Why does no one today acknowledge the massive debt Faulkner owes to Conrad? The grandoliquence that is labeled Faulknerian is actually Conradian, even down to the almost non-sensical metaphors. >One o...

>then he was thrust into the world he wished to have no part of source? book, movie, anything?

Write a sonnet about my dog

Any well regarded criticism or general write ups on henry james work you'd recommend?

What is the best Lovecraft collection? Also obligatory Lovecraft thread.

I've never read a book before. Where should I start?

i don't get it

>used to vocalize words when reading >get good at reading >no longer vocalize words >internal monologue also disappears Uh, /lit/? Is this a side effect of being literate? You never told me my interna...

How in the hell did Milton write this while blind? And they say Homer was blind...Are you guys thinking what I'm thinking?

Thought on Charles Willeford? Any favorites from his work?

I am looking for a book I read prior to July of 2008. It was a collection of poems written by a fictional classroom and their teacher, with the story being told through details written into the poems....

How is he so on point about everything? Tell me NOW

how to live the literary life in 2025? i went to a cafe with a book and it was all roasties vlogging their food, i saw some people reading in the public transport but i didn't want to assail them, lib...

>Ar-Pharazôn >Let some evil demigod jailed, give him advice in his circle rather than kill him >Bro you will be immortal if you sail to and invade valinor >Forgets the valar are literal higher leveled...

I'm honestly really impressed with Calvin's commentaries on the Bible. Even if one doesn't agree with him on everything, he's a very astute reader of scripture (especially w/r/t the subtle differences...

I just finished this book, and it was a beautiful read, loved it from start to end, and I agree with most propositions of the author, but I can't relate to the "nature is cruel and scary" aspect of th...

So I'm loving the TV show rn. Are the Jack Reacher books worth checking out?

Just finished. Wow. Could this old pederast write or what?! I last read it when I was 14 and I forgot everything that happened after Dave went into the Stargate. What a badass novel. 10/10.

Is he out of the game or not?

Does /lit/ read/play gamebooks? Any good ones? I've been thinking about getting some.

What books do I read to increase my intelligence?

What am I in for?

Since women are the majority of the readers, more so every year. How can make authors appeal to them more?

Is the Douay-Rheims the only English Bible that recalls Lamentations as a Hebrew acrostic poem like Psalm 118 (119)? >That’s just the Baronius Press or 1899 American edition, or the 1750 Challoner Rev...

I asked myself how are we to understand the concept of honour in relation to anonymous spaces like /lit/, for example. Cool, in spaces where you are connected to a fixed identity, you do have a reputa...

Just read War and Peace. What are some other good books about attrition warfare?

Is it literature’s job to condemn the white horde? This is what the president of the american comparative literature association has to say

God I feel retarded. So many loose ends and incomprehensible narrative shifts. I read the wiki after I finished cuz I assumed I missed something but no, I followed everything that was happening liter...

Thoughts on Sam Lake's recommendations? https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/228976.Sam_Lake_Book_Recommendations And now that we are here, what should I read/listen to if I like the Remedyverse (Alan...

Recently I read the Odyssey and Iliad for the first time. I'm basically done with literature now, right?

What books does he read?

how the FUCK did people write before word processors? "Here I'll just write this entire passage with ZERO mistakes. I won't restructure it either."

(or vice versa, idfk) >be me >newfag on /lit/ >hear all this talk about some recently shut down wiki >"the guide to harry potter" ooh this looks interesante >l. ron hubbard at bottom no bueno wtf

give one good reason why you shouldn't kill yourself right now.

Is he worth my time or is he just another psuedo

Kant claimed that it wasn't possible for humans to have intellectual intuition because he couldn't think of how it was possible (Guenon succinctly and accurately flays him in 'Intro to Hindu Doctines'...

Books about rocks?

I often struggle with gay little distractions when reading at home but when I’m at the library I’m completely locked in when reading. It’s awesome. I just came home from the library and read 67 pages ...

anything worth reading from this fat gentleman?

>buy book >end up listening to same book on audio torrented from AudioBookBoy

If magic is fembrained in Norse myth, how did Odin - a dude - become the best at it?

How to become good at symbolism?

>The traditional teaching is handed down under conditions that are strictly determined by its nature: to produce its full effect, it must always be adapted to the intellectual possibilities of each ma...

Cautionary 'book by it's cover' tale, particularly relevant in an age of easy trust and push (accept) button acquaintanceship. Thematically pertinent to /the moment/. Questionable veracity.

>“It is not necessary […] that the principals here be in possession of the facts concerning their case, for their acts will ultimately accommodate history with or without their understanding. But it i...

Great or overrated?

Why isn't there any good white writer? The best ones are Slav, Jewish, Latin, mixed and Meditettanean.

>Leatherbooks with parchment paper >Available everywhere for centuries >Muh hardcover and paperbacks >No you have to pay 500$ for a letherbook set hur durr >Probably cost 7$ back in the old days >Don...

W hat happened to Generative Anthropology? This got memed (after Nietzsche, Curt Doolittle, and a dozen other thinkers) on /r/anarcho_capitalism maybe 8 or 9 years ago. The proponents claimed it would...

Aspiring hack writers of 4chan called out >It is worthy of serious consideration what an amount of time—both their own and other people's—and paper is lost by this swarm of mediocre poets, and how inj...

>THE FIRST BLAST TO AWAKEN WOMEN DEGENERATE >To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely [an insult] to God, a...

I am looking towards designing a storyline, especially based around the graphic/extreme elements of human nature involving and not limited to: Gore, violence, torture, corruption of innocence, depravi...

I have delved deeper into the mysteries of the Quran. What I can say about this is the following. There is some sort of gnosis described in the coran itself. It speaks of "worship until certainty come...

He mentions 4chan lmao https://youtu.be/uAgvcGxO7rw?si=vRe1wTgcPCdpIrle&t=3333

what's stopping you from annotating your literature book to get a clearer insights of author intention and put your personal commentary in there

https://red-rising.fandom.com/wiki/Red_Rising_Wiki

Any books on why women and racial minorites are bad, and white men are good?

So I've finally read some works of Réné Guénon and concluded that I need to join an authentic religion, as per his literature detailing the true importance of this. What are some traditions that appr...

This is so much better than the Reddit Blade Runner movies

What book would you consider the "lowest common denominator" or "mode average" for a great book? I don't mean the best book, or the book that would win a vote of the best book, but the book that the m...

Why did he say this?

Does he deserve the hate?

Greetings, it is I, Hiro Protagonist. Will you join me on my quest to defeat Grand Vizier Lier Darkfalse, who hath corrupted the court of King Naive Oldman?

Sobriety is hard and boring and I don't like it. Any other drug-related recommendations? >inb4 Endless Funny

This is literally me at 3 a.m reading literally me.

Just finished this. Whats next? What do I read now?

Anything like nuromancer/the stars my destination?

Helen of Troy: villain or victim?

>HP Lovecraft lived with his mother and aunts into middle age >Robert E Howard lived with his mother into middle age >JK Toole lived with his mother into middle age >Orhan Pamuk lived with his mother ...

Just got a bunch of new books. Which should I read first?

Who does /lit/ like more?

Who do you read here?

Some twitter users believe they have have identified Thomas Pynchon in audience photos from the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, where he was supposedly in attendance to see Bob Dylan with Mimi Farina. In ...

>Dude the deeper meaning is irrelevant >This obvious allegory crafted by the author? Disregard it, it’s words on a page, it doesn’t mean anything. The author actually doesn’t care about what his work ...

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Could Erik from The Phantom of the Opera be considered a byronic hero?

I'm certain I'm not the first person to notice this, but why is it that so many works with high literary merit are generally quite sad? Especially when compared with most mainstream works, so many wor...

What do you hope to achieve by reading STEM books by yourself?

Was he based? His essays seem well constructed and I don’t doubt that poetry can be made into a science.

Is being gay an Anglo trait? For example, in Shakespeares twelfth night, Viola disguises herself as Cesario and Olivia falls in love with her… also Orsino marries Viola still disguised as Cesario. Why...

>why do I read? Im just lonley thats all

How can he be a pessimist and a moralfag? Why would he not advocate for being mighty and immoral instead of moralfagging? Even the buddhism that he's inspired by is more immoral than his philosophy.

What's the deep lore connection between these two?

I like pretty books, and go to great lengths to buy and read them as a matter of fact, I often prefer them to books that I find to be visually unnappealing does that make me a consoomer?

A friend of mine's birthday is up. Can /lit/ help me figure out what book to gift him? I gave him Chekhov's Duel last time and he loved it. He's an up and coming influential right-wing politician by p...

>History Section: The History of Feminism, Great Women in History >Philosophy Section: Feminism and Philosophy of Mind, A History of Feminine Empirical Philosophy >Science: A History of the Sciences f...

Does this mean there are no evil writers?

i've heard people say that there is no value to spengler's work because "it is too metaphysical and is just gibberish" what do we think about opinions such as these?

If physiognomy is real than why all of the fashion supermodels are not also dominating philosophy, medicine and engineering departments? In most cases they're dumb as shit. Same goes for actors. Go to...

The only philosopher who lived out his ideas and took them to their logical conclusion

Hey /lit/, today is my birthday and you have been my favorite board since ever, so as a birthday present recommend me your best books.

literal nazism

>In the nineteenth century another mentality manifested itself It is evident in a very able and brilliant poem, Goethe’s Faust. Marlowe’s Mephistopheles is a simpler creature than Goethe’s. But at lea...

I've always heard people meme on her philosophy and discarding it entirely or people preaching it as the absolute gospel, but is there a reason for why that is apart from pure pseudery ? I've also he...

books about being straight up ugly?

Do you have to dumb yourself down to be successful in society? How do you cope?

What's your verdict /lit/, is this the next Jane Austen or what

Saying that you like reading books is a countercultural statement in the modern world.

How the fuck am I supposed to get the deeper themes of literature if I don't even know what I'm looking for? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>In 1968, Darger became interested in tracing some of his frustrations back to his childhood and began writing The History of My Life. Spanning eight volumes, the book begins with 206 pages of autobio...

Okay /lit/, what authors/books would you model your ideal AI overlord personality around?

>Steals a magical ring from a distant ancient hobbit stoor offshoot that's aged 500 years as a goblin like creature eating raw salmon in caves >How come Bilbo was never seen by the Nazgul but Frodo w...

Esoteric Kantianism 2022-2025 RIP

A Voice Episode Fifteen 16 July 2025 https://youtube.com/live/4ChLmeJutxk

This book is such a tease. There's so much esoteric knowledge that CS Lewis walks right up to in this book, and then just doesn't expand upon or ever explain by the end of the book.

Discover Heaven now! Without this book you can't be /lit/erate

Previously ... If Demons are discarnate hungers, monadic stomachs, yet bound to one another in self-destructive syzygies, then the Heavenly Host can be envisioned as a network of inter-connected stom...

"Rock falls!!!" edition Previous >>24551299 >What is Web Novel General? A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction...

Will the alleged fatigue bring about a revival?

why is the Japanese literary culture so far above all other Asians?

The Least Action Law allows: only the least Action. This universe hates to Act, so acts as idly as can be. The actions can be divided up, so divide it up folks do Into micro and mini actionlets, to ma...

so this board is completely unmoderated? can you just post anything?

Hey guys, im new to this but i wrote a book on how to get a girlfriend in modern times and i was hoping for some feedback on the same. Its totally free to read on amazon right now https://www.amazon....

I haven't read a book in months. Give me some recommendations to get me back into it. Some books that I've enjoyed are The Savage Detectives, A Canticle for Leibowitz, and Invisible Cities

>defeats Joyce >defeats Beckett >defeats Vonnegut >defeats McCarthy Who can stop it?

They both live in Sacramento. What are the odds they've run into each other? Explored each other's bodies?

I love reading Descartes. His theories work wonders for dispelling my fear of death.

pathologic 2 made me obsessed with soviet era russia, what kind of books can i read for the i hope my next door neighborg starves soon so i can rob him kind of feel? the more miserable the better

>If you don’t have any books by female authors on your bookshelf you are not well read Do you agree or disagree with this growing sentiment?

What do you think of him?