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80% of book written
Can you explain to a retard like me what the fuck is he talking about in "Circuitries"...
Kant's Critique of Practical Reason
Mfw doestoeskij spends an entire chapter ridiculing communists and radical egalitatianists depicting them as retards...
R/books is mirin' again
Try to defend it
I just started to read Plato and I was wondering , since I don't want to read the complete work...
You (singular)
It seems the problem isn't multiculturalism, is islam
Is Houellebecq a hack or worth a read? if the latter, which of his books should I read?
How can people claim to be believers and followers of Christ yet own property and riches, not being totally non-violent...
Deconstruction of the Subject, if there is such a thing, which I doubt...
Wow, when did feminism stoop so low?
/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General
Rupi Kaur Gets Treated Unfairly
See a group of women posing for selfies
What do you listen to while reading Veeky Forums?
If you could only read 10 books for the rest of your life what would they be?
Why isn't there a board for writers, writing, and critique?
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN THREAD
Your favourite novel never discussed on lit? Bonus points if it's written by someone who isn't American or British
Do you think he was fucking with them
Not reading autobiographies
ITT: Name a book you're currently reading. Tell others how much you like or dislike it
Prerequisites to reading him?
Which books would you recommend to inspire a love of reading in a 12 year old child?
OFFICIAL HERMAN MELVILLE FANBOY THREAD
Can someone explain to me why there is a massive stigma against science fiction on this board?
Chinese Poetry General
How the fuck do fiction writers make a living?
ITT: we share and critique writing ideas
The greatest poet of our generation
Why are conservatives better writers than liberals?
How many faggots on here are gonna read this
I want to start reading the Bible, which version should I read, Veeky Forums?
Most of his books were legit replicas of each other. But the fucker was right
Americans call it "one of the greatest American novels of all time"
What happened to aesthetics in the West after WWII? Art, literature, architecture, you name it...
What does Veeky Forums think about it? Does Veeky Forums uses the fidget spinner while reading?
Those HOURS upon HOURS you spent mastering word-smithery as your peers cavorted outside, enjoying their youth
Jacques Lacan
"I love to read too!"
Did you acquire intellectual humbleness once you got into college?
I want to get married so bad that it physically hurts, but its not the right time
Become a plumber
These people are millionaires and considered the greatest authors of a generation by many
I'm putting together an ebook of Land "selected writings". So far this is what I've got:
Fascism
Asthetics
Critique Thread
What I Read/ Expected/ Got
Do you come from a simple-minded family, user?
Question about the works of H.P Lovecraft
Yo! I wanna to be a writer and need tips on how to get published
Veeky Forumserary confessions thread...
I'm working my way through a condensed version of the Western Canon, reading the major works of every time period...
Ta-Nehisi Coates unveils cover for Obama-era book We Were Eight Years in Power
Do you pronounce it "litter-a-tour" or "litch-ra-chur?"
How does Veeky Forums feel about using curse words in literature?
What does Veeky Forums use to read ebooks?
/Moldbug/
Can I get some recommendations on books about consciousness...
Yeats
I was going to give up coffee today but the a huge wave of loser feelings washed over me at my wagecuck office when I...
He doesn't use Grammarly Pro™ or Hemingway App™ to edit his novels
Why do you still adhere to a morality tailor-made for, and by, resentful slaves, user?
Veeky Forums tells me I have to read the greeks, the bible...
Was he right?
Stop being lazy Veeky Forums
People are unironically proud not to have a read a book in a long time
In his problem, Taylor presents us with a situation and an argument. Suppose that I am an admiral. Suppose that...
Why has literature become so unpopular with this generation? Is it because of video games?
What happens when you finish reading the canon?
What is a life without a caring woman by your side
Reading poetry
Why do so many people read this and write off McCandless as a naive edgy kid...
Will he go down in literary history, or will he be forgotten and relegated to the annals of insignificance?
Do you have a favorite literature-related comic, Veeky Forums?
I don't respect people who don't read literature
I want to have a serious discussion about my book because I believe it is the greatest and most important organization...
Beach read
Psychedelics
Whats the key to writing rape?
Can you still enjoy a book written by someone whose views were objectively wrong/racist?
Can Veeky Forums redpill me on the "Science Wars"...
Recent purchases. dollar bin edition
What's Veeky Forums written so far?
How do you start writing a novel for the first time, Veeky Forums?
Rate my writing set up (o.O)
User, I'm a fat, incompetent fuck with no sense of direction. I need YOU to finish ASOIAF
I've really enjoyed novels like Invisible Man and Native Son but what are some good books from black authors that don't...
Do you read in your bed?
Asked a bookish lad of mine if War and Peace and Heart of Darkness were any good...
Meditations
Memorization Thread
I'm starting to be unironically seduced by Monarchy, lit/. Talk me out
What are some easy to read French authors? Besides Camus
So am I just an idiot or is this guy's stuff exceptionally harder to grasp compared to most other poets?
Are there some valid, non-fedora-wearing-edgelord tier books about atheism?
ITT: Critical Papers We Will Never Write
Why do philosophers still study Freudian Psychoanalysis? It's regarded as non-scientific garbage by scientists
Had an impulse buy today
Is Veeky Forums a place where failed writers circlejerk?
Are geniuses aware they are geniuses? What would you say makes a genius, particularly a literary genius?
Bookzz is down, where am I supposed to get my shit for free now?
Why were sub-saharan africans too retarded to create any literature or poetry of great value?
Help with Concentration and Information Retention
I'm about to attempt reading the Bible for the first time. Any tips on how to make the most out of it...
/top100/ thread
Nietzsche was, in fact, what Stirner called a “pious atheist.” Like Feuerbach...
Prose Poems
What was Veeky Forums's reaction in 2008 when this man died? Was there an agreeable lamentation?
What are some books that really make you think by exploring extreme philosophical ideas? Something like Ficciones...
Sales of George Orwell’s novel 1984 have shot up since Trump took power
Is Virignia Wollf the greatest prose stylist ever?
How does Veeky Forums feel about Kerouac? Am I supposed to like him or loathe him...
Isn't it more ethical to make citizens pass a test before they can freely vote?
Post a book with a name. If that's your name, you must read that book
Catch 22 best quote
Shadow had done three years in prison. He was big enough...
Best literature from the last 5 years or so?
Are picaresque novels the only good thing that came out of spanish literature?
Moorcock on Tolkien
V
What do you like to listen to while reading Veeky Forums?
Who was in the wrong here?
There are only four types of stories in the world
Why is YA so stigmatized on this board?
The New Class War
If you were to go back in time and tell your 18-year-old self what to read...
What is the Twin Peaks of literature?
I'm going to take a 2 week trip across the UK and Ireland. What is the right book to bring with me for the plane...
Books about tyrannical 'big brother' states and how they control us?
Prose
I don't get it
How do I into Lacan?
Anyone got recommendations for great Japanese literature?
What do you think of Julius Evola?
Where do I start with Chesterton?
Looking for a book with a kitsune as an MC
How's your work going
Brave New World
Yo whats up bros...
The divine comedy
Discussing literature with girls
Write whats on your mind
Most Veeky Forums twitter account? (don't plug your own)
Just finished this book. Never read Camus before, what's Veeky Forumss thoughts on it? ~philosophy~
I listened to some Alan Watts videos on youtube and they were pretty nice. Which of his books should I start with?
Do you read in the bathtub, Veeky Forums?
What languages are you learning or have learnt in order to read works in that language?
John here! Just curious why you guys hate me
So lit, who was a better man Achilles or Odysseus?
Is there ever a case where you would recommend YA to anybody?
Why do so many people here romanticize the aristocracy and pre-modern ways of life...
Afterlife:
Non sa leggere l'italiano
Is sport necessary for literary life? I have sudden deisre to run, is running sufficient?
Do you step into the bus or on to the bus?
When the acceleration finally hits you
Just turned 18
Bookshelf Thread
Existence precedes essence
Thoughts? What is PKD trying to convey with all this rambling?
What are some good music-related books, Veeky Forums?
Dostoyevsky's Demons
So im planning on starting with the greeks
Stop being generous
Was he right? And how does his theory apply to Veeky Forums and the prevalent extremist content of our message?
Negative Goodreads review thread?
"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman", so... was she right?
250 word essay due tomorrow
/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General
REDDIT IS TALKING ABOUT US
She's back!
ITT: Current book you're reading, are you enjoying it?
/ourgurl/
If God is dead, what the fuck are we supposed to do now?
Books that convey this picture of how tough it is to be an atheist in America?
Is Brandon Sanderson the best writing teacher whose courses are freely available?
A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self...
Culture and social class
What are some lits that involve an older woman sexually tutoring a young lover?
"Genetic engineering will lead to eugenics. Therefore, genetic engineering should be impermissible."
Overrated
ITT Name three books that best describe the aesthetic of your own writing
Any opinions on William Blake?
Time to get pretenious. What are we reading and drinking Tonight?
How come /pol/ calls Veeky Forums communist left-wingers when the most popular writers here are people like DFW...
Convince me why I should dedicate hours of my life to reading the Greeks
Is it true that postmodernism has fucked up civilization? Do we have too much freedom to express ourselves...
What have you read so far this year?
Hate actually using eyeballs to read books (i know i'm a retarded faggot who should kill himself)
Is Khomeini the closest we've ever had to a philosopher king?
Reminder that the human organism has an incredible adaptive capacity, of which you, as you know yourself...
People who didn´t deserve the Nobel prize of literature
Was he right about Islam?
Is he our guy?
In love matters, a man should listen to his heart or his reason?
3x3 thread
What group in particular was he referring to?
Do you need to have an MFA to be a good writer?
Reading Difficulties
Recent pickups thread?
Well...? Opinions?
Hey Veeky Forums im stating to read this pamphlet and well, i have some questions for others that have read it before...
Felt sick of reading on a tablet so I went to the library to get a copy of Crime and Punishment...
How to be a great philosopher
Small excerpt from my essay on Veeky Forums.org/pol/;
What does Veeky Forums think of him?
What kind of reading will help me understand a girl's view of the world...
Just finished this, pretty great
Sunny day in London
Why do women remain more childlike than men?
Hey Veeky Forums. Is Mein Kampf worth a read?
Quick! You can only give Richard Spencer a single book to disprove his racism, which book do you give him?
Is Maoism-Third Worldism the most redpilled school of Marxism?
Shadow had done three years in prison. He was big enough...
Saturday Morning thread
Reads Nietzsche once
ITT: Works that despite being valuable and interesting have been misunderstood by the masses
WTF I love Ben now!
Works of Plato
Writing and Critique
Does the term "alternative facts" deserve to be labeled as Orwellian?
Is Vaporwave a modern interpretation of the Kafkaesque
Palo Alto is a disgrace
What's your age Veeky Forums?
Literature that will help me understand the mentality of women?
Was W.B. Yeats or T.S. Eliot the best poet of the 20th century?
*blocks ur sexual revolution*
What do you know of cognitive behavioural therapy? Any good books on it...
Thoughts on Sam Harris as a writer?
Tfw when the Qur'an makes more sense than anything you've ever read
Wtf was his problem?
Best books on loneliness?
Mishima Thread
Are most people just too stupid to handle the philosophical/literary/metaphorical idea of god without turning him into...
It's over
What books should I leave lying around my apartment if I want people to think I'm a super genius (not just normal...
Is this the best book ever written?
Is she, dare I say it, /ourgirl/?
Greentext the plot of your new novel, it's not like is going anywhere
My OC unedited with mistakes and such please critique harshly it's for a longer work I'm writing
Holocaust short literature
Tfw too dumb to start reading as a hobby
What would Deleuze and Guattari say if they lived to see how their philosophy killed off the idea of Marxism for good?
Which philosophers were pro-suicide?
Why was she so sad?
One Hundred Years of Solitude
What did you guys think of this book? Personally I enjoyed it, especially the first 50 pages. However...
Been seeing a lot of Joyce posting lately...
Try sitting next to qt English lit student
Book of the New Sun
First day on r/literature and I got btfo for no reason
"The only real truths are objective statements about things that exist...
Hi Veeky Forums
Post-Materialism
I wasn't sure which board to ask this question, but to the left-wingers here...
PEL thread
Tfw you realize not only Are there rapists and child molesters out there...
Anyone else ready this absolute gem of a series?
Tfw you realize art is literally just a honeypot for narcissists
Reading the Bible
Expain in one sentence why I should start with the Greeks
H a v e
Death
Was pic related the peak of american intelligentsia?
Does making the protagonist ""immortal"" remove reader suspense?
Tfw you realize that atheists are literally just too stupid and/or obtuse to realize that the church was right all...
Is he correct...
What are the best examples of middlebrow lit?
What do you mean, user, you read philosophy?
What did the 7th best-selling author of all time mean by this?
Oldfag here. Looking for some reassurance
Work your way to the top
Tfw you realize at a young age that money and power, and not goddamn poems and philosophical masturbation...
Why buy books when libraries exist?
Non-fiction thread?
If Kantbot is actually the retard who screamed about German Idealism in New York, he can't be a good writer. I mean...
This guy fondles and slaps your girlfriend's ass in the club. How do you react?
Sci-Fi Novel Where All Women Gain Power to Kill Men Wins $40,000 Fiction Prize
Is this the logical conclusion for American literature?
The problem isn't capitalism. It's not Marxism either. It's a lack of refinement...
She's here to stay, boys. No matter how much you cry about your shitty old books...
A thread to post your six-word stories
Can someone please recommend me a good book about big guys for me?
"I do not see that computers are bringing us one step nearer to anything that does matter ot me: peace...
Well lads, here it is. A true blue first edition. Happy (almost) birthday to me
Post your Big Five results and your top 5 novels
Cardinal Sarah
Brazilian Student Disappears Leaving Behind a Room Covered in Coded Texts and Occult Symbols
Is Buzzati's novel an example of anti-fragile literature? Is The Tartar Steppe the Taleb of novels?
ITT: Characters that need to die
Talking with my friend about the Sherlock TV series
ITT: grab a hardcover from your shelf, take off the dust jacket, post results
What is the legacy of Christopher Lasch in the USA?
How will Veeky Forums react when he dies?
Stack thread general
Age
How does will to power differ from the ego/ where does nietzsche best define the will to power in opposition to the...
He thinks human nature doesnt exist
This might seem dumb, but I have a question...
Which books do you think are going to be future classics?
TFW so many gaps in my knowledge but don't know what to start or what books to read
What is the value of "ideological' words?
He should have moved to New York not Paris
Hi Veeky Forums
What's your favorite short story? Pic unrelated
Stop suffering
What are some books that can educate a former Trump supporter on basic politics? I repent for being so retarded
/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General
Hey guys, I'm going to go into college to study literature and philosophy...
I just graduated with a BA in English. I have no debt. My professor, a prominent poet...
Rate my birthday haul Veeky Forums
*ruins western civilization*
How do Buddhists reconcile samsara and transmigration with no self?
This thread again
Who else sniffs books while reading them? I usually do it every chapter. Any other strange lit related habbits?
Hey user, 'Tricia said that you've recently started with the Greeks. What do you mean by "Plato"? user...
How do I read faster? I already keep my finger on the line I'm reading...
Art thread
Write an ode to feet
Alright Veeky Forums lets go
Convince me that English is NOT the best language in the world
Untitled
Please leave this board and never return if you agree with any of the following sentences:
Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good...
What's the worst that could happen if I didn't start with the Greeks?
What to read after pic related, The Portrait or Ulysses?
Sci-Fi Novel Where All Women Gain Power to Kill Men Wins $40,000 Fiction Prize
What are Veeky Forums's honest thoughts on Graphic 'Novels'...
This goblin fucked models
1-2 books to get a good grasp on this guy's thought? familiar with freud and jung if that helps
Worth reading after watching the movies MANY YEARS ago?
Do something practical, work with your hands, take up a trade
In your best prose, describe this painting
Any of you know any good books about the origins and development of the Slavic/balto-slavic languages?
Why I think A song of Ice and Fire fucking sucks
Infinite Jest
How'd you feel about the final chapter, Veeky Forums?
I am thinking sincerely that i dont give a shit about the Market or about a literature carreer...
Death
Did Leonardo the Vinchi ever write some good literature or make some interesting reading material from his personal...
I'm about 1/3 of the way through this. What do I think of it?
Post feel
Ancient Philosphy
So the wiki article on socrates says that the socratic dialogues are actually reports of real conversations...
Who will defend the canon once he's gone?
Whats your approach to reading?
What does Veeky Forums think of the Witcher series?
Mfw a disgusting STEMcuck tries to talk about literature with me
I am looking for literature (but more philosophy) with following themes
Why are great writers predominantly left-wing?
Hi Veeky Forums
This is the board where I'm gonna find Shakespeare people, right? Listen...
Try to read a book
What went wrong? we can all agree this is the worst list we've ever come up with
William Faulkner
It's fun LARPing as cultural Christians but you guys don't actually believe that wine turns into blood and such, right?
Tfw ywn be involved in an online chat with DFW
This is from one of the most highly regarded """"english"""" poems of the 20th century
Post yfw you realized film was inherently superior to literature
Tom Sawyer invades the last book you've read and messes it up through wordplay
Why is this guy never brought up in any discussion on the Frankfurt School conspiracy theory ("cultural Marxism")...
My mom tried to get me to read this
Poetry is the lowest form of written """"art...
Prose praise general
Old Testament:
Essays are incoherent messes
Describe your writing process
Is Veeky Forums changing the English language?
Has any academic/"intelligent" theologist written about homosexuality...
What sort of date would you take a Veeky Forums girl on?
Did he exist? Or was he invented by Plato?
34 DAYS UNTIL WOMEN AND MEN BY JOSEPH MCELROY DROPS
I want to live as anti-theistically as possible, specifically anti-abrahamic-monotheism
What does Veeky Forums think about my summer reading?
Here it is. The greatest intellectual debate of our time
Heidegger wins
Jordan Peterson BTFO REACTIONARIES on SUICIDE WATCH straight white MAN gets pinnochio DICK shoved up his ASS
Hey everyone
What's the novel with the weirdest plot?
Favourite historians?
I'm interested in arguments for free will...
JP's Self-Authoring
Tfw the reason you want to be a writer is because of your pathological fear of being forgotten...
The day of the Straight White Male author is over
How the hell did this nigga write so much?
Female litizen here. I wouldn't normally disclse my gender but I have to make an announcement. Guys...
Holy shit someone posted this in a dfw hate thread the other day and it's fucking gold
How can I get a deep literature education without going to college?
What, exactly, did they mean by this?
"muh vagina"
Why is this book so hard to read...
The reason poetry is losing prominence in our lives is due to the Information Age
Why does the literature board attract so many leftists?
I heard somewhere (i think it was Zizek) that every nation has an 'unmentionable'...
Tfw tendency to practice my writing when messaging
What are the arguments for worshipping Satan?
>mfw monolinguals can't even grasp the beauty of these verses
Leave Rupi to me
Fuck you Veeky Forums
I'm smarter than everyone around me and feel alienated because I'll never have intellectual peers
This prose from 'Count of Montre Cristo' is horrible though. It's one long run on sentence...
Is all art spectacle? is getting pleasure from reading a bad thing?
New Nick Land article
Is she /ourgirl/?
Your most Veeky Forums lit. critics?
So does anyone else have no idea what the fuck is going on like 65% of the time
What does Veeky Forums think of this New York Times bestseller?
Stop reading fiction
Looking to diversify my thought with some opposition research. Is the Oxford abridged version of Capital worth reading...
Holy SHIT
Is this worth reading in English translation, or is too much of the aesthetic quality lost? Are people like Bloom...
Zizek speaking German
Was the violence just thrown in for the kids to enjoy?
Veeky Forums
Pick six
They speak over 21 languages and im still trying to learn just arabic and german
What's the worst thing you've ever read in your life? Not being ironic, but seriously...
Is Aristotle the ultimate redpill?
All research—and not least that which operates within the range of the central question of Being—is an ontical...
The New Criterion - Right Wing?
Just getting to this guy. he is laughably patrician. how is it possible to be like him? do i need a 200 iq?
No wonder why Veeky Forums has many threads about him
Writers of Veeky Forums
ITT: we post pictures, and others recommend a book that best represents that picture
The world has become a Pynchon novel
What does Veeky Forums think about Bukowski?
How did greek mythology get so specific? Most of it follows simple deification of reality and the elements...
Does Veeky Forums lift?
/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General
Memes Edition
Why is great literature filled with fart jokes and perverse sex?
Christianity is much more atheist than the usual atheism
Name a more intellectually rich novel than this one
What's the oldest book Veeky Forums has? Not the oldest work, I mean literal writen book. Mine is pic related...
Go to
DREAM OF CALIFORNICATION
begins with childhood and youth as a hustler in Boston
Premise #:1
Comic is an often overlooked yet perfectly valid medium still at a very early stage of development
Intelligent
Now that the dust has settle, what is the consensus on this piece of shit?
Write something your mother wouldn't like
Moby Dick
Philosophy died in 1953. Let it go
The Apology
Dream Adaptations
Why has nobody made a film or a (decent) game adaptation yet?
*Blocks your path*
How shit is it going to be Veeky Forums?
What is your favorite character archetype in literature...
Hello sister its me Gregor
Do you prefer first person perspective or third person perspective in literature? What is your reason...
Blood meridian
Prove to me how intelligent you are in 2000 characters or less
People who aren't straight are just confused and repressing memories of early childhood sexual abuse
What book will change my life and make me stop being a beta
Yes, mental illness is on the rise
I'm not looking for struggle. I want someone to tell me how to live my life...
Job
Liberalism general (Libertarians welcome, just please don't be a /pol/ tier brainlet)
Philosophy
What book has the most beautiful ending ever written?
So can I pick this up and read it with very limited knowledge about philosophy?
What do we think about hitch?
Discussing capitalism and communism; the 'socioeconomic myth' and the agendas of materialistic political systems -
I hate this Nietczhzhejehehehzhxxchhee for having such a shitty name I have to constantly use Google to spell
I'm going to drink coffee black for the first time
What books do japanese girls read?
Le everything is relative meme
Who will carry the torch of literature in the West, after the current banner of great writers dies? Pynchon, DeLillo...
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