>Horus Heresy, daddy issues and other retarded motives for treason >40k fans: what if we repeat the same mistakes (retarded writing) of GW but changing the legions (Nathaniel Garro, Vulkan TRAITORS?! ...

I'm posting it here because I have no idea how else to advertise it and I don't want redditors reading my shit. https://open.substack.com/pub/tenezid somebody read it and tell me if it's crap/if I ...

What are the saddest ancient texts (medieval counts as well)?

Any books on how to effectively improve your memory? I love reading, but I'd like to remember more of what I actually read.

Was he gay? Did he suck cocks?

So correct me if I'm wrong >religion is not literally true but symbolically true >the stories told are prescriptive and have factual real depth >in essence the Bible's a mental health manual develope...

Which one has the most potential?

I shit myself

What sort of prior reading should I do before taking on Moby Dick? I've heard Shakespeare's work had a major influence for instance.

Been interested in him alot recently, but this work is absurdly thick. For anyone who has invested the time, is it worth it? Thanks

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I hate how it's so brazenly anti-antisemitic

What's /lit/’s take on Knut Hamsun?

last night I came across this site it seems to be from a different time but apparently it was created not so long ago what stuck me the most was the text itself as if someone had suffered for it i ev...

AI writing is the logical and natural conclusion to this ideology.

This is going to be a whole rant so strap in. Intellectualism is wrongly gatekept behind rhetoric. Appropriately, communication is inherently rhetorical. Yet we hold people accountable for what they ...

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What is the point of the dialogue form when it's always one speaker agreeing with the other?

What I want to write is an anime story where two twins, that are a classic blue and red oni, goes to a farm, and then are caught in a war, which is just a classic fantasy story where a heroe, which is...

It's like wat nigga I'm high as balls

https://www.readthistwice.com/person/chuck-wendig

>aged 35 >never had a gf, date, or had any female attention ever or done anything with any woman except prostitutes >always the ugly low status loser nobody talks to in all environments: university, e...

I'm working on a musical. It is going to star Lin Manuel Miranda. It will be a sequel to Hamilton- but instead of being about Alexander Hamilton, it will be about Adolf Eichmann. The lyrics are poetry...

>Daycart

Have you ever met a famous writer?

Admonished by the sun's inclining ray, And swift approaches of the thievish day, The white-armed Fresca blinks, and yawns, and gapes, Aroused from dreams of love and pleasant rapes. Electric summo...

Final thoughts?

That we never got this essay is the single worst thing that ever happened (or I guess not happened) to German literature and philosophy.

Thoughts on this science fiction classic?

>”and so miynd at large split into deesociated alters” >and why did it do that? >”stop askeeng questions.”

Why is F Gardner the only /lit/ adjacent author who has been on every alt-right podcast under the sun? Is it really just because he writes about the jews or is he actually a deep thinker?

It’s the most batshit insane plots I’ve ever come across. Pic related one of Gardner’s books

>constantly gets praised for "grey" characters >90% of them are just plain evil

What Orthodox literature have you been reading lately? Planning on attending Divine Liturgy on Sunday? Recommended Literature— >The Orthodox Study Bible >The Philokalia >The Way of a Pilgrim >God’s R...

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 ...

What a fucking language! The absolute precision and sonority are equalled by no other tongue in the world. German is simply the most masculine and cool Germanic language. Once you know the rules, it s...

I genuinely think he's overhated, that he's onto something and there may be a lot of extremely good wisdom to extract from his teachings. Where to start?

Currently going through Robinson Crusoe but I’m looking for other classic or kino fiction or non fiction Atlantic stories. Any suggestions?

I want to create something beautiful before I die. All my life I have been a mindless consumer, with the exception of a brief tenure as a Jazz Guitarist in the Army. Perhaps I should just stick to mus...

What am I in for Shakespeare bros?

Why did so many high iq geniuses believe that life and the universe was cyclical? Einstein, Oppenheimer, Tesla, Nietzsche, Goethe and Socrates. All believed in some form of reincarnation after death.

Well, first you must know that vaccines don't cause autism and Alex Jones is a bad person! Nice try, CHUD

I'm about 100 pages into this and it's really eye-opening on a series of topics. If you are a bit fed up with the idea that "canons" and "quality of literary works" exist in a void, and if you want to...

>tastes jewish puss >embraces nazism for the rest of his life What did he mean by this?

I realized this a while ago. I've never had any original interesting opinions. Most of the time I just believe what other people around me believe or want me to believe.

why did police go after him?

>Exaggerated ascetic practices undermined [Gogol's] health and he became deeply depressed. On the night of 24 February 1852, he burned some of his manuscripts, which contained most of the second part ...

Was Heidegger right?

It had snowed lightly in the night and her frozen hair was gold and crystalline and her eyes were frozen cold and hard as stones. One of her yellow boots had fallen off and stood in the snow beneath h...

>submittible >submit a short story >read guidelines >If you'd like to submit work and do not identify as BIPOC or as a writer from another demographic who has been historically mis- or underrepresente...

>1950s >california >jazz >gayness >muh "beat generation" If this is some epic masterpiece I'm shutting myself off from please knock some sense into me ig

Write what you feel about picrel, Anything you feel about it, It should not be perfect and i'll reply to it and tell you how it is, Be nice to each other. I'll start with mine He gazes at the mountai...

Is it worth the money? Thinking about reading the old testament (already read the new one 10 years ago). I want to understand orthodoxy better, especially the metaphysic. Already read a lot on early c...

>Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, and joyful homemakers--pervades North American Christianity. From choices about careers to roles in lo...

"Repetition is the mother of all learning" edition >What is Web Novel General? A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English f...

Real conversation

nu genre you fucking want to murder? for me its dark academia (I'm not even sure what it is about , I forgot because of how shit it is)

Is Hogg worth reading? Isn't it better to just read Charlotte's Web?

i can tell AI to give me a biography of a person and it will do it. it makes reading biographies written by actual people unnecessary. i think i have learned more about ancient greek philosophy from A...

Has anybody here read Gu Cheng? Hes such a good poet but surprisingly 100% slept on in the West. His poems make me unbearably sad

Thoughts on this transhumanist s.f. classick?

>When I remark that nothing really seems to grow in Bayreuth, that they send to Bamberg for all their fruit and vegetables, and add that all Protestant places—places to which people fled, as it were a...

>One account says that a poet from Khorosan made the journey to Kandahar to present a poem in praise of Nader. He read his verses at court, but Nader did not like them. He liked them so little that he...

Who's your favorite?

I was checking r/writing and every single thread is about how magic can impact the worldbuilding of orcs or something similar. Not a single thread asking for advice on how to write a couple in love. ...

Has anyone read vita nova by Dante? I’m currently reading it and I must say so far Dante portrays his love for Beatrice in a quite endearing way. Also the combination of poems and prose is very inter...

From his story 'The Great Automatic Grammatizator'.

>roger scruton >scrutonizes modern life >nikolai gogol >was a yokol >william shakespeare >half his output involves wars during the era of spearshaking >pushkin >family tree was pushed away from his ki...

If I'm reading a book that I'm some ways in and it's no longer interesting me but I want to make myself finish it anyway, I'll imagine all the characters as anthropomorphic animals (aka "furries"); do...

What's the Gnostic response to Plotinus' attack?

Do you use AI to write, edit or proofread your work?

I HATE THE LIBRARY

What version should I read? I think there is a full version, like 1000 pages, and an abridged version of 400 pages. Wich is better? What will I miss? I already read the abridged version several years...

Marx was right about everything

I don't get his view on freedom at all, I can tell he's doing something grand but I'm getting ultra-filtered, and not just with the grundlage.

I think that humanity's world-historical destiny is to abolish death and sleep. Books that talk about this?

Your favorite redpilled books with incredible foresight and pattern recognition?

Post your favourite Shakespeare sonnet. If you can't name that, then you don't belong on /lit/. For me it's sonnet 129: Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action; and till action, l...

When i finish a book, i feel like i survived it. There is relief. Its like some strange hold or even a posession of my soul has been lifted and i can finally escape the state of anxiety and distress i...

Am I the only one who thinks Foucault's theory can be an incredibly good toolbox for the current neo-reactionary

The problem of evil is only a “problem” because Western thought insists on dualism — that good and evil are separate, opposing forces, one divine, the other demonic. But this split is artificial. It a...

After 30 years on this Earth I can't help but think he was right.

What do I read after I'm done all his stories? Also obligatory Lovecraft thread.

Just read this. Now what?

Who was the villain?

Have you taken the audiobook pill yet?

I've not long ago become a Nick Fuentes enjoyer(his geopolitics specifically). Clearly the young man is highly aware of the things going on in this sick world and I would like to read up on the matter...

How to cope with everyone around you being stupid

>Austen >Dickens >Flaubert >Joyce >Kafka >Proust >Stevenson Stevenson? Did Nabokov really think he was in the same class as the others?

>die the death

Whenever I see someone using an em dash nowadays I immediately become suspicious of AI use There is no respite and this will only get worse

Was he based?

Would Hegel support Russia or the liberal democratic western states which think that freedom has nothing to do with necessaty cpnditions and everything to do with whether sexual deviants are allowed t...

What are some other cool outlaw stories out there

What are your thoughts on Kindles? Considering getting the Paperwhite with the Amazon Prime Day deal. I think I would find the portability of it really useful and would be great to be able to read in...

Has anyone read this? I'm about to start reading it. Id never heard of it and almost passed right over it in the thrift store, but by chance looked at it and it's apparently a really well regarded Wes...

What's the last book that made you cry?

>predicts antifa in your path How did he do it?

What does it mean to follow Jesus in a world where power, wealth, and success often contradict his teachings on humility, sacrifice, and love for the marginalized? anything in the bible about that?

>Casually mogs all your pretentious belief structures How do you cope with this?

Would I as a German speaker benefit from reading this book or is it just mockery of the German language?

Is it possible to refute the idea that even in atheism we still assume most of the same moral premises of religion? Is secular humanism really just our modern form of religion?

Is manga considered literature?

Modern media sounds more interesting. Older media sounds didactic and boring.

Don’t waste your SFF stories by posting them on 4chan or Wattpad. Send them to a literary magazine and get paid if accepted. The chances are slim (less than a percent), but you will be proud of yourse...

My problem with this book it's that it's all nobles, lords and ladies making the calls. Why can't there be common folk involved and be important to the story? Really kills my immersion. Makes me think...

Can they just please shut the fuck up about white males already? You guys won. Go off on your own and exist in your own multiracial ethnostate. Just shut the fuck up about white males. Goddamn.

If God is real then why are some people born with rare incurable genetically related illnesses that serve no purpose and hinder their ability to live their lives to their fullest potential but don't a...

What is the /lit/ equivalent?

Cause it's not. >I keep seeing liberals say that in: college, reddit, liberal Churches (my parents dragged me too), news media, youtube, etc >finally decide to read it >It's an endlessly monotonous ex...

>if Deneen (author of Why Liberalism Failed), MacIntyre, Taylor, and others drawing on thicker anthropologies from the ancient and medieval (or even continental) tradition don't like liberalism and ca...

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Why do you love Jesus? Any Books that explain this natural phenomena

>start with the Greeks >Rhodophis >It's also fucking slop Fuck you faggots Rhodopis is a Greek courtesan whose story is considered one of the earliest versions of the Cinderella fairy tale. She was ...

'ick on 'indle

The more I read, the more I realize that Joyce will never be surpassed.

Given the diverse interpretations of Jesus's moral and ethical teachings throughout history (e.g., pacifism vs. just war, wealth redistribution vs. individual charity, social justice vs. personal piet...

The definitive version.

Dualism has been a slow psychological rot at the core of the Western mind — a metaphysical disease that split reality in half and left people trying to live inside one side of it. It teaches you to ha...

>I may be mistaken, but it does seem to me that Deerslayer is not a work of art in any sense; it does seem to me that it is destitute of every detail that goes to the making of a work of art; in truth...

Should I read this book?

How many books per day do you read?

For me? Its Satyricon.