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24156856What does /lit/ think about house of leaves?[View]
24164837I've decided to start memorising some poems and it's surprisingly fun. Once you get one do…[View]
24165076Patrick Kavanagh: friend o mine said his book 'Tarry Flynn' is miles better than anything Joyce ever…[View]
24161977>pleasure bad >pain good Are there any other books with similar outlooks?…[View]
24155402How come lots of people read Jung, and Freud, when they're practically kicked out of clinical p…[View]
24161525Tolstoy's 'christianity' just boils down to some hypothetical and vague doctrine for worldly li…[View]
24161596Just don't care anymore: I used to read 100 pages every day from 17 to 24 years old But I'…[View]
24162636How do female and male interpretations of Lolita differ?[View]
24161472huh, i guess they meant the other kind of trial: what's the big deal about this guy? what'…[View]
24164283>and then these huge ants dug the gold out of the sand! >i merely restate the claims presented…[View]
24162618I just read this book.[View]
24158749Happiness: I've read a great many books and realized that happiness is the acquisition of a gre…[View]
24163692is everybody just too polite nowadays to produce good literature? i feel like you have to be annoyin…[View]
24162141>when a hylic is THAT lost in illusion he believes men came from apes and says atoms exist so you…[View]
24160698African Literature: Finished Things Fall Apart Any other good books from here?[View]
24156380Time flies and we are already in the second month of the year. Post all you read in January.[View]
24164605did he solve sociology?[View]
24156224Why did Traditionalism fail?[View]
24162765How to read a book?: >IT is cold at six-forty in the morning of a March day in Paris, and seems e…[View]
24164492Irony, do we need it?: Can we retvrn to a pre-irony civilization? Is there a Hegelian explanation fo…[View]
24164508Is he a writer?: Are substack posts literature? Is he right about everything?[View]
24160552Black History Month: What African-American authors are you readin' this month?[View]
24163841Saddleback's Illustrated Classics Part XVII: A Christmas Carol https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24…[View]
24162114Little known facts about the English language: The Bread that has been eaten a long time ago is call…[View]
24162573Does /lit/ support book bans? Personally I don’t think any book should be banned.[View]
24163838Based[View]
24164224Introducing... Storytime Part LVI: Linguistics https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23963282 https://warosu…[View]
24162197I forgot the name of a book.: A few years ago i read an book but someone steal it, i think to buy it…[View]
24162835What would they be discussing?[View]
24158950Stack thread: Stack bread. This week's haul.[View]
24160613RQTDDTOT - reference questions that don't deserve their own thread: Anons, myself included, wil…[View]
24162707>Further, supposing now that all were wholly open and candid, and never thrust upon us doubtful o…[View]
24163021Any ways to make my writing more Dionysian? I find my writing is too Apollonian; dreamy, formalist, …[View]
24163775>makes wife bath in gladiator blood because of a rumor >somehow this dude is model for ration…[View]
24162944If LLMs have access to the sum total of human knowledge, shouldn’t they be able to be pitted against…[View]
24161663Do I read the Idiot or Crime & Punishment first?[View]
24162642Are there any books in favor of materialism and rebuke the anti-materialism mindset?[View]
24161574Any other book with 'it's good to be bad' vibes and a protagonist with no morals that do absolu…[View]
24162920I'm rereading the Republic, and wait a minute, Book 1 has all the answers. Socrates reaches the…[View]
24160693Willa Cather: What do you all recommend? >O Pioneers >My Antonia >Death Comes For The Arc…[View]
24161317what's /lit/'s take on heavy traffic, the new alt-lit mag taking the city by storm? accord…[View]
24163518Saddleback's Illustrated Classics Part XVI: A Christmas Carol https://warosu.org/lit/thread/240…[View]
24162776When will the first great work of creepypasta / fanfiction / digital literature be written? I'm…[View]
24161575What's your excuse?[View]
24158048/wg/ Writing General: 'Mushroom portal' Edition Previous: >>24150649 /wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH …[View]
24161201Aristotle, Superfluous Predicates, and 'Babbling'?: Where exactly does Aristotle talk about the prob…[View]
24162273I have no idea what the fuck is going on[View]
24161612I don't spit pickup lines, or even approach women, but everytime there's a woman working a…[View]
24163303>isekai character uses modern day american english colloquialisms and is perfectly understood…[View]
24160064getting into philosophy: I'll be honest, I've always shied away from philosophy because I…[View]
24156033>i'm a degenerate, disgusting hedonist that looks behaves, and smells like a hobo >read m…[View]
24163305it has takin me almost a month to finish a 10 page story i have no talent at all i should drop this …[View]
24160959Unrequited Affection: Will he offer me insights that will compensate for my lack of social skills wi…[View]
24161860>500 word essay due Friday >haven't even started yet…[View]
24158001>nothing ever happens: the book[View]
24163214What kind of hentai does Ivan watch? I'm thinking imouto shit.[View]
24161264What are the best books about civil disobedience?[View]
24159547opinions?[View]
24160101It is supremely ironic that Heidegger loved Schelling over Schopenhauer when it is the latter who un…[View]
24163149>ask chat gpt: “write a debate between a chud who thinks heidegger saved philosophy and a libtard…[View]
24158899> incapable of writing poety[View]
24158969I've just finished reading No Longer Human for the first time, and I can't believe I'…[View]
24163084Everything I should read before getting into Ulysses for the first time?[View]
24160357R/E/G: Read, Expected, Got. Show us what you've been reading.[View]
24162921AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library: >Librarians say that taxpayers are already p…[View]
24130046In mythology and indeed throughout human history, why have females often been portrayed as the harbi…[View]
24161415Reconciling Autism: I recently published a really shitty book with an even shittier synopsis. Does a…[View]
24143300/pg/ - Poetry General: Post your poems![View]
24157631i'm looking for books about people who lived extremely turbulent lives, fictional or non-fictio…[View]
24162553Besides Jaynes and McGilchrist, are there any books that detail either a history of mentalities or a…[View]
24145706why havent you niggas ever written anything kino[View]
24160131Even though I intellectually understand Schopenhauer's argument against suicide, it is still ha…[View]
24162616The nature of free will presents an intriguing paradox when we consider it in relation to decision-m…[View]
24146280Which author attracts the most degenerates?[View]
24156611So I've been trying to understand the concept of Chinese Xianxia stories and cultivation and al…[View]
24159389Any books that argue hard work is a scam that has no correlation to success?[View]
24161318How comes the ending filters so many people?: The whole novel is about how human nature is inherent …[View]
24161746I remember there being a thread of “I finally get Twilight bc Stephanie Meyer made a version where t…[View]
24162353Books/scripture on Buddhist concepts like reality being 'mind-made'? The more out-there do…[View]
24162569>liking women is gay: why am I lowkey convinced?[View]
24154332>Have been reading for almost my entire life >Know for a fact that my IQ is well into the 140s…[View]
24161806>Balzac lived with his mom most of his adult life >Lovecraft lived with his mom and aunt most …[View]
24160218I'm looking for /lit/ that inspires this exact feeling: Thriller/intrigue/conspiracy that leav…[View]
24160393Idealism vs. Materialism: Which side is the /lit/ side?[View]
24157702Crime & Punishment: This made me want to read the bible. Sonya only had the new testament, shoul…[View]
24159862Do we still love it?[View]
24162449Was it all just a self insert?[View]
24162361I think I'm really starting to lose touch with reality, all I see are insignificant things comi…[View]
24161560Life isn't an epic story. Life's pathetic. You and everybody around you is pathetic. Don…[View]
241557532deep4me[View]
24156780Esoteric Kantianism Thread: It has been some time since I have posted about the ongoing developments…[View]
24160956is there a reason one should read fiction instead of non-fiction other than for the sake of entertai…[View]
24162012Sam Harris: Why does he call himself a neuroscientist and tout it? He didn't do anything approa…[View]
24160335just learned allen ginsberg was an outspoken pedophile wtf...[View]
24159429Getting back into reading after like 10 years. Are there any books with a setting like Final Fantasy…[View]
24157004/bookstore/: Good bookstores are rare. Post the best bookstores you have been to and maybe other ano…[View]
24157060The perennial question: Rodney Merrill's translation still wins, hands down Proof: https://book…[View]
24159787why is the Catholic Church the first to be in the know of underlying societal currents regardless of…[View]
24161205What literature and art should I be acquainted with before I begin picrel? What am I in for overall?[View]
24160885Saddleback's Illustrated Classics Part XIV: A Christmas Carol https://warosu.org/lit/thread/240…[View]
24160992princess x knight trope: could you guys recommend classic books with this trope please. I want to me…[View]
24160501Thomism vs Jesuits on Free Will: So basically, (Dominican) Thomism argues that divine motion immedia…[View]
24161814I am sick of 'universal love' and 'compassion' and other pretenses. My heart yearns for the inflicti…[View]
24160286Is he that bad?[View]
24157756why is insecurity considered bad, when it's based on facts and logic™?[View]
24161727Do you read any true crime books? Do you read multiple books about the same crime if possible, or do…[View]
24160913>Another thing that I've noticed in the no really actually pattern is that someone will do t…[View]
24160061>Let's get together and compromise on political issues like ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY! :D Is this…[View]
24161378Saddleback's Illustrated Classics Part XV: A Christmas Carol https://warosu.org/lit/thread/2403…[View]
24161133Did he read Marx? Did he have about thoughts on marxism?[View]
24161375What's his best work? For me, Laughter In The Dark[View]
24160568This is every male's fantasy: Stephanie Meyer wrote a book that was a remake of Twilight with e…[View]
24152390What am I in for?[View]
24159970YouTuber: Writing conscious: What’s your thoughts on this guy?[View]
24154316Any other 'literally me' books like this?[View]
24161202Books which appeal to the male fantasy?[View]
24160750It truly is the War and Peace of Russian literature.[View]
24160590Isn't this just Kant + evolution and natural selection? Am I missing something? I hope I am bec…[View]
24161123WHO WINS THE XELEES OR THE CULTURE: Who do you think would win in a fight between the two most power…[View]
24157678Should I really read a guy that sucked cock?[View]
24160616Writing: I'd like to get into writing, and I have this idea for a subplot in a Lovecraftian, ps…[View]
24160012How do I start reading non fiction? I read the book Why nations fail. What do I read now? I want to…[View]
24157922A Clockwork Orange: Witch of these book covers of Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange is better?…[View]
24154364I've read journey to the end of the night. How does this compare? Why isn't it talked abou…[View]
24160873Anyone else read these? I've decided that I'm going to read 2 of these per month in additi…[View]
24158491Carl Schmitt on Donoso Cortes: According to Donoso Cortes, it was characteristic of bourgeois libera…[View]
24160803Best books I've read (twice).[View]
24159808Which would you prefer? The dumbest person in a group of intelligent people. The most intelligent pe…[View]
24155476In 2023 JULIA was released. A retelling of George Orwell’s 1984 from the perspective of Julia Critic…[View]
24156827Poetrybros, why did English poetry abandon meter, and is it a bad thing?[View]
24160426ITT: your favorite quotes by Christian authors I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun …[View]
24160595AP Literature: What your favorite book you read in AP lit? Mine is pic related[View]
24157271>Writer's most famous work is his worst book. Any other cases?[View]
24160315Im gonna make a movie with my friends based on the brothers karamazov[View]
24157945E-readers: What’s a good e-reader that isn’t a kindle and can fit in your pocket? I’ve been thinking…[View]
24159036What is the most low brow and at the same time most high brow piece of literature there is? I would …[View]
24158949this book is fucked up[View]
24157619Post god-tier book covers[View]
24154649What are some books to convince my friend that he’s wasting his time & energy caring about polit…[View]
24159375Horrifying how relevant this is today.[View]
24160507>Will not stop whining about muh leprosy when he is clearly not sick in Fantasyland. >Rapes a …[View]
24157773I'm not remotely interested in feminist literature, but I would be happy to consume some kino u…[View]
24158954>murdered at 29 >one of the most influential writers in the English language Is it over for th…[View]
24160437what do you guys think about Soren Narnia?[View]
24151242Music equivalents in literature: What are some music equivalents in literature? I.e. who's 'the…[View]
24158932What’s your favorite [quantity of the years you’ve been alive] books over the last [quantity of the …[View]
24158869Best writer of the 21st century?[View]
24158866Why did he convert to Islam?[View]
24156919why is proto-romantic 18th century poetry so overlooked?Gray, Smollett, Beattie, Thomson, Chatterton…[View]
24155908What’s his standing as a great writer?[View]
24154865Most Degenerate Books recommendations: I want the most sexually degenerate and vile books you know p…[View]
24157989What is the future of AI in literature?[View]
24156284About to read this. What will I think?[View]
24159184>uhmmmm. Actually, sweetie, McCarthy best novel *is* Suttree[View]
24159270Name 1 (ONE) reason why the Soul doesn't exist.[View]
24159689I've just got unironically diagnosed with autism at 25. Is it over for my writing career?[View]
24161256Post an anime Get a book recommendation[View]
24161615>be me >wake up >jerk off >exist >jerk off >go to sleep >repeat This is why the…[View]
24158179This has nothing to do with driving cars, or racing.[View]
24157386*mogs flashman in your path*: >reading memoirs of Casanova >he was originally a priest and pla…[View]
24158654St. Bernard's theology of the crusades: This is, I say, a new kind of knighthood and one unknow…[View]
24159780>be me >merchant on way to buy rice shipment >someone else already bought it >fuck it we…[View]
24159830I understand that philosophy was done differently under the scholastics but this is stuff that shoul…[View]
24160077Not to be > to be[View]
24153587Tips for concentration in reading: I tried everything and asked for advice from everyone I know. The…[View]
24157811Analytical Thomism?: So, I've been diving into St. Thomas’s take on the Trinity and reading abo…[View]
24157893Sit down and finish the saga, NOW!: No, I don't want to know about Trump, Covid and even less a…[View]
24152905/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General: >Recommended reading charts. (Look here before as…[View]
24159280Publishers are seriously editing old books so 'Black' (as in black people) is spelled with a capital…[View]
24159967What does /lit/ think of hypertext novels and interactive fiction? Do they classify as literature or…[View]
24159940Saddleback's Illustrated Classics Part XIII: A Christmas Carol https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24…[View]
24159891Proust ISOLT thread: I wonder if repetitions in volume 5 are intentional or is it another perk of un…[View]
24157713I have seen it before, your precious collection will end up sold for pennies by one of your family m…[View]
24158181the fact that these sell is literally inexplicable according to /lit/ dogma. >you can't blam…[View]
24157892Are there any books on how to put your shit together? >T. 27, male, no degree or skills, never ha…[View]
24156616ITT: Books that jumped the shark >Faust >War and Peace >The Bridgerton series >…[View]
24159133I'm a tranny in the early 2000s: What am I reading?[View]
24159713Is there anything of significance to 'The Comedy of Errors,' or is it nothing more than light amusem…[View]
24159433In Defense of Pseudo-Intellectualism: A Thread[View]
24158834Warhammer Books: What's your favorite Warhammer books? 40k and Fantasy both Welcomed[View]
24159697WITH YOUR FEET ON THE AIR AND YOUR HEAD ON THE GROUND[View]
24159699Books with themes of incest?[View]
24153372Post collections and personal stats.: These are just what ive read over the past 5 years since start…[View]
24159463Tolstoi thread: The only difference between Ivan Ilitch and us is that we all lived our younth as he…[View]
24159561Wild West Literature: I've been meaning to read something about the old west, both historical a…[View]
24155844kindly name at least three books of each sort, please.[View]
24159108Letter to His Father - Franz Kafka: This book is incredible. Share your thoughts on it and if you kn…[View]
24142960ITT: Post a picture, get a book rec[View]
24159540When they finally translate this to english (never), your minds are going to be blown so fucking har…[View]
24159515Discord server dedicated to discussions revolving mainly around philosophy, theology, mysticism, his…[View]
24158963>If you own books by a problematic author, that means you agree with everything they said/did. Wh…[View]
24159586Bros maybe life is harsh but we re still ballin[View]
24159455Has anyone read pic rel? Is it a good starting point to understand the history of the U.S.-Chinese r…[View]
24159365I just finished my very first (e)-book. Really enjoyed the hobbit and it wasn't as difficult to…[View]
24154654Video Game Books: Have you ever read a book based on a video game? I read myst when I was a kid (nev…[View]
24159517We're so back[View]
24158747These are the books of cabalistic wisdom. In these books, as Esdras unmistakably states, resides the…[View]
24156352… the fuck did I just read?[View]
24158091Miaphysite Controversy and the Eastern Orthodox: Any good, in depth books on the Miaphysite relation…[View]
24159392Loved Iceman and Long Day‘s Journey, what do I move on to now? Ah, Wilderness! is the only other one…[View]
24158437Tropic of Capricorn: Has anyone here read it? You don't hear Henry Miller to be talked about on…[View]
24159372Are there any books which develop racially conscious metaphysics which don't regard race and et…[View]
24154397New Penguin UK cover art for Jane Austen books[View]
24149581Buddhism and Islam: There are no Buddhist works of apologetics against Islam, despite Muslims histor…[View]
24155191>35 years old >unpublished Is this the age when you pretty much have to accept that you'r…[View]
24159171“Pnin had taught himself, during the last ten years, never to remember Mira Belochkin—not because, i…[View]
24141465Aquinas: De Ente et Essentia: Things finally clicked for me once I learned that Aquinas translated '…[View]
24158678>AI generated short stories now dominate awards How can we compete with A.I.?…[View]
24154211Post your: >favourite book >favourite poem >favourite painting >favourite sculpture And…[View]
24155004Liberal arts graduates, especially English/Literature, how are you holding up?[View]
24153544CONSTRAINED WRITING CHALLENGE: Machines like picrel can be found everywhere. They can engrave a pet…[View]
24157340What's the book name that goes hardest? I'll never read this but this has to be the raddes…[View]
24158628*predicts the future* heh call it hyperstition, coldness be my god[View]
24158571Saddleback's Illustrated Classics Part XII: A Christmas Carol https://warosu.org/lit/thread/240…[View]
24158028Was Yeats right about Eliot?: >Eliot has produced his great effect upon his generation because he…[View]
24156586>we are a small press, we require you to purchase a recent title prior to submission,…[View]
24158693>character is a dipshit >character claims the entire world is meaningless and full of dipshits…[View]
24157783>My name Is Severian. I am the Autarch and i remember everything. There are at least two lies in …[View]
24156950Hi guys I have read the joyful science by nietzsche and i'm really into biology what books shou…[View]
24158412What are some real working class books. I'm tired of every novel I read being about some rich a…[View]
24152138>write your book in Word >AI steals it before it's even published…[View]
24158409My friend just gave me this book to read: I'm too fucking stupid for this. Where should I begin…[View]
24158545Sapiens: I'm ashamed that I thought this was deep when it first came out.[View]
24155749better than a lot of 'books for adults' to be honest[View]
24158360Guys, I made a terrible mistake. A few weeks ago, I bought BAP books for my father; it was a joke be…[View]
24138256How do visual novels compare to modern literature in terms of quality?[View]
24158342What's the polar opposite of this book on the subject of persuasion?: This is, by far, the wors…[View]
24158083Trad general: some men just want to watch the world trad: Resources to begin your trad journey. Post…[View]
24157869What's the best explanation of Hegel's self-consciousness you've ever read?[View]
24158318Can you recommend me some spiritual or maybe even religious text that I could read? Can be anything …[View]
24156144new PTA film confirmed to be a modern-day Vineland adaptation https://thefilmstage.com/paul-thomas-a…[View]
24158029I dont quite understand.... WHY was Riviera enlisted to help them again? Seems he didnt do anything(…[View]
24158378lol[View]
24157657In this thread, characters that are literally you: The Underground Man Holden Caulfield Tyler Durden…[View]
24158071>Female writer uses 'man', 'mankind', etc. to refer to human species as a whole…[View]
24153815Just finished my final draft: Now what? Aside from getting some friends to read it, do I just look f…[View]
24157224>want to enter a short story contest >they have an entry fee >pay it >they read my story…[View]
24154328is heart of darkness a critic to imperialism?[View]
24156675Judge Holden is a paragon of moral virtue, a great philosopher: His teachings should be taught in sc…[View]
24157824HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH: What black books are y'all reading?[View]
24157835A Poem From The Devil’s Handbook: Values fall somewhere between him and I. Some live life just skimm…[View]
24157042The Remains of the Day has convinced me. This guy fucks. I'll be reading The Unconsoled.[View]
24154537>read corporate management books, biographies of great men >Book spends 99% of the time laudin…[View]
24156042What's difference is there between literary fiction and genre fiction?[View]
24145300The English Renaissance was truly the greatest period for world literature. >Spenser >Marlowe …[View]
24156996Best books to read while high?[View]
24157840What do you usually do if you haven't read a certain book in a while and your trying to get bac…[View]
24154902university of chicago press sale is on rn. they have some deep discounts on your standard academic s…[View]
24155876>Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.…[View]
24157772>back to thinking of the book I should have bought in my stack purchase from August…[View]
24156967Aroused by words.: Hello /lit/. Have you ever jacked off just to a phrase, word or concept in your m…[View]
24152895Just crossed page 600 … when does it get good?: Is the allusion to Brothers K intentional? It’s hard…[View]
24157747Do you mainly read physical or digital, and why?[View]
24156448how did women managed to mog men in the autism genre?[View]



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