/lit/ - Literature

The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion

I want to be the first person to read this 15,000 page novel in its entirety. Where can I find this book? Has anyone read bits or pieces of it?

Daily reminder to diligently study (not simply read) the Greeks.

Do you know any decent novels about a farmer or group of farmers moving to a techno-futurist metropolis?

can you guys rec me some books similar to slaughterhouse five by kurt vonnegut.

Has anyone read The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin that won the 2015 Hugo award?

general spoilers for anyone who hasn't but plans to

If so, can you explain to me what is so amazingly awe-inspiring about a story in which the protag' invites aliens to destroy the earth, murders her colleagues, and then human efforts to counter the invasion are thwarted by human stupidity and alien technobabble about eleven dimensional, proton-sized computers?

No, really. Why is this book?

I was wondering if this is something common people do or if you prefer reading one book at a time.

I usually just read one at a time and move on to the next or take a break from reading, but at the moment I want to try and clear my backlog of books I have but reading one at a time is not really working out for me and was wondering how people manage multiple books at a time.

what is the literary genre that has dark, gloomy and "evil" themes but instead of inducing fear it creates a sense of comfort. I find comfort in darkness

Does anyone have free sources for this guy's books (can be in French)?

Say, Kyra Kyralina (aka Chira Chiralina), Uncle Anghel, etc. others in the Adrien Zogaffi series of books

or Russia unveiled: 1927-1930 (The Other Flame and Confessions of a Loser), but really all other works.

Maybe also the essay 'the man who adheres to nothing' and other non-literary writings

>While I prefer open-source solutions, if you already have a recent version of MS Office, try loading your PDF directly into MS Word. MS Word now converts PDF files to Word documents amazingly well (another example here). Microsoft refers to this as PDF Reflow, and it has been available since MS Word 2013. Word's PDF Reflow even automatically finds the text in scanned/bitmapped PDFs and uses (quite accurate) optical character recognition (OCR) to convert it to editable text characters in the Word document. Once you have your PDF file in MS Word format, you'll have a lot more capability to manipulate it into other formats and/or form factors. For example, you can use the free e-book management utility, calibre, to convert .docx to epub/mobi, or you could use Writer2ePub, ePub Tools–a Word add-in, or pandoc (cross platform).

Holy shit, this works much better than the standard process with k2opt. Just open the pdf in word, save as docx and then use calibre to convert it to epub or azw3. You can then also edit the table of contents in calibre.

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Post examples of Übermenschs

Hello everybody. We have a book club on Discord, where we'll be reading old and new works relevant to economics and politics, mostly from a libertarian or classical liberal point of view, although we also discuss leftist and fascist works or other classics.

The first two books we'll be reading are John Lockes Second Treatise of Government and Adam Smiths Wealth of Nations, first book. After that, we go on with Bastiat, Ricardo, Ayn Rand, Karl Marx, Rothbard, Eugen Richter, Sumner, Mises and Hayek. That isn't set in stone though, so feel free to propose other works.

No one has to read a particular work or participate in discussion, but we got a few members already, some new ones and some fairly experienced, so we can get discussions started.

Here's the link to discord: https://discord.gg/4MP7WA

If it expires, just let me know, I'll post another one then.

Could somebody give me the names of some decent US history books that begin in the pre-columbian era to around today? I will also appreciate book title's only about Bacon's rebellion, disease, medicine, or a collection of primary sources about anything previously mentioned. Thank you.

Hey /lit/

You ever read a book in which the story is told about a number of independent characters undergoing different challenges interwoven – a chapter on this person, a chapter on that – but as the book draws to a close, it turns out they're all the same person maybe in different times of their life or different perspectives of them?

Did you read something like this?

Can you name it?

Did it suck?

What sucked about it?

Did you feel cheated by it, like the writer was lying to you and you felt all like betrayed n shit?

Does the idea suck?

Would you feel cheated by a story like that?

Wouldya? Wouldya? Wouldya?

Or are you ctrl+c-ing this thread right now and sending the proposal to your agent?

Closest I can think of is Cloud Atlas albeit that's people reincarnating into new eras

At first it may appear as unfinished work but this is because I realized that I can't write the ending for Jesus. The ending will be written by the only person that can write it, thank you Jesus.

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