Literature #82

What are some books that will actually help me becoming more desirable for women?
Veeky Forums podcasts?
The Other Bible
Subvocalization
Are there any other worthwhile literary works in Hebrew other than the Tanach?
Sum up Veeky Forums in one post. This user here has heard good things about Soseki's prose in Japanese, I presume)
Publishing a novel on Amazon?
Why do people thing being pretentious about reading validates their opinion?
Jesus Christ, the Greeks are so fucking boring. What's the point of reading them? They don't teach anything relevant
Pic related is all the books that I've been given/bought/stolen that I haven't read...
Anyone smoke marijuana before writing?
I am making a chart of the next top 100 books that are not on last years
According to this chart, what are you?
Itt we post our favourites quotes
Who is the youngest writer to have ever written a masterpiece in the field of literature?
Was all about sincerity and the dangers of irony
Goethe and Kant aside, the 18th century was completely worthless w/r/t literature
What's your favorite interpretation/adaptation of Hamlet?
When did was the moment you in love with infinite jest?
Have you read St Elliot's holy testament?
Am I the only one who feels a surge of inspiration, deep thoughts, opening to new ideas...
Do you know Lumonics ?
Best position to read
Elie Wiesel Dead at 87
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What are the best books about Ancient Rome...
How do i motivate myself to write if i unironically think none of this matters
Would you abstain from buying a book if the cover was ugly?
Would you live in Plato's Republic™?
Do the Ilvermorny houses line up with the Hogwarts houses?
Tell me about your dreams, user
Why does Veeky Forums hate this book and Ayn Rands philosophy...
Dreams
Writings
Hilo de crítica en español
What's with the prevalence of the dead white males meme in literary academia...
Is DFW in hell?
What are the best books about gay or bi people? Preferably contemporary...
Never have I ever, Veeky Forums edition
Language
The US is too isolated, too insular...
Writing a story with magic in it
Been offered a job writing for a VERY niche and weird erotic online community
Need some recommendations
How do you choose what book to read?
"happy birthday user! I couldn't get that book by deus-too-esky or whatever his name is...
I'm a grill. Can you recommend a book on US history?
So this is just a shitty 1984 right?
Tfw since a kid my dream has always been to be a songwriter and have a band
How do you shake that feeling of elitism...
Itt: good horror
Tfw there will never be a federal regulation that will limit the sale of any book to ten thousand copies...
Great books that Veeky Forums never talks about
60 pages in
How do you differentiate between modernism and postmodernism, Veeky Forums?
Let's assume for a moment I am going to kill myself. What is the last book I should read before I go?
Cozy Greatness
Who /drinking/ and /reading/ here? what are you drinking and reading?
Got this all for 26 bucks
Claim your literary waifu
What books will make me feel like a beautiful, well-liked, sexually active woman?
DFW kill
User, stop reading books for one day and use your language skills to score some chicks down at the creek!
Veeky Forums I was thinking about ending the summer later this year with some epic poetry and have been meaning to get...
This is actually really boring and unfunny
D.F.W
What is wrong with writing a character who has no flaws?
Does Veeky Forums keep a journal? If so give us some of your entries
Afternoon all. I want to start reading philosophy and some political science too...
Why did people keep writing books after this was published ? I mean...
"user, our Shakespeare Midterm is due in 3 hours and I haven't started it yet! It wasn't my fault though...
Give me your critique on Buddhism
Good evening guys, I don't generally post here, Mainly browse...
What are your favourite drugs to take while reading?
Can anyone recommend me depressive Spanish literature?
Poetry Thread:
Mason & Dixon for non USA people? I love Pynchon, I've read V, TCoL49, GR, IV, BE, and I'm currently re-reading GR...
"1984" is a dystopian novel set in a hyper-authoritarian future
Just ordered Collected Fictions by Borges. Is he really as good as I've heard?
Veeky Forums blacklist - pseudointellectual favorites
Do you express abstract thought around others, particularly your family? I can't have conversations beyond day to day...
Seems like this board focuses more on the classic literature, but I'd like to know more about our times...
Wow, Schopenhauer really didn't think highly of women lol
Pick up classic work of literature
It's a story within a story
Infinite Jest in television
Is racism prevalent in literary circles?
/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General
Hi, I'm interested in some good reading material on science...
What are Veeky Forums's thoughts on alt lit?
Where did everyone get their Veeky Forums chops?
Who's the greatest writer of all time?
2666 or savage detectives
The recognitions / general gaddis discussion thread
How do you make yourself read books?
How do you deal with the fact that you'll more or less never achieve heights of greatness?
Book discussing Tetrachromancy?
Plato had defined the human being as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded...
Unreliable narrator thread
Sincerity or irony, which is more pleb?
Post the greatest idea you've ever come up with
Do you believe lyrics hold any literary value...
Discuss
Is pic related worth reading?
Share your most contrarian literary opinions
Does Veeky Forums keep the jackets of their books? Why or why not?
Why did you turn on me?
Unironically why did he take 17 years off
Who is the greater writer and why is it Tolstoy?
When you realise all the pretentious displays of respect for religion and anything are acts of egoism and all the...
Harry Potter
So antinatalism is basically 'muh feels' right?
Is Dostoevsky the greatest author of all time? Why is he so patrician?
What are some really popular books feminists and the modern woman/ nu males deem to be essential reads?...
Is it true that Veeky Forums hates down Dan Brown novels?
These are the vocabulary words in the first 3 1/2 fucking pages of La Bas that I had to use google to look up the...
Without googling name 3 books written by a black person. Limit to 1 book per author...
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I am going to get banned from Veeky Forums now, simply because of the last 2 words in my post
Is it a meme
I already own Ulysses and Gravity's Rainbow, so I bought this to complete my "meme trilogy"...
Anyone else feel bad for him? He got to be in the Simpsons, but it was the shit era Simpsons
Is Sam Hyde the new Diogenes?
Are these basically two sides of the same coin?
ITT: Dumb things people that read books say
Anybody read Columbine by David Cullen? Thoughts on the book...
Epic Rap Battles of History
I'M TIRED OF THIS BITCH TELLING ME ABOUT THE TWENTY DIFFERENT GODS THERE WERE, PLEASE SAVE ME Veeky Forums...
Hate to break it to you sheeple, but capitalism is bad, you guys. Heh, not like you'll do anything about it...
Why do libraries sensor the internet when I can go pick up a book there that has a young retarded boy getting fucked in...
ITT Read, Expected, Got
Any books that explain how buddhism and stoicism are similar/related?
How Romania Came to Be™
Do you often feel inauthentic about your interest in literature?
Schopenhauer has quite a crude mind... where real depth starts, his comes to an end
Describe the plot of the story you are writing in greentext
Where the hell do I go to talk about Theater on Veeky Forums? It lies somewhere between Veeky Forums, /tv/, /mu/...
Material substance ad the physical properties that govern them have existed for all of eternity
How can there be no self...
ITT: awkward endeavors and confessions regarding Veeky Forumserature-related things
Thoughts?
Do you guys read or follow any manga?
Have a decent idea for a book
What are some of the best female characters in literature who's NOT (!) a Manic Pixie Dream Girl™ or a shallow...
Is atheism intellectually shallow?
Critique Thread
What's the most problematic book you've read?
Ideology in film
What philosophers should I read
How do I force myself to stop being a skeptic and to start embracing God and Islam? Why Islam? Because I want community...
Earth needs a virtual country: #Rationalia...
You Nostalgia You Lose
Tfw you finally admit you read IJ
What is that test that is taken in which you click true or false over beliefs...
/k/ Reads a Book
Help with poetry
What novel would you adapt for a feature length film production?
What is the best American work of literature/philosophy?
It took me over two fucking years, but my first novel is done and now fully revised!
Be honest you fags, how many of you actually shelled out cash for this piece of shit?
Do you ever troll the fuck out of your professors?
Tfw someone asks plans for this weekend
Everyone's favorite booktuber is now a NY times best selling author. have you read zenith yet?
I don't like the main character, therefore this story sucks
Do you believe in free will? why or why not?
How difficult is it?
Catching the Sun
How to into acting
Objective tier list guy here
What's the OK Computer of Literature?
“There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.”
How is it that during medieval times when society was so conservative, not allowing any social mobility...
How could anyone ever argue against causality and determinism?
Why did they always change sides?
Is meditation a meme?
Reminder that if given a choice between telling a lie and letting your newborn son die, you should sacrifice the kid
How hard is to win the nobel prize of literature?
Charles Bukowski
Veeky Forums is particularly shit right now. Is it the Americans or the Euros?
Mfw reading Ulysses
Please help Veeky Forums. I think my sister has gotten interested in analytic philosophy...
How did Rowling ever get published?
When did you realize that most of our problems, political/philosophical and otherwise...
Alien protagonist
How many pages do you read per day? I only read 10
How do you internalize philosophy or very prose-heavy writing, and then apply it to life?
Tao lin I summon you
Anti-women/women hate study group
This man is alleged to have read over 10,000 books in his life, Veeky Forums
I've only read 4 books in my entire life, but I'm ready to stop being retarded
The main theme of Snyder's "Batman v Superman" on spiritual dematerialism is not eschatological...
This SONUVABITCH somehow managed to get Rick Springfield to sign a copy of Hypersphere
What are some books about utterly loathing women?
Has anyone here actually read this whole thing from start to finish?
Where were you when Neoreaction went mainstream?
Favorite poets
/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General
What is with popular scientists/empiricists and being insufferable pedants...
Why is he so obsessed with phones?
Atheism ftw! We fucking love science!
Why the general public perceives intelligence as a good thing, and reading as an admirable hobby...
'Woman hate' literature recommendations
"To a woman, everything is an adornment"
Is there an actual good read by "I do drugs" guy?
Lit, am I fucking alone in feeling this way??...
I want to start reading lit in Spanish (foreign language). Give me some relatively easy prose Spanish lit...
What are some novels I can read on the philosophy that the "mask" you wear is more important than the truth that's...
What was your favorite novel at the age of 18?
Can Veeky Forums give me some good right wing writers/books that are not on this list pls?
Hey Veeky Forums I got my third bookcase today, what do you think?
Are there any qt girls that actually read novels of substantial merit that aren't feminist prudes...
What are some authors that "write anime" and do it well? is there even such a thing as doing it well?
Hey Veeky Forums no memeing here, I'm genuinely curious as to what is your favorite Thomas Pynchon book...
Is she worth reading for the first time past the age of 20?
A Hollywood producer has just approached you to write and direct a $200 million adaptation of Finnegans Wake...
What do you listen to while reading?
For much of my life I've rejected what I saw as the empty careerism of my peers...
Where do I go from him?
Claim your literary waifu! :3
Recently began writing female fiction erotica
Arthurian Mythos
What books should I read if I wanted to lead a revolution?
Professional Philosopher tries to use his 50 years of experience in Hegelian Dialectics to outwit a commoner in the...
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You're not a hypocrite, right?
Why do you read?
Was he secretly the GOAT?
Who is the most well written/realized fictional character of all time?
How do people live with themselves? I'm watching a tennis match on tv where the two tennis players are rich Chads
Don't have a friend with whom i can read philosophical works on the weekend like Adorno did with is pal
/startingwiththegreeks/
Tfw addicted to reading and broadening my intellect
Why is modern literature so terrible?
Come across nietzsche's quotes on goodreads
If so many of you Veeky Forums posters are British, how come you don't say british words like 'bollocks', 'rubbish'...
Idiots try to argue that the universe isn't deterministic and materialistic
Infinite Summer - Thread #4
Yfw you write something and its really fucking bad
Does anyone else imagine that the people on this board as British instead of American? I do...
Cormac McCarthy has died
How can I distinguish well written prose from overwritten purple prose? examples would help
One of my poems just got accepted for publication to a literary journal...
Wake up
If I upload my 500k word memoir to wikipedia despite having achieved nothing that would otherwise warrant such a page /...
Recommend books based off of people's top 50 artists
Reminder that if you unironically and immediately ridicule or think less of a person because of how they pronounce an...
Alright, I have to ask because this is bugging the hell out of me...
Never had any female attention during school or all four years of university
What I read
I have a challenge for you
What does Veeky Forums know of the Seven Liberal Arts ?
What should i read by him?
Serious question, is Lolita worth your time if you have no interest in little girls?
What does Veeky Forumss collection look like
What are your favorite books of the decade so far?
Didn't see one up, so here goes:
What books would have this effect on me
Tfw you realize you never learned to be human and now the critical period is over
When did it become so cool to hate on Ayn Rand? No memes, please
How Veeky Forums is your job? Do you or could you read while working?
Guns, Germs and Steel
ITT we write our suicide notes
Veeky Forums inspiration thread. This is a thread for authors looking for inspiration...
Recent purchases
What are some good books about modern America?
Hi Veeky Forums
Who's going to be the next Kant?
1 year into Veeky Forums
Well can you, Veeky Forums?
Does Veeky Forums enjoy any works by women of color? Looking for a new perspective...
Alright Veeky Forums here's how we're doing this
The best historical fiction, Veeky Forums?
How do I into Shakespeare? Which of his works should I start with, how should I approach them...
Should authors be allowed to discuss this deeply detailed about a characters personal life...
When does it start getting good?
Do you keep some books at your bed side, lit?
Shattered Planes edition
What books should I read if I wanna acquire a cute gf?
Let's see who can write the best existentialist poem or proverb about the Library of Alexandria burning...
Have video games finally surpassed literature?
We lament our literary shortcomings
Sophism
Is Cormac McCarthy actually worth reading? Or just another best-seller author?
Veeky Forums comfycore
Red pill me on Max Stirner Veeky Forums
Ask a sociologist anything
Post the first sentence of your new book
Post your top ten favorite books that are not on this chart
"The soul is healed by being with children."
Is it justifiable?
Leibniz (Theodicy)
ITT: If you're a cultured user, write about your travels
When did it become so cool to hate on Ayn Rand?
So what is the point of him finishing the books any more?
Dune edition worth it?
The bible is literature. How much of it is worth reading? Is it any good?
Can write good dialogue and have a good understanding of characterisation, plotting and themes
Have a brilliant idea
CRUSHINGLY dull books
C U C K
CAN WE MAKE ANOTHER TOP 100 CHART FOR 2016 I'M RUNNING OUT OF BOOKS TO READ
Worst book covers thread
How the hell can normies stand to read genre fiction?
Laslo Krasnahorkai
High literary merit is a circle jerk
I just discovered I'm not naturally gifted towards the art (ENTJ)
Was Tyrion a pussy for not impregnating sansa?
This... This fucking thing!
Add more authors
Why are novels which are deemed as "classics" always written in a pretentious poetry-like prose...
Tell lit the aphorisms you made up and are proud of but could never say irl because you'd be seen as tryhard and...
Start to read Schopenhauer
What good writers are ENTJ?
Any good vaporwave novels yet, or am I going to have to write it?
HB: I spend a good part of my life in bookstores – I give readings there when a new book of mine has come out...
What are some film adaptations of books that are on par with the works they're adapted from...
Your top 10 books
An honest poster!
Were his other works reading?
Self publishing on amazon
Spend the past few months immersing myself in classical literature/music/etc...
Do you like Bret Easton Ellis?
Poetry Thread (Book Edition)
YA Girls Fiction
Who is the Sam Hyde of literature?
Not strictly Veeky Forums-related, but:
Are any of you actually any good at writing?
Critique thread
I want to read some good books about school shooters
Hey Veeky Forums how can you tell if you've written an interesting, well-developed character...
Is he Veeky Forums?
Why do plebs compare this to /r9k/...
Thoughts about it, if anyone here actually read it
How do you get your ebooks, Veeky Forums?
Do you think colonial adventure novels will make a comeback after the inevitable disillusionment with multiculturalism?
What is the purpose of life?
Can anyone recommend a good book written by a woman? Do they exist?
What a beautiful thought
I'm looking for a book that speaks in a way that is so maddening that when you put it down you feel a sort of vertigo...
No girl will ever find me desirable so please recommend me literature which denounces women as worthless whores so that...
I want to speak against communism, so I should probably read Marx
What the fuck is this guys deal with grammar
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New Purchases Thread
Daily bookshelve thread
When will the world recognize the genius of Nick Land?
Veeky Forumsmus test. There was a recent thread regarding a Plato reading group...
What's the hardest piece of literature you've read?
What is the most Reddit book ever?
Checkmate atheists
I inhale more liberal brainwashing than you do so I'm smarter
What books deal with explaining personality types?
I'm looking for a book that's filled with mental breaking torment and humiliation which is not a porno book...
How important is a good opener? Or is the prose style / progression / plot more your thing?
I've bought about five of these Very Short Introduction books and so far they've all been duds...
J. K. Rowling
What's his problem?
Whats lit's opinion of this fucker?
Medieval literature. Is it legit? Or just unga bunga apes smearing ink across a page?
/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General
Have you read The Tunnel yet?
Nietzsche’s rebellion against altruism consisted of replacing the sacrifice of oneself to others by the sacrifice of...
What's your opinion on the brexit, bookworms?
Fictional Books that depict what England's future will be like?
The Ego
Starting on Dostoevsky
Read tons of communist works
Anyone else find Middle English far more beautiful and pleasurable to ear...
ITT: Veeky Forums makes a story one word at a time
Board is full of """"""literature"""" admirers constantly talk about stuff my 15 year old brother reads
Why is he right, Veeky Forums?
Oh boy, user, it's the book fair! What're you going to get?
Do people like this actually exist in the world?
Nick land was right
OFFICIAL POETRY OF Veeky Forums THREAD
Sum up an author with a meme
Read ligotti it's fun
How dangerous are some books?
Hey Veeky Forums, what cigarettes should I smoke?
Does anyone have any books that can help me not give a fuck about anything ever again?
So does this book actually work or is it only for the neurotypical low self-esteem pseudo-normie who needs a...
Thoughts? I feel like, putting aside his irrational hate of T.S. Eliot, he is the most-correct modern critic
Daily Stirner Contemplation
Where do I start?
I don't understand what is wrong with postmodern irony. Isnt the opposite what we have today...
Charts??
So tell me Veeky Forums, who's your favorite presocratic philosopher and master of thought ?
What are some prime examples of books that absolutely are not read for plot
>>8204342
Does the author of this book insist on using "could of" "would of" "must of" as a style choice or is he a real dummy?
Found this in sorta-local library. Sitting in library with it now. Do I take it...
ITT: STEPHEN KING'S WORKS
Veeky Forums humor thread
"I wonder what it is between him and Walker"
Can you improve yourself with self help books if you apply the knowledge or is it mental masturbation?
What did the beautiful, talented and smart Harry Potter author mean by this?
What's your favorite Shakespeare? I personally really like The Tempest
How come people tell you to read more books every time you say something that isn't smart or every time you say...
So, what are some books about the UK going down the pan?
Local Veeky Forums heroes
Any broke literary fag here? Let's team up on an ebook to make some money. I'll give you my email and vice-versa
Why do STEMfags believe that social sciences aren't real sciences? We follow the scientific method...
Okay goodbye!
ITT: Post some of your favourite British literature
Explain the appeal of this work to me, please
What type of books does your girlfriend read, Veeky Forums?
Why does Veeky Forums recommends this to people...
Improve this
What are some Veeky Forums tv shows?
I've just Marathoned the first chapter
Y they do this?
I don't like him because he's never made me feel anything and that makes me feel bad...
Did this book miss the point of the Arab missing a name...
Where do I start with Carl Jung?
Ideas are grades of objectivity of the will
I've always hated Nietzsche, but since I hadn't read any of his work before, I never said a word against him. But now...
Hello Veeky Forums I just got this book what should I expect?
Buy pic related
Hey user! Glad you could join us for some grub!
Has anyone here read some of Peter Sotos' work...
Is Anselm's ontological argument sound?
Are there any political movement that isn't falling into the gay left-right dichotomy?
Reddit is doing a "best books" thread
Obligatory "I just finished Moby Dick thread."
Meet a woman in her 20s >she loves literature >Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, TFIOS, the list goes on and on!
Is pic related any good?
So is it satire, or was that just a meme?
Are you enjoying Tao Lin's tweets?
Similar to Stoner but actually about stoners
Whores
I want to make a Pitchfork for literature and philosophy, divided into two sections: comtemporary and classics...
When you write (fiction), to what degree do you articulate the inner psychological life of your character...