how do you fix bad reading comprehension? exercise?
reading more doesn't work
by doing brain pushups
>>9892164
i might try exercising. I think my mind is sluggish due to the lack of exercise
>>9892148
us low IQ brainlets should just kill ourselves ASAP.
You lost the lottery OP, it's that simple
Does /lit/ prefer Andrei or Pierre?
Pierre. He is /sincere/
>>9892112
Andrei. And then Petya. The best die young /meme/.
Pierre because Andrei is a chad. Though Napnap is still the best character despite what Toolstoy makes up :(
>read 5 pages of guns germs and steel on my commute on my phone (boring)
>read 4 chapters of Dickens at work
>do 3 SICP exercises when I get home to prove to myself I'm not a complete brainlet
>procrastinate starting my real life my going outside to central London, drinking coffee that ruins my sleep, browsing 4chan and feeling sad about life and seeing the qts that find non Chads disgusting
I do so little work at work you guys wouldn't believe it.
I never read more than a single page a day. Any more is unnecessary, and the tryhard practice of natural brainlets.
What does your real life entail, anon?
>>9892089
You live in London, that's pretty cool desu
hey lit
i just got a student who needs help with english and hired me to tutor them. the student will be doing an english assignment on anne frank, and i was wondering if any of you know a good resource where i can get a plot summary so i can have an idea of the book without actually reading the whole thing...
i remember using sparknotes in high school but i also remember it being incorrect at times.
this is my first real student. i want to be able to give her advice without having to read all the books she will be reading in the year ahead, but because she is entering 6th grade i am afraid i might have to so that i can make sure she doesnt get factual info incorrect... does anyone have experience doing english tutoring?
>>9892080
Holy fuck you need lessons yourself.
>>9892109
any tips on what i should learn?
>>9892080
Looks like you'll be reading it together :)
Students learn best when they teach, and vice versa. Read through it with your student, approach the questions together.
Who HYPE??!!???!?????
Me desu
>>9892559
Are you being desu, desu?
GURL YAAAAS
*sips tea*
Does anyone here reads his books?
>>9892060
When I did my audible trial, got the cartel by him.
The thing is 24hrs long. Maybe audiobooks are not my thing, but that was a bland bland bland book.
>>9892060
I have the Savages. Not sure if I'd want to read it rather than more Ellroy.
>>9892060
I read this one quite fast. It was fun and the information about the drug cartels and the Condor operation were interesting.
George Lucas
will read dis soon how is it
The irony is that this book is just another myth
Kulturkampf takes on Faust I. Reminder that in the current neocommunist environment, the new right has seen an intellectual and artistic blossoming. The future lies here.
https://soundcloud.com/user-571934716
Boomp.
>Full Metal Alchemist intro music
>calling your podcast Kulturkampf when you can't even approximately pronounce Kulturkampf
>Titus Flavius
>literally reading wikipedia biography about Goethe
>5 minutes in and still nothing interesting about "Fowst"
So does it get better or should I just stop now
>>9891925
Holy shit this is cringy
>Can't pronounce german at all
>Can't even read your shitty wikipedia notes without stuttering every 2nd sentence
>No idea what they are talking about
Hey /lit/, what work by Gurdjieff should I read first?
I've read a bit of Beelzebub's Tales. Found it not too difficult assuming you have some esoteric knowledge. Often people suggest Oupensky to start with Gurdjeff but I prefer Evola and Crowley so I'm not too well-versed in either Oupensky or Gurdjeff.
I recently read The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Catching the big fish from Lynch, also What i talk about when i talk about running from Murakami some while ago.
Looking something in this line, any recommendations?
>>9891795
I'ts a pretty wide genre. One of my go to books for primary sources on art is Art in Theory. It's got manifestos, key reviews, essays by critics, etc. It'll walk you through 20th century art, if read chronologically, but you might want something like Gardner's art history text book to accompany it, in case you aren't familiar with a particular movement or artist.
Some of my favorites are the Futurist Manifestos, Surrealist Manifestos, Dada stuff.
>>9891824
Also, this is a really great collection of Surrealist Manifestos, and a nice introduction by Andre Breton, reflecting on the collection and compiling them into one book.
>>9891824
thx a lot will look into that asap.
Can anyone give me a rundown on negative theology, and what books I should read?
Just read the pseudo Dionysus my good man
Alternatively do Copleston
That you can't really say what God is, only what he isn't.
>you will never be young Bertrand Russell at a garden party before the decline of the British aristocracy
>you will never be torn reluctantly away from the logico-mathematical suppositions in your notebook by young revellers to play croquet
>you will never anxiously demonstrate your superior croquet skills to your flabbergasted peers
>you will never watch the hon. chonsey boddington-smythe awkwardly remove her bonnet and smile coquettishly at you while you desperately think of that obscurantist mystic Hegel to combat your growing arousal
>you will never have your arousal compounded by the geometric grace of the croquet mallet in motion
>you will never slip off into the bushes to brusquely but pleasantly deflower the hon. chonsey boddington-smythe
>you will never think of a highly cutting but ultimately polite rebuke to Hegel's mysticism mid-coitus
>the lucid glory of logic fills your mind as you reach orgasm
>tfw
>>9891564
Go back to bed Bertrand
>>9891564
fuck man..
>>9891564
Croquet hoops look DAMN pretty this morning!
FRIGHTFULLY DAMN PRETTY!
"God is a lobster"
??? ???
>>9891549
>t. This is Water Foster Lobster
fuck in le ass
>>9891549
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIYcbJKSLxQ
God is a social construct originally intended for social control, but turned out to be too large and unwieldy. Today, we're all standing in His giant shadow. Just like the big lobster.
Also like lobsters, God will not die unless an active effort is made to kill Him.
what is some good erotica? I read an Australian erotic novel 'Eat Me' by Linda Jaivin and it was actually pretty good. any recs /lit/ ?
I wanted to make a joke and post a Werewolf erotica book since OP has a doggo in the pic but hot damn there are 477 werewolf erotica books and goodreads.
Naked Came the Stranger by Penelope Ashe
>>9891502
I really want to know if a chart was provided
What are the best editions of Emily Dickinson's complete poems and letters?
>>9891494
I still have the old Little, Brown Johnson edition of the poetry and the Harvard Belknap Johnson edition of the Letters and couldn't be happier. The letters are fantastic reading, by the way.