/lit/ - 151 threads

/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books (fiction & non-fiction), short stories, poetry, creative writing, etc. If you want to discuss history, religion, or the humanities, go...

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>For heaven's sake>for Christ's sake>Ah, the devil>the devil with it>to the devil>splendid>splendid chapI really like these expressions in translated 19th century Russia...

>all the means for developing production turn into different ways to dominate and exploit the producer; these means deform the worker, making him into a partial human being, leaving him degraded, a...

Selfpublished by anon editionPrevious >>25221167>Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs):https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>...

Can’t believe he’s blooming gone, mates. I think I might chunder. Not bloody fair, is it? Another Aussie great of literature has been sent to yonder pearly gates!

>if you kill your enemies they winWhat a load of bullcrap

stack threadpost current stacknot pictured is the fiction i'm going through rn

Seasons, Holidays, Time, and Change Edition FAQ:>What is worldbuilding?Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these wo...

I.Q drops and no Latin/Ancient Greek taught even in late primary/elementary anymore? That's like a sign of decay but it's far worse with non-reading comprehension and A.I. generated answers ...

I'm on Part VI and I don't get the appeal of this book. I can tell Tolstoy is building toward something, but I can't tell what. And to the book's credit, it often has me asking &qu...

volantene shores editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https...

>be me, 40 year old neet loser>solicit /lit/ for recommendations to help pass the days in less of a malaise>one of you cunts recommends The Tartar Steppe>have a strong presentiment of how ...

>At some point in a boy's life, he will feel a strong pull towards having sex with his own mother.>At some point in a girl's life, she will feel a strong pull towards having sex with h...

Talk about poems/poets you like, post your own work, and critique others.

I'm sad now.

What will I have would've been thought of it?

Have you read any ancient Chinese lit? Which is your favorite?

Has this ever happened to you?

Call me schizo but I think the Marxists on this board rellay heavily on ChatGPT & LLMs more than anyone else due to the almost same way they speak and the length of their writtings. It doesn'...

H.G. Wells>I have come to ask you what you are doing to change the world. Stalin>Not so very much.Wells>I wander around the world as a common man and, as a common man, observe what is going o...

what are some good western novels bros? Can be anything from a serious epic to a pulp dime novel.

I have been reading Terry Pratchett for the first time and I've been enjoying it. I think Small Gods has been my favourite book so far, Brutha's journey has been the closest to a historical ...

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show me what you read/expected/got

Self-Promo Edition/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as ...

share some interesting bookstore/library story

Any books for such a predicament?

Decided to give "Atlas Shrugged" a try. What am I in for?

What steps are libraries in your country taking to resist the spread of book banning sentiments coming from the US?

>1000 years of existence>5 good books

I want to believe and I haven't even read the books. I'm 20 hours into book 1 because I've been getting FOMO for the winds copium.

Is manga literature?

/lit/ doesn't give the jeets enough credit

ITT: post lessons we can learn from the bible>bad pussy really breaks a nigga (Samson, Solomon)>be nice to bald people

Have you ever tried to read this?I feel cheated. This guy is not a genius. He just writes whatever random, unprompted thoughts pop into his head on any irrelevant topic.

Literally selfhelpslop

Placing me at the top 7% of critically acclaimed writers since the 2010s. We're not the same.

Children's manga are more emotionally profound than contemporary Western novels

Should I consider reading this?

The great debate

What does the One Ring even represent? Its meaning is so opaque. I guess it’s supposed to represent capitalism/usury in Der Ring des Nibelungen, but in The Lord of the Rings, I’m not sure.

>In one of his few interviews, McCarthy revealed that he respected only authors who "deal with issues of life and death", citing Henry James and Marcel Proust as examples of writers who d...

Was it autism? What was this fucking guy thinking?

I'm an almost 30yr old transferring into one of the top undergrad philosophy programs in the country this fall. What should be first on my list of priorities to review during the summer so that i...

I am going to read every book written before 1000 AD. I used the Wikipedia Ancient literature article to create a list in a format I like. It is grouped by civilization, so first I will read everythin...

>Jewry cannot create a new world; it can only draw the world’s new-made creations and relationships into the sphere of its industriousness, because practical need, whose motivation is private inter...

Now that the dust has settled..What the heck was his problem?

Who do you prefer /lit/? Which is the best girl? Anne Sexton or Sylvia Plath?

Where are the Guenonfags? The Evolafags? The BAPists? Frater talking about how rap and Jewish mysticism are the highest IQ literature? The Stirnerfags?

Coral Hart spams Amazon with AI novels every day and makes six figures from it.Have you thanked Sam Altman lately for making our civilization even more of a cesspool?

Let's hear it, anon

e.g. Spanish accounts of child sacrifice in the Americas, British accounts of cannibal aghoris in India, etc. The more otherizing the better

>The distinction between cultural prosperity and death can be distinguished throughout all history by the few races capable of the former and the societal decay gradually imposed by all other races...

ITT comfy historical fiction that will let you forget all the bullshit of everyday life (like a nagging bitch wife) and transport you to another place and time when the life of a man was simpler and f...

post and talk about your favorites from the junior fiction shelf from your library, pic related was this for me. its like my hero academia six years before it was even a thing, but a year after the mo...

was he a nazi?

Last week's thread>>25214473Hegel talked about the nature of his dialectics in contrast with Fichte. Fichte had a schema of thesis-antithesis-synthesis, which Hegel disparages because it fe...

hello anons im lurking on this board for quite a while now and wanted to ask a couple question in my first thread regarding memory and general book recomendations. the situation is following. when i w...

Zizek said Melville's Bartleby is a truer rebel against wage slavery and capitalism than Camus's Sisyphus is

Why does no one use exclamation marks anymore?

Light novels are just scholastic chapter books for NEETs.

The world's first redditor. I bet everyone hated him at the time.

The male side of the Asian diaspora.

Ginger Snaps edition.OLD: >>25125217

Can we have a TBK thread?It bugs me that Ivan isn't the steelman Dostoevsky and his followers hail him to be, he could have easily padded his atheism with some deontological ethics that barrickad...

people gripe that they are not able to get published. what is the barrier? do you think this book will sell? why not call one of the comoanies that owns a big huge printer and pay them to send you 500...

Currently, I'm reading *The Long Walk* and *On Writing*. What are you guys reading by King?

Ἔαρος νέον ἱσταμένοιο edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>25151591>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/Yf...

Was Marx right about it, or is it woke crap?

>it's good because it's hard to read

We're having a lit meetup in New York on Saturday.Sick of shallow book talk and blank looks when you bring up serious literature or philosophy? If you’re in or near New York City, come to the NYC...

What’s the most testosterone fuels book ever written?

how did you like it? some questions for discussion:>which lies of his did you catch?>was his wife cheating on him with her cousin?>did you solve the chocolate puzzle?>who did he have the t...

If Americans lived in a civilized country, there'd be a statue of her in every library.

What do I think of Attic Nights?

>solves everythingwhy havent you read the pali canon and become buddhist yet anon?

If I read this and thought, "Wow, if the brain of the narrator and my brain were magically swapped, nothing would change because we are literally the same", what other books should I read?

This is the most retarded fucking book I've ever read

This is apparently the cover of the Korean translation of Three Body Problem.

Did the TVfags really manage to get the jump on this theme with The Bear? All I see published is overly romanticized, cozy SLOP for womenI'm certain that a good amount of talented authors did per...

Are there any romantic books that DON'T fall into this cliché?

Anyone else cursed with the inability to change the image of a character in your head once you initially think of one? Thomas Covenant is Louis Theroux in my mind and I can't do anything about it...

Post your hauls for this month as well as what you're currently reading and how it makes you feel. I have copies of The Tunnel by Gass and The Rainbow Stories by Vollmann coming on Saturday and I...

Happy birthday to the greatest writer who has ever lived. And Happy St. George’s day.

would fight club be better if the author wasn't gay?

This was underwhelming. It felt like generic pseudo-Marxist buzzword soup without much substance. The essay on feminism makes little sense. Even Laura Mulvey is better than this

Just found out one of the most celebrated authors in Germany is a paedophile. He has a large following today & his descendants still reside in central Europe. Any other examples of this?

“At first Vera and I were delighted at reading Pynchon. We felt like we were on the portico of a great house. Then we realized there was no house."

Do you go to the library? Are there any good or rare books you have borrowed or booked out? I just requested these and once saw a first edition Ulysses which may have been touched by James Joyce himse...

>It ain't country you've run out of

peak books about venezia?

I came up with it when I was thinking of a JAV I would like to watch, it became so sophisticated I've gooned to it several timesI just don't know how to turn it into a book, AI just gives me...

>What is /phil/ Philosophy General?A general for readers, students, and armchair thinkers interested in philosophy, whether it be Western, Eastern, analytic, continental, ancient, contemporary. We ...

I have seen people discuss if there is any particular actions that a character can take that make it impossible for that character to be redeemed or at the very least be sympathetic. I am of the opini...

Any good book on pre-history niggas like yamnaya and shit?

Anti-war was the first woke and anti-war novels are pozzing usWe need peo war booksStuff like the Iliad, Thucydides and Storm of SteelPost them here

What will I get out of this?

Books about being poor, unemployed, living in a shithole and getting into shouting matches with your dad every day?

It's impossible to stop scrolling social media and gooning and start reading i give up

>the iliad = the Lord of the Rings>Hesiod/Apollodorus = the silmarillion>the odyssey/the orestia = the appendices>epic cycle fragments = unfinished talesI just cant figure out what the hob...

(But the foid obviously does)Based? Yay or Nay?

>fucked Plath>fucked Anne Sexton>fucked Joan Baez and Joan Didion>US poet Laureate >Pulitzer winnerI kneel. Where have all the masculine poets gone?

I now fantasize about brutally beating up Andy Weir fans while asking them questions like "Why don't you quip now? Make a quip now faggot! How about sciencing the shit out of this situation?...

Me? I champion the digital novel, which is fitting for the modern literary sensibility. The digital novel, with infinite capability and possibility, also cannot be stained with liquid from soda, alcoh...

Pleasure is not a moral object and it's easily proven. If you, as a husband and father, were to be confronted with laying your body up for abuse were it to insure the security of your family, sud...

Behold the highest-rated book on Goodreads. Long after your previous poets are forgotten, Sanderson will be worshipped the world over as a literary god.

Is there any common thing in books that most most people like, but you actively hate?For me, its when a book describes everything in an overly flowery way. It seems it enhances the story for most peop...

Revisited my two favourite Ted Hughes poetry collections recently—Crow and Tales from Ovid… I think his poetic powers lie in making familiar words feel like viscera. An example might be “purpled dark”...

Prophantasia EditionHoly text: Critique of Pure Reason https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Critique_of_Pure_Reason_(Meiklejohn)A place to discuss developments in the system of esoterik Kantianism, the phil...

what THE FUCK is happening to this world? i am a stranger in a strange land

The Nanda Empire collapsed just a few years after Alexander turned back. Isn't that very interesting? I find it very reasonable to assume that the Greeks would have learned about the precarious p...

tell me about microfilm. have you used microfilm first hand? have you or has someone know know created, copied, kept, or otherwise interacted with microfilm?

In humanity after reading "a lucky human/man" by Paler?

Does something like this exist in Western literature? An amoral main character with no sympathetic qualities, yet whom you're still supposed to root for?All the examples I can think of a "vi...

>long as fuck names for characters, places, concepts etc (had to write them down to memorize them)>weird non-flowing sentences>lots of poetry-ish sounding sentencesIt seems like the author li...

Now that the dust has settled, why did he do it? the suicide I mean

>reading a novella>has chapters

Is this a relatively good poem?

Killing intent editionStubbed >>25219325>What is /wng/ — Web Novel General?A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serial...

What does /lit/ think of writer/director Lena Dunahm's book Famesick: A Memoir?

>War is le hecking bad dude!

>decide to finally read a camus book>four syllable word in the first pageshow exactly is this supposed to be better than just watching school of life/sissyphus55 videos?

Post your top ten favorite films and have other anons guess your favorite book/books.I'll start. What do you think my favorite books are?

I recently read the 1580 text of Montaigne's Essays. The book only seems notable for the novel length essay in Volume 2, where he writes an apologetic, discusses the weakness of reason, the natur...

Rank them

What's the female equivalent of Tom Sawyer?A somewhat universal story about girlhood, growing up as a girl etc?

So,it wasn’t a meme.the greeks really were gay?

P.S. I have already read the second part of Don Quixote.

>"Did you ever hear the tragedy of John Diefenbaker, The Tory? I thought not. It’s not a story the Liberal Party would tell you. It’s a Red Tory legend.">"Diefenbaker was a Prime ...

I enjoyed the Snow of Kilimanjaro does anyone have any recommendations for other goated short stories that aren't by Hemingway?Also is the modern reactionary phenomenon of Zoomers refraining from...

Just marathoned this book yesterday, what did I think /lit/?/ourwaifu/ supports Hold'em Cauliflower in his observations and thinks he's been unfairly maligned by evil Boomer phonies. https:/...

if the iliad and odyssey were published recently, /lit/ would call them genreslop

Do you own any first editions?

George Orwell on Jack London's politics:>"But temperamentally he was very different from the majority of Marxists. With his love of violence and physical strength, his belief in 'nat...

Happy Science has proved thushttps://youtu.be/9n-LP92V-Vg?t=4510

The style and humour are mesmerising… it’s got a staccato rhythm

what are the 10 best modern greek novels? i'm learning greek

>randomly remember dad forcing me to read and recap pic related when I was 10>read it again 15 years later>it's just common sense mixed with psychopathic hebrew tactics straight from Tal...

Please learn to read anything other than Tolkien and his innumerable heirs...

pic related

St. Augustine believed that the multiplicity of identity, a fragmented life of sin, can find unity in a singularity—when one unifies their self with God.“What then am I, O my God? What is my nature?”“...

Karp's The Technological Republic (Palantir)https://xcancel.com/PalantirTech/status/2045574398573453312How do you even begin to fight this? Are we cooked?

This book was great up until the weird rushed ending. I loved the twist that most of the characters central to the plot were Aleister Crowley in disguise manipulating the main character into thinking ...

Platonic realm of forms, mathematics, theology = upwardSchopenhauer's will to live, psychoanalysis = downward

What is the purpose of writing fictional stories?

Kek. Modern books are so dreadful that 200-year-old pulps are lifechanging works of astonishing beauty by comparison.