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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·06/22/25 23:51·No.24488673

Plato's Allegory of the Cave is one of the most famous and influential thought experiments in Western philosophy. It appears in Book VII of his masterpiece, Republic, and is used to illustrate his profound ideas about the nature of reality, knowledge, and education.

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Anon·06/23/25 20:13·No.24490731

Picrelated is locked up for life. You have to give him one book that gives him the highest chance of redemption. Which one?

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Anon·06/22/25 20:15·No.24488212

Write your thoughts

Prev. >>24483445 [/lit/thread/24483445#p24483445]

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Anon·06/21/25 14:13·No.24484870

Why is God absent from Philosophy?

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Anon·06/17/25 14:53·No.24473775

*wrong about everything in your path*

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Anon·06/22/25 07:47·No.24486872

Who's the most beautiful poet?

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Anon·06/24/25 03:49·No.24491718

Me reading this in 2015: wow, poor Swede, I can't believe this is happening to him Me reading this in 2025: tfw no Meredith gf

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Anon·06/24/25 01:44·No.24491462

I finished the Greeks

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Anon·06/21/25 13:08·No.24484721

>everything has to be a meme >any attempt at sincerity is just being "corny" >most media made nowadays is filled with whedonesque dialogue and absurd levels of snark >All discussions about every topic online are ironic with people looking to get "owns" instead of actually engaging with each other >I...

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Anon·06/21/25 15:44·No.24485116

Gene Wolfe Solar Cycle/Shadow of the Torturer/Book of the New Sun thread continuation from >>24461672 [/lit/thread/24461672#p24461672] I just finished Short Sun (absolutely amazing.) the reveal with the inhumi was wonderful and sad and tragic the whole mating ritual being a dance pretending to be h...

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Anon·06/23/25 01:42·No.24488876

Whatever happened to CumGenius?

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Anon·06/24/25 24:00·No.24491267

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Anon·06/22/25 21:54·No.24488438

Why is literature (and art in general) in decline?

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Anon·06/24/25 03:23·No.24491654

Did Paul Krassner and his ilk destroy society with their satire?

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Anon·06/24/25 03:14·No.24491636

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Anon·06/24/25 03:10·No.24491626

Books that tell you to stop reading and get a job? Besides Nietzsche

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Anon·06/23/25 22:09·No.24491038

Whats the alternative that's actually BASED and NIETZSCHEAN to oppose """"Christian Nationalism"""" and liberalism? It seems maybe like technopunk China is interesting. Grander than life technological creations within an atheistic, confucian framework. But that's not adjusted to the western meaning-...

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Anon·06/23/25 11:08·No.24489611

/lit/'s favourite humourists

Stop with your dry, pretentious bullshit for a moment /lit/. Give me your favourite humourists. Quotes also welcome

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Anon·06/24/25 24:05·No.24491282

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

Best book of all time

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Anon·06/23/25 11:04·No.24489608

Naipaul was such a visionary.

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Anon·06/24/25 01:40·No.24491451

I can't escape nihilism and hedonism... No matter how much I try.

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Anon·06/20/25 14:55·No.24481861

Why does BAP still write like an ESL after 25 years of learning English?

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Anon·06/23/25 17:40·No.24490309

What's the book you've re-read the most?

I'm reading Child of God for the 4th time.

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Anon·06/20/25 24:08·No.24480552

/wg/ Writing General

"Flashback" edition Previous: >>24466997 [/lit/thread/24466997#p24466997] /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. Fo...

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Anon·06/22/25 23:54·No.24488678

Anons, I picked up this book to read today, but I was taken back by all the usual suspect markers all around the cover. Before loosing my time I wish to know, is it worth to read?

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Anon·06/21/25 24:17·No.24483418

NYRB sale is on

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Anon·06/20/25 15:36·No.24481985

Was Buddha a fedora?

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Anon·06/23/25 19:37·No.24490645

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x--N03NO130 >NOO MUH UGLY ASS MONSTER WAS ACTUALLY THE VICTIM >VICTOR WAS EVIL How do you misread Frankenstein this hard?

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Anon·06/23/25 12:20·No.24489703

I try to read Dune but it's so boring. Now, I'll start reading Lord of Light instead. Do you think I made the right decision?

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Anon·06/17/25 23:45·No.24474978

/grrm/ - George R. R. Martin General #75

the jogos nhai 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://cs...

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Anon·06/19/25 06:20·No.24478496

Thoughts on Hemann Hesse?

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Anon·06/22/25 17:50·No.24487829

Are you elitist when it comes to what you consider proper literature?

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Anon·06/19/25 10:18·No.24478787

/clg/ - Classical Languages General

Ostracized edition >τὸ πρότερον νῆμα· >>24425603 [/lit/thread/24425603#p24425603] >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 A...

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Anon·06/24/25 03:12·No.24491632

Favorite Borges story?

Mine is the circular ruins, maybe cause i was stoned lmao

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Anon·06/24/25 01:02·No.24491400

To what extent have contemporary scholarly and critical books about Jesus fundamentally reshaped our understanding of his historical existence, the nature of his teachings, and the origins of early Christianity, particularly when contrasting these perspectives with traditional theological interpreta...

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Anon·06/24/25 24:32·No.24491333

SCHOPGOD MENTIONED LESGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO https://youtu.be/j7Th7GV0zEM?t=6h15m22s

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Anon·06/22/25 14:02·No.24487338

Can we finally admit that Guénon was right about reincarnation and stop pretending it's some profound traditional doctrine? >theosophical 'reincarnation' Sentimentalist garbage for western women who read Ouspensky once and think they were Cleopatra. We can all agree this is retarded. But even the ...

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Anon·06/23/25 01:47·No.24488885

>Open philosophy book >See this on the first page what is your honest reaction?

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Anon·06/23/25 22:36·No.24491093

Please tell me something about Tom Wolfe.

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Anon·06/24/25 02:14·No.24491524

Is it true that to get into philosophy knowing basically nothing about it I should just start reading the actual influential philosophy books instead of a secondary source like an "introduction/history of philosophy"? Or is that a meme that will waste a lot of my time?

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Anon·06/24/25 02:53·No.24491589

We're at the brink of nuclear war, and you're STILL finding reasons to sit on your ass and waste your time instead of reading and writing? Are you really that inept at time management?

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Anon·06/23/25 16:40·No.24490173

Anon with the shittily formatted Homeric Hymns here >>24488460 [/lit/thread/24488460#p24488460] One anon said this is due to cheap POD not being a real publisher, but it's published by Oxford University Press, you'd think they'd have some quality control. I'm really baffled how this happens, and ha...

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Anon·06/20/25 05:00·No.24481005

Why isn't Pynchon as major a figure among true, serious literary types in the same way Joyce, Proust, and Tolstoy are?

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Anon·06/24/25 01:48·No.24491472

What's your favourite episode? Tsar Alexander IIs Assassination is my favourite because of how much they tie in 19th century russian lit

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Anon·06/22/25 15:21·No.24487495

QUIZ — VALE OF TEARS

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Anon·06/23/25 22:28·No.24491071

This guy is retarded (PBUH)

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Anon·06/22/25 09:02·No.24486941

Calm of mind, all passion spent.

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Anon·06/22/25 11:45·No.24487092

>reading makes you stupid Was he right? I'm talking about Socrates btw.

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Anon·06/24/25 02:10·No.24491516

What’s your favorite non-fiction book that’s neither history nor biography?

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Anon·06/23/25 09:06·No.24489478

I know nothing about this book but it's got some kind of allure around it that's insanely attractive to me. What am I in for?

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Anon·06/23/25 19:23·No.24490605

any book that hurts like being hit like a baseball bat? I'm hurt

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Anon·06/23/25 18:15·No.24490406

Is there a bigger lolcow in history than Nietche? >I am le superman >dies alone, a drug addicted junkie, suicidal, insane and STD ridden, all a consequence of the actions he tried to deny had consequences I need to take breaks reading him to laugh and catch my breath, this is better than confederanc...

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Anon·06/24/25 02:21·No.24491534

Douay-Rheims Revision

When the Servant of God Bishop Richard Challoner revised the Douay-Rheims Bible through the years 1749-1752 in the year of our Lord, did he revise the Clementine Appendix of The Prayer of Mannaseh, and III and IV Esdras and did he add notes to them?

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Anon·06/23/25 01:15·No.24488817

What are some books that'll make me a better 4chan poster?

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Anon·06/23/25 08:24·No.24489440

MAGA Maoism reading list

What books so I need to read to grasp the principles of MAGA Maoism?

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Anon·06/23/25 10:34·No.24489583

Have you seriously thought about suffering?

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Anon·06/21/25 21:38·No.24485940

Esoteric Kantianism Hate Thread

>My doctrine is at it's core an attempt to develop a system of practical philisophy whose aim is to obtain the aim of speculative philosophy: the system of omniscience-- through a priori means. It is the redemption of armchair metaphysics against the pretensions of empirical "science". So I was th...

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Anon·06/23/25 14:10·No.24489849

Is this worth reading as a precursor to Jung?

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Anon·06/22/25 02:05·No.24486472

>if they had the power they would do the exact same shit to us, probably worse “The work of the colonist is to make even dreams of liberty impossible for the colonized. The work of the colonized is to imagine every possible method for annihilating the colonist. On the logical plane, the Manichaeani...

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Anon·06/23/25 18:40·No.24490478

I'm thinking it's a good day to sit around reading Star Trek books. Pic related but not mine

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Anon·06/23/25 06:01·No.24489249

What's the list of English Epics? >Paradise Lost >Faerie Queene

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Anon·06/22/25 17:35·No.24487801

i would recommend the conan the cimmerian stories to anyone who likes fantasy fiction, they are absolutely underrated masterpieces of the genre

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Anon·06/23/25 21:30·No.24490912

>tfw philosophy was just a way for he greeks to have fun, make friends, and get some bussy

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Anon·06/21/25 21:40·No.24485944

Original Poetry Thread

Post your work and give feedback to others.

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Anon·06/23/25 23:58·No.24491261

Well, that was a waste of time

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Anon·06/23/25 21:36·No.24490935

Let's say I was an author and I didn't care about money; That my writing style is new and necessary... In the current time, where would I "publish" my works, so that some people, the littlest amount over zero, actually took their time and read the whole thing... Most of -us- in life are invisible, ...

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Anon·06/23/25 22:07·No.24491030

Find something here and bring something back

https://archive.org/details/internetarchivebooks >Mysticism sacred and profane : an inquiry into some varieties of praeternatural experience by Zaehner, R. C. (Robert Charles), 1913-1974 https://archive.org/details/mysticismsacredp00zaeh/mode/2up

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Anon·06/23/25 16:55·No.24490200

I like reading for insight hunting and wisdom but I'm also a midwit ESL who recently moved from Self-Help slop to searching for actual literature. Where to start? I've read: >1984 >White Nights >Siddhartha >The Stranger >Death of Ivan Illych

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Anon·06/23/25 15:49·No.24490077

Some interesting looking book’s I’ve found.

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Anon·06/22/25 23:08·No.24488583

Investigative journalism books you like.

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Anon·06/24/25 24:42·No.24491357

I have made a fantastic discovery: >go to google translate >enter literature >translate to Jamaican patois >fren romans countrymen len mi yuh ears >mfw ive become black shakespeare

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Anon·06/21/25 24:34·No.24483449

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Anon·06/24/25 24:37·No.24491346

Stack thread general

Only compliments edition. Poast yuor stacks here.

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Anon·06/22/25 03:15·No.24486572

I'm a Brainlet, can someone explain how there can be a "becoming" under a deterministic framework?

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Anon·06/23/25 06:38·No.24489310

Are monosyllables the heart of English poetry?

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Anon·06/22/25 23:13·No.24488591

What are good summer reads?

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Anon·06/24/25 24:24·No.24491319

day in the life of a pseud

just learned the word 'ersatz'. i've been ersatzing it for the word 'substitute' all day

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Anon·06/22/25 23:05·No.24488578

This is what the average McCarthy reader looks like

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Anon·06/18/25 15:18·No.24476362

Techbros have killed literature.

As well as every other form of artistic expression, but they killed literature first. It is pointless to read anything written this decade, as one cannot he sure it wasn’t generated by a large-language model. The publishing world of the 2030s, 2040s, and beyond will consist of little besides AI slop...

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Anon·06/23/25 21:02·No.24490848

The Eternal Recurrence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb79IM0UcJM Nietzsche's concept of Eternal Recurrence (or "eternal return") is one of the most profound and challenging ideas in his philosophy, appearing notably in The Gay Science and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It's not simply a cosmological cl...

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Anon·06/23/25 07:28·No.24489383

Coolest books on outer space?

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Anon·06/24/25 24:15·No.24491298

Tried to read the first couple of the top 10 web novels on various web novel signs and they were abysmal. Absolutely awful. Yet they had millions of readers. That's why I've figured I'd give writing fantasy slop a try. I know the text is likely pretty trashy but I'm looking for any feedback that can...

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Anon·06/22/25 07:41·No.24486861

What's on your mind?

Eternal Summer edition. Old: >>24483445 [/lit/thread/24483445#p24483445]

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Anon·06/21/25 05:44·No.24483972

/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: >>24475636 [/lit/...

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Anon·06/23/25 05:24·No.24489206

>I've been fuckin' hoes and poppin' pillies >Man, I feel just like a rockstar Was Ted Hughes the last culturally relevant poet?

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Anon·06/23/25 13:52·No.24489819

>YFW you realized Aleister Crowley is an immensely better writer than Guenon

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Anon·06/23/25 18:49·No.24490510

European/White Top 50 Most Renowned Works of Literature List

HELLO I want to make a nice bookshelf with nice hardback editions, the older the better, of the best writing in all history of europe and europe's colonies. Big-brain White Man chud excellence. Chronologically it will start with Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus. Does anyone want to make suggestions. Also pl...

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Anon·06/23/25 01:05·No.24488802

Have most Americans read Tocqueville?

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Anon·06/14/25 03:37·No.24464915

Church of the East Canon of Scripture

What is the Biblical Canon of the Church of the East? Wikipedia says it has the base Catholic canon, 3 and 4 Maccabees like the Eastern Orthodox have, but no 1 and 2 Esdras, the Prayer of Mannaseh, nor Psalm 151. In addition, Wikipedia says it has Josephus’ Jewish War VI, Joseph and Asanath, and the...

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Anon·06/23/25 20:34·No.24490782

Brr, brr, Patapim, il mio cappello è pieno di Slim! Nel bosco fitto e misterioso, viveva un essere assai curioso. Con radici intrecciate e gambe incrociate, mani sottili, braccia agitate. Il suo naso lungo come un prosciutto, un po' babbuino, un po' cespugliotto. Si chiamava Patapim, oh che strano, ...

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Anon·06/23/25 06:57·No.24489340

It’s too much

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Anon·06/23/25 18:35·No.24490461

>young women have become so cumbrained they are now no longer able to enjoy literature that isn't thinly veiled porn What will be the consequences of this for greater civilization in the near future?

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Anon·06/21/25 20:31·No.24485777

Books to stop browsing 4chan?

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Anon·06/23/25 23:04·No.24491158

>all classic Grimm fairy tales got sanitized as fuck in the 20th century >somehow Hansel and Gretel was left relatively unscathed(the only gritty plot element from the original version that was removed in the modern version was the Witch getting caniballized in the end) Why? I always found weird ho...

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Anon·06/22/25 13:55·No.24487319

Who’s your favorite publisher and why?

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Anon·06/21/25 08:18·No.24484242

Where to start?

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Anon·06/23/25 13:42·No.24489808

De montaigne’s essais

This is the best stuff I’ve read in a long time. What is /lit/s judgement?

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Anon·06/23/25 20:00·No.24490701

So why was Socrates concerned with ethics so much? Why wasn't he just like all the other NPC greeks at the time who took these words for granted? Did he hit his head during the war? was he always like this? Did he un-npc Plato somehow or was Plato also born as a chosen

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Anon·06/23/25 17:16·No.24490252

Anyone read the two books from Tom Hanks?

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Anon·06/23/25 15:55·No.24490088

Do you analyze philosophical works on your own or do you like to listen to other philosopher’s opinions on it too?

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Anon·06/23/25 12:53·No.24489732

If math is the language of the universe and the whole numbers start with one, does that mean that the universe started with one god, and thus, Monotheism? What's the logical fallacy here?

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Anon·06/23/25 05:56·No.24489239

What are your rules for skipping books? I'm well over halfway through a book that's fucking garbage. Should I just drop it or bite the bullet and skim through the rest?

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Anon·06/23/25 22:17·No.24491052

>Nietzsche: yo this dogma shit is mad wack nigga platos a crazy ass cracka bruh them mystical niggas be wildin bruh >Nietzsche: fuh nigga we be like bein reborn forever everytime we die n shit fuhhh

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Anon·06/23/25 02:05·No.24488920

Thoughts on Maggie Dunlap?

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Anon·06/23/25 22:05·No.24491027

>H-h-he molested his daughter because he just did ok??? >Listen, I dislike is books so he just did it ok???

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Anon·06/23/25 18:26·No.24490439

We're returning to an era where most people are illiterate. The vast majority no longer have the attention span to read even a short story. Every student is using AI to write essays and summarize their assigned books. So what are you doing in the midst of this? Are you writing? Are you creating some...

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Anon·06/23/25 21:54·No.24490993

In a Lydian voice she said "Come quick, I will plug up your tight asshole." And she beat my balls with a branch as though I were a scapegoat. I tripped, and stuck on the gallows I suffered a double torture: a branch lashed my chest; someone wet me with cowshit and my ass stank. Beetles came, drawn b...

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Anon·06/23/25 21:30·No.24490914

AND FOR A MINUTE THERE I LOST MYSELF

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Anon·06/23/25 21:15·No.24490873

Have you killed your darlings? Post them here and we will have a funeral for the most exquisite proses ever written.

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Anon·06/23/25 03:53·No.24489083

What political memoirs does /lit/ recommend? Something that gives you an insightful window into the political interior, the trappings of power, and the fateful gift of leadership?

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Anon·06/22/25 23:49·No.24488667

Pushkin Was Black?

Was Alexander Pushkin a black man? Is the Russian poet par excellence a product of black excellence? Lest we say…. >I got. I got. I got that royalty, that loyalty, inside my DNA!

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Anon·06/23/25 11:11·No.24489618

I need books that delve into the female MIND and DESIRE will these help me understand women's desire and help an autismo bookworm spaghetti spiller like me press the buttons of female arousal which Chad manages to do effortlessly? Even the so called "sophisticated" and "deep" ones choose rando liter...

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Anon·06/23/25 15:29·No.24490041

Can you ESLs read difficult books in English?

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Anon·06/23/25 20:33·No.24490781

Books for this feel?

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Anon·06/18/25 19:28·No.24477015

The only book written in the 21st century worth reading. Basically should be mandatory reading for any teenage male. Assured classic status

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Anon·06/18/25 10:04·No.24475815

Does your taste in reading /lit/ look something like this?

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Anon·06/23/25 02:48·No.24488984

>It may not be amiss, as illustrating the contemporary situation of philosophic thought in the British desert, and the recognition of one serious mind by another, to recall an incident of fifteen years past. When the late T. E. Hulme was trying to be a philosopher in that milieu, and fussing about S...

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Anon·06/23/25 14:20·No.24489865

Is this shit worth buying? Did it actually leave a lasting impression/impact on you?

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Anon·06/22/25 07:31·No.24486850

Where do I start with Heidegger?

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Anon·06/22/25 23:03·No.24488570

Weekend reads of fantasy/sci-fi

>pic related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Books

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Anon·06/23/25 08:23·No.24489439

Where can I get a small edition of some of Keats poems to carry around? I really just want to have a small book with his Odes to sit in my pocket and be available for me to read at any time, but I can't find any. Any recommendations for portable poetry books?

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Anon·06/21/25 20:38·No.24485797

English History

What's a good intro into English history? Its impact on others through crusades, colonisation and world wars I know from elsewhere, but I don't have much of a picture of the country's own workings and development.

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Anon·06/22/25 18:12·No.24487860

You can airdrop 1,000,000 copies of any book over Mogadishu, Somalia, to attempt to civilize the city. Which book do you choose?

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Anon·06/23/25 18:49·No.24490511

Fantasy Worldbuilding Woes/Tips

Anyone else who world-builds for a novel feel like they need to learn how to draw/do art in order to better express the setting? Is there anyone who has experience finishing a novel and its world building and has gone through the rigmarole of trying to have it published or sold in some way? How hard...

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Anon·06/23/25 18:11·No.24490399

Why is this so popular? It has sold more copies than Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It has therefore been more impactful than Nietzsche.

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Anon·06/21/25 16:07·No.24485160

What happened to Intellectual Conservatism?

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Anon·06/23/25 08:26·No.24489444

My reaction upon reading the first chapter of The Complete Works of Plato. It got easier as I read it though. I can make it.

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Anon·06/20/25 13:49·No.24481725

What's the intersection between math (specifically algebra) and literature? There was an interesting conversation about this amidst some professors at my uni, I overheard bits of it but I largely missed it. I get philosophy especially after Descartes but what's the intersection with literature more ...

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Anon·06/22/25 21:57·No.24488447

>A screaming comes across the sky

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Anon·06/23/25 02:20·No.24488941

>spend the last decade trying to gaslight your fans you're actually working hard on writing the next book >eventually just drop the act and tell everyone to fuck off Fans were right but in the end, everyone lost.

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Anon·06/19/25 07:08·No.24478581

Thomas Aquinas says you can beat your wife if she cheats on you??? >The wife can be corrected for her sin of fornication not only by this punishment but also by words and blows; wherefore if she be ready to be corrected otherwise, her husband is not bound to have recourse to separation in order to c...

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Anon·06/22/25 01:28·No.24486417

Now that we are once again at war, what are the best war books?

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Anon·06/21/25 01:32·No.24483553

Too many of you are at the early stages. You have no idea.

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Anon·06/23/25 18:10·No.24490398

The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander

Has anybody read this? I would recommend at least to read the prologue if you're at all interested in philosophy or architecture. I think his idea that modern society, science, and philosophy is much to concerned with the mechanistic explanation of how things work and what defines things is very tr...

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Anon·06/23/25 17:54·No.24490347

Do you decorate your bookshelves? I'm doing some redecorating after a move and looking for some inspo. Do any of you display some of your books with the cover facing the front? I have some really nice looking books and it seems like a shame to not be able to look at them except when I'm currently re...

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Anon·06/23/25 09:35·No.24489520

Who is the Isaac Asimov of modern times?

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Anon·06/22/25 23:21·No.24488625

Why didn't more poets write in Milton's style?

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Anon·06/23/25 11:30·No.24489650

What's some good comedy?

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Anon·06/17/25 22:22·No.24474794

/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: >Royalroad, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more >Why read web nove...

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Anon·06/23/25 11:54·No.24489676

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Anon·06/23/25 15:01·No.24489991

What can i read to be like The World's Highest IQ Record Holder? I want to get smarterer

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Anon·06/23/25 14:21·No.24489868

why did Ezra Pound write a translation of Chinese poetry without knowing Chinese?

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Anon·06/23/25 11:52·No.24489673

There are two Pynchons. One is the genius who wrote V (1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (1965), Gravity's Rainbow (1973) and Mason & Dixon (1997). The Other is probably an amanuensis, perhaps a young relative, someone to whom the Master has lent his name. This Other wrote Vineland (1986), Inherent Vice (...

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Anon·06/22/25 20:30·No.24488257

Why did philosophers as Schopenhauer don't have a revival moviment as the stoics did? I mean, pessimist it was supposed to be the philosophy of our time. What went wrong?

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Anon·06/23/25 11:09·No.24489614

Favourite Bridges poems & general discussion of Robert Bridges

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Anon·06/23/25 24:08·No.24488710

Which are the best books ever written that will help you fix your life?

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Anon·06/23/25 14:47·No.24489943

/lit/ doesn't want to admit this but audiobooks are for the aristocratic and reading is for lowly administrators. If you're an excellent reader then it's highly probable that your gene pool has been polluted with disgusting clerical or merchant blood. Kings, noblemen, and men of real worth would sim...

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Anon·06/23/25 13:58·No.24489830

THE PARADOX OF THE PREDATOR: How Humanity’s Greatness is Built on Cruelty

https://files.catbox.moe/4061nw.pdf slop or food for thought?

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