What exactly is stopping from reading more, /lit/? Think about it, don't just stop at the simplest explanation. Maybe we could find suitable solutions for each other.

The easiest way to refute Kant is just to go through his arguments page by page. Then you find out that every single one of his supposedly "apodictic" arguments are not only contingent but have quite ...

>Patrick Rothfuss has a secret forum he uses to talk to all of his translators >Last time it had traffic, The Narrow Road Between Desires was announced weeks later >It's been dead for a while until ju...

Ugly pieces of shit, hate ’em. The Penguin Modern Classics are 100x better.

boring

so what is the actual key to getting your books to even sell on Amazon? combination of SEO book title jamming, $5/per positive reviewer up to 20 reviews to algo shift results, book reviewer websites ...

this just arrived today, what am i in for

>*makes Amazon reviewers seethe*

Of all the lost texts, the one I’d like to read most is Porphyry's "Against the Christians". It was a massive 15 volume work refuting every aspect of Christianity from both a historical and philosophi...

Where should i start? Suggest me few essential works.

This nigga is a jewish convert and writes spy fiction about the Mossad. Should i read it?

quick, you have 5 seconds to name a better fantasy novel than The Lord of the Rings teyevo

>From the reign of Nero to that of Antoninus Pius, the Jews discovered a fierce impatience of the dominion of Rome, which repeatedly broke out in the most furious massacres and insurrections. Humanity...

F.A. Hayek: "There is no reason why, in a society which has reached the general level of wealth ours has, the first kind of security should not be guaranteed to all without endangering general freedom...

Is Street of Crocodiles the only good story in the collection? Pic norel

I decided to read "Frankenstein" after finding it in the local library. I only knew that it has a monster and had tons of media made about it. It was nothing like I expected it to be. I expected a gen...

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is it /lit/ approved?

Plato argued that the physical world we see around us is only a shadow of the true reality. According to him, there are “Forms” (or “Ideas”), which are perfect, unchanging concepts or archetypes of th...

What is the path to attaining the highest level of Gnosis?

If God is good and all-powerful, why is there evil and suffering in the world? Any Books that explore that in detail?

>Heidegger notes that Nietzsche began preparing for a metamorphosis, initiated in 1881 with the writing 'Morgenröte', which cites a sentence from the Hindu Rigveda: "There are many dawns that have not...

He was the best guy around!

>I guess I'm kinda like prophesied to be the bane of these great creatures and godlike figures idk >heh yeah every woman I meet wants to marry me or their fathers want me to marry them >even the Godd...

Someone talk me into loving Nabokov. I don't get him. He feels so lifeless and cold to me. All his work reads like vigorous masturbation. FapfapfapFAPohhhhhfuuuuuckFAPFAPFAPshakespeaaaaarefapfapfapfuu...

I feel tempted to write some erotic fiction down the line. However, I am a virgin, so its going to be difficult to write about stuff I have no experience of. Can anyone give me some advice?

I've heard anons say that lots of (modern) fantasy books are filled with fetish shit, sexual degeneracy, or smth along those lines. I don't read much fantasy, and I know it's just hyperbole, but if yo...

socrates was ugly

Writing Paradise Lost is itself an immense labout, but this nigga did it while blind. Damn.

Quentin’s suicide is one of the most brilliant moments in writing ever. The fact that the reader is under the illusion that he’s alive in the present only works due to Benjy narrating the first part.

Plato argued that our senses are unreliable and can only provide us with information about the material world, which is always in flux. The Forms, however, belong to a different, non-material realm th...

Stirner but for theater kids

Is it normal that I miss characters from a novel more than people in real life?

I looked at each side of the graph like one of those magnetic poem makers (from top to wider out toward bottom) It read like an imbedded message that was only decodable from another AI. Wild. >pic rel...

YOUR BLISTERED LIPS HAVE GOT A KISS THEY TASTE A BIT LIKE EVERYONE

>want to read books >think about commitment and its consequences >doors will be shut >opportunities lost >doom scroll and goon instead how can people read in modern times if they aren't in prison or a...

>Was a best seller in its day >Even outstripped Dracula How come I literally never heard anyone talk about this novel?

Its time to go back

>Went to the library yesterday >Woman brings a toddler in who starts screaming >This goes on for about ten minutes until she leaves >One developmentally disabled girl with her caretaker keeps grunting...

I'm working on the world-building for my fantasy universe that is an alternate earth in which magic exists. With the modern political climate, what do you think the distribution of opinion would be li...

What am I in for? Should I go for the Paperwhite version or the least expensive one?

Best works of Gothic Literature that are actually eerie and effective at chilling the senses?

Is there something like Conan but set on our contemporary era? Does that even make sense?

Is Welsh Mythology worth reading?

Hello everyone! I'm a new author on Royal Road and have just published my fantasy work, seeking readers who love exploring new worlds! This piece is based on the V-Universe (VONVERSE), an extradimensi...

I made a similar thread about it on /his/ but i suppose i could do it here as well. I'm trying to read up on radical leftist literature, mostly from the 19th century to early 20th (early Bolsheviks b...

Did Kant sufficiently refute metaphysics and rationalism

Looking for books that explore lust not merely as sexual appetite, but as a deeper expression of human desire, particularly in its framing as moral failing, spiritual corruption, or existential weakne...

>All the Great Men of the world, without exception, have been voracious readers of literature. What the fuck is the link between reading a book and becoming a great leader? Napoleon, Stalin, Hitler, C...

How did Nostradamus predict the future, and what methods did he use? any books about that?

Is it truly necessary to explicitely condemn your characters in the text? Read this today and, looking at reviews, it's just baffling how many people seem to need for the text to shout "THIS IS A BAD ...

Stack/shelf & rate thread. Post what you just got, what you're reading, your collection as is, discuss what you're reading, call each other retarded faggots, etc. Pic related, most recent haul and gr...

If the hedonistic treadmill is real, would that mean that attaining happiness is impossible?

The triangle, if it were a full triangle, made of four smaller triangles, would give for its user the state of being a deity. It gives its user the state of divinity. The fourth piece, and central pa...

>Haply, for I am black

Books featuring Japanese wise guys in tacky suits and Hawaiian shirts, ideally something like The Friends of Eddy Coyle where its a dialogue heavy window into the world and the strange characters who ...

Books that have this vibe? Preferably Medieval or Renaissance. No Schopenhauer or pop-philosophy. Petrarch's Secretum is the closest I've got.

"Practical Guide To Webserials" edition A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: >Roy...

book with this movie's feel?

>gets hit by a car and transported to another world It's just like my Japanese animes!

How to promote my new book for free? How much do you guys spend on promoting your books? Also what do you use to write? Pic related is my current setup. My book is on how to rizz women btw. Thanks

Do you read the arguments (summaries) on Paradise Lost or jump straight into the verse?

Is this the only literary classic about pirates in existence? It's the only one you ever heard about.

This is kinda cringe.. The deliverator is just so silly edgy it’s like I’m faced with some 14 year olds idea of what he thinks is cool. I just wanna read about the cool techno future and its effects. ...

I’ve noticed that people tend to focus more on The Adventures of Huck Finn than Tom Sawyer? Why? Personally I think the latter is much better and has more going on. And Tom even makes a cameo in the f...

Is there a Catholic Bible that has in depth reference for debating Protestants, Orthodox, Muslims, Jews, Pagans, Atheists, Agnostics, and otherwise non-Catholics?

Why women are inherently evil, any books that discover that in detail?

The conversations about random shit (Vietnam, JFK, taxes, IQ tests, etc) are so, so fucking good. Sometimes I think he's even better at this kind of thing than his nature writing, which is top-shelf a...

Best books from the turn of the century?

Post utter nonsense you found in books that claim to be true. Translation: >Some Bibles of the Roman Catholic Church and of the Orthodox Churches still include the Apocrypha but, since the Second Vat...

Christianity fundamentally transformed the West through a systematic dismantling of its psychological, cultural, and spiritual foundations. The religion imposed a worldview centered on original sin, g...

The eternal debate

*solves Western nihilism*

Thoughts on "Beat Generation" writers?

This quote ruined my life. I can't stop thinking about it every time I have to make a decision.

What did you get?

One of the most major things I have never understood about NCFOM is why does Chigur blow up a car as a distraction to go into a pharmacy and steal a bunch of shit he could have just purchased over the...

If the plot is do much less important compared to the message, why bother even writing the story? Why not just plainly state the message?

>”do you accept?” >”no im good.” It was literally that simple. Was Duke Leto just fucking stupid? “Hey do you want a planet that will make you direct enemies with house Harkonnen? They are insanely ...

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What are the French must reads?

pro tip: you can basically read >100 books per day by asking chatgpt to summarize them for you.

He was right, you know.

and how long will it take? Not that I'm in any hurry. just curious.

"Come," said the King in sacred Zaccarath, "and let our prophets prophesy before us." A far-seen jewel of light was the holy palace, a wonder to the nomads on the plains. There was the King with all...

Christianity, with its rigid dualisms (God and man, good and evil, will and grace) has long offered a vision of reality that is fatally fractured, propped up by the fragile scaffolding of a personal d...

Libgen is dead?

was guenon a crypto marxist? >capitalism is bad, supresses the organic individual turning them into machines >individualism bad >the collapse of capitalism is inevitable and what follows is a golde...

I've finished reading this book a while ago and I still don't have an opinion about it, I find it maybe too open or maybe without any purpose idk (I don't know how to express this either cause I'm Spa...

Just bought these on sale, what am I in for?

The "yowch" is a symbolic resistance against the tremendous pressure to conform. There is all of us an undeniable and beauty spark of individuality and uniqueness. Nietzsche said: “At bottom every man...

What is the name of that series that was pretty similar to Omegaverse, but it was like some scifi fantasy series on other planets? There was some subgenre of erotic fiction named after it that was pop...

Post and discussion about any type of history book. >The American Revolution: A History by Gordon S. Wood >The book traces the origins of the revolution from the increasing tensions between Britain...

The greatest philosopher of our times. Does he even have a rival or peer?

Infinite Jest.

can you recite a poem by heart? any poem?

Why does Milton feel the need to describe angelic sexual intercourse in such detail, and why is Raphael embarrassed to explain? Serious answers only. > Bear with me then, if lawful what I ask; Love ...

>Hitler himself declared film superior to the written word, which required "arduous reading" to understand. Has anyone ever proven him wrong?

Saw this book in a used bookstore. Anyone read it? How is it?

now that he was proven to be 100% correct, can we discuss him?

This is why reading classic literature is important.

Othello is Shakespeare's greatest tragedy and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

how is the berserk novel based on the apostle Grunbeld?

I'm writing a Sopranos level televised screenplay with ChatGPT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uglies How did this get published? this is hot garbage

>tfw found out I'm going to have another short story published How's YOUR writing career coming, /lit/?

>I need to spend time with these black inmates for research...guards, please remove their cuffs and leave

And read exactly ZERO works of literature, Not even a single word.

Post examples of notable world figures who were also writers of literature. Starting things off: John Paul II was a playwright.

"Hard Work" editon Previous: >>24511801 /wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQ RESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvC Please limit excerpts to one post. Giv...

Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs) https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb >Archive: https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subje...

Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs) https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb >Archive: https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subje...

Why didn't you fags tell me it's schizokino? I was expecting drab realism, but Circe is like something straight out of my Japanese hentai games.

Keep saying the ad. Anyone read it?

Stack/shelf & rate thread. Post what you just got, what you're reading, your collection as is, discuss what you're reading, call each other retarded faggots, etc. Pic related, most recent haul and gr...

Part Two where Grenouille becomes a mountain cave hermit was pretty comfy

Why the FUCK is it ''Jenaer'' and NOT ''Jenisch'' ??

A dog fucks an underage girl. 10/10 Lifechanging.[/spoiler}

Is there anything quite like The Flashman Papers?

im more of a dmitri kind of guy myself

Just got this from the used book store. What am I in for?

In the dark days where the complete darkness poison your soul. you need to remember that there's a core reason, beyond any master mason, that crafted a spark, a deep character arc, that is waiting at ...

Reading George Orwell feels like a lobotomy. His prose is so bare, so inexpressive and monotone, that I feel my intelligence actively being retarded while reading it.

Hey /lit/, I am looking for books on aliens (doesnt matter if they are more conspiracy-aligned or more "factaul"). I have no idea where to start and since the market for these books is so oversaturate...

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