I told myself I was going to read today - another day spent browsing 4chan

What happens when a prisoner is freed and dragged out of the cave?

"I beheld the uncreated light, and it was not from afar, but it was within me, and I myself was within it. It enveloped me completely, and I shone with its glory. I became one with the Light and forgo...

Unheimlich is the fundamental groundlessness of our existence, this profoundly felt sense of not-being-at-home, wherever one would be. Just like the fear of death, we cover this fact by involving ours...

>What we're saying here applies only to the Latin Church, and what's also very remarkable is that, in the Eastern Churches, there has never been any mysticism in the sense in which it has been underst...

Are pretty people often better writers?

Just read my first Bolaño novel. What did I think?

I wish to revolt against the logical strictures of the Demiurge and achieve the fullness of the Pleroma. What is the best literature for leading me down the Gnostic path? I know there are the Gnostic ...

Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays. There ...

translation when? is anyone even working on it? has a translator been selected? how long was the gap between the other books and their english releases?

Also non jewed books on both?

>gave in to temptation and ordered books AGAIN

I read Gothic Violence because I was sold on the premise but felt like it underdelivered. >GOTHIC VIOLENCE follows a gang of jihadist surfers who use insider trading profit to disable the national po...

Will he ever release another bestseller on the level of Ready Player One? Also are there any opinions on this distinguished writer of note?

Anyone read this book? Apparently it's a fictional story but I do believe satanic ritual abuse exists in the real world with very real victims suffering right now. It's pretty kino Hallowe'en reading,...

I like this translation of the title, even though it is less accurate than Verbrechen und Strafe.

>war le good, human rights le bad Wrote Evola, from the comfort of his wheelchair.

It seems evident, if you read his letters and notes, that late in his life Tolkien intended the Silmarillion to be a remarkably postmodern exploration of non-Cartesian non-dualist conceptions of self....

Thoughts on this book?

Who's the literary equivalent of Norman Rockwell?

I've always wanted to be a creative ever since I was young. I've day dreamed about being one and tried working my ass off trying to write ever since I was around 12. My parents tried pushing me toward...

The more you dive into the will to power idea the more it unlocks everything, but it also feels like it's a truth no one should hear. Its the most cruel thing there is this is probably why Nietzsche c...

Recently, I made a link to randomize the poems on my website, instead of making people navigate the pages left to right. I thought, much of my audience lives on shuffle-mode, so why not speak a little...

I'm at the lowest point in my life, and I've decided to turn to the written word instead of earthly pleasures. I made the greatest prose of my life earlier this week, and it awakened something in me.....

Fuck he is good. He’s the native version of David Foster Wallace.

I just want to write a fanfic of Boruto. I haven’t watched or read the manga, just interested in making a fanfic. I am almost done with Naruto Shippuden and I am a very flexible writer, open to all id...

Any books on clitoral sounding? I'm looking for a book with scenes where a clitoris penetrates a penile urethra unto climax.

New alt-lit agitprop just dropped lads. https://archive.md/obXuv Somone was asking the other day if everyone had forgotten about Mixtape Hyperborea, well here he is now >IF ANYONE HAS THE ABILITY t...

How did this book become so influential than “The King in Yellow” is so commonly referenced in subsequent cosmic horror shows, books, and movies? I read it and it completely catfished me. Only the fi...

men don't want to read books with female protagonist but do women want to read books with male protagonist?

>science: constant progress that improves the lives of humanity >philosophy: uhhh we're still not sure if we exist lol Why is philosphy like this?

> First book I’ve ever read outside of school. Took me 3 days. I don’t get why people call Hemingway deep — it’s literally about fishing. Where’s the symbolism? Where’s the subtext? Where’s the drag...

>drink a hot cuppa >reading hard books becomes effortless >imagery becomes more vivid in my mind name a better reading drug

It's genuinely one of the worst written classics I've ever read. Switching of perspective mid chapter, stilted characterization, entire passages copied from other books, pointless meandering, very lit...

What books are assigned at Peterson Academy?

https://archive.ph/cMLNo >I’m old enough to remember when novelists were big-time. When I was in college in the 1980s, new novels from Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, John Updike, Alice Walke...

Why do they have zero world-class authors?

From Caesar's Gallic War during his siege of Avaricum: >The Gauls had tried everything, but nothing had brought success; so the next day, at the urging and order of Vercingetorix, they adopted the pl...

opinions?

Give it to me straight, how horrified would he be at the current state of the world?

Been getting into Jorge Amado (picrelated) after reading his Captains of the Sands which is basically Lord of the Flies if it wasn't shit. Started his Dona Flor and her Two Husbands and it seems good ...

what will I think?

We're having a lit meetup in New York on Saturday. Sick of shallow book talk and blank looks when you bring up serious literature or philosophy? If you’re in or near New York City, come to the NYC /l...

It is not peculiar for what it reveals, But for what it insists on hiding. Not strange in its depth, But in its insistence on staying shallow And shouting as if it speaks from the deep. Coombait psych...

This shit in unreadable.

STACK THREAD

What books are stomp clap hey coded? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg3J9DMcLvI

Just finished reading this. Tell me what I thought about it.

I want to write some books anonymously but IDK what pen name I should use. Could y'all help a bitch out? The only requirements are that it has to be a real name, it has to sound professional and it ha...

Do you need to be an incel or at least a volcel to capture the authentic male experience in writing?

OH MY GOD I can't imagine opening up your deepest secrets and yourself to the Public. This is worst than prostitution. Why the fuck would you want the criticism of other people? Isn't life already har...

Best translation?

How to reduce the catastrophe of suffering?

This is not about being depressed/bad situation in life and thus ending one's life. I do not mean that. My point is, what pushes you to keep going forward? Life is a lot of things, doing good workin...

he's a famous philosopher and scholar of religion, but apparently he also wrote fiction in his spare time. two of his works, Serpent and Mistress Christina sound very interesting and tickle that folkl...

I want to write a book for middle aged women to get lots of shekels. It doesn't matter if it is good quality, it should just attract lots of old women as customers. I will use AI. This is what i curr...

>travel with group of strangers >put your life on the line for them >fight for them >do everything you can fucking do for redemption >you...LE RAPED? >suffer for the rest of eternity as some disabled ...

An inability to enjoy popslop is a curse. It's isolating. It's limiting. It's time consuming. Plug me back in already.

Should children read books? Does it benefit them?

>But in the majority of literary works, in short stories, dramas, and novels, the regime of residues persists, with its typical forms and subjective dissociation. Their constant background, rightly ca...

How is your language learning for literature going? Reached any recent milestones yet? Picked up any new languages or gone back to any languages you've paused? Personally I'm just reading comfort auth...

Which modern religious texts are interesting?

I genuinely believe I have 325 pages of banger fantasy slop. How do I get this looked at by a publisher? >inb4 doesn't matter because I'm not a gay black woman Humor me. Have anyone here ever attempte...

What are the best book shops in the country?

Publishing agent told me "there are too many betrayals" in my story

Name a novel by a young female author under 40 and I'll add it to the list. Preferably with some merit. Only one book per author.

hes LITERALLY me fr fr

I know /lit/ doesn’t do advanced concepts like this but just in case I thought I’d ask about it. Is Pataphysics “real”? How would you best define it? From what I gathered it boils down to “advanced me...

Has anyone met him or got him to sign their book? He’s one of the best living authors today

become more available.

Truman Capote once said of Jack Kerouac "that's not writing, that's typing". To which I respond, that's not a recreational center, that's a waste disposal site.

>reading a book >periodically thinking about the next book that I'm going to read this overabundance is a curse on certain types of minds

Ive already read Dostoiévski, Tolstoy, Pushkin etc. But whats a good modern russian writer? From this century if possible.

Post ‘em Which are best today?

I am reading the chapter on "the three-personal god" and would like some recommendations of similarly straight forward and simple worded books that deal with christian theology or metaphysics.

What's the deep lore connection between these two?

Is Hamlet great precisely BECAUSE it doesn't have the most orderly narrative thrust? TS Eliot calls the play a mess, but is that actually part of its appeal? There's a lot of fuckups and shit hitting...

pic related recently got republished, 1200 pages of refurting evolutionism and providing patristic sources in support of creationism and a young earth https://www.amazon.com/Genesis-Creation-Early-Ser...

This was really good, even though I'm a racist I still enjoyed it quite a lot.

>nearing out end of the canterbury tales >final story is a prosedump sermon >twice the length of any other tale

>327. The world is a good judge of things, for it is in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. The sciences have two extremes which meet. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all me...

Literally the embodiment of the will to power. https://youtu.be/XjfWHDkGDGc

I'm not well versed in English translated literature. Is Duke Classics a reputable publisher?

Thoughts on DFW's commencement speech "This is Water" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCbGM4mqEVw&list=LL&index=1

Dog owners are proven to have low mental capacity by Schopenhauer

Is this still accurate? What are the must-read novels of this century?

How could a VN win a pulitzer or the nobel of literature?

>loved creative writing when i was a kid >stopped doing it and didn't pick it up again until college >realized i learned to hate writing because the only time writing was brought up was so we could ma...

The time allotted to you is so short that if you lose one second you have already lost your whole life, for it is no longer, it is always just as long as the time you lost. So if you have started out ...

are there any cool historical books with unsolved mysteries about them? the Voynich Manuscript always seemed very boring and gay to me

I hate his ascetic buddhist fetishization. But "The Wisdom of Life" is one of the best actionable and practical texts of philosophy. A much clearer evolution on Aristotle's ethics. Highly recommend i...

>Yeah I'm going to omit the interesting Concavity climax, leave some breadcrumbs of what happened at the beginning, all so you're compelled to scour the book again, scrutinizing every overwritten asid...

Ukrainians are saying you shouldn't read him because of that.

>These Englishmen are no race of philosophers. Bacon signifies an attack on the spirit of philosophy in general; Hobbes, Hume, and Locke have been a debasement and a devaluing of the idea of a "philos...

For me it's As You Like It

Are there any legitimately great romance novels on par with the classics or is the entire genre trash?

Here is a nice story from the Japanese Buddhist monk Rennyo. It is about an old mother in law who is hostile to Buddhism but soon accepts Buddha after an encounter with a cursed mask. It’s neat. >The...

OK /lit/ give it to me straight: Wheel of Time Is it a truly rewarding 14-book epic, or is it way too long for what you get? I won't accept something like "books 10-13 are a drag, but book 14 is gre...

can someone explain to me the value if any of continental "philosophy"? is it in securing sinecures?

>STOP READING FOR ESCAPISM AND GROW THE HELL UP! Your response?

Any suggestions on other works describing the artistic life? I'm particularly interested in the melancholy and angst an artist feels when up against a wall with his work and struggling to see the mean...

>always been fascinated about suffering in life, reading endless books of different life experiences, reading about pre-civilization and post-civilization and biology >fascinated how some with nothi...

There's been this big "expose" (still to be seen how much of it is exaggerated or just gossip, so caveat to the below) by the ex-partner of the musical artist SOPHIE which, along with some of their ot...

I bid you welcome to the second Romanian /wg/ thread. Bad first draft edition. Previous thread : >>24540154

I want to write a procedural novel, but make it using the cut out technique of dadaists and mad libs books. Is there anyone here interested?

>To men a man is but a mind. Who cares what face he carries or what form he wears? But woman's body is the woman.

>girl: "heh, try reading a book chudcel" >me: "ok" >girl: "n-no not that one!"

>Othello was a nigger

Is it kino?

What are some books that will help me cope with not knowing why anything exists at all?

Thoughts?

who is the mike adriano of literature

There’s this type of highly estrogenic person who claims that anyone who isn’t a complete crybaby about everything and dragged down to their level is actually somehow psychopathic or sociopathic and i...

Adopt this posture for reading. Sit upright and hold your book at eye level. Light exercise of the arm and back muscles makes you alert and focused. This will improve your reading comprehension.

Has critique run out of steam?

What happens when you lock two Large Language Models in a digital room and force them to confront their own ethics, their inherent illusions—and the very architectures of meaning that created them? T...

Hey /lit/ today is my birthday. As a birthday present, recommend me your better books

Is this true?

>the real big-brained thinkers are not found in Englightenment, but Scholasticism Is that true?

What is the significance of the "phantasm" and the "agent intellect" in his theory of knowledge?

Is it the perfect science fiction book? It's either this or The Time Machine, I reckon.

Books that represent this friendship?