>We all know that I that I stabbed my wife

Why do straight and gay woman love to consume literature with two homosexual males? I need to someone smart to figure this out. My primary source is social media, so it's not definitive, but it seems ...

As someone who gravitates towards Blake's visual works, I find it difficult to access or enjoy his writings as much. Is it just schizoslop? What is he trying to say?

Is it worth the time? Are there better alternatives? Is it the best start to orthodoxy? (am catholic) already read new testament but wanna read the old one too

>Renowned for his morally grey characters >Has an absolutist green morality character at the start that dooms everyone's else moral alignment by depending them on where they are in regards to him Bra...

Never heard of this book, all of a sudden it's everywhere. What's going on?

There are truths whose revelation is akin to gazing upon the sun—not with clarity, but with the searing sting of blindness.

Why is Dick not having a final last words speech before dying seen as making the play weak? Surely it was deliberate to contrast with him breaking the fourth wall constantly through the rest of the pl...

if poverty is the main reason why they act like this. Why is it that they never actually do stuff for financial gain. Most of it is killing each other over different color shirts, because they live in...

How I feel watching this video https://youtu.be/hHI7HwsU4pQ

If the physical world is constantly changing and merely a reflection of the Forms, can we gain genuine, unchanging knowledge from it? Or must true knowledge (episteme) be solely of the Forms, which ar...

I would prefer if it's a work of on non-fiction, preferrably something that draws from basedence and psychology rather than just a religious/new age text, although these can be welcome too if they are...

>manually translating Does it ever get easier?

Why do philosophy pseuds and hacks never talk about literally the most important branch of philosophy that is Epistemology? O Subhuman, whole knowledge needs justification. Read Sextus

This is the imagery I use to understand Plotinus' concept of emanations

>Pessoa was a creature of multitudinous consciousness, a solitary, dapper, buttoned-down man with the turbulent soul of a modernist. He occupied a quiet place as a commercial translator and writer for...

Hello anons. I am a seeker of mythical items that can be found in literature. I have found, in my own free time, two items to arm my own imagination. The Ring Gyges (The Republic) The Sword of Jehova...

"I wish that faun raped that bitch" - J.R.R. Tolkin

I like nature books and anything crazy you can think of. Surprise me

How can I understand Lacan without wasting my time deciphering his obscurantist texts? (Second sources, videos, etc...)

Is this worth reading? It's 1047 pages...

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It's 1am. Time to find some solace in Pessoa's writings while I smoke copious amounts of tobacco. https://youtu.be/Er5xr8CeEWw?si=jpt0u90z1gpc0Uu-

>Most influential figure in American lit of the past 50 years >You don't even know who he is

I never see anyone on here discuss Moravia despite him inventing the egirl in Boredom. IYO is his portrayal of boredom/noia accurate?

What is Causation? Any advanced literature that gives clear examples of it?

Deutsches Requiem is an underrated one

Yep

I'm sorry, but this is better than War and Peace

The things these men went through are the worst, most horrifying things that have ever happened to anyone in the entire history of earth. I just found that it's on the internet archive and I'm profoun...

>le talking cat >his name is behemoth because he's fat, get it? >wacky character named faggot >guy with a fang who shoves chicken bones in pocket >zombie witch who doesn't do anything but stand around...

Do you prefer hardcover books or paperbacks? Is it important to you, if you choose to read a book?

what are some other biographies on this level of quality?

What were they smoking?

Tolstoy and Dostoevsky are my Gods.

>character described as a social recluse >has several friends, a love interest, and supportive family

This is the Dutch national epic. Read it. >The Discovery of Heaven begins with the meeting of Onno and Max, two complicated individuals whom fate has mysteriously and magically brought together. >The...

Who is YHWH? Any books about him?

>you WILL look people in the eyes when you talk to them No, I don’t think I will.

Thoughts on the first Christian novel ever written?

Let’s hear it /lit/, your favorite teaching.

Steelstorm by Thomas777

>losing your chance at becoming Shogun because you can't stop making fun of your general's ugly head and he betrays you the absolute madman

This shit slaps. What else is an essential read?

>my mind flashes back to the time my mother stabbed him with a butter knife. It was a wednesday. He was wearing a suit. Perhaps she was mad at him, perhaps she just hated the suit. He decided not to b...

Any books that give you an accurate insight into the mind of madness? Pic very related.

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.

Can someone explain to me how exactly The Matrix is Baudrillardian? The Matrix always gets touted as having Baudrillard influence but I just don't see it. It has some -references- like pic related, or...

Every time I try to read poetry I completely fail to comprehend anything. The metaphors always fly over my head, its themes are always too obfuscated for me and I therefore never understand what a poe...

Is there any good Blanquist theory?

Nobody cares about anything anymore. Nobody wants to get together anymore. Nobody does anything without getting paid anymore. Nobody wants to do anything anymore. https://youtu.be/kVaolNKt2zw [Embed]...

What's up Catholic bros, what are you reading lately? I have been reading a guy called Columba Marmion. He is really amazing no matter if you are a beginner or are an experienced reader of theology. ...

It's plainly obvious that most major religions were created as a means of social control, rendering the majority of mankind into domesticated livestock. It seems that the most true ones would be the o...

Bună ziua. Acesta este primul general al scriitorilor români. Toți scriitori, fie amatori și doritori să învețe, fie cei mai iscusiți și iluștri sunt invitați să ni se alăture. Fiind un autor la înc...

Consciousness bros, our response?

Is reading philosophy useless if it has no meaningful impact or productive use in your life? Does an enlightened mind help in any real sort of way?

books: reddit scrolls: 4chan

KEK

Books on cold war atomic tech?

EUTHANASIA IS NOT A CLEAR CONCEPT eu = good / well / easy... thanatos = death >Euthanasia is a wrongly done word if dying is bad then euthanasia is a contradictory concept, if dying is good then is a ...

Are there any literary adaptations you feel did the source material justice?

Goethe repeatedly called for a prose translation of Homer into German. Does your language have Homeric prose translations? And if so, how do they compare to hexameter translations?

Books about how the world is becoming a bloodless sterile childcare? Literally all zoomies do is work and then larp on social media. They have no excitement, not danger nor adventure in their lives.

>Writes a book to encourage people to read more and watch less tv >Writes long boring tennis scenes and a jumbled plot line Was he just preaching the choir? Are we really supposed to believe anyone th...

Part of the story is told as a diary entry.

I wish I wasn't born in this 3rd world shithole. I feel so much isolation here I can't even describe. There is no one to talk to about books, most people are stuck in their colonial hangover of suppre...

If Jesus were to write a book today, considering the vast array of human experiences and challenges since his time, what core message do you think he would emphasize, and what kind of literary style d...

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 ...

How did the USSR achieve such a high literacy rate without school choice?

Where can I learn about the good things he did?

Books about combatting procrastination?

>It was so epic when achilles used his spear of +2 lightning to gank the trojans who killed his boyfriend

Why are you guys so fucking hostile to a man that can read 1600 pages a day? I figured I would be right at home here. It depends on the subject matter ofc. Moby Dick took a month and a half because I ...

Have any feminist women (AFAB) or just women written seriously about enjoying rape? Have any men? Not like some smut, but a serious, thoughtful consideration. Or even an admission?

abt to go on vacation and would like to find a book that you can't stop reading because of how interesting it is. Feel free to dump an enormous list of recommendations because the library by me doesn'...

Recently discovered him, thinking of picking up “Wolf”

His Shakespearean arc has begun.

I work in Silicon Valley and all of this talk I've been hearing about our "posthuman successors" really rubs me the wrong way. Please recommend me some anti-transhumanist /lit/ for me to read.

Is it worth reading instead of just watching the TV show?

I In three sections. The first section is vague impressionistic childhood memories. A moment later, he's shipped off to school, cruelly separated from his parents. Some kid pushes him into a ditch, h...

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Is Cerebus the only /lit/ graphic novel.

I don't know grammar at all. What books does /lit/ recommend?

About to marathon first chapter. What am I in for?

ben shapiro needs to quit his day job and become a full time novelist. this shit is KINO. the way brett hawthorne is ""a bear of a man. 6' 3'' in his bare feet, and 215 lbs in his underwear." also th...

Has anyone had the idea of applying a Fractal sort of lens to etymology? >what does this mean where meaning branches recursively, where each word-root is a seed—and every suffix, prefix, shift, and so...

Thinking about getting the Orthodox Study Bible by Thomas Nelson. How good is it, already read new testament from a sola scriptura pov. Wanna read the old testament, so why not get to know orthodoxy b...

TRUTHKE INCOMING!!!

What is the point of an animals life? It exists only to prolong its own existence It only concerns itself with food and mating, it has no loftier goals or ambitions or anything

Give me some books I can finish in one sitting, please. I don’t mind if it’s fiction or non-fiction. I need to get back into reading and spending less time melting my brain with screens.

I've been reading through Shakespeare for about a month now (finished Hamlet today) and while I feel that I've understood it pretty well, and it certainly has been enjoyable, I still feel as though th...

Drinking, eating, nature. Does it get any better than Hemingway writing about drinking wine by a stream? Are there any writers that are comparable?

What are your thoughts on The Satanic Bible by Anton LaVey as a book?

Are any of the chapters beyond the titular chapter which comment on specific texts worth reading without having read those texts beforehand? Any further recs for esoteric reading?

What did Denis Diderot mean by this?

Any Japanese anons on here? Pretty much no one outside of Japan seems to have read any Miki

Post uncanny short story anthologies RIGHT NOW preferably Japanese

I walk around the library looking at cool covers and reading the backs. Sometimes i feel like you can judge a book pretty well by its cover.

Other than Don Quixote and Prince Myshkin, who are your favorite "doomed idealist" characters?

Based or extremely based?

Would anyone recommend this guy? I'm interested in reading Rising up and Rising down. >Inb4 tranny faggot Okay but what are his books like?

Was simpery a major issue back in the 1920s? Why did Jay Gatz get such a oneitis for Daisy who clearly wanted gigachad Tom more than the betacuck that is Jay?

I find the inane "discussion questions" at the end of books oddly charming.

>If children stab boggles to death they will become closer to Jesus. However, if they grow up and get a job their souls are damned and they will never find Jesus again. I don't understand CS Lewis' th...

What writer suffers from the "smell of the lamp"?

Fakecel hack. Read Leopardi instead

I haven't been on this board in an age but recently I started EL Doctorow's Ragtime and it struck me as the kind of book many of you anons would enjoy. I recommend it. A random excerpt: >A while la...

I only read classics of world literature, no contemporary books. That means I can't talk about books with anyone in real life, because 99% of normie readers read contemporary slop. Books for this feel...

what happened to minimalism?

I refuse to believe that this trash is true. This is some BPD whore making shit up as she go check all of the sentimental tropes. If you want to take a huge shit on rape victims and their experiences ...

>le whacky knight gets into trouble over and over again >omg he fought a windmill This is the power of “world literature”?

L'Académie was a masterpiece of neo-beat culture and its author is a genius. One wonders, what is incubating in that mind right now?

Chat gpt gives me better answers to questions than you guys, no matter what question i ask it. Yes, reading fiction has been shown to improve empathy — but with some nuance. --- What the Research...

Just read this short novella by Victor Hugo. Pretty good, captures the experience of knowing you get executed soon quite well, I imagine. Have you read it?

>2025 >I am forgotten

I'm on the fence about getting a Kindle. I already own an iPad, which offers a color display, handles PDFs well, and is decent for reading. However, I'm considering a Kindle to improve my sleep and ha...

Is your country en route to become a third world country by importing the third world country? https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/65507/italy-government-approves-500000-work-visas-over-next-three-y...

billionaires, CEOs,... are SEETHING so bad knowing i don't work and just keep watching my favorite movies, and read my favorite book while under my blanket while having my Hot Chocolate besides me whi...