The person who made this image and reasoning behind including books: https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-anarchonomicon-real-banned-book

And followup: https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/addendum-the-most-banned-book

What banned/controversial books have you guys read? Which would you recommend? Are there any books that should be on this list but aren't?

Personally I think this list needs to include Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors which is currently the only book where the publisher has been successfully sued for a crime committed by the reader. Also I have no idea why Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses isn't included considering there is a bounty on the translators of the book.

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To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.

I'm just a few dozens of pages from finishing “Maldita Guerra” by Francisco Doratioto, a book about the Paraguayan War which was the bloodiest inter-state war fought in South America. A war that also defined the development of the Brazilian military and its institutional role.

!bookworms !classics

https://archive.org/details/greenflaghistory0000keer

!historychads

TLDR, the future is queer and you can go frick yourself. Dumb peasants actually believed they own the books they bought

!bookworms I'm thinking about reading “Confessions of a Mask” by Yukio Mishima, what are your thoughts on him and other Japanese authors? Personally I've never read a book by any Jap author so far (Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki but he's pretty much an Englishman through and through and his best book The Remains of the Day is the quintessential portray of British character).

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Me at the top right

Hey, so due to different circumstances I've found myself with no friends for some time now. I still adore writing. But I'm concerned my dialogue and friendships might come across as forced or artificial. Also, I'm including a relationship and it's been a long time since I've been in one myself. On the other hand, a lot of writers who lacked friends were very much capable of writing lively dialogue and friendship/ relationship into their books.

I come to /r/writing to laugh at them, not to feel bad.

As usual, /r/writing responds at an extreme surface level. Yes, OP can write during a period of social isolation, and they might even create something good. But lack of social experience is certainly an artistic handicap, and the last thing they need is to be told "not everyone has friends, just read books and you'll be okay."

But of course, that's exactly what their fellow !writecel s tell them.

I've literally never had consensual s*x and my A03 account is teeming with it. We live in a time when you can watch pretty much any kind of interaction on youtube or, yknow other websites, and get a feel for what seems natural and what doesn't.

Redditor confesses to r*pe

?!

To be a good writer you need to write. You need to write a lot. If you want examples of human interactions you should read books.

You don't need friends, plants, or even a dog to be a good writer.

Though plants and dogs are certainly beneficial.

Just a sheer inversion of reality. Yes, having friends (or any other real life experience) will help you with writing. OP is suffering and this responds with feigned incredulity that they might think their suffering is hurting them!

This is either advanced toxic positivity...

Or else another friendless shut-in coping

I think it's not so much about having friends as being perceptive and observant about what friendships (and other relationships) are and how they function.

if you're good at paying attention and connecting that to a theory of mind about how and why people go about their business of peopling then you can spoof just about anything you witness in the world.

Neurodivergents on safari lol

(wait that's us too)

Writing is a solitary endeavor. You don't need anything but your own wits and skills to write. I've had no friends pretty much my entire life, and that has never stopped me, but then I have always spent a lot of time in my own imagination creating stories to fill in those times when I was alone and had no friends. Writing relationships or friendship and dialogue in a story is no different than a man writing a female character or writing about any subject you don't know about. If you don't know how to write it, research it.

This is who's giving you writing advice online.

You don't need personal experience to write. You need to read books to see how relationships are written and how dialogue is written. Reading books gives you examples on how writing and scenes work, how to word things to get your point across.

Writing from actual experience and feeling, instead of just a hodgepodge of everything you've ever read, is what makes a writer unique and human (at least until they put the chatbots in actual robot bodies ).

I mean it might not affect your writing but having friends will help a lot in life so I'd highly recommend having some, even if it's only a few!

It helps to write from experience. It sounds like you're not so much worried about how this will affect your writing as how it's affecting you on a human level. Take yourself on artist dates. Go out to places and events you want to see, join some meetup groups in your interests (I guarantee you've got a writing group or two, at least a book club, near you). Above all, know that solitude is a good thing and important to your understanding of yourself, but building a social life--while energy intensive--is just as important.

Go make some friends.

Fortunately someone provided actual advice. "Just make friends" may not be easy, but it's easier than a life of being an /r/writing user (and it's likelier than getting traditionally published ).

The moment I was born was the moment I started mewing. Those growth plates were going to get a good workout, if I say so myself.

Another moment I could move I checked my wrist size. It was a little bit hard to move as a little baby but I was determined to see if I was a trueborn Chad or sub5. The sooner I knew the better.

I was able to wrap my hand around my wrist.

Was I going to die Kissless, Hugless, Handholdless Virgin again?

It's over...

Everything is going just as expected. My father, Warden of the North tried to spread his genes, so he had me with some Stacy in the south and then brought me as a baby with him. Real Chad hours.

Caitlin was married to father's brother but after he died married father. Typical hypergamous Stacy beahaviour. Doesn't matter who as long as he is a Chad, huh?

No matter the world, 2D > 3D!

Anyway, the fact that I was the son of the Lord of the North which seems to be a high position, filled me with joy.

We are so back.

I wasn't trueborn son, but just a bastard.

It was wrong of me to get so bluepilled over the hope of statusmaxxing. Blackpill was right all along. There is no hope in the world. This or any other...

It's so over.

When I was complaining about Age of Consent Laws and how women will hit the wall at 25 so it makes sense to help them out by letting them access at earlier ages.

Someone told me that AOC in Westeros was 12.

Based, based, based, based, based, based...

On the other hand they go through the peepee carousel before 12 anyway, so...

Whatever.

King arrived to Winterhall and all his Kingly posse too. Feeling really statusmogged right now, maybe I should go monk mode somewhere else.

Talked with the Lannister dwarf. Not like those bluepilled libtards he really knows what's up. Standing beside him, was heightmogging him really a lot. Enjoyed it very much.

It is a sad truth that people like us who were not blessed with superior genes that gave us better bone structure on our face would never get the girls. No amount of self-improvement, therapy or gymmaxxing would ever change that.

Told him that and he looked at me a bit strange and toldme that I needed to drink.

Based dwarf, he knows that we can only lay down and rot with the state of the current dating market.

Was really impressed with Joffrey. With blatant dark triad maxxed and that status he was going to get all of that hypergamous kitty from all over the world. Of course, Sansa wanted to marry him.

Feels like I am getting atomically blackpilled again watching the birth of a new Dahmermaxxed Chad.

Dumb bitches would want to suck peepee of a blatant psychopath but would never date a nice guy like me. 80\20 principle is wrong it is more like 99/1. 99 bitches want to have s*x with one Chad who monopolizes all women, and the rest of the males might as well kill themselves because women would prefer to frick dogs rather than have s*x with beta orbiters.

Speaking of dogs, Eddard Stark picked up a litter of direwolf puppies and gave his children. I can see the eyes with which Sansa and Arya looked at them... White women, amirite fellas?

I got one too.

To get the girls I need to ignore the girls. And there is nothing more that screams unubtainable for a female than a Black Watch. That's right, I was going to black maxx with my Sexual Market Value with thives and male feminists i.e. highest gathering of testostorone in all Westeros.

The one hitting the wall was goijng to be me, hahaha.

Heck. Yeah.

Got closer to Wildlings. Got heightmogged by the Giants. Man, they must be drowning in kitty. Look at them! Holy shit. Women standards are getting so unrealistic nowadays that you are either 14 feet tall or you are sub5 subhuman.

One of the gingermaxxed wildlings, Ygritte, tried to give me a shit test trying to insult my IQ. Absolutely mogged her with my IQ and KNOWLEDGE and FACTS.

Dumb b-word.

She looks pissed now tho.

All Women Are Like That. They never look at Supreme Gentleman like me but want to have s*x with giants. Their standards are going insane!

I became a Lord Commander of the Wall. There is a lot of things I can say about it but at least my wrists are not as small like that guy's who was my competition.

Wristcels don't deserve anything.

Got killed by sub5 subhumans rebelling against their rightful master.

Just Fricking Lol.

During death it was only darkness. The only thought that kept my psyche going was even if I didn't have a mouth I have to mew.

My darkpilled soul was resurrected by some Stacy. She was Stannis' whore and even killed his children like lions in the pride kill them kids, all to get his betabuxxing attention to herself.

Kinda based, but I don't care for non-18-year old virgin who got railed by thousands of chads and only have some beef curtain instead of a nice kitty.

Can't believe it. This fat frick was going to let himself willingly get cucked and raise another man's baby. Is he hoping to get some? Absolute betabuxxer behavior. That whore would never forget Chad's peepee after taking it and she would just jump on another Chad the moment he arrives on the scene.

I really pity him...

Laughed about it all the way from the Wall to Oldtown.

They had s*x every night and I had to listen to it.

Was in foul mood.

Retook Winterfell and did a little bit of bone smashing routine with Ramsey Bolton. He had a nice jaw, not gonna lie, before it was crushed by a giant, hehe.

Became King of the North. Only got blackpilled further. Girls still don't care for your statusmaxxing because these hypergamous whores get dictated by their genes to only select for 0.000001% of human population.

Remembered watching hundreds of chadfishing on Tinder experiments videos on Youtube.

It's over.

Talked with that chick called Danerys. I think she likes me. We are so back.

Discovered that we were blood related. B-word wanted to ruin my genes by using incest! I got catfished by my own cousin!

And when I was even ready to overlook her bodycount, being railed by her brother and the whole Dothraki host?

Got enraged and ran her through with my sword.

Luckily dragons obey me now and after a little bit bloodletting (or more like firemaxxing huehue) took control of the omega peepeeless army.

Kinda went nice ngl.

Bummed out that I only encounter b-word Stacies. Is it over?

Took King's Landing and went full ER. Had to kill that Lannister femoid, but who cares. Foids would literally frick their twin brother as long as he has a nice skull...

Everyone is cheering me on and praising me. They want me to be a king! That halo effect is crazy... Still not getting any bithces tho.

Then gathered all armies to fight the zombiemaxxed underweightcel lanklets

Of course, I defeated the Night King. What was he hoping to accomplish with that negative cantal tilt???

Book: https://archive.org/details/incelcyclopedia-1/mode/2up

Interview:

Incelcyclopedia is the debut novella of stonecold truecel Reginald R*pes.

Written as a personal journal, Mr. R*pes describes his blackpilled experience with incisive social commentary. No work since Houellebecq's Whatever has provided such a penetrating analysis of modernity.

The hypocrisy of fakecels and volcels, the social suppression by Chads and Stacies, the manipulations of male feminist Jew billionaires and BIPOCs – all this is exposed and viscerally attacked with characteristic humor.

As I said, this is not just a social commentary but a coming-of-age story. Mr. R*pes details his lifelong journey through the incelphobic longhouse as he becomes the most vantablackpilled trvecel of them all.

And to add insult to injury, the incel life is being culturally appropriated by fakecels – he insightfully explains how an incel with thousands of followers is a contradiction in terms.

There will be no incel liberation movement, just an incelface LARP.

With this, Mr. R*pes concludes his tour-de-force.

A mere 24 pages, this is required reading for dramatards – a cultural classic to be put alongside MasterLawlz' film and Trace's anthropological studies.

I'm writing a short story, it's a sequel to The Metamorphosis, except it assumes that (spoiler) Gregor didn't actually die, he only envisioned his death, though I leave it unclear where the story diverges from the original .

It's the first page, tell me whether or not it's shit:

A failure of imagination

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Rip to one of the greatest sci-fi writers of all time. I remember reading a comment a few years ago that Vinge had retired from writing due to a medical issue. Guess that was his Parkinson's diagnosis

If anyone has only read his zone of thought series, I also highly recommend "Marooned in Real Time" and "The Babbler"

To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.

I'm currently about to finish Cortázar Los Premios (The Winners).

So this group or Argies are on board of a ship called “Malcolm”. They're told on the second day the Malcolm is heading to Japan and that the Stern is quarantined due to a Typhus outbreak, and that the captain himself is sick. Most passengers think that's bullshit and one of them, Carlos López (a high school teacher) wants to make use of force (they have a couple of guns lmao) to pass through the officers as they wont let them telegraph to Buenos Aires and are held recluse in their part of the ship. Carlos is in love with a crazy redhead, Paula, who's traveling with an architect Raúl, everyone on board thinks they're married (it's set in the late 1950s after all) but they're not, nor are they sleeping together, just sharing the cabin as Raúl is gay. Paula is a pretentious train wreck but a funny character regardless, all the foids on the ship believe she's some nymphomaniac slut who's going after their husbands and sons.

There are some creepy gay themes on the book.

There's Felipe: a 16 year old boy from an upper middle class family, he's López's student (López thinks he's dim witted). Felipe is attracted to Paula who obviously dismisses him as he's just a boy, through his POV we find out one of his best friends at school is either gay of bisexual and that he's a bit attracted to it. The book has too many descriptions of Felipe taking showers, looking himself naked in front of the mirror, describing his pool speedos, etc.

There's Raúl, a closeted homosexual as mentioned before. He lusts for Felipe, on the first meeting with Felipe, the latter tells him that traveling with his parents and sister sucks to which Raúl says: “I wished you were here all alone” at some point Felipe invites Raúl to his cabin then takes a shower with the door open (no homo he thinks) Raúl watches him bath, tells him he has a great body. Then he dresses up and Raúl starts touching his hair to Felipe tells him to stop. Raúl believes Felipe will punch him but instead Felipe is scared as the cabin door is locked and starts crying. Raúl leaves and later tells Paula who's like: “are you crazy? He's just a child!”

Then there's Bob, a sailor, he befriends Felipe, gets him drunk on his cabin and r*pes him.

Other interesting characters are Claudia, a recently divorced woman traveling along her son Jorge and an neurodivergent old friend Persio. Persio has a bunch of soliloquies across the book, typically at the end of a chapter (not all chapters though). Claudia is attracted to Medrano, López's friend, and is also concerned that the whole typhus things is bullshit.

I'm wondering about the end now as the crew of the ship is incredibly hostile and who's behind the whole “crusier lottery” as many if these characters knew each other before winning the tickets (an astonishing coincidence).

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Should I just go chronologically, for instance: Aristotle -> Descartes-> Kant -> Schopenhauer or something like that, or go some other way like reading secondary authors' summaries of works and views of said philosophers first?

I'm not interested in any single philosophical movement or ideology, but in terms of topics I'd like to read on epistemology and metaphysics.

A harrowing novel set in an alternative United States —a world of injustice and bondage in which a young Black woman becomes the concubine of a powerful white government official

Solenne Bonet lives in Texas, where choice no longer exists. An algorithm determines a Black woman's occupation, spouse, and residence. She finds solace in penning the biography of Henriette, an ancestor who'd been an enslaved concubine to a wealthy planter in 1800s Louisiana. But history repeats itself when Solenne, lonely and naïve, finds herself entangled with Bastien Martin, a high-ranking government official.

Me and who?

Most of the reviews feel like my parents reading the stories I wrote when I was 15. "Wow... This is certainly unique! Um, 4 stars?"

I did get a chuckle out of this one tho:

What happens when you cross a terrible idea - an erotic novel about a slave in love with her master - with an okay idea - an dystopian novel about an alternative United States where a second Civil War reversed emancipation? I guess you get the blueprint for The Blueprint, which is not good, but has potential to be even worse.

If Ms. Rashad wanted to write a more straightforward erotic novel, it would probably be pretty good, there are some genuine sensuous passages in "The Blueprint." If Ms. Rashad gets a little better at world-building, she has the imagination to author some compelling science fiction, her ideas are good but underdeveloped. But it seems like she considers herself too good for genre fiction, she wants to be the adopted daughter of Toni Morrison and Margaret Atwood right now. And the result of such impatient ambition is phrases like "the room was washed in truth" and "I saw all the girls I was from fifteen to twenty." I'm guessing that wouldn't be quite so awkward in a romance novel, but in "The Blueprint," the romance is supposed to be a symbol of oppression, so I don't quite know why it's also a coming-of-age novel. It left me confused. Confusion is not always bad, but combined with incuriosity, it makes for an unsatisfying experience.

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Starts off pretty and desired , and as the picture degrades he doesn't realize he's ageing into an AGP hon

Logan's Run is also about femboys.

I wanted to post this on /h/femboy but I'm not a member.

Nothing that is better appreciated by actually reading. Light nonsense, preferably fantasy/Sci-fi, but more ideally something that benefits by having great readers.

Already have a bunch of discworld audios, so none of those.

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From now on the “what are you reading” threads will become bi-weekly to give more time to finish whatever books you're reading. To fill gaps we'll have bi-weekly “genre threads”, first genre is horror so you can discuss your favorite and least favorite authors, books and characters in horror literature as well as to post your recommendations

The user page for the guy who made these changes is under the category "Wikipedians with autism"

Also I stole this post and its title from Reddit but if you actually loved me then you wouldn't care