24/24(Tue)21:49:11 No.5791

I have plans to start rereading the Lord of the Rings in its entirety for the third time in my life.

I first read it during my childhood, then in my 20s and now in my 30s.

Anonymous 09/27/24(Fri)22:06:14 No.5804

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>>5783
That sounds hot, I'd love to read that one. Got a link? I love a good BJ story.

Anonymous 09/28/24(Sat)02:42:36 No.5806

>>5804
What's the deep lore about that draw???

>>5791
I'm doing it atm too. Sadly am not having much free time.

Anonymous 10/23/24(Wed)00:58:08 No.5848

It's been almost a month and I haven't finished rereading The Lord of the Rings. I'm not enjoying it as much as I did last time.

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Anonymous 11/28/20(Sat)08:20:36 No.761 [Reply]

I know normalfags are plebs, but… damn.

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Anonymous 09/09/24(Mon)01:57:11 No.5775

>>5484
>Y'all thought boomers with their dad rock and Archie Bunker cosplay sessions were bad?
No.

Anonymous 09/10/24(Tue)17:40:26 No.5779

Women are ruining literature. But I also blame the subhumans who call themselves "gamers".

Anonymous 09/10/24(Tue)17:41:41 No.5780

>>5484
>Y'all
>blames millennials, not gen x faggots
The absolute state of you, kike. Most of the plebs buying shitty books are gen x, including men from that generation who mostly only read low IQ slop.

Anonymous 10/20/24(Sun)16:40:46 No.5845

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>>5484
>Y'all

Anonymous 10/23/24(Wed)00:57:20 No.5847

>>5845
He will seethe with it.

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Anonymous 03/13/20(Fri)21:10:38 No.27 [Reply]

What are some premium /lit/ channels?
I want things only intellectuals would get

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Anonymous 09/07/23(Thu)01:06:26 No.5338

>>5335
Why do you post porn and cp and cry about it on zzzchan and /cow/, jew?

Anonymous 10/06/23(Fri)00:25:05 No.5366

>>5335
Why is Ramon getting deleted at all?

Anonymous 10/07/23(Sat)14:56:37 No.5369

>>5335
That anon is spitting out facts.

Anonymous 12/13/23(Wed)21:51:11 No.5429

This is a 4 year old thread, but Quentin Scobie's channel The Book Club was alright. You have to find an archive of it since he went off the deep end once he started balding. His reviews begin with increasingly performative pieces, and some are completely performative. The meat of his reviews was in the descriptions of his videos. He revived the channel, but his reviews since doing so have becoming increasingly esoteric in their performance because he can't cope with balding.

Anonymous 10/17/24(Thu)14:21:49 No.5844

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Michael Crichton Anonymous 08/04/23(Fri)02:00:38 No.5192 [Reply]

I never read any of his works, but recently I decided to search more about his books, since left-wingers are constantly attacking him and calling him a "chud".

Anonymous 08/04/23(Fri)21:52:14 No.5195

>>5192
Why?

Anonymous 08/07/23(Mon)10:39:27 No.5208

>>5195
he's a "right-winger" because he's anti-midia, anti-climate change and shit like that

Anonymous 10/07/24(Mon)09:10:21 No.5837

>>5208
He also made a book predicting #MeToo

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Anonymous 09/29/24(Sun)22:30:02 No.5822 [Reply]

I.
WE LEFT behind the painted buoy
That tosses at the harbor-mouth;
And madly danced our hearts with joy,
As fast we fleeted to the South:
How fresh was every sight and sound
On open main or winding shore!
We knew the merry world was round,
And we might sail for evermore.

II.
Warm broke the breeze against the brow,
Dry sang the tackle, sang the sail:
The Lady's-head upon the prow
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Anonymous 09/01/24(Sun)18:10:08 No.5760 [Reply]

I've decided I'm finally getting into manga in middle-age. What are the must-read titles for the thinking man?

Anonymous 09/05/24(Thu)12:41:15 No.5769

>>5760
>thinking man
ntrshit

but more seriously, i think FMA is a mature story that has several layers of meaning
while it can be enjoyed as a simple adventure, it also offers some thoughts about revenge, duty, science and playing god, the essence of humanity, etc illustrated by the charaters' choices and the consequences that follow

berserk is cuckshit draped in an edgy grimdark atmosphere to seem mature, dont waste your time

Anonymous 09/29/24(Sun)18:37:08 No.5820

>>5769
>but more seriously, i think FMA is a mature story that has several layers of meaning
Should I watch the anime first? I've never seen it.

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ITT: recommend cool books that you find Anonymous 06/11/21(Fri)01:13:46 No.1631 [Reply]

Written in the middle of the 19th century, Debit and Credit (AKA Soll und Haben) by Gustav Freytag is a very interesting work. It was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed German novels ever written until 1945. Supposedly wealthy German fathers would buy it as a gift for their sons when they reached adulthood because of it's encapsulation of Prussian middleclass values. The reason it fell out of favor after WWII is because of it's negative portrayals of Jews and Poles, although not all Jews and Poles in the novel are villains. The main story is about a young German businessman who gets caught up in a struggle between a declining Silesian aristocratic family and Jewish moneylenders.
All the social and political aspects aside, it's just a well written novel. It strikes a unique balance between romanticism and realism which makes it very enjoyable to read if you like old literature.

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Anonymous 06/17/23(Sat)16:27:54 No.4983

>>4979
>Christian stuff and woman stuff
Dropped.

Anonymous 06/18/23(Sun)18:38:04 No.4985

>>4983
It's not theological or apologetic writings. Hamann was a philosopher who happened to be a Christian like most people were back then. Most of his treatises are critiques of Enlightenment rationalism on philosophical grounds. The references to the Bible and Greek mythology are just allegories to show absurdities of his opponents views, like in the Socractic Memorabilia where he uses the language of a false idol to demonstrate how "the public" isn't a real entity.
And I recommended Dickson's translations and introductions because I think those are the best ones in English. There is another collection of translations by some guy from Cambridge but if you want to read that instead. He's just general philosophy professor rather than a Hamann scholar, like Dickson, and it's clear he doesn't understand a lot of Hamann's writings though.

Anonymous 06/18/23(Sun)22:04:36 No.4986

>>4985
Wow, I made a lot of typos in this post. Too many even to correct. That's what happens when you don't eat a J Balvin meal everyday. You should still be able to grasp what I'm saying.

Anonymous 09/17/24(Tue)09:30:44 No.5782

>>1631
>not all Jews and Poles in the novel are villains
immersion ruined

Anonymous 09/24/24(Tue)21:54:59 No.5792

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The Relic by Eça de Queirós

Is a realistic work with some touches of romanticism that had already gone out of fashion at the time, with a pleasant humor and some choices and tools used in the plot that were quite innovative and controversial for the time.
It reminds me a bit of Italo Calvino, It is an intelligent and dense text without being pretentious and moralistic.

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ITT: Anonymous 07/16/24(Tue)23:20:51 No.5715 [Reply]

The most dishonest and idiotic reviews you've ever seen /lit/

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Anonymous 09/03/24(Tue)10:36:14 No.5764

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>>5750
You mean jewish americans and nigger americans.

Anonymous 09/04/24(Wed)00:16:02 No.5765

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>>5764
Besides kino books are really difficult to find, not only Mein Kampf, but also Brave New World because it accurately describes how Banana Republics function:
>Everyone is happy living in their thirdworld shitholes
<Getting high just to escape their harsh reality
<Submitting to their government like the inferior racemixed mutts they are

Anonymous 09/21/24(Sat)14:14:03 No.5786

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Male feminists are already cringe, then imagine a shitskin male feminist who definlly is an incel to make matters worse, even a book by a socialist isn't progressive enough to this modern soyboys.

Anonymous 09/22/24(Sun)21:41:10 No.5787

>>5786
what book is this?

Anonymous 09/24/24(Tue)21:47:30 No.5790

>>5787
The Player of games by Ian M Banks.

Which makes this even funnier since the author was a proto-Redditor writing about a socialist utopia, and yet modern left-wingers will cry about something about his books not being pozzed enough to then.

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Anonymous 02/13/22(Sun)22:36:37 No.2782 [Reply]

>He'll never write a book about pro-wrestlers going back in time and having to save King Arthur with Hell in a Cell.

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Anonymous 05/14/22(Sat)06:39:28 No.3300

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VAX THAT THANG UP

Anonymous 11/06/22(Sun)20:34:18 No.4007

>>2782
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLiY9o8KbyU

Anonymous 11/07/22(Mon)20:54:30 No.4009

>>3298
Twain was an antiwhite faggot

Anonymous 02/02/24(Fri)07:39:00 No.5487

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>>3298
>>4009

>On American Indians: "nothing but a poor filthy, naked scurvy vagabond, whom to exterminate were a charity to the Creator's worthier insects and reptiles which he oppresses."
>"He is little, and scrawny, and black, and dirty; and, judged by even the most charitable of our canons of human excellence, is thoroughly pitiful and contemptible. There is nothing in his eye or his nose that is attractive, and if there is anything in his hair that - however, that is a feature which will not bear too close examination . . . He wears no bracelets on his arms or ankles; his hunting suit is gallantly fringed, but not intentionally; when he does not wear his disgusting rabbit-skin robe, his hunting suit consists wholly of the half of a horse blanket brought over in the Pinta or the Mayflower, and frayed out and fringed by inveterate use. He is not rich enough to possess a belt; he never owned a moccasin or wore a shoe in his life; and truly he is nothing but a poor, filthy, naked scurvy vagabond, whom to exterminate were a charity to the Creator's worthier insects and reptiles which he oppresses. Still, when contact with the white man has given to the Noble Son of the Forest certain cloudy impressions of civilization, and aspirations after a nobler life, he presently appears in public with one boot on and one shoe - shirtless, and wearing ripped and patched and buttonless pants which he holds up with his left hand - his execrable rabbit-skin robe flowing from his shoulder - an old hoop-skirt on, outside of it - a necklace of battered sardine-boxes and oyster-cans reposing on his bare breast - a venerable flint-lock musket in his right hand - a weather-beaten stove-pipe hat on, canted "gallusly" to starboard, and the lid off and hanging by a thread or two; and when he thus appears, and waits patiently around a saloon till he gets a chance to strike a "swell" attitude before a looking-glass, he is a good, fair, desirable subject for extermination if ever there was one."

I'd say most would call him pretty based by all this alone.

Anonymous 09/09/24(Mon)02:02:37 No.5776

>>5487
"The Noble Red Man" is great.

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