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Anon·04/25/25 20:17·No.24337195

/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 to /his/ [https://boards.4channel.org/his/]. If you want to discuss politics, go to /pol/ [https://boar...

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Anon·07/28/26 02:24·No.25428072

What is some literature besides this and The Last Man Takes LSD which show the effects of psychedelics on the philosophical mind?

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Anon·07/30/26 03:57·No.25433133

Write Your Thoughts

prev: >>25430851 [/lit/thread/25430851#p25430851]

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Anon·07/14/26 06:03·No.25401366

America, i hereby charge thee with a guilty sloth, & thou may'nt plead the 5th. Answer me then, citizens, once-grand; all the world was happy in your hand, and then -- no, I will not speak of it. Ah let me, while the jambus-throne I sit, live in a seely world awhile still. Much misery can a little g...

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Anon·07/30/26 20:21·No.25434492

/lit/ I desperately require your assistance. Like 12-13 or so years ago, I got an image from here that was a picture of two pages from a book. I cannot remember the exact words but I do remember some of the lines such as "peeny", "me want sex. wow! i wish there was a better way to say that!", and "...

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Anon·07/30/26 14:30·No.25433852

name a flaw in this perfect philosophy

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Anon·07/25/26 22:51·No.25423220

>Transgender dogma is naive and incompatible with Freud He was so real for this

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Anon·07/28/26 09:40·No.25428619

ITT writers only Americans care about

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Anon·07/30/26 08:51·No.25433520

opinions on Faulkner? favorite works of his? did you find his books challenging or did you breeze through them without any issues? >would love to know what you guys think of this dude

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Anon·07/29/26 20:57·No.25432450

>Studies note that men rarely read books by female authors or books with female protagonists, whereas women frequently read books by both male and female authors.

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Anon·07/28/26 02:31·No.25428085

Would your bookshelf scare off the ladies?

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Anon·07/30/26 15:34·No.25433962

/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General

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Anon·07/29/26 18:49·No.25432144

/grrm/ - George R. R. Martin General #118

chill ass royal couple edition ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_Page Blog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/ Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/ So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/ Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/ SSM search: ht...

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Anon·07/26/26 10:14·No.25423994

How does one increase one's literacy level?

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Anon·07/30/26 17:56·No.25434189

ebooks/ereaders

Just copped picrel Drop some knowledge on me Favorite resources for free ebooks? Best sources for cheap ebooks you can't find for free (I can't pirate cause work unfortunately) PDF vs epub? Can you savescum books borrowed from Libby? Any other useful info General ebook and/or ereader thread

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Anon·07/29/26 19:33·No.25432253

what are some philosophers and their books which go to the pains of debunking ridiculous animal "rights" arguments such as this?

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Anon·07/30/26 04:16·No.25433167

Recommend me some textbook-adjacent informative books, about any subject. Thank you.

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Anon·07/29/26 23:06·No.25432713

What the fuck is the point of this piece of shit? Is all of James Joyce's work this pointless? I was told this was his most accessible work but I'd rather pour hot acid into my eyeballs than to read another word of this drivel. Honestly. Did James Joyce simply forget that reading is supposed to be ...

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Anon·07/30/26 19:31·No.25434384

This movie presents such a shit take on the art of poetry. >poetry is about le feelings and le passions So fucking reddit. Notice how there's no mention of epic poetry in the entire film.

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Anon·07/18/26 19:14·No.25409429

/History/

Post and discussion about any type of history book. >1812: The Navy's War by George Daughan >At the outbreak of the War of 1812, America's prospects looked dismal. It was clear that the primary battlefield would be the open ocean -- but America's war fleet, only twenty ships strong, faced a practi...

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Anon·07/30/26 03:14·No.25433079

Has the Western World produced any good Taoist literature? I've already read Watts and he feels like just another rogue.

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Anon·07/28/26 19:28·No.25429766

Imagine rating prose because it's le pretty. Go straight to the point and express information as concisely and efficiently as possible. That's what words are for. Everything else is just prose slop.

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Anon·07/30/26 19:45·No.25434412

>gentile society might look good but it's actually... le bad! >there's a bunch of secret shady stuff going on that only a clever Jew like myself can reveal! >commodities are just idols! >this has nothing to do with the Torah!! >most of your actions are related to shameful sexual things you thought o...

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Anon·07/26/26 00:17·No.25423360

/clg/ - Classical Languages General

De consolatione editio >τὸ πρότερον νῆμα· >>25396989 [/lit/thread/25396989#p25396989] >Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί· https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw >Mέγα τὸ ANE· https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg >Work in progress FAQ https://rentry dot co/n8nrk...

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Anon·07/29/26 19:08·No.25432195

Most overrated authors you've read

Steve Donoghue: >James Joyce >Charles Dickens >DFW >Jonathan Franzen >John Updike >Norman Mailer >Jack Kerouac >Allen Ginsberg >Philip Roth https://youtu.be/FQ5GVEI2OY0?si=1hKoTeK2XrJHbIkx&t=768

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Anon·07/28/26 19:17·No.25429735

The Old Man and the Sea

I just read it, couldn't understand the point of the story but...felt something, sadness perhaps? What do you think of it, anon?

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Anon·07/29/26 14:10·No.25431689

so i only today found out "touche" is pronounced like "two-shay" and not like "douche" and i have been pronouncing it wrong for years

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Anon·07/30/26 01:14·No.25432949

True Crime

>read this shit like a million years ago in middle school or high school >nothing since What are some good true crime reads? And not just retellings/dramatizations of crimes but preferably documenting investigations into at the time unsolved crimes No rape

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Anon·07/23/26 13:28·No.25418618

Do you have a muse?

Someone you invoke when creating art.

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Anon·07/27/26 03:35·No.25425818

This book has changed my life. Not only has it cemented my reversion to Catholicism, but it's so well written in various ways that it's now in my all time favorite books. Thoughts?

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Anon·07/30/26 18:09·No.25434209

How did things come to this?

Anime is out here pushing boundaries while literature is dying a slow painful death. Can any modern novel even attempt to capture the magnificence of chainsmoker cat?

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Anon·07/26/26 03:41·No.25423647

Books that Christians hate.

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Anon·07/27/26 00:54·No.25425538

Mysticism, Religion, and More

Post and discuss occult works.

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Anon·07/30/26 19:14·No.25434348

Dictation or Writing?

Everyone tells you to write your first draft without thinking, but I just can't do that. I'm constantly fighting the urge to stop and fix some punctuation, spelling, or grammar mistakes before I move on. So I tried voice-to-text in Google Docs for a small chunk of the story I'm writing, and even th...

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Anon·07/27/26 03:37·No.25425819

Books that transformed you into a leftist

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Anon·07/27/26 05:06·No.25425946

/wg/ Writing General

"Learn how to write" edition Previous: >>25416717 [/lit/thread/25416717#p25416717] /wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQ RESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvC Please limit excerpts to one post. Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ab...

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Anon·07/29/26 17:00·No.25431932

So let me get this straight 2500 years ago some random Greek people deduced atomic theory from first principles with absolutely no tools or evidence or anything They just thought about it for a while and naturally arrived at the conclusion all this stuff is made of really really really tiny stuff An...

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Anon·07/22/26 22:43·No.25417620

(excluding Evola) Is this really the only introductory work to magic in theory written by someone who wasn't an hedon, """Academic""", hyperphilosemite or simply grifter?

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Anon·07/30/26 00:47·No.25432906

post an image craft a story with big words

Langostar had branded himself a god, because he deemed himself invincible. He thought he was the one who held dominion over the waters, when he was mearly another small tick of Chronos' clock. He bareth his fangs towards Death. Its scythe, beneath his chin at ready to reap another foolhardy soul who...

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Anon·07/21/26 10:36·No.25414443

The Shards

Anyone read this? What’d you guys think of it?

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Anon·07/21/26 21:34·No.25415621

What's your personal favorite translation of The Odyssey?

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Anon·07/28/26 12:56·No.25428868

>check the /lit/ wiki and pick a random book from the /lit/ starter kit chart. >Lolita it is >Read about a hundred pages >Book is about a brain damaged French pedo that kidnaps a little girl, screws her and gaslights her >Eventually the author tries to attribute a slight guilt to the little girl >Ke...

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Anon·07/28/26 12:49·No.25428858

>fix metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, etc. Why don't you nerds try it?

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Anon·07/30/26 01:15·No.25432951

>Every Stacy's womb dries up and they have to seethe as they watch us get drilled by rich Chads, who fall in love with us. >Stacy gets no chadseed and we get it all to ourselves. Is this fetish lit?

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Anon·07/27/26 21:09·No.25427447

How did Gibson predict the future?

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Anon·07/30/26 18:13·No.25434216

Best unreliable narrator books?

The unreliable narrator is clearly the best trope in fiction, and we need to read more of it.

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Anon·07/29/26 14:26·No.25431715

Who are thinkers/books from the right leftists should read and vice versa?

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Anon·07/30/26 00:24·No.25432859

done 3 weeks of binge writing

my eyes are red and I look like lord coomer, but a masterpiece is at hand.

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Anon·07/30/26 05:12·No.25433239

>there are people on this board, right now, that unironically think that James’ is correct

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Anon·07/30/26 14:45·No.25433883

Post reading setting

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Anon·07/30/26 15:23·No.25433942

THE RAPED

where do i start with this jewish, childhood sexual abuse victim, morbidly obeast tub of schmaltz?

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Anon·07/28/26 13:52·No.25428955

Booker Longlist Announced

Wow I can't wait >The Shadow of the Object - Chloe Aridjis - Making friends with a weird old woman in hospital Switzy - Emma Cline - Retired exec winding down his life >Helen of Nowhere - Makenna Goodman - Very strange realtor inspection The End of Everything - M John Harrison - Man finds something...

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Anon·07/19/26 08:39·No.25410382

What are some of your favorite allusions to feet in literature? In the Odyssey it says Hebe is the one with beautiful feet

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Anon·07/28/26 18:43·No.25429582

This Shit Prints Money

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Anon·07/30/26 01:52·No.25432994

The AI companies are ripping out the spines of millions of books and destroying them afterwards. Is it over?

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Anon·07/30/26 16:04·No.25434002

>"I knew the moment she walked in that she was trouble. But trouble was my line of business, it was just a matter of working out how much her trouble might be worth."

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Anon·07/26/26 22:27·No.25425207

Which 100 books would you recommend to a Japanese game developer?

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Anon·07/23/26 00:16·No.25417796

What type of books do the elite read? And why?

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Anon·07/29/26 14:25·No.25431712

>The Lord of the Rings is only 477,000 words long Genuinely, how is that even possible? To cram so much into so little? Each book must be only about 130k words, but they feel so massive. How? HOW?

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Anon·07/27/26 23:31·No.25427718

Be honest /lit/. Have much Voltaire have you read?

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Anon·07/30/26 13:17·No.25433772

I read chick lit exclusively

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Anon·07/16/26 22:25·No.25406330

It’s not even that racist honestly

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Anon·07/29/26 19:51·No.25432303

I went to Barnes & Noble yesterday at the fancy outdoor mall, and the cashier girl winked at me after I finished checking out...

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Anon·07/30/26 03:15·No.25433081

What happens if you practice tantric yoga with another male?

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Anon·07/26/26 14:07·No.25424274

Entropy

What’s the point of posting here if the end of the universe is inevitable and not even the Odyssey will be remembered by anyone well before the human species die?

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Anon·07/29/26 10:29·No.25431440

I’ve finally accepted that life has no meaning and I feel a huge weight off my shoulders. No more needing to perform brain acrobatics to give existence meaning. Now that I can relax knowing I’ll find out about the afterlife, God and everything else when I die, what can I read about this topic? Is th...

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Anon·07/29/26 10:40·No.25431453

Restoring Aristotle against TAG apologia.

The TAG (the argument of Ortho-Hylics, crypto-rationalists) has become a virulent misunderstanding permeating the sphere of internet-philosophy especially amongst the Youth. Essentially it hinges on a logo-psychic fallacy, that treats logical universals as external objects. Using De Anima and Metaph...

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Anon·07/28/26 09:42·No.25428622

The Literary Renaissance is coming

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Anon·07/27/26 04:22·No.25425882

Today is the day /lit/. I am finally getting back into reading...Life has been complicated ever since the lockdowns, and I haven't had the time to actually sit down and enjoy any books in years. I just pickedup some new books that I've never read before...Perhaps these books will spark my love for ...

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Anon·07/29/26 17:25·No.25431974

The Monk is a masterpiece

It's just fucking hard to find something of equivalent in terms of quality, it feels sad

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Anon·07/29/26 22:57·No.25432703

Alright, give me the skinny on Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock.

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Anon·07/30/26 00:54·No.25432915

Aristotle says that form is substance, that the final differentia is form, and that essential differentia is the primary kind of quality. Therefore, substance is simply essential quality, as opposed to accidental quality. Substance thus is a subcategory of quality, not a separate category.

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Anon·07/29/26 19:26·No.25432237

>hurr gilgamesh >hurr odyssey >hurr paradise lost >hurr shakesphere shit >hurr canturbury tales >hurr beowulf Why don't you chucklefucks ever read epics that aren't the same regurgitated shit tiktok morons and your high school teacher forced you to read? Go read the Song of Roland.

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Anon·07/28/26 13:20·No.25428907

Beowulf

I just read Rotgé's French translation. It was good. Why won't bongs read their own epic? There are other translations than the ones by Headley and Purvis, you know.

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Anon·07/30/26 16:00·No.25433994

Seem like a good track?

I asked AI about my current progress on getting through the western philosophical canon and it produced this outline (I am at Hegel now), does this seem like a pretty good outline of major philosophical trends in the Western Canon? Any additions you would recommend?

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Anon·07/30/26 12:19·No.25433709

So, what exactly does it mean to be a being within time?

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Anon·07/30/26 07:22·No.25433389

Never went to college, thinking getting a degree so I can land a job on Wall Street. Books to make up for missing out on the frat culture connections in your early 20s?

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Anon·07/27/26 14:14·No.25426625

I'm looking for novels with "hallucinatory prose". Joycean 3rd person. Stream-of-consciousness without the consciousness. Joyce himself does it occasionally in Ulysses, Cormac sometimes but I'm hard pressed finding somebody who writes this style over several pages.

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Anon·07/28/26 13:10·No.25428887

New book is out.

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Anon·07/27/26 00:50·No.25425531

/wbg/ Worldbuilding General

Jack Vance Edition FAQ: >What is worldbuilding? Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them...

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Anon·07/05/26 23:48·No.25386014

/pg/ - Poetry General

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

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Anon·07/30/26 14:37·No.25433866

feminist moralising

Feminists endlessly moralise about the fact that males commit more crimes than women. They especially focus on crimes against women and sexual crimes. They ascribe this to vague concepts like "socialisation" which lack predictive and explanatory power. However it is obvious that the proportion of cr...

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Anon·07/29/26 01:53·No.25430767

Pulp

>all your books will be systematically destroyed https://x.com/hot_rails/status/2081930598655086782

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Anon·07/25/26 18:37·No.25422713

Any books that are just unabashedly evil/immoral? There's De Sade, I guess, but what else?

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Anon·07/29/26 14:46·No.25431744

What if the Crucifixion had fallback/price(s)?

I'm not claming it or asking as a gotcha but, like what if(even though it is still the redemption) it wasn't a total improvement on every aspects of human condition? Or even something more dire? Could there possibly be no loss from it, for both God and us?

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Anon·07/27/26 15:02·No.25426736

Why are young people finding it increasingly difficult to read narrative texts in third person?

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Anon·07/30/26 11:54·No.25433685

I just witnessed death in front of my eyes and had the unwelcome realization that I care more about the death of a character in a book.

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Anon·07/27/26 05:51·No.25425985

It's deeply ironic that the most-correct Marx is right-wing Marx. All his critiques of capitalism are lifted straight out of reactionary thought, and indeed, Marx actively uses thinkers like de Maistre as sources, when it comes to detailing how capitalism has dissolved traditional structures of poli...

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Anon·07/16/26 16:53·No.25405636

/lit/ memes thread

Time for one of these. Post your best /lit/ memes

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Anon·07/28/26 07:16·No.25428503

ai techbros are buying books common and rare en masse, scanning, and destroying them https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-destroying-rare-books

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Anon·07/25/26 23:06·No.25423246

I have been in the most overtly unjust way banned from ban evasion after not having been banned at all in the first place. The ban has since been appealed and all has been made right. I wish to continue our discussion on ethics. How can there be objective ought-claims without grounding them in a per...

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Anon·07/26/26 20:31·No.25424991

/wng/ — Web Novel General

Cultivator knights Edition Stubbed >>25412115 [/lit/thread/25412115#p25412115] >What is /wng/ — Web Novel General? A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribb...

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Anon·07/29/26 23:01·No.25432705

What is the hardest philosophy book?

Is it Critique of Pure Reason, Being and Time, Being and Nothingness, Phenomenology of the Spirit, Capitalism and Schizophrenia? Something else? Feel free to make a list

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Anon·07/29/26 02:51·No.25430918

just finished Bram Stoker's Dracula

Jonathan Harker's initial chapters were pretty good, but it gets boring after we switch to Mina's diary. If not for the chapters about Renfield, I wouldn't be able to make it to the end knowing how a vampire acts, its powers, and weaknesses probably doesn't help, since it ruins a bit of the suspense...

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Anon·07/28/26 23:00·No.25430298

What are some good author wikipedia biography sections for me to read? I read his today and it was pretty good

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Anon·07/30/26 04:14·No.25433161

Schopenhauer was Pretty Based

The eternally uncreated Hegesian dialectic abrogates reality.

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Anon·07/28/26 01:58·No.25428019

Lattimore or Wilson?

Which is the most "faithful" translation? I'm talking about word-for-word accuracy rather than prose or meter. I'm finishing my read of Iliad by Verity, so I'm exploring my options.

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Anon·07/17/26 00:54·No.25406629

/hfg/ - Horror Fiction General

Negative Space edition Notable Authors: H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti, Robert Aickman, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, William Peter Blatty, Robert Bloch, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Edogawa Rampo, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, M.R. James, Sheridan...

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Anon·07/29/26 03:27·No.25431000

Why are books so effing long and boring

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Anon·07/28/26 18:09·No.25429507

The Night Land

>Wow this is an amazing setting >The lore of this place is fantastic >What an adventure! *The Hero Meets the Girl* >Entire last half of book is feet fetish, kissing, infantilism, physical punishment in a master/slave relationship What the fuck? I understand why it's not more popular now... what th...

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Anon·07/30/26 07:30·No.25433403

I like books.

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Anon·07/28/26 18:58·No.25429660

Listen to audiobooks.

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Anon·07/30/26 02:20·No.25433030

>I have read a few books on anthroposophy and a fair number on theosophy. I have also got to know very many anthroposophists and theosophists and have always discovered to my regret that these people imagine all sorts of things and assert all sorts of things for which they are quite incapable of off...

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Anon·07/30/26 08:37·No.25433503

I hate em dashes

Why do they trigger me so? The book is done I'm ready to publish but I keep changing the grammar for aesthetics. 70k words and an em dash every 95 words it looks fucking disgusting I hate em dashes. I wrote the entire thing without a single em dash and was brutally critiqued for it so I spent a week...

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Anon·07/28/26 09:09·No.25428596

Is Gandalf like 80% Odin and 20% Christ?

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Anon·07/29/26 16:34·No.25431892

Blood meridian

what happened in the bathroom

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Anon·07/30/26 03:04·No.25433070

Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove.

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Anon·07/13/26 22:08·No.25400610

/phil/ - Philosophy General #8

>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 discuss primary texts, secondary literature, online lectures, podcasts. >Why read philosophy? Politic...

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Anon·07/30/26 00:41·No.25432891

does this get better?

Read a good third of this novel, and I want to like it but its getting so boring. I have read TSATF and As I Lay Dying, they weren't favorites but I enjoyed their stories and Faulker's writing, which is why I looked forward to this one. I get this narration style from Rosie and mr Compson puts you i...

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Anon·07/30/26 08:34·No.25433498

>who are you and how did you get all this gold? >I'm the Alchemist, and I'm an alchemist

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Anon·07/30/26 08:10·No.25433472

/hfg/ – Horror fiction general

Esoteric black cat / One month 'till Spooktober edition. Notable Authors: H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti, Robert Aickman, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, William Peter Blatty, Robert Bloch, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Edogawa Rampo, Arthur Machen, Amb...

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Anon·07/30/26 07:11·No.25433378

O.K I'll be the one to say it

Bravo to Nolan for making something respectable out of that goofy, outdated, campfire story for literal spearchuckers. "AIIIIIEEEEE, NO IT SURVIVED FOR HECKIN 2500 YEARS, THAT MUST MEAN SOMETHING". I don't give a fuck. People lacked options back then. Those ooga boogas would've been impressed by Har...

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Anon·07/29/26 14:42·No.25431737

Essential Gay /lit/: A thread

Thought we could share some essential works of gay / queer literature here and discuss our favorites etc I'm reading the first of picrel, which I found when someone mentioned it as a pillar of modern postwar gay literature, and it's honestly so well written. White damn good at this. Really interest...

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Anon·07/17/26 01:49·No.25406731

>As soon as mature members of society habitually express acceptance or even advocate egalitarian sentiments, whether in the form of democracy (majority rule) or of communism, it becomes essential that other members, and in particular the natural social elites, be prepared to act decisively and, in t...

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Anon·07/29/26 01:39·No.25430735

Clarel

Jesus christ this is difficult to read. I had to read the first Canto several times to figure out what the hell was going on. Way harder than those meme postmodernist novels. At least it seems to get easier in the next few cantos. Anyone read this?

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Anon·07/28/26 02:28·No.25428079

What do you call these type of writers

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Anon·07/29/26 04:22·No.25431096

Books for NEETs?

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Anon·07/29/26 11:59·No.25431533

Reading makes the sad voice inside my head go quiet

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Anon·07/29/26 04:05·No.25431070

>tfw you just read what you think is of the highest quality and is the most worth reading based off your own individual assessment

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Anon·07/30/26 02:59·No.25433061

I can't wait for autumn, full blown literary initiation, superdense literary labyrinths and feeding off of the worlds disillusionment.

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Anon·07/29/26 04:28·No.25431102

Jean Genet

What did I even read? This guy's such a sociopath, he has gay sex just for the BDSM play where the point is usurping the social order held up by the patriarch or "The Man?" and it's just another thing in the roster to round out all the murders he commits, which are also anti-social and senseless?

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Anon·07/27/26 19:21·No.25427193

Why the fuck did no one tell me Foucault is one of the greatest thinkers in human history it's always fisting this or gay that?

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Anon·07/29/26 02:25·No.25430851

Write Your Thoughts

Azure Edition Previous: >>25427834 [/lit/thread/25427834#p25427834]

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Anon·07/29/26 06:14·No.25431216

Has Michel Foucault been vindicated?

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Anon·07/29/26 13:34·No.25431643

So I decided to follow the sticky, why are all the women in these myths retarded? They constantly ignore the men, kill themselves over the slightest thing (often their fault), commit atrocities after atrocities like Aphrodite causing the Troy war or Selene raping that one guy forever. What are we to...

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Anon·07/28/26 19:02·No.25429673

What do you make of the trend of retelling Greek myths through feminine perspectives? Why are women so obsessed with this stuff lately? It feels like Greek mythology is primarily a female pursuit these days. Do you think women are also reading the original myths? Is this trend skewing their knowled...

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Anon·07/29/26 05:20·No.25431169

If eternal recurrence was true, Nietzsche would have to relive this photo forever.

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Anon·07/29/26 00:22·No.25430531

St. Bonaventure's Commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard have been fully translated into English. https://bonaventure.wrootpress.com/

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Anon·07/27/26 20:55·No.25427414

Is there any positive literature on heroin use? I've only ever seen the drug associated with addiction and death.

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Anon·07/29/26 03:08·No.25430950

Is the translation that bad?

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Anon·07/27/26 22:37·No.25427615

i have decided that the odyssey movie is good now

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Anon·07/29/26 21:11·No.25432486

favorite style of comedy?

What makes /lit/ laugh? I really like droll humor. It's always funnier than people trying to be funny. I grew up with SpongeBob so I do like random humor as well if it's done well.

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Anon·07/26/26 15:22·No.25424398

Thoughts on "Galahad and The Grail" by Malcolm Guite? I like it so far, it's clearly an attempt at a "modern" Arthurian story and is heavily influenced by Tolkien, Lewis and the other Inklings. I like that it doesn't ignore the religious dimension of the Grail stories.

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Anon·07/29/26 23:51·No.25432790

Why haven’t you read it?

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Anon·07/28/26 17:33·No.25429403

Wish me luck, guys.

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Anon·07/29/26 20:19·No.25432364

Other parts?

Does anyone have the other parts of this chart?

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Anon·07/20/26 18:55·No.25412982

starting to read political philosophy and finished the communist manifesto. would like to hear your thoughts on it

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Anon·07/28/26 17:52·No.25429455

Is annotating novels just for performative pseuds? It's not Heidegger bro.

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Anon·07/28/26 18:02·No.25429485

I'm reading the iliad

>athena and hera say no fighting >achilles proceeds to rhythmically insult Agamemnon for a whole page >after he already insulted him through poetry thoroughly is the entire story just rap battles? where is the action? I'm a /tv/ Nolan tourist btw.

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Anon·07/29/26 17:41·No.25432010

Whether you like it or not, Count Vronsky in the novel *Anna Karenina* is the true ideal of the officer-aristocrat from the era of Alexander I—a man for whom honor matters more than life, who is unafraid to see things through to the end, and whose moral compass is unwavering.

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Anon·07/28/26 20:55·No.25429993

Marguerite / Gretchen

She deserved better I want to cry Why can't we kill the devil?

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Anon·07/29/26 20:29·No.25432392

What Is

There Is One Who Is What Is, and What Is wanted man to know Him. Therefore, He sent a Message. This Message Was Of Him, and The Message Was Him. The Message Was What Is. He sent The Messenger ahead of Him to declare this Message. This Messenger Was Of Him, and thus Was Him. The Messenger had no mes...

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Anon·07/29/26 02:13·No.25430828

Has anyone bought this?

I can’t find any pictures of it other than the front cover anywhere online; I hope it’s not one of those countless fake Ethiopian Bibles, but this one looks different, saying it doesn’t have the whole text, only the unique books to their Biblical Canon. It also says it has 830 pages, which is more t...

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Anon·07/29/26 18:57·No.25432164

No I don't actually

What did he mean by this?

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Anon·07/28/26 21:14·No.25430040

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Finished this book a couple hours ago and felt like writing a review to share my thoughts. There will be some spoilers, but I tried to make them vague. As a preface, I haven't read many books, so my opinion may be basic and not too deep. I picked this one in particular because I wanted to both lear...

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Anon·07/29/26 15:25·No.25431812

>makes Hegel's Logic seem clear and succinct Seriously, was he having a stroke when he wrote the second half? Funny how the final boss of philosophy spawns at the begining and you have to spend the next two millennia leveling up to take him on.

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Anon·07/28/26 10:09·No.25428644

Is there any other author that acknowledges the weakness of liberalism of atomising people and emptying out human connections and social bonds and offer solutions without being a right wing or fascist?

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Anon·07/25/26 22:47·No.25423210

More EVIL BOOKS like this?

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Anon·07/27/26 15:12·No.25426756

Did anybody else get filtered by this piece of shit? Why is this lauded as the pinnacle of the novel; is it simply a signpost of the sophisticate fart-sniffer to fit in with their fellows? I've heard it referred to as the height of prose (clearly what is supposed to be the redeeming feature of the b...

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Anon·07/26/26 02:37·No.25423576

It’s based. Also Latin America general and recommendations. I’ve read 100 years of solitude, Borges good bit of the usual recs but let’s hear em

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Anon·07/29/26 14:09·No.25431685

Anyone has a good setting for converting text-only epub (Standard Ebooks, gutenberg) to PDF? Ideally to a standard A5, B5. A4. Perhaps with pandoc, calibre's ebook-convert, or something else. I want to send the pdf to my local print shop for printing. I want: 1. page number 2. table of contents wi...