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What is the best reading order of Sharpe books? Should I start with Tiger (chronologically first), Eagle (the first published) or Rifles (the first in the original series)? Eg I believe Horatio Hornblower series is better to read in publication order due some changes in Hornblowers characterization and continuity.
Also Napoleonic military fiction in general.
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>>9570530
It's been too long since I read Sharpe but I want to recommend Master and Commander.
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Sharpe, Hornblower and Master and Commander are all mom-core books. They are still good, but they are mom books.
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>>9571390
Sorry I'm retarded, what's mom-core?
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Has anyone here actually read this book in its entirety?
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goonan
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>>9570412
Isn't this book small in size and less than 50 pages long?
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>>9570412
goons for goonan.
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/lit/ collaboratively makes a genre fiction story 2017-05-29 09:57:16 Post No.9570338
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Exactly what the thread subject says. Can /lit/ collaboratively decide what genre they want to write a story about and create a semi decent story with good characters, setting, etc.?
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Astronauts get autism from space vaccines and have to work together to collect Sun samples and return to Earth
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>>9570338
Courtly romance in dwarven mining kingdom
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Minecraft fanfiction.
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You will never be successful as an author
You will never be acclaimed as an author
You will never be a great author.
Hell, you will never be a good author.
Just quit while you're ahead. It's pointless.
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>>9570152
joke's on you, I don't want to be an author
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>>9570152
>You will never be successful as an x
>You will never be acclaimed as an x
>You will never be a great x
>Hell, you will never be a good x
>Just quit while you're ahead. It's x
Welcome to 2017
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Hey /lit/ is a service like amazon unlimited a good idea? Unlimited material to read/listen/and look through for $9.99 a month
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>>9570036
Personally I prefer not to pay for stuff I can get for free easily.
mobilism
libgen
bookzz
etc etc etc
t. kindle owner who doesn't pay for ebooks.
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>>9570036
buy a kobo
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>>9570036
Just pirate or use your local library's ebook overdrive or something like project gutenberg. Ive only ever had to buy an ebook once
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Let's discuss self help books lit.
What do you think about them and if you've read any, how did they improve your lives? Is there any merit to them or are they just circlejerking for fools? Let's try to answer these questions in this thread.
Personally, I read a self help book when I'm in a depresive mood, it serves as a pick-me-up even though most of the advice in them is common sense. So you could say I'm reading them strictly as entertainment. I'm going through pic related at the moment and it helps me remind myself that I'm capable in overcoming whatever is happening to me at the moment.
Share your experiences.
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i usually listen to some self-help shit when I need to overcome procrastination, and it usually helps. I go for a walk and listen to some self-help audiobooks and by the time i get back i'm ready to work. Maximum Achievement is quite good, i wish i'd read it when i was younger rather than being an edgelord who thought self-help books were stupid. Getting Things Done by whoever is also a pretty good anti-procrastination motivator, but it doesn't have the over life view of Tracy, but when you got a shitload of work and can't get start listening to some GTD shit can get you moving...
For people that are too uptight to read/listen to self-help stuff I recommend getting the Harvard Business Review guides. They have the same exact shit as self-help books, in fact the time managements ones are almost completely rip-offs of Brian Tracy. Pretty weak that Ivy League B-school professors have to resort to paraphrasing a motivational speaker, but whatever. They do have good ideas for people who are new to management or dealing with corporate organizations for the first time.
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Self-help books, in most cases, are not nearly systematic and rigorous enough to be universally helpful. You glean a few tips if you're lucky, though chances are that if you're reading self-help books, you're struggling too much with the basics to incorporate "pro tips" meaningfully into your life. If self-help books were any good, they would posit both a philosophy of life/work or a science of motivation/success, but rarely do we find anything more than just another contrived wankfest. It's a shame, really.
Then again, if I knew how to get my shit together better than most, I would only want to share part of the secret lest my advice creates too much competition. Some food for thought.
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>>9570107
maybe part of your problem is this belief that you need some kind of spooky "system" to be "universally helpful".
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Foreign books you can't read because there's no translations 2017-05-29 08:18:47 Post No.9569941
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Foreign books you can't read because there's no translations
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Paul Coelestin Ettighofer's Verdun, the Supreme Judgment was the number one selling book during the antebellum third reich.
No translation :(
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bump
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Zapffe's On the tragic. probably a good thing
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does she have any talent? 2017-05-29 08:13:14 Post No.9569916
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does she have any talent? 2017-05-29 08:13:14 Post No.9569916
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or is she a complete hack?
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>>9569916
Some talent, misdirected.
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>>9569916
I don't care what she does she's hot so I like her
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I bet if she encountered the right man she would be a great housewife. But not you, you would probably try to discuss feminist poetry or some other gay shit with her, isn't that so? This sweetie is looking for a man who will just smile at her babbling and tell her "okay, honey, now what about my shirts?"
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Rate my CV. Is there anything you think I should change?
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yes, remove the lines between each section.
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Does gimmicky shit like this actually get you hired or does it exist solely for others to write articles about?
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>>9569914
Looks good to me.
For real though, 'pushed entire human being out of my vagina then kept it alive' is more impressive than most things people put on their CVs.
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Can i read the anaied without ever having read any Greeks before
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>Reading something heavily based on Homer
>without reading Homer
Anon..
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>>9569734
That depends, are you literate?
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The question is why?
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In what category would you put rappers?
Are they also some kind of authors, poets or would you put them in the musician category?
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They are lyricists, at least, the ones without ghostwriters
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And how would you describe their skillset?
Do you think they are skillful wordsmiths who have a born talent to rhyme or is it something many people can achieve?
Obviously, we ignore low iq rappers when we discuss this. kek
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>>9569695
The most successful lyricists tend to have interesting experiences to tell, and good vocabulary, neither of which we are born with. Also, they know how to manipulate their inspirations well
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What does /lit/ think of journalism?
D'Annunzio once said he was "fra le braccia magre del giornalismo" ("in the meager arms of journalism") just to make a living and that journalism is a "miserable daily toil": is there any piece of journalism/journalist of literary value?
Also, and unrelated, can you suggest me English newspapers that are worth reading to be informed AND practice English?
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An important profession.
Can sink in low's and go to height's.
I like Kapuscinski and poetic documentaries.
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majoring in journalism. There can be incredible examples of well written work, but we are in a time of over saturation. Most journalists spend more time on the headline than the actual article itself.
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I worked in a journalists office for a month once and it was a bad experience.
My head supervisor did not write anything, he just got "connected", while I was literally copy pasting articles from the main source or translating foreign articles, amend them, and he would make amendments and sign them by his name.
The only people actually working was a nice old guy who actually wrote his articles, most in there made fun of him, and the technician. The rest spent most hours of the day chatting about nightclubs, facebook etc.
The fact that right below the building shit was actiually going on, people were gathering electronicsand trash in trolleys etc did not help at all.
Bad experience...
I had another job in the evening as a waiter...
I almost got crazy by the contrasts...
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Just finished this.
What did I think?
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Sociology masquerading as economics.
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Even normies will laugh at you for having read this.
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>learning another language doesn't increase your intelig-
>By learning a language, you permanently change structures in your brain. Bilingual brains are measurably different than monolingual brains—certain brain regions are more developed—and recent studies show that you don’t need to be bilingual from birth to show these telltale signs of bilingualism. You just need to learn a language and maintain it; the better you learn it and the longer you maintain it, the more your brain will change.
How does this affect you in your daily life? When you learn a language, you permanently improve your memory—you’ll be able to memorize faster and easier. You’ll multitask better. Bilingual people are better at focusing on tasks and ignoring distractions. They’re more creative. They’re better problem solvers. Bilingual students beat monolinguals in standardized tests of English, math, and science.
All of these advantages—collectively known as the bilingual effect—aren’t the result of natural, inborn intelligence. Most bilinguals never choose to be bilingual; they just happen to grow up in bilingual families. The bilingual effect is a kind of learned intelligence, and by picking up a new language, you get it too.
Why does the bilingual effect exist? There’s a lot of research left to do, but current results point to a particularly peculiar cause: learning a language makes it harder to think.
>When you learn French, you effectively implant a little Frenchman in your head who never shuts up. Even when you’re trying to think in English, he sits in the background, mumbling away in French. There’s no off switch. Tip-of-the-tongue moments: bilinguals get them more frequently than monolinguals, because they have twice as many words to search through. Bilinguals even have a harder time naming simple objects—that’s a table, that’s a cat. While they usually find the words they’re looking for, they take longer to find them, because they’re always wrestling with that mumbling Frenchman.
On the surface, this sounds terrible, like a kind of learned schizophrenia. But your brain adapts. In the process of learning to speak a new language, you necessarily learn to muffle and ignore your native language. You learn to focus in the face of constant linguistic distraction, and as a result, your brain gets better at focusing in general. It’s like walking around with weights attached to your ankles; after a while, your body adapts—you get stronger—and you forget all about them. Language learning is a form of strength training for your brain.
Not only does your brain get stronger, it gets healthier, too. Bilingual brains are more resistant to the wear and tear of age. Studies show a marked delay in the onset of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease for bilinguals. On average, elderly bilinguals will show symptoms of dementia five years later than monolinguals, and if they’ve learned more than two languages, then the effects are even stronger.
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cute slut, shame about the stash
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>>9569347
Nice post
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The voices in my head are getting louder. I think they talk about killing, but on a really large scale.
I'm görman.
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What non-English books are good enough to warrant learning their original language to read the original text?
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>Homer and Sapho for Homeric Greek
>The tragedians for Attic Greek
>The New Testament for Koine Greek
Just learn Greek muh boy.
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Rayuela.
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>>9568794
Proust, Goethe, Sophocles, Homer, Pushkin, Racine, Flaubert, Dante, Schiller, Rilke... there's not really an exhaustible list, anon, all the greats are worth reading in their original language.