Literature #104

What's the point of consuming Fiction?
All my friends bought their dad Meditations for christmas
Books Poll: Physical, Digital, or Library?
My Face when the Bible ripped off The Epic of Gilgamesh
Da Illest-yiad
Do you like analytical and continental philosophy equally, or do you prefer one to the other? Why?
How many of you Veeky Forumsfags play an instrument?
Is the world really just a collection of facts
Where should I start?
TFW am such a misogynist that it seeps its way in all of my literature--basically every story I write (unless it's a...
You wish you had taste as good as me
What does Veeky Forums think about the writings and philosophy of Eliezer Yudkowsky...
Untitled
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Books that can help you become a MAN
YAAASSS!! F*****G SLAY!!
Trivium
‘Cat Person’ Author, Kristen Roupenian, Gets 7-Figure Book Deal
Should I message her Veeky Forums? She has pretty pleb-tier taste in literature...
Unending Pleasure
Post your current bookmark
Heidegger
Would you please recommend me books
I just received this as a christmas present. AMA
How hard is this to read?
Hi.... i want to write fictional novels, can you guys help me get started?
German Author's
Apologize
Thoughts on the writing of Lacan?
Who will be the first philosopher or cultural critic to truly explicate the effect the internet is having on the world...
What i need to become a brown pill?
Is Veeky Forums literature?
Why have you not read them yet? You do know these are the three best novels of the latter half of the 21st century...
Why is it read in middle school as good literature...
Paradise Lost, Inferno. What is the third book of the triad? Not including the bible, of course
Why did Rowling write those books in the first place...
Literary confession thread
Books for an 11yr old?
Do you ever drink booze while reading or writing?
So what was the point of it all?
So lonely
Ton âge
ITT: Post words only pseuds use to describe things
Is literature the highest form of human achievement and art all together?
You're all fucking retarded morons and I hate you
Does anybody know what happened to her? There was the collection from Tyrant, the one Playboy story...
Fuck, Veeky Forums
Order books through amazon
/SfFg/ Science Fiction and Fantasy (and sometimes Horror) General
Itt post shit you read as a kid that you don't think anyone else would've heard of
How to approach Wallace? Which one of his works should I read first?
How do I stop feeling like k have to read lots of boring old books because they're called classic masterpieces?
Greatest writers of all time
What's your opinion of Hawking and his work "brief history of time"?
Is Ecclesiastes the most Veeky Forums part of the bible?
What's like 'Dubliners' but not depressing as fuck ?
I used to read Star Wars novels
I implore you, say something profound
I've decided to finally get into reading. I'm an English major, but usually just watch YouTube in my spare time...
Read expected got
Thomas Pynchon Shows Us How White Writers Can Avoid Appropriation
Pre-Christian works of philosophy
Why are people on this board so fucking well-read and intelligent?
Redpill me on this book
Old thread is too full to appreciate my tastes
Books on unrequited love? Going through a tough time...
Was it autism?
Veeky Forums BTFO
Really enjoyed the whole theme of letting go in this book. What does Veeky Forums think of the Great Gatsby?
What is the most horrifying philosophical concept or theory to you? For me, it's Parmenides
What is your favourite book set among the British upper class?
Listens to music while reading
Language learning thread
Post your favorite album and get book recommendations
Finnegans Wake
Name 3 books better than this
Ok Veeky Forums we've had enough time to read the book. What are everyone's thoughts?!
You analyze yourself constantly, dissecting every subtlety of your being making your actions seem insincere...
What does Veeky Forums think of Fahrenheit 451? I think it’s ok, but We and 1984 were definitely better
Is there a worse review site than Goodreads?
What are some good books about cool numbers?
Suggsverse General
Writing dialogue like this should be illegal
Why is individualism the best -ism?
How did Nietzsche inspire the Nazis when he very explicitly expresses a hatred for Wagnerian music (preferring Bizet)...
Mfw Veeky Forums posters think that you have to be good-looking, intelligent, well-read, well-educated, etc...
Age
What is the most Veeky Forums anime
Moby Dick
Fuck it Veeky Forums, who wants in the hippie bus? we're gonna turn ladybugs into moonshine...
Quotes
Hey Veeky Forums, it’s Veeky Forums here...
"Caroline Kepnes works as a journalist, having covered pop culture for Entertainment Weekly, Tiger Beat, Teen Machine...
Where does it look like this painting takes place?
All Art is formed through sublimation of the sex drive
What's your MBTI and favorite philosopher
So this is Veeky Forums's main claim to fame right? The big four meme books? Has anyone read all four...
Main Character for your Novel?
What is it with the delusion that most adults have of: "I have kids and I work a job/tend my fields and I am able to...
How jealous do you think he is of Peterson?
Books for dealing with porn addiction?
England's best prose stylist?
This is really good why didn't he just rewrite the whole bible what else he gonna do lol blind faggot great writer...
Where to start with Zizek if I am pro-capitalist and I want to know if/why I'm wrong?
I'm really excited to read this. Can someone hype it up even more for me?
How am I supposed to write about things I've never experienced?
Is there a cohesive anti-academia movement in existence?
Can you imagine being a monolingual?
Is there a book that talks about motivation? Like a philosophical take on why would someone want anything at all...
Bookas narrated by aminals?
What is the oldest literature you've read that you can still relate to?
Reads evola
Making posts on Veeky Forums about how you are the next great writer/philosopher
Some of the finest prose I've ever written has come late at night in the form of spontaneous autistic retaliation...
I WAS MOLESTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED
I dont get it
Waiting for Godot
What are some good quirky bookmarks?
Now think of the following use of language: I send someone shopping. I give him a slip marked "five red apples"...
Book hunt solution?
Why read fiction when nonfiction exists? What does fiction give you that memoirs, biographies, essays...
Is it good?
How did he go from this
Houellebecq
The reason why is because
What do you think Tai Lopez read during his "one book a day" readings...
Veeky Forums
What are some good books in portuguese?
Reading chronologicly
What are your thoughts on French left-communist Gilles Dauve's essay defending pedophilia?
Bonjour you jaded Veeky Forums fucks. Where would you say the 1920s Paris of today is...
What do you guys like to listen to while reading?
Well, what am I in for?
Hey, I’m here from /mu/ - what does Veeky Forums consider the greatest album of all time?
Daily reminder that if you aren't published by the age of 25 (twenty-five) you will NEVER be patrician and your work...
There are people posting on this board right now that didn't get 800s on the reading & writing sections of the SAT
Literature is not dead in the sense that good books are not being written...
Tfw refuse to read anything written by women
New stack no plebs allowed. No top 100 babies first /lit books please
Chart Thread
This is the reading list provided by the Democratic Socialists of America
A Phenomenological Study of Social Media: Boredom and Interest on Facebook, Reddit, and Veeky Forums
What are your favourite works of literature and philosophy about death?
At what point did art become reduced to sign value in academia? Any books that touch on this?
Please critique my haiku:
ITT: literature in which the main character turns out to be a complete autist and destroys his entire life
Tfw can't stop adding to my reading list
What are some books with this aesthetic?
What work presents THE definitive Meditation on the state of the human condition in the time period between Nietzsche's...
Just read this, what do I think?
On Learning French
Do you know of any book-length accounts on the impact of the internet on rural life...
The Eve of St Agnes
..w-what!?
Tfw starting to settle into a serene happiness and in this process losing the suffering that sparked my literary genius
“Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies. You must know this, Dumbledore”
Is this Poetry?
Leather-bound books
ITT things you do to get $$$
Is reading Lolita in public a "statement"?
A list of books that is /pol/ inspired, but Veeky Forums approved
Well, I'm absolutely positive I won't be around here much longer
Melville, James, Proust, Wilde, Forster, Gide, Whitman, Jenet, Mann, Lorca, Mishima, Baldwin, Shakespeare, Wittgenstein...
Excuse me sir, do you have a moment to talk about Roko's basilisk?
I’m your best prose, describe this picture
Write for 2 hours straight
Anyone else think Jesus is underrated as a storyteller? What's your favorite parable, Veeky Forums?
What are real literature clubs like? Are they like this game?
More like this?
Book of Disquiet
/sffG/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy Genera
How does one interact with cute hipster bookish girls who frequent quirky independent book stores?
Can you think of any history books, regardless of the covered subject matter...
When is it bad prose and when is it author style
Okay, I have a serious question. Why on this board do we hate each other? Hear me out...
/christmas/
Is 'large print' "superior" for those with normal size eyes?
$1 million dollar short story
Butterbeer
Only ~7 hours of daylight these days
Jordan Peterson Christmas Gift!
Worth the read?
Critique Thread:
I've started having serious paternal fantasies...
Brit/lit/ pt.II
Pretty sure sentences can do more than that
I fell for this meme and now I'm in way to deep to back out
Post your type and your favourite book
Post your novel ideas. It's not like it's going anywhere
Are you bitter about your parents being low iq retards?
Why do you self-loathe, why do you do this to each other? Don't you know that I care about you...
This was the beginning of the end of journalism
Are they a good alternative to using my smartphone? Can I read pirated books? I might get one for Christmas
"My hobbies include reading."
What does lit think of frankenstein?
What is important to you and why?
What's wrong with buying used books?
What's the best looking book in your collection, Veeky Forums?
Raymond carver
War and Peace
Essay on Veeky Forums
Psychoanalysis
You....you want to fuck your dad
Even a retarded can succeed on capitalism the book
Pihilosophy is so fucking stupid. It's really obvious that you have logic/math/natural rules...
Which one is urgent to get to?
University General
What is the most horrifying philosophical concept or theory to you? For me, it's Parmenides
Gonna superlike her and see if she can get me a job at Penquin Random House...
Post one star reviews of one of your favorite books on goodreads/amazon
Hello everyone, the holidays are uppon us and I'm trying to decide what to buy and would love some advice...
Self improvement general
Writes a book titled 'Orthodoxy'
What are you currently reading Veeky Forums
How are you supposed to deal with the fact that you'll never be able to transcend your own self-consciousness...
Was Paul Graham right about philosophy? An excerpt from his essay ():
Alright Veeky Forums after the disappointment that was The Last Jedi. I'm reaching out for a good Luke story post ROTJ...
Do christians take the bible literally...
I’m an ugly miserable cunt so therefore everyone else must be, if only they knew the TRUTH, right guys? Right? RIGHT...
This is Terry Prachett, author of the multi-protagonist, humorous Discworld series. Say something nice about him!
Hi, Im Rupi Kaur, Im a famous poet
Say something to cheer this guy up
Is anyone here dumb like me and doesn't know when to use a semi-colon?
Tell me about a complicated man
Explain to me how he's wrong about postmodernism/marxism. He seems to use these terms in a vague, interchangeable way
Leonard Cohen
I'm not even halfway into this book and I've already given up all hope on humanity
Is it okay to have a thread here about music?
Poetry Critique Thread
Audio Books
Is it possible to overdose on books?
I want to learn either chinese or japanese. Whose literature has more to offer?
And you say millenials don't read
BASED Brother West VICIOUSLY takes down Nephew Nehisi Coates - READ MORE HERE!
Hey, I've been thinking about getting into Poe recently, but for some reason he seems almost obscure on Amazon.co.uk...
What the FUCK did he mean by this?
Genuinely compelling contemporary writers who aren’t Tao fucking Lin
Why Christianity?
Do we really need friends? Or it's just an invention?
Is art dead?
Oh no! Pray for Nick, guys :'(
Apology
What would Wittgenstein say about this passage from Plato's Cratylus?
Books of 2017
Whole story is based on middle class perspective that is a tiny minority so the whole critique loses all meaning
So apperently richard spencer is a mishima aficionado. delete mishima from every chart
Forget Foucault
Why is contemporary "poetry" so bad?
Othello or Romeo and Juliet?
Hey guys, I just wanted to share with you what is possibly the stupidest thing I've ever read in my life...
Blake Thread
Any books for being filled with a seething, burning anger all the time...
Anarchist literature
Diary Excerpts
Write what’s on your mind
Are there any albums with real literary merit? What are they?
Mfw unironically writing the most important philosophical manifesto of the 21st century
Why arent ther more diogenes?
What do you save?
Is he a Philosopher Veeky Forums?
Can I get some recs for the feeling of living in the Pacific Northwest?
Wtf I hate Jews now
JORDAN PETERSON
Just finished with it. Thoughts?
Rumi General /rg/
Where does Veeky Forums fall on the political compass?
Anyone here familiar with the WaitButWhy blog? It's brilliant stuff...
Tommorow, I am quitting Veeky Forums and the internet entirely...
Just got a humanities degree and need to rid my brain of all that cultural marxist gunk...
Any books about knocking off corrupt, dual-citizen billionaire drug-pushing oligarchs?
Camille Paglia
Spend all day reporting threads that break the board rules about non-Veeky Forums content
Let's cut to the chase and do some dick measuring
This kind of thread
Thats it im never coming here again
Hi Veeky Forums, what book would you recommend for a young man who is smart but has little to no reading experience...
Marshall McLuhan’s marginalia in his copy of Finnegans Wake
What do you think?
This board is fucking embarrassingly terrible
How do I ascend the dominance hierarchy of Philosophy?
I'm just about done with my current Moleskine...
ITT: We share our favorite moments in all of literature
Why does everyone hate this book?
ITT books you're afraid to read in public
Supreme essential
Which was his best book and why?
Can someone get this guy to write an article about incels
Post a picture and get book recs
ITT: Books that women could never understand
Look round charity shops in my area (East Midlands) for works of literary merit
Why is homosexuality prohibited in all the Abrahamic religions?
With memories like these in him, and, moreover, given to a certain superstitiousness...
Afraid of Death?
Why is the story named "Good Old Neon"?
How the fuck was he so good?
I think we need to discuss erotic literature. Not shitty pulp like Fifty Shades...
Why does Veeky Forums hate pic related?
What's everyone's favorite Emily Dickinson poem?
Is anybody here fluent enough in a foreign language that he/she is able to read books in that language without needing...
"Duty is the essence of manhood"
Death is not bad. Because it ceases the thing (you) that it would be bad for. There is no 'you' to be harmed by death
Which ending do you prefer?
If a black man can understand Kant, why can't you?
Why is April the cruelest month?
General Peterson
Board recommendations
Faggles
When you want to be an Ivan but you're just a Dmitri
Can anyone make this guy write an article on incels?
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know...
Just shut the fuck up
So who was right?
These are the most commonly stollen books
Daily Shakespeare Thread
Happy Christmastime, Veeky Forums
I'm rather new to Veeky Forums and only lurked here for a few weeks every now and than...
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
Daily Quran thread
Got all this for less than 20 bucks
Just marathoned this in 3 days. Read ~600 pages a day, using speed-reading skills I picked up in a class I took once
Dear friendos
Why is it so hard to find good modern literature? Does it just not exist...
Any good further reading to refute atheist's arguments?
(another) Brave New World Bread
When will this fuck release some new stuff already?
Ugly fuck books
Oh no! A nuclear holocaust will happen in one day's time...
You have [arbitrary determinate amount of time] to name a better writing style guide
Milk and Honey
David Foster Wallace thread
Orientalism
"I read the bible."
Can I Become A Learned Man?
Who is the soyest of authors?
Anarchist writings
I have a feeling this is a really good book but I don’t see much of a discussion about it here...
Was it autism?
Why aren't people interested in the arts and culture anymore?
What are the most important non-fiction books of the last 30 years (especially in philosophy)?
Now that we've established writers like Bukowski, Hemingway, Burroughs...
What did he mean by a system of equivalence, or universal equivalence...
Demonize straight white male authors
How the hell did Pynchon get this trash published? Nepotism?
Eastern religions
How do I quit being a Werther-fag in real life?
Why is Jordan Peterson's Book so Expensive?
DAILY REMINDER
/SFFg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General Anonymous
Has anyone read Emil Cioran? Is he worth reading?
NOBEL PRIZE
Veeky Forums has an average IQ of 147
Why do you read fiction?
ITT books that critique and refute feminism
Read this book in the 10th grade, haven't found a book that resonated with me so strongly ever since...
Buy a delicious new Everyman's Library clothbound
What does Veeky Forums think of this book? I found it to be very enjoyable
What should I read to cure my atheism?
Does Veeky Forums even Wodehouse?
The median American (18 years of age or older, all 50 U.S...
Lads I present the new voice of our generation
Is he starting to lose it?
Weekly reminder that Nietzsche died shitting his pants and playing with blocks...
Are Ann Coulter's books worth reading? Heard good things about them
What are the top 3 greatest works in Russian literature?
Daily reminder that Christianity is self-hatred and anyone who practices Christianity is petrified by Nature
One of these threads
What should be added to my resentful incel stack?
Lit names
So...
Where does one meat intelligent Veeky Forums individuals
Neil Gaiman
What's the most Veeky Forums language?
Did Jesus read the bible
Recent Purchases Thread
Best poet?
If they can understand him, he will make anybody right wing
*blocks marxist philosophy's path*
How many books did you read this year Veeky Forums?
Once the batch has cooled, feel free to Oedipa few and settle back...
The more I think about the fact William Burroughs shot his wife dead the less I understand how people can live with...
ITT we trivialize a philosopher's thought by compressing it into a single sentence
So this one is better than IJ? It's going to be publish in portuguese, it's been 2 or 3 years of translating...
Leave being right about everything to me
"I read the bible in a month."
What concepts or phil should I be familiar with before intoing Land?
ITT: Philosophers who were ridiculed at their time but turned out to be right
MBTI: What's your type, who are your favorite writers?
Are visual novels a giant waste of time that should be used on real books?
Yoooo what's your guyses reading speeds? mines 480 at 91% percent comprehension
Ego Death
Why read the bible?