Literature #95

Literature equivalent of this brilliant and highly accurate documentary? I already read Curtis' blog...
How would you describe something kafkaesque ?
Daily routines
Nowhere is the hostility of the Anglo-American tradition toward the dialectical more apparent, however...
Describe your favourite book in one picture
Why the hell do people gush all over The Stranger?
Is he overrated?
[Oscar] Wilde took a key out of his pocket and showed me into a tiny apartment of two rooms… The youths followed him...
Self help books
Why aren't you trying Kindle Direct Publishing, user? They now make paperbacks too. And it's free
Great new writers under the radar
Is it me, or has "Harry Potter" logic infected most forms of popular writing?
I failed for the meme
How do I reduce my vocabulary enough to write a YA novel?
Is the sentence in pic related grammatically correct or incomplete? If not, what is/are the possible error(s)...
Why is there no black Tolstoy?
Feminist Literature
Is all of this guy's work just edgy rebellion against his parents?
How do I start with the Greeks?
Mozart was 5’4”
What is the best book to learn about Mark Rothko and his work?
The Death of the Author is a fucking great piece of literary criticism
What are some good books on the topic of toxic masculinity...
What is your honest opinion of this series?
So my parents have slammed down the hammer conclusively and told me that they will not allow me under any conditions to...
What is your daily schedule? I'm trying to live a Veeky Forums lifestyle, where all I do is write and read and shit
Who is your favorite right-wing philosopher?
There are several things I disagree with Land on...
Why is this board so slow on Fridays and Saturdays. do you guys have friends or something...
Samuel beckett is my only friend. he /understands/ me
I'm about 50 pages in, just finished the chapter titled "The Sermon."
Are audiobooks on the same level as reading?
Whats Veeky Forums opinion on DFW?
I cannot help but laugh at the foolishness of non believers
ITT: Post essential reading for babby's first existential crisis
"The cultural work done in the past by gods and epic sagas is now done by laundry-detergent commercials and comic-strip...
Who is John Galt?
Where to start with this handsome chap?
Why the FUCK are you not reading Shakespeare right now?
I miss Veeky Forums...
Are there any intelligent refutations of socialist theory?
Book is set in the future
Social Democratic theory, and even more its practice...
Reading OCD
E-readers
Here's an exercise for Veeky Forums. You can choose only one of these options:
Is The Bell Jar worth reading?
Just bought this, never seen the show
The person who posts below you picks the next book you read. Go!
Ranking Shakespeare's plays
So, what's your story about? Are you going to finish it someday?
Stop objectifying
If Stirner's philosophy worth anything it is for btfoing Atheists
Lol dude listen to me being miserable for 700 pages
Was Holden Caulfield molested?
Do you have a degree in literature? Why? Why not?
The guy who wrote this is gay af
Stack thread. Recent purchases
Can someone refute the following statement by Schopenhauer:
Blood Meridian analysis
Reading books at work
Untitled
Modern """""art"""""
You will never live in 19th century Germany at the height of the Romantic revolution
Thoughts on the norton critical editions? Are they worth the bucks?
ITT: Characters who are essentially Veeky Forums
South America is low-key the most literary continent
Is the present time shittier than the past, or has the world always been shit?
Which of the statement is grammatically correct?
Library
Can we finally agree that this is one of the best books of the XX century?
The prospect of a White Race hell, coming true, has been in the atmosphere for several years...
The trolley problem is without a doubt the single most retarded thought experiment philosophy has shat out...
Veeky Forums approved minecraft
The Goal of Science
Okay Veeky Forums, what's your best piece of writing advice?
Sexual virginity for any poet, even a Jesuit as, Hopkins shows, is a kind of sickness unto action...
Writers who ruined your life
What does Veeky Forums think of McElroy?
What's the point of becomming a writer if you can't compete with the western cannon and most people today watch TV...
Feminist Literature
I'm reading Lord of the Rings for the first time and I found that it's significantly better when I imagine Frodo as a...
How do I visualize a scene better in my head?
Why does Veeky Forums hate harris?
Monastery Life
/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General
So, who is the greatest Jewish writer ever?
He isn't Veeky Forumslit/
Right Wing/Fascist Literature
Am I supposed to hate Moses? He's written as a cynical, manipulative...
Shelf thread
Find 1 (one) error in any of the three volumes of Marx's Das Kapital
Creative Writing class
I REALLY hope you don't steal books (aka piracy...
Post-nihilism on lit
Would anyone be up for a Moby-Dick reading group some time this summer?
Can someone tell me why this guy is talked about every single day when all he did was make a big stink about not...
Why didn't Harry end up with Hermione Veeky Forums? Memes aside...
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"
Books about apathetic men walking around
Thinking about becoming a socialist. What's some good socialist literature?
Lots of great writers don't make any money. Lots of bad writers make a ton of money
How badly can a student write in his third year of university attendance? This badly:
Words that feel real good to say
Phenomenology of perception
Whence
Who /massmarketpaperback/ here?
Joyce seemed like he was a walking encyclopaedia of literature
Lit Crit
Itt: books women will never understand
Describe your ideal novel in 15 words or less
Haiku
>>9524179
Has a book ever made you cry?
Just got this. Where do I start?
Share your most pleb literary opinions
Why haven't you read Giorgio Agamben?
Dumb Questions thread
Qt patootee walks up to you
Serious question
Holy fucking shit this is probably the most boring and dull novel I have ever read
Love
Face descriptions
Itt Meaningless words:
She pointed and jeered, starting from the beginning of their argument, listing the scathing details chronologically...
Veeky Forums humor thread
What will humanity look like in 30 years?
Hey Veeky Forums, could you recommend me some essential books about AnCap?
What does Veeky Forums think about ubik ?
What is the difference between a philosopher and a poet?
River Reading
What did google mean by this?
Your height
Your penis size
Author nudes thread
This has more gags, goofs, hijinks, tom-foolery, wackiness, zaniness, jokes...
Is Stoicism for cucks?
Who is the most pessimistic philosopher?
Ok, help a brainlet out. Ive finished chapter 3 and am so confused...
Is he right or is he wrong?
Alright everyone, /ourgirl/ is reading Daisy Miller. We shall read it with her
Your IQ
Are there any books about being the ugly beta in the office who nobody talks to while everyone else is friends and has...
How many female-identifying POC authors have you read in the past six months?
Why did all the old cyberpunk writers seem to think Japan was going to take over the world?
No user we are not going to accept your story because it has one cliche in it
This is a silly book
I didn't expect it to be so shit
At the library
What are the best books with homosexual romantic themes? Please keep /pol/ and SJW content out of this thread...
Veeky Forums writes a book
So, was Meursault autistic?
Fidget Spinners: A Philosophical Discussion
Tfw the library has an enforced no singles policy
Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, __________ ?
Write what's on your mind
Read, Expected, Got
John updike
Feminist Literature
/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General
Was he a hack?
The Library showers are out of order
New literature gem found
Language Learning Thread
Tell me your family members' favourite books
I'm reading pic related and it's the first time i've ready anything by nietzsche
Poetry Critique
What did he mean by this?
Genre fiction is awf-
Is this the peak of YA lit?
What does lit think of this Oxford educated writer's opinion?
Why is the score so low?
Hey! You! Yeah YOU!!
Hi Veeky Forums, what do you think of my nonfiction collection? Are there any other similars works you would recommend?
Horror Writing
How the hell am I supposed to live the good life by doing all of the below every week?
Has anyone here tried to create a new verse form?
HPG: / Harry Potter General /
Which book should I bring to a hypothetical Book Burning event?
Be genius
Favorite words/names to mis-pronounce
He was literally right about everything
What television does Veeky Forums watch? Breaking Bad? Fargo? The Wire?
What books should every English major undergrad have read?
Philosophies like Stoicism? Concerning working hard and the like
So what's preventing you from making and finishing masterpieces similar to ulysses, gravity's rainbow and infinite jest?
DFW was 24 when Broom of the System was published
Is there something I can read that will convince me these people who trot stuff like BLM and postmodern ideas about...
Opinions?
Do cigarettes help you become a better writer?
Putting together a compilation of western literature and philosophy (e-book collection look @ /t/ in a month or two)...
The English produced Shakespeare and Chaucer
Woah
Just pre-ordered Sam Hyde's book
Are sci fi books that bad
I've been wondering... what is the best way for us to intellectually combat the postmodernists?
Convince me to finish this. The Grand Inquisitor scene was underwhelming. Zosima's pretty based...
Is this any good?
Books that would make good anime
What drugs did he use? All the information I can find about him going to rehab just says "drug and alcohol abuse"
Tfw just finished another short story
Is Tolkien fun to read?
Bookshelf thread
Who is the most dangerous character in all of known fiction?
Veeky Forums question-answer thread
Why do people hate her?
"genre fiction is unoriginal garbage for plebs"
What book perfectly captures the feeling of
And there's something terribly sad and banal about that
He doesn't read a book twice in a row
Machado de Assis
[The judge] told the court: 'It seems to me that if this was a one-off, a complete one-off...
We all know Lolita is the pinnacle of books about lolicon, but what are some great books about shotacon?
A hundret years of solitude
Drop-Out thread
Who's the wittiest/funniest writer you've ever read?
So....does anything happen in this book? I'm like a hundred pages in, and I'm really straining to even pay attention...
Does any poet convey the European spirit as well as Whitman conveys the one of America?
What would Finch have done if he wasn't a lawyer?
Can Veeky Forums stump the akinator?
Dante's courtly love for Beatrice continued for nine years, before the pair finally met again...
What do academics think about this? Do they find it praiseworthy or laughable?
Is Jordan Peterson right about post-modernism? Is it cancer?
"My parents are so proud of me for getting 100 subscribers!"
Why is it always contrarian redditors that hate Harold Bloom?
How do I deal with jealousy Veeky Forums?
You can absorb the knowledge of 3 intellectuals. Whose knowledge would you abdorb...
Name a worse, more annoying writer/individual of the 20th century
What's the most try-hard book a normie can read in public, Veeky Forums?
It's possible to write a novel without plot? Or without characters?
I'm a normie. How can I introduce the narrative style of Dark Souls lore in my very own style?
Holy shit get hype
How do you go about making up names for characters Veeky Forums...
Any good immigration books that don't involve SJW/White supremacist arguments?
Look at this family reading
ITT: Pleb filters
Just got everything in picture for 24 dollars. How did I do? What order should I read them? Also general haul thread
Who else here has patrician parents? My Dad is pretty patrician
What are you currently reading
Enlightenment is BULLSHIT
I'm depressed what should I read? I like pessimistic literature like Pessoa
Is this true?
/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General
Veeky Forums Wallpapers
Would any of you bisexuals be interested in joining me in a reading group of the whole of the sacred Mahabharata?
Is My Twisted World the most comedic book of all time? This shit is funnier than Hitchhiker's guide and Catch-22
What book will help me stop watching porn? If I get on my laptop somehow I always end up jaking it to porn
McElroy Thread(?):
Where is your favorite place to write?
No 3x3 thread?
What does Veeky Forums think of Herzog and Saul Bellow
ITT: we post a single sentence from a work in progress and rate each other
Have any of you ever had near death experiences, or cancer scares? Or have survived cancer? If so...
Dialectical image
User, I'm so glad you can take the time to visit me and help around the house
Give me one good reason to live, go ahead, I dare you
What do ou think of the US Marine Corps Commandant's Reading List?
This is Borges
Give me one good reason as to why you aren't /fitlit/
I read this does that mean I'm gay now
ASOIAF-fags will NEVER EVER get The Winds Of Winter
Yule Ball: The Thread
Veeky Forums newfag. I just read The Stranger by Camus and i really liked it...
First Lines
What is Dostoevsky trying to convey here?
Which gospel is your favourite?
When automation is 99% succesful succeeds
I unironically like him more now. What a character
People who listen to audiobooks are the downfall of modern society
Why is the Iliad so damn repetitive? I know Achilles is swift-footed after the 50th time Homer repeated it...
He considers himself /lit but he hasn't read
You have to read one of their poetry books. Who's do you read? Mira, savannah or rupi? Who has the most talent...
What's a word that means "of rape"? Rapey? I can't use that word in an essay
Chickie says "I love to read too, user!"
How much can you read in one day?
*blocks your path*
Name a comfier book. (Protip: you can't.)
Classical Marxism is the most Veeky Forums political position
How do we remove leftists and biology/genetics/instincts denialists from modern philosophy?
What is philosophy's endgame?
Why has no one read this?
Admit it. You're no different, posting here
What are you favorite podcast?
All YA literature is awf-
Can someone who has never been depressed truly appreciate most literature?
Alan Watts
You're about to go on a week long business trip with several hours in transit...
Open Veeky Forums
What makes something pleb or patrician?
Once your rich what do you have to strive for
Let's write a book Veeky Forums. A real top notch quality book about:
Do you think Wikipedia has chosen the right six writers to represent the entire history of philosophers...
'Jesus wept.'
Which philosophers address this important issue?
Wait, is this legit?
I finally organized my bookshelf at the end of the semester
Signed Leo Tolstoy??
Ask someone who's solved philosophy anything
ITT Bad Writers
Want to be a writer
Will I learn about history by reading this?
Where do I buy cheap books?
In your best prose, describe yourself
Vaporwave books
How's the writing career coming, Veeky Forums?
Tfw hate communist and commies
Modern art
Guys, intellectually I'm all spooked out. I can't stand philosophy because of all the unfalsifiable garbage...
What's the point of even reading fiction? It's not real and it has no information that will benefit you
Summer reading
Listen to a podcast with Jordan Peterson
Postmodernism is objectively terrible garbage for pseuds and tryhards. Prove me wrong
Becoming cultured?
Lol wow
User, what are you reading? Oh my... That is not a children's book, user...
Name a place and anons will tell you books that are set there
What is truth?
So, I'm writing a novel where my protagonist is christian. However, I'm not christian myself...
Amazon Reviews
Goodreads friend thread?
Vocaroo thread
Opinions on Ride the Tiger, by Evola
On religion:
Was Meursault a monster?
Was Don Giovanni the Übermensch?
What are some Veeky Forums hobbies like making ships in bottles? or bird watching?
What is the best way to approach philosophy?
I am Japanese. I live in Japan
What are good books to read for a person in a spiritual crisis?
Can you tell if the writer is a woman just by reading their works? If so, how?
Is getting a degree in philosophy a waste of time?
Why is Zizek such an asshole?
Why is Judith Butler taken seriously in Academia?
Any great book about getting redpilled about women and their sexuality?
You can only recommend 3 books, what books are they?
Welcome to the water
The Other
I want to read the Bible. What's the best English translation?
What books of the bible can I safely skip?
How come Veeky Forums always talks about Derrida/etc but never this guy?
I have a 99th percentile IQ
"lovecraftian" works
Whenever I finish a book and mark it on Goodreads and then give it a star rating...
Book Stack thread Bitches
Went into college before I was ready
The first thing that must strike any outside observer is that Socialism...
How about a recent haul thread?
Kill All Normies by Angela Nagle
Things that make you immediately disregard some work of literature
Does manga offer any literary merit?
Opinions?
Mythology
Paperbacks
Best Hispanic poets?, and which are their best works?
Just picked this up for $1 at a yard sale. Is this a decent translation?
Essential Chinese literature
Write what's on you mind
Books that give a philosophical exposition to Satanism?
Things Ellie likes
S M O K I N G
Responsible for the most iconic book series and TV series of our generation
Has a book ever made you extremely uncomfortable/uneasy? Maybe even scared?
Name one (1) good book written in the 21st century
How true is this image?
Looking for some recommendations regarding Borges? What should I buy, Labyrinths or the Penguin Collected Fictions...
What's the best "Hero's Journey"
Being religious but avoiding reading any atheist philosophy
So are we all in agreement that the entire of Postmodernism is essentially drivel?
Who do you regard as the greatest extensionalist?
Greg Heffley
How to Be a Pseudo-Intellectual
M A C O N D O
Great Expectations
Can you guys tell me which of these plots sounds the most interesting(if any)?
What does Veeky Forums think of literary critic Dan Schneider?
Post pics of small bookstores where you live
How shall you define Zen?
Poltards rant against "cultural marxism" and the perceived degradation of culture promoted "leftists" and "SJW"s based...
Hamlet
Who was in the wrong here
What does Veeky Forums think of this man?
Why the fuck is there even a debate between Dostoevsky and Tolstoy?
What in the name of Christ is this Tumblr-tier garbage and why would anyone like it?
Literature Depth
Booktube is ruining society
Is it just me or is Neuromancer a REALLY tough read?
I re-read a young lady's illustrated primer recently and it made me in the mood to lear about confuscianism
I'm pro-Trump...
Infinite Jest Without Footnotes?
/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General:
On average, how many pages do you read a day?
Weird kid in my college class last semester presented a project in my english class...