It’s so refreshing to read someone tear through the omnipresent gaslighting of our age and speak actual truth.https://open.substack.com/pub/stevedonoghue/p/the-worst-books-of-2025-nonfiction
>>24941154>>24936484sorry bruh bruh
>>24941141kinda looks like this guy's got an ax to grind
>>24941215>fedora got so carried away with parroting other people's arguments he started parroting verbatim Lol. Clocked you based on your avatar and skimming the first "review".
>>24941264>he thinks i’m steve donoghue>he thinks steve donoghue would browse 4chanholy fucking newfag
>>24941320>you should know who Steve Donoghue isLol, no.
>>24925515>>24925515>>24935432continued from hereLWC has been running, as of this month, for the entirety of 2025. Next month will be the year anniversary. We run the first Friday of every month. A warning post is released on Thursday, requirements released on the Friday, and submission closes on the Monday. Voting ends on the following Friday.WHEN>tomorrow morning at 10:00 GMT the character and theme requirements will be releasedRULES>1. incorporate the theme and character requirements (creative interpretations allowed)>2. submissions must be made by Monday 8th December at 22:00 GMT>3. you must submit by use renty.co and posting a rentry.co link of your piece under a unique tripcode (Namefield: Name + "#" + Password)>4 you are allowed to edit your work on rentry.co page until the submission deadlineComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>24940425I don’t recall there being any literary references in my story, and I don’t think I’ve ever consciously been influenced by Borges. I thought he was okay. Anyway, voted.
Where's the story about the guy taking a shit in the office chair?
>>24940940what?
>>24940937Anon he's semi-trolling to keep the thread alive or a psued.
Can developing the habit of reading heal my brain from years of doomscrolling, porn addiction and isolation that deleted my attention span, memory and gave me a costant brainfog?
>>24940948ToT
yes, and quickly
>>24939274Huh
>>24938406Every single form of media ever invented caused social issues. Plato decried the written word as a corruption.
>>249376274chan is curing me of my doomscrolling brain rot, here me out, while I have a desire to converse with others and express my ideas in dialogue, if I keep it to slow philosophical text boards without /GIF/ you just run out of topics, you reach the end of the scroll.
Anyone else here read The Body Keeps the Score? I found it pretty insightful.
>>24940899My therapist recommended it to me
Yes
>>24940899qrd?
I started reading this book and it's crazy how the author writes that abused women seek out more abusers to relive their trauma as a symptom of PTSD, when now it's common knowledge in post-blackpill society that women are just masochistic and love getting the shit beat out of them by dark triad men. Psychological research has come so far.
Is he our guy? I can bet anything that he's at least a former /lit user.What do you think about this chanel?
>>24940029Waldun is more likeable because he's a polite little chinaman who, although having a lot to talk about, wouldn't overbear your senses with his conversations, and due to his good manners understands how to interact with a person in a respectful, decent way without talking down to an individual. Write Conscious is basically a loudmouthed country hick. Unlike the mildmannered Waldun, who will sit on your table and listen to what you have to say, Write Conscious will stumble over, purchase a few bottles of beer (expecting you to pick up the tab) and begin to autistically screech about DFW. You look at Waldun and silently ask "what the fuck is wrong with this guy?" but Waldun, in his good nature, will kindly shrug and attempt to listen to whatever Write Conscious has to say, regardless of his ESLisms making it difficult to clearly understand. As all the beer makes WC slur his speech, as he repeats the same talking point as before, about how DFW was put on earth to facilitate the literary renaissance but was murdered by the CIA to keep the world addicted to TV."Well, that's a very interesting theory--," Waldun begins, unable to finish his sentence before WC begins screeching again!Over time the topics of DFW and McCarthy have been utterly exhausted. The cafe is beginning to thin out, and WC is on the border of a drunken stupor."Oh, that reminds me, anon," Waldun begins to say to you. "Did you ever read that essay I wrote on Rimbaud?" --And it suddenly begins again!"You don't know what you're talking about, you little chink! Rimbaud is for fags! McCarthy is for men! DFW blows Rimbaud out of the water by miles! I'm the king of the literary renaissance you little chink bastard, you're just a nobody!"At this, the otherwise patient Waldun snaps in cold disdain. Without saying a word, Waldun picks himself up from the table and carries his big head out of the cafe. You give him a pitying stare, yet in his anger he fails to register the empathy in your eyes.WC angrily calls the waiter over and orders another round of beers (for himself, of course). The waiter takes his order and walks off. At this WC begins to mutter things under his breath in a catatonic rage. You fail to understand clearly what he is muttering, yet one phrase stands out clearly to you: literary renaissance.
>>24938181Wow . . . it's shit.
>>24937219i'm so excited to be alive during the new literally renaissance and to witness it from the very begining: this guy
>>24940037>DFW
>>24938097What is it with this list, does reading mildly overrated fiction make one a man child now? It feels like anti-literature propaganda if anything, you don't have to always be reading the obscure work of a 12th century dramatist that died of melancholy in order to still be reading some good shit. Also >His poetry is literal trash rupi kaur level yet he pretends he's a literary genius. Yeah and who gives a shit? In order to be good at anything important you have to be shit at it for like 10 years. I'd get it if he has the puffed up ego you seem to insist he has but that list tells me its probably projection on your part.
Which philosophers would be of interest to a Christian?
>>24934588plato, aristotle, john, justin martyr, aquinas, milton, lovecraft. there, thats your history of theology
Christians shouldn't be doing philosophy, since they're retards.
>>24941051This.>Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
What do you mean "for a Christian"? Something stays comfortably in your current world view? Why would you want to read philosophy you already mostly agree with?
>>24941257I don't think you quite understand what philosophy is.
Redpill me on Dr. William Pierce. Are his works worth reading?
>>24941203>>>/pol/ and stay there.
He wasn't really concerned with prose, which is what would be relevant to this boardif what you care about are his ideas just look up his radio talks on archive.org
>>24941203He sucked. Even if you are a chud, he was an awful writer. Find better racist authors, like Gobineau.
>>24941203Why not read what his own son had to say about him?https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51275205-sins-of-my-father
>pronouncing "striped" as "stripe-ED" and "cursed" as "curse-ED"
I found it interesting how in Robinson Crusoe, "would" is often spelled "wou'd", and the like
Stri-ped pants
>>24941220It was done to save ink.
And that, children, is the story of how I ensure-ed that all my poetry has the correct number of syllables on ev'ry line.
>>24941294Oe'er th' lim't
>It is a Negro dingleberry, he can tell
Pynched
How does /lit/ cope with the fact that they don't live in the world's most literary city?
>>24940791Around the time the world ended in 2007-2010 Reykjavík produced by far the most books per capita. Nothing after that counts, the peak of human civilization. I say human civilization because as soon as demons started thinking for us it really became their civilization which is of course what this is all about.
>How does /lit/ cope with the fact that they don't live in the world's most literary city that apes ebonics while being a drug addicted and std riddled retard couldnt be me fr fr on my momma
>>24940791BA probably has the largest Jewish community in Latin America, actually.
>>24940077Dunno about the US but European cities today are considerably safer today than they were at their "cultural peak" in the industrial era of the 1800s. In fact many people now complain that we live in theme parks with safety rails moreso than cities
>>24935890I'd rather be repeatedly kicked in the balls than set foot in the Un*ted St*tes ever again
>december 2025>i am forgottenwill The Mack ever put out anything new or am I just supposed to shill this forever
>>24933721Because of Guru Daddy Mack, I am now the proud father of a fifteen year old Bihari son.
>>24936596george orwell was bihari too, so if you're lucky you too might have a retard who can write subpar literature on your hands!
>>24936716
None
>>24936716>>24936716I'm a little confused about the indian references
Breakfast at Tiff is great. Christmas memory is lovely.You like?
On this board we stan Gore Vidal.
Why are so many on this board obessed with appearing literary without actually going to the effort of reading genuine literary fiction, poetry, dramas, etc? What causes this?
>>24940178You misunderstood the point of the thread, retard.
>>24941182>t. manchild
>>24940668>>24940673>"haha this will get 'em"
>>24940668>unironically saving this shit on his deviceGrow the fuck up, fat manchild
>>24936837I know it's not saying much, but those are the best horror movies ever made.
Finally entered my nihilistic phase. Give me your best nihilistic books!
>>24941158Meant for>>24941138
Notice how no one ever contends with the nihilisitc world view, they just call you immature.
>>24939931BOM
>>24941170Nihilism deserves nothing but contemptuous dismissal. Manchild.
>>24941200Uh huh.
Childhood is hating on himAdulthood is recognize that he was right
Most thinkers are preceded by a reputation that is full of misrepresentations and myths, but very few have it as bad as Freud. There are at least a dozen different statements (some of them itt) that, if repeated, guarantee that that person has never read him.
>>24939664But I hated my mother. Why are bringing up my trauma. I hate you for this. Everything would have been perfect if she'd just aborted me. Now I'm alive and I can't afford cigarettes. I hate everything and wish I was dead.
>>24941185I wish you were dead too.
>>24941185i can lend you a cigarette bro
>>24939664Adler mogged that plagiarist 3 years before Jung broke rank.
