How the fuck do I understand math as a humanities-minded person? I've always been fond of the arts, history, languages, politics, religion, literature, philosophy, and even some metaphysics since it w...

Thomist brothers, we've won over another one.

Favorite gothic author(victorian) or favorite author related to goth subculture? I like Charlotte Brontë and Poppy Z Brite respectively

What are the most important and influential books about the life, teachings, and historical significance of Jesus?

The Great Australian Novel The Ballad of Desmond Kale

I'm serious here. I have this idea that people seem to read literature to "improve" themselves as persons. Yet when I meet someone who is well read and cultured, I can't help but feel that they are d...

Best books from the late 1800s - early 1900s?

Which one of these is superior translation? Should I go with cheaper newer one?

This is the book Attila by Aliocha Coll. It's over.

why are so many of the classics about cuckery

Good books on mountaineering, fact or fiction

He will go down in history as a gimmick, if at all. How can anybody like Peter Thiel be so invested in his ideas? They're just interesting "plot devices", for the lack of a better word, at best. In Gi...

/his/torically speaking, what's the funniest racist term that white people used for other white people?

Books that sit between psychology and philosophy?

any sci-fi stories/series like worlds of power blaster master?

if I post my philosophy reads and bookshelf on a dating app will I find a /lit/ chick

Moby-Dick - Herman Melville The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky Ulysses - James Joyce Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallac...

Is it still worth reading?

Why isn't there a writing general or a stupid questions thread here? I have stupid questions that are generally related to writing, damnit!

If Lovecraft's heirs are Ligotti and Laird Barron, who are Howard's? And no don't say Moorcock and Martin you fucking retard

Have a question that doesn't deserve a thread? Have a question you would not be willing to ask a librarian in person? Have just a regular reference question? Ask here! I, and hopefully others, can t...

what the fuck was the point of this movie and book? why did it become popular? it's basically >um, I want to have sex with CHILDREN >uohhhhhh

(Jaihoo's Trip to the Future) Thoughts? More like it?

I dindu nuffin.

Why are they such schizophrenic bipolar extremists? It's either a diabetical saccharine story where everything and everyone turns out for the best almost instantly, or some guy killing the woman in a ...

Gonna go on vacation in a few hours, and want to bring 2 books with me. Right now I’m torn beteeen Middlemarch, Moby Dick and Infinite Jest. Haven’t had time to read a book in the lasy six months. Wh...

Hemingway BLED at the type writer.

William Bakespeare

Destroys the short story

Have you ever felt the Ether while reading a book?

What are some (narrative) books that focus on alcoholism? I've already read Under the Volcano which to me is the best, most insightful novel I've experienced on the topic, but I'm interested in others...

Whats the Dark Souls of books?

Why are so many writers misanthropes?

Is there any way I can prove or disprove, once and for all\ to stop face sitting, whether God exists or not? I have thought of doing a long novena prayer, the 54-day novena catholic prayer, asking for...

I think the Slavophile anti-Catholic tirade by Prince Myshkin was rather unfitting for the character.

recently people on here poop on stoic philosophy by saying it’s a philosophy just made to have the plebs content with their shitty place in life but isn’t this disproven by the fact that most stoic ph...

What is the significance of the green hunting cap?

What would he write after finishing Pale Fire?

Having the writing talent but not the creativity

>Read German or Japanese war memoirs >Beginning of the book includes an introduction by an american literally who *SKIP*

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I love you. You have written the best words that I've ever read with my eyes. There is no greater author than you. I will not let your struggle against the falsehood and cruelty of the modern world be...

any good horror released this decade/

Do you feel that reading poetry has made you a better writer?

What do we think about this literary masterpiece?

Anyone else is glad fiction hasn't been taken over by AI?

How does the mandate of permissiveness from the superego kill our sexualities?

This is your weekly reminder that writing cannot save you. Nor can it solve any of your problems. You have been warned. Carry on.

Holy shit.

Who writes Sci Fi the smartest?

Haven’t read Augustus yet, or Nothing But The Night, but I’m sure they’re miles better than the pathetic incel dross that was Stoner. Butcher’s Crossing is one of the best Westerns I’ve read.

He's right, you know? From Crave by Raphael Cuomo

redpill me on >Syria >Assyria >Akad >Iraq >Sumer Thracians

I've reread some of the other slop from HS english like Salinger and Fitzgerald and have been disappointed recently.

Is Curtis Yarvin a philosopher?

I've been reading nonfiction for a fair amount of time, but have just recently decided to try out taking notes for better memory retention. I have a giant (maybe irrational) fear of ruining the book t...

Has anyone here read any of Patrick Tomlinson's books?

>Thus there is here supplied, I think, a first-rate test of the value of any philosophy which is offered us: Does it end in conclusions which, when they are referred back to ordinary life-experiences ...

Anyone used this Marcus Aurelius journal?

Though his analysis may be correct his solution is not. To go around collecting the sacred as if it is a product in a grocery defeats the entire purpose of the sacred. It becomes relative and simply a...

>studio desperate to recoup production costs publishes a flop's screenplay Any more examples of this?

Poets like Rilke? >inb4 translation

>Oh, you're really into reading? >You love the Russians? >You've only read Dostoevsky >The Brothers Karamazov, Notes from the Underground >You've never read Pushkin, Tolstoy or Lermontov? >Don't have ...

>poetry

I read this and the part where he writes to fuck all hot women no matter their races has awoken me. He said to fuck them with a condom bit that they must abort (no mutts) but white genes will stay in ...

Shouldn't philosophy be conveyed in the most understandable way possible? If so why should you read Kant or Hegel explain their ideas in a clumsy way when you could just read a book explaining their i...

Show /lit/ how Dostpilled you are… which was the best? https://strawpoll.com/e7ZJaBq7Lg3

Alexander Theroux - Email interview, 08/07/25.

>in taming of the shrew kate is the one who tames petruccio >her final speech is her advising women how to rule absolutely, while feigning obedience was he onto something here?

What books does he read?

Which Ballard book is the best of these three?

Kino

Should I read this Doctor Who novel?

Why is there a mind-body dualism in Western thought?

It is known that demons roam the earth they roam they come here from the stygian black stygian black abyss, and these demons have aimed their entire lives to pollute my mind with déceptions that run c...

And one of the most dangerous ones too because it creates a false sense of superiority that is actually a hindrance, an obstacle to be overcome. Escaping inwards ultimately robbs one of the outside wo...

Is it really a good idea to start with the Greeks? Maybe the Indians would be better?

What's the best weather for reading?

What does /lit/ think of cosmoetica and Dan Schneider? http://www.cosmoetica.com/

Half of 2025 is over. How many books did you read?

How do I fix my handwriting? Seriously it's so fucking bad I can't even read it afterwards

What advantages does this theory offer to you?

Is there a more impassioned speech that shows a young man’s ambition and rage at being mocked? King. What Treasure Vncle? Exe. Tennis balles, my Liege Kin. We are glad the Dolphin is so pleasant with...

>read book >forget 98% of it a week later what's even the point

>Darts, Keith

What is the hardest literary form to write in? (and create seriously good work). 1. Novels 2. Screenplays 3. Stageplays 4. Poetry (either an anthology or singular)

What do I do when the women I want find out I don't like the guys with the long names and wigs, and I just like Plato? --All this is to say, modernists are for women.

what are the well thought out detective novels you've read?

Have you read it?

I want everything related to war. World War I, World War II, modern conflicts — I don’t care. If it's about war, I want to read it. Memoirs, novels, reports, poetry, I’m in. Bonus points if it was wri...

>fat >drunk >demented >perverted kek, Cersei in Feast and Dance is a riot.

>every word is described by more words, those words themselves requireing more descriptons on and on, until eventually every word eventually describes itself, therefore definitions are fictions. >conc...

Why do these scare people so much nowadays?

Have you ever read slop?

I read 1600 pages a day. Can anyone top that?

What was his real name?

>used to think God was omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient >read the Bible and he just acts like a random Greek deity

Why the fuck is my Anna's Archive talking ooga booga jive English at me? Is that how it is now or did my computer mistake me for a spear chucker?

>There’s no more peace to be had in our village. Nothing but cars and cars and cars. It’s like they built the road for cars alone and forgot about the people. But are there only cars living in the wor...

>Logic is innate, so I don't need to study it. Only people who haven't studied any logic at all say this.

Why does Jordan Peterson receive so much criticism, even though he seems insightful and sophisticated? Is /lit/ too retarded to understand him?

Kant's psychology is identical to that of of the mathematical crank >One obvious characteristic of the trisector is that they are old. The trisector heard of the trisection in his geometry class, but ...

>In Shakespearean theatre, female roles were played by young boys or men because women were not permitted to act on stage. This practice was common during the Elizabethan era, and the lack of female a...

Sometimes I read Dostoevsky, sometimes I read Bolaño, sometimes I read history & biography, sometimes I read genre; but above all: I just read for fun.

I wanna try college for English/lit but I don't want to be assigned books to analyze through a feminist or post-colonial lens type shit. Any anons have experience with lit in college? What was it like...

It really is a masterpiece, isn't it?

What classics focus on PLOT rather than prose?

give me one reason why I shouldn't spend next 10 years of my life playing counterstrike instead of studying hegel, nietzsche, dostoevsky or whoever

>be me >bitchy Chinese kid whose mom made me play piano all the time >had a teacher and everything >had to learn (or at least listen to) the whole classical piano repertoire and everything >every spri...

Theme Requirement: Wrestling with the tension of opposites. Character Requirement: Must include a religious fanatic THE COMPETITORS YAKUB2025 !21skGtio1A - https://rentry.co/YAKUB2025 NMNKLT...

What does she have against the Irish?

Welcome to our server! Feel free to join and post /lit/ content, especially on topics like philosophy, theology and poetry. https://discord.gg/Jjmy69DF

"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...

Does /lit/ know if there any books made that go over how different forms of life experience from all over the different kingdoms and phylums consciousness and what their daily consciousness/psychology...

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The Master & Margarita ed. Old: >>24523987

Is it true the writers of the vedas were of nordic stock? BAP, and Owen Mccormick on twitter showed some good proof

Good shit.

>Nobody on Earth can agree how this letter should be pronounced how did this happen?

Why does no one talk about Pareto? He far surpasses Marx and is literally the best sociologist/economist of the 20th century. He's also way more funny and based desu

Books are for losers, just lift weights

The whole book has the prose of a smug reddit post that never ends, full of epic one liners to make the family appear sharp and witty The author is a complete cunt who could have solved half his probl...