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Literature

Dedicated to the discussion of literature, books, recs' and members of the Agora Book Club
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Visual Novel Club Suggestions and Meta
Use this thread to make visual novel suggestions, general suggestions, and/or feedback for the Non-Fiction Book Club!sl Visual Novel Suggestion Requirements: For a VN to be considered to be...
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Bible/Theology Club Suggestion and Meta.
Use this thread to make fiction book suggestions, general suggestions, verses/Bible suggestions, and/or feedback for the Bible/Theolgy Club!
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Rollingstart
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Agora Road Writing general
Use this thread to share and discuss your or each other's writings! Please make sure to specify if you would like criticism, it's also helpful to point out what parts of your writing you'd like to...
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Emmy Fitz
Emmy Fitz
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Non-Fiction Book Club Suggestions and Meta
Use this thread to make fiction book suggestions, general suggestions, and/or feedback for the Non-Fiction Book Club!
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Fiction Book Club Suggestions and Meta
Use this thread to make fiction book suggestions, general suggestions, and/or feedback about the Fiction Book Club!
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zalaz alaza
zalaz alaza
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Agora Road Reading Clubs Masterpost (Start Here!)
FAQ What is this? The masterpost for the agora road reading clubs. These are: Fiction, NonFiction, Visual Novels, and Bible/Theology club. There are dedicated threads for reading suggestions for...
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Hello- My friend wrote a Vaporwave novel
Hi all, my buddy Bryan set-out to write a novel that felt like vaporwave. He ended up drifting from it in some ways, to the story's benefit, but I believe he did the genre justice. And if you read...
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Captain
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vale-aroma
What are you currently reading?
Just like the threads we have for music & video games, what books are you currently reading? I'm currently reading Everyday Chaos by Brian Clegg. Kind of a popcorn book, pretty sparse on any...
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IsaiahQuinn54
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Why Sunset Shimmer is a Christ Figure.
Sunset Shimmer is the sun of my life, her smiles glimmers my everyday, her warmth validates my Christianity. Let me explain. All media is derivative from literature, and great literature is...
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スーパー Meidoメイド
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zalaz alaza
The Myth of Sisyphus
Having almost completed reading this fantastic essay on the problem of suicide I am left with one nagging question: Given the increasing possibility that technology will become capable of...
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GothMonk
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Agora Road Book Club: Infinite Jest Edition.
The time has come! Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in America. Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy...
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vect0r
Esotericism and the Occult
Overtime, I've noticed some minor discussion of esoteric/occult related topics on Agora and want to learn more about it. So this thread should serve discussion concerning texts that contain Occult...
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Agora Road Book Club: The Cave Painters Edition.
The Cave Painters is a vivid introduction to the spectacular cave paintings of France and Spain—the individuals who rediscovered them, theories about their origins, their splendor and mystery...
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Agora Road VN Club: Phenomeno Edition.
Download Instructions: A. Go to this website and either 1. pay premium to download the game in one go or 2. Make a folder to put all the parts of the game in, the game will be downloaded in about...
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Agora Road Theology Club: Gospel of Matthew Edition.
Schedule: August 26th to September 4: Matthew 1 to 5. (Expecting the beatitudes to generate a lot of discussion!) September 5 to 12th: Matthew 6 to 15. September 12th to 19th: Matthew 16 to...
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Computer Science/Architecture Textbooks
I've been itching to learn more about CPU architecture and the details of computer hardware for a while now, does anyone have any good textbook recommendations? And while we're at it any other...
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Guru Meditation
Guru Meditation
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Against homo gnostic nonsense 1# Genesis and the Knowledge of Good and Evil
Started writing a response to this thread by @Panasonicdx, and when I was more than half way through I figured out any gnostic in the 21st century is probably a larper at worst and at best just...
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RisingThumb
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Internet Fiction
This is a thread for fiction written about the internet. Stories that are either set on the internet, involve the internet as a major plot point, or are significantly informed by internet culture...
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GhostInTheMachine
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Deluge Visual Novel Review.
I mean, this is a visual novel that includes "threnody" in its title—let me grab a dictionary—what were you expecting? Ah right. "Threnody" is a based way of saying lamentation for death, i.e. an...
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Theology Club Voting #1
Vote for what we should read for the Christianity/theology club! I'm just naming the OP theology club cause it's more streamlined that way. I'm keeping the options here fairly basic since this is...
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Skookumsquitch
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Visual Novel Club Voting #1
Vote for which visual novel you think we should we read! Everyone gets 3 votes. The top options will re-appear for the next voting poll, the rest will be added to a list and re-appear at a later...
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HammerKoopa
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Self publishing short stories/essays, where to begin?
Hello /lit/, I have some questions about publication and I was hoping maybe some of you have some answers. I hate writing books, not sure why but I just do. I love writing essays and short...
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Voicedrew
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Non-Fiction Book Club Voting #1
Vote for which non fiction book you think we should read! As with the fiction voting, everyone has 3 votes, and every vote counts! The top 5 books will return for the next voting round, and if...
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Fiction Book Club Voting #2
All right, the time has come for the revival. Vote for which book you think we have to read. Everyone has 4 votes. The top 5 books will come back for the next voting thread, the rest will go back...
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Emmy Fitz
Emmy Fitz
Internet Articles: substack, legacy media
Creating a 2nd thread to avoid pestering the Short reads one, since that one was initially meant for novels. This is more for cheap reading articles. The main churner of this type of slop is...
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Explicitly Ideological Fiction
Have you read any novels or short stories written by authors that think they know all the answers to society's woes? What is your opinion on fiction with political messaging? Stuff like Altus...
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Vitnira
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Short reads
I read short stories and essays pretty frequently in between/during reading novels or other larger works. The shorter format is in fact my favorite form of literature. I like them because they are...
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Agorapals - what's your take on cyberpunk?
I'm sure this has been done before, if not on /lit/ then at least somewhere else here - but I am an Agoran00b and I can't find it with the search box. So, here goes. Today I reread a couple of...
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How interested would you be in these following clubs?
So basically I'm planning out the book club revival and a way to get more engagement out of the people already in here. I might advertise on some discords, but with the current state of /lit/, the...
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Agora Road Book Club: Confederacy of Dunces Edition
It's been a while hasn't it? Sorry for the delay, rough last month since I moved to a new country, anyways the OP is finally here... Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Inatius Jacques...
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Agora Road Book Club: Blood Meridian Edition
Aww yeah! This is the moment you've been waiting for Agora bros...It's time to read They Rode On, the novel. Blood Meridian or the Evening redness of the West by Cormac Mccarthy. Based on...
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&amp Issue 18 Review
FYI my criticism aren't perfect, I just hope this helps the writers featured on this issue grow in their craft. Because the /lit/ thread certainly didn't provide any. Congrats to everyone who got...
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Sigmund Freud
https://archive.org/details/SigmundFreud/Sigmund%20Freud%20%5B1895%5D%20Studies%20On%20Hysteria%20%28James%20Strachey%20Translation%201955%29/
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RisingThumb
RisingThumb's big book recommendation list
The Big Book Recommendation list I will break this down into primary reading, and further reading. Most of these follow the Western Canon. 1 - The Original Epic Poems 1.1. Reading: Homer, The...
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Steingar
Steingar
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Evangelion: Westside Story
The following link is a fanfiction; a hypothetical continuation of EoE after the events of the Third Impact. Assuming you've read my message in a bottle, you'd realize how dreadfully fearful I am...
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Internet magazines?
Fellows, I want to read every self pub samizdat salt of the earth weird underground internet magazine I can get my grubby hands on. Of course there's this forum's eponymous mag. I'm also aware of...
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zalaz alaza
SNOWCRASH
Between now and April 16, which is when the reading of Anna Karenina is scheduled to end and the next novel begins, I will be reading Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson. I normally read about 20...
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Serf
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Agora Study Beats Thread: Track your progress reading study material
Agora Study Beats Thread Study Books Tracker / Commitment Device Thread to track reading progress in technical books, online tutorials, career or development stuff you need to learn about. I'm...
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WW2 books
This thread is for the discussion of fiction set in the second world war and non-fiction written by historians or people who directly experienced it (first source). Personally, I have read very...
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starbreaker
Vul Lord of the Spiders
Anti-Oedipus and Nick Land
Iv just finished reading Anti-Oedipus and was wondering how tf nick land became a fascist basically im open to any ideas
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Tolkien, New Sincerity and My Little Pony ramblings
Yeah I guess I'm gonna vent out a little. I've been listening to the audio book of Tolkien and the Great War and it's striking how the man managed to write such beautiful poetry in the middle of a...
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ITT discuss disappointing books to avoid
Is there anything more fun than dumping on things you don't like online? Seven Types of Ambiguity - Eliot Perlman I was drawn to the name and cover of this book in an op shop and decided on a...
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Tolkien General
The thread for all things Tolkien, LOTR-related and beyond. Tolkien was a very influential scholar for Old English and Brythonic literature, and was greatly inspired by Norse culture, which is...
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zalaz alaza
Plato's Dialogues
I have recently read through five of Plato's Socratic Dialogues. It was the commonplace collection translated by Grube. These were something I had also read during my time in higher education but...
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Another Name
Another Name
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Cormac McCarthy dead
The greatest living American writer is no longer living. What are your experiences with his work? Are there any passages from them that moved or influenced you in any particular way?
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zalaz alaza
Quest
With the death of Cormac McCarthy yesterday, the same unavoidable fate likely coming for Pynchon soon, and the suicide of DFW in the early millenium, who are we left with? It seems the western...
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WhoGoesThere
Creepypastas: Which are your favourites?
After reading a lot of Robert E Howard/ CS Smith era Weird Tales horror pulp I've begun to realize that a lot of creepypastas and SCPs and Nosleeps and internet horror pieces in general are no...
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Sidewinder91
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Jade
Skullduggery Pleasant
Anyone else ever read this? I found it at the local library as a kid and for years I thought it was some kind of fever dream until I rediscovered it just recently. The spell where as you get...
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Green Grape Tim
Green Grape Tim
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Eggplant by /lit/ author Ogden Nesmer discussion and review.
Spoiler alert: Eggplant isn't actually about Eggplants—Or dick emojis for that matter—what it's about are the hurdles of a struggling artist trying to make sense of her calling in a world where...
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larkinslittlepet
discworld and anything discworld related!
hello everyone! i am a noob but i thought i would just ask has anybody here ever read or encountered terry pratchett's wonderfully strange fantasy series discworld? i have a good portion of the...
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sleepwalker
sleepwalker
Oasisboi
Poetry/verse discussion
Can I get your input on what this could mean to you? context - Havamal Odin's wisdom to the stray singer. Possibly a young skald?? https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/havamal.html
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Taleisin
Taleisin
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