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What kind of pom do /lit/izens watch?

You may not like it, but GK Chesterton is just the 19th Century equivalent to stuff boomers share on facebook

Where were you when you realized this cheeky lil fella completed The System of German Idealism?

This is ginseng. Looks like fingers.

How do I become a Kabbalist mystic?

As a writer would you (geographically speaking) rather: >Be a part of or pioneer an emerging literary scene Or >Move to or towards an already established and bustling literary scene? I feel that both...

Are there any books that defend homosexuality from a right-wing perspective?

What books does he read?

>That the truth is only realised in the form of system, that substance is essentially subject, is expressed in the idea which represents the Absolute as Spirit (Geist) – the grandest conception of all...

eating raw meat again tonight because its what mishima would have wanted

what is the best book, pound per pound, about virtue or the practice of virtue?

Who’s the Jeffrey Epstein of literature?

What's the GOAT science fiction book?

Books I've read so far. Les Miserables Infinite jest Against the Day Book of the New/Long/Short Sun The Recognitions 1Q84 Foundation saga 2666 Books that have defeated me: War and peace Joseph and h...

My noumenal sight told me that intellectual intuition isn't real.

>He read the Iliad >Read You know someone is supposed to perform it to you right? It’s ORAL TRADITION.

Picture yourself as a pakistani immigrant working as an oil driller in oman. You have little to no contact with the outside. Your entire existance is working at the oil plant, practicing islam best yo...

What do you know about Jesus? Any books about Jesus Christ and His journey?

Post an obscure writer from your cunt that only you would post

>friend asks me to read her story, saying she based the male character on me >reddit spacing >there’s an ai dash in it

>so many literary ideas in my head >too lazy and a coward to even start Its like I got the full script of those in my head but black out when I'm about to do something

what are some schizo books with /x/ redpill subtext? e.g: >pic related and descent to hell >VALIS >mccarthy books (kinda) I would say Pynchon, but he's more /pol/ schizo than /x/ schizo

I'm a non-reader but want to start reading. Is there a "beginner lit package" that I can use to get started? I want to read because >I'm retarded and I think reading (and writing?) can help >Literatur...

Which are recommended translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey in English for a first time reader? The most common recommendations are Emily Wilson, Stanley Lombardo or Richmond Lattimore but I'm no...

Is it possible to incorporate named magic into a story without turning it into a shitty fantasy in the young adult section? If you keep it vague and mysterious like in lord of the rings, it can work, ...

Why do so many of his books feature a bad boy character taking a good girl character's virginity, and then the good boy main character accepts her sexual past and marries her?

The greatest man since Christ’s time

what does /lit/ think of them?

Who are the best contemporary novelists I should read? I know nothing about contemporary literature.

Who is the most effortlessly intense author you've read? For me it's picrel. There's a sort of urgent and intense undercurrent in all his stories I've read, even the humourous ones. I like McCarthy t...

Why does Zizek keep cucking out on anti-semitism and racism with only non-sequiturs and ad-hominems? What makes him do it? https://youtu.be/SkSV4xyKkds https://youtu.be/DEXEVDPpW84 https://youtu.be/V...

>mfw /lit/ is forcing me to read another Dostoevsky slog novel

the book ending was better

Did you know…

>Considering the comment she left on my Substack review of McCarthy’s The Passenger a few months before he died, she’s already well on her way: >>Santa Fe killed the Cormac I knew. He gained fame, we...

Which version of this should I be getting? Should I just read the abridged penguin one?

Books that explain why X is so fucking gay?

Is there a chart for 20th century /lit/erature?

Previously: >>24552105

https://youtube.com/watch?v=uOTv6mJPRK0

What did you all think Emerence and the main character as you were reading The Door? I felt like it was instantly obvious the narrator was an annoying bitch and that Emerence was a good hearted woman....

I enjoy YA fiction

What am I in for?

More like infinite mid. It’s just lame

I've in the first few chapters of picrelated and it's currently the same old Dostoevsky fare, a bunch of hysterical basedjak-esque ranting characters that are parodies of 1800s Russian liberals. I'm g...

>I will make you my boys and bone you, sexually submissive Aurelius and Furius the sodomite, who think, because my verses are voluptuous, that I am not chaste enough. For it is right that a poet be ch...

i can recognize it's an important and ornate book but reading it just makes my head spin. it's impenetrable. the norton critical footnotes make things worse, knocking the wind out of any little engage...

>The citizen is frustrated. >Frustrate his efforts. That is the will of the Group. >Let the atmosphere obey no logic but that which we permit. >From ‘Weathering the Citizen’, Group of Seventeen, Editi...

line 8 : ᚠᚱ ᛁᛉᚱᚨ ᛈᛟᛋᛏ ᛗᛁᚾᚷᛖᚱᛋ ᛃᛟᚢᚱᚾᛖᚣ Frixra, post mingers journey. line 9 : ᛗᛟᚱᛖᚾ ᚠᛟᚱᚷᛖᛏ ᛟᚢᛏ ᛟᚠ ᚨᚱᛏᛁᚠᛁᚲᛁᚨᛚ M O E R E N – F O E R G E T – O E U T – O E F – A R T I F I K I A L "Moren forgets out of ...

>Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge a priori

The trope about the genius misunderstood writer who lived in poverty is very popular, but what about the writers who achieved fame and riches while still alive? Can you think of some examples? Shakesp...

Who is the bigger hack?

Marathoned the first page of this. When does it get good.

considering cyberpunk completely missed the future that is drone / smartphone dystopia, did it at least manage to correct the course? any fiction that is dealing with present and looking towards the f...

Wow, that was eye opening. It’s like Mein Kampf but for lefties.

Why does he do it?

Why has he never commented on Guenon and Evola? Surely he's read the most important thinkers of the 20th century, right?

Literarily Speaking why aren't the ballads of Robin Hood included in the english literary canon? Why aren't they taught alongside Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Langland's Piers Plowman? Forget King A...

If everyone remained an incel bachelor like Kant, humanity would end… so his lifestyle fails his own test!

It makes me feel sick and guilty about being a man

How much profanity is artistically acceptable? From which sorts of characters is it fine to swear with? Is the answer "None at all, and use silly made up cyberpunk swears like "frag" and "schlock?"

Any good books that rebut this book, point by point? After reading about dialectic I'm also wondering if it's a common thing for a book to be published and then later for another book by another auth...

WTF was his problem? Why can't he just outright say that he switches theatres and why is it structured in books when he clearly ends every passing year with his signature sentence that states that he ...

What am I in for?

So this was all bull !@#$ right? It turned out it was about race not religion

I've started reading Pushkin. What does /lit/ think about him?

>called Demian >is a demon So this is the depth of the bildungsroman genre

It’s very obvious that he’s writing Winter and Spring at the same time and planning a duel-release of some sort. I know you’ll all laugh, but I genuinely believe he’s doing it. It’s taking him longer ...

Has /lit/ ever given a dissertation before?

Read a book.

pbuh

Books on true love?

Will using the phrase 'writ large' get me laid?

This stupid ugly communist has sold 500 billion books. What's your excuse?

Time loop edition Previous >>24556003 >What is Web Novel General? A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction poste...

How did stoicism get reduced to its current state of being youtube shorts slop and podcast slop?

Any recently-written books that expand on this truth?

He's literally me

You WILL read C.S. Lewis.

Should I get this? I only read the Narnia books as a kid and wanted to get back into cs lewis. I'm not a Christian either but I always hear about what a great writer he was.

Why I have a feeling that all light novels that I’ve read are written by teenagers? You considered this literature?

What did David Foster Wallace mean by this?

The notion of audio books is inherently laughable. >B-but you can r-read while you're d-doing something else Jesus fucking Christ, the absolute state. They're good for visually impaired people, but t...

Give some examples. Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World features chapters that alternate between two seemingly unrelated narratives. When translating the novel, Alfred B...

Herbert really dropped the ball with this one, didn't he?

You haven't read a book unless you've written notes on it.

OOC moments that made you nope out of the fic

Vinícius de Moraes or Fernando Pessoa?

If he was alive today what would his politics be? Would he regard himself as having been wrong? Would he still be a bourgeois liberal conservative centrist faggot? Would he still have married a Jewess...

For me, it's The Pillars of the Earth

I fucking hate Immanuel Kant and I'm sick of hearing about him. Critique of Pure Reason is trash and he was wrong about literally everything.

HELL IS

Post a fake novel title and write a short synopsis for the title posted above yours >Empty Dial Tones & Long Distance Hang-Ups

In the stillness of the night, I hear

Anna hasn't even appeared in the book yet and it's always ludicrously good

If you read this, maybe you'd think more positively, and you'd be less of a vitriolic dejected freak.

So I was reading this and there's paragraphs inserted about anti-racism and DEI in middle of his writing that aren't present in older versions? The chapter "Some Practical Aspects" in the newer versi...

I read in proverbs that evil people become poor. Buddha said that poverty comes from negative karma in past lives. I don't like ideas and beliefs that portray poverty in such a way. I want a religion ...

I just got this is this a good introduction to Kant and Hegel or I'll still get raped regardless?

Is it possible to be mildly obese and also a great author? I am struggling to find high-BMI individuals who have written profound literature. My soul is just as big, if not bigger, than the body that ...

the tattered prince 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...

Was he right about the elites?

I really try to read but this book is insufferable

I am once again endeavoring to read Aristotle's Organon. Does anyone have any tips of understanding it? Whether commentaries or infographs or just note-taking advice. I've read a book on Aristotelian ...

How do we bring it back? I started using it in my handwritten notes not long ago, and it made me realize how clunky, awkward, unnatural, and time-consuming the Th digraph is.

I still dont get the point of the book of job

Just read this and it's my first book from this author. Who has the most interesting opinions on Chigurh's character? I need to get some cause I can't come up with my own

Thoughts on Bernard-Henri Lévy?

share your theory about why this book isnt coming out

roll for your next read

What is the literary equivalent of LSD dream emulator

I asked a similar question on /pol/ but the answers were not to my satisfaction. I'm looking for books and other works on what makes political movements successful. Many flounder or peter out despite...

All of philosophy leads up to Traditionalism and the thought of Guénon and associates, which ended it once and for all. People that still go on presumptuously trying philosophize at this point are jus...

Books about night and night walking?

I wish I could have saved them.

I read Ij a year ago and I now realize that the point of the whole book wasn't to solidify some philosophical meaning into me but was to allow me a huge catalog of memories of scenes which I could rep...

>On June 9, at Manchester University’s Lister Oration, British brain surgeon Geoffrey Jefferson states, “Not until a machine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto because of thoughts and emotions f...

it's going to take almost half a year of daily reading to get through the complete works of Plato, lord have mercy