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Literature

Dedicated to the discussion of literature, books, recs' and members of the Agora Book Club
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Book Club Suggestions and Meta General
Use this thread to make book suggestions, general suggestions, and/or feedback about the Book Club! I'll also use this thread to make suggestions myself and see what you guys think of them.
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Boxerdog
Boxerdog
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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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ZinRicky
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Agora Road Book Club FAQ and General Schedule
FAQ What is this? A reading group composed by the intellectuals pseuds of Agora Road. What do you do? We read books, fiction or nonfiction, but mostly literature. We have threads open for the...
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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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shinobu
shinobu
vect0r
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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Boxerdog
Boxerdog
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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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Boxerdog
Boxerdog
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
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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Orlando Smooth
Orlando Smooth
LostintheCycle
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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Vitnira
Vitnira
zalaz alaza
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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Brapuccino
Brapuccino
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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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Brapuccino
Brapuccino
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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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zalaz alaza
zalaz alaza
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Agora Road Book Club: Anna Karenina Edition
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Widely considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever written, the story centers on an extramarital affair between Anna and dashing cavalry officer...
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zalaz alaza
zalaz alaza
Titus
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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Taleisin
Taleisin
Steingar
How I fell out of reading Manga, and the ones that got me back into it again
This is a long one, so forgive me in advance. I used to read manga fairly regularly when I was an adolescent. All the usual stuff you'd expect, primarily from the shonen and seinen genre. I was...
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ArsMoriendi
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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Yabba
Yabba
lordofthekinks
Nineteen Eighty-Four
I remember reading it a while back and have forgotten most of it due to ADHD, but some details stayed with me. I didn't realize how sickening the entire story was. even worse, it pales in...
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Yabba
Free Ebooks
Hi, I was wondering if anyone has any ebooks they like , that can be had for free. I recently broke my wrist, and reading a conventional book is practically impossible.
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qwerty
Crying in H Mart
I recently finished this book and had mixed feelings about it. While I think the author is a decent writer, I don't think it quite carries the book. To me, there isn't anything particularly unique...
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Jackal
Jackal
Eden
SCP Foundation
The SCP Foundation is a fictional organization that exists within an online collaborative writing project. SCP stands for Secure, Contain, Protect, and the Foundation's purpose is to secure and...
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Andy Kaufman
Andy Kaufman
half.coffee
Starfish by Peter Watts
Starfish is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 2.5). You love to see it. Full text on rifters.com. Big props to Watts for this. Starfish I don't remember how I found this book. It...
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Always_Arremba
Always_Arremba
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ANIMAL FARM by GEORGE ORWELL [1946]
Thoughts? I finished it for the 3rd time, i really like it personally.
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dorgon
dorgon
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Agora Road Book Club: Empress Theresa Edition
Eighteen-year-old American girl Theresa Elizabeth Sullivan Hartley must take on "the most impossible, burdensome, insane task ever imposed on a human being. Norman Boutin, born October 17th to...
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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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zalaz alaza
zalaz alaza
Jade
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
zalaz alaza
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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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Jade
Jade
Jade
Animorphs
Animorphs is about a group of 5 kids in the mid-90's who meet up at the mall for a day of fun, and, come nightfall, cut through an abandoned construction site to get back to their own...
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Jade
Jade
Fig
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
I'm not sure if any of you guys have this this book, but I have and it WRECKS ME EVERY TIME. I felt like sharing a bit. It's filled with little sayings like the one above. The art is also...
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Fig
Fig
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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llillilll
llillilll
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Agora Road Book Club: Brave New World Edition
BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley. A dystopian novel that examines a futuristic society: The World State, which revolves around science and efficiency, where emotions are conditioned out of the...
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LostintheCycle
Fart Police: A Sociopolitical Analysis
The Amazing Fart Police, is a story which has probably touched us all in some way, whether we choose to admit it or not. This work truly gets down to the bowels of Gregory Heffley's magnificent...
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ECHETLAEUS
ECHETLAEUS
Accursed-Seer
AI Reads A Thing I Wrote
I decided to start writing a mythology of myself. Thought it sounded like a bit of a villains backstory. Thoughts - regarding this, the content, and the future of ai in writing/ audiobooks/...
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Accursed-Seer
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Agora Road Book Club: Fahrenheit 451 edition.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never...
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dorgon
dorgon
LOB
Just finished Between Two Fires (Christopher Buehlman)
And I cannot recommend it enough. If you have any sort of interest in the darker side of religion, Lovecraft, or the esoteric then this is essential reading. Without ruining too much, the story...
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Radical
Radical
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    Fight using guerilla war tactics
  • Mew:
    i hereby declare war on the united states under mewtopian law
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    Reichesburger members declare their homes as independent states from the Deutsche government and use that as a justification for not paying taxes
  • Pangolin:
    tax haven of ooksteinberg with a population of 17
  • Jackal:
    vect0r said:
    Fight using guerilla war tactics
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    Me rn playing xcom 2
  • vect0r:
    Does anyone in containment chat play Hoi4?
  • sleepwalker:
    I wish
  • sleepwalker:
    All my friends who've played it told me not to
  • vect0r:
    What were the reasons?
  • sleepwalker:
    That 1 they'd never see me again
  • sleepwalker:
    2 the people and the game are batshit
  • sleepwalker:
    3 HoI4 players are like subhuman
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    ye
  • vect0r:
    That's a bit silly
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    It's just a game
  • Pangolin:
    DINKLEBERG
  • sleepwalker:
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    But with HoI4 and Ark
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    DINKLEBERG MAKDE MY CODE NOT COMPILE AHHH
  • sleepwalker:
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  • Drifloon:
    vect0r said:
    Does anyone in containment chat play Hoi4?
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    I play it quite often.
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    Drifloon: Does anyone in containment chat play Hoi4? I play it quite often. +1