Truth is a woman

What's the average IQ on /lit/? It must surely at least be 110, right?

What happened to Jesus between his death and resurrection? any books that explain that?

Discuss.

Post Halloween books pls

Is Saoirse the best Booktuber? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbxxWZDOyHc

How do you go from an idealist philosophical system to dialectic materialism? Marx and his disciples must have misinterpreted Hegel in a very fundamental way.

Anyone read this? Is it good? I tried to track down a pirated copy of it online. Searched Anna's, Z-library, Libgen... Nothing. If an anon has it, please share it.

What is some notable black english literature?

Do you need to go to college to acquire the knowledge to become an investigative journalist?

How many lines of Homer have YOU memorized, anon?

I reject darwinsim because it is philosophically grotesque.

*makes pseuds mad*

so actually... frankenstein WAS the monster. lol. do you get it

Wiki admin where are you? For months nearly the only changes to the wiki have been bot spam. There's no sign-up verification. I used to see the admin do mass deletions of the new spam pages and accou...

what am I in for?

do you think when paul takes a shit, he knows if he's gonna have to wipe or not

What happened to Intellectual Conservatism?

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Many novels are just too damn long! Anything above 90k words is just rambling and masturbatory.

I loved Look Homeward, Angel

Intended to be a genre-specific \general\, namely for erotica. You can call erotic writing many things (literary prostitute among them), but at the end of the day, its a product. Its also a different ...

my lit waifu i could have saved her

Why does everyone call western philosophy a series of footnoes to Plato but nobody ever calls western literature a series of footnotes to Shakespeare?

>hymnic poetry >erotic poetry >heroic poetry

When did you guys realize the books we read are not the same even if they're the same? Every each one of us imagine different things in our heads when we read.

post literature on revolutions, fact or fiction, with revolutions being political or military revolutions of course and not that on say science or technology

So I've read numerous Star Wars and Warhammer 40k novels. I've read The Expanse, Foundation, and Dune. Hyperion is on my to-read list. What other Space Opera fits in with this list?

I've come to terms with it. He's a terrible writer. Flybot is lazy, messy dross. Bobiverse has three good books and even those are just a fun ideas despite the writing. Roadkill and Outland are vomi...

why do i hear boss music?

Economic conditions of the modern world are making it increasingly difficult for people to produce children. Men struggle to find wives. Those that do then find it difficult to sustain a family on a s...

>titular

>women can't wri-ACK You couldn't write such masterpiece not even if you were born twice as a man!

Do you also feel bad when you realize the day is over and you haven't read anything? I feel terrible when I spend all day on 4chan and don't read a single chapter of a book. But I can't help it, I'm a...

There is nothing wrong with female-oriented romance novels

Why should I give a flipping fuck what this dude, or anyone else like him, has to say? What makes any of these non-divine opinionators necessary for my attention? >man with moustache said- >social ou...

>"the bible is all a man needs to understand god" >has a bookshelf full of other people's interpretations and guides

Holy fucking shit

>Aristotle didn’t believe everyone should participate equally in politics. He excluded women, slaves, and manual laborers from full citizenship. Umm... Based?

Okay, unless its just that some mod thinks this belongs in /his/(does it?) then clearly I'm not allowed to say the name of a certain political commentator from Chicago who is censored by the media in ...

Ok give it to me straight. Was this dude just making shit up?

Which one are you?

Are those supposed to be boots or wieners?

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Is there a book or book series that covers the whole history of literature throughout the world, including Africa and Europe? What's the closest you know?

What are your thoughts on Lovecraft and his ilk. What say you about the works of that mad Arab, Abdul Alhazred? Is it content of worth? Or just vaguely descriptive blather?

Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the righ...

Does Jesus own words prove that Yawheh isn't good? >Mathew 7:15Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16By their fruit you will recogniz...

Everyone wants a seat, but did you know having a seat might make you a bad person? ...Why don't you have a seat?

I will start shilling fresh academics and their ideas/essays/monographs as if they were notable people. I cannot be stopped by name calling.

>Wordsworth >his words are worth a lot I kneel...

>yankee born, irish catholic by blood >wealthy lawyers son, grew up in a large house and went to an upstanding high school >degree in liberal arts at a good college >urbanite who never experienced vio...

Who are the best pets in literature? >inb4 Lovecraft's cat

>Philosophy before Socrates >Questions and theories on how the universe was created, the nature of God, how and why our bodies function the way they do, what causes weather change etc. >After Socrates...

>Henry James? That's not literature.

No system has come even remotely close to the truth, no not even hegel, retard. Try him, tell me what you guys think

Let's talk about Hemingway ! What's your favorite novel of him ? What's his best short story ? Why do you love him ?

Melville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Stendhal, Flaubert, Twain, Goncharov, Balzac, Turgenev, Fontane and more... Was the 19th century the Golden Age of the novel?

New Hegel compilation & translation comes out next month, are you reading? This is the first time it has been compiled and translated into English.

‘There is a tide in the affairs of men Which,—taken at the flood,’—you know the rest, And most of us have found it now and then; At least we think so, though but few have guess’d The moment, till to...

To all these people coping with >you say there are no good authors anymore because they will only only be recognized in a 100 years Give me a break. Goethe and Byron were recognized during their lifet...

Is modern Weird Fiction an actual thing, ie, something that has active creators involved in producing actual Weird Fiction?

Is he the best author of our time?

>Niggers.

"If Lucy had really met a faun-that is, a satyr-the result would have been a rape, not a tea party" - J.R.R. Tolkien

Let me guess... You need more?

the interrogation at the end is hackneyed and cringe and the romance is terrible. best part of the book is talking to syme

Anyone read picrel? What are your theories?

i don't understand why philosophytards aren't moved to /his/ it explicitly says history & humanities

Was Brutus really a principled republican?

behold! i have written a python script (picrel) that converts any paragraph into a freeverse poem. all it does is change every punctuation mark into a newline character and make everything lowercase. ...

Is it possible to be too low IQ to be able to enjoy literature?

>All other cultures are put to shame by the marvellously idealized philosophical company represented by the ancient Greek masters Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, D...

physical notebook? digital handwritten notes? phone app? or just a laptop how do you keep notes and stay organized

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Only subpar and limited authors would write a book that has no point beyond experimenting with form. Someone let this guy know that you can experiment with form WHILE writing a book that's good acro...

What was his fucking problem?

How many books do you take with you when you travel? This is my travel shelf (the last two on the right are gifts from the relatives I’m visiting)

Did Dostoevsky read Plato and the greeks?

Bullying AI for its awful writing, over and over again for dozens of messages until it produces something halfway decent, has unironically made me a much better writer.

Are you Machiavellian? Statistically, you're not. But let's pretend. Most people are too emotional to play the game, too mentally handicapped to see the board, or both. This server has been made for ...

>touched his daughter once >is literally known for touching What did Dionysos meant by this?

explain what the categorical imperative is in your own words follow a rule as if it's going to be universal and won't lead to problems in societies treat man as an end in himself not as a means to an...

This ended too soon. I actually thought my epub was corrupted. It was too abrupt.

Just bought this. I don't know shit about books and barely read, but the cover looked. decent and masculine enough I suppose. What am I in for?

Will the novel survive the zoomer?

>How often it hurts me to exist, with a nausea so indefinite I'm not sure if it's tedium or a warning that I'm about to vomit! - Pessoa

It came out in 2004. Has anything better or on the level came out since? Also, what did you think of it?

Psych ward reading mat. Do I belong here?

I am going to visit spain this september, around segovia and seville, can you offer some book related places I might visit – I was thinking el escorial from The Recognitions, where San Zwingli is a jo...

Has anybody ever made an hour long audio clip which is just a women talking over and over how much she wants to fuck a guy who writes? I am wondering if I just listen to this over and over it will mak...

Year is half over. How is your reading goal coming?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-mzVI37StGM

What do you think constitutes a good cover for a new/unknown book?

Frankly I didn't like the ending and I thought the prose was awful. Are McCarthy's other books better?

EAT NIGGER DICK AND DIE OF CANCER MAGGOT

All the rest are just capeshit

"Only in the detachment of an incurable complaint, in the sanity of near death, could one cope with this for a moment. In order to exist rationally, Pnin had taught himself, during the last ten years,...

where does this rank among the best WW1 novels?

>has the best English language prose of the last 50 years >flies entirely under /lit/'s radar

What are some fragrant, olfactory books?

Is the book worth reading if I’ve seen the movie? Or is the move better than the book like The Godfather?

What's the hot new nonfiction trend?

I have made some claims to negate Advaita Vedantic philisophy. Are there any negations for this or I'm missing something Let’s be honest philosophy, at its core, is a way of life. Not just abstract ...

This is it, the best you are ever going to get, a specific outline of the exact novel that the human race needs somebody to write, right now. the novel the world needs right now is one that does seve...

>he listens to audio "books" >goes around saying he read the book No, you did not read the book. I have zero respect for people who are incapable of reading, thus choosing to listen to some faggot wh...

>WAR IS… *leads a platoon to attack, comes back with three survivors* *ordered to defend, entire regiment gets annihilated by artillery* *every single officer embodying the noble virtues he admires di...

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I have hundreds of unread books in my room. I want to fucking read some. Read one. But which one? I have some greeks, and I know how the sticky goes but i don't feel like going into it chronologicall...

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I mean, he probably did everything he did just because he was a manlet.

Nietzsche: "Become who you are." Jung: "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." Nietzsche says you must create yourself. Jung says you must disc...

>beauty pageant gone wrong

Do you prefer Walter Scott or Jane Austen?

should i read the edible woman by margaret atwood?

Why does Jordan Peterson face significant backlash from certain academic, political, and social groups? are you fucking retarded? he is very talented and useful, what good did you do to humanity worms

Why the fuck western writers pretend that words words words and more words mean the writing is better?

ITT: discuss metaphysics and its corresponding literature.

what kind of books do i need to read to become elite human capital