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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·10/17/25 11:47·No.24807410

Did anyone read her work?

Maybe some Korean anon can fill us in on her cultural impact and what her surprise and unforeseen passing means for the literary world we all cherish and love?

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Anon·10/19/25 05:16·No.24812377

The Rape of Mnemosyne

What will you do when you've forgotten everything you've worked so hard to learn from the literature you've read?

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Anon·10/19/25 05:31·No.24812411

He gives incel.

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Anon·10/16/25 14:55·No.24805251

Was he a proto-Redditer or a proto-4channer?

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Anon·10/17/25 23:32·No.24808813

/wyt/ - Write Your Thoughts

Prev: >>24803009 [/lit/thread/24803009#p24803009]

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Anon·10/18/25 09:51·No.24809783

Cognitive Closure

Can consciousness be solved?

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Anon·10/19/25 01:17·No.24811871

Can a belief be true even if there is no evidence to support it?

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Anon·10/19/25 05:21·No.24812385

what are some of your favorite book quotes, /lit/?

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Anon·10/13/25 14:57·No.24797419

Now that we've all had time to read it, what do we think of it?

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Anon·10/12/25 20:47·No.24795526

Was he right? Is Liberal Democracy the ultimate Human System and will we never see something better?

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Anon·10/18/25 17:49·No.24810661

Is this a tu quoque? Someone says you need more balance in your life because you do X way more than Y. X and Y ought to be nearly equal. You respond that they mostly do Y and rarely X. I haven't adopted the premise that balance is needed, but since they are unbalanced it seems unreasonable for them ...

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Anon·09/25/25 06:50·No.24748733

/wbg/ - Worldbuilding General

Tropical Beach 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 ...

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Anon·10/19/25 05:25·No.24812398

Why does she cause so much seething?

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Anon·10/17/25 21:55·No.24808522

Are you cognizant that cursive is a dying art? 80% of zoomers can’t write in cursive.

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Anon·10/16/25 04:31·No.24804485

/grrm/ - George R. R. Martin General #93

dunk throws down 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: https://...

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Anon·10/19/25 05:22·No.24812390

What would you say about a person who’s never read anything written by Plato?

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Anon·10/16/25 01:49·No.24804211

/wg/ - Writing General

No edition Previous: >>24782783 [/lit/thread/24782783#p24782783] /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 ability. Follow prom...

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Anon·10/17/25 07:02·No.24807073

give me your best books on this part of the world

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Anon·10/18/25 22:34·No.24811333

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Thoughts on this book? Are humans responsible for their actions, or are they constrained by factors beyond their control? I found the first half tracing back from proximal factors to events millions of years in the past convincing for arguing there is no room for free expression of the self. However...

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Anon·10/18/25 10:39·No.24809846

Is he actually that good?

I had never heard of this guy until recently, as I've only gotten back into reading recently, and I've found that people seem to worship this guy as the next Tolkein, or maybe as even greater than Tolkein? Is his writing and world building actually that good? Or is this some reddit-slop pysop? I g...

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Anon·10/19/25 04:44·No.24812343

I hate magical realism. I grew up in a CITY, as I feel most modern latin americans did. I don't relate at all with this faggot-ass "living in a town with crazy superstitions that feel real" kinda bullshit. I liked reading pic related, because it felt real; that sense of modern, cosmopolitan life per...

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Anon·10/18/25 19:29·No.24810918

>Alcibiades and Critias were both students of Socrates You know, maybe the Athenians had a point with those "corrupting the youth" allegations.

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Anon·10/18/25 01:13·No.24809031

What am I in for?

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Anon·10/18/25 08:06·No.24809686

Everyone says this is the best Plato translation but I’m broke, and it’s 65$ for a copy. I could read it online but I’m autistic and can’t read books unless I’m holding them physically. Any alternatives?

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Anon·10/18/25 19:31·No.24810923

rate his reading list

>The Elements of Style" >"Politics is for Power" - which is an excellent book highlighting the importance and effectiveness of being engaged in local politics. >"Lying about Hitler" - which tackles Holocaust revisionism >I"The Problems of Philosophy". >There's also "An Enquiry Concerning Human Under...

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Anon·10/19/25 00:50·No.24811785

>Heartfelt literary work you spend your life creating: 500 copies sold >"I can't believe the student council president who is also my little sister is in love with me and will DIE unless we have sex in another world where she is my slave!": 50,000 copies sold, 45 volumes commissioned in web novel fo...

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Anon·10/19/25 04:18·No.24812297

gravity's rainbow

>a schizo racist pedophile wanders aimlessly around Nazi Germany while doing drugs and molesting kids i don't get it, why does 4chan like this book so much?

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Anon·10/19/25 00:50·No.24811787

How is the young adult novel scene now in 2025?

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Anon·10/19/25 03:27·No.24812213

Prove him wrong

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Anon·10/15/25 12:07·No.24802667

>anti-christ lectures audio recordings been leaked where can I get a download link?

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Anon·10/18/25 05:46·No.24809541

So what the fuck do I do if my personal Golden Pavilion is something abstract that doesn't have a physical counterpart that can be burned down or otherwise destroyed?

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Anon·10/18/25 13:06·No.24810063

I'm worried that after I read Karamazov that everything that comes after will pale in comparison. Should I just get over it and read the damn book? I've read every other major work of Dostoevsky.

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Anon·10/19/25 04:39·No.24812331

>there's a thomas reid who wrote a bunch of DnD novels and he's shitting up my libgen searches fuck off and die

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Anon·10/01/25 00:36·No.24763657

/clg/ - Classical Languages General

Delphic charioteer edition >τὸ πρότερον νῆμα· >>24732139 >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/n8nrko All Classical languages ar...

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Anon·10/19/25 01:27·No.24811902

>The four arts of the Chinese scholar were the four main academic and artistic talents required of the aristocratic ancient Chinese scholar-gentleman. They were the mastery of the qin (the guqin, a stringed instrument, 琴), qi (the strategy game of Go, 棋), shu (Chinese calligraphy, 書) and hua (Chines...

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Anon·10/17/25 18:50·No.24808068

I'm tired of doomer content. Which philosopher is the most anti-doomer?

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Anon·10/06/25 05:17·No.24776647

/hfg/ – Horror Fiction General

Satanic panic edition. Old >>24736100

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Anon·10/19/25 03:58·No.24812255

I'm not a jew, so which one do I start with, Mark or Luke? Cause like matthew is the jew book and john is the debating with other evangelicals book?

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Anon·10/18/25 23:43·No.24811543

Is he the most metaphysically evil writer in history? His works just ooze with something infernal.

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Anon·10/16/25 21:23·No.24805969

What I long for is non-life, not death. For only he who is alive can die — he who has been subjected to the anathema of life, he who has fully experienced the sufferings of the world. Death is nothing but the process of life. Let us not be deceived: death is, when compared with life, superior. Of th...

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Anon·10/18/25 14:37·No.24810255

Adaptations that are better than the book?

>inb4 wrong board I want the opinions of people who care about literature

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Anon·10/18/25 10:23·No.24809828

/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General

Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs) https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb >Archive: https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg >Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg >Previous: >>24796095 [/lit/...

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Anon·10/18/25 14:49·No.24810284

Confess Your Literary Sins

All will be forgiven edition. I masturbate to the description of Mary Morstan, as given by Dr. Watson in the opening scenes of The Sign of Four.

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Anon·10/19/25 03:56·No.24812250

which books are written the most retardedly? which is to say, as such, that i'm looking for the most retarded books in existence (kids books don't count unless they're especially retarded).

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Anon·10/14/25 20:41·No.24800775

The greatest genre there is. They don’t make them like these anymore.

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Anon·10/19/25 04:13·No.24812285

32 KB 32 KB JPG Kan ne get pak FOHU dans ta ombok. On get FOHU dans sa lur ufot gule. Dansh so ADEN kesh hurli : ITA TA NEND PISH KEKESH TA DANK WA TRU, IDIOT ! Ta sesh ufot mot FOHU ez dansh mesh dents ked she kase ket zalopi. lep ez dank mek kulesh num she men serk fu impression wa ekerekil. lep e...

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Anon·10/18/25 21:37·No.24811203

Method Acting or Malingering

This all happened. I really did try to copy One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Here it goes: I do not have paranoid schizophrenia but I convinced everyone around me I was. I’m going to give you the real reason I think I am not schizophrenic… I heard from a friend that his brother raped his sister, and...

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Anon·10/17/25 02:32·No.24806657

Why didn't Golem become all powerful owning that ring all those years?

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Anon·10/18/25 23:41·No.24811541

More like this?

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Anon·10/18/25 18:42·No.24810788

>Why *spares Cain* >was *is willing to spare the entire city of Sodom if 10 righteous people can be found* >God *spares the Israelite's several times* >so *Spares Nineveh after repentance* >cruel *gives the Canaanites and Amorites centuries to repent* >in *Accepts Manasseh's repentance* >the *Accept...

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Anon·10/18/25 01:41·No.24809101

Why do these women insist on becoming public educators and then destroy literacy? What a tragedy it was to let holes vote.

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Anon·10/17/25 22:55·No.24808723

Why does this nigga hate everything that is good about the Greeks? >homer bad >drama bad >poetry bad >sophistry bad >music bad >democracy bad He is the ancient version of bitter old man yelling at clouds

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Anon·10/17/25 23:27·No.24808802

Thinking of purchasing this. How is it?

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Anon·10/18/25 14:51·No.24810287

Can someone explain why every time conservacucks gain a bit of power they start censoring and destroying books and culture?

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Anon·10/18/25 14:29·No.24810234

What books encapsulate the Gen X Soft Club aesthetic? For those that don't know: https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Gen_X_Soft_Club And for any oldfags out there, what was it like living through that aesthetic personally?

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Anon·10/18/25 23:16·No.24811434

I really really really wish I could time travel to Regency era Britain with the TARDIS and have a super sexy foursome with the Bronte sisters. And then I go back to the present and there's a whole as novel about how much they lust after me.

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Anon·10/17/25 16:50·No.24807834

Who here is a fan of the great Irish-American playwright Eugene O'Neill?

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Anon·10/19/25 03:21·No.24812207

What the fuck did he mean by this?

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Anon·10/18/25 23:39·No.24811529

Intro to Philosophy

Bros if I want to start reading philosophy with the Greeks what's the order of the books. Does anyone have an infograph? Also is there audio books of these, I might want to walk and listen.

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Anon·10/14/25 06:38·No.24799538

Wanna read Proclus?

About a year or more ago we had a reading group that went through Plotinus' Enneads. Was wondering if there would be any traction for a similar thing with Proclus. I figure we could do a chapter a day. https://archive.org/details/sixbooksproclus00unkngoog/page/n20/mode/1up

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Anon·10/19/25 01:30·No.24811909

Is time a fundamental aspect of the universe, or is it an illusion created by consciousness?

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Anon·10/19/25 03:12·No.24812189

Any atmospheric horror books with a theme similar to the Blair Witch Project? IE >innawoods (or similar) >few characters >more-so the implication of horror rather than big monsters going "BOO" >relies heavily on lore/mythos

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Anon·10/19/25 01:59·No.24811998

Have you read this atheist kino? He conclusively debunked all religions.

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Anon·10/18/25 19:58·No.24810981

I hate them so much.

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Anon·10/08/25 20:58·No.24783785

Unemployement: The book

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Anon·10/18/25 23:39·No.24811530

what are so good books to get an overview of history if I know literally nothing about it? (homeschooled by my mom who doesn't believe in history)

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Anon·10/18/25 09:20·No.24809756

Why do LLMs pretend they know everything about books they clearly never read?

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Anon·10/18/25 11:11·No.24809884

Is there an English translation of the Qur’an in King James Version-English?

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Anon·10/19/25 00:39·No.24811743

Im reading this. I just finished part 1.

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Anon·10/18/25 18:20·No.24810744

Redpill me on Novalis... Where do I start with him?

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Anon·10/18/25 15:32·No.24810384

What books on Islamic philosophy does /lit/ recommend? I’m looking for general books like braudel history of western philosophy but, you know, for Islamic philosophy. Is pic related any good?

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Anon·10/18/25 17:08·No.24810570

William S Burroughs

No one on /tv/ has seen or wants to discuss Naked Lunch (1991), so I figured I’d come here to talk about the unfathomably based heroin-using homosexual wife-killer William S Burroughs. Junky was such a good read and all of his spoken word tracks especially the ones set to music are fantastic. I part...

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Anon·10/19/25 01:38·No.24811933

What did you read when you were younger?

I read a lot of Roald Dahl, my favourite being Fantastic Mr Fox. Inspired a lot of daydreams about connecting my town up through intricate tunnel systems. I also liked Matilda, but I think I like the movie better. Whenever I see a chocolate mud cake it comes to mind. A Series of Unfortunate Events ...

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Anon·10/18/25 14:53·No.24810290

The Difference Between Literary Critics and Historians

Even though literary critics aren't trained historians, they do have to learn about history or past events to a higher degree than, say, a scientist would need in their day-to-day practice; the key difference in skills might be that historians rely on source evaluation, must remember key dates and t...

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Anon·10/14/25 04:02·No.24799282

You should read Bataille because you feel the absolute emptiness of your life being postponed for some future "project" that will never arrive. Your entire existence is built on the slavish, decline morality of self-preservation, a pathetic attempt to accumulate strength for a tomorrow you sacrifice...

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Anon·10/14/25 19:08·No.24800618

Any other Islamic reverts? What do you wish to do in Jannah? If Allah(SWT) gives you it? I would like to go to Star Trek universe maybe California in the 1960s and a game of thrones universe What would you guys want

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Anon·10/18/25 14:21·No.24810223

If he was born today he would be an internet chud. Kek. He wouldn't even write anything.

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Anon·10/16/25 18:24·No.24805617

I know this is going to sound like a silly question, even strange.

But can I take my Kindle to the library?

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Anon·10/18/25 20:29·No.24811046

Need some recs /lit/. These are some of my favorite books/authors: >Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 >Nabokov, Despair >Shakespeare, Macbeth >DFW, Infinite Jest >Eco, The Name of the Rose >Eco, Foucault's Pendulum >Painting, Aberration in the Heartland of the Real >Willis, Doomsday Book I'm in a rut wi...

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Anon·10/19/25 01:01·No.24811815

>It was a dark and stormy night.

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Anon·10/18/25 21:28·No.24811183

Reading session length?

How long do you read at a time? Currently I read ~30min at a time, maybe 3 or 4 times a day. I used to do long sessions (3-4 hours at a time), but rarely do that anymore. Don't know why, but when I hit 30min, it's like my mind just shuts off and wants to do something else. Anybody else experience th...

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Anon·10/18/25 23:13·No.24811420

I'm reading Infinite Jest. Where are the sex scenes?

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Anon·10/18/25 15:28·No.24810375

>dedicated to his responsibilities >does everything right >shows bravery and self-sacrifice despite his fears >grows and matures >abruptly, other characters begin humiliating him relentlessly >killed offscreen by shitting himself What the FUCK was Crichton's problem with this guy?

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Anon·10/19/25 00:40·No.24811746

Was King Arthur black?

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Anon·10/18/25 04:14·No.24809394

Best modernised Don Quixote

Which is the best Don Quixote in contemporary Spanish? What do you think about the one pictured?

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Anon·10/08/25 20:36·No.24783718

Why does this African bible make people so angry?

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Anon·10/17/25 17:31·No.24807927

/wibac/ — Writing Inspired by Art Challenge

You have until October 20th, 6:00 PM GMT to fill one /lit/-sized textbox (3,000 characters) with writing inspired by this piece of art from /ic/. https://countingdownto.com/?c=6650318 Poetry, prose, greentext, etc. are all fair play as long as your submission fits inside, and exists soley within, a...

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Anon·10/19/25 00:51·No.24811791

Primordial thinking.

I won’t be verbose, sentimental, circular, or emotionally cluttered. I’ll only lay down the core axis here. I’ll drop a single link — a "turning point". Leading to a place (obviously not spam or meaningless promotion). Whether you enter or not is up to you. Or more accurately — up to your essence...

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Anon·10/18/25 11:15·No.24809887

The Border Trilogy is McCarthy's best work

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Anon·10/17/25 20:41·No.24808333

/wng/ — Web Novel General

Reverend Insanity edition Previous: >>24804604 [/lit/thread/24804604#p24804604] >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, Scrib...

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Anon·10/18/25 17:54·No.24810674

Judged purely as a work of fiction, how good is the Book of Mormon and its worldbuilding?

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Anon·10/16/25 01:25·No.24804139

Do you place any value in reading literature in some sort of canonical order? I feel as though for philosophy it is almost neccesssry to read works in a certain order (although some disagree with me there), but for literature it is more of a grey area, especially when philosophy and literature overl...

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Anon·10/18/25 14:55·No.24810297

He literally saved my life

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Anon·10/17/25 18:27·No.24808033

Has anyne read the Alexander Romance?

It just found out it was the most widely spread and translated book from antiquity to medieval ages throughout the middle east, mediterranean and Europe. It seems hugely influential (it gave Alexander introduction into Islam even), but I've never seen it seriously discussed before.

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Anon·10/17/25 17:16·No.24807895

How is fantasy not science fiction when it involves internal scientific processes? How is science fiction not fantasy when it’s fantastical imaginative science?

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Anon·10/14/25 17:55·No.24800469

Books which clearly have influenced TV drama?

You ever notice how tv shows have the same narrative? Antihero and villain are two incredible geniuses trying to take each other down with immense high brained scheming, resulting in big mysteries and plot twists. Death Note, Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, House of Cards, Billions and many other sh...

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Anon·10/18/25 02:41·No.24809247

Are you aware that normies have turned Kafka and Dostoevsky into this

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Anon·10/14/25 02:52·No.24799150

Which religious text is the best read?

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Anon·10/18/25 06:15·No.24809570

Why don't prosefags read poetry?

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Anon·10/18/25 13:28·No.24810096

I read the entire Bible, including the Deuterocanonical books. It wasn’t convincing for me, but I’m still very interested in Christianity. Which one of these should I read next?

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Anon·10/18/25 23:16·No.24811436

I read the book of job but I don't get it at all and I'm thinking it's cause of the translation I read. How can I increase my understanding of the KJV?

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Anon·10/18/25 23:36·No.24811520

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Anon·10/18/25 09:46·No.24809778

We're finally living in a Post-How-to-Win-Friends world

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Anon·10/17/25 12:06·No.24807441

The Case of Wagner

>One pays dearly for having been a follower of Wagner. I contemplate the youthlets who have long been exposed to his infection. The first[Pg 41] relatively innocuous effect of it is the corruption of their taste. Wagner acts like chronic recourse to the bottle. He stultifies, he befouls the stomach....

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Anon·10/18/25 19:36·No.24810935

Are poets just failed musicians and novelists?

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Anon·10/18/25 21:54·No.24811238

Will it be any good? If it’s half as good as his Stand up it will be absolutely brilliant

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Anon·10/18/25 15:18·No.24810353

>"I think you can be enlightened and still hate people" Describes the mindset of 90% of Christians, Buddhists and Humanists on this board

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Anon·10/17/25 01:51·No.24806571

I saw this in a store for like two bucks, should I go back and get it? I've already read fagles and lattimore.

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Anon·10/17/25 15:26·No.24807711

Write book excerpts as if they were Marvel movies. I'll start: >what? You don't expect Moby-Dick to appear in the dead of night? >... >he's right behind me, isn't he?

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Anon·10/18/25 17:14·No.24810581

Significant horror fiction of the latter 90s and early 2000s

After the Stephen King boom of the 70s and 80s and early 90s where there were seemingly millions of horror novels published and big name authors like Clive Barker, I've noticed I can't think of many noteworthy books from say about 1997-2007, it seems like horror damn near vanished from much mainstre...

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Anon·10/18/25 14:23·No.24810225

>Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Is he right? Is belief in God an epistemic overreach?

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Anon·10/18/25 22:45·No.24811358

Hey /lit/ — could you crit the opening of my SF story? Influences: Metro 2033 vibes (survival, claustrophobia). Premise: A teenager is trapped on the highest floors of a Beijing tower after an undefined cataclysm (possibly nuclear). Ground level is drowned in thick black smoke; only the sunlit uppe...

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Anon·10/13/25 02:19·No.24796289

Best books about partying and doing coke?

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Anon·10/18/25 09:26·No.24809764

wtf am I reading

> 100 pages through > the delusions of a psychopath or a schizo or something undescribable I fucking love it. Where do I get more of this?

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Anon·10/18/25 04:03·No.24809366

>"I wanna burn down a city full of women and children just for the glory of it and because I wanna impress my dad." >This guy is seen as a hero. He sounds like a Saturday Morning Cartoon bad guy. Why do the Greeks see him as heroic?

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Anon·09/23/25 03:59·No.24743874

/pg/—Pulp Fiction General

Welcome to /pg/, where we read, write, and discuss pulp fiction. No, not the Tarantino film, but the classic genre stories from early 20th-century magazines printed on cheap wood *pulp* paper. These tales offered thrills for the common man and let imaginations soar. Though the magazines are gone, th...

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Anon·10/18/25 21:28·No.24811182

>the niggers everywhere in the world that unironically try to argue that humane and properly regulated capitalist stoic utilitarianism isnt the perfect philosophical ideology

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Anon·10/18/25 13:10·No.24810068

Now that some time has passed, is this a worthy translation of Homer?

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Anon·10/18/25 17:43·No.24810641

I have no desire to read any books that are not "classics". Am I actually missing anything by not reading anything else?

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Anon·10/18/25 05:12·No.24809507

>is a critique of Soviet socialism >everything in the book mimics current western liberal states and has very little in common with Soviet politics or society

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Anon·10/18/25 21:08·No.24811135

Novels that stand out in an author's bibliography

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Anon·10/18/25 14:59·No.24810314

What the fuck is he talking about?

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Anon·10/18/25 18:43·No.24810792

Medieval romances, who next?

Who should I read next to get a good idea of medieval romances after Chretien de Troyes? Wolfram is known as a big name, but would you consider him a pillar in the way Chretien is? Who else should I also read to get a decent lay of the land of Medieval romances as a whole historical genre? someone ...

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Anon·10/18/25 11:46·No.24809937

>imagine still caring about poetry past the age of 16 >imagine still caring about "literary" fiction past the age of 22 I am smarter than you and there is nothing you can do about it.

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Anon·10/18/25 12:45·No.24810027

>arithmetical propositions are ALWAYS synthetical. >source: trust me, bro.

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Anon·10/16/25 22:52·No.24806159

why does /lit/ look down on these types of reader?

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Anon·10/18/25 19:06·No.24810850

i just made a twitter account. rec me literature related twitter profiles to follow. I wanna be in on the cool stuff going on currently

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Anon·10/18/25 12:06·No.24809973

How do Hebros cope with the fact that the Yod of YHVH is a Hand and the Vav is a Stake

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Anon·10/18/25 09:14·No.24809748

Hey, what were and are you reading this month?

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Anon·10/18/25 06:54·No.24809608

Is it worth the time and effort needed to read all six of these?

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Anon·10/17/25 20:29·No.24808306

Ancient Greek mathematics

Are ancient Greek mathematics worth getting into? I've read a good amount of the Greeks and I've gotten to the point where I'm intching for more. I've seen some people say that it's outdated but I'm still interested in checking it out. If it is still worthy of study, what's a good secondary introduc...

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Anon·10/18/25 18:47·No.24810803

I understand sci fi poetry is a rather niche appeal. Here’s my first attempt: If there are an infinite number of natural numbers, and an infinite number of fractions in between any two natural numbers, and an infinite number of fractions in between any two of those fractions, and an infinite numbe...

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Anon·10/17/25 14:29·No.24807618

>The palace of the Sun soared high on columns >and shone with flashing gold and flames of bronze. >Bright ivory encased its pediments, >and radiant silver beamed upon its doors. >Its art surpassed such finery, for Vulcan >had carved on it the ocean girding earth, >the sphere of earth, and sky above ...

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Anon·10/18/25 11:47·No.24809939

Seriously? Treebeard?

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Anon·10/18/25 17:39·No.24810630

crisis of meaning?

i'm a teacher for the past ten years at a public school. i invest hours upon hours into my students and they are grateful for it (it's a situation where i teach my students for extended period of time) i keep getting this feeling that i should be pursuing a family and yet i have no time to actually...

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Anon·10/15/25 08:56·No.24802445

>be Christian >side with Sam Pick exactly one

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Anon·10/15/25 00:55·No.24801633

It makes me uncomfortable that bad people get away with it

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Anon·10/18/25 04:50·No.24809468

How do I get over the nagging feeling that even if I spend 500 hours making a really good book, the odds of making any money from it are close to 0

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Anon·10/18/25 11:34·No.24809920

Any recommendations for contemporary literary fiction that DOESN'T appeal only to women and the severely social media-addled?

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Anon·10/16/25 21:36·No.24806002

The King In Yellow

Any Robert Chambers fans in here? Ambrose Bierce originally created Carcosa but Robert Chambers and Lovecraft fleshed it out a bunch. I think the idea of Carcosa is super interesting and how the it's leaking into our world through The King In Yellow causing all types of horrors.

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Anon·10/18/25 15:57·No.24810426

Is this the most embarrassing quote of all time?

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Anon·10/17/25 02:33·No.24806662

/a/utists created Katawa Shoujo A fa/tg/uy created Rubyquest Why can't /lit/heads create anything?

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Anon·10/18/25 16:32·No.24810504

Can we post out-of-context quotes?

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Anon·10/18/25 15:39·No.24810398

platobros... how can we ever recover

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Anon·10/18/25 16:03·No.24810440

Ambassador by Peter Watts

First Contact was supposed to solve everything. That was the rumour, anyway: gentle wizards from Epsilon Eridani were going to save us from the fire and welcome us into a vast Galactic Siblinghood spanning the Milky Way. Whatever diseases we'd failed to conquer, they would cure. Whatever political s...

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Anon·10/18/25 14:10·No.24810191

>A well-ordered republic must keep the public rich and its citizens poor What did he mean by this?

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