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An Important Update for /lit/ anon 4/17/25 (Thu) 05:49:51 No.215[Reply]

= N O T I C E =

As of April 16th 2025, any discussion of manga and anime will be outcast from this board. We have at least four boards you can post that stuff too. Out of respect for the users of /lit/ please do not post manga/anime related images unless they have a book edited within the picture (as shown in pic related). Any discussions about manga/anime will be moved to their respective boards. The only Japanese related media that can be posted here is literature. Thank you.

- janny off the payroll.

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Welcome to /lit/... anon 4/17/24 (Wed) 07:56:45 No.33[Reply]

...Wapchan's greatest battleground. Anything relating to the topic of literature can be discussed here; from fiction, to politics, and philosophy—so long as it's civil. Any and all threads shilling an ideology or narrative will be removed. For any erotic literature; it’s allowed, so long as extremely graphic prose is spoilered. This rule also applies to all NSFW images that accompany the thread. Other than that, you can discuss anything you want.

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Audiobook general anon 4/17/25 (Thu) 02:15:39 No.213 [Reply]

What you listening to?

anon 4/17/25 (Thu) 12:40:40 No.217

>>213
I like the Great Courses too my good sir, I'm listening (and watching) to How to Listen and Understand Great Music by Robert Greenberg. I don't like how he spergs out against certain germans and seems to excuse some fucked up Jewish individuals; but otherwise it's very good.
I'm also listening to Journey to the End of the Night by Céline. So far so good, it had its great moments but I have to keep reading. Hopefully it's better than War, it's the only other Céline book I read and I wasn't a fan.

anon 10/22/25 (Wed) 20:01:42 No.342

I'm listening to a lot of horrorbable lately. There is a playlist of short stories that are perfect for the time I spent biking.

anon 10/26/25 (Sun) 02:45:50 No.345

The only audiobook I have to my name is Roadside Picnic, unless you also count recordings of an amateur reading out things like the Enuma Elish, Popul Vuh, and Il Principe (audio rips of YouTube videos).

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The Mundane anon 11/8/24 (Fri) 21:59:23 No.104 [Reply]

To depict the stroad, is to give love to a street. No other man would ever give twice a look to a strip of commercial neon and plastic signage. It's a foreign concept to many. Most would rather read of other worlds made up completely of other beings unlike themselves. And yet reality, the mundane condensed into a flowery mass of prose is a lot more fun to write. It's a lot harder to depict the boring in a creative sense then to write about an alien race zapping a planet to bits or to write about elves and their extremely long pointy ears. It's just how it is. Warping the real into the unknown and foreign is a lot more fun.

At least to me.

anon 11/8/24 (Fri) 22:18:10 No.105

>>104
>just another day of living the masshole life
least i got my dunks

anon 11/28/24 (Thu) 03:00:23 No.106

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When I was a kid, I loved the fantastical, especially science fiction. I would try to impart these stories and tropes into my own life, fictionalizing it as much as I could. As time has passed, that has quite changed: realistic fiction is my bread and butter. I do still enjoy fantasy and science fiction, but nowadays I do my best to attribute even the most abstract, futuristic, alien fantasy stories with elements from my own real life. I find that this has helped me make more sense of both fiction and my own life, though sometimes I feel guilty about the latter. With all of that said, I also find that the stories that offend me the most are stories that match my real life very closely.

anon 10/19/25 (Sun) 05:27:37 No.325

>>104
Oh anon, you'd love Charles Bukowski. He's kind of a chud writer but he writes about this.

anon 10/24/25 (Fri) 08:44:57 No.344

>>325
I dismembered you for recommending me MIDowski.

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ON: THE REAL LIFE OF SEBASTIAN KNIGHT BY VLADIMIR NABOKOV anon 4/25/25 (Fri) 20:49:16 No.266 [Reply]

What a wonderful piece of literature. For his first English novel, he did a fantastic job building his prose around the death of a writer. Everything in this book flows beautifully and every single line is well thought out and greatly coordinated. Great care was taken to make the reader be beside the main character of this story, as if you were following him through his journey to find out more about his brother (Sebastian Knight) and seeing him fit pieces of the puzzle that is his life. The wit is immense and hilariously funny, the ending being one of wit and of sadness. A must read, I highly recommend it.

anon 4/25/25 (Fri) 20:50:33 No.267

>>266
"Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the first -a dull man writing broken English, the second -a broken man writing dull English"

Chichi 6/8/25 (Sun) 16:50:35 No.304

I recently read this book and loved it!

anon 10/21/25 (Tue) 17:28:04 No.337

I recently read Pale Fire and totally fell in love but it also took me a bit to read cause of how dense it was… Do you reckon The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is tougher or lighter?

anon 10/24/25 (Fri) 07:04:47 No.343

Pale Fire is about as dense as it gets–it's certainly produced the most voluminous set of mildly deranged, mildly genius commentary from online Nabokov fans, if that's any indicator.

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Frank Herbert's Dune anon 10/21/25 (Tue) 17:36:05 No.338 [Reply]

I've been on the third book of the Dune series (Children of Dune) and have been kind of slacking through it, despite having blitzed the first two books. Is anyone else reading this series (and if so, can you harass me into finishing this thing so I can move onto God Emperor…)

anon 10/21/25 (Tue) 17:41:29 No.339

cute drawing OP

also just watch the movies lol

anon 10/21/25 (Tue) 19:50:00 No.340

CoD was okay but forgettable for me. The set up for crazy things in God Emperor makes up for it, though YMMV.

anon 10/21/25 (Tue) 20:40:46 No.341

>>339
this

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Cyberpunk lit Julius Deane 8/3/25 (Sun) 12:28:29 No.312 [Reply]

Anyone currently reading any cyberpunk novels? I'm currently reading the first book in the sprawl trilogy: neuromancer. Give your thoughts if you have completed reading them.

anon 8/3/25 (Sun) 19:32:48 No.313

I want to re-read Neuromancer. Some of his shorter stories are great. I really want to try my hand at writing some cyberpunk but its a struggle because I'm bad at fiction.

Julius Deane 8/9/25 (Sat) 17:14:03 No.314

>>313
I think the main way to get better is just to practice, and get people to review your work. And also, I think keeping up to date with various technologies, and their implications could be helpful, you could imagine new technologies and concepts, that others may not have thought about

anon 8/23/25 (Sat) 20:44:59 No.318

Anything by Philip K. Dick. Gibson is extremely mediocre.

anon 8/24/25 (Sun) 00:54:26 No.319

>>318
The appeal of Gibson is more stylistic than anything else. Dick has more challenging and thought provoking things to say.

anon 10/19/25 (Sun) 21:38:44 No.336

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Peep the real shit.

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Do you eat books? anon 5/29/23 (Mon) 00:38:09 No.11 [Reply]

They're pretty delicious.

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anon 9/7/25 (Sun) 11:06:04 No.321

Sometimes.

anon 9/7/25 (Sun) 11:21:18 No.322

I used to eat paper and packets when I was a child. I stopped after I ate a candle and threw up.

anon 9/19/25 (Fri) 09:06:42 No.323

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it makes you smarter

anon 10/19/25 (Sun) 21:19:59 No.334

They're delicious

anon 10/19/25 (Sun) 21:33:06 No.335

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I've only been eating Stephen King novels for the past six weeks. On an unrelated note, I've had non-stop diarrhea for the past six weeks as well. How do I stop this?

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Dissociation Writings anon 6/1/25 (Sun) 22:19:45 No.301 [Reply]

Novels, biographies, short stories, essays, poems, songs even. I would like to read more dissociation stuff. This started when I read Loren Eiseley's "The Brown Wasps" (see attached,) which is on dissociation. It resonated so deeply with me, especially since the climax of that essay is similar to an experience I had some months before me reading the essay. I would like to read more stuff like this. Dissociation is such a wide phenomenon, so please feel free to share anything on the subject.

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Nonfiction anon 4/15/25 (Tue) 14:20:07 No.178 [Reply]

Is there space for nonfiction on /lit/?
Share what you're reading!

I'm currently going through a biography on John Adams (pic related). I'm only at the beginning, but I find him to be a very relatable character, filled with self doubts.
I'm also concurrently reading a biography of Mao Zedong in preparation for the upcoming Chinese Century.

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anon 4/17/25 (Thu) 20:26:07 No.220

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>>209
IMO you should read "A Short History of Man" by the same author instead, if you haven't already; it's almost as good as "Democracy: the God that failed".

anon 10/19/25 (Sun) 01:05:04 No.324

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Going to bat for Bruce Catton's Centennial History of the Civil War trilogy & Army of the Potomac trilogy, and Jamees McPherson's "Battle Cry of Freedom" & "For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War." Some of the best books on the American Civil War you can find. Perfectly break down the conflict and takes a look at the motivations & goals of both sides of the war.

In a similar vain, "Company Aytch" and "All for the Union" are both great books giving the perspectives from common soldiers on both sides of the war.

anon 10/19/25 (Sun) 09:22:52 No.326

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>>179
I always forget I told myself I’d give this a read a while back.
Pic rel is what I’m working through now.

anon 10/19/25 (Sun) 10:31:51 No.327

Anti-Oedipus is legitimately the best book I've ever read.

anon 10/19/25 (Sun) 13:08:08 No.328

>>327
you should really read a thousand plateaus if you haven’t yet. even if you just read nomadology and get back to the rest of it later

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