Or what have you recently read? Talk about it ITT.

With the death of 4chan and it's /lit/ community, it would be good for us to share our memories of the site. So respond with what you loved, what you hated, the highs and the lows. Use this as a way to articulate the impact the board had on your own life.

Why is Bazarov such a better character than Pyotr Stepanovich? Why did Dostoevsky make a character mocking Turgenev in his objectively worse response to it? Why so many things.

Not sure if generals are allowed on this board—I'll try anyway. Feel free to delete this thread if it violates any rules. Born at the tail end of 2021, /clg/ is the 4ch/lit/ community dedicated to the study of classical languages and their literature; namely Latin, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Classical Arabic, Classical Chinese, and Biblical Hebrew. Over time, the general has evolved to also welcome discussion of any dead/extinct language with a literary tradition (e.g. Old Norse or Old French). We have two Mega folders: >Latin & Greek resources and texts https://mega.nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw >Resources and texts for a variety of other extinct languages: https://mega.nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg We also have a FAQ, though it has been a WIP for a while and might not be maintained anymore now that 4chan is dead: https://unknown.spam/n8nrko Here's to hoping some of the regulars find this place. Anyone acquainted with or interested in classical languages and their literature is also welcome. Abduction of Europa edition. Ovid's Metamorphoses sub-edition.

I enjoy reading The Wandering Inn and I'm bloody not fraid to admit it. No, I don't want to read your fantasy novels written in the 80s. Simple as.

On occasion when you aren't calling each other faggots, and declaiming the poor taste in other anons. Well it can be good to have a friendly aimless chat.

/wwoym/ #1 Write what’s on your mind

>Be woman >Write a story about someone wanting to kill a person they created

I just finished reading The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. I know there are tons of other books related to this series, but I'm having a hard time figuring out which ones are actually worth reading as narratives, and which are mostly made for their value of their analysis. I understand how some people might care about analyzing the development of the texts, but I really just want to read stories. But it's hard to figure out which publications are actually made for the sake of telling stories. For example, The History of Middle Earth seems mostly to exist for its analytical value, but its first two volumes are called The Book of Lost Tales, and seem to feature some narratives not told elsewhere, among others that are just earlier versions of narratives in The Silmarillion. Is The Book of Lost Tales (or any other book of The History of Middle Earth) actually worth reading for its narrative value, or only for seeing the literary development of The Silmarillion? Related to the same question, there is Unfinished Tales. As these are unfinished, I'm less interested in them, but would anyone say they are actually worth reading for their narrative value, either on their own or as they add to the greater narrative of the world? Or are they more just interesting for seeing the ideas Tolkien toyed with in the development of his work? What about the "Great Tales?" The Children of Hurin, Beren and Luthien, and The Fall of Gondolin. They were published as standalone books in the last 15 years, and they seemed like interesting stories in The Silmarillion, so I'd be interested in reading more fleshed out versions. Is that what these publications are? From what I've gleaned from the internet, Children of Hurin and Fall of Gondolin sound like they're novels, but Beren and Luthien is apparently a publication of two versions of the same story, to show the development of it. I'd be less interested in that than I would in just a full book of a much more fleshed out story, especially since that chapter of The Silmarillion interested me much more than the other two Great Tales. Of course, I'd also be interested in your thoughts and questions about the main three books. Now that I've finally read them, I finally understand them. I tried to read The Silmarillion when I was like 12, after Jackson's Fellowship of the Ring movie came out, and I read The Hobbit, so I figured reading the thing that takes place first would be fine, I wouldn't need to know the end of Lord of the Rings since it takes place later. I was sorely mistaken. I finished it, but retained almost nothing. Now, 20 years later, I finally understand it. Except for one thing. Who is Tom Bombadil? I'm pretty sure he's the embodiment of the forest. I mean his wife is very blatantly the spirit of the river, and that would match the forest well enough. But I'd be interested in hearing/arguing about other ideas.

How often do you guys head out to library book fairs, estate sales and the like looking for stuff to read? When was the last time you picked something up? Anything good, bad, a pleasant surprise? Do you ever bother going to bookstores anymore, or is just a waste of time and money to do anything but browse? For a good couple years in a row I kept stopping in at my library's yearly book fair and managed to grab some copies of older Michael Chrichton books (Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Sphere) along with some books on design and a few "(Year)'s Best Sci Fi/Fantasy." Haven't gone too often since 2020 though for the obvious reasons but also because I don't have as much free time to read now. Around that time I was also looking for some Sector General books because I wanted to get into the series and found an eBay listing for almost the entire collection secondhand for like 20 bucks but didn't get it. I'm still kicking myself over not grabbing that.

Has anyone read it? if so what is it like? Ive always had somewhat of an interest in the setting so im thinking of checking it out

does anyone has this on e-book? i got it at 0.99 and the dollar for page ratio its insane. i have only read "To build a fire" tho so idk about the quality of the rest of the book but it has some typos. loved the story thought

The first in the venerable Amber chronicles, and more importantly the first in the five book Corwin Cycle. We meet an Amnesiac. Bed ridden in some manner of hospital, and where this any other book it probably wouldn't go much further. But here our protagonist proves paranoia isn't necessarily wrong. Just insane. So he rips off his casts and sets a trap for the hospital staff. Soon we have moved from assault to blackmail at gunpoint. Then pockets flush, stolen .38 in hand, and no fucking idea who he is or how he got to upstate New York. Anons I love this series. Absolute favorite. It's fucking good. Highly recommend.

Screw this pretentious crap. Give me some unapologetically unintellectual hard sci fi with explosions and pussy. Like Frankowski if he had been free to write how he really felt.

I started reading this several months ago but stopped because of the slow pace of the first 30 days. Sade was clearly bored of the weak first fetishes and dropped the 2nd and 3rd months and went straight to the last month, the most extreme. This helped me finish the book in a few days. It's definitely not for normal people, I don't really like gore but I'm open to reading about it. Near the end you feel a bit desensitized because of the overused torture methods and a bit of detachment tl the characters due to the book being incomplete. For someone who read visual novels like Starless and Euphoria when young I feel at home in a sense. It was nice finally being able to meet the father of Sadism. I would rate it a 7/10 book

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