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>>9485976
bumping for german

>Pimsleur
>Advanced

>Waiting until late on to begin using Anki
>Duolingo as an advanced resource
>App sources past beginner

The only good recommendations on this chart are the textbooks desu

>>9486134
please correct us. what is anki? and also bump for spanish/italian

>>9485922
Talk about bein' a brainlet.

Start with Vineland

>>9485922
Start with M&D

CoL49 for proper route, GR for enjoyment.

>>9485906

Whenever dan brown's characters pause in their dodging of bullets to talk about the educational and historical aspects of the newest grand ballroom they've had to run through in order to keep the christians from destroying science, I literally jizz all over the place

>>9485906
how is it?

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>>9485912
Your opinion is yours

Holy... I want more

You can both win and live and sacrifice no pride if you're patient senpai

>>9485752
ideas?

Definitely read it, it's one of the most important texts in all of English literature, even though a lot of people hate Wordsworth nowadays.

>>9485660
It's magnificent. If you can allow that the fucker wrote an epic about his own development, it contains some of the greatest poetry in English.

>>9485704
Agreed
I can understand how some of the ballad stuff may pall, but the 1805 Prelude is simply wonderful.

>>9485560
keep an idea/story journal and after a few weeks you'll be able to piece together a coherent story

>>9485560
write me the 1st sentence, anon.
give me the general idea.

Everyone has ideas. That's not even the hard part. The writing is the hard part. If it wasn't, everyone you know would be a writer.

>>9485448
Most of this 'filler' has a purpose. It's intended to get you in the right mood, to be detailed so you can imagine the setting, to build up suspense, etc etc

Publishers do ask authors to "flesh out" skimpy books, because buyers feel cheated by paying the price of a book for what is, in their mind, not a full book.

That being said, >>9485496 does have a point that a lot of what you might call "filler" is mood- or atmosphere-setting for the book.

There are multiple possible answers.

If the author in your OP pic is what you typically read, then yes, I agree, the books you read are fairly empty and padded out. 1000 page books (and reading them) looks impressive, so people who don't look for actual beauty in art buy that shit.

On the other hand there's stuff like Tolstoy, Balzac and Melville. All three wrote fat books with slow plots and filled with descriptions. Tolstoy could describe so many details that seem completely irrelevant at the first glance. Yet, if you stop and think for a moment, they become very meaningful. He is building his characters in every sentence, with each adverb and adjective, it's unbelievable. Melville, on the other hand, usually deals less with the characters, but he could write a scientific text about whales that is actually a beautiful and ingenious piece of philosophy.

Sometimes you really do have to pad things out, for the rhythm of storytelling, either on a micro or macro level. This must be done carefully and deceivingly, of course. Melville wanted Moby Dick to be a story of grand proportions, but the actual fight with one whale can't be suitably lengthy and epic, so he "padded it out" with the cetology and countless digressions.

>>9485240

Embrace it, pack it and sell it in order to afford enough alcohol to forget you have ever written it.

>>9485240
Write about a writer who can't stop writing genre shit.

>>9485240
I'm not sure why the line in the sand you've drawn for yourself is genre fiction

Fiction is a waste of time beyond entertainment anyway, if you're going to write fiction just write what you enjoy or can turn into a quick buck

>>9485135
the bible
>if i be a good person i'll die and go to this magic place called heaven
sounded based

>>9485135
Just out of curiosity how did this change the way you see the world, Anon? What I took from this was that although intelligence is at least partly heritable, it still doesn't make sense to treat anyone in a given manner, inductively based on their skin color, or economic class, because there is as much variation within these subsets as there is between them

>>9485135
The aesthetic brain. It makes me put effort into looking decent.

Although I don't like all of his books, I do generally like Neil Gaiman and other than the SJW/Tumblr stuff he shares online, I'm not quite sure how genre fiction readers can hate on American Gods or The Ocean at the End of the Lane.

I don't think the Greeks is a good place to start if you're new to literature and/or if you're not a Westerner.

George Orwell is good.

Nabokov is good but his opinions on other writers are dog shit.

Cormac McCarthy is good and Corncob-posters are repetitive in their shitposting.

Kafka isn't funny. He's a good writer but "Kafkaesque humour" isn't humour.

I'm eagerly anticipating the release of Gucci Mane's autobiography. I think he's a guy who would have some interesting, sleazy stories to share. I don't even like his music, just genuinely interested in what his book offers.

>>9484815
I only read 10 pages a day.

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>>9484768
Let me guess, he supports hedonism while signalling toward some sort of arbitrary morality of "be a good person"

>as long as you have fun xD

>>9485194
>wahaaah why can't everyone be an anhedonic bitch like me

>>9485200
roastie

>>9484490
I vacillate between 5 through 7 to be honest senpai.

>books as an identity
you've gone too far, you need to go back.

>>9484490
that's the gayest thing i have ever seen holy shit

>german hates black people
>marx reader hates poor people
>frankfurt school asshole hates culture
I am shocked

>>9484386
the blacks

Probably a closet racist, like many leftists are.

>>9484224
I liked it but it's not as phenomenal as some people make it out to be. Ellis effectively evokes the superficial detail that reflects the superficial personalities that populated yuppie culture, but sometimes his continuity is off (early in the book he mentions the brand of someone's tie and then a few paragraphs later he mentions it's a different brand being worn by the same character - all the name-dropping of brands and costume details probably made it a difficult book to edit/check for continuity).

The shock value - a main reason why a lot of people read the book - is disturbing at times but it gets excessive and almost ridiculous. I'm sure that's somewhat intentional but it feels like it lowers the quality of the book at times.

It's alright, I guess. Legitimately overrated though.

>>9484224
>but sometimes his continuity is off
Would be interesting to ask him about that but if the whole premise of the book is an unreliable narrator, it might have been intentional.

>>9484224
the 50 shades of grey form men and of the 90s

>>9484215
I recommend pen and paper

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>>9484215
>15° sharpener

>>9484278
this