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Was the replacement of the romance with the novel in literary society a mistake for literature as a whole, /lit/?

Do you read them? Surely you don't just read what Amazon recommends or /lit/? >picrel

i wanna learn more about buddhism, what do i read

what do you think of the cultural output of the millennial generation?

>these are the people who read Carl Schmitt You are what you read I guess..

Any of you bros have a financial background and can help me with a book rec? I'm a programmer and I recently joined a company that works on accounting software, I want a theoretical understanding of t...

I thought this book would be awesome from the cover but it's fucking terrible

>“By the way, a Bulgarian I met lately in Moscow,” Ivan went on, seeming not to hear his brother’s words, “told me about the crimes committed by Turks and Circassians in all parts of Bulgaria through ...

Would you rather a) have little varied life experiences/losses and simply read plentiful amount of philosophy books in order to come to your theoretical philosophy or simply follow an existing philos...

No overarching plot. The story just meanders wherever it likes with no purpose or resolution. Extremely flat characters that attempt to give the illusion of depth and fail. >but muh heckin christcuck...

Imagine being a multi millionaire author and you don't even have a hot wife or even an average wife. She's literally a 1/10

Is this a reasonable reaction to getting your school of thought mocked? >MOSCOW (Reuters) - An argument over the theories of 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant ended in a man being shot in a groce...

>set in a fantasy universe with magic and elves >the age of consent is 16 and you are an adult at 18

Hello. I'm a little stupid. Does anyone know of any decent historical novels set in very old times? (I mean pre-Greco-Roman, e.g. ancient Egypt, ancient China, or even prehistoric).

This was pretty kino, what do you think of it? I'm still utterly baffled by it, but from what I gather, the central premise is about nihilism and resentment of God/the universe for suffering and thro...

Time to post Halloween books Comfy or scary or Doesn't THE PALE KING have some Halloween stuff in it?

any novels focussed on them, especially modern and contemporary era? picrel is all i found have so far

Which English translation of The Illiad should I read?

Is this thing a meme? I feel like it would actually help me read the Bible from cover-to-cover if it was presented more like a traditional book without all the verse numbers and references and other s...

>read modern day creepypasta/horror stories >it inevitably involves rape & sexual assault get new material you bums

Ancient Greek writers were churning out like 150+ books on every subject known to man during their lifetime and you struggle to write just one.

Are his books actually good?

>we loved your resumee. We'll be calling you to schedule an interview in the upcoming days. That was 2 weeks ago. Are there any books for this feel?

He's talking about your diary.

Most writing discord are choked with the archetypal "paragons of western morality" and get into a "umm thats sexist/transphobic" rants from just discussions of influence and all that other niggerfaggo...

Who is your favourite novelist? What's their best work in your opinion and why?

>perfect diagnosis of incels, /lit/cels, and /pol/cels >NEETzche read it and said "whoa, he is literally me!" >perfect indication of the proper therapy to treat this illness >everyone ignores the solu...

What is the special significance of the letter Ю in this book? My knowledge Russian isn't good enough to understand what the hell is going on here.

wtf! its so good. should i keep reading more gene when i finish citadel or work my way through the lit top 100?

Any /lit/-approved books on how to think? Recently, I've stopped any sort of study and even reading; all I do is use colloquial english. I think because of this, I think in conversations with people. ...

>It has been long observed, that an Atheist has no just reason for endeavouring conversions; and yet none harass those minds which they can influence, with more importunity of solicitation to adopt th...

Now that the dust has settled, was it kino?

is this edition fine for reading Sophocles or should I get something else

Pls answer the next questions: What volume is better? In what language did you read it? What is your native language? When I asked native spanish speaking friends without a shadow of doubt they say ...

Already shilled this here, but you guys really need to read this. I am almost finished but they way it goes into the mechanisms of literary recognition would help so many of you first year uni student...

He does stuff like this and wonders why he can't get his books published anymore. What an idiot.

Gary Snyder is alive and well

Where to start with Marquis de Sade?

The ending to the GOT show was the real ending Martin had planned all along. The fan reaction/backlash scared George so badly he's been procrastinating ever since writing Elden Ring and re-writing Win...

This guy is who you all meme Marcus Aurelius as being >married a prostitute and defended it by saying “when you go on a ship you don’t care how many other passengers are also on it. It’s about the de...

I don't think I can keep reading this, it's making me feel sick. At first, I could feel myself becoming desensitized to it as I was reading, but I took a break from it for awhile and the thought of op...

What books can help one live a genuinely happier and meaningful life?

He's right, you know? I like his essays on Might is Right

Where God’s Words Lead #shorts #audiobooks #craigwinn CC19 16 May 2025 https://youtube.com/shorts/ytICqhAkTgo

but without a dictionary i got bored & confused by the endless architectural terms and descriptions to the point i couldn't imagine what he was talking about. should i give it another go now that I'm ...

I just can't understand how to get into writing poetry. I've been told to "just write what I feel" but whatever I do ends up looking like a fucking pompous LinkedIn post. In fact, it looks and sounds ...

After a couple of years or so of studying the Bible about stuff related to this subject (not necessarily on purpose at first), I'm under the impression now that the Bible itself indicates what's in th...

1142a: >ὅτι δ᾽ ἡ φρόνησις οὐκ ἐπιστήμη, φανερόν: τοῦ γὰρ ἐσχάτου ἐστίν, ὥσπερ εἴρηται: τὸ γὰρ πρακτὸν τοιοῦτον. [ἀντίκειται μὲν δὴ τῷ νῷ] ὁ μὲν γὰρ νοῦς τῶν ὅρων, ὧν οὐκ ἔστι λόγος, ἣ δὲ τοῦ ἐσχάτου,...

R.I.P. (1836-2025)

Wrote something in my native tongue. Hope you like it :D. It's two pages long.

Rank 'em

opinions on the work of J.G. Ballard? Personally I am a huge fan of his work. Currently reading his novel Super Cannes

My google-kike tuned out algorithm suggested kermit today, and never seen that in a while, mind. But uhh, where do I go for top lel retard ideology? /r9k/? I'm a fucking machine this wouldn't work. H...

what's his best book?

Literature with similar vibes?

Is this one of the greatest and deepest novels ever written?

why are litfags like this...

My favorite English translation of the Koran is by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, a Cambridge student. It reads like the King James Bible, it's the translation I've chosen to preach Islam here in the Southern Un...

Is it supposed to be this easy to read? Also general Faust thread.

What are some books?

Is the commodification of ideas a way towards the reconstruction and incarnation of mythological archetypes? when you commodify something you are creating a circuit in which the demand of a product e...

Why do women love books?

Is Ramsey Campbell truly Britain's Stephen King?

>greek tragedies were written in iambic trimeter >shakespeare wrote in imabic pentameter >faust was written using a ton of different meters from throughout history >modern plays are written in random ...

>Huge libary of books and reserch papers. The fuck did i found? Is this real?

What book is this from?

Would yhe binble hold up in modern times if it was sold as a companion, or standalone book for an established fantasy world, serving as lore or backstory? Similar to The Silmarillion.

Ignoring his time at the Daily Wire, does he have interesting things to say?

Do you write down your thoughts while reading?

How does he compare, metaphysically speaking, to Guenon and Evola?

I thought I was getting a fun underwater pulpy adventure, not pages and pages of autistic fish descriptions

My dad caught me reading a gay porn novel and called me a faggot

>He reads a famous, classic book not because he expects to enjoy it, but because it’s famous and classic, and likes how that makes him feel. This isn't you, is it? By the way, f you’re not reading it...

By William Shakespeare Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip’s bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat’s back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live no...

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Why are moids unable to read a book? Are they stupid?

How many books have you read this year until now? How many do you plan on reading until the end of this year?

Let's have a bit of a shameful confession thread. Post writers whom you have NOT read, but that are considered integral to Western literature. Post writers you really should have read by now, but have...

>author claims his novel is a translated manuscript he found

a rather niche ask, but does anyone have any recommendations for historical fiction set during the english civil wars?

All the Great Books inevitably take a few pages to tell you that you need to stop wasting time reading or overthinking and go outside to experience real life, meet others, and start a family because y...

But if cattle and horses and lions had hands or could paint with their hands and create works such as men do, horses like horses and cattle like cattle also would depict the gods’ shapes and make thei...

We're a dying breed. If you exclude women reading femgooner slop and YA novels very, very few people read.

>While J.R.R. Tolkien was open to the idea of The Lord of the Rings being adapted into an animated film, he was skeptical of dramatic adaptations in general, particularly those that might "vulgarize" ...

Reading "The Man without Qualities" makes me want to kill myself. Generally reading Musil feels like jumping into an abyss to me.

>The Buddha was integrated into Vaishnavism through its mythology in the Vaishnava Puranas, where the Buddha is considered as the ninth avatar of Vishnu. According to the Agni Purana, Vishnu assumed t...

Critias, the follower of Socrates and brutal tyrant of Athens, also reinterpreted the myth of Sisyphus in an anti-teleological manner over two millenia before Camus did. It seems this is where Camus g...

Why do leftists always champion combating illiteracy as some great achievement of communism when in most countries with over 90% literacy rates adults don't read a single book in any given year? What ...

>[extremely reasonable insights on the human psyche] >"oh and BTW magic is real" Was it autism?

Seriously, why did he think it was a good idea to hire an editor on Fiverr to edit his novels? This is very clearly a bad idea to anyone with an ounce of sense, and everyone knows editing literature i...

What are the best biographies to read?

Jesus left not a Bible but an ecclesical structure which gave us the Bible. 1 Timothy 3:15 says the Church is the pillar and ground of truth and the passing on of the Holy Spirit by the laying of hand...

>Mere

This guy's writing style is 95% indistinguishable from the reddit style and he's 500 years old

Any good tools? Books? Yeah please, thanks

thanks for the rec, guys :)

Are there any occult writers who aren't cringe faggots?

You sit down to write.. What tools do you use? What's the process look like? From a legal pad, a thesaurus and a bic pen to a custom emacs build connected to obsidian and your zettlekasten database.

Books to ease me into suicide please

Tree Cultivation Edition Previous >>24563536 >What is Web Novel General? A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fictio...

Is Fyodor Dostoyevsky the greatest novelist who has ever lived?

>At first the audience did not do much and was extremely passive. However, as the realization began to set in that there was no limit to their actions, the piece became brutal. By the end of the perfo...

Unironically, what is the /lit/ equivalent?

What are Huxley's best books?

What is your favorite literary romance?

Should I allow myself to be memed into it?

You wake up one day as the Executive CEO President of Education. How would you fix the plummeting literacy rate among highschoolers? Hardmode: You do not have unlimited budget.

Are his other books this funny? This might be the funniest book I've ever read. It's giving JR a run for its money.

What is The Translation for Hesiod?

Not every early Christian thought Jesus was divine. The Ebionites, a Jewish-Christian group, saw him as a prophet and the Messiah a human picked by God, not God in the flesh. That makes sense if you t...

Books about how the logical conclusion of german idealism is marxism?

We all love King Arthur don't we folks.

>Eat like a human being, drink like a human being, dress up, marry, have children, get politically active—suffer abuse, bear with a headstrong brother, father, son, neighbor, or companion. Show us the...

Oн никoгдa нe cпит. Oн гoвopит, чтo никoгдa нe yмpeт. Oн тaнцyeт и нa cвeтy, и в тeни, и вce eгo любят. Oн никoгдa нe cпит, этoт Cyдья. Oн тaнцyeт и тaнцyeт. И гoвopит, чтo никoгдa нe yмpeт.

What's your favorite short story? >inb4 baby worn shoes

In order, which 5 books of Aristotle should I start off reading?

What is a genuinely good horror novel? I want to read something that will disturb and scare me. Top recommendations?

Going to use this thread to dump some of my unpublishable short poems. No titles, so I'll just number them: #1 August ought to pass by quick. Even trees grow bored. Shadowed hands on vanquished knee...

It's just a cope like christianity