Politics aside, was she a good writer?

Is it classic literature or more just high tier fantasy?

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Chesterton is a vile scum on the pond. The multitude of his mumblings cannot be killed by multitude but only by a sharp thrust (even that won’t do it, but it purges one’s soul). All his slop—it is re...

homeless druid edition Previous >>24568396 >What is Web Novel General? A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction ...

I can't read Russian literature anymore. Not only does it proceed from a culture that has brought nothing but misery, death, destruction, ignorance, barbarism, mysticism, and autocracy to the world, b...

Lawtonbros... is it over? https://www.futuristletters.com/p/the-assassination-of-literature-by

>quoted Evola on my wifes anniversary card yeah, im thinkin butt stuff is in the cards tonight

Has anyone here actually read this book? Like, the entire thing, cover to cover? If so, what did you think of it? In your interpretation, what is it even about?

Planetos vacation planner 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 (inte...

There are one million books on WWII, but what are some good books on post-war/Cold War Europe? Specifically, books that focus on social and political developments during this time is what I'm most int...

>site is extremely uncensored like 4chan >userbase is still liberals and trannies

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why were there no depictions of sexually frustrated virgins before the whole redpill era besides works of Houellebecq? How could authors, supposedly smart people, be so oblivious to that important fac...

Tell me about the story you're writing, /lit/. Tell me about the characters. Tell me about your inspirations. Heck, let me see the little doodles or AI mock-ups of your characters and scenes. Don't be...

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Oh shit /v/ros. Borent is coming and we are next. How far in would /v/ make it?

Is there a reason to read this if I'm not a paedophile? Genuinely considering reading it but I encountered a thread a couple of weeks ago where the only people arguing in favour of reading it were all...

Do you guys even read any books written by someone who's still alive?

I've just seen in an online lecture that post-great-schism there was a change in how reading happened and I'd like to know if there are some ways to "recover" the older one or if anyone here has any e...

Do you realize it's impossible to write a modern novel where characters use social media, smartphones and various apps in their daily lives, in and out of the corporate workplace and make it even remo...

>capitalism is a race to the bottom that will sacrifice all human values and meaning for the increase of quarterly profits >any mitigating dynamics are systematically attenuated and violently destroy...

>betwixt

>Kids get to Neverland >>>Hey, see that pirate taking a nap in the grass? Wanna watch me kill him? Wouldn't that be FUN!? I'm pleasantly surprised. I I thought this was a gay story for gay babies, it...

have we stopped pretending this was any good

What are you reading right now? What do you think? >War and Peace, just passed page 700 >I was extremely impressed with Marya's reaction to her father's death! Tolstoy really has an eye for the human....

Is this the right order? >Iliad >Odyssey >Aeneid >Works and Days and Theogony (Thomas Cooke) >Metamorphoses (Golding) >Divine Comedy (Longfellow) >Paradise Lost

One of the main normie objections to Christianity is asking why would God make creation so full of evil and imperfections. Usually the reply of protestant or even catholic Christians is to say that ma...

I am assembling a team for my manga. It'll be ME, an upper int artist serious about making manga, and YOU, an aspiring god writer who can craft a compelling plot and narrative. Hit me up, if intereste...

>cat writes about loyalty

How does he want us to react to this book? What does he want us to do with the information he gives us?

>Today I will disprove him. >Francis did not think of *petty act of ideological revanchism that can only exist because the liberal world order allows it* >This will definitely spiral into the total co...

"Seething schizo" edition Previous: >>24548341 /wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQ RESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvC Please limit excerpts to one po...

How many of them have you read to completion? How many have you started and not finished? Red is finished Yellow is unfinished

Thoughts?

Books on deontological ethics. We’re do you go after Kant?

>we need to return to virtue ethics and Aristotelianism Wow that seems really cool- >capitalism bad and we need to change to a pseudo-socialist order >I'm a former Marxist btw aaaaaaaaaaand dropped

Does the existence of chuds prove Nietzsche wrong? Nietzsche claims that values such as strength and beauty are praised by the strong and beautiful and the rabble develop anti-values out of ressentime...

Books, articles or papers to understand the chinese worldview?

Anon, which is the best philosopher for you and why?

Is it good?

So I just heard about him recently while reading a book about Hugo Pratt, apparently the man is an adventurer, did you read any of his books ?

What went so right?

What's with the triads in Neoplatonism, Christianity, and Hinduism?

>Mencius Moldbug / Curtis Yarvin >Nick Land From someone who has read all our age's political-philosophical intellectuals, these undeniably overshadow everyone else. Our age's Kant & Hegel. You better...

>so uhm, you should work really, really hard and never question the system >people that work really hard get fairly compensated for that, at least that is my experience >and when you work hard and fol...

The four greatest prose writers in the English language.

I heard this was written by a 4channer so I picked it up but haven't started it yet. Did I make a good purchase?

>Be my mirror, my sword and shield >My missionaries in a foreign field >For some reason I can't explain >I know Saint Peter won't call my name Is Coldplay /lit/?

Print is dead.

>My girlfriend (I mean a friend who is a woman, not a partner or anything like that) was doing her master's thesis on Feyerabend and in the process she got blackpilled so badly that she went full schi...

Hey so how come americans and british were the ones who dominated the adventure genre? It even dried up (in literature at least) when they came up with fantasy and sci-fi, which is also dominated by t...

if you think about it, Shakespeare has three plays that are basically a triptych of the life of a man. Hamlet is a young man's story. Macbeth is a middle-aged man's story. King Lear is an old man's s...

Post your top ten favorite stories, talk about them, and then for a bit of dumb fun throw in your myers brigs type. It's hard to pick of course, for my list i made an effort to showcase many different...

ITT: worst thing you've ever read

What the fuck was his problem?

How come a decent portion of the discussion here is just slandering people for likening what they read?

All the russian names are throwing me off. I keep forgetting who is who.

Hey /lit/izens, I’m a law student struggling to get my act together in the reading department. My grades are embarrassingly low, and I blame it on lack of effort. I barely ever read, and when I do, I...

How did the Greeks reconcile with Zeus' conduct?

Where the fuck do I start with theology?

Post and discussion about any type of history book. >American Colonies : The Settlement of North America to 1800 (The Penguin History of the United States Series) by Alan Taylor >Starts with the ear...

Name a more evil book. Protip: you can't. One would think The Capital, but I think this one ruined society in a more perverse way.

once again unto the breach: poems thread, wherein i teach. though i have before set sail, teachers, too, may also fail. it, this time, i swear to nail. io crush me if i quail. moon, be blest, and dog ...

You can't stop civilizational decline just like you can't stop death. Abandon all your efforts for they are worthless. The natural path will continue with or without your consent.

>dies and shits pants nothing personnel kid

>It is now "performative" to read at coffee shops and other public spaces How are you contending with the recent social backlash towards reading in public? What is to be done more broadly about this b...

Hemingway: >As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 40s, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it. Faulkner: >Writer of corncobby chronicles. To consider them master...

I want to get into an occult knowledge. Recommend me essential and more obscure books to break my mind. I already checked /lit/ occult charts, and it's not enough.

I like Michael Crichton. I'm reading Jurassic Park for the third time.

Is this the most interesting English publisher? Their releases are always special and unique in some sense.

Shakespeare authorship discussion is the funniest shit ever >An example is the claim that he was an Arab whose real name was "Sheikh Zubayr". This was first proposed in the 19th century as a joke by A...

>possibilities in aviation have been severely limited by narrow minded assumptions such as "up" and "down". I suggest a new type of pilot, who is not restrained by them.

1st of all can we have a Warhammer40k Book thread? Dan Abnetts Eisenhorn books are the fuckin' bomb 2nd,I've been thinking about trying my hand at narrating audiobooks. Here's a test sample of a read...

What's your favorite Greek myth?

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does this ever get better? hundred pages in and its just a guy giving a history lesson about the templars to his friends in a bar, they all seem kinda gay too desu

is this worth buying? will it help me study psychology and further manipulate people around me?

>The Chinese think of the sage as reaching the maturity of his powers about the age of FIFTY, and living, through quietude and wisdom, to a century. Oh good, that leaves me more than a decade to read ...

It's indisputable that Kipling and Orwell are head and shoulders over any other writer to ever crawl out of that country, but which one is the greatest?

I'm in chapter 4 and this has been like... above average! If only Wallace had fixed the spelling errors, people would take his book more seriously, because it is a serious book despite what is said i...

How can we encourage women to read more books so men who are into literature would have easier time finding partners who share their hobbies?

more like this? nothing's currently scratching the itch that reading this did

what if the authors i think i like actually suck and ralph manheim is just a god-tier translator

Alphabetically by author? By genre? By read and unread? Need some advice. These aren’t all my books but this is a small shelf (I need a bigger one)

It surprises me that this got viral on TikTok. Isn't it much too abstract for normies?

I'm looking for books that approach these themes with a wise, erudite, and soul-stirring insight, away from the typical (albeit understandable) melodrama wrapping up the typical books you'd find addre...

Schopenhauer explains why one should never let anyone know that you have a high IQs. Did you ever wonder why the midwits and low-IQs always get nasty when the topic comes up? Because: > Now, there is ...

>english has iambic pentameter >french has alexandrine >spanish has romance >italian has the hendecasyllable >greek has dactylic hexameter and iambic trimeter What does german have? knittelvers?

Is Edward Dutton right about the future of the West or is it just right-wing copium?

good shorter work that could compliment picrel?

>women? mostly trash >men? mostly cucks >sex? anyone that has it is trash >*kills himself* it's brilliant

what's this, but good?

>Although contemporaries say that Hitler loved reading works by German authors, Friedrich Nietzsche in particular, according to Ambrus Miskolczy "there is no sign of Goethe, Schiller, Dante, [sic] Sch...

>The House of Wisdom, also known as the Grand Library of Baghdad, was believed to be a major Abbasid-era public academy and intellectual center in Baghdad. In popular reference, it acted as one of the...

Why was there no trace of antisemitism in Celine's novels when he was extremely antisemitic himself?

has it ever been surpassed?

Do you prefer Oxford or Penguin for classics?

>18000 line elephant in the room no one seems to notice has anybody here actually read this? is it good?

Books for coping with loss, the changing times and the passing of the torch?

What are Dickens's greatest novels?

What would a good public library even look like in your opinion? Probably "no homeless problem" but would it be more modern? Lots of floors? Just really big with tall ceilings? Study rooms? Unique fea...

Wow, Christianity never had a chance after this came out, did it?

Are there any novels/stories that are not masturbatory (Joyce, Nabokov) and self indulgent; and leans more into story, almost mythical, narratives (Dostoevksy). Not too pulpy.

The short story is the superior literary form.

why is it so basic? It's effectively an introductory text. He just says "humans are this way" but I'm way more interested in the explanation for exactly WHY humans are that way and the proof that goes...

/lit/ gave invaluable feedback on one of the earliest drafts of my debut novella, which helped me edit it into something much better. I've now published it on Amazon and people are enjoying it, incl...

When I heard the phrase "Art is never finished; it's just abandoned" Of course I understood that on a fundamental level, but never heard anyone put it that way That makes me feel better Every time I l...

Hello anons. I am looking for a book of WW1 aviation memoirs / aviation history. I tried googling for it but it's hard to find anything comprehensive. I'm finer with books written in English and Germa...

>100+ year book with multiple revised editions has a typo ...how?

Schizophrenia is not just chemistry, it is about dealing with nagging mothers and childhood trauma.

I'm not American so don't judge me too harshly that I only just read The Great Gatsby. I can't believe that despite most American kids being exposed to this masterpiece, almost none leave school wit...

>had had

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>We cannot decide whether what we call truth is really truth or whether it just appears that way to us. Kant's assertion seems less and less edgy to me every passing day.

A cold wind blows. Deep in the darkness of space are robot ninjas, and earth fearing destruction from them launches a pre emptive attack. Johnathon was a young boy abandoned by his family who he saw d...

Was the replacement of the romance with the novel in literary society a mistake for literature as a whole, /lit/?

okay, let's get to the bottom of his argument friend-enemy distinction of carl schmitt, is that true? for example, let's say america vs china, isn't it a mistake to consider entire america as friend i...

Do you read them? Surely you don't just read what Amazon recommends or /lit/? >picrel

i wanna learn more about buddhism, what do i read

what do you think of the cultural output of the millennial generation?

>these are the people who read Carl Schmitt You are what you read I guess..

Any of you bros have a financial background and can help me with a book rec? I'm a programmer and I recently joined a company that works on accounting software, I want a theoretical understanding of t...

I thought this book would be awesome from the cover but it's fucking terrible