any books (fiction or non fiction) depicting our bleak future with AI?

are there any self help books that are actually any good? or is the genre inherently slop for finance fags and therapy chicks? discuss/drop recs

>the badge of African supremacy My sides

Why isn't he mentioned in general discussions about the Nazis?

>country is 100% white >no grooming gangs raping children >women are not sluts >everyone is employed >autists like parsons get a wife and family this was considered a "dystopia" in 1948

Who's the strongest Vampire in literature?

what are some good philosophers who combine philosophy with fringe science? also general x/occult/fringe/ufo/magic thread

any good (non fiction) books about self-harm? specially about the effect it has on one's brain

best pro-tranny books?

Do you read experimental literature? What are some experimental books you've read?

>One of the most vivid poems in existence >No one mentions it here It’s simply amazing and I feel like I’m seeing the Lamia, this beautiful man-eating beast, as I read it She was a gordian shape of ...

>be Stephen King >coked out of my skull >playing Mambo No. 5 on loop >nose bleeding, fingers flying >write *Misery* in a blur of paranoia and trumpet solos >barely remember any of it >bestseller >peop...

What does the "cave" symbolize? What aspects of human existence or reality does it represent?

What is the core idea behind the Theory of Forms? Plato posits that the physical world we perceive through our senses is imperfect and constantly changing, while ultimate reality consists of eternal, ...

Muh "have faith" I think its more of a doubt actually, you doubt your rationality >know whatever is after this life is either nothing or everything >so why would any of this matter at all >it doesnt...

moby d'ick

any recs?

How do Gnostics view Pagans?

what are some books that you really really want people to read?

Honestly sounds a bit like WittGod before WittGod. Am I wrong? Im surprised to hear that I dont think Wittgenstein even read any Nietzsche

What's the most powerful Christian book you've read that isn't part of the Bible or Church Fathers' writings?

I’m trying work on my writing and finish a fucking manuscript, but frankly I can’t even do day to day tasks without getting distracted anymore. My life and brains are an oozing pile of shit, and I can...

this thread is for poetrie. one condition, if you please: if you post, write just like me. we could talk til we are dead and get nowhere fast -- instead, demonstrate that you know things: show us all ...

What to read as a socialist in 2025?

Post your waifu /a/! >posts character Post your waifu /v/! >posts character Post your waifu /tv/! >posts character Post your waifu /lit/! >posts author Is male sexuality obligate-visual or are author...

It would seem that logical for humans to hate war and only be disgusted by it, since everyone seem to know that it is evil and source of human misery. Yet, we love it, we read about it, watch it and p...

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im streaming the 1981 BBC audio drama, which is, by fact, the best and most accurate adaptation of LOTR. starring Michael Hordern as Gandalf and Ian Holm (later bilbo) as Frodo. it's FANTASTIC come...

"Progression fantasy" 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: >Royalroad, We...

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Vol. I: Write a short story contained within a single running sentence Rules: I: Must contain a single full stop, which will be the final character. All other punctuational, grammatical, and narr...

the seastone chair edition ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_Page Blog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/ Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/ So Spake Martin (interviews)...

Books for this feel?

Marxism is not materialist: It completely rejects the idea of genetics and that is why it rejects biological essentialism, race realism, genetic determinism, instead replacing it with the idea that on...

"People Pleasers" edition Previous: >>24494139 /wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQ RESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvC Please limit excerpts to one po...

What are the best books to wear?

Vauban Books are republishing The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail. Should I pick it up? Looks pretty interesting. https://itascabooks.com/products/the-camp-of-the-saints-2

moby 'ick

The way that Emily Dickinson's private personality seems through her letters and anecdotes makes her seem like an absolute bombshell (i dont mean visually, i mean in the persona she weaves and wraps h...

are dinosaurs real? I'm leaning towards no

Please post the short story. It isn't included in The Early Stories and I can't find it online. Thanks

I just realized that Jake still has his testicles, so he has no dick and he must masturbate. Genuinely going to reread this book under light of that knowledge.

so basically my friend is a american grocery bagger, he had a schizo episode and decided to drop out from school and be a poet. so he yeah, they pestering to review his poetry and im like huh? I dont...

The writer's writer, held in high regard by such as Gaiman, M. Swanwick, P. Oswalt, and S. Delany, but I didn't come here for their opinion on them, I came here for yours. If you're like me, you only ...

I agree with Socrates we should cut out all the poetry that describes Achilles as a whiny bitch after Patroclus dies

I'm unrionically reading alice in wonderland and after that I'll read looking through the glass

reading gave me a hunchback

The only version on Youtube is a dub from Greek TV so I found this in the Wayback Machine. Downloadable links below. Act 1: https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/40dUZ...

What other philosophers should I read to understand Canadians? I have Marshall McLuhan, Harold Innis and John Ralston Saul books, and know of George Grant.

Best translation? And no, this is not a religious debate thread. Wear your fedoras in a different thread. Just wanna discuss translations

This fag is fucking retarded. >hurrr durrr capitalism sucks but its most productive, there is no freedom and humanity in capitalism + democracy so we must obviously in america blindly and carelessly ...

Does anybody remember this book This was my literature when I was a kid

>I had been happy, if the general camp, >Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body, >So I had nothing known. Was Othello being a little too specific here?

is it all built upon the worship of materialism and hatred for anything metaphysical or i just misunderstood it?

I won't achieve anything in my life if I don't have a woman by my side to read with and help me publish my work to bring joy into the lives of others.

yall aint fucking ready

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...