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24941591Just finished this, why exactly is it supposed to be the greatest thing ever written?[View]
24944854Hemingway Sexual Fetishism: It is not exactly well known in modern circles but much of Hemingways wr…[View]
24935815i'm moving to sneeden in the next year or two & am learning the language in preparation. wh…[View]
24944864I've taken my treatment talents to /b/. Reaction so far is not bad[View]
24944101Been a long time since I seen the show and have never read the books. The topic came up and I said t…[View]
24946310Bestseller section of book shop. Notice anything? I'll tell you: all women and a gay man.[View]
24936284Write Your Thoughts: Previous: >>24930886[View]
24946342The Age of Shitposting is soon coming to an end anons: You lived through the age of opportunity, a t…[View]
24943165Ok so what does this shit actually say: Every time I hear insane passages from Jewish and Muslim hol…[View]
24944903>got spoiled who the mysterious black knight is FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK[View]
24946156What's the great British novel?[View]
24943816Kalevala: Let us discuss Kalevala.[View]
24943835Why there is nothing wrong with being a cuck according to Nietzsche: >be on /dbg/ >see another…[View]
24942639I've read Thales. I've read Heraclitus. I've read Parmenides. I've read Socrates…[View]
24946162halp~~: Best criticism of neoliberal capitalism out there? Who, what, where, which?[View]
24939908Do you think the Leap of Faith is really a good philosophy or an Immanent onr[View]
24946157Monogatari series: Is it ineluctably lost in translation?[View]
24945401Saw a girl on the train reading this book whilst drinking wine from the bottle. Anyone here also rea…[View]
24944499>things that are meaningful to you are ... meaningful /to you/! Yeah, I had this thought when I …[View]
24943094Never been debunked btw[View]
24946099I started with the Greeks. This Plato guy is pretty good.[View]
24941392>last book that made you yfw[View]
24940184ITT: novelizations better than the movie[View]
24944474Books entering the public domain on January 1st, 2026: In less than three weeks, every single book p…[View]
24945034>/lit/ tricked me into reading Freemason propaganda I feel violated[View]
24944553This shit kinda mid fr: Like why did God just restart everything and delete Adam's line just to…[View]
24945961Conspiracy theory literature.: Good evening. I intend to write a short anthology about a fictionaliz…[View]
24944759I'm an NPC retard who's trying to break free from social programming. Recommend me 1 (ONE)…[View]
24945033>This schematism of our understanding in regard to phænomena and their mere form, is an art, hidd…[View]
24945928>>18226441 'I enjoyed the concept, but see many people online over the years call this 'p…[View]
24945901Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage: Inspiring tale of heroism or babby's first nonf…[View]
24944227Religion debunked by Jung: >I remembe the case of an alcoholic who had come under the laudable i…[View]
24945760Is this as good as Leviathan?[View]
24945684How do i achieve magnus the red physique and literary knowledge what books does he read[View]
24945048Jung for dummies: I tried to understand Freud and Jung but I didn't understand a lot, to self i…[View]
24943347Literally everyone hates the ending, so how do you think it should have ended?[View]
24945737In order to understand Gilroys Postcolonial Melancholia, need I start with Freuds Mourning and Melan…[View]
24945319Nazi Bible: How does it compare to other translations?[View]
24944937Which volume of On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle are you guys on?[View]
24942361To Melissus of Samos: This thread is dedicated to third lost Eleactic Melissus. He was the most radi…[View]
24945289A Schizo Age needs schizo philosophers[View]
24945533Besides picrel, how many good pieces of secondary literature exist on the pre-Socratics? What about …[View]
24945202Graphic novels you like[View]
24945667Explain to me why Lovecraft is considered a horror author when literally nothing scary happens. …[View]
24945639holy shit, my cracker ass is sitting down, listening and learning. why didn't you honkies tell …[View]
24943962original writing, what is an original phrase or quote you are saving for a future work?: i don'…[View]
24944240Richard Laymon: Better than Stephen King and no one on this board even talks about him.[View]
24942885What's the big deal here?[View]
24945466>Christian writer creates Christianity-destroying argument I'm speechless >but he also re…[View]
24940356/lwc/ Lit's Writing Competition: CHRISTMAS EDITION REVIVED: >>24925515 >>24925515 …[View]
24910839Is Liberalism the Final Stage of Human Development?: Are we at the end of History? Are we the Last M…[View]
24944068I get a lot of ideas for screenplays, but I never write them down. Probably because I can never imag…[View]
24941596Books on the Chinese Bismarck, protagonist of the 3 kingdoms?[View]
24934437Why are so many on this board obessed with appearing literary without actually going to the effort o…[View]
24941632GPT wrote a Bible. And it’s actually good.: Not dystopian LARP. Not AI spam. 1,200+ pages of recursi…[View]
24944754The past becomes the future but the future never becomes the past, but once the future has been reac…[View]
24944386Books about passion, or lack of it?: I have plenty of things that I enjoy doing, but I’m not passion…[View]
24944662any good book by rabbi Schmuley? apperantly he wrote like 30 of them[View]
24943543Modern romance is literally just a dopamine trap engineered by consumer culture to keep you chasing …[View]
24943516Just checked this out from the library. I haven't read any Tennessee Williams but I didn't…[View]
24942520>Youths would rather play ball games instead of studying so adults have to nudge them >Adolesc…[View]
24939423Women Can't Write: Women can't write. It's just a fact. The average female brain is 1…[View]
24944205Clarissa, or the History of A Young Lady: Is this actually worth reading? I understand that it'…[View]
24943314Tropisms by Nathalie Sarraute: I'm working on a new translation of Tropisms by Nathalie Sarraut…[View]
24941550Do you hold the thinkers you read accountable for their predictions? Do you expect their theories t…[View]
24934769This was so ass. The 'supernatural' stuff was embarrassing. This is the last time I let /lit/ meme m…[View]
24944397howdy! i made a thread earlier about this screenplay i'm working on. got the story more fleshed…[View]
24943037Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin: I'm reading the introduction for this book and the author is tal…[View]
24943454Finished Memory, Sorrow and Thorn the other day: Worth reading the follow-up series? Also general Os…[View]
24943389Where should one start with Mary Midgley? Shes written a number of works Im interested in and I have…[View]
24944415How many of you went to midnight releases of the Harry Potter books as kids? We're talking Gob…[View]
24944352Why does everyone here recommend the Talmud when I ask for books on my specific interests[View]
24944320Just picked up this bad boy (the translation released just this week). Rate the cover. Fun fact: Tra…[View]
24943234Xenophon: Why is he so overlooked?[View]
24942916Direct opposite of social realism?[View]
24942035Books to stop being a wimp? I can't take this shit anymore and I'm ready for anything nece…[View]
24942552Sophocles Translations: I've been working through the Greeks and just finished Thucydides today…[View]
24938661What am I going to gain from reading this?[View]
24944187Just finished this beast: What did I think of it? Well, I cried twice. Can you guess where?[View]
24940040Holy fuck...[View]
24943489Why do so many of the great Irish writers and poets eventually leave Ireland never to return?[View]
24943870Is the literary rule of 'don't repeat words too much' true of all languages? Unless it's l…[View]
24941925What was the point of this depressing ass book apart from 'Don't be old and poor'?[View]
24943455Samuel Beckett: If you want to write, you have to realize that writing is about failing. And the onl…[View]
24943684>American Psycho >American Pastoral >American Gods >American Horror Story >American…[View]
24944046La Planète des singes: >Write a corrosive satire of human vanity and anthropocentrism >Layer i…[View]
24943791The Great Teacher: Karl Marx!: The greatest theoretician and philosopher of humanity wrote the poetr…[View]
24936126Nick Land Parody: wrote a short introduction to a wider work on my predictions of the next 7y-Decade…[View]
24942048Imperial Gothic Fantasy: More like this please. Fiction of 1885-1935. Horror, Romance, Adventure, Sc…[View]
24943954share with me your favourite poems like this[View]
24937062Why do trans people make the best literature?[View]
24943909>female caracter >get tortured by guy >guy makes you put a knife to people's throat an…[View]
24939671Forget Deneen's Why Liberalism Failed, this is the better debunking of liberalism.[View]
24941030What if super advanced AI, decides to download every single digital book, subtly edit them and uploa…[View]
24942667Did Clausewitz ever write an essay 'Concerning War' or did the translator fuck up here? I cannot fin…[View]
24935920Unironically a classic[View]
24936437Why are most philosophers leftist? And what does that say about /lit/ where people claim to be intel…[View]
24943598I will write several paragraphs of unrestrained praise in the amazon reviews for a book doing certai…[View]
24939109/lit/ watches/reads Wagner's Ring cycle: One work a week, this week is Das Rheingold Now there…[View]
24941265What do I read if I am sick of people, culture, events, feelings, narratives, thoughts, knowledge, c…[View]
24880497Post /his/ + /lit/ book recommendations Books that are fiction but still hold /his/topical value are…[View]
24943565>so anyways, I started breeding[View]
24941777>JUST OBEY THE LAW BRO DON'T EVER QUESTION IT: Cuck mentality[View]
24934588Which philosophers would be of interest to a Christian?[View]
24939793what are the best books on aesthetics?[View]
24943248Is there a certain combination of words that forms the absolute best possible work of literature?[View]
24940745Why the fuck is this necessary?: They all sound the same. In day to day conversation people can tell…[View]
24923151What is the worst book you were forced to read as a child?[View]
24942785If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continu…[View]
24936826/ekg/ - esoteric kantianism general: Esoteric Kantianism, as articulated in the provided passages, r…[View]
24942219The Crying of Lot 40: first Pynchon novel and this is so hard to follow. about 60% through and I don…[View]
24943204Steve Donoghuee: I've been listening to Steve's videos for years now and finally decided t…[View]
24941771Ho. Ly. Shit.[View]
24940177Which female author would you choose to suck your dick? For me it's this Bronte. I reckon she…[View]
24943125Just got this, what can I expect?[View]
24941505How do I clean an old book's yellowed pages? Every time I read one of these, my fingers are lef…[View]
24943122meillassoux: was he wrong ? why hasnt he published anything important since[View]
24941165MAGIC: What would one read to learn to be a genuine wizard? Not that watered down 'real magic' garba…[View]
24939404So what books are useful to understand this phenomenon and advocate for some kind of change? I'…[View]
24941845it's the most pretentious thing i've ever read >But here, as she turned the page, sudde…[View]
24937940>hardcovers[View]
24942598>Mary comes home one day and says, 'Joseph I'm pregnant' >Joseph confusingly states, 'But…[View]
24935890How does /lit/ cope with the fact that they don't live in the world's most literary city?[View]
24936236it wasn't supposed to be a non-fiction[View]
24936644opinions on Bret Easton Ellis?[View]
24936155>UHMMMM THAT'S A SEMANTIC ARGUMENT!!! surely all disagreements are down to semantics though?…[View]
24940028Why does the introduction of every classic book spoil key moments in them?[View]
24942087Pascal's Pensees: >What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradictio…[View]
24942733Was he right?[View]
24935754Like Macbeth, Western man made an evil decision, which has become the efficient and final cause of o…[View]
24942557I read Critique of Pure reason, Being and Time, Ethica, Philosophical Investigations, The Order of T…[View]
24939931Finally entered my nihilistic phase. Give me your best nihilistic books![View]
24941985What's your favourite book, and why?[View]
24937219Write conscious: Is he our guy? I can bet anything that he's at least a former /lit user. What …[View]
24941945>Your Diderot is an extraordinary man. I emerge from interviews with him with my thighs bruised a…[View]
24940571Is Thomas Pynchon schizophrenic?: Is Thomas Pynchon schizophrenic? I've always heard that PKD i…[View]
24942233What an tedious, unrewarding read. Under the Volcano did this dude's schtick much better.[View]
24941098When do you like to read? usually at night for me before bed.[View]
24940136I have an idea for the great incel novel: An incel grows up on blackpill/looksmaxxing forums but pov…[View]
24930496why are you hate german literature[View]
24935319What's the most money you've spent on a book?[View]
24941237Feedback for writing excercise: I wrote a 4000 word biographical memoir / cultural critique / philos…[View]
24941077Why is it easy for man to grasp eternal ideas pertaining to the domain of math (the truth of which i…[View]
24941909what are some books where the hero is delusional and in love with fictional character/imaginary gf? …[View]
24941280This is what they think of us.[View]
24939627an exciting and intimate reading of The Hobbit b: https://youtu.be/P5dAmHv3xTg?si=0DB5wBf8Qbho2_50…[View]
24942225what did he mean by this?[View]
24941018Help with recommendations for books that you can buy your mother or father: Hello frens and not so f…[View]
24940664>pronouncing 'striped' as 'stripe-ED' and 'cursed' as 'curse-ED'[View]
24941283First Acceptance: I just got my first Acceptance in a pro magazine. See you losers later. I'm s…[View]
24939173why does everyone conveniently forget that Searle raped his student[View]
24938842White man in search of brown lit: Why have brown people never written a masterpiece? They comprise o…[View]
24935193ITT: 10/10 Book covers[View]
24941687Weird/interesting notetaking methods: I'm starting to like using voice recognition for notes wh…[View]
24935308>all action is futile >still have to act unless you're dead So what's the point of r…[View]
24937536Red pill me on materialism, white and purple pill me on dualism, and black pill me on idealism.[View]
24937587The only purpose for a hardback cover is for it to look nice on a shelf. If you actually read, a pap…[View]
24937379gothic litterature: lets have a gothic literature thread. I'm reading carmilla right now and it…[View]
24941875Thomas Pynchon: What is his best work? Gravity's Rainbow?[View]
24940899Anyone else here read The Body Keeps the Score? I found it pretty insightful.[View]
24941870Why doesn’t /lit/ have a general thread for smut writing? Where can writers like me get critiques on…[View]
24936451/wng/ — Web Novel General: Slop Opener Edition Stubbed >>24929782 >What is /wng/ — Web Nove…[View]
24941776I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forg…[View]
24941295>It is a Negro dingleberry, he can tell[View]
24941573Crimbus wishlist thread: The thread in which we share our Amazon wish lists in hopes some kind anon …[View]
24936445I hate English. Vocative? Just comma/pause. Disjunct? Just comma/pause. Other languages have actual …[View]
24941605>We can a priori and prior to all given objects have a knowledge of those conditions on which alo…[View]
24936579You guys know any good books about sibling love?[View]
24941466Reminder that: if you have >listened to a album >watched a film (especially a Best Picture nom…[View]
24938846Finished picrel, thoroughly enjoyed it. Moves very quickly, introduces story beats that are sometime…[View]
24941272Did Oscar Wilde have gayvoice?: Did he have a lisp and shit? Did he say slay[View]
24935871Why do we hate this book now? It's fantastic.[View]
24941141Foremost book critic Steve Donoghue released his ranking of the worst nonfiction books of the year: …[View]
24929343>december 2025 >i am forgotten will The Mack ever put out anything new or am I just supposed t…[View]
24941196Breakfast at Tiff is great. Christmas memory is lovely. You like?[View]
24937457Unreadable by modern standards. Important, sure, but more of a novelty nowadays.[View]
24939997Whatch ya currently reading /lit/? How are ya liking it? Working my way through this beast. Enjoyed …[View]
24940705Say his name.[View]
24941021This guy was pretty chuddy[View]
24939742True knowledge: The theoretical, the practical and experience. The how, the do and the why. The theo…[View]
24937201Has anyone read Haraways 'Simians, Cyborgs, abd Women? Is it any good?[View]
24940454Is there a comprehensive history of the Byzantine Church /lit/ could recommend, you know, for the ge…[View]
24938085I want to read the Iliad but Im not buying a physical book >Project Gutenberg has several edition…[View]
24939601>STEPPERS is a neo-noir Mickey Mouse novel, exploring his life as a violent revolutionary. Mickey…[View]
24938212why does life feel like some kind of elaborate torture mechanism? like you're born into this de…[View]
24940821Alternative perspectives: Can decent books be written in the 2nd person?[View]
24935487I asked chatgpt to create a 'pyramid/iceberg' style reading list, structured in tiers of knowledge, …[View]
24940759>woman writes Lolita >it's a love story…[View]
24939899HR Giger The Tourist: Ask somebody who just read the novel version of The Tourist anything.[View]
24939652if there were cars in middle-earth, why didn't frodo just drive to mordor?[View]
24938337What happened to Holden after catcher in the rye? He turned into a broken loser, just like everybody…[View]
24925107Are his commentaries good literary criticism?[View]
24939553There's nothing more ugly and pathetic than a writer having a self-insert. It's why Joyce …[View]
24937291Socrates through Plato: How is one to interpret Socrates vis-à-vis Plato? I have been working throug…[View]
24939612“The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded b…[View]
24937333>Anon, you are now 8 years old >it's time for you to read this book about a man shitting …[View]
24939019Any books to help you stop being a NEET?[View]
24940476I've finally got back into reading and I've been reading pic related and it really helped …[View]
24935703>tfw when it's the day you get to read fences out loud in class I call the part of Troy…[View]
24929478Looking for psychedelic books (mind-expanding, reality-questioning, non-drug): Hey everyone, I’m loo…[View]
24939237Just read this tonight in Goethe's Italian Journey. Apparently Goethe didn't like blondes …[View]
24936154>promotes open relationships >promotes homosexuality >celebrates defiance of authority >…[View]
24932900>Finally find a book club in my area >Women-only events…[View]
24939934Marxsisters... how will we recover?[View]
24940173I come bearing powerful utterances as protection from all harm of censure or rebuke, from all derisi…[View]
24940084No one reads.: My family doesn’t read. My friends don’t read. My coworkers don’t read. The people at…[View]
24940097You recognize doom easily: It's a feeling and a taste, and it's black, and it's very …[View]
24937682Where to start with Carl Jung: So I already read every book of Kant, Schopenhauer, Cioran, Spinoza a…[View]
24938937Prosebros...: >good poetry is poetic >good prose is prosaic…[View]
24935344any incel literature recommendations?[View]
24933731/lit/ reads their top 100: I'm using the aggregated chart So we begin with Moby-Dick. For the f…[View]
24938184is WW1 the most literary historical event?[View]
24939250Has the 'id, ego and superego' ever been disproven?[View]
24922735You only need Plato and Aristotle. Everything else is superfluous.[View]
24935477Does anybody come close to the prose of Nabokov?[View]
24937342His best books and also the two funniest books ever written, and I say this as someone who spends 11…[View]
24935346>copies the bible >hailed one of the most important fantasy series ever How did he get away wi…[View]
24939523Books about Blue Eisenhower November: What are the best books to read to understand Blue Eisenhower …[View]
24938199What are some books for angsty teenagers? Pic obviously related[View]
24933856ITT: The Worst Book You Ever Read[View]
24939801The Great Expectations: Original ending or the revised ending?[View]
24930659Is the title >The Iliad or just >Iliad[View]
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