/lit/ - Literature

What does /lit/ generally think of books written by anons/namefags? Do they shill their own work here, and how are they received? Assuming the work is freely available.

What'd does your bookshelf say about you?

Philosophers are just failed novelists.

Post your own work and critique others.

>Nothing is more common than to hear it said of reputed works of art, that they are very good but very difficult to understand. We are quite used to such assertions, and yet to say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it. The majority of men may not like rotten cheese or putrefying grouse—dishes esteemed by people with perverted tastes; but bread and fruit are only good when they please the majority of men. And it is the same with art. Perverted art may not please the majority of men, but good art always pleases everyone.

Who was in the right here?

Explain to me why Lovecraft is considered a horror author when literally nothing scary happens.

Is being anti-reddit a coherent theology?

I cannot deny the Will.

>Death is what gives life meaning.
>Create your own meaning.
>It matters because you experience it.
>Embrace the struggle, it's what makes you grow.
>The journey is the destination
>We're all in this together, connection is the point.
>Rebel against the absurd, defiance is freedom.

What if, instead of NaNoWriMo, it were NaNiWriMo?

Tropical Beach Edition

FAQ:
>What is worldbuilding?
Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.
>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"
Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.
>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"
If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.
>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"
Yes, of course you can!
>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"
Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.

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do we like this guy?

In my literary analysis homework our professor asked us what our thoughts are on JK Rowling's comments about trannies. What kind of question is that?

Is it worth reading all 4,000 pages of this in current year?

Be real with me /lit/, isn't Camp of the Saints ultimately an existential horror novel?

All of dis niggas children's books went hard as fuck but nobody read them and instead they read repetitive Redwall.

No justice.

Is there anywhere to go after him? I feel like literature has concluded after reading his complete works

Is Stephen King a good author?

Which is your faviroute book? Are the bond books even worth reading, I hear they're pretty different from the movies?

What am I in for?

Alright I'm gonna read the bible and saw this 'thomas nelson' one on amazon for $20. Should I get it

Did this book really deserve all the controversy it got?

Was Dante right about so-called neutrals?

books ive enjoyed
>Carl Jung - The Red Book + Memories, Dreams, Reflections
>Mein Kampf
>The Autobiography of Malcolm X
>Operators and things
>Perdurabo
>Wormwood Star

I like autobiographies of controversial figures or people who lived an interesting life path.
I enjoy some fiction but only stuff grounded in reality or still deep/esoteric.
I'm open to any type of book really but alot of stuff seems gay/goy
RECCOMEND AWAY PLS

Which Dostoevsky book do lesbians like the most?

Why are Plato's dialogues so readable?

What books should I read if I want to develop Dark Triad traits? I've already read 48 Laws of Power and How to Win Friends and Influence People

>wife status?
buckbroken

"No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive."
I think this is a great quote that emphasizes the importance of remaining content and optimistic about building back up, while still acknowledging the imperfect and broken present you find yourself in. That part is important. The reality. I need more of it.
I need some hopeful shit like that to read, a la Disco Elysium's Volition, to keep me out of my winter funk or else I'm going to spiral and it won't stop until the sun comes back.

I post here because to hell with R9K or /b/. I really always wonder about myself, mostly because I don't know myself at all. I suppose I am an amateur 'writer', but I just sort of stumbled into that. In the same way I just adhere to referring to the weird mass that is 'I' with personal pronouns. I was born well off and became educated and because I could never stay friends with anyone for more than a year my accompaniment was mostly media growing up. Even then, when I've spent my life on that, there's not an iota of assurance that I'm anything other than nominally taking on the label of an idea. I have no idea if I can express something unique or profound or even just derivative of decent. I feel all I'd ever be doing is slinging words from an list together in a way which stimulates the eyes but not anything else. That leads me to my point, I know 2 things of myself: Many moments I despise myself, and in others I love life. I don't know why I despise myself, like where it actually came from. It's there though. I know in the moments where I'm loving anything I'm not thinking about who I am, or what anything is. I'm ignorant and then I believe I can be like that forever. I thought so when I aged from a boy to a teenager, and subsequently in the following years when I tried to be meditative and at peace. Then and there I thought I'd actually conquered something. Only to go right around a bend again and hit myself. It seems like I'm changing, but all it is is oscillation. Something like that. What I was is dead, I come back and see myself again and then I climb and fall. If I'm aware of it and trying to stop myself- it happens, if I'm intentionally blank of myself it happens anyway. I don't say any of that to have a conclusion, because I myself don't. Neither do I intend to sound profound or pretentious, though I think I definitely exude the latter of those two. I have the sensation that I'm not unique at all, and I know this. In some way or the other someone has had these exact words with themself and had the exact same result. Essentially yelling into a vacuum. Now, in all reality I don't know why I wrote this. It's like that vague 'want' where I wanted to be a writer, and to write all my ideas till conclusion. So, I don't know, say what you want in reply or don't say anything at all. I don't have much more to say today myself.

I need some recs for "Misogynistic", anti-women, anti-feminist, etc. FICTION, but non fiction can also pass. Novels and novellas that explore female behaviour and the extent of their evil and stupidity and critique them

>I am almost amazed that you consider a professional philosopher capable of no confusion in concepts and definitions. Such things are nowhere more at home than among philosophers who are not mathematicians, and Wolff was no mathematician, even though he made cheap compendiums. Look around among the philosophers of today, among Schelling, Hegel, Nees von Esenbeck, and their like; doesn't your hair stand on end at their definitions? Read in the history of ancient philosophy what kinds of definitions the men of that day, Plato and others, gave (I except Aristotle). But even in Kant it is often not much better; in my opinion his distinction between analytic and synthetic theorems is such a one that either peters out in a triviality or is false.

Philosophysisters... not like this... not like this...

>writes a juvenile book with simple black and white morality for children
>filled with plotholes
>bad guys are all cartoonishly evil and have no redeeming features
>80 years later manchildren still think he's a genius

Is he the biggest hack to ever hack? Being an adult fan of Tolkien is the easiest way to tell someone is low IQ.

This book is autistic

An R. S. Bakker thread. Discuss any of the works of Bakker, including but not limited to The Prince of Nothing and Aspect Emperor series.
Truth shines.

I like old books. They're just neat. I want to buy some more old books, but I don't have billions of dollars to buy first editions of everything. On the other hand, I don't want to buy random books from dogshit authors that I'll never read.

What are some old printings (early 1900's or before) that can be had for a reasonable price? Preferably only works that are written natively in English or French. Old translations can be dodgy.

Why didn't it take off like Harry Potter and Twilight?

This was a big letdown and a waste of time.
I'll never take advice from you guys ever again.

What do you think?

Will losing my virginity likely lead to decreased or increased literary ability?

Pessoa is one of my favourite writers, and Leopardi is good also. Both were chaste men, and I fear that if I lose my virginity then I will be exiled, existentially speaking, perhaps on some noumenal level (cosmic or subconcious) from ever being able to write pure, profound literature like Pessoa and other virgin writers. On the other hand, I fear that by remaining a virgin I am perhaps denying myself access to the kind of experiences that would allow for a more realistic, involved kind of writing which romantic isolation otherwise precludes.

Celibacy is a requirement to dropping jewels. Seneca, when he was producing his best work, was living in retirement with his old ass wife, hardly indulging in material pleasures. Ovid was in exile when he wrote Metamorphoses. Boethius was in prison about to be executed when he wrote the Consolations of Philosophy.

But how do you even understand half of literature if you've never had a relationship? Even a line like 'warm thighed Briseis' is beyond your understanding.

I had a girl who was pretty into me in high school. She even asked me to prom. I didn't really press the issue, and she gradually fell away. Nowadays she's married to somebody else.

Sometimes I wonder: did I miss my chance? Was that MY chance to get married, to have a family? She wasn't ugly but she was kind of plain. Were my standards too high? Am I just the male version of the girls that won't date guys shorter than six feet?

This book is enjoyable up until the wood-sanitorium part because I hate the older woman character that are being forced into narrative for whatever reason and I havent read the book ever since then.
What do you chuds think about this book?

Why are there no hater youtubers in the /lit/osphere there aren’t enough harsh critics there’s so much slop content out there to proffesionally hate.
If you want your get rich quick scheme with writing why not write out negative reviews.

>take three day break from /lit/
>immediately begin reading, researching, learning
>write a moving poem out of the blue
>radiate with novel ideas and a stronger, more vital voice

when did you realize that you were poison, /lit/?

to any of you struggling, crumbling, going dark,
flee from this place. do it now.

What am I in for?

What's the best word processor? I have decided to write a book and can't start until I have the most perfect, absolutely ideal tools at my disposal. This, of course, includes
>The optimal writing medium
Digital, with cloud-based backups. This is easily taken care of on my Mint Linux Thinkpad
>The optimal writing environment
I've been looking at a few townhouses in central Michigan, but they'll all need a lot of work to be perfect
>The optimal word processor
This is where you come in, /lit/. What is the perfect word processor for the perfect novel(which I will write)?