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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·03/15/26 01:07·No.25141013

Does this shit actually work?

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Anon·03/15/26 10:17·No.25141659

Strictly in terms of IQ, he has to be the smartest novelist of all time, right?

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Anon·03/15/26 10:11·No.25141650

Why you MUST read (and how to do it better)

I think a lot of what we do in life are driven by fear. Not all of it, but especially with all the news headlines that are floating around nowadays. It's really hard for us not to tune into the aspect of fear and ask ourselves, you know, what do you fear the most in life? And recently I started ki...

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Anon·03/15/26 10:12·No.25141652

I’ve never had a girlfriend. I never will have a girlfriend. So I started reading to cope with that fact. I started reading Don Quixote. It’s surprisingly funny for a 400 year old book, I really like it so far. I like how this book and the character of Don Quixote is still very relevant today. He re...

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Anon·03/13/26 17:43·No.25137994

objectively correct

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Anon·03/15/26 09:37·No.25141602

You can only post ITT if your favorite book is rated below 4.0 on Goodreads. Otherwise you have normie taste.

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Anon·03/13/26 09:51·No.25137429

Write your thoughts

Valentino edition. Old >>25130931 [/lit/thread/25130931#p25130931]

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Anon·03/15/26 08:18·No.25141539

I am literally Heathcliff

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Anon·03/15/26 09:40·No.25141608

Low IQ people never learn any language beyond English (+ their native language if not English). The idea that some have "if you want to learn about grammar you should begin with the grammar of your own language" is false. The grammar of English and the grammar of your native language are not enough....

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Anon·03/14/26 08:45·No.25139360

Is it worth reading if I already seen the movie?

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Anon·03/15/26 09:59·No.25141636

Is it worth reading (up until he dies)? How does it rate among other fantasy series?

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Anon·03/14/26 22:15·No.25140468

>you ever talk to Rayray?? Cuz he supposed to be your agent an you ain’t got hold of his ass yet? Nah I know you didn’t cuz you still ain’t finished wit dat Great American Novel you say you always on the phone with. How many words you wrote today? you lyin! I know your lazy ass ain’t write no goddam...

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Anon·03/05/26 10:58·No.25122554

>The Cossacks is an okay early work >War and Peace is a bit bloated and clunky but very good and fascinating >Anna Karenina (his first "true" novel) and everything after is just a masterpiece What the fuck? I thought /lit/ said everything after Anna Karenina was bad because it's "moralizing" or what...

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Anon·03/13/26 13:57·No.25137651

What tools do you guys use for writing? Do you primarily type or use pen/pencil and paper? I've been trying to improve my handwriting and cursive more lately, the problem is most storebought notebooks have bleedthrough when using pens, which makes it annoying when writing on both sides. I bought a m...

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Anon·03/13/26 21:14·No.25138384

Too many of you tards don't know what Moral Relativism means. Chart designed to cure stupidity

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Anon·03/11/26 16:30·No.25133895

/lit/ humor thread

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Anon·03/15/26 07:44·No.25141514

I've been reading books of old, the legends and the myths Achilles and his gold, Hercules and his gifts Spider-Man's control and Batman with his fists And clearly, I don't see myself upon that list But she said, "Where d'you wanna go? How much you wanna risk? I'm not looking for somebody with some s...

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Anon·03/14/26 23:36·No.25140724

>he usually read one book every day How did he do it? Is it speed reading? Teddy Roosevelt and JFK were said to read books daily too. I just don’t understand it. How is it even possible?

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Anon·03/14/26 22:49·No.25140601

Have you read feminist literature? They openly advocate for incest. (Book is "woman hating" from Andrea Dworkins published 1974)

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Anon·03/09/26 20:04·No.25130237

/wbg/ Worldbuilding General

Monsters, Dragons, Beasts, Creatures, Horrors, and Miscellaneous Lifeforms Edition Version 2: Magical and/or Alien Boogaloo 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 a...

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Anon·03/14/26 22:42·No.25140573

Why don't men jack off to books as much as women?

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Anon·03/15/26 08:19·No.25141541

Mountain literature

You know any books about life in the mountains? I'd especially like any that cover everyday life up there in a realisti way, not romanticised or overly "cozy."

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Anon·03/15/26 02:25·No.25141155

Now that the dust has settled... Who was right?

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Anon·03/15/26 09:16·No.25141583

does anyone have the recent thread on the anatomy of melancholy? I meant to read it but forgot

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Anon·03/14/26 01:30·No.25138825

Saw someone reading this at the library. Is it still worth reading today?

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Anon·03/15/26 08:42·No.25141557

Direct Democracy

What would a direct democracy look like and would it be any better than what we have now? How would we arrive at opinions? Couldn't we all just vote on issues using e-voting? >To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to att...

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Anon·03/13/26 23:59·No.25138662

When someone says Dune is a dystopian setting I always know I'm listening to a brainlet.

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Anon·03/15/26 09:19·No.25141588

Is Tito Perdue the only widely read novelist to become a Nazi (literally a guy who praises Hitler on YouTube and attends American Renaissance conferences) without getting canceled? Or has reading literary fiction become so niche that no one even cares?

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Anon·03/13/26 16:00·No.25137794

>Se ha dicho que todos los hombres nacen aristotélicos o platónicos. Ello equivale a declarar que no hay debate de carácter abstracto que no sea un momento de la polémica de Aristóteles y Platón; a través de los siglos y latitudes, cambian los nombres, los dialectos, las caras, pero no los eternos a...

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Anon·03/14/26 21:02·No.25140327

>LARPS as a Christian >Didn't really go to church or take the Eucharist regularly

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Anon·03/12/26 19:26·No.25136069

Artificial Intelligence will render most prose written before it obsolete. Any human "master" text feels unbearably clunky in comparison to what it can do in seconds.

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Anon·03/11/26 11:30·No.25133509

"I pray each morning to three Druid deities, using prayers modeled on the Orphic hymns." -- John Michael Greer

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Anon·03/13/26 16:09·No.25137812

Are there any contemporary works of literary fiction, published in the past 10 years, that don't .... well .... suck? Hardmode - anglophone. No translations. Pic not related.

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Anon·01/25/26 20:04·No.25044548

—Ulysses! that whole business again, well it's not true it's bullshit I did not read it I'm telling you I did not read the damn thing I did not . . . In that cramped interval between his fingers' faltering insistence and the floor's mute expectancy, the cylindrical burden already half‑forgotten as a...

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Anon·03/15/26 03:51·No.25141267

I have no idea. I don't think there's an answer to this question.

What is the purpose of life?

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Anon·03/10/26 23:08·No.25132678

/grrm/ - George R. R. Martin General #107

lorathi mazes 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://cse...

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Anon·03/15/26 00:42·No.25140958

/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General

Horse edition >Old: >>25138071 [/lit/thread/25138071#p25138071] >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....

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Anon·03/14/26 12:55·No.25139620

somehow, alfsvoid returned and if some newfag janny deletes this thread for being off-topic, fuck you, this philosophy channel was discussed a lot here six years ago or so

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Anon·03/14/26 14:38·No.25139737

The last of the great German philosophers has died. Say something nice about his legacy.

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Anon·03/12/26 06:02·No.25135108

great sci-fi authors?

I'm most interested in the quality of ideas than anything. Sci-fi is a divinitory branch of literature, so that's what I'm looking for: oddball prophetic stuff

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Anon·03/14/26 11:57·No.25139572

>Born too late to be a literary edgelord in Paris wirting genre-bending novels, making ends meet with news article write ups while fucking multiple women and drinking in the bar with American expats

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Anon·03/14/26 08:40·No.25139350

ITT: Post your work for the rest of us to mock.

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Anon·03/06/26 20:35·No.25125217

/hfg/-Horror Fiction General

Clark Ashton Smith 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, Sheri...

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Anon·03/14/26 02:25·No.25138970

The Crying Lot of 49

Why does reading this feel borderline unbearable? I wanna like Pynchon but the prose is AIDS Meanwhile when I read Céline, I almost orgasm..

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Anon·03/13/26 06:10·No.25137215

Not sure if this belongs in another board. Please recommend your favorite Visual Novels, CYOA or any other multiple-ending media. What are the qualities that makes a good Visual Novel? When writing, what's important to keep in mind?

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Anon·03/15/26 00:00·No.25140850

>preface spoils the entire book why?

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Anon·03/15/26 07:13·No.25141491

Based on what I read

Dickens just read some adventure novels as a kid. Yet, his prose is better than writers today who have read a gazillion books (especially classics). What gives?

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Anon·03/14/26 15:40·No.25139831

Is philosophy just a rich person hobby?

The guys we quote as "great thinkers" were usually trust-fund kids or had people doing their chores for them. Can you actually have a mid-life crisis about the meaning of the universe if you're working two jobs and stressed about rent?

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Anon·03/14/26 05:30·No.25139190

Finished writing a poem

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Anon·03/14/26 21:53·No.25140418

You want to believe they'll come back some day, all those greats from the 20th century. They won't. The circle of serious readers is now very small, and shrinking by the day. Your culture will continue to drift into hedonism and philistinism, until, in forty or fifty years, you won't even have a /l...

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Anon·03/09/26 07:31·No.25129386

/wg/ - Writing General

Genreslop Edition Previous: >>25118057 [/lit/thread/25118057#p25118057] /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. Disc...

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Anon·03/11/26 04:04·No.25133065

>age >current book >your thoughts on it

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Anon·03/15/26 02:09·No.25141125

Alright /lit/, what's your favorite book with over 80k ratings on Goodreads that isn't a ''classic'' (hasn't been released prior to 1970)? You don't have one? What, are you some kind of pseud?

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Anon·03/15/26 02:12·No.25141130

Does autobiographical fiction exist?

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Anon·03/15/26 00:34·No.25140935

Can you guys give me some short story ideas?

I want to enter a manga competition but I have no idea what to write about. Help a brother out and give me some one-shot ideas.

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Anon·03/12/26 21:32·No.25136294

What are the best examples of title drops in literature?

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Anon·03/14/26 14:17·No.25139705

Pretty good book but it's written in a very weird way

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Anon·03/15/26 06:22·No.25141441

Prima Parte - Hegel's Science of Logic

Hegel opens the logic with a demand that is at once methodological and ontological. The beginning must be wholly immediate, and our thinking must not “help” it by importing anything heterogeneous. “To enter into philosophy, therefore, calls for no other preparations, no further reflections or point...

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Anon·03/15/26 05:34·No.25141393

The prose in this book is so embellished and bloated. It's maddening

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Anon·03/14/26 01:34·No.25138843

Just finished this book. What did I think of it?

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Anon·03/15/26 03:00·No.25141198

Any books about recovering from sexual humiliation/rape/getting cucked?

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Anon·03/13/26 02:18·No.25136843

>On a date with this guy >Going well >Find out he likes literature too, ask him his favorite authors >"Pessoa, Houellebecq, Schopenhauer" >Instantly say I'm going to the bathroom and ditch Lterally like the holy trinity of incel literature, INSANE red flag. You probably browse here so know that even...

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Anon·02/22/26 22:08·No.25103936

/clg/ - Classical Languages General

Medieval edition >τὸ πρότερον νῆμα· >>25064706 >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 are welcome.

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Anon·03/13/26 14:33·No.25137688

uhhhhh Hegelxisters?

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Anon·03/15/26 02:26·No.25141157

Dying to have a real discussion on this 'Inflexible Authority' passage of Borrough's

i loooove william s burrough's 'inflexible authority' passage especially its performance on the 'call me burroughs' album. obviously the whole thing is obscene and provides a base level of carnal unethical thrill, but it also provides a confluence of incredible and relatable information regarding th...

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Anon·03/14/26 20:49·No.25140294

Any books about being a 28 years old khv?

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Anon·03/15/26 02:18·No.25141142

What books should I read if I think non-being is better than being?

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Anon·03/13/26 13:52·No.25137649

>200k words of kissing his girlfriend and washing her feet What did he mean by this?

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Anon·03/15/26 04:35·No.25141316

I'm building an online platform that's sort of like a literary Netflix. With a subscription you'll be able to access a gigantic library of books, which you can read at your leisure. I have a VC investment already. Would you subscribe to such a thing?

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Anon·03/13/26 17:10·No.25137927

im pretty well read but i have no means of assessing my intellect since i dont conversate with other human beings at all

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Anon·03/13/26 02:26·No.25136858

>every cultured man has two fatherlands: his own, and then France

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Anon·03/13/26 20:21·No.25138290

Critiques of Modernity

Best critiques of modernity from a right-wing perspective?

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Anon·03/15/26 03:42·No.25141251

Max Stirner farming aura, circa 1840

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Anon·03/14/26 02:10·No.25138931

At a certain point, it would have been more honest for him to just write smut

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Anon·03/12/26 19:22·No.25136060

Absolutely full of brvtal trvth nvkes. Sooner or later humanity will be forced to find an answer to the Abrahamic question.

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Anon·03/14/26 03:17·No.25139050

>people who discuss philosophy but never read primary sources what can we do against these subhumans?

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Anon·03/15/26 03:27·No.25141227

I am not going to comment on the LOTR books. It could be great. However, I hate Tolkeinesque fantasy on an aesthetic level, and I hate all the books that shamelessly use it as their setting. It has dominated the genre so much, that the entire genre is borderline a write off to me.

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Anon·03/14/26 03:29·No.25139064

Is it possible to fry my brain so much that I lose any morality and become an impulsive depraved libertarian who doesn't think or self-reflect unless I really want to? Becoming the opposite of the Underground Man in Dostoyevsky and a de Sade, Nero, etc instead?

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Anon·03/12/26 14:38·No.25135643

Baby Alex by QUENTIN SCOBIE

Out of print and no epub ever uploaded. I've been spending the last week individually messaging the people that reviewed it on Goodreads and if they respond they say "no I will not send you this book". "No I will not upload a scan". Is the decline in male reading due to lost media like this?

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Anon·03/14/26 08:43·No.25139353

How quickly should one finish a book? I find it hard to find a delicate balance between getting through a book fast enough (because I have a large backlog, and I mean large, of books I wish to read) but also reading slow enough that I can fully take in what I'm reading and not read so fast that it d...

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Anon·03/15/26 02:38·No.25141175

>/lit/ recommends me a philosopher >I already beat him in Socrates Jones Pro Philosopher

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Anon·03/14/26 23:16·No.25140671

Why do anons shit on this book? I liked it

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Anon·03/14/26 23:55·No.25140826

Why didn't he bother preserving a definitive edition?

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Anon·03/15/26 01:04·No.25141004

How do I prepare for reading Middle English / Chaucer? Any books that help?

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Anon·03/09/26 13:36·No.25129746

>We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when my white boyfriend began to take hold

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Anon·03/13/26 02:20·No.25136846

Do you pirate media? Why or why not?

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Anon·03/13/26 22:54·No.25138552

>So ummm Anon, what gothic prose work is your favorite? >I really need something to get me into the mood Well, wat say

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Anon·03/14/26 22:09·No.25140447

Aristoteles Politics - written over 2350 years ago. It explains how to properly run a society. In this thread i will share my notes with. You can also read it on Twitter: https://x.com/chris_wallura/status/2023745493885456751 >"Again, the evil practices of the last and worst form of democracy are ...

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Anon·03/14/26 04:35·No.25139123

Would /lit/ prefer to live in a male culture or a female culture

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Anon·03/12/26 20:51·No.25136229

Have you read this? What did you think of it? I tried posting the story of the blessing of El-ahrairah but I guess that's not allowed.

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Anon·03/13/26 01:31·No.25136767

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

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Anon·03/14/26 09:01·No.25139387

>claims to have "easily" read 1000 pages an hour Reading speed has now been studied to death. Turns out the upper human limit without loss of comprehension is something like 500 wpm, where the average is 250 wpm. Bloom's claim suggests a reading speed of 4000 to 5000 wpm. Why lie about something so...

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Anon·03/10/26 00:30·No.25130760

>steals from Schleiermacher >steals from Proudhon >steals from Cabet >steals from Blanc >steals from Fichte >steals from Schelling >steals from Thierry >steals from Adolphe-Blanqui >steals from Charles Comte >steals from Dunoyer >steals from Mignet >steals from Guizot >steals from Hegel >steals from...

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Anon·03/14/26 12:31·No.25139601

>Wallace revealed in an interview that the novel was somewhat autobiographical: "the sensitive tale of a sensitive young WASP who's just had this midlife crisis that’s moved him from coldly cerebral analytic math to a coldly cerebral take on fiction. What kind of a 'man' describes himself as 'sensi...

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Anon·03/14/26 18:11·No.25140068

I felt the 2 Narnia's books about Eustace were the better ones, it felt that Lewis at least tried to develop the character a little and a fresh air compared to the previous books

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Anon·03/06/26 01:04·No.25123751

Why do we still pretend that theism and atheism aren’t the same thing?

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Anon·03/11/26 10:51·No.25133478

Why do girls love this book so much? All the alt baddies on my discord are glazing the shit out of Dazai

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Anon·03/14/26 05:58·No.25139245

how is your epic poem coming along?

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Anon·03/14/26 21:43·No.25140394

was he a patrician or a pleb?

>According to accounts from relatives, he maintained a sustained interest in arts and culture throughout his life. He read Iranian and foreign novels as well as historical works, and watched international films. >In 1988, while serving as President of Iran, Khamenei delivered a speech titled The Spl...

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Anon·03/07/26 18:19·No.25126357

Which one was your favorite?

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Anon·03/10/26 14:08·No.25131648

/wng/ — Web Novel General

The World After The Slop Edition Stubbed >>25124266 [/lit/thread/25124266#p25124266] >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, ...

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Anon·03/14/26 23:20·No.25140677

It's not a bad translation.

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Anon·03/14/26 01:19·No.25138793

> As we began work on the new editions, I received an unexpected note from the editor: “I’m writing to propose several minor changes to the language… to remove words that now have a different connotation than when the books were originally published.” The words in question were “lame,” “queer,” “dum...

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Anon·03/15/26 00:33·No.25140931

When I was in the subway in New York City, I heard a bald new age Hindu chanting the mantra: >हरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्ण कृष्ण कृष्ण हरे हरे >हरे राम हरे राम राम राम हरे हरे So I chant >जयंती मंगला काली भद्रकाली कपालिनी। दुर्गा क्षमा शिवा धात्री स्वाहा स्वधा नमोऽस्तुते॥

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Anon·03/13/26 07:27·No.25137291

>reads post-colonial theory once

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Anon·03/14/26 06:30·No.25139280

I just found out that I have an iq of 85. Recommend me a book.

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Anon·03/10/26 15:53·No.25131822

What is the premium slop you turn to when you're in the mood? Don't get me wrong, I love the classics, but sometimes you're in the mood for McDonald's. That being said, not all McDonalds locations are created equal. Some are staffed by inbred idiots who struggle to understand English, while others h...

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Anon·03/14/26 13:20·No.25139635

What are some books, fiction or non-fiction, that deal with work? My entire life I've always struggled with it. It's not even laziness as such, it's just that distractions are infinite these days. And that's not even to mention my own side projects. I know Cioran hated work and avoided it his entir...

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Anon·03/14/26 23:59·No.25140845

This book would be a perfect anime.

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Anon·03/14/26 14:46·No.25139748

Is mainstream (Kantian) philosophy just a massive defensive effort to protect the human subject from the terrifying entropic reality of its own extinction?

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Anon·03/13/26 20:35·No.25138319

>communism le bad! >nazism le bad! >da evil collective wect wants to destroy and break up russia and the only way for russia to survive is to RETVRN to christian orthodoxy and monarchism! nigga must've had an iq of 80 fr

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Anon·03/14/26 16:21·No.25139897

Where should you start with Schmitt?

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Anon·03/09/26 22:20·No.25130508

WRITING IS TOO TIME CONSUMING

I've been writing for around 11 years and finally I got a manuscript that passed with a publishing agent (around 130k words, fantasy). I went through my log, and discovered that I spent more than 700 hours in this manuscript. That is 700 hours of life that will never be returned to me — most of whic...

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Anon·03/13/26 01:20·No.25136645

>last sentence of the novel is "Yukiko’s diarrhea persisted through the twenty-sixth, and was a problem on the train to Tokyo." I'm fucking dying, I had to check to make sure I didn't download an incomplete ebook

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Anon·03/13/26 09:34·No.25137413

Where do I start with RadTradCatholicism?

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Anon·03/14/26 16:11·No.25139878

>accurately predicted how [people I don't like] appropriated and destroyed [thing I like] with the use of force and violence Wow, some things never change.

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Anon·03/11/26 02:41·No.25132962

Currently Reading

What is /lit/ currently reading? Feel free to explain why you like it or what you've learned if you'd like.

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Anon·03/14/26 15:32·No.25139816

Is it true that the novel is the ultimate bourgeois artform?

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Anon·03/14/26 15:08·No.25139778

Books about protagonist(male)struggling to overcome hardships and gain power to subdue off all creation and twist it to his liking?

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Anon·03/13/26 14:14·No.25137667

Why do some say Dostoyevski and others say Dostoievsky?

Does an author's spelling really matter? I've even seen a Dostojevskii. Gavilovski/Gavilovsky is another one.

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Anon·03/13/26 11:04·No.25137489

>mfw knowing that there are literally anons on /lit/ that got their start in writing through HP fanfiction

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Anon·03/13/26 07:09·No.25137276

What are the best works that refute liberalism/neoliberalism? >pic unrelated

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Anon·03/13/26 18:46·No.25138119

/stack/ general

Shocked to not see one on the catalog, have you boys been neglecting your reading?

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Anon·03/14/26 12:10·No.25139583

https://youtu.be/pemqwA-DqPA?si=oNgO2aC0mBmCKcmn Who the fuck submitted that Altach Mega Corporation story? I know it was one of you guys. Other than that, any thoughts on this guy’s videos?

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Anon·03/13/26 09:52·No.25137433

Although no female writer occupies the Central Canon (an extremely rarefied group including Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, etc), I submit there is one female in the rung directly below it, namely George Eliot, as well as two in the rung directly below that, namely Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf. Are the...

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Anon·03/13/26 07:31·No.25137297

I really identify with Lenehan in this story. I feel like a lot of older Anons would identify with Lenehan.

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Anon·03/12/26 03:50·No.25134943

Post good old textbooks. Here are three beginner books for learning French plus a German reader. https://archive.org/details/longmansillustra00bidg https://archive.org/details/childsillustrate00keet https://archive.org/details/tudeprogressived00ster https://archive.org/details/aneasygermanrea00...

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Anon·03/12/26 07:44·No.25135190

>he didn't watch Shakespeare played by Jews in Yiddish >"you didn't understand Shakespeare thus." wtf was his problem, ... ?.

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Anon·03/12/26 02:43·No.25134855

Let me get this straight, Plato was trying to turn knowledge into something like math so you could never make a mistake once you had access to the forms, like how you always know 2+2=4. So once you had access to these forms you'd have perfect infallible knowledge about stuff and you'd be able to rul...

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Anon·03/13/26 19:41·No.25138220

how do you read on devices ?

what do you think is the best way to read one big column two columns or three columns as the picture shows a light novel on foliate app

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Anon·03/09/26 20:19·No.25130259

>Random House Canada is excited to open our submission policy exclusively to LGBTQIA2S+ and BIPOC writers https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/imprints/RR/Random-House-Canada/submissions Thank GOD we're finally going to get some diverse perspectives in publishing

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Anon·03/12/26 15:34·No.25135702

Almost done with Crash and it's almost tedious how pornographic it can be. It was funny for the first 100 pages, but you can only read so much about a prostitute sucking the glans of a dick like a throbbing heart being ruptured from a car crash victim's cadaver.

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Anon·03/10/26 12:05·No.25131496

ISO NOIDED Books

What are some NOIDED books like these: >Aberration in the Heartland of the Real by Wendy Painting >Programmed to Kill by David McGowan >Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon by David McGowan >The Ultimate Evil by Maury Terry >Chaos by Tom O'Neill >Trance Formation of America by Cathy O'Brien & Mark Phillip...

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Anon·03/14/26 23:07·No.25140644

Opinion on KIRAC

What do you think of KIRAC, in general and in connection to the porno they made with houellebecq they are battling in court over. Personally I want to suckle on Katie’s soft lactating breasts.

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Anon·03/13/26 17:08·No.25137924

The best book ever written

forget about the greeks, the frogs, the germs, this is it.

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Anon·03/13/26 05:28·No.25137169

What makes people do great things? How would you inspire another anon to do great things, anon?

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Anon·03/14/26 23:13·No.25140661

’twill release this month why aren't we hyped?

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Anon·03/11/26 15:17·No.25133752

Books like girl with the dragon tattoo series? Aspects of it that i like: - autistic main character, just like me - hacker, technolo/g/y aspect - comfy feel, even though subject is dark - calm pace, doesnt feel the need to go 100mph I listen on audiobook if that makes a difference Thanksss

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Anon·03/13/26 19:33·No.25138206

Are newspapers completely irrelevant these days? I dreamed of being a publisher once..

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Anon·03/14/26 20:14·No.25140226

Am I retarded for thinking that reading translated poetry is a waste of time?

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Anon·03/14/26 22:31·No.25140530

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Anon·03/14/26 22:47·No.25140593

Why the hell is this thing so highly regarded?

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Anon·03/13/26 07:57·No.25137320

How come so few people read past Book 1?

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Anon·03/12/26 09:45·No.25135282

What are books written by undeniably horrible people, from their POV? I want to get into the head so I can truly understand psychopaths, sociopaths, etc, and I feel like the best way to do that is to read works written by them. Preferably non-fiction, but I'm open to suggestions regardless.

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Anon·03/13/26 18:09·No.25138037

>working and having a stable life is... le bad!

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Anon·03/13/26 11:18·No.25137496

Who are some good /lit/ booktubers?

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Anon·03/13/26 20:04·No.25138258

what's the oldest book you'd recommend or gift to someone before you'd expect them to say, much like with movies, "that was old and boring"

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Anon·03/14/26 02:09·No.25138930

Good books on gender studies and sexology?

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Anon·03/14/26 04:52·No.25139147

Just marathoned this low-life bino(book kino). What did I think of it and Bukowski in general?

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Anon·03/14/26 16:30·No.25139916

Classical History Club

This week we are reading Julius Caesar's life from Plutarch. Next week, Alexander the Great. After that we will decide what text to read next, with more Plutarch always an option since all of his biographies are kink As far as translation goes, you got Dryden and Oxford and many others, but I perso...

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