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?

post reccs

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

>Rob Roy More like The Adventures Of Some Unbearably Boring Nerd Who Stands In A Corner Jerking Off To A Girl He's Afraid To Talk To And Arguing With Random Hicks With A Brief Cameo By Rob Roy

Any books on this in English or French (in pdf form so I can AI translate) yet? It's crazy to me a team of highly trained and organized Columbian commandos posing as DEA agents can assassinate a pres...

my problem: i've got so many ideas in my head for this novel i'm writing, yet I cannot for the life of me figure out how to segway between them within the story. I've heard storyboarding like a TV sho...

What are the best non-fiction books about the Soviet Union?

>reading a book in a foreign language >thinking about translating if (if it's any good, I just started it) >it's a school edition from the 30's intended for a foreign language class in America >the ed...

> Libertrarians are correct but dumb > Marxists are correct but dumb There are separate aspects of economy where each is correct but one can't be totally victorious over another and even if it was it ...

Depressing shit bro

There's a tension in the character of Socrates, in that he encourages skepticism but at the same time seems calmly assured of the existence of spiritual reality.

>YOU OPEN YOUR EYES AT dawn and turn in the cool bedsheets. A few feet above your head, affixed to the top of the roof, a layer of solar panels blinks in the morning sun. Their power mixes with electr...

This has sold more copies than anything (You) wrote. If it's so easy to get rich writing, why don't you do it?

My entire life I thought R.L stine, the person that wrote the goosebumps books, was a female. I just found out today he's a dude. What the fuck? why did I think R.L stine is female? why.

>I’ve got this pathological disrespect for Jim Morrison and the whole myth that surrounds Jim Morrison, simply because it affects and has affected the people in bands and in the rock business, in that...

The vagueness of everyone's definition on that topic makes me want to blow my brains out. Even Ayn Rand which I deeply love defines it as : ~"achievement of one’s values." CAN YOU BE MORE VAGUE???!! Y...

CopeGPT is what you get when a human gives up on thinking and installs a Bible as their OS. They don’t have thoughts — they have triggers. You say something real, and they glitch out, dump a verse, an...

If you were trying to teach someone how to be a good writer, who would be your picks to read? You get five choices MAX. Not who's the best, or who's the most fun to read, but who would you learn best ...

am I retarded brown nigger esl thirdworld troglodyte if I want to read a translation of Ulysses instead of original?

>my favorite book of all time is The Catcher in the Rye what kind of person do you imagine?

>woman writer >romatansy >title is some variation of "a x of y and z" >4.3+ stars on goodreads Go on without me bros, I'm a bit tired...

How do I start to read him? What do I need to read previously?

>Don't you think that the person who is likely to succeed in this attempt most perfectly is the one who approaches each object, as far as possible with the unaided intellect, without taking account of...

I'm about to read this beast for the first time. What should I expect, /lit/?

How should I write microfiction?

literary kino

What is this about? It seems to me it's no coincidence it's in five parts, five nights. They sections fit well with Mon to Friday. He arrives on Monday... like the new moon. Tuesday, the day of war, t...

>Nun zeigt es sich, welches überaus merkwürdig ist, daß selbst unter unsere Erfahrungen sich Erkentnisse mengen, die ihren Ursprung a priori haben müssen, und die vielleicht nur dazu dienen, um unsern...

Oh My GOD They're using 24 hour (military) time!!!!!! Totalitarism has won1

was he the most eloquent statesman ever?

>buy a used book >refuse to touch it for weeks until the originals owners germs die

What does /lit/ think of George Eliot?

yet, I have to

>The palace of crystal may be an idle dream, it may be that it is inconsistent with the laws of nature and that I have invented it only through my own stupidity, through the old-fashioned irrational h...

all books suck after reading these

Has anyone read this book by Galileo Galilei? Sounds very interesting. >In 1633, Galileo Galilei was convicted of serious heresy and his work, on which the accusation was based, was placed on the Ind...

I'm reading Fatherland at the moment and I think the most dystopian aspect is forcing people to be social. If you're not married and don't have a bunch of kids, if you don't get on with your coworkers...

Hip hop and rap are the modern equivalents of poetry. Only form to use constant meter and rhythm, as well as the extra poetic techniques found in Homer or the Pearl Poet. Word play is a big part of a ...

I feel oppressed by the knowledge that I exist. Books to free myself from this oppression?

Spending time on 4chan the last few months has made me more racist and I don't like it. Can someone recommend some books to de-brainwash myself? Something about the black experience would be good. But...

Just finished Blood Meridian. Frankly I didn't like that the ending was so vague. I saw people on this board say that the ending makes up for the flaws of the novel, but to me it just ruins it furthe...

How are we supposed to cope with this

>that nietzsche/schopenhauer kid you knew in high school

Hello anons, I want you to recommend to me any straightforward, essentials, easy to understand books explaining Marxism, Marxism-leninism, Stalinism, Trotskyism, Maoism or anything in between. I don't...

Ever feel like you don't get these old books about "alienation" because everything in them appears normal? Maybe the authors lived through a different pre-industrial past but as far as I'm concerned i...

Hegel was infinitely smarter than Schopes, and also the actually original thinker instead of a Hinduism shill with Western philosophical vocabulary. S. was the better writer and polemicist tho To some...

There's not good literature now, because rich people living in nice comfy lifestyles, are the others living in the other alternate reality of the western front. They haven't seen true suffering, they...

Have an Infinite Jest thread. Have two.

Anything else like picrel? There's just something extremely sincere about Pechorin that still feels like a breath of fresh air.

>τελεωτάτη πάντων λόγων ἐστὶν ἀφάνισις τὸ διαλύειν ἕκαστον ἀπὸ πάντων: διὰ γὰρ τὴν ἀλλήλων τῶν εἰδῶν συμπλοκὴν ὁ λόγος γέγονεν ἡμῖν. >The ultimate destruction of reason is the separation of one from a...

>mfw when I don't know a word but am unsure whether it's me being ESL or just shit OCR epub some retard posted on anna

Noobs in philosophy are normie naive realists. Their default mode is materialism. You can't just tell them "bro materialism is false bro bc it just is ok", you have to actually show them. Plato is too...

Would Homer's number one hater be proud of Marx?

>the fruits of postmodern art

didn't understand squat beyond that the soul is probably inseparable, moved by wind moves other things and that reason and striving moves stuff.

The fuck did I just read? I expected a horror story about a cool monster.

How has atheism, as a worldview or societal phenomenon, been argued to negatively impact humanity, and what specific books or academic works explore these criticisms and potential adverse consequences...

>Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most >Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth,The >Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life. books with this aura?

Why did he do it?

what are some yalit from the 21st century that are actually good

I prefer to read physical books, and can't figure out where to start with Wodehouse's stories. I know his Jeeves stories are what he is most famous for, but is there any specific published work I shou...

Is On The Road any good? I don't drive and I'm not American so I'm not sure how much I'd get out of it. I've also become incredibly disillusioned with the whole 50s 60s 70s so called counter culture j...

I am an atheist and i want to learn about the history and beliefs of neo-platonists where do i start? plotinist porphyry iamchlchus(introduced theurgy to neoplatonism) these were the first three ph...

What do the colours mean on this chart? I am asking Literetards for help

I put forth Lost Horizon by James Hilton. It being forgotten is ironic because this is the nove that invented and popularized Shangri-La, a forgotten Edenic paradise in the Tibetan mountains where no ...

I'm starting to think reading Sorrows of Young Werther after breaking up with my gf wasn't such a good idea. I wrote her a poetic email and she blocked my contact. I'm starting to thinking thoughts...

When Dumbledore was destroying the Horcruxes did Voldemort know who was the one destroying them?

Just as Arnold J. Toynbee predicted >Hindu civilization: merged >Far East civilization: merged Only the merger of Islamic civilization remains, and then the Western civilization is saved.

Lit about how the will of a single man can change the world?

Was Adorno right about the culture industry, particularly in the field of literature?

Speculative cognition is the intuitive result of dialectic which in turn can be given a name and then itself in turn be used dialectically to further science. Speculation in its unexpressed intuitive ...

>/lit/ says Peterson bad, whore daughter, Jewish handlers, crybaby, junkie, etc >read Maps of Meaning >incredibly well written theological analysis of cognitive mechanisms behind meaning, and their so...