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I have eaten
Books that too you too long to read
Thoughts?
History repeats itself
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book [...]"
William Gass' 50 most influential books to him:
Working my way through the Commie Manifesto finally. I got the Penguin Classics version...
Has any other single development in literature had such a profoundly negative impact on it?
Does meditating really help if I have trouble staying focused on reading? What kinds of meditation work the best?
Thoughts on Bolaño?
When does this book improve?
Pray 4 Zizek lit, 1 my gawdt = 1 prayer
Free of expression is like really essential my dudes
Nick Land
Is Reading Fiction Pointless
Is this ok, Veeky Forums? We can't have rapists and other scum in the canon, can we?
Why do you not go to your public library lit/?
What are the books that you must read in your lifetime?
Is there any good Canadian litterature out there?
You were born too early to experience life as a Chad through advanced VR and sense-o-vision beamed straight in to your...
Modern --> Contemporary
What do you think of the Elric saga? What about the other Eternal Champion series?
Is islam on mormon/scientologist level of stupid?
Are self-help books actualy helpful? Can you recommend some that'd actually improve me as a person?
"Yo, quit talking about books when we're around the chicks, okay bro?"
Need some help with the names
Post a piece of artwork
What are some books that address disdain and discontent for the state of Western Civilization?
Why is men’s lust for teenage/early 20s girls so largely documented and even implicitly accepted...
There are still people on Veeky Forums who haven’t read the most important book of this century
"quasi"
You don't have to tell me twice! But during the stone age...!
What's Veeky Forums's totally honest opinion on Mein Kampf...
Let's do something new, faggots. Take the test, post results. Others recommend books
Why is Durkheim so fucking based? And why has nobody ever read his works? Seriously...
Post your novel ideas. It's not like they're going anywhere
Homeschooling
“My sweet little whorish Nora I did as you told me, you dirty little girl...
Is pic related worth reading in English?
30 pages in, why didn’t you guys tell me this book is fucking hilarious
Write what's on your mind Veeky Forums!
/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General
Thoughts?
New aspiring writer here
1/4 of the year 2018 is almost over
What's your enemy's favourite book?
Tfw starting to fall in love with one of the characters I'm writing
The fuck happened to his face? Did he have a stroke?
Is this legit?
How do I get the most out of this?
Have you read this book Veeky Forums?
When you read a translation of a novel, say, Crime and Punishment...
What are some good Veeky Forums related podcasts?
Why was he wrong?
Atheist Anti-theist Books
ITT
What are some good books about bees?
DUDE EVERYTHING IS BULLSHIT
How do I become smart enough to post on Veeky Forums? Posters on this board are all so far ahead, it's intimidating
Why do people say he is a hack?
Anyone here used to be addicted to technology/internet but broke away from it...
I wish I'd studied to become a librarian
Hey Veeky Forums
Let me capitalize a few random nouns and come up with unnecessary jargon every other sentence in order to sound deep heh
Is there a board for discussing religious topics? Specifically Christianity? Or is Veeky Forums the best I'll get?
This was a lot funnier than I tought it would be
Poetry critique thread
No critique thread?
What's the best argument against materialism?
Milk and Honey
Edgy literature thread
Fellas wyd
Is there an updated version of this with more philosophers in it alongside new ones (Baudrillard, Zizek, Land etc) ???
Leave this board and never return if any one of these apply to you:
Trying to find my will of reading again
How do feminists and the like manage to overlook his views on women...
ITT: essential political philosophy
I'm interested in queer theory and historicist views on human identity in general
Shadow had done three years in prison. He was big enough...
Which books or essays describe this phenomena...
Favorite Rimbaud piece/poem?
Post Veeky Forums magazines and journals
Translations
Where do I start with Mishima?
Mfw I realised that Veeky Forums likes Mishima because he's a nationalist, not for any of his other qualities
What's the most underrated genre in literature?
Why did he do it, bros? Was living really so hard?
Why would I want to read something written by a virgin?
Veeky Forums's aversion to multiculturalism in the Western canon
What's up with the recent trope of perfect main characters that can do no wrong?
Is there any truly revolutionary art today that breaks with the past and tries to rise above the conventions...
He ate the last of the eggs and wiped the plate with the tortilla and ate the tortilla and drank the last of the...
Preface
PSYCHOANALYSIS GENERAL
What makes you feel like the stakes are real, and that plot armor wont always be there to shield the characters?
Who's your favourite poet?
ITT: books who's movie adaptation was better
Is there a comprehensive philosophy chart? One that shows not just where to start reading but shows the path to the end?
Start reading Plato
Did Joseph ever sined? Reading through Genesis it doesn't seem like it...
Veeky Forums
What is Veeky Forums's stance on pic mentioned?
Psychology reading thread
Tfw you never grew up working at a radical anarchist newspaper stand in NYC and acquiring absurd amounts of information...
Age
I hate the ‘essential leftists charts’ that circulate so here is a new pair
Is HP Lovecraft well received around here...
Study Greek Mythology
Books on Zen Buddhism
Best poet of all times
Thinks Ancient Greece is same as present Greece
What other philosophers have gotten hair transplants? Camus? Maybe Derrida?
How do we get Peterson and Sadler to do a talk together...
Write what's on your mind
Is he right?
Best sci-fi books
Is there a better, more efficient, and reasonable villain in 20th-century literature?
Books to make me not want to kill myself? pic unrelated
Can you love someone you don't respect?
Does anybody else envy Fernando Pessoa?
Have any really nice pens that you like to write with, lit? I just ordered a fisher space pen...
What do we think about this?
Should I start reading philosophy? I'm afraid I'll be learning non-trivial results hidden in obtuse language...
Anons who write: Have you felt the "calling" of literature?
Will i get put on a list if i buy culture of critique on amazon?
How do we preserve the ivory tower lads? between pop academics, the school of resentment...
What does Veeky Forums think of Sarah Kane?
Since starting to read fiction and browsing this board, my mental health has seriously deteriorated...
What are some NYC novels?
This is our son's room... he's quite the reader!
Behold the modern man! this 'heir of all the ages — in the foremost ranks of time!' His sight, taste...
6 most powerful books to study intensely
What's Veeky Forums's take on Yuval Harari...
Do you judge books by their cover and/or title? What puts you off from reading a certain book?
Im a final year econ major at uni and take capitalism as the given system...
Teaching Romeo & Juliet for the 4th time recently has got me wondering -are we the audience supposed to think Romeo &...
How do i read his books without feeling like a barnes & nobles pseud?
I know a lot of people here enjoy reading and learning about many different things at once...
Favorite book by a female if you’re a guy?
Describe the last shit you took with the title of a book
Why haven’t you read it yet
Benjamin distanced himself from political and nationalist Zionism...
What are the most romantic things said to a female in literature?
2008
Children's Lit
Do you believe in God?
Books about marginalized folks and systems of oppression...
He LITERALLY did nothing wrong
Just finished reading this
I just got to the red wedding. Why is the red wedding so hyped by everyone...
Do you think he was happy?
Do hip-hop lyrics have any merit as poetry?
/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General
Vonnegut
Well lads, who else got their copy? I can't start on it right away, but I can't wait to get started
Post your novel ideas. It's not like they're going anywhere
Woman writer appreciation thread
Who would win in a debate?
Behold, the meme tetrology
He takes 3 minutes per page
BIG BOOKS. I'm talking bonkers. I love them. I get satisfaction in delving into a massive 1K+ fatty...
What did he mean by this?
HP General
What is it about King’s writing that appeals to so many people? Clearly...
Utilitarianism
What are the best works of philosophy to be written after say 1960?
What are some stories on the Internet that you would absolutely love to own in print?
Are there any good books on contemporary depression?
Shieeet
So did Derrida pretty much prove that it's impossible to know the meaning of words or what...
*Pisses off 2 billion people*
Traditional Catholic Lit
Schopenhauer
I want to learn about aesthetics. is pic related any good and if not what should I read instead?
You LITERALLY cannot post a better Veeky Forums stack than this. Prove me wrong. Top tip: you can't
Kafka thread
Thoughts on this guy?
BritAnons. Working class writers
Books that deliver a scathing critique of society, degeneracy and cultural decadence?
Which hip-hop artists would Socrates listen to? I think he would like old school rappers like Notorious B.I.G...
Refute the following criticisms of Tolstoy
STOP BEING SEXIST
Jean Baudrillard - America
What are the most overrated classics & philosophies in literature?
Is he smart or just a trickster? I honestly can't tell
Can I get some recommendations on a good Koran translation? Kinda getting bored with the Bible
What is the literary lifestyle?
What the fuck happened to him?
Wtf am I reading
I'm starting a job as a high school English teacher this fall. What should I read in the meantime to help me prepare?
What do you think about this book?
Can the reactionaries on this board please go back to /pol/? This is a place for intellectual discussion...
Rank these works from first to last
Reading a delightful little novel by Alfred Camus
What is the greatest copypasta of all time?
Someone at Amazon fucked up and priced this hardcover first volume of Grote’s seminal work at $3...
Its no secret that Bolaño feels he owes A LOT to Borges, and that Borges is in fact THE latinamerican writer...
Hyperion Cantos, where did it go wrong?
Is there any common hobby more perverse than bibliophilia?
Just picked up all of these for $8 from the local library's book sale and am feeling pretty god damn excited
ITT: Post a writer you don't give a shit about and anons convince you to read them and which books in particular
Leave this board and never return if any one of these apply to you:
Someone explain the second paragraph to me. Is this even supposed to make sense?
Meta Thread
Why did he hate fun so much...
Mods
ITT - the worst book you ever finished
Similar books? This is my favorite book
What is the most masculine/manly book you have ever read?
Writers' musical equivalents
Recommend me books about intelligence
Politics is about recognizing who your enemies are
Book is about sex
Iliad
Literally tell me your thoughts on this work. Sam Pink and Megan Boyle also apply
The book of our time
Suddenly
I spend so much time and energy trying to find quiet, comfortable places to read and study...
Care is ontological not ontic, just take my fucking word for it
Veeky Forums newfag here, Veeky Forums is my main board. Retard question, do you all have something against pic related...
I enrolled in philosophy and the older students told me the program is analytical focused
O Lord, I am surrounded by enemies
Question
It's not that bad
Someone redpill me on this thread, is it legit?
What is your daily schedule like Veeky Forums?
This is my problem with Stoicism
Whoa, so this is the power of sincerity
POETRY CRITIQUE THREAD
COMFY BOOKS
War is fucked up
Just bought all books in the world lmao
Joseph Conrad
Veeky Forumserary confessions thread
Post a piece of art
I've posted this question earlier on Veeky Forums
Tfw too dumb for the iliad
Have full time job in London that miraculously requires no effort
Counterweight to Chomsky
/CLAS/: Classics Thread
How is it possible to work 9-5 and live a fulfilling and non-soul crushing life...
Is it even worth studying literature in college...
Why does genre fiction produce classic films...
This is a serious request
Why don't you just write erotica user?
Six word stories
Harold Bloom
Pls read
Hey Veeky Forums, what happens when you smoke crack cocaine & read War & Peace in one siting?
Where to start with Kafka?
"Islam is violent, hierarchical, abusive to Homosexuals and Jews and stuck in the past!"
What is the Filosofem of literature?
I saw this book in one of the charts regularly posted here. Any good or is it just a meme?
Our Top 3
How come in chapter 2 of The Two Towers...
There is no good and evil, only power and those too weak to seek it
Young Adult Literature
Hi Veeky Forums, what are some names that convey dopeyness for males? Something along the lines of shaggy
More like used kikestores
Imagine seeing this man looking through your bedroom window at night
Nonviolence
This man! For Christ sake... Im so in love with this man's mind!
Read the top 100 user
Fatherhood
Can you guys recommend me some books on racial homogeneity and race mixing...
Just ordered pic related. What are the essentials? What should I avoid?
Where do I start with Rosa Luxemburg?
READ / OPTIONAL / AVOID
Why does nobody take him seriously as a philosopher?
Are there any worthwhile works of philosophy from this region?
Do we have choices or we blindly following a predetermined path?
Every month for women is a new defeat of the will. Menstruation was once called "the curse...
Quotes thread!
Occult books
What are some common (or uncommon, whatever) phrases/words/sentences etc in literature that makes you cringe?
The fundamental defect of the female character is a lack of a sense of justice...
Did this book change you?
Feminist "solutions"
What book would you recommend to an impoverished African banana salesman looking for escapism? Moby Dick?
Explain to me the sociology behind populism
Post your novel ideas. It's not like they're going anywhere
He doesnt exclusively read literature from fanfiction.net
ITT: books we've (unironically) read that aren't even remotely Veeky Forums-tier
Daily routine
What is existentialism really?
Tfw this is absolutely brilliant when you get into it
Whats the next step for Art?
How many of you refuse to get an E-reader despite the convenience because you want people to see your stacks
Who is you favorite right-wing author?
What does Veeky Forums think of this as a First Chapter to a novel?
Faustian
Funny Veeky Forums pics
It's been a while. Lets create some art
Leftist nihilism can exist?
Why do book youtubers read almost exclusively young adult?
Postmodernism is already 50 years old. Why is it still the leading dogma?
Whoa. So this is the power of simplified English
Was English class like this for you?
How do you come up with ideas?
BEST/FAV NON-FICTION?
What is the most artistic way of killing yourself?
Is English really a Germanic language?
Post essential lit lectures
Fucking liberals
GOODREADS THREAD
Why isn't your poem being published in the New York Times Veeky Forums?
Inflammable and flammable mean the same thing
What are some Veeky Forums approved careers?
How come chesterton never wrote about jews?
Uhmm like not doing whatever the fuck you want is life denial because I say so
/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General
Dream-based Short Stories
Writing a book need feedback
Liberal Arts
So
ITT: books that got you hard
Need help Veeky Forums
Lol you guys are pseuds
Anyone else carry around a little notebook they use to write their thoughts in or is it just me?
We don't study alchemy because chemistry has entirely replaced it...
Is iy good Veeky Forums ?
I cannot overestimate the malignant effect this woman has had on the West. When people say "Oh, don't be silly...
Nietzsche on /pol/‘s interpretation of his works
Why are all the best writers alcoholics?
Be me
What is philosophy even supposed to do after this guy?
I'm practically not reading anymore and my attention span is really going to hell, could you guys lend me a hand...
David Foster Wallace
Become Antifragile or die
What does Veeky Forums think about Westerns?
"Freud, Neruda, and Pessoa are part of the Western canon of literature"
Can we have another one of these threads? I can drop a few
Write what’s on your mind
Is Lovecraft actually good and why is he good?
The current quality of online discussions in my English classes
Last book you read and how you liked it
Anybody here excited for mythcon?
I just finished pic related
STEM philistine here, I want to get cultured
How is Robert Fagles in comparison to other translations of the Illiad and/or Odyssey?
Has anyone read this? Can you give me a quick rundown of the story and the content?
I can't get through this...
How do I learn to appreciate and feel emotion when reading novels that focus on these subjects; romance...
Books that everyone should read for a healthier society
Buy a book about CERN and particle physics
Books about misanthropy?
Britanons
Google reading order for Plato
Should authors be allowed to express any opinion whatsoever without censorship?
About 440 pages in to this, out of 1100
Why is literature superior to music in the sense of intellectual and emotional stimulation...
So, my gf gave me this book as a gift for my birthday and bought one for herself too. What do you guys think about this?
Can we all just agree that God is a fiction and thus anything relating to the study of the divine is a spook?
How come most revolutionary contemporary thinkers are OUTSIDE of academia?
Why do people love him so much?
There is a spanish translation of finnegans wake
Feminism
Les Miserables
ITT: Best Book Covers
What are your thoughts on it, Veeky Forums?
Shelf Thread
High School English Classes
Give me ONE good reason why you don't have a bookstand
Current Reads
Name: Severian
What others authors deal with identity, internal growth and the like?
Everybody spends their time on here pretending to know stuff they don't and shitposting...
Is Literature, out of all the arts, where the creative process is the least cared about?
Did the Orthodox, Copts, and Eastern Catholic traditions ever write explicitly Christian narratives like Paradise Lost...
You're only allowed to read 5 books for the rest of your life or you get sent to a gulag in Siberia (without any books)...
What a great book
DUDE NOTHING HAPPENS LMAO
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