/lit/ - Literature

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>>21835329
>Europe becomes Christian
>experiences more than a thousand years of prosperity, growth, and power
>Europe becomes athiest and rejects Christ
>collapses in less than a century
>somehow this is God's fault

>>21772745
>Chud-Fantasy

Did you just make this up? I've never heard of this before.

Two thousand fucking years of people saying that Peter, or Paul, or whoever, corrupted the "real" message of Jesus. God Almighty, will we ever be rid of this stupid idea? Does it just spring from the incessant human desire to believe in conspiracies?

What the fuck is even going on in this thread?

>Big Chungus is the only meaningful meme to ever come out of /lit/
>has nothing to do with books

>>21620925
>complete and unabridged

Billy Budd is a fucking short story, it's like 30 pages at most. What did this edition do, blow up the font to huge sizes?

>>21560804
Why the hell have you spent this entire thread whining about Millennials in a disproportionate way? Did some 30 year old boomer steal your girlfriend?

>>21544049
>this place

Porn has never been allowed on /lit/. What do you mean? If you want the real degenerate shit go to the red boards. Hell, go to /trash/.

The way (and frequency) that people discuss this book here astounds me. It's like, there is no criticism of the ridiculous assumptions that Fukuyama makes about social causation, his rehashed whig historiography, his strange premasticated Hegel and Nietzsche, his incoherent explanations for the fall of communism and fascism, his inability to even articulate his critics, or any other myriad problems. There is so much wrong with the book, yet no one here approaches the actual substance of his argument, but instead take the conclusion as given and try to invent further ideological evolutions which will overthrow liberalism. This reoccurs on a weekly basis, and while it is embarrassing enough that you are all still on Fukuyama, even more embarrassing is that these threads show no sign of improvement.
The impression one gets, is that few people here have actually read the book, and are instead arguing from a broad outline they heard of the argument. And maybe not even that. It's just a soapbox to air discontents and equally poor forecasts of the future. How you all aren't bored of it at this point is beyond me.

>>20663034
>look for Historical Fiction set during Ancient Persian Empire
>it's all retellings of Esther or the Greeks seething
>no sympathetic perspective of Samaritans
>no sympathetic perspective of Persians
I'm going to change this. Just need a couple years.

>>20495783
>And I love Asian women.
Yeah, who would've guessed.

>>20327598

>it's another metaphorical fiction novel about a struggling, potentially alcoholic, writer (the author's self-insert) who randomly starts to receive visions as he goes about his day, which prompts him to embark on a dazzling™ adventure across space and time to show you how much the author knows about human history, and deliver an ultimately humanitarian message.
Do you have no shame? Fuck you. And it's always some diaspora fuckwit who does this.

>>19812483
He literally says they will die if they eat of the tree.

>>19602317
>never learned how to properly do some handwriting, a calligraphylet in the worst of times
>sits in a museum much like a disgusting meth addicted hobo would sit inside a library today
>writes like a teenager in his journal despite reaching an advanced age. never matured.
>causes great harm and perils upon his family for no reason other than his ego, pointing to a embarrassingly absent sense of personal responsibility
>zero management skills. never bothered to learn. doesn't even realize where he's messing up.
>writes about workers' rights, never worked in his entire life. fuckin kek.
>and last but not least, he lead a parasitic life by shamelessly leeching on his FRIEND'S FATHER's hard earned money that was getting stolen. He was stealing money from a regular, elderly person's pocket. This is absolutely insane.
My god, this is some fuckin chris chan ''working'' on sonichu while surviving with borb's money and welfare checks tier bullshit. I am appalled.
Marxfags, i'm asking this with the utmost seriousness: How can you ever respect a man like this?

>Book keeps getting into these long-winded autistically dry descriptions of the characters' clothing or their surroundings which you'll never know what they are or what they look like until you search for an image of them on the internet. These descriptions also serve no symbolic purpose.

>cans of coke as decoration
american aesthetics ladies and gentlemen

wow this guy is a retarded faggot with awful physiognomy, go figure

>>18848251
>using waldun to advertise yourself

>>18823727

>>18422993
>arts such as music or motion pictures are thriving,

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