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📌🔒Thread #24337195
/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books (fiction & non-fiction), short stories, poetry, creative w...
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Thread #25329646
What do these three books have in common?
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Hegel
where do I start with Hegel?
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Thread #25329577
What's the comfiest philosophy?
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Thread #25329572
Must've been the wind
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Thread #25329562
Why did he do it, /pol/?
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ITT: Best books that aren't translated into english
Starting with Tovaryšstvo ježíšovo (Society of Jesus) by Jiří Šotola. If you know czech you should read this book.It is ...
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In Works of Art
Why does it feel adequate that good actors and actions are represented with Beauty, and bad actors and actions are paire...
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Thread #25329455
I thought this was supposed to be horrifying. It's funny.
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Write Your Thoughts
paris review editionPrevious >>25326438
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Thread #25329378
Want a gf or girls coming back after the first fuck? Read this and thank me later.
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Thread #25329365
Are there any online used book stores/sellers with good deals that aren’t obvious middlemen and don’t take two whole wee...
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Thread #25329334
When I finished this book I considered it 7/10, but since then I can't stop thinking about it.
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Thread #25329323
How much better at writing do you become if you wear one of these shirts??
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THREE GOLDEN RULES FOR GOOD PROSE
>1: The stressed vowel of a prosodic unit must not be the same as the vowel of the two prior and two posterior prosodic ...
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Thread #25329269
HOLY TRVKE
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Thread #25329249
I am almost done with this series. I'm on the 2nd-to-last book. And I would not recommend it to anyone. I somehow fucki...
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Father Brown and Chesterton thread
>It was one of those chilly and empty afternoons in early winter, when the daylight is silver rather than gold and pewte...
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/wng/ — Web Novel General
I Became The Slopper Who Destroyed The Site EditionStubbed >>25322565>What is /wng/ — Web Novel General?A general for re...
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Thread #25329196
Are there any books you enjoyed so much you're afraid to reread them?
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Thread #25329188
The year is 1849. I am Konstancija Valavičienė, a 60-year-old widowed noblewoman. I own an estate and 400 male serfs (re...
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Thread #25329152
The dad is based.Have you committed any Negroisms today, /lit/?
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Thread #25329099
If everyone only did work that they “loved and believed in” civilization would collapse in a week. There would be no one...
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Thread #25329088
The more philosophy I read the more sense it makes to claim cinema is not art. It's technology. Literature possesses the...
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Thread #25329025
Let's see /lit/ >Age>College/University you attend/attended>Highest level of education you have achieved. What major/min...
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Thread #25329012
Why is this website so shit? It's impossible to find anything on this site because the ratings are so inflated.
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Thread #25329007
Is Zendaya /lit/ now? Is she /ourgirl/?
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[1905-1909] The Decline Reading Group
Hi all. This thread is a continuation of the poetry reading group I started two weeks ago. The idea behind the reading g...
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Thread #25328936
How do I actually into poetry, especially epic poetry?
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TS Eliot
Which poem by TS Eliot is your favourite and why?
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Thread #25328892
Is there such a thing as a good post facto movie novelization, or are they all cynical money-grabs?
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Thread #25328876
I'm aping Nabokov's autismal routine and it really helps with productivity and even depression.
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Thread #25328824
Books to personally cope with the failure of the European Union?
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Congrats
The greatest living writer was just declared the king of books in Australiahttps://giramondopublishing.com/gerald-murnan...
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Thread #25328732
I believe in God now.
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Thread #25328703
This book sucked shit and anyone that claims they liked it is a midwit and a poseur. You're better off reading a YA nove...
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Thread #25328696
Teach me political philosophy in 3 books
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Thread #25328688
In 1967 Theodor Adorno gave a lecture on right-wing extremism at the University of Vienna. It has now been translated to...
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Thread #25328631
opinions on Bret Easton Ellis?I'm currently listening to his podcast and I personally it's great
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Thread #25328613
So why do they never reprint books?
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Thread #25328602
>Review/discussion of a Pynchon novel>first sentence talks about ”paranoia”
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Thread #25328537
Any books about being surrounded by attractive women who like me but don't see me as a romantic or sexual partner
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Has anybody here read On War, by Clausewitz?
What are your thoughts? Is it a decent book on strategic matters and military? Would you read it again?
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Thread #25328366
Well Jay! What did you think of Shadow Ticket by Pynchon?
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Books on European Paganism
I'm looking for books to learn as much as I can about European Paganism. Do any anons have any good recommendations?
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i like books but nowhere near as other mediums
i very much prefer by a wide margin movies and video games for stories over books, even when people non stop say the boo...
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Alan Watts & Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac simultaneously dismantled and reinforced the entirety of Buddhist views in one sentence."I don't know. I do...
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Thread #25328188
i got filtered
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Demons by John Shirley
>The heroes' dead best friend's spirit is possessing the body of their kid>The kid demonstrates that he's actually their...
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Lolita
It's crazy to me that the prevailing (and only socially acceptable) reading of this book is to completely ignore everyth...
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Thread #25328105
Books suggestions that have a central motif of aimlessness ?I have searched a little and found "The Stranger" so im gonn...
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What's in a Name?
I've written about 25,000 words and have shown a bit to my friends and family for opinions. One person said that the nam...
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/wg/ - writing general
"rewarding mediocrity" editionPrevious: >>25319930/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES &...
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Thread #25328009
Books where the main character is genuinely evil?
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Thread #25327949
Daily reminder that "akrasia" or "weakness of will" (the idea that one can do something one "knows" to be wrong in any s...
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What are you currently reading and why? Any insights of your book?
I am currently reading the book of the courtier by Castiglione. At first, I thought it would be boring because it's pres...
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Thread #25327938
How do you explain the fact that some people adhere to catholic ""philosophy"" past the age of 18?Is it just like a cont...
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Thread #25327911
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn
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Thread #25327906
>his "to read" list has more than 20 books
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Running a book club
I've started a book club and would like help getting some ideas for books to read and how to structure meetings and how ...
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Home of Sexuals
What are some well-written books with a gay male lead? I don't need them to have sex, but it would be a plus.
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Thread #25327699
WITH YOUR FEET ON THE AIR AND YOUR HEAD ON THE GROUND
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Refute this
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Any anons willing to give me a hand here?
My nephew needs help with an English essay, specifically with 'Lord of the Flies', and correlating this quote (on the bo...
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Thread #25327569
Should we have these for books? It would be funny if women's "literature" suddenly had an "Adults Only" mark square in t...
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Thread #25327331
ITT: books you used to like but you can't stand anymoreyes, it's because I became racist against Indians
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Thread #25327315
Emily > Charlotte > Anne
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Thread #25327274
>‘Edmond Dantès,’ the commissioner said, ‘I arrest you in the name of the law.’
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Thread #25327144
>this made Lovecraft shit his pants
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Is the Sun Eater series kino?
7th and final book is out. What did you guys thinks?
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Thread #25327059
You always believed him...right?
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Thread #25327021
BAP says the justification of slavery including wage slavery is that those who choose it in any form over death, deserve...
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Thread #25327004
>Shonen if it books
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Might Makes Right
in all possible meaning of the phrase, it is true, ethically, metaphysically, politically, it could not be any other way...
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Thread #25326912
Do you think this text is a smart and logical, well written way of looking behind the curtain; or do you think it's stup...
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Thread #25326874
>20 page paper due wednesday>After compiling pages upon pages of notes and reading secondary lit all semester, I start w...
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Thread #25326816
Etymology thread.Scholars generally agree that the modern English word breakfast emerged through a gradual process of ph...
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Schizo Lit
What are some books written for, or by, schizos? I want every weirdo on my wavelength.
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Thread #25326630
What am I in for?
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Write Your Thoughts
prev: >>25323554
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Thread #25326397
The performative reader’s final boss
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Tradcath Bibles
We all know the Douay-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision is *the* Tradcath Bible par excellence in English, and some of us ...
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Thread #25326271
more books like this?
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Thread #25326246
What do you think about living a solitary literary life that's poor on the outside but rich on the inside?
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Thread #25326232
>spoils the whole bookwhat the FUCK is their problem
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🔒Thread #25326213
I read multiple books in tandem. I will read from 3 or 4 books at different blocs of time, and keep my place in each of ...
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Thread #25326087
What is the best translation of The Iliad, in your opinion?
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Thread #25326036
Thoughts on audiobooks?
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Thread #25325968
He is once again vindicated. The pandemic and following timeline mindbroke normies and ever since there has been an expl...
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Thread #25325884
is there a site where i can read basically every book for free ( in english ) ? If youre about to say "open library" , p...
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Thread #25325710
>constantly brags about reading homer to his friend in letters
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Thread #25325673
What are some books about missing out on life you'd recommend to a shut-in NEET?
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Thread #25325592
I like reading books
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What's the point?
First work by Beckett I've read and it's the biggest piece of nothing ever. Are his other plays better or different from...
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Thread #25325544
Since it's pride month.Is there even such thing as good trans literature? Im reading through the vegetarian and some Ern...
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Thread #25325533
What am I in for?
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Thread #25325470
>Humour>Horror>Drama>Scandal>The human condition>Mr Bennet>Elegant proseI fucking love it.
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HaremLit
I just learned this genre exists. Is it like literotica for neckbeards?https://www.fantasticfiction.com/genres/?gp=HL
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Discworld
How does /lit/ feel about Discworld/Pratchett?I've read a few of them, finished Guards! Guards! recently and am reading ...
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Chart Thread
Post 'em
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Thread #25325095
What did Marx mean by this?
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Pope on Shakespeare
Of all that Nature in her bounty gave,The wise to counsel, and the fair to save,One wondrous man, by no dull rules confi...
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Seeking literature on natalism theory.
I live in the capital city of Poland and so I very frequently see various protests. During independence day I was met wi...
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Come on man.
>get told you should read him, and that he is one of the American greats>open the most approachable book that's not a pl...
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Thread #25324958
Can anyone recommend some genuinely great contemporary literature? The most recently written work I can abide (that I've...
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Nabokov
>effortlessly mogs all your favorite authors then fucks off to a life of butterflies and chess puzzles
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Thread #25324849
Brutal.
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Books against depression?
I'm pretty suicidal and it's slowly getting worse to the point I can see a future where I 'unalive' myselfI don't have a...
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Thread #25324586
The Capital reading groupLast week we read Chapter One where Marx explains the process of conmodification which transfor...
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Why does Epicurus get such a bad rap?
He said pleasure is the true good but he also said the chief pleasures in life are love and freedom, and that sensual in...
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Thread #25324256
>"All men are susceptible to old age, sickness, and death!">*snickers*>"W-who is that?!">Bryan Johnson, most biologicall...
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Atomic Habits
What are your thoughts on this book? Some peolpe call it garbage(as much as every self-help bool out there) but can it b...
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/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General
The Old New Earth editionPrevious: >>25313741>Recommended reading charts (look here before asking for vague recommendati...
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Thread #25323759
They both went crazy at the peak of their lives. Why should i take anything they wrote into consideration?Only a madman ...
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/lit/ finally learns Greek
We are using the Reading Greek course of books from the Joint Association of Classical Teachers. Speaking Greek is an ac...
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Thread #25323707
Any other books like pic?Shamanism, altered states, mythic consciousness
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Thread #25323525
What's the largest library you've ever been to?
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Thread #25322509
Anyone read this? It's being promoted by some very important people as a new seminal nonfiction text
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Thread #25322473
Which way western man?
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Thread #25322376
The virgin softback (literally) vs the chad HARDcover
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Thread #25322251
>communism and fascism are BOTH... LE BADWhy do people think this midwit is intelligent?
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Alan Watts
Which of his works is the best to stick by for Zen Buddhist mantra? Also, discuss
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Thread #25321835
Can morality be possible without religion?
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Thread #25321794
No one's reading anymore. Young people can't even write. AI does everything now. Literary forums are dead. Book sales ar...
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Thread #25321392
I could fix her
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Thread #25321240
Are these actually worth reading or is /v/ just leaking in to book spaces again? No problem with genre fiction so long a...
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Thread #25321173
What are the best anti-communist and anti-Marxist books? Philosophy, anthropology, sociology, economics, history, novels...
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Thread #25321156
Is this any good?
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Thread #25321132
How much does an author's physical appearance impact the reception of his work?
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/lwc/ — Lit Writing Competition | June 2026
Previous: >>25244329https://warosu.org/lit/thread/25244329~Itinerary~• Friday, June 5th, 10:00 AM GMT>Character & theme ...
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Thread #25320904
>read excerpts of sex scenes from popular romantasy novels >I could piss better erotica than that>in fact I wrote a sex ...
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Thread #25320794
He followed up Gravity's Rainbow with THIS??????????
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Thread #25319071
Does being a writer get you pussy these days? Or are they condemned to inceldom like the rest of young men?
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Thread #25318395
Why did Russian writers once overflow with otherworldly wisdom, write the greatest books of all time, then just stop?
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Thread #25318244
>keeps complaining about the world being shit>keeps bitching about life being suffering and pain>"Life is just postponed...
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/phil/ - Philosophy General #6
relaxing river meadow edition>What is /phil/ Philosophy General?A general for readers, students, and armchair thinkers i...
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Thread #25317811
Give me your top 5 favorite books right fucking now
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/pg/ - Poetry General
Love Poems EditionTalk about poems/poets you like, post your own work, and critique others. Bonus: post a poem you wrote...
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Thread #25316621
Does 120 Days of Sodom have any literary value?
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Thread #25316172
Post your bookshelf and rate others.
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Thread #25315470
What does /lit/ think of Susan Sontag, America's premier woman of letters?
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Flash Fiction Redux
ITT we give prompts for short stories and write them! Anyone can suggest a prompt, anyone can write a prompt! Be sure to...
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I want to buy a new eReader
What's the best option these days? I had a 2014 Kindle which was ok for a couple of years, but it was very slow.
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American history book recs for America250?
Looking for some good recs to read over the summer for America250. Here are some that I have so far:Bunker Hill by Natha...
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/grrm/ - George R. R. Martin General #113
the splendor of myr editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/...
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Thread #25306738
>that chapter 6God, I love Halo.
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/History/
Post and discussion about any type of history book.>Vengeance: The Last Stands of Custer, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull ...
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Thread #25301766
>"There are people who are just fundamentally better than everyone else except it's based in metrics that cannot ever be...
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/hfg/-Horror Fiction General
Jumbee EditionNotable Authors: H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti, Robert Aickman, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon B...
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/clg/ - Classical Languages General
Θέροζε edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>25206787>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx...
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