Any other works that are tantamount to british and american societies of the 1800s? Do you think its a good book?

IT'S UP https://youtu.be/URWFdmLRt0U?si=GcmYo3SC1Zymgc6Y

Opinions on the works of Quan Millz?

Felt bad for what happened to the dude but not as much after reading through his writings. He is such a pompous prick midwit talking about things of which he knows nothing about, misrepresenting the o...

Did he win?

Why bother reading /lit/, when you have the greatest works of all time at hand? (Plato, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, etc) It is akin to pulling a lever that delivers a randomised type of excrement in the ...

Don't know if this doesn't belong here or not, but this game is as close as I think it gets to a game being actual literature. What it lacks in kinda meh game mechanics, it comes up in spades with the...

Has anybody read Thomas Nagel? I’m interested in his idealism and his ethical approach. Where should I start?

This is literally the vibe that 99% of you pseudointillectual cocksuckers give off here 24/7 365.

At 1400 pages, is this really worth reading? Don't see /lit/ talk about it much

Anyone here a fan of the original EU/Legends books from Star Wars? How do they compare to other big sci-fi book franchisees like Warhammer 40k or Star Trek? Here's an in-universe chronological list ...

If the translation is good (might not be, because the book uses insanely idiosyncratic language), this shit will be one of the biggest events in sci fi literature ever. I don't know if you're ready. D...

This is from the prologue: > I love the great despisers, because they are the great reverers. What the love is a despiser seriously? Is it a fourth wall break? Because I'm despising the book. Anothe...

What's the Christian interpretation of Satan tempting Jesus? (against the Gnostic)

This week, I want to read the best of the Americans. Like the literary equivalent of Cindy Crawford in an American flag bikini in 1990 (pic related). Any time period or any genre or any format (novels...

I'm reading 120 days of Sodom at this very moment and I can't lie, my mind have been impure for a really long while now. I need to detox. being a pervert is not really healthy especially if you're an ...

any recs for travelogues about east and southeast asia?

Why is The Odyssey referenced much less than the Iliad by other Greek writers? Did they also think it was shit?

What the fuck was Wittgod on about anyway regarding this analogy? He doesnt even outline it all that well. If ones body turns to stone and they still feel, why should we imagine it any differently to...

What kinda shit can I do with Evola's magic? Can I at least get a gf?

Why is God absent from Philosophy?

How does the Allegory of the Cave relate to modern society?

What is the most profound analogy?

Any good books about life in the ghetto/the projects? I live in one myself. Just got back from the laundry room. Half the stuff is out of order. It made me a bit philosophical. Started thinking about ...

Why is it so fucking boring?

Given the vast array of books available about God, covering theological, philosophical, and personal perspectives, what specific aspect of God or religious exploration are you most interested in delvi...

Do publishers respond if you send in order forms from decades-old books, or do they ignore you and hope you fuck off?

What's the oldest book you own? Mine is a 205 year old Mennonite German bible from 1820.

>bestest western thinkers like Guenon and Evola show that Bharat culture is superior to West >/lit/ (followers of Guenon and Evola) hate and belittel Bharat culture and literature What explains this?

What would Plato think of Gnosticism? (seeing Plotinus rejected it)

Plato distinguished between reliable, unchanging understanding and unreliable, fleeting understanding. What did he consider the reliable, unchanging understanding?

Any good literature on the nature of the rise of furparents and furbabies? I feel that it must be deeply connected to the collapse of western society and the search for meaning and companionship.

Sebastian Schwaerzel is reading live in Hamburg tomorrow from his new book 'Heil Hyperpop'. DM @taubenschlag20146 on IG for the address. Also thoughts on Schwaerzel and other Castrum Books ITT.

I've tried twice to read it since it explains so much about the current situation, but I couldn't even finish the first Protocol. It's such a tedious read. Am I just getting filtered?

'ick next to 'ick

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 ...

>Dribbling a quiet message from his bladder came to go to do not to do there to do. majestic prose, truly genious

now that I have a summer internship, I want to kill myself even more. books for this feel?

Gene Wolfe Solar Cycle/Shadow of the Torturer/Book of the New Sun thread continuation from >>24461672 I just finished Short Sun (absolutely amazing.) the reveal with the inhumi was wonderful and sad...

>life is meaningless and we can kill people and shit >but NEVER EVER EEEEEEEEVER say the n word existentialist niggers why are u like this?

what are some books that have been or attempted to have been censored, hidden, banned, etc. also books like pic rel. i am attempting to collect such titles in their unabridged formats if anyone has an...

Recs for getting into christian esoterism?

What are some of the gayest, raunchiest, most homoerotic books ever written?

I came to the conclusion that i'm not against all natalism but only against bad natalism and pro good natalism ie against bad parents/parenting and for good parents/parenting in general. If you're ant...

Start reading this.

is this book supposed to make you want to kill yourself

….Have happy books really ever existed?

Anyone here on substack?

Mind and Nature- Gregory Bateson Steps to an Ecology of Mind- Gregory Bateson Alchemy of Finance- George Soros Critique of Pure Reason- Kant Fooled by Randomness- Taleb What else should I read to hon...

He's right. Poetry is the soul of humanity without a return to it there will never be a relivening of our enframed malaise. Prose is the rationalised society's art. Is it little wonder the Greek novel...

According to Chomsky what are the limits of "acceptable" discussion?

The 3 glorified European poets. My masters

I've read 120 books and I don't remember a single one. Most of the books I've read I can't tell you a single thing about it. As soon I close the book it completely disappears from my mind. For a few o...

Have you ever dropped a book?

I read this, what do I read now?

Are stories in most games nothing more than Starting town/tutorial dungeon into first town where you meet the elder queen that tells you to get all the tokens, then you go from town A to town B, where...

Anyone read this? Whole premise is that since there is no way to be sure how the universe started out of nothing, how the physical constants been this fine-tuned to be life permitting, and how life on...

“My terrible sensitivity, which hardly anyone can understand. Each of the few people I ever spend time with has small quirks that torment me unbearably.A turn of phrase, a slight dialect peculiarity, ...

Any genre, I beg of you

I immensly struggle with visualizing characters in a novel. I have no issues with other types of descriptive passages, but when it comes to appearances, I always end up associating one random image of...

What is the most unique writing style you've ever seen?

I've been reading guys like Cicero, Saint Basil, Origen, etc. lately and it strikes me that they are vastly more compelling and accessible than modern philosophy, analytic or continental, and also sch...

>"Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me." >—Jesus What an utterly neurotic way to live. How do you feel a...

A general for the discussion and practice of Esoteric Wodehousianism.

wtf lol

what is the greek argument against the eternity of the world? it's not the necessity of the universe.

You nerds told me to read this for mythology but then I found bulfinch was some victorian prude who rewrote some myths so I shan't be reading. Now what

Having experienced the world of light and knowledge, the freed prisoner is filled with a sense of pity for his former companions who remain in the darkness of the cave. He feels compelled to return an...

If God is the ultimate author of reality, how does divine intent square with our free will, and does this turn us into mere characters in a predetermined story?

What are the best "retellings" of ancient myths? And why do the people who write them always add woke bullshit to it? Why can they literally not help themselves?

Which book should I read >Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck >Storm of Steel >The Forgotten Soldier >Fritz: The World War I Memoir of a German Lieutenant

What exactly did he mean by forcing little girls to make in appearance in his essay?

Does Aquinas successfully prove the existence of God, or do his arguments merely provide a reasonable basis for belief?

>be me >write in English >hardly anybody reads in English in my country except self-help books >no poetry/short story contests in English >have no interest in writing in my native language

4.5 hours into the audiobook. Was everyone high when they recommended it? It's fucking awful. Harold Bloom was right.

Post your favourite quotes from books you love Mine >Suicide is what Hemingway does when the world gets so out of focus he can no longer commit it to paper - From A Fan's Notes by Fredrick Exley

Post books that seem like they would be corny and stupid but are actually really good

This really grinds my gears Why does this story need to be "retold"??? Come up with your own stuff! I hope no one bought this piece of shit

>"What happen if they say here's a chicken, you eat this, or we kill another chicken?" https://youtu.be/94zWYu6s3Ys?si=N9Z7Y26L4dfGlrOt&t=218 i'm bewildered. from the perspective of an animal rights...

Any of you guys read this? I've heard it's pretty difficult to read even for native French speakers. Is it worth muddling through it regardless?

Is there an abridge version or formalized version of JPII's theology of the body? just a reprint of over 100 separate lectures seems like it would be hard to follow

Hemingway?

Writers of /lit/, how do you manage your repertoire? Do you write short stories, and how many per year? Are you working on a novel, and how often? I am currently writing a novel, but I've taken a brea...

> Wenn ich zum Ausgang eines Saales gehe, bin ich schon dort und könnte gar nicht hingehen, wenn ich nicht so wäre, daß ich dort bin.

Any good philosophers that criticize modern work culture in America?

Why do people keep recommending that racist pos book?

What is your favorite thing in Tolkien that's never explained? I really love Gandalf's line about the "nameless things" that gnaw the roots of the world. Very Lovecraftian, it's great. I also like h...

>The distinctive trait of the North American is vulgarity in all its forms: moral, intellectual, aesthetic, and social; and not only in private life, but also in public life. It never leaves the Yanke...

I'm an ESL and found the English translation of St. Augustine's Confessions by Henry Chadwick (Oxford University Press) quite hard to read. Is there an easier translation? Is there a consensus on the ...

Haven't made a post on /lit/ or online in 3 years. Just gonna drop this here. I'm a guy btw

Christianity is basically one giant cope for the spiritually feminine. It’s the ultimate fantasy of being loved no matter how pathetic you are—just believe, cry a little, and wait for your cosmic husb...

Redpill me on NARRATIVE. What is it? And why are some people so afraid of narratives which they think are false or which they don't like? Is there such a thing as true and false narratives? Can a fals...

I finally finished it...I finally understand Wittengod...I understand that...I understand him, and yet, I have no clue what his actual point is. If somebody asked me to briefly summarize what Philosop...

>The king of /lit/ Says fucking WHO? I didn't vote for him.

>The world" is the general name for all the passions. When we wish to call the passions by a common name, we call them the world. But when we wish to distinguish them by their special names, we call t...

Watching videos of people who quit their jobs to become full-time writers Like this chick who quit a good paying job with things like health insurance and 401k's The first thing she does as a writer ...

Cioran's "Notebooks: 1957–1972" are currently in translation by Patrick James Errington and New York Review Books are funding it. nyrb is fucking kino >Effective start/end date >1/02/23 31/03/27 I a...

>too poor to buy hardcovers

Does anyone who doesn't have a vested interest (i.e. academics) actually believe Shakespeare from Stratford wrote the canonical plays? >William had, at best, a few years of schooling. He is otherwise...

Is he worth studying? He had a spat with Derrida, but is his philosophy of mind worth getting into?

And by that I mean men who aren't heroes or warriors, men who aren't the focus of history. Minor characters, basically, but explored in a better way. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, something like that....

>A Treasure Island remix You've got to be fucking kidding me... This SHOULD be illegal.

a par in reading really a thing? what's the thematic typing for it?

Is this worth reading?

Redpill me on rhetoric. What is it? I've been interested in and studying the trivium for some time but it's been mostly logic. To learn more about grammar I've decided to study Latin and Greek. But wh...

ts shit corny af no wonder cheugy ahh millennials like it

What's your favorite Christian book? Is there a a chart for Christian literature?

>written by jews >preaches tolerance, inclusion, and acceptance >says jews are superior >says you should be passive >shows hatred for white people and white culture >calls for social justice and syste...

>see interesting book on Amazon >check the preview >foreword (written by someone other than the author) >preface (written by a second someone else) >introduction (written by a third someone else) >"Pa...

Has /lit/ thought of a response yet?

Why did Cormac always hint at some vague future apocalypse in his works? He seemed convinced that civilization would end in mass death. Even the Counselor film sneaks in a line about "the slaughter to...

What are some books about people who live vicariously through ancient civilisations they have little to no ties with?

Literarily speaking why did the novel completely replace the romance in literary circles?

I’m a woman from Chicago and I actually saw F Gardner on tinder and we went on a date, years before he was popular on here. He had a better hairline back then, I probably wouldn’t swipe right on him n...

Is this the source of Gnostic lore?

Have you found that reading fictional literature makes you more empathetic?

>self development books >just don’t be lazy bro

How do the portrayals of God and Jesus in the Gospels compare to their depiction in the Old Testament, and what theological implications arise from these differences?

Any good novels based on video-game IP?

The ideology of the Southern Confederacy (peace be upon them) was the only successful attempt to blend Nietzscheanism with Christianity. All other attempts have failed.

Good poetry written by women 2007 or before?

What are some good books about North Korea and Juche?

Is there any point to reading and writing when it will all just be eventually washed away in the ai generated slop ocean?