[a / b / c / d / e / f / g / gif / h / hr / k / m / o / p / r / s / t / u / v / vg / vm / vmg / vr / vrpg / vst / w / wg] [i / ic] [r9k / s4s / vip] [cm / hm / lgbt / y] [3 / aco / adv / an / bant / biz / cgl / ck / co / diy / fa / fit / gd / hc / his / int / jp / lit / mlp / mu / n / news / out / po / pol / pw / qst / sci / soc / sp / tg / toy / trv / tv / vp / vt / wsg / wsr / x / xs] [Settings] [Search] [Mobile] [Home]
Board
▼ Settings Mobile Home
/lit/ - Literature
Return Catalog Bottom
[Return] [Catalog] [Bottom]

Displaying 241 expired threads from the past 3 days

No. Excerpt
24729137Has BookTok been a benefit or a detriment to the literary community?[View]
24725200Why doesn't anyone preach the art of Skinmags????: Shit rules, my 1975 issue of Penthouse takes…[View]
24729251WTF he's literally me, the NRx guys were right to glaze this guy. Reading Considerations On Fra…[View]
24728876So it was just a shaggy dog story taking the piss out of Dostoevsky?[View]
24729639What are some works of social and cultural criticism by philosophers?[View]
24728044If you kept asking why behind every question then what's the last answerable why?[View]
24727407Encyclopedic novels: Big, juicy encyclopedic novels where the author flexes their knowledge on all s…[View]
24728393A perfect work of art: >Vladimir Nabokov, who generally regarded Dostoevsky as a 'rather mediocre…[View]
24729875Would Kant have supported Hitler?[View]
24728052Has anyone ever written about similarities between contemporary leftist narratives on 'white suprema…[View]
24728045Why did the Medieval Christian world become so obsessed with Aristotle?: By all accounts he was cons…[View]
24728448Explain the categorical imperative like I'm retarded: My chatbot keeps trying to convince me be…[View]
24729790Haven't read King in a while and I'm thinking about giving him another go. I gave up on hi…[View]
24729315Long flight coming up tomorrow: What should I put on my e-reader?[View]
24729833I just discovered chain rhymes, chuds: My dearest chuds, I just discovered biggest my carelest luds.…[View]
24729054/lit/ humor thread[View]
24727317REMINDER TO EVERYONE BROWSING THIS BOARD: REMINDER TO EVERYONE BROWSING THIS BOARD nobody on this do…[View]
24723403>2025 >still no caesar What's taking him so long?…[View]
24728334How can you achieve philosophy, when you have been cursed with anglophony?[View]
24729727/lit/, you ARE working on your talent stack as an aspiring writer, right? Do you have a gift for st…[View]
24729691>coping visual medium artists will always have an inferiority complex aimed at authors/philosophe…[View]
24724888My literary analysis class textbook has a section on feminism and it begins with two and a half page…[View]
24724602Why is most 'S-tier' literature from a lot of years or centuries ago?: I am partially using as refer…[View]
24720925What is up with zoomers and Dostoevsky? It's getting downright cultish[View]
24729423How about a research thread for current projects? Share a little about your project and what resear…[View]
24727397can i get a quick run down on houllebecq? worth reading? where to start? is he based? or, as i have…[View]
24729481What did i think of it?[View]
24729229What are your favorite puzzle books?[View]
24727936Fewer People Are Reading for Fun, Study Finds: https://archive.ph/PhuVK >Any reader knows the uni…[View]
24729325>Hegel, installed from above, by the powers that be, as the certified Great Philosopher, was a fl…[View]
24726639Why did they stop writing comedy books? It feels like around the late 90s they just stopped being wr…[View]
24728410I want to redesign the concept of a book using a game engine instead of using a PDF. Can /lit/ help …[View]
24726068Schopenhauerian fiction?: What are the most Schopenhauerian works of literary fiction? I don't…[View]
24728271Locke cogently argues there are no innate qualities to the mind. Does this suggest you become a geni…[View]
24724370Another one of these threads: >last book you read >current book >book you're reading n…[View]
24721909Ender's Game: I just wanted to say I absolutely loved this book as a kid and loved the sequel S…[View]
24729318Will the Kindle Flair's exciting new feature be enough to finally convince /lit/ to buy an e-re…[View]
24704184/grrm/ - George R. R. Martin General #88: maekar I targaryen, first of his name edition ASOIAF wiki:…[View]
24725514How is this not just smut? Where's the philosophy?[View]
24728981>ahab's white whale is literally a white whale this is pretty goofy…[View]
24729119>be in a writing group >some people there are actually pretty good >one guy is sharing hi…[View]
24723765>cynicism is the most persistently correct perspective >cynicism also drains you of any desire…[View]
24722570This is the end of /lit/: This board feels like arguing with two old lovers stuck in bins while one …[View]
24729155This book is so bad, so insanely bad. It is perhaps the worst prose I’ve even seen in a printed book…[View]
24728825Is Fichte worth reading?: If so, why?[View]
24729093>crazy bitches running around the forests screaming their lungs out and if you meet them on the w…[View]
24721148Write Your Thoughts: Previous: >>24717795[View]
24727716Is this true?[View]
24722138Rene Girard:: Your thoughts on mimetic rivalry?[View]
24728960Books Over 300 pages: Self-Indulgent or Worthwhile: Frankly, if a book clocks in over three hundred …[View]
24728659Hey, that cunt's not breathing I think she's had too much Of something or other, hey, man,…[View]
24726379>/lit/: Why do writers like you take the children fairy tale world and put blood, sex, drugs, pro…[View]
24728320Ursula K Le Guin: was she a good writer?[View]
24728594Can one of the resident autists tell me who these guys next to Evola are? Thanks.[View]
24726910What is the moral of the story exactly?[View]
24728089If the Forms are perfect and unchanging, how can they relate to the imperfect and changing things?: …[View]
24726019I have a pile of abandoned diaries: So I drive a tow truck and we get alot of abandoned cars, which …[View]
24723220Is this obtainable in any way in the EU, other than paying 90 euro for a first edition from the US o…[View]
24723633>abridged Yep, it's reading time.[View]
24727302Self Help books: What are your thoughts on this book? Is it better than Dianetics by Ron L. Hubbard?…[View]
24727795Wallace i didn’t hate it even if you need to learn how to spell[View]
24727924>retroemptively refutes landing strips using the space between his eyes…[View]
24726466Spanish poetry: If you want understand Spain..read this book in spanish[View]
24728649Post your 10 favorite books then compliment and judge anyone with different favorites[View]
24728503The eternal debate[View]
24728538Contenders for the worst books of all time: Post em'[View]
24728570Reminder that if you have >listened to a album >watched a movie (especially if you have seen a…[View]
24726840How do you deal with the readership problem as a writer: >0.00001% of the current population are …[View]
24724398J.G. Keely: was he retarded or something?[View]
24728495/lit/ - Literature be like: /lit/ - Literature be like >books for this feel? >what did he mean…[View]
24727193i still dont understand why he was masturbating while thinking of his dead dog[View]
24724940yep, time to kms[View]
24707955Write your suicide note with your best prose.[View]
24724246Looking for quality, well written, Indian American literature. Anyone have good recommendations?[View]
24721062I'm learning Swedish (for fun). What are some cool books I can look forward to reading? All I k…[View]
24726286Purely hypothetical: say, I want to start reading henri Bergson, where should I start? But just in t…[View]
24726496How do I know if I truly have a unique voice to share or if I'm just another chump who thinks h…[View]
24722740Imagine filling your mind with this much complete trash[View]
24728141>Find out philosopher is ugly. >Decide not to read him. Why should I believe anything an ugly …[View]
24727534Why are you not a New York Times bestseller yet?[View]
24727395Genuinely, how do you read more than 20 pages of a hard book a day?: I can read a Harry Potter book …[View]
24725123Lieh Tzu >Everything in this world is interconnected Anaxagoras >Everything in this world is i…[View]
24724291People's History of the United States: I hate this book so much, it is probably the second wors…[View]
24719514dumb book reviews: This one is from Meditation >Aurelius bros.. not like this…[View]
24724716Did Nietzsche commit a false dichotomy by pitting life-affirmation against life-denial?[View]
24726169/lit/ bros, recommend me books that deal with themes about the drifter/man-child/loser becoming the …[View]
24721057>life fundamentally sucks and people who say otherwise are either retards or pretentious retards…[View]
24722835RIP William S Burroughs, you would have loved chatgpt[View]
24727959Thoughts on this man and his works?[View]
24726943Was I supposed to be rooting against Gilead? As far as I can tell, it's a social utopia >wom…[View]
24726492>one of the most beloved novels of the 18th century >21th century female readers don't ev…[View]
24727562How can you not acknowledge Islam being the religion of /lit/ when many Traditionalists saw the ligh…[View]
24727680Sleeping Beauty 2034: Once upon a time there lived a king and a queen. To put it simply, they had ev…[View]
24726392This is terrible to read. Idk if it's the translation, but I'd rather read Hugo than this …[View]
24727822Hahahahaha[View]
24721707>the Holocaust doesn't matter and is not even among the top 1000 most important events of th…[View]
24727600The reason the west hates islam: The west is a misandrist hell hole where men are subservient slaves…[View]
24726948Pleasure and the End of Love: Today I woke up again feeling like I need to break up with my girlfrie…[View]
24724378Bataille: Where do I start with him?[View]
24726077In the pessimistic milieu there appear contemptible individuals who, in the common sense of existenc…[View]
24727227Is a 0.999... inch line the same as a 1 inch line?[View]
24726530I can't keep this to myself anymore. Blood Meridian is an underrated masterpiece and I am tired…[View]
24720851/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General: Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking…[View]
24726786Robert Munsch is gonna die: Might as well make a thread about it. We had one when Carle died.[View]
24726833Every single white author that came after Marcus Aurelius sees suffering as a problem or an evil to …[View]
24726432>makes a mockery of leftards' wet dreams (the Houyhnhnms) 70 years before there was a true l…[View]
24727235Where should I start?: I didn't read much growing up, and yet the times I did read, I enjoyed t…[View]
24725384Determinism was the true executioner of God: The scientific advancements of the 17th and 18th centur…[View]
24726443Someone explain my lack of motivation: Someone explain this cycle for me that I have undergone the l…[View]
24713969/lit/ is dying: what the fuck happened to commies, accelerationist trannies, gnostic schizos, failed…[View]
24724090What books to read in public to look effay?: Take into account both the actual physical look of the …[View]
24725892This shit is FIRE!!!!!!![View]
24724801What are some similar books to pic related that chronicle spiritual journeys, preferably leading to …[View]
24720009I didn't know JK Rowling could quote Hitler by heart.[View]
24726412What does this board think of H. G. Wells?[View]
24723187finish the list: If you start with the bible whats the next book you should read. you can only add o…[View]
24726536candide & voltaire: i circle back to this pretty often, mostly because the deluxe edition pengui…[View]
24723458Anyone care to explain?I know that most of these are jokes or made up but there are might be somethi…[View]
24726330The sot weed factor. Why is Henry trying to get Eben to fuck his twin sister[View]
24726893Supremely underrated work. Best travelogue I’ve ever read. It also contains a devastating condemnati…[View]
24722091Is Sade worth reading today or is it just softcore porn for the times without any substance?[View]
24721806Fixing the English language: Let's fix the English language. I'll go first. >Ditch sile…[View]
24726841>If you don't like getting cucked, you're evil. Why were transcendentalists like this?…[View]
24726816Underrated in today's world. Especially in the /lit/world.[View]
24721977>A Blood meridian video is on 10m on. Youtube The fuck happened to society…[View]
24725784itt: /lit/ characters you are slowly turning into[View]
24722932Is this lifestyle the key to unlocking literary excellence?[View]
24726400>individuals are completely, radically free and should exercise this freedom as fully and authent…[View]
24726061Montaigne: Which are your favourite essays by this nigga? Favourite quotes?[View]
24726507If MLK liked Martin Buber why didn't he stay faithful to the women he was with? Seems like his …[View]
24723309Books giving this vibe?[View]
24727509It's time.[View]
24720044Analytic Philosophy: How on earth can one live in 2025 and think 'analytic philosophy is correct'? C…[View]
24725342>be a postmodernist cuck >fail to finish your work…[View]
24726455Books on survivalism ? We may need them soon…[View]
24722998On the Jewish question: Let's say that someone really wanted to get into the nitty gritty of th…[View]
24725682Best history of Maoist China?[View]
24724254ITT post reddit books[View]
24725288Write a super short story. Can be an interaction between two flies. Whatever you think might be a pl…[View]
24726265Yeah, I think it's reading aloud time[View]
24724187Why did it take otherwise intelligent men until like 1850 to figure out that God wasn't real? A…[View]
24720567where do i talk with people about books? i started reading books like a month ago and i'm lovin…[View]
24712788How do you achieve enlightenment and reach Nirvana?[View]
24724882How come all the relevant British philosophers are from the 1700s?[View]
24725231Obscure Word of the day: >daguerrotype [Spoiler]the first widely available photographic process b…[View]
24723070Suggestions for Capitalism: >If you ask any literate person what one needs to read to understand …[View]
24723975There’s no reason to read this in its original text when 1/3 of the words are so archaic it’s imposs…[View]
24725513Shelob and sex: Thoughts?[View]
24722469I have found around 1300 books i want to read. At first i thought there were more interesting books …[View]
24724656You ARE a good typist, aren't you, /lit/? Can't be much of a writer if you have to hunt an…[View]
24721045If a superintelligence could perfectly predict all of our future actions based on all prior causes, …[View]
24724628What’s the best book you read this year?[View]
24724540How can I make the most out of reading a lot of different types of books?: I have a lot of books on …[View]
24725860>I feel like I have free will therefore wherever I actually do or not is irrelevant What a hack! …[View]
24724907Emergent Writer Career: AI says that my emergent writing career is very good. Should I be happy with…[View]
24723992Do you prefer the original, Ted Hughes edited version or the restored version? I like the narrative …[View]
24722599Cioran at His Parent's: ## Cioran at His Parents' My mother wants to play Scrabble. It…[View]
24724271How do I stop writing like a coward?[View]
24725779>he still thinks in visual space[View]
24723006Great journalist books about the mormon church going deep into them? Something feels reaaaaaally off…[View]
24725257Gnosticism: I've been reading pic related and I'm just not getting it. It all just seems l…[View]
24718744I get that not every bad guy has to be a bigot or pure evil, but the predominance of 'safe evil' vil…[View]
24724799What are the best written betrayals in literature?[View]
24722352In your best prose, picrel.[View]
24725559Any fans of Institutional Critique on this here board?[View]
24725556>waaaaaaa waaaaa waaaaaaaaa IM ALONE IM GOING INSANE Do people really?[View]
24724508There is no God to turn to.[View]
24725404One such response from some: s.r.o.i.ti.e. – he then backspaced to the start- s.r.toir. = backspsack…[View]
24718108Why did so many major traditionalists become Muslim? Aren’t there are other ways of initiation? I do…[View]
24722752How would you rephrase the 1st amendment so it doesn't protect pornography?[View]
24724955>spent years thinking Virginia Woolf was actually from Virginia I feel like an absolute moron, /l…[View]
24717612>commence to read the preface by literally who >immediately spoils the ending…[View]
24724846What should I read before I tackle The Big One?[View]
24721819*utterly fails to understand Cioran*[View]
24725111new knowledge for a new age https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63023754-cutting-the-ties-that-bind …[View]
24723557Book art: What's your favorite art associated with a story? Picrelated is 'Moby Dick' by artist…[View]
24724909Books on porn addiction effects and Niche psychology: I wanted to make two seprate threads but I wil…[View]
24720606You will never have a Quixote: Sorry, we're the best at literature. Nobody has a Quixote. You c…[View]
24722724So, I want to read something mysterious for fall. It should be weird with a little bit of suspense, …[View]
24720402How can I improve my writing as an ESLlet? Are there any books that might help or online materials? …[View]
24723777Truth and shit maaaaan: I am going insane over these two conflicting concepts >Existence is so co…[View]
24721933When you fully beat a game or fully understand a book, there is no purpose or desire to going back t…[View]
24723254Hi, Decided to pick up reading as a new hobby, and so far i read two books this year. Nietzsches zar…[View]
24723075Kaufman on Nietzsche: I was worried about starting this book because the author is a jew and unable …[View]
24719667What's the literary equivalent of Freddy Gets Fingered?[View]
24723211Are there any other rip roaring books about vidya?[View]
24724273your favorite compassion thinker?[View]
24722751>cope of a poor language[View]
24722965Who is the literary equivalent of Studio Ghibli? Antoine de Saint-Exupéry?[View]
24722827>novel is a thinly veiled autobiography[View]
24718574>he still buys physical books[View]
24723525Who are some fun contemporary American philosophers who don't write like faggots and aren'…[View]
24720776/sas/ - Sword and Sorcery General: Evil Jester Edition: Post here about Robert E. Howard, Clark Asht…[View]
24720702Is this the most important text of the 21st century?[View]
24720506I like my women like I like my languages: sophisticated, elegant, beautiful and dead.[View]
24724140Gonna check this out for the first time. What am I in for?[View]
24724393Where can I pirate this?[View]
24721254So far I am enjoying it but I have exactly 39 hours off until I'm back at work. Is it worth it?[View]
24721089Why are some fags entirely against translations? Is it pseudo intellectual faggotry? That's my …[View]
24716765does /lit/ have an opinion on Johnathan Haidt? I remember him floating around the Sam Harris/Rogan c…[View]
24722477what happened?[View]
24722781>Thread is not about pic related Just using him as an example, probably the most prolific author …[View]
24723262Where should I start with Schopenhauer?: Is there a book that contains most of his views and thought…[View]
24718935honor the ballsack[View]
24723932Any books on how to prevent a civil war?[View]
24723921Looking to get into Germanic/Scandinavian mythology/paganism. I'm aware of the Poetic and Prose…[View]
24723764Suetonius: Must be the most boring writer of all time because I've read Picrel about 3 times an…[View]
24723850>mogs wittgenstein >mogs all existing philosophies of probability >mogs the entire field of…[View]
24723717Is it any good?[View]
24720818TARTE A LA CREME: >Reason must never rest satisfied with anything which is, as yet, imperfectly u…[View]
24721760Realistically speaking, would a police officer stand a chance against an egoist? I knocked one out y…[View]
24723786>be me >read a French Nouveau Roman >pic rel Un An by Jean Echenoz >in the beginning a w…[View]
24720515This book is not what people think it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Plants…[View]
24721895Any similar recommendations? I am interested in American Christianities[View]
24720699Sir Robert Filmer: >Filmer was a thinker of uncommon power, and even of uncommon originality. It …[View]
24721694rare book thread: What is the rarest book you have in your collection, /lit/? I have a signed copy o…[View]
24723613I've tried reading some of Hugo's poetry from Les Contemplations and I can't really a…[View]
24723180Reading for the prose is like listening for the mix.[View]
24717589/wng/ — Web Novel General: Torch Edition Stubbed >>24709839 >What is /wng/ — Web Novel Gene…[View]
24721832Post your nonfiction/research stack[View]
24718709At what point, if any, can a comic book be considered literature?[View]
24723347Richard Hell: I have just finished listening to Blank Generation. Are any of Richard Hell's boo…[View]
24721535tfw when you realize Kant is actually difficult not because of his longwindedness, but because of hi…[View]
24718806>I am exceptionally smart, I read Pynchon, Joyce, DFW >okay what your IQ? >IQ tests don’t m…[View]
24722010What would you say is your favorite picture book? Mine has to be 'The Skull' by Jon Klassen[View]
24714423The most tragic figure of the 21st century[View]
24723041Best translation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy[View]
24722824>'She had eyes that cast her other features into minor supporting roles. Her voice was as smooth …[View]
24715190Who is your favorite writer who did not with the Nobel Prize for Literature?[View]
24723023Thoughts on Orhan Pamuk? What his novels are like? Whats his best novel? Best place to start with hi…[View]
24723162Million Dollar Bash epub: does anyone know where i can download an epub version of the 2014 edition …[View]
24722303Where do I start with Kant?: Is there a build up to critique of pure reason? Is it even worth a read…[View]
24721251Where did you stop reading?[View]
24721447Thoughts on the Perseus and Medusa myth?[View]
24721219>has two guests that he never met prior in his home >the towns people want to rape them >of…[View]
24719304Central European Literature: What was the last thing that you read from this region? What do you pla…[View]
24719513Is there a reading list for becoming a well rounded citizen?[View]
24722841>the answer to radicalized young violent incels is..... having a wife and kids truly a visionary…[View]
24721702Thomas Chatterton: Would it be possible to do what he did in our own day?[View]
24722941Heathcliff in modern times would totally be the guy who trains AI to sound and type exactly like his…[View]
24721830About to read this. What am in for?[View]
[Return] [Catalog] [Top]
Return Catalog Top
Style:
[Disable Mobile View / Use Desktop Site]

[Enable Mobile View / Use Mobile Site]

All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective parties. Images uploaded are the responsibility of the Poster. Comments are owned by the Poster.