Literature #85

What's Veeky Forums think of ASOIAF?
What's the literature equivalent to John Cage?
Literally 99.99% of the problems posed in this book are solved by Democracy
Kindles and E-Readers
BEST LINES OF POETRY
One for the Books:Novelist Runs Into Fiery Home for Laptop
Is there a more Veeky Forums nation than Russia?
Hmm. Favorite cat literature?
Post what your currently reading
Is he the only decent existentialist?
I know homosexuality was never mentioned in the Giver...
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders
ITT books that you will never finish
A lot of people here seem to dislike the analytic tradition of philosophy. Why is this the case?
Stack/currently reading thread
Divine Comedy
If postmodernism is still the current fashionable thing how is academia so full of ideological bullshit?
Do you have any conceivable reason to get up in the morning?
Where do I begin with political philosophy?
Blood Meridian
How does Veeky Forums get through so many books so quickly?
What are the most intellectual podcasts?
/sffg/Science fiction and fantasy general
Books I should read before dying
How do you go from this
No, her recommendations are period pieces, not fit for scholastic interests
Who are the notable female and/or black and/or trans philosophers?
Why is Veeky Forums incapable of logic?
How long does it take you to read a book? I'm not talking about science books or guides or dictionaries but literature
So I finnaly got around to asking the girl I had a crush on for 4 years since we 16 and we have spent nearly EVERY day...
Writing is Hard
/crit/ - Shitposting and Critiques
Lit tries to be alpha
Greentext the Plot of your New Novel
Which is better?
Unreliable narrators
Tfw I used to read 100 pages a day and now struggle to hit 20
Write a love letter
How important is free speech to you, user?
Post adaptations of books you'd like to see
What does Veeky Forums think of Slam Poetry?
Norwegian Wood
Hey Veeky Forums i'm a college freshmen and were currently learning about literary theory...
Tfw you can't understand shakespeare
He uses correct punctuation and capitalization when posting on Veeky Forums
Any literature that is like a philosophical mindfuck? I'm looking for something that would make me feel schizophrenic
Most Alluded to Parts of King James Bible
Main character is a self insert
Could of work of this magnitude
Nee-chee
He's still straight
So, which Bolaño first? 2666 or Savage Detectives
ITT: Good books with shit covers
I've completely lost all my faith in god, what's wrong with me?
So I read his Notes from the Underground, what a depressing life this man must have had. He may be right...
Who is your Greek mythology waifu and why?
Is the Unabomber's Manifesto worth reading? Looks like it's mostly rhetoric
Just finished reading pic related, what did I like about Veeky Forums?
Have there been any great works of art about the internet yet?
What one must read before Ulysses in order to make it less painful?
Moby Dick posting for weeks
Why is it okay to spoil the classics?
My god I just discovered Blake
Hello Veeky Forums
Why is literature the only art medium where cooperating is looked down upon...
Do stimulants like pic related help you read?
Kant btfo
You guys, I've been seriously considering going to college to study literature and writing...
It is interesting seeing all of the hyperbole and hysteria surrounding the reception of this Alan Moore novel...
I have a 12 year old daughter who has become an avid reader over the past year or so...
Share your writings
Taoism is the best religion/worldview
Is there any fiction about an overweight man in his thirties who never goes out except to go to Mcdonalds and...
Are you proud of reading? Or SHOULD you be proud of reading? Are you a better person if you read...
Only the comfiest of readings need apply ITT
So, I'm five chapters into this and I just have to ask... when does this get good...
Do you think humanity will abandon religious systems at some point or are they are a permanent aspect of civilization?
Sup Veeky Forums
What were the first words of Veeky Forums?
Holy...I want war
Duuuuude like war is bad, men are evil and women are strong lmao
Let's talk about The Iliad. What was your favorite book? What are some major themes you observed...
Does free will exist? Any books that deal with the subject?
Was he autistic? I'm reading this right now...
I became an avid reader like three months ago and I can't stop...
Is it necessary to experience significant suffering to be a good artist?
Mfw gf is writing a "philosophical dialogue" between Shylock, Aaron the Moor, Richard III and Iago
I'm becoming this guy. What should I read?
Where does Toni Morrison rank among American novelists
Going to Barnes and Noble. What should i get?
Book has sex scene
This book
What would you leave behind if you die right now ?
Open Harry Potter: the first one.pdf
Thoughts?
Middlemarch
So did I get meme'd?
Is it worth it to read this whole thing? Why or why not?
What does /lit use as a bookmark
Sappho
How long does it take to read the Bible? Are there any parts that I can skip?
Can someone give me a guide to the Western Canon ?
How can I learn Persian
SHTF
My son is a year old and actually does pay attention when I read books to him...
Dude, weed lmao - serious discussion
Have any of you had good English/Literature teachers?
Most expensive book you own?
Why is social justice bad?
I just bought this and if it sucks im going to be pissed
Is Terence McKenna Veeky Forums?
that face when fascists just activated my trap card
Early 20th is modernism
Unironically one of the most tedious, boring novels I've ever read
He loves Pynchon
Anyone here working as a technical writer? ill be starting next month, if it was good enough for The Pinecone...
I want to read about cool, popular and classy people, I want to know how they feel, think, talk in excruciating detail
ITT: your favourite writer('s/)s' worst flaws
So I just recently finished the Wheel of Time series and it's become my favorite fantasy series of all time (despite...
Literature in universities?
/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General
Sex repulsion
Post a picture based on which you'd like a book recommendation
Tfw to intelligent to read books
Who won in the Chomsky-Foucault debate?
Calling all patricians -
Is this what Marx meant by "lumpenproletariat"?
Is the Guardian the most Veeky Forums newspaper?
Is it hypocritical to be an antinatalist without being a vegan?
How did a woman write so good? was she a fake?
Character has sex with trannies intentionally
Do something like a loot crate of books exist?
Shakespeare 6'4"
Write something profound
Has any work of literature ever made you cry
Tfw too intelligent for fiction
ITT: literary shit you never understood
Does Veeky Forums enjoy Artemis Fowl? By far a very enjoyable series
Samuel Beckett
What is the best book of all time in your opinion
Who is our guy?
What does lit think about reading theory?
Hey Veeky Forums what's your favorite ghost story?
Books that changed your life
So it is bad writing?
So I've started reading this for the first time...
Who was the superior philosopher: Hegel or Nietzsche?
What is the most disturbing story you have ever read?
Are there any American authors on the same level as Tolstoy, Gogol and Dostoevsky?
He fell for the college meme
There is no objective truth
How would you convince a STEM type (who only reads sci-fi/fantasy) to start reading literary fiction?
What phrases are exclusively used by pseuds...
Is anyone else actually reading this, rather than just memeing about it?
Post apparent contradictions in the bible and I'll explain how they aren't
How can eternal return happen if the universe is constantly expansing forever?
So, I've only read pic related by Haruki Murakami, but I feel like it probably isn't his best...
Literary cringe thread
Nitpicky professor giving me hell
What do you eat while reading?
Read Freud's Introductory lectures
Why do you still buy books
Does anyone have access those greentext stories that some guy used to post on /mu/ that always begin with "you will...
I dint believe you guys read
Let the language evolve you retards
The Man Booker shortlist was announced today
Goodreads General
What do English scholars do?
Wow. I don't know what was more of a disappointment. This or Bottom's Dream
Shelves
How to stop being so ironic?
We will enable you to be in love, without the fall
Can we just admit that she is the best writer
Alright so It's out and I grabbed my copy. so far his writing is childish, shallow and yet also pedantic...
Is there anything spiritual (or "mystic") to be found in computer programming?
Is this book still worth reading?
Has anyone else read many oxford very short introductions?
Who is the Gustav Mahler of Literature?
What do you guys think of Guns,Germs and Steel?
Being smarter
Has a women writer ever write something that made you really think or moved you in any way?
Suicide is a bitch ass move. Discuss
Is this a good way to learn languages?
ITT: how to spot literary plebs
Is this board really America centric is is it just me? When I see all the books discussed here...
King James Bible
She was such a qt lads. why did she have to end it all? :(
Tfw IQ isn't >200
Should we worry about reading speed?
How do I write teenage girls or women in general?
Writing Advice Thread
Any books that serve a good introduction to Hinduism and/or to Indian history and Indian literature in general?
How does Veeky Forums feel about McCarthy?
Is this guy the definition of pure mediocrity
Is it worth learning Farsi?
Is this a good book?
How do you get past the hump with long books?
Was this guy important
/QTDDTOT/ - Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread
The Brothers K
John green
What did she mean by this?
/mu/ /pol/ /r9k/ infestation
2 paged double spaced size 12 font essay due tomorrow
How does Veeky Forums feel about Stephen King?
What is some feminist philosophy?
Where are all the contemporary Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean and Japanese philosophers?
Talk about literature and philosophy written before the 20th century with my non-white or Jew friends
This was considered appropriate reading for American sixth graders in the mid-19th century
Who else here /workingonthesis/?
Look at this dumb jock. He will never travel the world and live the literary lifestyle...
Today is the big day. 8 years later
You get to fuck or be fucked by one fictional character of your choice. Whom do you pick and why?
Why is male poetry so much better than female poetry...
Sociology
His eyes were a brilliant, piercing blue
Plebeian
Why are all philosophers male? Haven't males traditionally had to go to work while the women stayed at home...
The greatest literary genius to ever live
Judgment Day
Is it true that the reason a woman has never written a masterpiece because of patriarchy and having next to no rights...
FREUD BTFO
What is /lit's/ view on Vollman's work
Hey user, what are you reading?
Will you take up the challenge
So he dressed up as a girl, smoked crack and sucked dick...