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Thread #24337195
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/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books (fiction & non-fiction), short stories...
Dialectic reading group
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What exactly is "dialectic" as a theory of ontology? This is a reading group to learn just that>The ...
Your most controversial /lit/ opinion
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Let's hear it, anon
Cioran
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Made my way through most of his books and his philosophical aphorisms are the only thing I want to r...
Thread #25211509
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Any more books like this that explain normalfags from an outsider perspective? I read this entire th...
Thread #25213809
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>well, that certainly was a paragraph...time to pick up the phone and scroll twitter for 37 minutes
/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General
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When will he finish it? EditionPrevious >>25207054Here we discuss any kind of science fiction and fa...
Thread #25209103
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Being genuine, why would I ever use the library if I cannot keep the books? I am a neet who likes re...
/clg/ - Classical Languages General
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Ἔαρος νέον ἱσταμένοιο edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>25151591>Μέ...
Thread #25211910
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How can I rid myself of this dreaded nihilism and believe in God when the stories in religious texts...
Write Your Thoughts
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2 things about popular discourse on this guy's thought of which i am tired
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That it is common to conflate his ideas with:1) that of existential nihilism retards like sartre & c...
Thread #25214233
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>swift-footed Achilles>looses to Hector in three laps around troyHector won
No one actually reads anything anymore
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Every time I get around to actually reading some famous author, I immediately realize that 99% of wh...
/phil/ - Philosophy General #3
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>What is /phil/ Philosophy General?A general for readers, students, and armchair thinkers interested...
Thread #25215437
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books that take placed within the (kino) Victorian Era?
Thread #25212535
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What do we do about guys who only read the bible and Warhammer 40k novels
Thread #25213900
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Are there any still alive theologians with works worth reading besides David Bentley Hart?
Russian Pushkin fan jailed for being sensitive young man
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three body problem
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what did you think of this chink series? i thought it was kino >1st bookboring at first, gets better...
Thread #25215306
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He argues for being “authentic” but can’t even reconcile with the contradictions of his own op...
ITT: books you loved reading in middle school
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post and talk about your favorites from the junior fiction shelf from your library, pic related was ...
Thread #25212762
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You can easily read the entire New Testament in 30 days.
Thread #25212059
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>He is mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s...
Thread #25213734
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No Buddhist has ever said anything that has motivated me to read Buddhist texts.It's like they're al...
Poetry general
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Talk about poems/poets you like, post your own work, and critique others.
Where do I start with Ruskin?
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He's supposed to be one of the three Victorian prophets (along with Carlyle and Arnold). I'm already...
Consider Phlebas
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It felt like the ending was intentionally written as an anti-climax. No heroes. No dramatic death. N...
/grrm/ - George R. R. Martin General #109
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the hills of norvos editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https:/...
Thread #25211848
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Is all art created equal?
Thread #25211494
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Check out my haul
Thread #25215350
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>he doesn't read the prefaceI like reading the pathos of some sperg about their special interest
Thread #25210484
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>he considers himself "well read">he doesn't know german, french, italian, latin, greek and dutch
Essential chud literature
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Nonfiction or ideologically-driven fiction that reflects a chud point of view. Hard mode: well-writt...
Thread #25212200
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How does one read in a punk mode?
Thread #25213028
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Saying there is nothing after death is a metaphysical stance you cannot justify philosophically. Tbh...
Literature piracy is DEAD
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Anna's Archive lost.It's over.
perennial philosophy
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why are people so resistant towards the idea of a universal metaphysics?
/his/ /lit/
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Alright, time for another /his/ you sassy lil' memester faggots. Watcha been readin' lately?
Thread #25213855
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I'm losing hope that there will ever be a great zoomer novel. Literature might just be over. Where a...
Read Wuxia
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Why aren't you reading wuxia? Start reading. There aren't physical copies of them yet but you can fi...
Thread #25209311
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I don't get it.
Thread #25211425
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>is the greatest children's book ever written
Autism
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This non-verbal autistic man graduated with a Masters from Columbia and has published a book, Upward...
Thread #25211153
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>I said finally, “women rouse me to disgust, my wife has made intercourse with women impossible fo...
/hfg/ – Horror Fiction General
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Ginger Snaps edition.OLD: >>25125217
Thread #25210930
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Was he onto something?
is Reverend Insanity literally unreadable or am I just retarded?
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>long as fuck names for characters, places, concepts etc (had to write them down to memorize them)>w...
Thread #25215229
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ITT comfy historical fiction that will let you forget all the bullshit of everyday life (like a nagg...
Thread #25215059
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>there are more trannies in the publishing industry than straight white men
Thread #25214975
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I have an interracial fetishAre there any works of literature that directly focus on interracial fet...
Ludditism
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I lived like a luddite for many a year. I did not even have a smartphone, at one point, much to the ...
TV piece on Romance-slop writer of yesteryear...
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https://youtu.be/3nlbfZGFKuIBack in 1970 this fellow had written and published under 55 different ps...
QUIZ — ERST KOMMT DAS FRESSEN
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Thread #25214271
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>The first consideration that influences our choice and feelings is age. . . .>The second considerat...
Thread #25206463
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So you can just straight up copy Joyce and get published? Interesting...As shit as Pynchon is, at le...
Thread #25212793
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Chart thread
Thread #25207106
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>awful prose>stole ideas from everybody>never invented his own formula>was neither celebrated nor re...
Have you ever thought of going on an adventure, /lit/?
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Book Discussions
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Why is it so hard to get good book discussions on dedicated book sites? I’ve tried Goodreads, subr...
Thread #25208964
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be honest, /lit/. it touched a nerve.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGuTteTL7u4
The sexual revolution was a party we weren't invited to
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>at 24, before kpop became a thing, if I approached a girl I got hurled racist slurs at>today at 34 ...
Thread #25210832
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Why was every single book they made us read in school the single most bland, uninteresting piece of ...
What are the 5 essential books for becoming an alpha male?
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My own: Quintilian's The Institution of Oratory, Parallel Lives, The Aeneid, The Count of Monte Cris...
Thread #25206170
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>age>current book>your thoughts on it
/wibac/ — Writing Inspired by Art Challenge | Apr 2026
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Previous: >>25152217https://warosu.org/lit/thread/25152217You have until April 20th, 11:59 PM GMT to...
/wg/ - Writing General
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Punctuation Edition/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDA...
Czechoslovakia
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How come this irrelevant subhuman shithole has more good 20th century writers than actual countries ...
Smol Females
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Is this worth reading or will it make me gay?
Raj quartet
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Has anyone read this? I asked ai to recommend me some books based on books i like (camus, waugh, hem...
The modern AI age.
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AI is here, and studies prove that it writes better prose and poetry than humans, and humans prefer ...
Michael Jackson's poetry
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What do you think of it?planet earthPlanet Earth, my home, my placeA capricious anomaly in the sea o...
/wng/ — Web Novel General
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Slopping Is Too Much EditionStubbed >>25203457>What is /wng/ — Web Novel General?A general for rea...
Thread #25214176
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Why are women in books written so affectionately and lovingly when they hate men for that?
Thread #25207731
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is it the great american novel?
I just finished Stoner
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What's some other depressive lit apart from Dostoevsky work?
Thread #25173891
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ITT: we post pictures and recommendations for liturature based on the pictures.
Thread #25215011
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What's /lit/s take on AI audiobooks?
Thread #25214273
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How come John Adam’s 7 year old son can write better than half of /lit/?
Shit countries literature
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Name one book from any of these countries. You can't.
The third part, Youth, legitimately reads like Notes from Underground
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Was Tolstoy the Underground Man all along?
Thread #25214141
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The process of reading is incredibly difficult for me. I read a paragraph of any book and an overwhe...
Thread #25214974
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>international relations and economics allow other nations (controlled by Jews) to strong arm us wit...
Big Red Son
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Let’s be honest. DFW hated misogyny. He was a Nice Guy and a white knight. He hated the porn indus...
Thread #25214462
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How does one study with rigor without the structure of school?
Thread #25197720
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Has anyone ever actually completed the Reddit Meme Trilogy? I got through a few pages of Ready Playe...
Thread #25207541
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What's all the hub bub about this one?
Infinite Jest
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300 pages in…. When does it get good?
Thread #25208890
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>obliterates theologians with one of the most popular books in existence
Thread #25214523
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I enjoy reading VNs more than books. What is your opinion on this matter?
Thread #25214907
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best books on biotechnology?
Hampshire College to close, part of a trend.
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>Hampshire College Will Close Amid Student Enrollment Declines>Other small private colleges like Ham...
Thread #25214896
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Foid simulator
Thread #25204149
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Essential leftist literature?
How do fictionfags do it?
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>Marathon the first page>70 different different names and 20 different fake locations mentionedAm I ...
Thread #25213899
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thoughts on this set of books? Someone sold theirs to a used bookstore near me and I'm not sure if I...
Metaphysical Solipsism is the only truth
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Nothing else makes sense.
Thread #25204393
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>solves everythingwhy havent you read the pali canon and become buddhist yet anon?
Thread #25211023
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Nigga be like acting like a judgemental moral cunt to a whore after merking an innocent woman.
Thread #25212228
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I'm not saying I don't believe in Shakespeare's authorship, I am just saying I feel like we can't kn...
Why is there no incel literature?
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All there’s to be found is literature ABOUT incels, but never from incels. When it’s an acute an...
Thread #25214605
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She’s right you know
Thread #25214117
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What do you give to your young sons to try to avoid them turning into either chuds or shitlibs, but ...
Situationist Literature
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What are some books related to the Situationists and detournement?
Thread #25212021
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He denies that Tom Bombadil is God, but in his saga what is said about Bombadil is exactly what is s...
Thread #25212167
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God damn now this is a book. Why haven't you given it a read yet?
Thread #25213496
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Fagner, yecarthy and lelville
The Scapegoat
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Shit's real grim, huh?
Thread #25210833
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What are the best texts of intellectual history?
Which is the true heir to Céline?
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Which is the true heir to Céline?
key books to understand God
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The Old Testament - The JewsEnneads - PlotinusThe Quran - MuhammadMeccan Revelations - Ibn ArabiThe ...
READ POSTERS
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If you were famous and publishers wanted to make a READ Poster of you to hang in schools across the ...
/ekg/ - Esoteric Kantianism General
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Wizard Kant EditionHoly Text:https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Critique_of_Pure_Reason_(Meiklejohn)Esot...
Is Erotism worth reading ?
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I kinda wanna get back to philosophy and I wanna read useful ones to use in my life, If you know any...
Does consensual child adult sex cause psychological harm?
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Are there any studies or literature about this?
Thread #25176367
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Does something like this exist in Western literature? An amoral main character with no sympathetic q...
Thread #25210583
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It's over for bookchuds.
Thread #25211424
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What am I in for?
Thread #25213191
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I wrote this when I was 14:Marxists are worse than Al qaeda. Karl Marx brought hell to millions beca...
Thread #25213884
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What does /lit/ think of Dr Seuss?
Thread #25206888
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Why can’t female authors write men? Why is every book written by a woman centered around a woman c...
Thread #25213502
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>700 pages of nothing happening>then 2/3 of relevant characters die WTF
Thread #25214209
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Worth reading?
Thread #25209399
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>the urge to live in a giant cathedral, ring its bells in ecstasy and look over a gothic city while ...
What's the best /tv/ /lit/?
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Thread #25210546
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"So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself."I always l...
Thread #25212910
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I am a field mouseIn a grassbole crouchingBut i can hear comeWhicket and swishThe clocklike blade of...
Books by the insane
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What else can be added to this chart?Unfortunately, lots of insane writing goes unpublished, but the...
Thread #25214055
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When can we admit we’re almost all bots imitating /lit/ users from a few years ago?Inasmuch as a /...
Thread #25210203
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Were their books and other contemporaries at the time, just chick-lit with 19th century prose?
Thread #25210436
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Books on the philosophy of agriculture? I am starting an hydroponic farm but I have doubts about the...
BOOK RECOMMENDATION THREAD
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I am restocking my home library. Any book recommendations that changed YOUR life (for better or for ...
Thread #25207550
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So I'm starting with the Greeks. After this I have the Iliad and Odyssey. What next?
Thread #25212838
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Any books where the narrator laments and feels like his soul was stuck in a wrong body?I don't have ...
Thread #25194876
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One of the most evil books ever written. We need to ban neuroscience.
I don’t get it.
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Thread #25213509
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Would you read this book?
Meaningless pursuit of knowledge
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I have a great desire for information. When I read and absorb information I feel as though I am enga...
Thread #25209263
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any books that will help me get out of a 3 year long existential crisis?
Thread #25209314
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Do writers have groupies?
Thread #25211767
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Thoughts?
Thread #25209491
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>find what you love and let it kill youThe fuck does that mean
Thread #25211512
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Does Bryan Caplan have the weirdest beliefs of any living writer?>anarcho-capitalist>extreme foreign...
Native English speakers
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Do you like Old English prose?I'm having a lot of trouble writing fiction in English. It feels flat ...
Thread #25210904
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>able to read non-fiction>cannot read fiction at all, impossible to concentrateAnyone else have this...
Thread #25211492
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Books that refute Hedonism?
Thread #25211419
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What is your favourite work of short fantasy/speculative fiction, /lit/?
Thread #25212825
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Some people wonder about whether we will ever get a great incel author. But really, we already have ...
Confederacy of Dunces
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So did Lana get raped at the end or what? Aside from that this ended way happier than I thought it w...
Russian lit thread
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Is there any contemporary russian lit worth reading or should I stick to Dosto and Tolstoy
Write Your Thoughts
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