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>>9068843
that like just the first chapter

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>>9068871
you only got through the first chapter, you meant

Stoner
Pnin
Darconville's Cat
White Noise
Are all top tier

>>9068768
Edith Templeton

>>9068768
Fanfiction.

>tfw can only fap to hentai any more

Snow country

>>9068722
Some comfy russian /lit/

>>9068722
War and Peace

>he's worried his 13 year could be smarter than him

Just realized I didn't write the name of the system: lexile.

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>>9068519
Haha: not exactly.
I'm worried that this score is ONLY about reading ability, not content or age appropriate material, and my kid will spend hours joylessly reading a book that hhe isn't old enough to appreciate, when he could be voyaging with Long John Silver, or adventuring in India with Kim.
Enjoyment is extremely important!

>>9068452
>cultural marxism

>>>/pol/

shoo shoo. you're using words you don't understand.
How did you get into college?

>cultural marxism
>alt-right buzzwords
>>>/pol/

>>9068452
Song of Solomon is a genuinely great work, though.

Lay off the /pol/ coolaid.

Just nut up and give it a shot.

who's going to watch this play?

if its a handfull of undergrads that you barely know, who cares?

you could probably embezzle some of the money and buy a nice pair of shoes

what will it be about?

Karl Marx and Theodor Adorno, the inventors of postmodernism, created pop culture in order to undermine Western values and usher in the nihilistic, atheistic age of brutal communism.

>>9068409
>>9068436
1

Also, stop shitting up this board

>>9068409
I genuinely can't fathom this style of thinking. How can you have such strong opinions on the Frankfurt School and have literally zero idea what they wrote about or even supported.

It genuinely leaves me dumbstruck. If it's straight up dishonesty for the purposes of propaganda I can get that, fine, dick move but I get it. A lot of these people actually seem to believe it though.

Fucking terrifying.

>>9068403
Well just cut off my dick-skin and call me a goyim!

My favourite is when Americans justify their torture of infants and the destruction of their own sexual pleasure and sensitivity by saying "women prefer it."

You do everything women tell you to do?

>>9068518
savage af

>>9068497
kek

up

up

>>9068432
>>9068801
down down. Am I getting the code right?

>implying people become writers for the big bux

>>9068363
yeah.....but half of /lit/ and students in literature degrees are under the false impression that they can make a frugal living from it.


it would be easier to become a rockstar....and i don't think many people even listen to rock music anymore

If you're writing to make shekels, odds are your shit isn't gonna sell anyway.

Unless it's one of those dumb ass novelty books about "how to make a million dollars" or finding happines or whatever, and even then they become succesful only through sheer luck and a little marketing push that'll end up costing you.

>>9068285
i am and i do
especially considering one of the writer's is leagues better than me, and has helped me get over more than a few stumbling blocks in my own writering

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>tfw no writers group QT

>>9068285
>especially considering one of the writer's is leagues better than me

Are you sure just one?

751 out of 861 in my EPUB

December

Been reading it on and off. Nothing on most days because I'm busy.

It will probably be my favorite book when I'm done. I've pretty much read it twice, either because the writing was too good or a little confusing. I don't think I get the book on a 'deep' level but I understand enough for it to be my favorite book.

Infinite Jest

>206
>december
>5-10, some days I don't read
>it gets better right?
>I don't know. this seems like it will never end

I got to about there anon when I gave up :) maybe I'll attempt it again some time soon.

That's a nice stack OP. Keep in mind, though that Hamilton is a good source of background info for reading actual Greek works, and doesn't take the place of actually reading the Greeks.

Master & Commander is top-tier fun/comfy fiction.

>spending money on the books of reactionary larpers

disgusting

>>9068286
Seemed like a good intro

The last word I googled was rubrication, which is like highlighting for medeval monks.

Recently learned the word "bucolic." As an adjective, it means "relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside or country life." As a noun, it refers to a pastoral poem.

I'm writing a short story about city life vs rural life, which is why I came across the word. Some sentences I jotted down:

"Cityfolk will never understand the joys of bucolic simplicity."

"The tumultuous city was devoid of the bucolic simplicity of rural living."

Any other words you would recommend I should consider using for such a story? Are there any adjectives which relate to the bad aspects of rural life, or the good or bad aspects of city life?

>>9068065
The word sounds unpleasant.

>>9068030
It's an outdated generalization of certain behavioral themes to the entirety of someone's character. Don't worry, you aren't one. Just a lonely loser searching desperately for a way to be special without doing anything.

>>9068090
nice projecting

>>9068030
Imagine being raised in a hostile environment with no safe harbor whatsoever.
Attributes and characteristics of people merely add up to strengths and weaknesses, anything else is irrelevant, people are a collection of vulnerabilities, whatever they value is where they are vulnerable. All that matters is control and being controlled.

To answer your question, it can be but it's a matter of 'you can't teach experience'.