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

More relevant than Bronze Age Mindset Protip, you can’t

Anyone else ever try teaching themselves Latin?

I'm sorry but this book is better than blood meridian and should take its place as the last good American novel.

I’ve been planning to read the Stormlight Archives this year but then I came across an article saying that there’s a lot of wokeness in that book, including a trans army or some shit like that. Is all...

so much fucking pessimism about the state of /lit/eracy among our gen, yeah its bad but this board doesn't have to doompost and join the chorus of #concern. whats your favourite books and current read...

Goodreads changes its logo. Which do you prefer?

Saw a post yesterday (or before that, I don't remember) about how Dostoevsky's novels like Brother Karamazov and Demons accurately depicts the atmosphere of a dying old-world Russia, and predicts the ...

*saves the henriad*

Has any book ever brought you closer to God?

Which philosopher or school of thought argues that life essentially is your own sandbox, that the goal is to tune your senses finely enough to where your experiences are as whole as possible, and to s...

Hello Lit what would you say-what advice would you give to someone who wants to wrtie a book right now?

Qatsyr ~ Harvest Part Sixty~Six 21 July 2025 https://youtube.com/live/C9yEbCFn9Ec

jean paul sartre: (frenchly) my fellow crackers... dont piss yourselves... and this isnt mine... i stole it... how naughty of me! frantz fanon: explains imperialism *cut to the most pissed pants ever...

Hi, my name is Olivia. I am currently writing a dark erotica that features a rich, manipulative step-mother who tortures and humiliates her step-daughter at every opportunity she gets. I seem to have ...

Are there any books which argue the only thing that matters in life is to be born handsome and pretty and everything else is cope for being born an ugly subhuman?

You just had to go ahead and free the book genie didn't you? Well, anyways, hes your problem now, he has no moral compass to speak off, and no inclination other than basic self-preservation and an app...

Say "thank you GOAT"

Is Nietzsche normie-core now?

How useful is this for learning about theory and criticism? What's are the major differences compared to the third edition? The third addition is like 40 dollars cheaper

Deep

Books for this feel?

The universe is eternal and infinite. Its constitution being of void and matter, both limitless. The basic unit of this matter is the atom, which also represents the smallest unit of measure. They are...

So I’m day drinking on a Sunday and the thought occurred to me for to present these questions for materialist or naturalism or anyone following a similar ideology to discuss with me. I will be standin...

>In a review of Michel Houellebecq's essay "H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life" published in the Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2005, Stephen King implies that Howard did not work at his c...

Has anyone ever refuted this book? It seems like one of the most relevant books of the last 30 years

Has anyone read the new Tom Holland? Has it anything of worth over the Robert Graves translation, or even J. C. Rolfe one? But really, how cucked in modern revisionism it is?

name the book /lit/

Minus the necrophilia and the killing ofc. The isolation, never ever fitting in anywhere, whole world moves in one direction and you move in the other no matter how hard you try to change that directi...

>When rome was first established, they needed to rapidly grow the population of the settlement so it could stand on it's own >to do this, romulus had word spread around that all the degenerates and un...

What are some examples of self-defeating prophecies?

ITT: memorable books from your youth

FAQ: >Isn't this YA shit The first book is, the next two lean far more into space opera kino, and the rest are mature, flirting with grimdark. >When is Red God coming out Summer 2026 >When is the adap...

Damn, that degree in literature and history finally came in handy. I can read Eco's Baudolina and basedpoint at all the references.

How do I practice writing in script? I want my notes and manuscripts to look aesthetic pleasing so when I'm gone, people can at least display my stuff in a museum.

I don't care what you guys think, this is an extremely charming series and I think it's just swell.

I saw some people praising this online.

This shit is amazing. Pure high grade coom fuel. Use either Janitor ai, which is free. Or you can set up SillyTavern and run chatbots on your own computer pretty easily. Perchance is an option too. Th...

Any authors that straight up say that having, wanting, or looking for a meaning in life is actually a bad thing to do? I honestly think that the notion of there being a "meaning of life" is a misguide...

This book was supposed to have profound and far reaching existential implications but it's literally just >Meursault is a fucking autist For a hundred or so pages. Maybe this was more of a mysterious...

This book started off surptisingly alright, im 1/3 in and it drops ball. all these half-wit deep takes of author about human and worlds nature make me groan. also its so american it fucking hurts are ...

How do you respond without sounding mad?

What's the best original translation?

He writes better than everyone here combined. Pseuds only decry him because they think style is everything. They don't realise plot and characters and the gross-out factor are just as much pieces of t...

>discworld at home

so much fucking pessimism about the state of /lit/eracy among our gen, yeah its bad but this board doesn't have to doompost and join the chorus of #concern. whats your favourite books and current read...

So Im reading Xenophon doing a Socratic dialogue and he goes into a >God ordered things this way >God made man this way >God made woman this way He doesnt say which god and is singular instead of plur...

Have you ever felt physical pain while reading?

It's been out for two months now, what do we think of it? Book of the year or book of the decade?

Dear Jerry, Thank you for the letters and my apologies for the late answer. I try to get letters written every few weeks, but sometimes it’s longer. Several years ago, I was in your neck of the woods...

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is livrivox any good? or are commercial audiobooks much better?

>For only he who is alive is in the right >*dies from insect bites* What did he mean by this?

Who's the author you look up to most? Me: Heraclitus.

Who is your favourite Russian author? What are some authors you wished more people read? Favourite book?

why is “literary critic” a distinct profession? why can’t skilled authors also be effective critics since they understand what constitutes good writing? or why won't critics become good authors? they ...

Are we ever getting our 21st century equivalent?

Why he could not just write as Schoppy did? You can say whatever you want about Schopenhauer, but he is by far a better writer than Hegel.

You're going to read what the President is recommending right?

I can come up with ideas for more or less long stories. But i cant come up for an idea to write short stories How come? I do read anthologies quite often

FUCK it is good

Why is this so fucking vulgar?

Which English translation should I read of this kino?

Is it true that the critique of pure reason is easier to understand in English than in German? I’ve tried reading it in German a few times (I’m German btw) but it’s an exceptionally dense text. So has...

https://discord.gg/EMq43xYNxq

>write the greatest work of short fiction of all time in an ecstatic frenzy >send to the few journals that don't say advertise DEI for BIPOC/Women >rejected >publish online >nobody reads it >mfw Is i...

how did he get away with this shit?

where can i get the full copy of the pdf of "The Swords of Armageddon: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Development Since 1945" to download and read?

Is writing 1000 words a day good if I have a full time job? Its not that hard, its just a page and a half and I recon I can keep this up long term pretty easily. Im not a wordlet right?

Hot take: Much Ado About Nothing not only is Shakespeare's best comedy but his best work in general.

does this series get better past the first book? im reading foundation right now and i cant get over the fairly cringy dialogue but find the overall concept interesting. im not sure if i should ascrib...

Do you think we'll ever see a return of novels and poems that are huge in scope? Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton encompass the entire cosmos in their epics. In his own way, Melville does the same wi...

Okay, fellas, it's time to come clean. What women are to men intellectually non-Catholics are to Catholics. If atheist, sometimes their total neglect of the Faith leads them to some Truth, but invaria...

why isnt he discussed more? his writing is pretty good. i know bloom didnt like his writing for whatever reason

Books about how the logical conclusion of german idealism is national socialism?

Stupid bitch

Has there ever been a more savage literary dismantling? https://twain.lib.virginia.edu/projects/rissetto/offense.html

I dabbled for many years now in esotericism and Traditionalism without gaining anything substantial, due to what I believe to be my own faults of method and character. Yes, I did attempt to immerge my...

Has anyone seen this top ten list for "Best books of all time"? It looks like it was amalgamated by an army of 9 year olds perusing their class libraries and another army of middle aged Christian wome...

we will discuss oswald's decline of the west and his other works in general in this thread let me begin: do you think that modern technology has cancelled out or delayed some of the predictions?

Fuuuuck I love David Foster Wallace

I don't read scifi but I just finished this. What did I think of it?

I didn't get it. At all.

I don’t see Cioran come up much here but he was a S tier thinker who found a special way to deal with the unpleasantness of the human predicament specifically the modern ultra shit variant. I haven’t ...

The Logical Endgame of German Idealism

*Mic drop*