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Thread #24337195
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/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books (fiction & non-fiction), short stories...
What is the best "small" language for literature?
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Small meaning not: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Latin, Greek, Chinese, Japane...
Thread #25122279
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I feel very pessimistic about becoming an author
Thread #25122059
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Are sobercels truly creativeless?
/grrm/ - George R. R. Martin General #106
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pentoshi shores editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://geo...
Thread #25119258
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What did you used to get? I was a Goosebumps guy.
Any others that write about the massive gap between female and male experience of the world?
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How the average males life is existentially horrifying while the average hole's life is so blissful,...
Erotica
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Don't ask me why, but I've started writing a short piece of erotica. I have questions:>Am I good to ...
Write Your Thoughts
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Blood Meridian
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Do you figure he was some supernatural trickster entity, or just a psychotic faggot who got through ...
Thread #25119428
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I'm rereading picrel once again and really enjoying the part where Winston reads 'the book'Anyone kn...
Thread #25114072
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>reading fantasy/scifi >"Well, you know what they say, curiosity killed the Grunglesnark"
Thread #25117479
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What's the most boring book you've ever read?
Enjoying Reading
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How does it feel when you find something you really really enjoy reading? Could you describe the fee...
/wng/ — Web Novel General
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I Was Kidnapped By The Strongest Cabal EditionStubbed >>25107999>What is /wng/ — Web Novel General...
Thread #25118223
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anyone have that chart dedicated to books on corn/maize
For you literate men
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Are we supposed to be egoists who don't have any integrity or care about anything? Everything seems ...
Good substacks
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Where the hell can I read HIGH QUALITY, LONG FORM, and actually clever social commentary about CURRE...
Thread #25122259
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>waiting three months after submitting a short story just to get an automated rejection email
Thread #25112190
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This is what Patroclus looked like, so Achilles rage is sort of understandable
Convincing conspiracy books
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What are the most convincing conspiracy books you read?
Economics Books
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What are some of the best books to learn about economics and the market as a whole as a beginner?
Thread #25121314
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Is this gay gooks poetry any good or is he just astroturfed because he's a gay gook?
ANNA'S ARCHIVE DOWN FOR ALMOST 24 HOURS
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IT'S OVER
Dan Simmons dead
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Can't believe he died before he was given his rightful Nobel!Its like Roth and Borges all over again...
/lit/ /his/ thread
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Haven't seen one of these in a while, what history books you been readin' lately?>Thread question:Wh...
Does pierce have a fetish for this or something
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>main character gets cucked in the second book>goes on and on about how his love interest was banged...
Thread #25117547
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What books should you read if you hate your life?
Thread #25112248
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What was his fucking problem?
Thread #25121201
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What do you think of him & his work ?
Ubik
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It's nowhere near as trippy as people make it out to be. I am a third of the way through and it's ju...
Thread #25121890
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Now that the dust has settled, are there any light novels that are /lit/ approved?
Thread #25120223
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So what the fuck was his problem?
Thread #25121864
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I've never read anything, what's the point of reading?
ITT: Your greatest /lit/ conspiracies
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I'll startThe russian classics are being astroturfed by the kremlin. By promoting russian literature...
poetry general
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Talk about poems/poets you like, post your own work, and critique others.
Thread #25121753
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Solely based on facial features, what is this guy's philosophy like?
Most interesting philosophy thought experiments?
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E.g. the Chinese Room thought experiment, or Peter Singer's drowning child thought experiment.
/wbg/ Worldbuilding General
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Monsters, Dragons, Beasts, Creatures, Horrors, and Miscellaneous Lifeforms EditionFAQ:>What is world...
Desk Reference Books
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What are the essential reference books for a /lit/erate man's personal library? What do you keep.on ...
Thread #25119560
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thread for sharing good old textbookshttps://archive.org/details/childsillustrate00keet
Brooding anti-heroes
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I'm building my collection of my favourite kind of story, series that;>focus mainly on a single male...
Plato ruined western civilization for thousands of years, perhaps forever.
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There is not a single person who has done more damage to philosophy, literature, culture, or the wor...
What's so bad about being an orc?
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They are:>honest and unabashed in their resentment for the world and their place in it, as opposed t...
What happened to volumes?
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It seems after WW2 they pretty much stopped doing them for modern conflicts. The closest I could fin...
Thread #25121093
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Can anyone identify why I am shit at writing?Whenever I read other people's poems it makes me cringe...
Thread #25122150
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Just finished it. Of all the deaths the little feral girl bothered me the most.How did you guys Lone...
Thread #25122207
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Which one of you fucking retards made this video.
ITT: Book passages living rent free in your head
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Thread #25121997
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Let me guess, you need more
Thread #25114030
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Was he in the right?
Ranking Every Classic Russian Novel
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https://youtu.be/24Pe4fugOFYIT'S UP
Thread #25119988
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This book started quite strongly! Much better than Ulysses.Maybe I should have read it before Ulysse...
The Stranger
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If there is one thing i got out of this book its that to live life to the fullest you need to have s...
Thread #25121979
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>don’t treat women as inanimate objectsthere i saved you 500 pages
THIS BOOK IS VERY GOOD
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Obama's top political aide and jewish author Sarah Hurwitz was caught in a recent controversy, due t...
Thread #25119649
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Why did he visit prostitutes so much? Doesn't that go against his Christian values?
Thread #25121931
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Any good books about modern day heroism?
Thread #25122214
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What the fuck was Henry Burlingame III's problem?
Thread #25113582
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As recent history has proven, all you have to do to write a bestseller is to pander to femgooners.Wh...
Thread #25121326
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Has anyone gone to St. John’s College, and if so, what was it like? Thought some people on here mi...
Was dis nigga retarded?
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he just sperged out and got banished because he was too autistic for basic politics
/wg/ - Writing General
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"The Immortal /wg/" EditionPrevious: >>25105037/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ru...
Introductory Pagan Reading List
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Hey everyone, As of late I've been researching paganism; mainly watching videos on YouTube and going...
Thread #25116253
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I feel like I'm being gaslit. everywhere I go I hear that Dungeon Crawler Carl is this amazing book ...
Is Reverend Insanity the greatest work of Nietzschean literature ever conceived?
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Or is just a coincidence in the reading of the Tao as the will to power? Or perhaps the consequence ...
Thread #25121911
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It's been 20 years since this book was released. What do you make of it's impact?
/clg/ - Classical Languages General
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Medieval edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>25064706>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥ...
Reading poetry on translation
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...while listening to an audiobook in the original language. I actually find this greatly enhances t...
Best translations of Hölderlin?
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I'm a native German speaker, very thankful to experience the works of Goethe, Hesse, Mann and compan...
ITT: Your favourite covers
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Thread #25121762
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I've been reading Yanis Varoufakis' 'The Global Minotaur' to get a better grasp on modern US imposed...
Thread #25114428
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>Zizek was right all alongApologize this instant.
Thread #25121412
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Is my reading list gay?
Anglican Literature Thread
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I initially read the King James Bible for its much touted literary merit, after which I became curio...
Thread #25117213
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Was it a miracle that Horn was revived in the hole? Divine intervention? I never understood.
Thread #25120271
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Why are translators always so bad at translating everything?Revelation 12:3Original:>καὶ ὤφθ...
Thread #25119742
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>singlehandedly revives reading cultureShe has had greater influence on literature than all this boa...
Thread #25044548
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—Ulysses! that whole business again, well it's not true it's bullshit I did not read it I'm tellin...
Worthwhile NS books
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What books do I need to read to truly understand National Socialism, its ideology, history, and prac...
Richard Spencer's book on the Bible and Judaism
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Has anyone read it yet? It's supposedly a comprehensive and ground breaking analysis of the Bible, J...
Thread #25120363
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What exactly makes people think this guy is such a good writer?
Thread #25121232
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I've read>The Road>Child of God>No Country for Old Menin that order, and all of them were good, grea...
What would be the modern equivalent to Eugene Onegin be?
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Instead of spending three hours a day in the mirror, he would three hours a day in the gym, since th...
women engaging in bestiality is an ancient practice
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These days on /lit/ everyone is talking about how women erotica about weird fantasies involving best...
Thread #25121891
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Anyone gonna check out the Wikipedia guy's Christian/Philosophical reading seminar?
Shakespeare or Cervantes?
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Who was the greatest writer?
Thread #25120026
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Who are some good poets to check out?
Thread #25111931
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Very good book. I only don't agree on the part about parochialism and congregationalism. The letter ...
Thread #25121810
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The Hughes brothers on the gold-medal-winning USA hockey team are big book readersQuinn Hughes read ...
Thread #25121620
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True?
ITT: We write the worst novel ever written
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One sentence a post. “Primrose was dilating again, as her doctor told her to.”
Thread #25121763
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Trying to decide what the next novelist i plan to read from, I've really enjoyed Cormac McCarthy as ...
Thread #25121342
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For me it's Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Weininger
Thread #25116630
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OH NO NO NOLOOK AT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD
Thread #25116839
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Give me one good reason I shouldn't use AI to make dialogue.Why shouldn't I Just tell the AI to act ...
Thread #25121716
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>Schopenhauer has a sevond quality in common with Montaigne, as well as honesty; a cheerfulness that...
Thread #25121374
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>Check wikipedia page>305 (+ 32 ads)Did books really used to be printed with ads? Like not magazine ...
Thread #25115887
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Is Shakespeare overrated?
Thread #25121524
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Post a poem
Thread #25120867
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Why did he hate philosophy so much?
Are there any good books on modern geopolitics?
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Thread #25120702
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>started reading seriously this year>have reached the point where I can read a ~350 page novel in ha...
Thread #25121368
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greatest work of literature never completed
Thread #25115496
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>It includes the proper rib measurements of the sperm whale skeleton and the way in which the rope w...
Why isn't Michel Houellebecq more popular on this board?
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No other author has described the plight of the dejected modern man so accurately. He needs to be di...
Thread #25121682
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i've never seen Gunter Grass being discussed here on /lit/I'm reading The Tin Drum and it's surprisi...
Thread #25115159
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Random bed time thought: is the age of the pervert sex positive "academic" over? The newest generati...
Anna’s Archive Loses .LI Domain As Legal Pressure Mounts
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https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-loses-li-domain-as-legal-pressure-mounts/>Anna’s Archive ha...
Thread #25120735
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>want to "have an adventure">have a run-in with a sadistic pedophile instead
Orc mentality
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Have you ever noticed that modern 4chan pretty much promotes unironic orc mentality? Consider what t...
Thread #25121253
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>Day 587 of making zero progress on my plotToday I spent hours researching the interpertation of the...
Thread #25107882
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herro my name is rucy and this is my stolly about my white boyfliend
Thread #25116237
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It really does blow cock
Thread #25121522
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Is this a good critique of Kant and/or Sade??
Thread #25121463
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Is he a pseud or a legit scholar? Besides Secret Teachings of all ages, does he have any other subst...
Thread #25118795
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>Yeah I read banned books>"oh cool! you mean like Handmaid's Tale and 1984?">Well, not exactly...
Thread #25113649
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Is it over, /lit/ bros ?
Thread #25119140
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He was right.
Thread #25108134
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>Tries to find novel with lonely protagonists with no social life>Find article about books with "los...
Thread #25106693
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Why do philosophers hate women?
Thoughts on Legentibus?
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I was a bit skeptical when they say at the intro there are no tests, considering I think to truly le...
Thread #25121298
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Can you start and end Evola with Revolt the Against Modern World?I just finished Ride the Tiger, and...
Thread #25121271
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I’m going to write my first short story. what should it be about?
Thread #25120851
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Who else here has read the most subversively red pilled sci-fi novel of the 21at century?
Thread #25121217
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A lot of 21st century gothic horror that’s not of Latin or southern American origin is just missin...
Thread #25117852
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>first Unreal Press book in god knows how long>potentially last /lit/ renaissance book to ever see t...
Thread #25113554
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Author’s barely disguised fetish out of nowhere. Reading any fantasy author except a handful few i...
Thread #25120609
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What if in metamorphosis instead of being a roach he turned into a big corgi. How’d would the stor...
what are your literary red flags in men?
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I recently went on a date with a guy who proudly told me he “doesn’t read anything published aft...
two sentence horror
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>I went to take a shit......and magma came out of my bum!!!!>it was a sunny day and I was gardening ...
Book recs
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Hellooo!!!! I really liked the books Stoner by John Williams, Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and the Stran...
interactive lit chart site w/ downloads
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hi /lit/! i posted earlier about this site i made where the top 100 decade aggregate chart is intera...
Thread #25116589
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Does anyone over the age of 5 believe in Pascal’s Wager? This has to be up there with unmoved move...
Free Kindle short story
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https://www.amazon.com/Chemical-Divorce-Frank-Zeist-ebook/dp/B0GQHKJPYP/"Forced underground by the f...
Thread #25120956
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Looking for a specific set of books that do the same thing as Francois Jullien connecting east/west ...
How was your reading in 2025, /lit/?
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I read a few books to practice my Italian and Portuguese, and it was a pleasant experience. And I al...
Zola
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there isnt a better french writer
Thread #25119961
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What does>with a philosophical flourish, Cato throws himself upon the sword Mean?
Thread #25114491
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I just finished it.And I gotta say, his theory just seems dumb as hell. Basically he starts with a s...
Got any advice?
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I have to do an exam in 24 days based in a book of 220 pages.Yesterday I only could read 3 bc i coul...
Aeschylus
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Just started reading his plays. What do you think of them? Any favorites?
Thread #25120323
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>"If you can forgive me, forgive me," said her eyes, "I am so happy.">"I hate them all, and you, and...
Simulation and Simulacra
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Was he right?
Thread #25120781
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is this where the detective murder mystery peaked?
Thread #25118235
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What is the German obsession with inventing new words for every little thing
Thread #25116991
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>buy book>listen to the (pirated) audiobook anywayWhy am I like this.
Thread #25111973
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>read DublinersHated it>read Portrait Hated it Do people just pretend to enjoy this hack ?
Thread #25116928
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What is some good literature that focuses on abused children or kids being pushed around by tyrannic...
Thread #25117623
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Hamlet was actually about how much of a worthless chud father Shakespeare was and how he was a worth...
Thread #25113766
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>The bad guys win sometimes>ASOIAF IS A MORBID HELLFEST BECAUSE GRRM CAN'T IMAGINE HEROISM SO WESTER...
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