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So what is the practical fruition of his philosophy, is the overman an unjust incompassionate tyrant? If not then what kind of man is he.
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This book unironically completely undermined my belief in the Holocaust. What it really puts in perspective is the absolute paucity of material and written evidence for the claims of Holocaust affirmers. When they teach you about the Holocaust in school they always make it seem like there was a top-down structure with orders given directly by Hitler himself when in fact there is no evidence he ever intended to genocide the Jews. Holocaust believers are constantly grasping at straws, taking things out of context and interpreting facts to fit their agenda
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/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General
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Based edition.

>Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs)
https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/guIyhAzS
>Archive
https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg
>Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg

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>actually ended philosophy
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>tfw I read books from front to back entirely in my inner voice

You have an inner voice don't you anon?

it's amazing to me that 30-50% of the population has no inner voice. That is more than half of all people. I can't even imagine not having one.
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The Great American Writer Of The Great American Novel. Melville is second. Faulkner is third.
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Just came out of intense Bible study.

I'm even more convinced that the trinity isn't true.
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All his rage against Christianity for demeaning mankind falls flat today when our secular morality is so pathetic that Christianity is now seen as aggressive, violent, authoritarian, etc, the kind of traits that he himself would praise.
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Can we have a thread about spanish/portuguese literature?
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>buy used book
>see this
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Post your worst bookstore experiences
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The best reading room anyone could ask for.
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/wg/ - Writing General
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«A literary fiction writer walks into a bar and declares:
― Genre fiction isn't literature. You're not writing a book, you're writing a failed screenplay. ― her smirk only second in protrusion to her ample bosom.
― Uh oh, stinky!
― Rent free.
― "Literature", she says!
― Mere retards... ― escapes under her breath as she weasels onto a stool.
But before she can rest her mouth down someone burns through her, an uninterrupted gaze. Perplexed, but still having a measure of composure, the coward lets out for all to hear:
― What an unpleasant person! ― yet none partake.
A tactical retreat to the next stool was in order, but turning her back proved fatal, for a hand pierced even the heavens and grabbed her ass with a erotic yelp:
― What are you...!
― Shhhh, ― whispered its fingers ― you're a coward, but I like huge pussies. If you show me yours, I will show you my writing, what do you say?
The huge pussy shivered in a cold sweat, knowing the charade was up. She had nothing remotely literary to show, she had been found out. Eyes darting around, anything or anyone would do, but the only thing she found was another man that said:
― I bet she can't even read. ― and what follows next, might shock you.
― What did you say you ghetto fucking ni! ― everyone stared, none showed surprise with her irateness on full display.
― What an unpleasant person! ― reached her ear just like the man's warm tongue on her lobe.
― Your ― she stuttered ― unplesant!
― You are* ― said a fourth as she ran away, dripping.
And thus this ode comes to a close, with our heroes satisfied yet yearning for one thousand words long, wet, slippery prose. May this be a reminder etched for posterity: Do not mock the dreams of the little folk, you will lose to the cock.» edition.

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Please limit excerpts to one post.
Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.
Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.
If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.
Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.

Simple guides on writing:
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According to Rene Guenon, White people (the peoples of the West) are source of all evil in the world. I agree with him.
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/clg/ - Classical Languages General
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Corinthian edition

>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·
>>23181488

NOTE: replace ' dot ' with an actual dot to access the links below
>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·
https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw

>Mέγα τὸ ANE
https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg

Feel free to write your thoughts/stories/etc... in your target language.

>Work in progress FAQ
https://rentry dot co/n8nrko
You are very welcome to suggest additions/changes/etc... especially for other classical languages
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a video adaptation of HOW TO READ A BOOK would finally solve the conundrum of having it in book form, if I'm not mistaken
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>ask guy his favorite book
>Fight Club
>American Psycho
>Crime and Punishment
>Notes from Underground
>Brothers Karamazov
>Journey to the End of the Night
>Complete Works of Shakespeare
>Stoner
>War & Peace
>Moby-Dick
>Blood Meridian
>Lolita
>Infinite Jest
>Storm of Steel
>2666
>The Tunnel
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Don Quixote
>Starship Troopers
>Ulysses
>The Iliad
>Meditations
>The Recognitions
>No Longer Human
>The Book of Disquiet
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Three fourths of my students are functionally illiterate.
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Is it just me, or are misogynistic dystopias really funny?
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I really can't take them seriously. From the ridiculous clothes of A Handmaid's Tale, the wimpy Maledom fetishism of Gor, to everything about the famous Stepford Wives.

Why are misogynistic dystopias so funny? Sure, they sometimes have a lot of gore or sexual horror (like miscarriages, rape or death in childbirth), but whenever I think of them in the abstract, they just come off as goofy and ridiculous.

Maybe that's why the genre never caught on. The last major feminist dystopia was The Handmaid's Tale, written nearly 40 years ago. And since then, there have been basically 0 of these stories that caught the popular imagination. They fail to be horrifying because they are too absurd, no matter how much exploitative scenes they shove in.
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Roll for number of pages you’re reading today. Also describe your reading routine:
>how many books do you read at a time
>how many books a year
>how do you split up reading by genre
>do you take notes, if so how
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It’s literally just babby’s first self-help book, with a bunch of very normal ideas about how to go about life.
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Books about love
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Can /lit/ recommend me books for understanding love? I want to understand both the male and the female perspective on the phenomenon of romantic love between men and women.

I've read some romance manga, wherefrom I've gotten some data on it. Still, I don't think I really get it yet.
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If the ancient classics are so important why are they written in dead languages?
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Hi , I'm looking for books that are surreal horror. I like the nightmarish scenes in David Lynch movies and the surreal creepiness of David Cronenberg "Videodrome"
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Why do lonely autists think they are smart? autism and loneliness are linked to brain damage and they should be in the psych ward!
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Why the fuck do leftist think Nietzsche agreed with them given passages like this?
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>Need I say expressly after all this that they will be free, VERY free spirits, these philosophers of the future—as certainly also they will not be merely free spirits, but something more, higher, greater, and fundamentally different, which does not wish to be misunderstood and mistaken? But while I say this, I feel under OBLIGATION almost as much to them as to ourselves (we free spirits who are their heralds and forerunners), to sweep away from ourselves altogether a stupid old prejudice and misunderstanding, which, like a fog, has too long made the conception of "free spirit" obscure. In every country of Europe, and the same in America, there is at present something which makes an abuse of this name a very narrow, prepossessed, enchained class of spirits, who desire almost the opposite of what our intentions and instincts prompt—not to mention that in respect to the NEW philosophers who are appearing, they must still more be closed windows and bolted doors. Briefly and regrettably, they belong to the LEVELLERS, these wrongly named "free spirits"—as glib-tongued and scribe-fingered slaves of the democratic taste and its "modern ideas" all of them men without solitude, without personal solitude, blunt honest fellows to whom neither courage nor honourable conduct ought to be denied, only, they are not free, and are ludicrously superficial, especially in their innate partiality for seeing the cause of almost ALL human misery and failure in the old forms in which society has hitherto existed—a notion which happily inverts the truth entirely! What they would fain attain with all their strength, is the universal, green-meadow happiness of the herd, together with security, safety, comfort, and alleviation of life for every one, their two most frequently chanted songs and doctrines are called "Equality of Rights" and "Sympathy with All Sufferers"—and suffering itself is looked upon by them as something which must be DONE AWAY WITH.
Remind me why leftists try and claim Nietzsche when he obviously disagreed with them? How much of a moron do you have to be to try and sanitize this man. Did they just not read him? In some translations, "democratic taste" is translated as "egalitarians."
Feel free to post other Nietzsche passages that would make leftists cope and seethe.
inb4 the anti-Nietzsche fags shit up the thread -- thank you in advance for the bump
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Emily Dickinson was here
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need a good comedy book recc
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Pitch me an epic novel about a 8.5/10 white man in Japan
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Shakespeare was obviously the greatest writer of the English language but is he great because of some otherworldly, divinely inspired relationship he had with the English language that was totally unique to him or because English in comparison to other languages has quite a poor literary tradition? Do other countries simply lack a figure who displays a mastery of their language on par with Shakespeare or do they in fact have multiple artists who possess a similar skill and therefore veneration is not concentrated on one figure?
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You’re having a heated discussion with her and she calls you an incel out of nowhere. Your next move?
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Plato's Cave etc
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So,how do you leave the cave for good? Have YOU left the cave? Maybe it's an oxymoron to answer that while sitting in front of a screen. I considered my ego-death to be the way out but it felt more like a pick your own reality thing rather than getting rid of it. Isn't the very idea of it just another one of those shadows? Didn't really think the thread through,just looking for company i guess.
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Making a /x/ tier story involving a breadoholic mantis| Ask Me Anything(Within Reason)
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I am in the process of making a webnovel about a breadoholic praying mantis that has to deal with a shizton of weird and paranormal stuff like a ghost, cannibal, killer bread, demons, and more.

THE CHARACTERS

>Manny P.(Pain) Baker

The main character of the series, Manny is a breadoholic mantis that lives in the Breadhouse. He is mostly calm and friendly in nature, but gets manic over bread and the making of it, making loaves of it daily and owning tons of related items. He is somewhat unmoved by all the unexplained phenomena that occurs near ‘his’ house, but does get spooked a bit during these incidents time to time. He is a homebody only leaving the Breadhouse for times when the Homeowner is not available to bring more bread ingredients to him or if resolving anomalous incidents call for him to leave the house.

>Unnamed Homeowner

A secondary character that shows up during many chapters/episodes. He is the owner of both the house in which Breadhouse is located in and Breadhouse itself. He is rather helpful and kind to Manny, doing things like bringing him bread ingredients and making tools and weapons for him to use. But this stems mostly from the fact he is unaware of Manny, and thinks his dollhouse is haunted and/or cursed, and seeks to appease it to prevent harm to him, regardless of him being paid in bread by Manny for his deeds. His face has never been shown, with a hand being all we or Manny is shown/given a description of.

>Parry D.(Du) Pwayer

A recurring character that shows up from time to time. Parry is the pastor friend of Manny that tends to help him when certain incidents become too much to handle on his own, especially ones involving spirits or things of that nature. He is good-natured, but sometimes slightly rags on Manny for things like his bread obsession, occasional lack of courage, and his unwillingness to leave his home for things other than bread and fix his weird issues. In addition to being skilled in dealing with many supernatural matters, Parry is versed in many non-spiritual skills like ninjitsu, guns, rodeo, and martial arts. He also seems to do well in more mundane things like cooking and sports.


Ask me anything about my WIP story(within reason) to help me flesh out my story. If I ever get to the point of writing it, I will let you guys know and link you too here.
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Is is inevitable for literature to go the direction of sculpture and painting? I.e., artists continue to make it for critics and other artists but it never regains mass appeal.
Is there any way to prevent this fate from occurring or it simply a logical historical process?
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My favorite part is when someone sticks their arm elbow-deep up Bloom's vulva. Did that part give you a hardon?
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The peak of the ascent, or am I missing something?
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How come more people don't write like this?
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Better than LOTR
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>reads african book
>it's actually good
damn. any good authors from the region like this one or is the rest just a farse as usual?
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The literary industry is gatekept by SSRI zombie cat ladies with no inner monologue or ability to imagine things.
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I'm starting with the greeks with this. Is it good? I'm gonna borrow it from my local public library.
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>to be, or not to be, that is the question
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What are some of the best anti-communism books ever written? Either historical, philosophical, or fictional.
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What's the best translation of Sholem Aleichem's stories?
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>book you conisder as purely erotic due to the author highlighting your specific fetish is considered by multiple publications and booktubers to be one of the most disturbing literary pieces of the modern era
haha
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Favroite 15 books
15 book
This seemed like a fun way to learn about new books Post your own below

https://topsters.org/
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>The form German anti-Semitism took, before the War, was much more contempt than hatred, however. The Jew was regarded as an inferior, of a clownish stamp. He must not be admitted to the society of ladies (Damen!) for he was apt to get fresh. Not one, but a hundred, at once stern and coy German ladies have described to me how they "have felt they were being undressed" by the eye of a casually met Jude. This is a delicious obsession with them--though to go about undressing buxom Hausfraus with the eye, that has always sounded to me a peculiarly dismal pastime, and I have never for my part noticed a Jew amusing himself in this way--though the moment a German woman finds herself near a Jew, she begins getting very coy, as if she felt her outer garments in danger of flying off her back.
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Good novels with gambling as a theme?
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Hi zoomer here. Just marathoned Stoner , what did I think of it?
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Idk if i'm on /pol/brain mode but I think that this book is a brilliant metaphor of the invasion of the West by people from the south. How we simply let them have the land with no struggle. How they can mimic us to perfection but will never make any progress in a thousand years. This is highly prophetic and genius.
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I got a gig teaching Latin at a high ranked university and in the first class I was trying to explain the cases and said nominative signifies the subject and accusative the object. 90% of the class hit me with a fluoride stare and someone asked what those mean. Shit like this has just continued. I said for instance "Caesar wrote DBG" and they asked who Caesar was. Made a reference to Alexander and they had no clue who he was.
It's completely over, zoomers are fucked. These are the smartest zoomers too, it's not some shitty community college. School and parents have completely failed them.
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I just wanna write about beautiful girls all day and make it a super magical psychedelic feeling book set in this huge epic futuristic world but I also love Tolstoy so much and wanna write like him but his prose is so grounded and earthy that it makes it difficult to emulate and I don't want it to be read like some fantasy book
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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
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Anyone here actually read this? Is this really the best a web serial has to offer?
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What does /lit/ thinks of Mortimer J. Adler
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I'm currently half-way through "How to read a book", and I'm finding it simple but quite useful, me still being an inexperienced reader.
Recently I noticed Adler wrote a lot of other stuff, did you like some other book of his? I think I might check out some of his stuff on Aristotle once I started approaching greek philosophy.
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Is absurdism, by definition, against science?
If absurdism bases itself on rejecting all that we can't be certian of, does that make it incompatible with all sorts of scientific theories that have yet to be proven?
Also, if I'm remembering well, in picrel Camus says that blindly believing in anything, these "leaps" he talks about when referring to Kierkegaard and existentialism, does that mean I can't take anything at face value, right?
So let's say for example that I never had any proof of the curvature of the Earth, if i were an Absurd Man, would that mean I'd have to do either:
A) do my own experiments to find out a truth without and "if" and so only then believe in a round Earth
or
B) since I can't be fully sure I should just reject the argument and not care
What even is the point of this, either I'm stupid and misunderstanding everything (higly possible, his prose is kinda convoluted in picrel)
or Absurdism is just retarded.
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Let's talk Paganism.

Do we have any followers of the old gods here?

Where to start with the Pagans? (Book recommendations).
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What's his secret?
How does he write such beautiful and poetic prose ?
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>MUH STATE
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Was this brainlet an hikikomori too scared to leave the city or just your average Athenaboo?
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Hume BTFOs cucks
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>Whoever considers the length and feebleness of human infancy, with the concern which both sexes naturally have for their offspring, will easily perceive, that there must be an union of male and female for the education of the young, and that this union must be of considerable duration. But in order to induce the men to impose on themselves this restraint, and undergo chearfully all the fatigues and expences, to which it subjects them, they must believe, that the children are their own, and that their natural instinct is not directed to a wrong object, when they give a loose to love and tenderness. Now if we examine the structure of the human body, we shall find, that this security is very difficult to be attained on our part; and that since, in the copulation of the sexes, the principle of generation goes from the man to the woman, an error may easily take place on the side of the former, though it be utterly impossible with regard to the latter. From this trivial and anatomical observation is derived that vast difference betwixt the education and duties of the two sexes.
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Chess Story by Stefan Zweig

A short 85 page novella set in 1942 is well worth an afternoon of your time. The way Zweig introduces a whole new character half way through with his own story (with it's own beginning, middle and end) and still packs it all in to less than 90 pages is pretty amazing. I wouldnt say it's the most beautiful prose, but it's very well written, well paced and well constructed story. Lesser writers would take 300-400 pages to tell the same story.

Would be interested to hear other's ideas about the themes in this book.
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riddle me this
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If Heidegger was such a Nietzschean, then why did he remain Christian all his life?
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Marxism: Where to start?
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I want to get into marxism, communism, and the like. Where to start?

Any good lit charts?
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If nietzsche lived to see his thought contributing to nazism, he would have killed himself a hundred times over.
Change my mind
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Can someone PLEASE explain why everyone (this board in particular) keeps praising this book? What *exactly* makes it so deserving of all the hype??
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Lit about architecture, heritage, culture
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I'm thinking primarily about books like Byung-Chul Han's 'Non-things: Upheaval in the Life World', Patrick Curry's 'Enchantment: Wonder in Modern Life', Scruton's 'Beauty' Michael Serres' 'Malfeasance: Appropriation Through Pollution?' There are of course many books on architecture and art out there, but not ones, surprisingly, that critique modernity and modernist architecture. More generally, I'm looking for texts that work with the idea that the beautiful and storied world is being hidden from us such that we experience a "poverty in world" (as Han says). In fact, a good summation of what I'm looking for lies in the use of Tim Robinson's word "geophany" to signify a "showing forth of the Earth".
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Today I got diagnosed with a health condition that will stay with me for life. It's not cancer or anything, but something that is incurable and will greatly affect my quality of life. I am only 26.
So I'm going to finish the trilogy I'm writing and once I'm happy with it I think I'm going to kill myself.
What do you think of this plan, /lit/?
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How many pages per day do you read?
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ITT: Authors you refuse to read.

He looks like a huge faggot and everyone who likes him is annoying.
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>be me
>tries chatGPT
>ask him to write poems
>they are not bad
>they are not bad at all actually
>they are actually better than the average person could write
>actually, better than the average college graduate could write
>and it takes only 3 seconds for it to write them
>and the algorithm may evolve even more and get better
There were some weird passages here and there but overall pretty solid, nothing was super original but it knows how to develop themes, use images, play with alliterations etc better than possibly almost anyone made of meat that I know
Fuck
Its so over
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Fun Literature
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was one of the few books I've read that I've found really fun and captivating to read from start to finish. What are some good examples of books that feel like a rollercoaster ride?
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who here has read crisis of the modern world?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/424125.The_Crisis_of_the_Modern_World
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Is there any good book of conspiracy theory? Preferably literature. I assume the best resource is the internet
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Plato's Sophist and Statesman
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It is no surprise to me that the definitions by division (diairesis) which originate with an action fare better than the divisions that originate from a thing or an attribute.

Also, Plato thread.
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Slavic Folklore
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What are the best Slavic books about mythology or folklore?
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What are some books on physical beauty and why it's so valued?
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The_Netflix_Problem
>new netflix show drops
>wait a billion years to borrow the book

Anyone have a guilty pleasure to read the popular books? They're usually not that good but fills my time.
I read Mexican Gothic before this and it was so generic I think it was written by AI.
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STACK THREAD
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How should I see Nietzsche KGW version in English?
Of course I'll consider libgen, but is there also a way to just search and see it on web?
Oh and rate her face
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This is the best book I've ever read
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Christians, what are your favorite books on your religion? I like apologetics but am open to anything.

Pic related.
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I read quite a bit as a child, but in my teens and throughout university I lost the habit. Beyond text books and the rare classics we were forced to read, I rarely picked up a book for pleasure. When I wasn't studying or working, my free time was spent going out, playing video games, binging a netflix show, and maybe to the gym a few times a week.

At about 24-25, I started reading again. Some interesting biographies, a few classics I had meant to read, and the odd pop-economics, sociology, psychology book.

But that quickly gave me an appetite to delve deeper into some of the more accesible classics. I read Hemingway and liked him alot. Well then I read an essay about how he inspired some of the latin americans, so I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and I liked it, so then the Boom interested me and I discovered Mario Vargas Llosa, and I devoured his novels and essays. In doing so I learned about Flaubert, Faulkner, Doestoevsky, Sartre, Camus, etc, etc ,etc. I was so interested by his intellectual journey that I read his biography and learned how he was formed by Marx who had left him a convinced leftist, until Hayet, Popper, Berlin convinced him of liberalism.

Ofcourse delving into those writers, you need to start looking more broadly at the great philosophers, who themselves were inspired by the great western Greek and Biblical traditions, of which I have barely even scratched the surface. To make sense of it all just the source material wont be sufficient. I'll need to read critiques and essays and interpretations.

I'm now 30, and I've made little progress. I feel like i've only just started to understand how great the western literary tradition is. And with all my obligations, i've only just now come to realize how little i've read, and that i'll never even come close to being "well read". I won't even come close. When I look at some of the greats, and how effortlessly they cite their inspirations, it feels impossible to fathom ever coming close to that level of erudition.

I reread some of the classics I started in highschool, and now after having read more broadly, it doesn't even feel like the same book. I missed so much. It makes me wonder how much i'm still missing. Every book I read, makes me want to read 10 more.

Culture and art in general is only just starting to make sense to me. I went to the louvre at 25. I knew nothing. It was completely lost on me.

How do you cope with the fact that you'll never read it all?
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At what point in ones life is exact moment that marks a person to be called a philosopher? What are the prerequesities and requirments to be granted such title?
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>Every book I read is my new favorite book
Anyone else like this?
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>reading non-fiction pre-2010 that features quotes from average black people
>the writer always puts it down as 'nigger' or 'niggers' when they almost certainly said 'nigga' or 'niggas'
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>realize I can actually get through a book if I just listen to the book as an audiobook while driving
>suddenly can't think of any book I wanted to read anymore
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honest thoughts?
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What are the best books to learn Old English?
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Da Jesus Book Thread
Da Jesus Book
"Dis book tell bout Jesus an his ancesta guys. He da Christ Guy, da Spesho Guy God Wen Sen. He from King David ohana, an David, he from Abraham ohana."
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Are Brandon's books based?
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ITT
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Post actually good /lit/ youtube channels.
https://www.youtube.com/@adehtv4899
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>Wallace once wrote Jonathan Franzen he was glad everyone focused on his debt in Broom of the System to Pynchon, because it meant they didn’t see how much he had taken from DeLillo.

What did he take from DeLillo?
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Who is the Herman Melville of Science-Fiction?
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Was Willa Cather quietly the great American novelist? Death Comes for the Archbishop was as beautiful as anything else I've read, and it's been lodged in my head since I finished it last year.

Professor's House and My Antonia were also good; Cather as just a prose stylist has to be considered among the greats, and I feel that she is a much better 'western' writer than someone like McCarthy.

Does anyone else on /lit/ read her?
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Blue Eisenhower November
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Books about or related to Blue Eisenhower November?
I'll start:
Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Inspired by /lit/ to pursue philosophy, a fruitful venture or a fool's errand?
Pongo thinking
I am a failed STEMfag. Unable to understand higher math and sciences I was going to kms for being a midwit but I ended up at /lit/. I don't claim to understand everything that's been said here, but most of the time I can follow the arguments and even come up of my own. I wonder if my brain is structured towards philosophy, or maybe I am just delusional and coping about failing at STEM. What do you think?
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European History
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What books are great for a beginner, anons?
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/wbg/ Worldbuilding General
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Love and Worldbuilding Edition

Welcome to /wbg/, the official thread for the discussion and development of fictional worlds and settings.
Here is where you can share the details of your created worlds such as lore, factions, magic systems, ecosystems and more. You can also post maps for your settings, as well as any relevant art, either created by you or used as inspiration for your work. Please remember that dialogue is what keeps the thread alive, so don't be afraid of giving someone feedback!

FAQ:
>What is worldbuilding?
Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.
>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"
Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.
>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"
If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/. We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.
>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"
Yes, of course you can!
>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"
Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.

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Is this actually worth a read?
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Books with this /feel/?
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Chaos is a great book but there isn't a satisfying ending because the events involved were successfully covered up. I read Programmed to Kill by David McGowan and was aggravated by the amount of errors and specious logic. However, I like the idea of a counter-narrative and nitpicking a fallible justice system. Other recommendations welcome.
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What to buy?
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>rare book that can give me an experience few in the world have had (harder to find discussion)
>popular book that can give me an experience many have had (easier to find discussion)
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Is this the secret dream of every author?
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I am spending the whole evening reading Nicomachean Ethics you fucking piece of shit
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Didn't know if I should try here or on /tv/ but how are you supposed to expose yourself to contemporary theater
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Thoughts on this book series?
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/lit/ - a history
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/lit/ has produced multiple collaborative projects and periodicals over the years. Many of these projects are now defunct, and the few that are still active seem to have uncertain trajectories. There are also solo writers who frequent /lit/ and—for better or for worse—their namefagging and shilling has impacted the culture of this board.

This thread is for the discussion of the history of /lit/ writing and the future of /lit/. To those that have been involved in previous /lit/ collaborative projects, such as The Lit Quarterly, Pinecone, The April Review, miniMAG and &amp: what were your experiences like? Does the drama and infighting surrounding so many of these /lit/ collaborative projects inevitably result in their dissolution? Do you think that /lit/ has anything valuable to offer for aspiring writers, in terms of critique or support?

Additionally: Are there any new projects in the works? What do you think is next for the so-called /lit/ renaissance? And now that a /lit/ author has finally gotten a mainstream book deal with a major publishing house, do you think that more of our authors are likely to see similar success?

Mega archive of /lit/ periodicals:
mega.nz/folder/2gsHSSbA#Sl46P4LljGlk9mnpAf3Mlw
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Why was he such an incel?
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Anyone who agrees with this book is my enemy
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Something I've come to notice is that many of my favorite things are steeped in references to the western canon. How do I become well-read enough to notice these influences and find value in them without having to outsource the thinking to someone else? Are there any quality online courses or resources to help put me on the right path?
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what in the everloving fuck was his problem?
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autism
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does anyone know any helpful psychology books that explain autism / the psychology of autistic people / what went wrong in their development?

preferably something that's not trying to normalize it or talks about "neurodiversity"
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What is/lit/'s recommendations for beginner-friendly Japanese books?
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Psychogeography
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>Psychogeographyis the exploration of urban environments that emphasize interpersonal connections to places and arbitrary routes

I need book recommendations that are either about Psychogeography or an author using the practice in their book. I don't care whether the book is fiction or non-fiction
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Books that will help me deal with my suicidal thoughts please
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Any good books about women's nature? Not from a dating perspective, just how they think, operate, and go about their lives. Preferably written by a woman.
>inb4 YWNBAW
I know.

Pic maybe related.
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/fag/ - Forgotten Authors General
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Here is Fox Madox Ford. What other examples can you name?

Previous thread
>>23227629

External links: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20171010-the-great-writers-forgotten-by-history
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Nine Wise Works
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If I said to you, "In nine works only, impart to me your most precious wisdom." What would they be?

(If you want to post it as a 3x3 feel free)
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/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General
tavern
Comfy edition.

>Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs)
https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/guIyhAzS
>Archive
https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg
>Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg

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First of all, whats the diagram about?
ccru
So i got this because i liked the cover and was just curious,having only a cursory knowledge of accel stuff. It was a fun read,had that feeling that i shouldn't be reading it while at the same time i felt almost entranced by it. Very forbidden tome-like. But if i were to take it as more than creative writing what is it trying to do? Is it even accelerationist? Why dress it up in horror vibes if you want others to go for it? Is the point to take it literally and pick a side of it and run with it? None of the parts of the setting feel like anyone other than a Doom Cultist or something would go for willingly. Is it just a manual for edgy LAPRers? I get the way some parts make sense in a stimmed out mind but it mostly feels like its trying to fuck with the reader with cyber-tricks for some vaguely malicious purpose.
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Sexual repression general
Lets discuss Reich and his writings and theories .
The function of the orgasm covers his ideas on character armor and you guessed it. The biological purpose of the orgasm besides the reproductive purpose. He claims it is how the body discharges energy and individuals that are not repressed in any way or damned with "character armor" in any "segments" will have full and powerful orgasm. Most individuals in modern societys do not have these full energy orgasms and Reich explains why etc
If anyone has any other reccomended writings on such matter, please post about it
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NYC Anons
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Going here later today. What should I get?
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Introduction material to Buddhism
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I'm an Atheist who's open to exploring spirituality after years and even decades of being a firm anti-theist and I'm thinking of maybe giving religion another chance. I've read a lot of Paul Williams articles on Buddhism and it's making me interested in Buddhism but I don't know where to start.
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I'll be reading Aristotle soon and I have a few questions. (1) Is it customary to start with Metaphysics, or would Poetics suffice? (2) is "Nicomachean Ethics" the same book as "Ethics"? (3) What other Greeks would I be a fool for not reading besides Plato and Aristotle? So far I'm thinking Euclid, Heraclitus, and Plotinus.
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2Q==(14)
>/lit/ suggests i read this book
>it's shit
as always, /lit/'s recommendation is garbage
i don't know if you are pseuds, trolls, or just have shit taste, but this happens every time

just admit it already
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PJO
PJO Nico Di Angelo
They won
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What are some books that had the most life changing spiritual impact on you.
For me, it's Till we have faces and the Bible,
(probably brothers karamzov when i finish it)
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Best Books detailing the history of the Scopes Monkey Trial?
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now that he’s dead, what do you REALLY think about his magnum opus?
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What’s the best sci fi story you’ve ever read? Why?
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Would anybody care about this piece of shit if they weren't forced to read it in high school?
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>God… le doesn’t exist
wtf I’m catholic now
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Pick an author. Of their works, give the most overrated, underrated, overall best, and overall worst.

I’ll start

Overrated: Notes From Underground

Underrated: House of the Dead

Best: Demons

Worst: The Adolescent
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Lenin
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Which of his book should I start reading first?
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Radicalization
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Rocky Rickaby is taking the red pill. He’s becoming radicalized. :D
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Books about friendship?
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Epictetus
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Discuss epictetus only non gay form of stoicism. Lots of people can't understand him especially "modern stoics" who reject god. Is there Epictetus enjoyers in /lit/
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These really are just not that good.
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Judge Holden is the Devil
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