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24116948Would anyone be interested in a surrealist novel that advocatr for socialism by pointing out the abs…[View]
24118118t. every French, Jewish, or SFWA writer[View]
24118016This is really good. Why does Steinbeck get no love here?[View]
24117971Underrated Translators: Mirra Ginsburg did a translation of The Master & Margarita and Notes Fro…[View]
24116054which should i read: title[View]
24117879books about Iraq?[View]
24116792What does “good prose” even mean? Has no one ever questioned this? It’s a completely baseless and su…[View]
24106433Wizard books: Give me books with/about wizards, sorcerers, mages and shit No dumb bullshit like Harr…[View]
24117441>present perfect it happened in the past[View]
24114684Why does he get called an unreliable narrator? I read the book and he seemed pretty reliable to me[View]
24116716Is anyone else finding that Kid/YA books are better quality of adult books? I've been re-readin…[View]
24082678>age >location >current read…[View]
24117007James Ellroy: Yay or nay? And if yay, where to start? I’d prefer one of the Everyman’s Library colle…[View]
24102492What specifically do you think is preventing him from finishing his series?[View]
24116988Is dyslexia real? Does anyone here have any experience with it? Has it hindered your reading?[View]
24116510Camus was actually pretty perceptive.[View]
24117594Will Eisner Storytime Part I: Got another comics book legend doing literary adaptations![View]
24117060women's terrible taste in 'books' never ceases to amaze me[View]
24116411favorite 1800s gothic/horror novel?[View]
24117529Look Homeward Angel: Thoughts on this piece of shit?[View]
24117514How does it compare to the Apollo Murders?[View]
24116575Nora Roberts is a bestselling American author with more than 200 romance novels. Roberts began her w…[View]
24116468Post what (YOU) last read.: Do any of you actually read? If so post last reading. What did you think…[View]
24116192Redpill me on Aristotle's Politics 1.) I don't understand his thinking on slavery. He seem…[View]
24111358Why are so many great writers so zesty?[View]
24116351Did I get filtered? What the fuck am I missing? Why do people like this book?[View]
24114780The horror of 'Blindsight' isn't that sapience is rare in the universe, or even that it's …[View]
24117203And why should we read this guy again and The Bible?[View]
24113394which translation of iliad and oddyssey should i read[View]
24104999> Summer 1993: David Foster Wallace publishes E Unibus Pluram, an essay about ̶h̶o̶w̶ ̶T̶V̶ ̶i̶s̶…[View]
24117284Why do you mean se doesn't fuck the alien? I read 1500 pages because I wanted to see some hot a…[View]
24115319the picture of dorian gray: exquisite prose. sure. Yes I know it's essentially a parable agains…[View]
24116715What are some books where the author spends a good chunk of it coping?[View]
24116993incel lit: More books like this? books about being sub5 and rejected with blackpill themes[View]
24116077The Brotherhood exists and it scares the Party: Why else would O'Brien refuse to answer Winston…[View]
24117183is sarah j maas the modern tolkien?[View]
24116831Why so many dunks on Wordsworth?[View]
24116390What's a good book that talks about the domination of Clear Channel in telecommunications, part…[View]
24116646So, I finished the Analects. I read the Quran last. Probably will go on to 'In the Buddha's Wor…[View]
24116572What happened to all the Evola and Guenon shilling? I thought /lit/ was Traditionalist? Now it'…[View]
24116402Who is the David Lynch of literature?[View]
24115296It's just misery porn.[View]
24117005Literally me[View]
24115969The twilight series is actually pretty good. There are 60,000 books published every year, almost non…[View]
24114551American Psycho but good: What does /lit/ think?[View]
24114574What was his fucking problem?[View]
24114168Just bought this: What am I in for?[View]
24116766A Farewell to Arms: What did Hemingway mean by this?[View]
24114884I made an autistic timeline using books that claim to be set in the real Earth timeline and used the…[View]
24116660e-reader help: I decided to take the e-reader pill so I can download books that are too expensive to…[View]
24113044Why did the Nobel people give a prize to Shabtai Zisl ben Avraham, more commonly known as Bob Dylan?…[View]
24103774Just crossed page 300 … when does it get good?: Also, what did Pemulis use to drug his tennis oppone…[View]
24111909Favourite books by women?[View]
24109101/wg/ Writing General: Quote Edition >>24101241 Previous /wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: http…[View]
24116454He wrote more than one book: The Hitlers Zweites Buch 'Second Book', published in English as Hitler…[View]
24116742Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.[View]
24116726What would you add to it?[View]
24115324Crying of Lot 49: So was the conspiracy theory true or just a delusion of housewife?[View]
24116607The new American metaphysical idealist political economy: Appearing for the first time in a complete…[View]
24110450What will be the short- and long-term consequences of men being effectively banned from writing fant…[View]
24116332books on eroticism: I'm looking for study books on eroticism. Something that isn't restric…[View]
24116477The new white trick is to call every racist thing they said satire Oh do I hate the white man[View]
24116372Was it autism?: >At the age of twelve, Friedrich Nietzsche, attempting to prove to his classmates…[View]
24114693Femanons of /lit/: what books would you like to see more men reading?[View]
24116363Literary legacy status: Destroyed[View]
24116293Ceramic eyes of cobalt blue. Clay Golems moving arcanely or like muscle marionettes on tendinous str…[View]
24113467What's your favorite contemporary poem, anon? You do read poetry, right?[View]
24116255Lovecraft Thread: I love Lovecraft, he's one of my favorite authors[View]
24108225Reading books at Cambridge: >you have been accepted into the University of Cambridge to study the…[View]
24116092anyone taking notes from the books? im trying to find a sweet spot between too much information in m…[View]
24111961Some interesting comments. Joyce talking about Dostoevsky.[View]
24114953Das Mordenthal by Adalbert von Chamisso: does anyone know where i can find this poem? i know it was …[View]
24108824How do I stop being afraid of being sincere while I'm writing?[View]
24116196If philosophers are smart, why did they spend so much time thinking?[View]
24114493The lawgiver of Christianity was born of a virgin and died a virgin. Was he not trying to teach us t…[View]
24111691Give it to me straight, as someone who has already moved beyond slop fiction mostly, but who serious…[View]
24110241Why do people claim GRRM is a good writer?[View]
24115716I just can’t forgive him for what he did to Tolkien[View]
24116069Where the fuck is the /r/truelit top 100 redditfags ?[View]
24116034I'm halfway through this and the main character Keith is such an insanely unlikeable and stupid…[View]
24113506Calypso, the perfect girl: So Odysseus was getting raped for 7 years by this beautiful blonde hair n…[View]
24112277/lit/bros...I'm a fraud...: I'm 25% into making my novel only to realize that I am LITERAL…[View]
24107943/grrm/ - George R. R. Martin General: the blackfish edition ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org…[View]
24109942E-Readers: Guys I'm going crazy trying to find a reader with SD card support. What's the b…[View]
24115763books similar to picrel where its just a smattering of various assorted writings, doodles, poems, et…[View]
24115049Any good fiction books that deal primarily with esotericism and the occult?[View]
24114781Original stories are OUT. Terrorist manifestos are IN.[View]
24112968ITT: Post authors who secretly browse /lit/[View]
24110959How the hell did these chicks get so good at writing?[View]
24109173Why don't we ever talk about this banger?[View]
24115590>Blows your favorite novel out of the water Nothing persoanlik, kiddo[View]
24113129This book is retarded: The prose is biblical but inferior to the Bible’s and the depiction of violen…[View]
24115505Center Of The Cyclone: What are the different states of consciousness and what is the best way to re…[View]
24114061i think my iq is too low for this book i struggle to continue[View]
24114047>GTFO[View]
24112611P. Craig Russell Storytime Part XI: >>The Ring of The Nibelung The Rhinegold >>24097900 …[View]
24115396P. Craig Russell Storytime Part XII: >>Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde The Selfish Giant, The Star …[View]
24111993How does anyone make a living talking about stoicism. How can anyone even scrape together enough abo…[View]
24113788This new translation is incredible. Das Kapital should be more read and studied than the Bible.[View]
24115016what are some books that greatly condemn adultery? I'm tired of books that take a 'nuanced' and…[View]
24114637Y'all don't even know about...[View]
24113962ITT: Cozy kino[View]
24115109A book for thesis: Getting my Masters this yeah and picked a topic with neologisms and their transla…[View]
24111328What feminist literature should men read?[View]
24114949The greatest author of all time.: No body of work compares to Tolkien's, not in breadth or dept…[View]
24115038>book has that one hip grandma character[View]
24103521Well?: Pitch us your novel.[View]
24113317Why is Goodreads such complete garbage?[View]
24115165Looking at lists of greatest horror novels and noticing a strange phenomenon.: I recognize all the b…[View]
24115152>Is is singular >Are's are plural[View]
24112211Pocket Notebooks: Post your notebooks: what you write with, why you carry them or what you put in it…[View]
24110115Using Post-Modernism as a shield: Is there a better example of an author hiding behind a literary tr…[View]
24114036AWOOOO: I want to learn about therianism, the new spiritual movement in which people believe they ha…[View]
24113578>sun shines in his eyes a little bit >fucking shoots someone the fuck?…[View]
24115083This Is What We Do: has anyone read this? i saw it recommended recently after luigi did what he did.…[View]
24115034books on geneologies of notable people: books that have enlisted geneological/ familial tress of not…[View]
24115062Assigning meaning to highlighter colors: I feel like I’m leaving something on the table by not havin…[View]
24112973when does this get good? I'm starting to think Harold Bloom was right[View]
24114834>There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane…[View]
24112198He had to have been a unironic pedophile right? No non-pedophile could have ever perfectly encapsula…[View]
24112201what are some good books to get into psychology? (not dark triad redpill kinda stuff ) legit classic…[View]
24114793At what point can I start reading picrel? I have only read a handful of books and struggles with mos…[View]
24114749Two thousand pages? How the fuck am I supposed to raad this? It'll take me a year[View]
24110426I always buy the shittiest edition available.[View]
24113229Post the best snippets from Ancient Greek literature!: Poetry, philosophy, tragedy, comedy etc…[View]
24114794It was the morning after Jose Buendia's ceremony, Colonel Aureliano Buendia spoke to Aureliano …[View]
24109436Whiteheadian Primordial Nature: >The primordial nature he described as 'the unlimited conceptual …[View]
24112843Brandon Sanderson is building a giant Cosmere-themed bookstore in Utah called Dragonsteel Village. T…[View]
24112351Im reading Marcus Aurelis Meditations, every page makes me stronger[View]
24114564A book I read when I was younger: So a few years ago I went onto a Reddit whatever about helping peo…[View]
24114262The average one star review for divine comedy[View]
24114233>post obscure excerpt from highly regarded 19th century intellectual author >nobody on /lit/ r…[View]
24114086What's his endgame?[View]
24110958LOL OUCH[View]
24114398/Japanese light novels/ thread: Are Japanese authors like Dazai and Mishima the precursors to light …[View]
24113900Can one be a Platonist in the modern world?[View]
24110629I am a retard that has never read a book.: So suggest a book for me to read.[View]
24113508Wait. Heidegger not only embraced Plato, but heidegger also viewed Arostotle positively.[View]
24113575>“Dr. Franz Kafka, a German writer who lived in Prague, died the day before yesterday in a sanato…[View]
24114154Poetryanons, I need some advice. I've been getting into poetry after always hating it. I picked…[View]
24102559I want to read Don Quixote but apparently it's the most translated book in the world. What woul…[View]
24113749If we threw out every piece of literature made my morally reprehensible people from our collective h…[View]
24106908Do you read more books than the average imam?[View]
24112964Was Robert Jordan the only good writer? I reread Wheel of Time for the sixth time. Nothing even come…[View]
24113167im reading a book, im at the very end of it. im in love with the characters and the world. i dont wa…[View]
24112115Okay, so what we have here is that Jesuit boarding school sucks, priests are assholes, and god is a …[View]
24111568any stupid take on Nabokov, no matter how crusty, gets me seething[View]
24115219Objective philosophy tier list: Based >Nietzsche >Heidegger >Holderlin >Devi >Serrano…[View]
24114333What book will actually cure or atleast help my depression. In my experience literature mostly makes…[View]
24115205Best books to understand the psychology of religious types? Narcissistic personality disorder maybe.[View]
24111440>stumble into Christian apologetic writing from early-mid 20th century >decide I want to read …[View]
24114017actually good romances recs plus for chubby characters[View]
24110172jewish literature: where do I start? Do I have to know hebrew or yiddish to appreciate it or will en…[View]
24113587The Groyperverse: Is this a sequel to The Turner Diaries?[View]
24113952The cruel world (12/19/2024 10:50 AM): Why is it so cruel, This world we live in, Those who don…[View]
24112865Just finished picrel. I feel so empty now[View]
24112902Needlessly overhyped authors?: Let's stick to exclusivly /lit/ culture because of course normie…[View]
24113213looking for depressing book recs for a lonely guy in his early 20s. can be fiction and non fiction. …[View]
24113818Good martial arts novels?: About someone who undertakes a martial art and grows stronger through it …[View]
24112480>let me tell you what I think about this book Who the fuck cares? Who is this faggot and why was …[View]
24110937Ahoy, Matey!: I'm sick and tired of my wagecuck job. I want to read a book about pirates. Men w…[View]
24111037>looked at my uni's French department page >looked at the current Graduate Students >t…[View]
24113319Is this book coded?[View]
24109265Happy birthday to the best author of all time, Yukio motherfucking Mishima! TORA! TORA!! TORA!!![View]
24111606deontology for the masses; teleology for great men: it astonishes me that book length treatises have…[View]
24106182just bought these: In what order do you recommend me to read pic related i was thinking left to righ…[View]
24109359Do the actions of certain authors put you off of reading their works/enjoying their contents properl…[View]
24113436What are some good anti-intellectual books? >inb4 “I HATE THOMAS SOWELL BECAUSE-“ Cool. Recommend…[View]
24113154Help me pick my next read.: Hello /lit/, I stand before you a man with lots of will but no follow th…[View]
24093695/lit/'s Top 100 Books—2024: Thanks for voting![View]
24108463Why bother writing a novel when the best books have already been written? For me, Houellebecq did it…[View]
24107703>be me >love reading and knowledge seeking >start a new book, get hyped >read like 3 cha…[View]
24112645Has anybody here read finnish lit?: What do you think of the Finnish language and literature as a wh…[View]
24111236OK... so I just finished reading Moby Dick (which was fantastic and thoroughly enjoyable and beautif…[View]
24112502>chuds got tricked into reading queerlit about the inner struggles of a gay teenager because le b…[View]
24113274NON: BREAK A RIB took offstage hackers are trees, craxorz put hackers on tp cracl ere dis[View]
24112669Introducing... Storytime Part XXXXIX: Linguistics https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23963282 https://war…[View]
24112930Introducing... Storytime Part L: Linguistics https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23963282 https://warosu.o…[View]
24113217The libido is revealed in self-reflection as the only reality that goes beyond the limits of experie…[View]
24113191Sociopath maxxing: We get a lot of threads for adult books on this, but what are some good kids’ boo…[View]
24108691Books you wouldn't recommend to your worst enemy[View]
24112503Chicago Greek Tragedies: Should I get the three compilation tomes or the complete works? Will I be m…[View]
24110880>greatest poet of his generation >you don't even know his name…[View]
24111030>'Well, well, well, what do we have here? 'Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.' More like Hegel…[View]
24112615contemporary luddites: The growing dominance of tech elites, pushing us toward a dystopian techno-fe…[View]
24108631He is right.: Do not let the cancel culture fool you - we voted metoo out at the ballot box. So why …[View]
24112861>Ai can rewrite my passage, I'm upset! So can a retarded five year old, so can 8 billion min…[View]
24111244Was he right about the LOTR movies?[View]
24112873Can I get some recommendations for pessimist fiction? Not in a gay 'companies are gonna keep fucking…[View]
24112892Thoughts on The Intellectual Life: Has anyone here read this book? What are your thoughts on it? I f…[View]
24112397How would you rate Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive compared to Neuromancer? Finished another read…[View]
24110366DUDE[View]
24111563Is this Wilkie Collins any good or is he just 19th century trash?[View]
24111730What was the most disappointing book you ever read? For me it was when I was about 13 and bought th…[View]
24108396Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulker Who is the best author and why?[View]
24112288P. Craig Russell Storytime Part X: >>The Ring of The Nibelung The Rhinegold >>24097900 T…[View]
24112010Aside from the obvious ripoff of Battle Royale, the concept and world seems cool, but my God, the pr…[View]
241118302024 recap: What was the best book you read in 2024 anon? What was your proudest read? What did you …[View]
24112490Any other books about criminal organizations (or mafias) during the medieval age?[View]
24105769Is this as difficult as everyone says? Do I really need to start with The Crying of Lot 49 or whatev…[View]
24109712P. Craig Russell Storytime Part IX: >>The Ring of The Nibelung The Rhinegold >>24097900 …[View]
24110620I recently applied for a job as a 'senior specialist' of illuminated manuscripts, and to m…[View]
24109568>In the immense sphere of living things, the obvious rule is violence, a kind of inevitable frenz…[View]
24108266Uhhhh Wolfechads not like this...[View]
24112202Favorite literary tropes thread: Post your favorite tropes in literature, or explain how your favori…[View]
24108357Any novels that feature a character who lives a very simple, repetitive, isolated life and spends hi…[View]
24111997Have read the major ones (TBK, C&P, Demons, Notes). What do I read next? Idiot, Gambler or Adole…[View]
24104321I heard from somewhere that Evola is not taken seriously in academia. Is that because he is taboo or…[View]
24109412The main reason I don't read books is I'm scared of not liking it. How do I start reading?…[View]
24109548I'm 3 and a half chapters in When does it become the best fantasy series ever?[View]
24107927Books of Vedanta and intellect: Parmenides retroactively refutes Nāgārjuna and Whitehead. Though I…[View]
24101279book recommendations that wont challenge my worldview but reinforce that the only truthful form of g…[View]
24102253The Enneads are the greatest work of western philosophy and theology, strongly influencing Christian…[View]
24111919Remember when they tried to cancel Cormac and nobody gave a fuck[View]
24111841Has anyone here read this? What can you tell me about it?[View]
24112036https://voca.ro/1oo1KhLRjnwR[View]
24107621Nietszche: Your favourite novel by nietszche? Me? World as Will and representation. (Every time i se…[View]
24109582>Si le dégoût du monde conférait à lui seul la sainteté, je ne vois pas comment je pourrais évite…[View]
24111958Alan Bennett - Killing Time book cover: A new short story from Alan Bennett.[View]
24110711Rec for a classical logic textbook to self study? Bonus: What do you think about studying logic, pra…[View]
24104720when the air hits your brain: I just finished reading it, medical students definitely fucking read i…[View]
24108552This is a tall ask, but are there any biographies (especially of ruthless political monsters like, s…[View]
24111194>criticises stupid white men >author is a stupid white man What did he mean by this?…[View]
24109131why did he hate dune?[View]
24111857reading poetry out loud makes it so much better holy shit. I thought it wouldn't make a differe…[View]
24102299start with the Sith[View]
24110697Underworld by Don DeLillo is better than Infinite Jest, Blood Meridian, AND Gravity's Rainbow![View]
24111158>Think, Prince Andrei, think! Two men: Frederick and Suvorov... Moreau! Moreau would become a pri…[View]
24111777Just finished this: And thought it was excellent. any of you read it? thoughts if you have? Needing …[View]
24107845T IS NATURAL to believe in great men. If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroe…[View]
24111663>BLACKED a queen >invents the first yo mama joke >only hopes for more evil in the world …[View]
24110034Ejm: I don't hate Stephen King, but didn't I literally write c/p? You can write about matu…[View]
24110372Descartes was one of us[View]
24109345Based kino or cringe?: Worth reading or not?[View]
24110638AA books: Did they help u quit ? Bills story is insanely compelling imo[View]
24111172You ever write a passage and you're like: 'This is so good that I'm gonna save it for a la…[View]
24110962When did you realize you actually don't like reading and would rather goof around the internet?…[View]
24105785My philosophical journey so far[View]
24108628Is this still relevant?[View]
24110884Wait, what?[View]
24108314My self-education is an ongoing and expansive journey of self-realisation and understanding by probi…[View]
24102435>The man ate the fruit before it was ripe, and discovered that it was bitter, and became terribly…[View]
24111048When I read a book, I see it posted about here frequently. Almost like there are seasons for certain…[View]
24110915I do not care for Dostoevsky[View]
24111435All A Novelist Needs: Has anyone read this? Which books do I need to read before reading this to avo…[View]
24106017The Mind Illuminated: How's this book? Is it any good?[View]
24111346Book Unboxings?: What the fuck is a book unboxing? Is this really a thing. Writers write. Readers re…[View]
24107735Worst current writing trends?: My least favorite right now is quippy dialogue.[View]
24110894Post a fragment: Post a fragment you liked from a novel you're currently reading. ‘I was only g…[View]
24111075I'm listening to Mark Fisher and I don't want to sound insensitive but he was kind of reta…[View]
24110294Anyone else check to make sure an author isn’t jewish before you read a book?[View]
24110523I love Pansees: Ive always loved the Musings in Pansees. Not because I agree with them all, but beca…[View]
24111016I recently started reading essays and I'm loving it, probably more than reading fiction. I read…[View]
24107540Can you legally own this book in your country?[View]
24110744>read some random old literature >it's full of esoteric references to people and things n…[View]
24110467Why do people always say death of the hecking author when half the fun of books is trying to figure …[View]
24101408>concludes literature Where can you even go from here?[View]
24105499How do guys cope with the fact you will only ever scratch the surface of books not written in your n…[View]
24110939Was it based?: >the long, epic adventure to the macguffin is an exercise in misery and mind-numbi…[View]
24110691>start reading >there's some noise or distraction…[View]
24104455Post good literary quotes.[View]
24104229Which software do you guys use for writing? I tried shaxpir and it sucks because it wont let me expo…[View]
24108837>On this evening of September 11, 1943 in Nantes, it requires a few meters, a few steps, for a pl…[View]
24110830Spider in its web (diary entry 12.9.2022): I sit amongst them, they all know me, they all know each …[View]
24101825Just found out my wife is pregnant and I'm gonna be a dad. Any recommended children's lite…[View]
24110805Scientists should study my ability to repulse even the most desperate and ugliest of women. Maybe it…[View]
24110664Is Harry Potter like British land?: Do britishers actually function the way people do in harry potte…[View]
24109141Collectors Thread: So I got a new one to share (yes more Dunsany)[View]
24110018Great literature that are adaptations?: Many great films and tv shows are adaptations of existing st…[View]
24110726always trust a Karamazov[View]
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