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America has no future.

>>9144706
What did you learn about the two books? Were you paying attention? Can you tell me what the story is about?

>>9144634
>One day she receives a weak batch. Because of that, Madelyn is confronted with sobriety and spends the first half of the day losing her mind. Because of that, Madelyn is faced with the necessity to learn to overcome her problems without drugs.

I don't understand how you're going from A to B to C here.

Be careful what you write about heroin though. It's physically addictive and destroys lives by being so. People don't do heroin to deal with their problems. They do heroin because they're addicted and because if they don't they will feel so bad and scared that they will want to kill themselves.

If that description doesn't fit with your story, choose a different drug.

>>9144939
Legit response, I'll give you that, but I can see from it that you have partial/external info.

I used to shoot up. It's different for everybody. It's not this one thing for everybody everywhere. In this instance the character Madelyn, shoots up and she does often but she's the kind that CAN go without it, although there will be consequences, yet she WILL learn to cope, even if only for the day. Been there done that.

I think it's an interesting story/ dilemma because it confronts personal fetishes and how, when confronted with a situation and our ideologies fail we are forced into acting creatively .

Btw I've been sober for 3 years now.

>>9144985
>Btw I've been sober for 3 years now.

I am glad to hear that. Weed only from now on, bro. It's not the same, but it will never hurt you. Anyway, I think you have complete story as is. Nothing has to happen after she comes upon the good batch of heroin.

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>(for Grownups)

Your friend is sick? Thats awful. I hope she dies and you do too.

>>9144581
>my friend
I guess you could be your own friend, if you're desperate.
You should explain these things a bit more clearly though. Its ok to have no friends anon.

Probably should go to /sffg/ for this but they might laugh at you
I liked the first 2 but heard they really drop off after that
If you want Warhammer books, the Priests of Mars books, Macharius Crusade books and the Helbrect books are all pretty good
Fifteen Hours is also a good standalone
Eisenhorn is good, Ravenor was kinda meh I felt

>>9144468
It is utter trash, but if you are sitting on the toilet, and have had no fiber in a week, and you have a big night ahead of you, there are worse things to read.

>>9144556
lol this.

A study came out showing econ grads know less about economics after graduating than before

Look it up

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>>9144440
Try reading a fucking textbook, you petulant girl.

>>9144444
Can someone with this many fours in his post be right...?

In all honesty though, that's all I do.

My only interests are a vague political science interest, and a tremendous interest in economics and geometry.

>>9144295
>stories

>While many of the texts included have been translated previously, Wilkinson points out that the original translations took place over a hundred years ago, which make them stilted and difficult to read for today's audience.

So

Not new at all

>>9144295
What is the go-to book for Egyptian Mythology, the Book of the Dead? is there a Metamorphoses-equivalent for the Egyptian myths?

>>9143931
I'm sorry anon but this is hot garbage

too many adjectives
you explain shit that doesn't matter, killing any sense of pacing
you're trying to establish the setting, action, and a twist ending in a single paragraph
you can't stay in the same tense to save your life

What's the point of this scene?

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>>9143973
I know it's simple and I'm bad at writing but I just want it to sound passable or neat. I'm just trying to describe something that will scenes for a comic. like what they use to draw out for movie scenes. there's a word for it but I can't think of it. pic related is part of the "house"

>>9143997
>I'm just trying to describe something that will scenes for a comic.

If you're writing that sort of thing you need to be even more succinct, specific, and workmanlike.

It's also not particularly related to /lit/. Try /hm/ for the homework board.

I find the noise of the harmonica and the coughing to be grating. Good effort though, it's cute. They remind me of the cassette on 'Over The Garden Wall'. (this thing https://mondotees.com/products/for-sara-cassette-over-the-garden-wall)

here's a better link https://soundcloud.com/therealglish/sets/for-sara-over-the-garden-wall

Are real men allowed? https://soundcloud.com/longtallandcute/the-marquis-de-sade-excerpt

>>9143740
50 cent lyrics

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This is an excellent book and pretty much what you're looking for.

Freedom Writers?

>>9143639
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnMoUm87QII

>>9143639
TS Eliot reading Prufrock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAO3QTU4PzY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK0izGiL40A

>>9143570
>header
>body
>footnote

Because they know him from his articles which use footnotes. Also, who fucking cares about the difference? Nerd.

>>9143582
damn you are right... im nothing but a dumb nerd...

books for this feel?

I don't listen to audiobooks because I'm not blind or retarded.

>>9143116
dont you have moments when you cannot be looking at something?

>>9142962
He said some stupid things about relativity

>>9142987
I don't know, it seems to me that he pretty much refuted Einstein during their debate.

>>9142833
Read this for college and it's genuinely pretty solid (if a bit corny).

did lines of coke and masturbated his dick for two days straight until he died of a heart attack? How the fuck would i know?

what would keats have done if he hadn't died of the gay plague AIDS