Board: /lit/
"/lit/ - Literature" is 4chan's board for the discussion of books, authors, and literature.
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Guide to #bookz
https://www.geocities.ws/prissy_90/Media/Texts/BookzHelp19kb.htm
Recommended Literature
https://lit.trainroll.xyz/wiki/Recommended_Reading "Meet The Author" edition
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Please limit excerpts to one post.
Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.
Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.
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Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.
(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)
Simple guides on writing:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHdzv1NfZRM
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whPnobbck9s
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAKcbvioxFk
Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVEDiC96lIA >God is infinitely good
>btw god can redefine good whenever he wants
ok so why should i care >Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs)
https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb
>Archive
https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg
>Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg
Previous thread >>24226332 What's actually wrong about a strawman argument if it demonstrates a point? Where does /lit/ stand on the consciousness debate? 
The original thread got archived: >>24225083
I'm not yodo, but—as of this thread's being made—there are still just under 18 hours left submit an entry, so I'm taking the initiative and doing a hasty bake until yodo returns:
>>24226775
Theme Requirement:
The work must critique or celebrate the resilience of the human spirit.
Character Requirement:
The work must feature a character who is a fugitive or prisoner.
You have until Monday 3rd March 23:59 Greenwich Mean Time to post your submission.
Remember, post your submission in the comments with a trip:
In the name section of the comment type:
[wanted name] + # + [your pin]
and that will give your green wanted name followed by the exclamation mark and random numbers.
Submit your piece through rentry.co. Easy to read. Pastebin looks gross. Reply with a link to your story. Use rentry to change name of story to make link the name of story.
No word limit but you anything past 2,500 words will start to drag.
00:10 GMT Tuesday I will post the link to the Poll.
You will then have until Friday 7th March 11:59 to read, GIVE FEEDBACK, and vote!
Good luck everyone. Post, rate, critique, discuss. My personal favorite is gregory markopoulos :) Looking for books with gigantic living creatures that fuck shit up. Kaiju/Eldritch horrors/big worms and stuff like that. What do you make of the arguments in this book?
Please only comment if you actually have read it. I bought this on a whim for one dollar and I haven't read it, but what should I think about it? stoic edition
ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_Page
Blog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/
Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/
So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/
Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/
SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdy
General search: http://searcherr.work/
TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chapters
old: >>24226324 >the byzantine empire belongs to the same civilization as the jewish and islamic cultures
was he right? if so, why? Every single statement written in this book is BASED what are the best books on urbanism?
i only ask because they're usually pretty expensive so i don't want to waste money in honor of women's history month, post your favorite books written by women Εἰς τὴν Θησηΐδα edition
>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·
>>24193459
>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·
https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw
>Mέγα τὸ ANE·
https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg
>Work in progress FAQ
https://rentry dot co/n8nrko
All Classical languages are welcome. Once my book that I worked on for three years comes out on Amazon, everything will be alright. Is the Klinger or Baring-Gould annotated edition of Sherlock Holmes better? >Everyone is pdf file or incestual
Did Gabriel García Márquez ever receive flack for this? What are some other books besides this one that demonstrate the non-European origins of Abrahamic religions? I've got a massive idea. It could be an instant classic. Meanwhile, my balls stink. Damn, my idea is just so fucking multifaceted and layered and fuck like it's future Nobel Prize winner type stuff. I get mania just thinking about it. But it's going to take years. I don't know if I'm even ready to start on it. Assuming I am being unironic (which I am) what are your thoughts? Do you think I could pull it off or do you have similar ambitions or ideas? It's gonna blow everything else before it out of the water. So where and how do you read /lit/? Do you have a comfy chair?
pic is not mine, but I want to get a comfy reading chair or something because currently i just read lying on a yoga mat on the floor of my bedroom >to be a poet is to condense
gem or coal? >THE RUSTED CHAINS OF PRISON MOONS ARE SHATTERED BY THE SUN >There's no gay or trans characters.
>No lectures on slavery or cultural appropriation.
>The comedy is actually funny again.
>Rick added a bratty Loli who de-ages people and gets off to it
Holy shit. Has his writing finally become good again? What's the most brutal depiction of war and combat you've ever read? Preferably non fiction and from a recent (post 1900) conflict than not. I know it's one of those things where you won't really understand it until you experience it but I'm still curious what it's like. What is the best translation of the Brothers Karamazov in English?
I've read it in a slavic language but all the new editions in it look extremely ugly plus I accepted that my kids will not be speaking my ooga booga native language so I might as well get used to reading my favorite books in English. Pic related might be what I'm going for, it has the least offensive cover. I am a deeply miserable man, my greatest sin is sloth and inaction. I am also hopeless with women. Give me lits with a strong protagonist, with nietszchean ideals, less flowery spiritual stuff and more WILL to power. I am new to reading fiction as an adult Share a quote from something you have written, it can anything you want. I'll start-
>"If God is Omnipotent, He is therefor Impotent, for by virtue of both being and having done everything, He can do nothing else." All right guys which version/translation of Plutarch's Lives do I read? There are one or two complete editions but the prevailing opinion appears to be that they are old, while the Jews at Penguin offered revised translations but decided to slice the thing into 6 (SIX) fucking books. Oxford had a go with 3 volumes but omitted some biographies. What the FUCK do I do Is this the height of Scottish lit? What do good-looking people read? Any solid Werewolf novels? Merry and Pippin are carrying the Ring edition, just for a thought experiment. I know it makes no narrative sense.
>How would the story go if these two had to carry the ring? >Who would be the ring-bearer, and who would be the guide?
For me, it's ring-bearer Peregrin and Meriadoc the guide. Pippin has an innate resistance to domination, given he was able to withstand Sauron's gaze after looking into the Palantir. Merry would be an excellent guide, given he knows his way around forests and trails. I think he ends up being a cartographer after the events of LOTR canonically, so it only makes sense. 1. Whatever is prior is so in space and time.
2. Whatever is transcendent cannot be in space and time.
3. Therefore, whatever is transcendent cannot be prior.
4. The One is transcendent.
5. If the One is transcendent, then it cannot be prior.
6. If the One cannot be prior, it cannot be prior to the Many.
7. Therefore, the One is not prior to the Many. My dear friends in Christ, lately the enemies of the Catholic Church have started to attack the teaching of hell's eternity. Various heretics such as David Bentley Hart and his followers are promoting the impious doctrine of universal salvation and they claim this to be evident from the biblical greek terms. What is our response? 
I'm new at this, but I've seen some numbers regarding traditional book sales that are utterly pathetic. Only the top 5% of books make enough to live on, and the rest don't sell more than 1000 copies (with most never breaking 100). At approx. 10% royalties - if you even manage to negotiate that - you're basically earning pennies, and no one will ever see or interacts with your work. Big publishers get help from donors, gov grants, or make a static profit off reprint sales of classics. Not even a skilled, popular author can hope to break into that top percentage with all of the best resources and marketing campaigns, so what hope does some unpublished mook have?
So, I've decided that I want to start a substack and connect it with a youtube channel and other socials, but don't know where to begin otherwise. Do any of you have tips? If you follow any substacks, what qualities do you enjoy on your favorite pages?
A bit about me: I write mostly in speculative science fiction and horror that explores metaphysics and philosophy. From what I've seen of Substack so far, its mostly filled with non-fiction writers sporting tumorous, politically pustulating egos - people who write about how they sucked at playing sportball in their shitty midwestern town, or communities of eco-activist hacks that think their shitty little blog is going to "change da worl" instead of using it to market themselves. Is there a community of people interested in the things that I'm writing? About 100 pages in last I checked. Some decently written depictions of anxiety. The opening isn't bad, but beyond that, it feels cringeworthy and try-hard. The whole doctor depression chapter fell totally flat. I'll keep going, though, because 'it gets good at page 250 trust.' But so far I am unimpressed. so did any of you retards actually READ her dissertation or do you just seethe whenever a woman does anything other than squirt out babies? The beauty and majesty of the Quran being a sign of its divine origin lends credibility to my belief that Martin Ling’s, may Allah be pleased with him, biography of Rasulullah, peace be upon him, is divinely inspired for the same reasons. Therefore the contents of the book should be considered by all Muslims to be an authentic and entirely true account. Rejecting this book is on the level of rejecting the scripture, which is kufr.
Are you a rejector, or an acceptor? The masculine fantasy is "What if a woman cared about me?" and "What if a woman didn't sleep with 500 people while I was away?" >Angelic Doctor edition
Welcome to Traditional Catholic General. Post favourite Catholic works, thoughts on doctrine, or anything tied to the one true Church, her philosophy, or her history.
Favourite saint's biography or Catholic-themed work? Let’s hear it.
Struggling with a theological question? Share your thoughts, and maybe some high IQ anon can answer (or at least has a relevant papal encyclical to drop).
Latin Mass enthusiasts, pre-Vatican II liturgical gems, or reflections on the one true Church of Catholic spirituality? Bring it here.
Remember: this is not fedora bloodsports general.
previous >>24221453 >I’m not a machine. I feel and believe. I have opinions...I’m not just a creatus, manufactured, conditioned, bred for a function...
>Please don’t think I don’t care. 320 pages in. 40s speud scene seems to be the focal point. Very funny and very educational. I expect characters will be expanded upon in episodes like in IJ. Been reading kind of slowly, I aim to pick up pace, though I often stop to check the annotations site to get his references. I'm interested to see where it'll go. What book you read that brought you to the edge of sanity? Like a philosophy book that made you question everything or a fictional book that was very intense. If more people got their needs met, would we have a contemporary Shakespeare?
A big problem today is that there is no audience for literature. Everyone spends their money on drugs and opulence and cars and expensive food and phones, rather than soul nourishment. Books. 
Why are we starting with the Greeks, if the Greeks with the exception of Aristotle (through Boethius’ translation) were pretty much forgotten in the West, and the Greeks only came to be widely read in the 17th century? Dante didn’t know Greek, never read Homer nor Plato (except fragments of Timaeus through Cicero’s translation) nor Aeschylus, and all his knowledge of them came indirectly through mentions or summaries in Latin sources.
If we want to read through the Western canon, we should really be starting with the Romans, and read Aristotle in conjunction with the Scholastics, before reading the Greeks at that moment when everyone else did.
>b-but the Greeks are constantly mentioned and referenced and should be read first!
But virtually nobody in the West read the Greeks directly. It was all through secondary sources. People would read the Aeneid, and would’ve known the events of the Trojan War, but never actually read Homer, hence why they viewed the Trojans as the good guys and why there is a pro-Trojan bias in medieval literature. 
We've gathered here today to discuss the best way to go about reading non-fiction books on subjects such as history, politics, literary theory, sociology, etc.
There has to be a good way to read through a substantial amount of books on these topics without devoting one's entire life to that goal. I've often come across the idea that professional historians and the like do not read books cover to cover and rather go over select chapters or passages, but I have no idea how approach selecting these and how to fit the knowledge I gain from those in a larger framework that will make it secure and I won't just forget it in a week. I've seen a lot of things on reddit, but surely we can do better.
Obviously, I'm not talking mechanical memorization of facts - I want to optimize understanding the subjects so that I can cover the most ground in the least amount of time without overwhelming myself. After that it will be easy to delve into specifics that interest me most.
I purposefully do not mention philosophy and religious studies, because it seems to me that the best way to study these will not be the best way to study and understand what i mentioned above.
inb4
>you're autistic
perhaps The new GPT does Wodehouse better than Wodehouse.
"novice lion-tamer discovering the whip was made of blancmange" is exceptional. 
I'm often in awe at billions of anonymous men who have gone through history, with lives and dreams, desires, loves and failures and sufferings as real as our own, yet they are totally faceless in anonymity. The only thing that remains from this multitude is maybe a mystical juice squeezed by the historical impersonal press. That juice remains present through their works and in their descendants but ultimately it is awe-inspiring to realize that at any point in history millions of people just like you and me were alive with their own dreams and plans and everything was as real and particular to them as it is to us. I'm often dumbfounded by this realization not because of how obvious it is but the sheer scope of it is in some sense overwhelming, the unrecorded faceless lives of millions of individuals who have all contributed to the present moment. When I arrive at certain locations, that is my first thought, especially in travel to unfamiliar places: that millions of people nobody knows have contributed to this culture, these buildings and the people who walk these streets today. I know I sound like a lunatic but this stuff is crazy to me, when I see a person walking down the seafront promenade, I experience a rather odd feeling comparable to nostalgia, except those memories don't exist in my head. I think of who walked here hundreds of years ago watching the same sunset, where did they come from, what their hopes were, what did they struggle with, who was their love, which building they lived in then and how they might have impacted, in their own miniscule way, someone who is walking this same promenade today. Are there any books with similar themes who explore this sort of feeling? Moby Dick
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24187191
The Jungle Book
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24195754
Pride & Prejudice
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24199009
Kidnapped
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24204174
The Three Musketeers
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24206533
Northanger Abbey
>>24214494
The Iliad
>>24216980
>>24217205
The Odyssey
>>24219805
>>24220123 >use Chat GPT to write a book in ~30 seconds
>use AI to create an attractive cover
>self-publish on Amazon
>pay for a botnet to spam 5 star reviews
Did I just solve writing as a way to earn money? How do you incorporate AI into your writing process? Is AI getting better at writing? My company is working on a fleet of AI writing agents, to be released later this month. These are the first agents to be sent into the digital wild with the following purpose: Write and post as much content as possible, across as many platforms as possible, to maximize profit. We plan to publish in every genre and on every publishing platform we can find, across a wide range of languages, and we plan to steadily grow our fleet over the course of the year. What are the best ways to maximize our AI's reach? We want to saturate as much of the writing market as fast as possible to ensure durable lock-in, as we expect competitors to attempt a similar strategy soon. Magic realism, references to telepathy and other paranormal events, synchronicities etc
Books that opened your mind to things beyond material reality
Bonus points for schizophrenic vibe + set in modern world >incel chud revenge porn
>written by a f*male
explain this Will this fat fuck EVER finish his series? Which books would you read to your children if you were graced with one or more? I'm retarded, how do I become an autodidact? You'll hear people say a movie is
>so bad its good!
But you'll never hear someone say this about a book. Why? Name a good novel that has zero (0) human characters. >feminist literature exists
>Masculinist literature does not exist
Why not? Where the fuck is my Handmaid's Tale for scrotes, y'all? It's been a while. Post history books
Previous thread: >>24046828 >Former soldier
>Put my name down for everything I could
>Tried to get sent to interesting places and combat zones
>Just kind of didn't happen
>Home now
>Friends don't take me seriously, barely even register that I was ever "in"
>Watching something about Afghanistan
>Yeah, these people were a cut above anons level, cut from a different breed to you
>Could see anon sitting around driving drones from the back
>Mfw
>This shit is for the rest of my life now
Are there any books like this? Preferably Russian. I remember being packed and ready, sitting by the front gate of camp, ready to go, then getting stood down at the very last second. Can't say I ever did anything and don't want to lie about it. >Mathematicians 2000 years ago
>Discover that rational entities combined together will never be able to describe entirely real entities
>Literary people and philosophers 2000 years later
>Still worship words
Ok retards >a coworker adds me on GoodReads
>go through his profile
>Currently Reading: 4 Books
What? How? any good stuff published in the last 10 years? As a writer are you more alt-lit, indie sleaze, or fagscist? Did Harris peak with this book or are his other books just as good? I would be interested in reading Hannibal Rising This book is dope.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Here_Now_%28book%29 The past keeps growing in stature because those masters built something foundational, something that deepens with time. Meanwhile, the present keeps diluting itself, chasing surface level novelty rather than structural or conceptual depth
Their tricks, their formulas, their limitations. They’re working within tiny conceptual boxes, polishing them, dressing them up, but not expanding them. And because of that, the gulf between the past and the present only widens. The old masters weren’t just better musicians; they were better thinkers, better listeners, better architects of sound.
It’s not even nostalgia, it’s just reality. The new guard isn’t pushing forward, they’re streamlining, simplifying, branding. The result? Music that looks and sounds polished but lacks that undeniable weight, that deep intelligence, that terrifying freedom what does everyone think of absurdism? is sincerity madness? Why do authors sound like anime villains when they talk? No normal human being, or actually smart person, talks like this. I really enjoyed this despite it being an edgy soap opera replete with colonial clichés and British ''humor''. I like how self-absorbed and unapologetically lurid it feels. Is the Avignon series worth a read? Anything else like it? In trying a paragraph to list out the aspects for an acronym, I'm at a loss on how to do so well, so I'm looking to /lit/ for some feedback.What I have currently roughly follows this format:
>In summary, X.X.X.X.X. contains X things that do blah blah blah. The "X" means Xylophone; The "X" means Xtreme; The "X" means Xenoverse...
How would you write it better and are there any literary examples that come to mind which showcase this? Why is it that in other arts (specifically music), being prolific is seen as very positive (Mozart, Prince, etc) but in writing, its seen as a bad thing? I can only think of a handful of impactful writers who remained consistently prolific throughout their careers (Henry James, John Updike, and William Faulkner to some extent) but from what I can see, the majority of writers only produced three or four good works. Genre fiction writers are known for pumping out garbage at an incredible rate (Brandon Sanderson), but again the focus is on sales. Joyce only published four novels in his entire life and he's seen as one of the greatest. I'm making the worldbuilding of my harem isekai novel.
So far I have from the divine source of everything up to the first 12 mothers of all the chicuelas races, from which each other mother of each race is born.
The end goal is to make both IRL races to appear and also the anime only girl races like green or pink or blue hair. Is this a good place to start with Warhammer? do you guys read out loud or silently? >author puts main character through humiliation ritual How old was you when you realised the Trojans were the good guys and Agamemnon was just seething? >read Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist, and Ulysses right after each other
>want to read something lighter before starting Finnegan's Wake
>try reading a bunch of books
>realize how shit the prose is in comparison to Joyce and how boring they all seem What some -alive- contemporary continental philosophers that are worth to read? I only know Nick Land. does anyone have a pdf of this in color? every copy I find is in B&W Most people think faith is a kind of uncertain belief, but in classical times, it was actually a certainty stronger than belief.
No religion really addresses this fact anymore, they've all defected to the modern, pseudo-atheistic interpretation of "faith".
This becomes even more evident when you look into theology: it's all a bunch of gobbledygook philosophy to explain the unexplainable, which clearly has sophistic tendencies, because it doesn't address what faith really is (NOT philosophy).
My question is: has anyone ever written on this kind of religiosity that is against reason, against intellect, against philosophy and embraces exclusively intuition? Necessary Book of the New Sun thread Uncle Ted's problem was really that he was an Amerimutt raised to believe that individuality, freedom, and personal autonomy were the natural state of man. They're not, and almost nobody thought so before the late 1700s. Majority of humanity prior to then were serfs, peasants, and slaves whose fates were ultimately decided by a small handful of nobles, monarchs, priests, wealthy merchants, and warlords. If anything, Industrial Revolution accelerated universal suffeage.
Kaczynski was just fighting a straw man his schizo brain came up with. 
Hell's Heroes is the 10th and final book in The Demonata series, beeing published on the 1st of October 2009, its title beeing confirmed in Darren Shans's personal blog and his newsletter called Shanville Monthly. It is set six months after the previous entry, Dark Calling and for the grand finale, the narrators role is once again passed to Grubbitsch "Grubbs" Grady.
I am quite thankfull, that we can finish this journey together, it had its highs and it had its lows and arguably both of them in the previous entry, for our characters particularly that is. As allies died, secrets were unvealed, trust was broken, power was gained and hope was lost and not only life in it, but the universe itself is at stake - let us head once again in the bizarre, horrid and fantastic universe of the demonata series.
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>>24210249
Lord Loss I:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24004762/
Lord Loss II:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24017568/
Demon Thief I:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24021566/
Demon Thief II:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24032763/
Slawter I:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24044135/
Slawter II:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24054879/
Bec I:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24070921/
Bec II:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24078640/
Blood Beast I:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24105357/
Blood Beast II:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24125737
Midpoint Reflection:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24128471/
Demon Apocalypse I:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24133399/
Demon Apocalypse II:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24145170/
Death's Shadow I:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24157096/
Death's Shadow II:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24167000/
Wolf Island I:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24185914/
Dark Calling I:
https://www.archived.moe/lit/thread/24210249/ do you really understand what you read, at a deep level, specially philosophy? or is it just mostly posturing and repeating stuff like a human-LLM?
i feel like i never really learned anything in my whole education, i can read "complicated" books and get something from them but i don't really have the environment to discuss it and become really cultivated. can we save anything from the dead civilization that came before our time, or is everything lost? >female protagonist
I shan't be reading. What is Lit's opinion of Stephen King? >They rode through regions of particolored stone upthrust in ragged kerfs and shelves of traprock reared in faults and anticlines curved back upon themselves and broken off like stumps of great stone treeboles and stones the lightning had clove open, seeps exploding in steam in some old storm. They rode past trapdykes of brown rock running down the narrow chines of the ridges and onto the plain like the ruin of old walls, such auguries everywhere of the hand of man before man was or any living thing.
What did you just say? Coming up to a big chunk of French literature on my reading list. I’m wondering whether it’s worth taking a couple of months to learn to read French or whether I should just read translations? >Gandhi admitted in an interview that he had no real followers, no disciples
How common is this, to have people who profess your philosophy but do not live by it? How can this be fixed? If you're not a woman do you have no chance to get published? Is this French pixie-turned-goblin worth it? He's popping up everywhere now because of the subject matter but I don't care about that or the plot. I only care about his prose, themes, and the emotional or intellectual aftertaste. To be clear, I already dislike his general aesthetic, but as a younger man, though not my personal taste, he was okay. Hello everyone!
I have a book signing event at the Flintridge Bookstore in Los Angeles county!
If anyone is in the area, feel free to stop by this Sunday at 4 PM!
I will be talking with another author about identity and apocalypses! Everyone talks about Moby Dick and his stories, but what about his other novels? >Your favourite Jane Austen novel
>Why man lit was cookin during this time period Why did this series never catch on the way Harry Potter did? Was it the ugly cover? >Predicts and lays out all the problems with socialism, almost prophetically
>40 years after he dies a bunch of dumb retarded niggers still fall for it
>In doing so, they merely reinforce all of his points, especially the one about the irrationality of man
Imagine having a worldview so based it only gets even more reinforced after you die. What are some entertaining books about cattle ranching, rustling, raiding, etc.
Fiction or non-fiction.
Doesn’t have to be a western, I’m interested in any time period or setting.
Doesn’t have to be violent either, can just be about a dude raising ‘stock on his homestead.
Just want to self-insert as a cattleman. il/lit/erates who haven't read the romance of the three kingdoms, guess who wins 
Linguistics
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23963282
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23963580
Joyce
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23967383
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23967536
Heidegger
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23970957
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23971190
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23971395
Shakespeare
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23976384
Political Philosophy
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23980395
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23980715
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23981045
Evolutionary Psychology
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23984976
Alain Badiou
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23991816
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23992167
Cultural Studies
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23996615
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23996769
Baudrillard
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24006092
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24006399
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24006661
Lévi-Strauss
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24010099
Plato
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24014118
Mind & Brain
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24024995
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24025284
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24025900
Continental Philosophy
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24036313
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24036589
Machiavelli
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24041204
Derrida
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24051975
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24052126
Sociology
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24056405
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24056598
Hegel
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24057260
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24057571
Slavoj Žižek
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24060920
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24061273
Ethics
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24068203
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24068386
Psychology
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24073107
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24073313
Capitali$m
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24078008
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24078230
Romanticism
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24092207
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24092416
Infinity
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24098178
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24098553
Postmodernism
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24106762
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24106995
Bertrand Russell
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24112669
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24112930
Aristotle
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24117803
Existentialism
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24129694
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24129860
Logic
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24134516
The Universe
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24146741
Barthes
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24164224
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24164447
Nietzsche
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24169399
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24169588
Philosophy
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24177233
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24177425
Wittgenstein
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24182946
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24183103
Descartes
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24187432
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24187558
Anthropology
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24195862
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24196036 In the 17th century Francis Bacon was considered the greatest orator and prose writer in the history of the English language. How do his works hold up today? Has anyone surpassed him? Just read the text or get a study bible that explains what it means? Any good audio teaching editions? Recently got into poetry and I'm enjoying it more than I thought I would. Currently reading Robert Frost's New Hampshire because I remember one of my school teachers in elementary school reading on of his poems to us.
Any suggestions on which collection of poems I should buy? Maybe one that features different poets? Already have pic related on my cart as I saw some anon recommend it. how is your 2025 reading challenge coming along? ITT: post "left-wing" authors/philosophers who are secretly reactionaries post your work.
either
>write a story based on this image
or
>copy/paste your most recently written excerpt
or
>copy/paste a favorite of your excerpts
or
>just write whatever
read others, share feedback, etc. How od you get started with picrel? I've heard his books are pretty inpenetrable for a layman in human biology. i read this shit and the guy was talmbout if i agree with a practical book that it implies i must take the action of that book's teachings or some shit... like nigga wtf? u aint my dad first of all and i aint gotta do shit... honestly this book kinda fell off and needs to be patched out, the teaching is mad antiquated, like dudes just yappin and bein mad dictatorial about "the right way to read a book" and shit; fucc outta here with that noise, it's just some words on a page man it aint that deep... nigga really be sayin "You Must" over 100 times throughout the book CHILL unc CHILL
i be like i guess that shits true... but i still aint doin it, lmao wtf wrong with me or am i smarter than the book?? also ong i dont know when i'd ever read a non-fiction book in my life so all that shit about reading 'expository' works was doo-doo; i'm just tryna read them classics -- western cannon type shit So I have a friend who happen to be black but all she ever reads is white literature and only ever talks about white history and even music she just listens to classical. Not saying she needs to listen to rap but at least try jazz. It would be one thing if she had white people in her family but she doesn’t and it’s clear to everyone she is trying to be something she’s not, she dresses conspicuously white and talks conspicuously white and clearly LARP’s as white. So I want to show her that she can still be black and love reading by getting her some great books by black authors or even books by white authors about black history or culture
Please help a fellow out. Just finished Warlock and now I’m looking for a specific recommendation. I already plan on reading the next two books in the series but I want to know if there’s something like a classic western but set in Appalachia/east coast with frontiersman and “forest Indians”. Any recs would be appreciated, also just other good westerns that aren’t blood meridian or Flashman Books on "him" which explain the process of his formation not written by gnostic or schizomage mentally ill grifters?
It's basically impossible to find anything not written by Terrrypilled magic-circles-in-their-basemnt, "click here to learn how to cast powerful spells for financial success" nutcases.
I just want to understand how the Egyptian intellectuals/priests of Toth managed to preserve one figure out of their dying religion by Hellenizing him. Never forget what the capitalists and rightwingers took from us. So Did Uncle Fritz not just believe that truth doesn't exist, which would have made his philosophy circular, but instead think that one must reject the idea of truth entirely?
So instead of saying:
>there is no truth
He says:
>I don't care about the truth
Is that about right? Has anyone else on this board got into writing purely because they were bad at art/drawing or I'm the only one? This is terrible and great at the same time, it is terrible and great on the same page, or even in the same paragraph. >girl I know reads Plutarch as a guide to how to be virtuous
>explain to her that Plutarch wrote for men and all his lives are men
>so?
>you’re not a man
>and I suppose you are?
>yeah
>care to prove it? I’m kinda skeptical
Holy shit why do women get so defensive about the fact that they’re women? If you had to pick a modern English Bible translation, which one would it be? Why didn't 'moreness' take off as a word?
>The moreness of Christ's virtues are not measured by worldly moreness.
— Wyckliffe 
To reduce option/decision paralysis I made a book queue/schedule thing. I also like to update and move the books around when I feel I am more interested in something in particular, so I can track my interests more specifically. Has anyone done this? And if so, what do you recommend?
At the beginning I was reading a different category every day, but my brain got tired, so I then went with 5 books per week, then 4, and now I just have 3 at the time, the non fiction one, the fiction one, and the poetry one. I also had a fixed weekends fiction and weekdays nonfiction plus one poem a day schedule I had before but it was too rigid and now I just read each category every other 2 days.
In a way it makes me realize I am very stupid because I cant read all what I want at the pace I want it. Is there anything you would suggest to help satiate that feeling of "wanting to read everything at once" but in a more practical manner?
Also, if you have any books you would recommend me, I can add them up.
The captcha answer for this post is PYH2J. It was good, unexpected, less Remarque more Apollinaire, a welcome surprise, if somebody were interested in reading Celine it'd be a good place to start, quick, easy, accessible, funny, gives a good impression of what to expect from his work. you are basically uneducated. This would have been the standard not even that many years ago. Now people use AI to simplify Eric Carl books. In a few generations, all of these books will be too difficult for even the smartest Harvard graduates to read even a page of. Ceramic eyes of cobalt blue. Clay Golems moving arcanely or like muscle marionettes on tendinous strings. The mind's a puppeteer. Or a sorcerer whose words are spells. These yarns my incantations. Nothing is written in stone. Most certainly false. Ask any undertaker. Civilisation too will rise from the ruins of its own tombstone. Watched over by a clay Mother Mary, crying crimson red from ceramic eyes of cobalt blue. Doesn't it all crumble and tumble and doesn't it come again, recycled, reimagined, remembered in some arcane way? Like ceramic eyes of cobalt blue shifting within their sockets, gyroscopically watching, their pupils pinpoints, black as every core. His only mistake was being intellectually honest. The optimal strategy for the metagame of human social relations is to be a rational egoist while pretending not to be. 
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