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1st Reading Club thread Anonymous 02/17/19 (Sun) 20:19:44 No.15832 [Open thread]

Book clubs never work!

Why this is going to work

I'm seen book clubs started on different boards and they always fail, which is why I created a reading club instead. No one wants to read a whole book of questionable interest every week, and no one can blame anons for not wanting to. My solution for this is to focus on short stories and novellas, so that plenty of anons have the time and will to finish.

You need more material to talk about than that

Thats a valid point and will be taken into consideration. If it proves to be true my plan is to include multiple shorts by the same author, so that we can discus him as well. This will allow anons who don't want to read a whole novel to participate, while still allowing a depth of conversation.

==The White People== =

by Arthur Mache

E. F. Bleiler wrote that the narrative in the Green Book "is probably the finest single supernatural story of the century, perhaps in the literature", and Michael Dirda has stated: "If I were to list the greatest supernatural short stories of all time, I would start with Arthur Machen’s 'The White People,' about a young girl’s unknowing initiation into an ancient, otherworldly cult." S. T. Joshi has called the diary "a masterpiece of indirection, a Lovecraft plot told by James Joyce", and H. P. Lovecraft himself wrote that "Machen's narrative, a triumph of skilful selectiveness and restraint, accumulates enormous power as it flows on in a stream of innocent childish prattle". I copied this off of Wikipedia, since I don't want to give away to much. I'm going to read it again before I write what I think.

RULES

Use spoilers if what you say requires them.

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h 03/10/19 (Sun) 14:43:32 No.15924

>>15832

thanks anon! ill probably finish by tomorrow or so. my problem with book clubs is that i never have the money to buy each and every book and theres no library nearby

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Anonymous 03/26/19 (Tue) 17:43:46 No.16015

I liked the dialogue at the start. It sells the theme of the story fairly well. The two characters – the curio and his intrigued companion – are a lot like Holmes and Watson.

It's quite a chore to read through the contents of the green book. It is after all designed to disorient the reader, and in the story, hide the girl's secrets. Later I reread it and the various fairy tales she meanders off into show similarities with the behavior of the girl and the nurse.

I found the ending unsatisfying. The character at the start who was so talkative before is now tight lipped; he knows the statue is involved, that it acts similar to (or is) alchemy, and thinks it's dangerous enough to destroy – but he won't say why. It would have been less annoying to me if he had only heard the girl died in front of the statue.

If I've grasped this right: the nurse is the white woman she first saw at the pond with the man who followed them (both cultists); the cultists all die sudden deaths (possibly due to the [figurative?] wine and bread); they are extraordinarily happy in immaterial ways but can't go back to a normal life; outsiders have died because of the cult and they've been persecuted/killed for this.

Other things: I don't know if the white faces and their language have any significance. I also don't know the bible very well so I'm not sure what the blindfold, when approaching the statue a second time, is a reference to. It's also not clear to me if she literally poisoned herself or if it's figurative.

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Anonymous 06/01/19 (Sat) 03:39:02 No.16288

File: eddf9d8c98e33f3⋯.pdf (137.43 KB,UNTITLED #1.pdf)

FUCK JON PAUL SOT AND FUCK DISCORD TRANNIES

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Anonymous 06/23/19 (Sun) 22:26:35 No.16359

>>16015

I agree, the moral discussion at the beginning set a tone that was heavy on philosophy and that's something that I enjoyed. It really gave way to the wrongness that supposedly would be perpetrated later in order to "truly sin". I thought reading through the girls thoughts was fine. the run on sentences were clearly for effect, to give it a rushed and somewhat naive feel. I think that I missed some references in the story, there was a reference to Adam and Eve late in the story that I'm assuming was comparing them to the white peoples introduction. I also wonder if white people has any racial connotation. It didn't seem so from the story but those kinds of things can be easy to miss. Overall I found it to be of high quality but more generally unsettling then frightening or dreadful.

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Anonymous 07/09/19 (Tue) 04:38:16 No.16393

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Anonymous 03/11/19 (Mon) 02:55:56 No.15926 [Open thread]

Recommend some good apathetic /lit/?

Something good so that if my eyes gloss over the words I'll get it. It's become my sole mode of reading now. I find I like urban apathetic; I'm open to other apathies, too.

English or German. I've already read Naked Lunch, American Psycho, and a handful of Bukowski. and I want to diversify to other authors before reading more of Bukowski et al.'s works.

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Anonymous 03/11/19 (Mon) 16:50:16 No.15927

>Bukowski

You won't go too far wrong with one of Bukowski's recommendations. Check out some of Louis-Ferdinand Céline's novels.

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Anonymous 07/02/19 (Tue) 23:31:52 No.16388

>>15926

The Stranger by Camus

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Anonymous 07/03/19 (Wed) 21:14:02 No.16390

File: 7a1965298a574cb⋯.jpeg (17.58 KB,678x452,3:2,images (1).jpeg)

Maybe you should try Houllebecq.

He writes about apathic old men who witness their dying society dwelving into vice and introspection. My only two problems with him is that sometimes he exagerates with the amount of sex and explicit descriptions (as a 24 yo I don't have half the libido and stamina of his 50 something protagonists) and, sometimes, he is a bit repetitive. But in general he delivers some very interesting reflexions about our modern society plus interesting depressive male characters who have achieved some sucess or prestige in their fields.

I've read Submission, where, besides what I've just described, he talks about how Islam can be seductive to european men and many interesting things about medieval literature. Elementary Particles, where he talks about mother-son relationship and what happened to old hippies and their offspring. And Plataform, which deals with sexual tourism (in a surprisingly positive way) and violence.

Plataform was the weakest of the three, but it was interesting to compare it with Submission, because it was written at the beginning of the century and it had a very different view of how Islam would develop itself throughout the world in the next decades: in the book one of the characters says that Islam wouldn't last because it was incompatible with the hedonist life style spreading in the world. It's not focused on Islam, though.

I am waiting for Seratonin to be released in my country this month.

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Race Realism/biological determinsm Books Anonymous 06/12/19 (Wed) 16:30:41 No.16316 [Open thread]

I'm currently reading "The Blank Slate: A Modern Denial of Human Nature" from Steven Pinker.

It was published on 2002, so is it still worth reading today? Is it scientifically dated? Any better book on human genetic/biological determinsm of human nature, race realism etc?

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Anonymous 06/25/19 (Tue) 02:41:31 No.16368

>>16340

Fuck bagel and his ubergeist.

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Anonymous 06/25/19 (Tue) 03:56:23 No.16369

>>16316

>needing a book to acknoledge what anyone can see with its bare eyes

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Anonymous 06/25/19 (Tue) 12:11:57 No.16371

>>16317

>he despises Hegel

That's not a reason to call him an idiot.

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Anonymous 06/25/19 (Tue) 12:39:30 No.16372

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Anonymous 07/01/19 (Mon) 08:15:45 No.16383

>>16371

Good as any

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Strindberg Anonymous 06/30/19 (Sun) 21:36:23 No.16381 [Open thread]

Life is Hell for most, Purgatory for some, Heaven for none.

This man's works are great. They thoroughly go over the bleaker aspects of our existence. Anyone heard of him? Thoughts?

also check out my board >>>/blucaf/

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Anonymous 07/15/19 (Mon) 19:21:29 No.16416

>>16381

what books would you recommend?

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I created an SFFG board Bioranger 06/29/19 (Sat) 07:58:54 No.16379 [Open thread]

For any of you faggots who are interested in pointless, escapist fiction. i created a board just for you. shit post about your cringy series all you want.

https://8ch.net/sffg/index.html

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Anonymous 06/29/19 (Sat) 20:58:30 No.16380

>>16379

Why? There isn't even enough activity on here for a scifi thread.

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Critique pls? Anonymous 06/12/19 (Wed) 06:32:36 No.16314 [Open thread]

https://pastebin.com/twkVs3r0

Anyone wanna give feedback on my creative writing?

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Anonymous 07/05/19 (Fri) 05:34:15 No.16391

>>16389

Why what?

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Anonymous 07/11/19 (Thu) 07:09:23 No.16397

>>16391

see >>16377

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Anonymous 07/11/19 (Thu) 20:32:38 No.16400

>>16397

Are you asking me why the protagonist is gay or why I am not?

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Anonymous 07/13/19 (Sat) 20:37:05 No.16405

>>16314

>gay fan-fiction with tween level prose and sub-par story

>posts a pen-name (or real name)

Oh shit nigga, what the fuck are you doing.

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Anonymous 07/14/19 (Sun) 10:34:35 No.16407

>>16405

It's just a story I never said it's Shakespeare

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Do I have right ? Anonymous 02/21/19 (Thu) 20:55:17 No.15851 [Open thread]

if people were deprived of individuality and ambition, the world could become a better place. There could be a world government that he

would provideto the world of stability. People would be happy without ever wanting something they could not get. Having a similar worldview and mentality, ride

the same cars, living in the same homes or apartments, having the same entertainment, living in a state of blissful ignorance about

passions and strong emotions could be so conditioned that they would practically be unable to act otherwise than they should.

When reading the book "Brave New World ", I always wonder: what exactly is wrong with the world described there? Wars, hunger and diseases have stopped.

Social hierarchy still exists, but those at the bottom are genetically designed so that they do not bother them, they even enjoy what they are. Blessed soma

it is enough for everyone, there is a joyful consumption and freedom of manners. Few visionaries get deported, but so what? New ideas, books or inventions

they would only destroy the previous harmony built with such difficulty. It does not sound like an dystopia, rather the opposite of dystopia.

If our goal is universal happiness and security, the individual's freedom seems to be a temporary, unsuccessful experiment that is an obstacle to his reached.

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Anonymous 03/21/19 (Thu) 07:31:55 No.15971

Lol did you keep word wrap on

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Anonymous 06/03/19 (Mon) 01:36:27 No.16293

File: c08caaeddb9c7dd⋯.jpg (63.38 KB,403x261,403:261,bnw.jpg)

>If our goal is universal happiness and security

The entire point of this book is that it challenges this very goal.

The utopian projects of the modernist experiment have all been criticized because 'they don't work/are impossible'.

Here Huxley shows it to you, and it's shown for what it really is.

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Anonymous 06/03/19 (Mon) 10:48:54 No.16295

I think in BNW people are engineered to be happy with their situation, it is only the few errors in the system that rebel (the protag, who turned out ugly even if being of higher caste, the other guy, who is so perfect that got uninterested in sex and soma, thus bored with society, and the Savage, who grew up with religious shame of pleasure).

The thing is, in real life, we are all errors in the system. We all have our little particularities and neurosis, we would never become that homogenous society if a BNW-like system was imposed on us. It doesn't matter what kind of social engeneering "our chinese overlords" come up with, without pre-manufecturing peoples very core, to a biological level, their perfect society would never work. I mean, people could conform, as they do in totalitarian regimes in the real world, but only to a superficial degree. It wouldn't be the perfect society described in the book.

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Anonymous 06/22/19 (Sat) 07:45:25 No.16350

>>15851

Mr. Huxley is right about his theories, but Jews decided to use it as a handbook.

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Anonymous 06/22/19 (Sat) 07:59:40 No.16351

File: 1f539f7938a22f0⋯.pdf (638.6 KB,4dcca84c10c7515a25edb8cd39….pdf)

Btw read this it's just six pages. Foucauldian interpretation of Huxley's work

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What do you think about this short story written by me ? Anonymous 06/20/19 (Thu) 08:02:56 No.16341 [Open thread]

Here it is :

https://files.catbox.moe/dug70c.pdf

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Anonymous 06/20/19 (Thu) 13:59:23 No.16342

Shit. Very very simple from the start. I know its only a short story, but you should take more time to describe the setting, develop stronger characters, etc.

Keep practicing though, you'll definetely imptove.

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The absolute state of NPCs Anonymous 12/11/18 (Tue) 15:15:07 No.15394 [Open thread]

>uhh??? no ebik quips? no flashy capeshit battles? no regurgitated pop culture tropes from the past 20+ years? yeah, no thanks

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Anonymous 02/06/19 (Wed) 10:33:41 No.15734

>>15731

Cuckchan.

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Anonymous 02/07/19 (Thu) 11:56:50 No.15737

>>15734

9gag.

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Anonymous 02/09/19 (Sat) 03:43:43 No.15742

>>15722

I've known a few nice Karens

but the rest of your assesment is correct even as an American myself. our women are absolute crap.

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Anonymous 02/09/19 (Sat) 12:21:34 No.15765

>>15714

>because being a spy is cool

Oh o-ok. I thought it was one of the dirtiest, unrewarding, suicidal, stressfully boring jobs of all time. Where do I sign up for the James Bond masterclass, Karen? FBI guy hook me up pls.

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Anonymous 06/17/19 (Mon) 23:40:42 No.16332

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Obsessing over people you know are inferior to you seems like a meaningless endeavor. It's also cheap. Did you actually break down his post in any meaningful way? No. Which is why his post isn't even wrong, but yours is.

His review is fine. He's literally challenging people to change his mind, which implies he knows what he's doing. What have you achieved however?

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Have a shitty meme Anonymous 06/07/19 (Fri) 03:07:25 No.16299 [Open thread]

This is a dead board. Hello there!

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Anonymous 06/07/19 (Fri) 03:09:03 No.16300

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I dont think this one will work, and i dont know why but whatever. Here

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Anonymous 06/07/19 (Fri) 03:11:43 No.16301

File: d25f3b5d8f88fa7⋯.jpg (115.76 KB,750x1024,375:512,1552367528117.jpg)

>>16300

>>16299

Jee check out of these DUBS nibba hehe

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lazy fatass fuck Anonymous 01/30/16 (Sat) 17:52:33 No.8458 [Open thread][Last50 Posts]

http://www.parentherald.com/articles/17911/20160128/the-winds-of-winter-release-date-update-george-rr-martin-book-nowhere-near-finished.htm

Hello everyone, I am a lazy fatass fuck. It takes me 7 fucking years to write a penny-dreadful, film-script based "novel". And it doesn't matter that it's my full time fucking job, literally the only thing I'm required to do, or that I jack off at 67 years of age by taking bum fuck vacations all over the world to live off the prestige of my now stagnate series that I can't fucking finish, that I'm constantly giving interviews and bullshit for the industry, and that I'm writing OTHER books that literally no one gives a fuck about. That's right, I'm not writing for the series that is the sole reason for all my fame and which everyone wants, no, I write other books that are truly shit and no one gives a fuck about. And when those that gave me all this money call me out on this shit, the best I can do is twiddle my fat fingers, flip them off and then whine on my blog about how ashamed I am of being a lazy fatass fuck. Oh, did I mention that I waste time playing videogames? I have all this responsibility, I'm 67 fucking years old and I waste time playing videogames, because that's really going to get the job done and get all these people off my back. Did I mention I'm a lazy fatass fuck?

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Anonymous 04/23/19 (Tue) 05:46:25 No.16136

>>15929

Pretty much every character in ASOIAF is fucking low quality, anon. If it wasn't for all the sex tacked on, nobody would've even cared about the books, let alone the show - it's for people who think they're too mature for orcs and elves all the while it's got the substance of an emo tween's diary entry hating his parents for telling him to mow the lawn. GOT is literally the most overrated show ever made, and any other writer would've used said overratedness to their advantage unlike GRRM, who's too busy whining about an irrelevant franchise like the NY Jets than actually, y'know, writing.

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Anonymous 05/21/19 (Tue) 02:44:22 No.16248

it's all up to the fatman now.

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Anonymous 05/21/19 (Tue) 22:54:40 No.16251

>>16248

It is going to be shit anyway, it will end in the same way as the show ended.

I hope people use this chance to create high quality fun fiction.

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Anonymous 05/24/19 (Fri) 17:10:50 No.16262

>>16248

He all but confirmed that the book will be finished for the Hugo Awards in New Zealand next year, but yeah, it is too little too late. Especially after GoT's last few seasons.

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Anonymous 06/03/19 (Mon) 14:48:55 No.16296

Why is Gregory R.R. Muffin so fat? How do people get this fat? Does he stuff his face with food to research medieval royalty?

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Father Figure in literature Anonymous 05/30/19 (Thu) 09:33:13 No.16284 [Open thread]

Is it fruitful to look for a father figure in literature? May be a fictional character or even the author himself? Recently i feel like i've lost the sense of purpose and i can't turn to my dad because he's just like the father from 'Rebel without a cause' - he lost his job, stays at home and slaves (not helps) for my mother. I grew up while he worked across the state, hence i never had the slightest of paternal care or guidance.

Where do i look to for some kind of a direction? Help me out brothers.

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sage sage 06/01/19 (Sat) 00:23:32 No.16285

Try not being schizo phrenic

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Anonymous 06/02/19 (Sun) 12:37:06 No.16290

If you are already an adult, you probably wouldn't benefit that much from having a "father figure" in your life. I imagine that a paternal influence is much more subconscious than anything alse, and, being already past your development age you won't absorve anything from just reading books about manly men and trying to conciously emulate their behavior.

Instead, perhaps you should turn on to philosophy and self-development. I know it may sound cringy, but I guess Jordan Peterson stuff is just what you are looking for.

You should probably start lifting too.

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Anonymous 06/02/19 (Sun) 18:58:14 No.16292

>>16290

Thanks. Stoicism hits me home quite a bit so i've been reading up on it lately. And yes, im starting a lean-bulk routine complete with bulking diet and intensive workouts. Hopefully, i won't feel as helpless as i do now.

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world domination Urmomjokesarestillfunny 05/25/19 (Sat) 00:19:31 No.16264 [Open thread]

anyone know any good books/novels about world domination or something of the like. Something that wouldn't be afraid to be at least slightly bombastic/sexualized or have other slightly childish qualities?

to be honest, any books or novels which have the mc or mc's go for world domination as a goal without much regard for good or bad morals and wouldn't be complete pain to read. i suppose something like GoT, better or worse, just want something with a similar topic.

thanks in advance /lit

pic probably related

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Anonymous 05/26/19 (Sun) 02:28:32 No.16267

>>16264

check out Dune if you like si-fi , i haven't read it but i heard about it and it had some themes of world domination and politics

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Anonymous 06/02/19 (Sun) 15:55:14 No.16291

>>16264

You might enjoy Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard. Movie was shit, but the book was good. I second Dune if you like mc plots.

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religious and spiritual books Anonymous 05/27/19 (Mon) 05:39:20 No.16277 [Open thread]

post any book related to religion or spirituality , if you read it tell us what the effect and if not just post the book any way will help

also any one know any good books about middle eastern paganism ? like sumeria or babel

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Anonymous 05/27/19 (Mon) 05:42:05 No.16278

>>16277

oh shit i double posted it my bad

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sage 06/01/19 (Sat) 00:24:29 No.16286

> middle eastern paganism

Shiism

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Anonymous 03/28/19 (Thu) 05:09:59 No.16024 [Open thread]

What's your favorite book that was written in your native language?

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Anonymous 04/26/19 (Fri) 18:58:17 No.16151

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Anonymous 05/12/19 (Sun) 09:05:13 No.16205

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Arabs: An Aural Phenomenon by Abdullah al-Qasemi. considered to be one of the most controversial books in the Arab world, this book just BTFOs arabs in every way. no, i'm not talking about salman rushdi's Satanic Verses, that was written for pure trolling. al-Qasemi was driven by pure spite

while studying in Al-Azhar university, he wrote a book critiquing an article by Al-Azhar scholar Yusuf al-Degwy. al-Degwy wrote a book about the ignorance of wahhabist thought, which in turn lead al-Qasemi to write more books attacking him and al-azhar thought.

this incident led him to think more and more about what he was doing. eventually, he decided to give the middle finger to the big man and went on a literary massacre of arabs.

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Anonymous 05/26/19 (Sun) 23:35:59 No.16275

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Anonymous 05/26/19 (Sun) 23:58:32 No.16276

>>16032

It's more or less the same thing as modern English, just with the u's and v's swapped and some e's added to the ends of certain words.

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Anonymous 05/27/19 (Mon) 20:02:40 No.16279

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