Literature #105

Can I get some recommendations on good books from/about shithole countries?
This is the most intelligent human being of the last 118 years
Be I
What is the one book that had the most impact on your life, practically?
Still being a determinist
Thoughts on ann patchett
Why is every second French author a complete degenerate?
Cioran appreciation thread
Hey Veeky Forums
ITT: signs that you're about to read kino
/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General
You ought to read this, Veeky Forums
Do you believe in God? Why or why not?
Post your favorite philosopher and why
Lads I'm writing but I stink at descriptive writing...
Books read by Tupac
Writing a short story, can't think of a name for my main character. Suggestions?
Tfw u will never be a based homosex fascist best selling jap author
Most interesting/creative depictions of the devil or Satan in literature?
Leave this board and never return if:
I want to learn more about Nazbol, what books do I need to read?
People should unironically watch this
The high-technology metropolis reduces life to a series of mere conveniences...
Do you guys ever save posts from Veeky Forums? If so, post them here please
What does Veeky Forums consider to be some of the biggest tragedies in literary history? Authors that died...
ITT:Post a pic and get a recommendation
Folio Society
I was thinking about why Nietzsche is so popular between people that are not academics. Like, why is he so pop?
Can anything actually top this? Do i even need to read anything else? I feel complete for the first time in my life
"liberalism is built on a foundation of contradictions: it trumpets equal rights while fostering incomparable material...
Other than the image - are there any sci fi which are written is as good as the best literature
Dr. Peterson
What is the most pretentious sentence or paragraph you can write?
Convince me not to major in English
Mfw he hasn't even read Locke
Post an album and get a book recommendation
Dude like lol shit just somehow came up idkbro
No one else knew to build/get on a boat in the middle of torrential rains
It’s unwise to think of Buddhism as a primitive philosophy
Just finished the first part of this and all I can say is:
12 Rules for Life - Jordan Peterson - Official Book Trailer
Hey Veeky Forums
How can anyone defend deconstructionism as anything other than selective sophistry?
Who are/were the best bisexual authors, besides pic related?
How long did it take you to read Proust?
Best bible translations
Poetry critique thread
Being is suffering
Post shitty book covers
Is it technically wrong (by the rules of the English language) to say:
Shakespeare
Books like Death Note
What am I in for?
Why are neo-reactionaries like Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro so concerned with asserting hard "meanings" and...
You can always tell a pleb from a patrician by who reads contemporary literature
What are some books that address anxiety and lack of motivation?
Themes
/clas/ - Classical Greek and Roman Literature Thread
Opinion on DFW's essays?
Post pic get rec
Backwards stacking
Honest Finnegans Wake discussion
What's your age Veeky Forums?
It's been 15 years since I last readl LoTR and the Silmarilion. I just re-read all books recently...
What are some good books about black people?
When a book uses the F-word
''but dude... like, how do you KNOW... that you KNOW something? and how can you KNOW you actually KNOW that...
Write what’s on your mind
Fire and Fury
I want to read more about arthurian legend
Noam Chomsky
How to Motivate Characters
Every last person i've known in my life was the same. Whether it was alcohol, sex, family, dreams, children, power...
Practicing what you Preach
Superego = father = authoritarian state
Recently I’ve been getting into Proclus (6 books, Theology of Plato, on Timaeus of Plato)...
What does Veeky Forums think of E-book Readers?
Books when you feel very lonely and don’t understand where you fit into society .....?
GOD IS DEAD?
Town where everyone commits sodomy
I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence...
What is the bleakest, most fatalistic, humanity hating non-fiction book you have ever read?
Well, Veeky Forums?
Can someone post me that guide to which translation of Homer to read. Don’t want this penguin shit
I'm a lit major and I realized literature professors have the comfiest lifestyle I have ever seen
For context, I'm 19 and I didn't used to read at all until about a year ago...
Mfw I just found out you can order the entire Norton Critical Library for only 1,500 dollars
Paradise Lost
I need some recomendation about fantasy books that doesn't suck. Some interesting stuff, not some Tolkien-copy...
Post your favorite quotes
Best prosaists for non-newfags
Hey you! Veeky Forumsizen! What’s your favorite movie?
STOP BEING CONSCIOUS
Between Don Quixote and The Brothers Karamazov, which is a more rewarding experience?
Memes aside, what are the key differences between Protestantism and Catholicism?
Boston Veeky Forums Meetup Group
Why do you guys hate self publishing so much...
Books/authors/philosophers on suicide. I'm weighing it really heavy right now and want to read the best thoughts on it
Buys book
Human beings have in their bodies the heritage of multiple origins, that is, opposite, and often not merely opposite...
What DID he mean by this?
Sam Harris dismisses compatibilism as a form of theology
Does fantasy really need to feature humans? It's extremely hard to find books that don't
Is it going to suck?
Seriously user?
Beloved
Guess who's sad at being a 27 year old ugly beta loser subhuman who has never had female attention ever...
The former king
Is it impossible to be wealthy and successful, and also be a great writer?
First day of college English course
What's your favorite book
Who is your favorite booktuber?
Name three things that inspire you, Veeky Forums
Daily reminder these are the same people who demand 120k a year to pay their ''education'' for free
Most overrated novels
Books that help with unjustifiably immense rage
How in the hell did "I" end up in this body?
What are the essential books to increase memory
Why do autists argue for this medium as an art-form?
Who did a better adaptation of The Book Of Job?
What's the for word for something which slowly grows or increases over time please?
Riding the tiger
Tfw a grim, wet day here at the illustrious and world-renowned University of Oxford
Anyone else get that sort of crushing feeling when you finish a good book...
Why does America do this?
Why is the number of writers who performed heroic sacrifices and lived (and died) as a faithful representation of their...
Could you be a wholesome qt and good writer at the same time?
Why Do People Hate Infinite Jest?
Stupid Questions Thread
Shelf thread
Worthwhile or insane mystical psychobabble?
In defense of contemporary Western society
Every young person I talk to seems to be in the thrall of ideas like "we make our own meaning in life" and "everything...
Confess
Post the opening line of your novel, other anons rate. Haven't seen one of these in a while
Does anyone here knows who this guy is?
Worthwhile or insane mystical psychobabble?
From an objective viewpoint, is it worth a read?
Favorite alt lit writer? And now that the movement is pretty much officially over, with Tao moving on...
Continue college?
/penpal/
So, Veeky Forums?
''The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao''
Hahahaha did you get it guys?
Literature Major 4 years. Worth it? How about English?
Talmud
Eastern Philosophy Recommendations
Shitpost on lit
How do i become witty
Post Your Novel Ideas
Is this the most Veeky Forums movie ever made? Is the book any good?
Will I finally get a gf, lads?
Post the absolute best poem you've ever read that can fit in a single reply. This is your chance to prove yourself...
Why does Veeky Forums defend communism?
Why aren't you a Sadist?
Shall I write a 750-page epic about Wojak?
Any book that depicts perfectly the inner experience of a girl growing into a woman?
OOPS
Anyone know more authors like Bataille, Lautreamont, Kafka, and Pessoa?
Can analytic philosophy cause schizophrenia?
The Strange Death of Europe
Veeky Forums approved cities?
At what point does referencing "real" companies/other works of fiction in a book become stupid and/or autistic?
I want to be/become a god
/sffG/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General
/crit/
Where should I start with Borges ?
Ok Veeky Forums, I've read Atomised quite some time ago, and now I want to read something else by this guy
What are the last books you bought?
What are some books that help you find a girlfriend ?
How's your novel coming along, Veeky Forums?
Should the characters in literature talk in the style of how normal people talk?
People who believe in God and hate him
Books You're Pretty Sure Only You Read
In an attempt to build willpower and strengthen my attention span...
What's a word that you've been pronouncing wrong your whole life that you just recently learned the correct...
Recommend Me Some Authors/Books
Age
Top 3 favorite authors. I'll start:
Is Veeky Forums's Veeky Forums the dawn of a new literary movement...
What am I in for, laddies?
Top 100 final
Start with the greeks
Dante's The Divine Comedy
Are there any videogame that uses the interactive medium to write a great story that can only be told with videogames...
Great resources to learn chess?
What is the best part of the Bible?
Ctrl+f "shelf thread"
How much time do you spend a day reading?
INFJ here. How does it feel you will never be as good of a writer as me?
What are some books that expose women as the inferior creatures they are?
What is the most obscurist sentence you have ever encountered. Bonus points if it doesn't actually communicate anything
He doesn't go to a prestigious Ivy League school
Veeky Forumss version of 'Kino' and what has changed over the past few years
What the fuck was Edith's problem?
Joyce wrote this essay at the age of twenty
ITT: Authors that Canon Slaves Love
What does Veeky Forums think of Lord of the Rings? I like the films. What can I do to prepare myself. Also...
Why does everyone have to hate on Heidegger for being a member of the Nazi Party...
Intro Philosophy
Hey Veeky Forums, I need some advice...
Read book
Where to begin with gnosticism?
Patrician writers who weren't depressed?
David Benatar VS Jordan Peterson
Things you never say to the hipser girl working the cashier at your local used bookstore
Disapointment
[David Foster Wallace] His irony was not mine—was too goyisher, to put it bluntly…
Five-finger rule
On Reading Translations
Read Langston Hughes
Philosophy is such shit. "Oh...
Anti-libertardian books?
Be wageslave
Do you keep a commonplace book user? :3
General knowledge 101
Is it "vee." or "five."?
Is it safe to say that anyone who starts shilling Dostoevsky is pretty much guaranteed to be a pseud?
You were not taught Latin and Ancient Greek in elementary school
What should I read before jumping into Don Quixote? Qué leer antes del Quijote?
What do they read at evergreen college?
"University is an asylum or—what do they call them now?—a rest home, for the infirm, the aged, the discontent...
I can't remember Flaubert's exact words, but it was something like - one need only read 3 or 4 books in ones life
Question: how many evola/mishima/junger threads would we see if there was no cross pollination between Veeky Forums and...
What word processor does Veeky Forums use? I use LibreOffice Writer
Is he right, Veeky Forums?
Tfw recently got accepted into Stanford (Early Decision)
What does Veeky Forums think of this guy?
What book would you recommend for 18 years old girl? She likes King, Gaiman but I want to take her to the next level
Is there any good Australian literature, or is everything there just shit?
I want his side of the story
Hold on you seed snaring faggots. I'm pissed to me full caliber at the gingering of your alabaster...
Critique Thread
Many philosophers have taken on how existence happened as a series of causal events. But what about where God came from...
I've been stroking my metaphorical cock for ages over my taste in news-media...
How would you write Waiting For Godot 2?
Females of Veeky Forums: how well did my boy Jimmy Joyce capture the feminine thought process with Molly?
Wish me luck niggers
Is there any good in Native American literature?
I didn't see a Creative Writing General: So I made one looking for advice...
What authors/books have you read that feel effortless...
Holy shit. How do you go from one of the great hardish sci-fi books in the last few years to this piece of shit...
Best position to read in?
Hey Veeky Forums...
Is he controlled opposition?
Sticks you
What are some genuinely reactionary, and by that I mean Monarchist, texts...
How can one be a Nietzschean day to day?
What do you think
Who is your father's favorite writer?
Why do you guys like him so much?
Can you post good poetry please
How do I ask out a woman at the local independent bookstore?
Spelling and punctuation have been modernized
My name is Gregory Berrycone, commander of the Armies of NEET...
"Agriculture is the greatest of all evils"
Books about how hilarious death is?
Http://www.thebest100lists.com/best100authors/
"Woman, what have I to do with thee?"
Veeky Forums request
Was Plato talking about a Caste system?
Your ideal woman doesn't exist
The Philosophy of Tolkien
*turns Nietzsche into a liberal individualist*
I'm having a hard time writing well and being genuine in my college application...
Why do you guys like him so much?
Why can't women into the Iliad?
The consensus of lit
Tfw furiously busy period here at the illustrious and globally renowned University of Oxford. Walking through
Why do people pretend like this man never existed?
Do you think there is objective morality?
Tfw you realize art is literally just a honeypot for narcissists
Are the writings of Kirkegaard useful to a non-christian or do I have to be religious?
/SFfG/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General
So I have not read any fantasy novels
Eldritch monstrocity from beyond the stars
Fierce row over plans to publish antisemitic texts by French writer Céline
Is this the best book about the absolute horror and hell that is work...
ANTI-OEDIPUS BOOK CLUB
I think psychoanalysis is patent nonsense and I'd like to hear those opinions repeated back to me in a more erudite way...
That that
Cliffs favourite book of 2017 was Maps Of Meaning
Fetish stuff
You will never be as proficient in English as natives
Hard-hitting satire from The New Yorker:
What comes to mind?
ITT Degenerates of Old
Post your novel ideas. It's not like they're going anywhere
Can't we all agree she hasn't read the damn thing?
ITT:
Why are young white males so awful at writing?
What books use repetition as a literary device?
I've never come across a well written novel. They all suffer from needless bloat and padding...
I only read non-fiction
What did you think of Notes From Underground?
I've read it twice, but people still hate me. What went wrong?
Books/Passages that made you cry
What do you think of race realism and what are some good books on it?
Average age on Veeky Forums is 19
How does this make you feel?
Existential Crisis
2017 top 100
Well? Which are you?
What's his best work other than Lolita, Pale Fire and Ada?
Gravity's Rainbow Reading Group: #03
How come no authors or philosophers debate if twice two make 4 or 5 anymore?
Spent $340 on amazon kindle in 2017
France is dead
What book has been the most influential and essential part of your life?
This is just bad
This book is a heavy read
What comes after post-modernism?
There's nothing quite like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Ulysses is great...
Anyone else here a /youngcatholic/?
Wtf is his problem??
How does one beat restlessness, modern AHDD-tier attention spans and the general dopamine addiction?
Elliot Rodger thread
Has reading ever changed your religious beliefs?
Boyfriend wants me to read one of his favourite books
Is Veeky Forums looking forward to 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos?
Dark Philosophies / Satanism / The Dark Arts
Phrases that make you want to vomit
PKD Thread
How to become an independent researcher
Lisa is Veeky Forums personified
Precludes anyone who doesn't "deal with issues of life and death." Proust and Henry James don't make the cut...
Joyce would pick drunken fights at bars and then jump behind the great big Hemingway and shout "Deal with him...
Did he deserve the award?
ITT: pop artists and celebrities with patrician taste in literature
In your darkest depression what book did you turn to?
Whats the most powerful image of literature?
Are there any books?
Reading Spots
Any books on the experience of being a fat middle aged psued who's world view, following...
Pretty much all fiction became boring to me after reading Borges for the first time...
What's the best history book about Rome from its beginning to the end? I heard Gibbon is not that appreciated...
Male """writers""" btfo
Is she /ourgirl/ lit?
Explain to me how postmodern literature is band
How can you like this shit
Thoughts about putting simplistic black-and-white morality political lessons in children's fiction?
Should books only be read in their original language
Your favorite childhood series
Illness has consumed me. I find myself in the throes of fevered dreams, auditory hallucinations...
The Elephant's Foot of the Chernobyl disaster, 1986
Whats the Best Bildungsroman novel?
I’m trying to find the best resources available and I think some of you might be looking as well...
I don't think any American author is as tragically overlooked as James Baldwin
First Book of 2018
Write drunk, edit sober
I am requesting good book recommendations for somebody that feels like life has passed them by...
R E D W A L L
Any francophone user here? I just started reading Le poète assassiné. It's a miracle...
How can a woman be this perfect?
Books with beatiful prose-poetry style. Like Blood Meridian or The Waves
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Less is more
WEEK ONE - DESIRING BODIES
"he" takes pictures of his bookshelf and shares it on Veeky Forums with people whose mental hadicap compels them to do...
Thoughts on John Green?
Is all literature a form of attention-seeking? And if this is so...
Write What's on Your Mind
Hypersphere 2
So, I just finished Mindhunter...
Start lifting weights
ITT contemporary philosophers worth reading
Contemporary German Veeky Forums
ITT recent purchases
Thoughts on DeLillo?
What separates a men from a boy?
WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY MEAN BY THIS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
The right side of this image is unironically 100% accurate
How is understanding even possible
Convince me this is good
This was such a waste of time...
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