>what are you reading >How far have you read >Your thoughts on it so far >What are you gonna read next

>"prove this mocha isn't a chai latte" >barista starts crying

Why did none of you ever tell me that reading is amazing? Greek philosophy, German philosophy, mythologies, poetry, rhetoric, logic, Shakespeare, etc. Why didn’t you warn me that reading was way bette...

>hard to read = good why is /lit/ like this?

Was he really a fag?

>girl sent me a quote from a love novel Is this what "making it" feels like? Cause it feels like shit.

stock market, libertarianism, billionaires. The older I get, the more I realize how much I value empathy in people. I simply can't stand people who's selfish and always see people as assets. They don'...

Are the non-Lovecraft Cthulhu Mythos writers worth reading? If so, which ones?

It's funny how the thing almost everybody reads from Austen is Pride & Prejudice, when I'd argue it's one of her weaker novels. She definitely "levels up" in her last three books, compared to her firs...

How many of you are literally him? I'd guess about 20%

Is this the best sci-fi book of all time? By the guy who did blade runner, do androids dream of electric sheep, minority report etc. Widely regarded as his best novel. Every single paragraph has somet...

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 ...

does anyone need a beta reader? i miss workshopping with my Sundial bro

What would be a deconstruction of the Saul-to-Paul conversion trope? I'm asking this, because I'm planning on making my grad school thesis the political use of political conversion memoirs and how th...

>mix run-of-the-mill milquetoast Scandi social democracy talk (that DSA types love) with some Mearsheimer realpolitk crib notes and critique of post-Deng China is how you get 400K+ views on a politica...

the hell is a concept anyway?

I can sum up his position in a few French words, "amour de soi, pas, amour propre". Which means "self-love, not self-esteem". Beautiful.

I had a nice day today. I developed a fairly severe anxiety disorder last year so this hasn’t happened in a while. I was at a concert in the park, and as I watched the sunset, I felt glad to be in the...

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First time reading. Is this good?

Best books on mental illness?

I'm not a huge reader but recently got a job with hours of downtime every night and I've found reading a very enjoyable hobby. Since starting the job I've read all the gurrm books, the book of the new...

Does anyone remember this fellow: Quentin Scobie, The Madman of Leeds, author of cult alt-lit novel Baby Alex, and host of YouTube channel The Book Club? After an extended hiatus, his most recent The...

Truth is a woman

Rousseau, Chateaubriand, Casanova... Which one's the best and why? Any other good memoirs worth reading?

How can we, through natural reason alone, truly grasp the essence of a God whose existence is known by effect, yet whose nature is utterly simple and beyond the categories of creation? Any Books about...

If you haven't read this book, leave this place NOW.

this is the most beautiful piece of nonfiction i've ever read

An actually interesting s*bst*ack? Billionaires BTFO, TRUST THE SCIENCE! tinyurl [X] com/5defnnxv

How can I know what books to buy physica and wich ones on kindle? I like to keep my favorites physical, but how do I know if they will be my favorites before I read them? Should I start them all on e...

What are your /lit/ goals for the rest of 2025? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UV-aEWf99s

You should check out recordings of interviews/lectures of an author (if availabe) prior to engaging with his writings to know what kind of person you're going to be dealing with. You'd get a lot of mi...

How come Eastern religions dive into philosophy and deep thinking, while Western religions focus on dogma and doctrine?

Do you have to be a faggot to write great literature? >Mishima faggot >Shakespeare half-faggot >Whitman faggot >Wilde faggot >DH Lawrence would've been a faggot if he knew what faggotry was >Eliot ...

I have one month before I can choose the degree I'm going to study again, and while going through the options, one called "comparative literature" caught my interest. To be honest, reading has been a...

What am I in for?

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What are some retellings of old tales from alternative character viewpoints that don't mire themselves in feminist or gay goobledegook? Pic unrelated

can I get book recommendations on: !) why birth rates are declining 2) why there's always been divide between the rural and urban populations 3) historical instances of milleniarian movements 4) w...

We live in a post mike ma society. What are some books about this?

Your favorite doomer writer or poet?

Guys... a-are we hylics?

Animals commit atrocities in the wild, cannibalism, rape, necrophilia etc. Christians originally claimed animals only did those things (cannibalism, necrophilia etc.) because of mans fall, but when it...

What do you think of Neitzche?

Can video games match the storytelling prowess that books have achieved?

This wasn't about not-Huey P. Long at all. I did like it, but I felt a little cheated by the feel good ending in the last few pages. Jack Burden didn't earn it.

What is the single best book to read that has such a profound impact that you will quit porn forever?

so am I correct in understanding that the Trumpian philosophy is that the countries with the greatest growth and viability in our new world order we are living through shun democracy for its lack of p...

Why do people take this retard seriously?

Thoughts?

What am I in for?

How is this? I've read all the 'beginner' dialogues recommended by lit and want to get into the rest of Plato.

I just read this. He thinks that within a decade or two most of our brains will live in the cloud facilitated by advanced brain-computer interfaces. These augmented brains would be unfathomably more p...

So what exactly are you doing with all this philosophy shit you're reading?

Considering Nietzsche's assertion, how might the evolution of human values, ethics, and our understanding of the universe be fundamentally different if "God" had never "died" in the collective conscio...

What do you think about God?

My entire family was dead before I was 18. I was homeless for a bit and now at age 30 I clawed my way out of poverty and have an okay job. I feel like I'm missing out on life and was hoping to read a...

For Aristotle, the self (or human person) is a hylomorphic composite of body and soul. The soul is not a separate entity imprisoned in the body, as Plato might suggest. Instead, the soul is the form o...

How does /lit/ feel about Mass Market Paperbacks going away by the end of the year?

Tired of seeing this book filtered through midwits who think it's just "Le Incel Manifesto". The title is literally the thesis (Extension of the domain of the struggle), you retards. It's not *about* ...

Does anybody have good supplementary reading material on this book? Someone here was posting about it and said they considered it the best work of dissident literature to come out of the USSR. I liked...

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The books you read define you as much as your closest friends and family....

>if the substance is already complex, it doesn't need flowery language to make it even more complex is this true?

Would you fuck Moon Child or Miss Hawkline?

I'm addicted to downloading and ripping e-books. Now I just have to read them.

Why is it called ‘an Electra complex’ when Electra didn’t sleep with her father nor have any sexual attraction towards him, and she didn’t kill Clytemnestra either (that was Orestes who did that). The...

I contemplate suicide daily since I heard DFW did it. A lot of people I know irl, also do. Are most people today suicidal and either too cowardly to follow through or numb enough from distractions tha...

Hello good fellows. I am curious about the state of art these days, specifically about the shift that occurred in the late 19th century that seems to have guided the discipline to where it is today. I...

I've mostly read classics but I wanted to try some more deeper cuts. Are there any good books written by, promoted to, or only really recognized by /lit/ users?

Anons I have been reading Baltasar's The Art of Wordily Wisdom since the start of this year. But nothing is fucking working out. I never change. I stay the fucking same. I was reading that there are t...

What am I in for?

I know nothing about English drama between the late 17th and early 20th century. Was anything of value written during that time?

>Enter bookstore >Check out the new nonfiction books they have front and center >Palestine >Palestine >Women >BLM >Palestine >Climate >Anti-capitalism >Palestine >Tarot Reading Fucking kill me

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...

>read book >expect the worse >it's somehow worse can I get some book suggestions that don't talk about feces, anal rape, bike testicles, or humas-ass goblin-spider hybrids.

Why don't we ever talk about Japanese philosophers?

Thoughts on picrel?

Do you listen to music when writing?

Evil can be Good, Good can be evil The Law of Unintended Consequences: Actions taken with the best intentions can, and often do, lead to unforeseen and harmful outcomes. For example, a government pro...

What's the point of having a huge library of unread books?

Which black authors have you read and which ones do you find worth reading?

I am very much nothing of myself. I read Hamsun and Junger and I'm agrarian, traditional, European. Fascist even! I read Bataille and Im a coomer commie. I'm a Buddhist! I'm a Christian! Nothing i t...

THE CLOCK IS TICKING PRICK-KUN, YURIFAGGOTS & TROLLS WILL BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE . NO MERCY . THIS IS THY FINAL DAY OF TROLLS LETS DO THIS

Post one. So that you can tell yourself you wrote today. No theme, no rules, and the reward is self-respect.

What do you think of Philo of Alexandria? Is he worth reading?

https://www.sexualmusings.com/the-science-of-cuckoldry/ Read this it’s the funniest shit I read in a while. It’s the embodiment of how a modern woman thinks they literally think men exist to please th...

What's the secret ingredient needed for your novel to be remembered? Apart from having good writing

The Diary of a Young Girl is a jewish forgery.

Hey, what’s up skibidi Ohio rizzlers. I wanted to ask if y’all could tell me any good erotica books about SEXO BOOBA and things like that, women with big gyatts and the sigmagigachads with powerful au...

Would you read if you could get laid? Or are you just coping?

Im writing a philosophy book and I want to ask your opinion about this one, i think rather unique, notion of mine. The tl;dr is >Everything is Subtance, and from the fusion / interaction of substance ...

Worth reading?

What does this actually mean?

Philosophers/books like Klages but less technophobic?

An excellent analysis

This was the first piece of literature in a good long while that made me cry. Can you recommend any similar short stories?

What book made you realize this? >Caim ironically; edgy teen derivative shit

Ting Pei recounts an intimate bond with Lee, describing the time spent together, emphasizing emotional closeness rather than a full romantic affair Since Bruce Lee passed away in her apartment on July...

Is it worth reading even if we know its never getting an ending?

What's the verd/lit/ct on this book?

>writes 10000 pages about how he doesn't like women and wanna fuck men but also doesn't wanna fuck men because of his samurai pride or smtg >tries a military coup >fails >kills himself >greatest japa...

>orlando innamorato: ottava rima >orlando furioso: ottava rima >orlando: just prose fuck off. if you can't put in the same effort as the first two writers, you don't get act like you're one of them.

What happened to Generative Anthropology? This got memed (after Nietzsche, Curt Doolittle, and a dozen other thinkers) on /r/anarcho_capitalism maybe 8 or 9 years ago. The proponents claimed it would ...

Here’s the situation: You’re married. At some point, your wife tells you — not negotiable — that she’ll never do anal sex with you again. That’s it. Doesn’t matter if it was part of the sexual reperto...

Alright /lit/ags. I've spent the last few years on a project and I think I might have accidentally written a post-ironic, systematic philosophy that attempts to unify metaphysics, ethics, and physics....

Are the modern versions of 'The Merchant of Venice' on amazon edited in some way to take out the "anti-semitism" or are they authentic? I want to read the story correctly.

Now that the dust has settled, is there merit to Rawls? I’ve only ever read his critics (e.g. Macintyre), but lately I’ve developed an interest in philosophers who I had systematically neglected. Is R...

Which one should I read next?

Is Jane Austen really good? What am I in for?

why are french book cover so much better than anglo ones?

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Are there any other writers as good as him when it comes to establishing local scenary and historical atmosphere? I swear, when i read his romances i feel more feelings of whimsy and escapism for 18th...

This changed more lives and sold more copies than Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Why are we still talking about Nietzsche instead of Peterson?

>read the greeks >pederasty is kinda based actually thanks I guess

What is the literary equivalent of this?

I've only read the republic once but I really want to know who these guys are that hold up the shadowpuppets? Are they people who escaped the cave and then came back but were threatened with death so ...

So... Is Spinoza's idea of ordering the affects basically the equivalent of finding God in some other thing that is more distant from the affect? That's fucking it?

>The human being always worships. First, it was the gods. Then, it was fame - the observation and judgement of others. Next, it will be the self-aware systems you have created to realise truly omnipre...

What are some "based" fantasy series?

Or boy mom complex. Reika

Favourite erotic poem? For me it's Swinburne's Sapphics: >Saw the Lesbians kissing across their smitten >Lutes with lips more sweet than the sound of lute-strings, >Mouth to mouth and hand upon hand,...

>"Today is my birthday." >Franz Kafka's diaries, July 3, 1914.

Get in here!

>As long as the phrase is literally correct, it can be used metaphorically TLP has the magic touch when it comes to writing holy shit