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Are you interested in linguistics?

All memes aside, you really need to study what you're interested in if you want a degree. College is actually pretty hard and if you're studying something you're not interested in it gets harder, and that's why 50% of students drop out after one semester and overall graduation rates are something like 30%. Yes, it's true that people with STEM degrees tend to make more money, but if you don't have a peculiar interest in science, technology, engineering, or math you're just simply not going to be able to acquire a degree in one of those fields. When it comes to getting a liberal arts degree, there's seriously no shame and nothing wrong with studying something that's actually intellectually enlightening and an established field of study like anthropology (which linguistics is a sub-field of), political science, history, English, psychology, etc. just stay away from legitimate retard stuff like gender studies, religious studies, etc. At the end of the day a B.A. is a B.A. and you end up working something that's white collar.

I hope this helps. I wish somebody told me this before I declared computer science my major and wasted my time before switching over to political science and actually made academic progress.

>>9449291
also, just because you do manage to grind through a stem degree doesn't mean you're going to have a good career. lot of people who soldiered through a cs degree and know do shitty help desk or h1b tier code monkey stuff, sure they're not impoverished or something, but they aren't silicon valley rockstars, they're 50k a year cubicle fillers

>>9449291
This. I struggled through 2 years as a business major and hated 70% of my classes.

I switched to communication and got nothing but A's because I fell in love with the subject, and lucky enough had enough business credits for a minor.

Poetry is the superior literary form anyway, I wouldn't sweat it too much.

If you are frustrated then you're a pleb. I enjoy good prose much more after getting into poetry.

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better to read at a comfortable and thoughtful pace than to simply scan the text...

just fucking read it

>>9448847
shut the fuck up

>>9448858
>>9448861
thanks...

It's kind of ironic how history has vindicated "evil" conservatives like McCarthy and Enoch Powell.

>>9448676
you let this happen, not us

damn

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>>9448643
very british, but cool nonetheless.

also kind of gay, but that's not a problem.

kind of wish he still wrote splatterpunk, because he was fucking good at it.

>>9448643
The story with the two cities fcked me up

Some cool ideas, some cool body horror.
Barker has never been able to hold back from shafting his own atmosphere with some schlocky gore though, and as an /immersion/ autist I find it super hard to find a groove.

>>9448488
>autism speaks

No? What the fuck is wrong with you OP

>>9448990
Didn't know there was something wrong with me. If you have any clue let me know.

its violent and pretty.
its easy to like if you are not really into esoteric shit.

>>9448482
Sounds like it all went over your head.

>>9448487
probably

Nice meme

I wish Lauren southern would show more skin though, looks like she's been getting more thicc recently

>>9448026
>1984
>Thus Spake
>Selfish


literally everything else is pandering trash

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>>9448026
Black rednecks and white liberals should be on this graph, you might actually learn something from it if you read it, rather than Southern or Cernovich who just repeat their usual shtick from Twitter but in book form

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>>9447977
>Book similar to this?

>>9447714
Read Crime and Punishment senpai.

JG Ballard's Drowned World kinda

>>9447714

Oh, good Lord, this is rich. Stop making shit threads and start critiquing good stuff like

>>>9436497

Cormac McCarthy out-Faulkners Faulkner

>>9447321
That's not Henry James.

>>9447321
Of course not, you fucking prosefaggot.

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>>9447191

ITT we beat off to book covers instead of, well, reading.

>>9447329
take your head out of your ass shit head

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>tfw graduated and employed so summer is just like regular wageslavery but it's fucking hot

The Silmarillion is the crowning jewel of fiction. Enjoy it.

>>9447022
Working at a firm and taking classes. During the time between classes I'll be writing onto the law journal. Rest is for the dead.

>>9446943
The Greeks.

>>9446943

>Harry Potter series
>Plato's Republic
>Tom Jones
>Pride and Prejudice
>Eragon
>Ulysses
>The Savage Detectives
>Any good history book on The French Revolution
>Judy Blume's Fudge series

And it helps to bruch up on your Marx and Freud

>>9446827
the only one i've found worth reading, IMHO, is "the once and future king." if you read this as an adult, you should have already read:
>"le morte d'arthur"
AND/OR
>the arthurian section of "bulfinch's mythology"
AND
>"sir gawain and the green knight"

even if you don't, though, it's still the definitive version of arthur.
makes me cry like a bitch in many places throughout the story desu senpai

strangely enough, last night i was looking for a good movie on arthur—couldn't find anything, so i downloaded "monty python" and resolved to watch it today and show it, for the first time, to my wife

>>9446827
Idylls of the king.
Tennyson is by far the most talented writer to deal with the subject

>>9447331
Idylls are great, but there are not enough of them!