Anonymous
WHY CANT I WRITE GOOD? 2017-03-12 12:56:58 Post No.9227579
[Report] Image search: [Google]
WHY CANT I WRITE GOOD? 2017-03-12 12:56:58 Post No.9227579
[Report] Image search: [Google]
File: quote-not-writing-is-not-good-but-trying-to-write-when-you-can-t-is-worse-charles-bukowski-44-3-0360[1].jpg (68KB, 850x400px) Image search:
[Google]
![quote-not-writing-is-not-good-but-trying-to-write-when-you-can-t-is-worse-charles-bukowski-44-3-0360[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/2ZG5Z9j.jpg "quote-not-writing-is-not-good-but-trying-to-write-when-you-can-t-is-worse-charles-bukowski-44-3-0360[1]")
68KB, 850x400px
How Do I get good a grammar and syntax?
I feel like I have interesting thoughts and even intresting ways to express those thoughts, but I am embaressed by my own shity writing ability.
I am STEM so I dont really need to improve my writing beyond its current level. However, I know at some point I will have to present my writing to some one who actually knows how to use a conjunction.
Here is sample I just wrote for class.
http://pastebin.com/zukK9WsN
It reads to me exactly the same as the book reports I wrote in fith grade with more "grown up" words thrown in.
Give It to me straight /lit/.
11 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
>>9227579
I bumped your post and now I am the fool.
>>
>>9227579
for every page you write, read 2 novels
>>
>>9227631
How will that improve my technical understanding of written English?
File: hamster.gif (183KB, 960x540px) Image search:
[Google]
183KB, 960x540px
>tfw you read translations because you value human ideas over superficial differences in made-up words
19 Posts / 7 Images
View this topic
>>
>>9227530
/lit/ taught me to at least vet and browse translations.
>>
>>9227530
>>9227542
So because of /lit I gave myself such a fuss about choosing my first reading of Iliad. I made the decision to read Pope first after comparing sections and reading about the background of different translations.
Finally feeling good about getting into the Greeks, I mentioned my latest reading in a thread specifically about Iliad and the only response to me ever was
>hurr Pope is not even Iliad.
I mean... Fuck this place for real.
>>
File: 474990_58806e8db5793wew_container_system_2017.gif (6KB, 200x200px) Image search:
[Google]
6KB, 200x200px
>values human ideas
>prefers them twisted and distorted
File: 101924.jpg (51KB, 850x400px) Image search:
[Google]
51KB, 850x400px
How does /lit/ decide what to read?
20 Posts / 2 Images
View this topic
>>
If I'm wet for a philosopher, I'll read books by authors around the same time period. If it's just fiction I'll pick at random a book form my backlog (which I put together between here, the sticky, and research).
>>
>>9227422
lol kierkegaard was so wrong in this
>>
File: 1489319996083-285656035.jpg (2MB, 2448x3264px) Image search:
[Google]
2MB, 2448x3264px
An old friend died and T S Eliot's East Coker is bringing me some comfort. Here it is in full.
18 Posts / 10 Images
View this topic
>>
File: 1489320115594-725087403.jpg (2MB, 2448x3264px) Image search:
[Google]
2MB, 2448x3264px
>>
File: 1489320179906-956664130.jpg (2MB, 2448x3264px) Image search:
[Google]
2MB, 2448x3264px
>>
File: 1489320313200-204445244.jpg (2MB, 2448x3264px) Image search:
[Google]
2MB, 2448x3264px
What would be a good answer if you were asked in a job interview what your favourite book is?
Would you be honest, pick something that signals stamina or something practical?
7 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
>>9227266
that is my father's favourite book. I would probably be honest and say Borges' Ficciones. Depends on the job though.
>>
>>9227266
Why do they even ask shit like that anyways?
>>
>>9227266
Atlas Shrugged
File: House editions of Philosopher's Stone - all four hardbacks_0.jpg (81KB, 1200x558px) Image search:
[Google]
81KB, 1200x558px
Who's buying the SEs? Also Harry Potter thread.
11 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
>>9227156
I only look at Harry Potter stuff to remind me of my younger self and how I wasn't a depressed loser then. I don't care about any of the new stuff, or any merchandise.
>>
Is Hufflepuff the cuckoldry house?
>>
I would actually consider buying one of these....if the special editions had any bonus chapters relating to each house, and delve further into House Lore and the general behavior and attitude of the students...
I think Ravenclaw is the most interesting house, but the only real mention of them in the books is that Asian girl who friendzones Potter.
File: 60d06c4232809dbd2be28eb409c79217.jpg (34KB, 277x400px) Image search:
[Google]
34KB, 277x400px
Just finished this. What do I think about?
8 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
>>9227153
Bump?
>>
>>9227153
You are a fictional character
>>
>>9227308
Can you give me some book recommendations like this? It might be pleb tier philosophy but I found the book incredibly entertaining, thought-provoking and well-written.
File: 14624774426620.jpg (34KB, 512x512px) Image search:
[Google]
34KB, 512x512px
>once and for all
6 Posts / 3 Images
View this topic
>>
>said he
>>
>words
>>
File: 1382823197458.jpg (132KB, 525x525px) Image search:
[Google]
132KB, 525x525px
>and but so
File: 1484393046163.png (94KB, 596x595px) Image search:
[Google]
94KB, 596x595px
Is it wrong that I only crave philosophy when I'm severely depressed?
5 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
>>9227050
Yes
>>
I'm the opposite. Every time I attempt to study philosophy I get the 'who gives a shit I'm a depressed brainlet anyway' feeling and read poetry for pretty verses instead
>>
>>9227050
Nah, its the best time, philosophy will make you depressed so there's nothing to lose when you already feel that way
Anonymous
Give me some words, /lit/. 2017-03-12 09:02:38 Post No.9226917
[Report] Image search: [Google]
Give me some words, /lit/. 2017-03-12 09:02:38 Post No.9226917
[Report] Image search: [Google]
File: RZ07Pog.jpg (1006KB, 4032x3024px) Image search:
[Google]
1006KB, 4032x3024px
Give me some words, /lit/.
Anonymous
2017-03-12 09:02:38
Post No. 9226917
[Report]
[View this topic]
I've never been into books, but I realised recently that I see a lot of fancy words on /pol/ and /sp/, and I don't really know a lot of words like that myself.
I'm trying to up my game.
I've heard 'malpropism' and 'drole' tossed around. I understand most of these fancier English words are actually French, correct?
9 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
>>9226917
I don't think the meme text counters the fact that whoever took the OP pic is a colossal wanker pseud
>>
I saw someone on another sites pol use the word "jape" and I was like must be a typo but everything else in his text was legit so I looked it up then I was like well shit that's some pynchonian shit
>>
what's /lit/'s opinion on R.L. Stein?
8 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
>>9226679
Too many moles
>>
>>9226679
He's a Jew. Haven't read him and never will. Next.
>>
>them dick suckin' lips
I have a autographed copy of one of his 'adult' novels. It's shit.
File: jonesie.png (40KB, 104x130px) Image search:
[Google]
40KB, 104x130px
I spent 10 years of my life writing a book about a boy who morphs into a cheetah to battle an evil race of aliens called the Yeerks only to find out this was the exact plot of Animorphs #11 So I spent 10 more years rewriting it so that the boy morphs into a rhino and guess what? Turns out Animorphs did that too I've learned that the only real capital-T Truth in life is that pretty much all the good animals have already been taken and it's up to each of us to accept this and move on or else be eternally enslaved to that tiny voice in the back of our head that whispers Maybe no one's done barracudas yet'
5 Posts / 2 Images
View this topic
>>
File: Animorphs Potato.jpg (37KB, 468x599px) Image search:
[Google]
37KB, 468x599px
>>9226597
Cool story, bro!
>>
>>9226597
Write a book where an animal morphs into a boy and call it Shpromina
>>
write a book about how OP became a gigantic faggot... forget that, alredy happened.
File: robotgirl2.jpg (36KB, 300x434px) Image search:
[Google]
36KB, 300x434px
Just finished William Gibson's Neuromancer and found it really comfy.
Should I just move through his body of work or are there other (ideally contemporary) cyberpunk books you'd recommend?
7 Posts / 4 Images
View this topic
>>
>>9226486
Read the next book in the series f.am. It doesn't stop at Neuromancer you dummy.
>>
>>9226486
Altered Carbon is best of the best.
>>
>>9226492
oh man, what's the deal with Nemesis the Warlock? I saw someone else (maybe you?) post a pic on lit a few weeks ago. Is it any good? The little I read about it sounded fascinating.
File: 1489294585166.jpg (49KB, 435x434px) Image search:
[Google]
49KB, 435x434px
Any /lovecraftians/ here?
How did you get into his writing?
What's your favorite works of his?
17 Posts / 4 Images
View this topic
>>
File: 51KKrF0K+rL._SX312_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg (33KB, 314x499px) Image search:
[Google]
33KB, 314x499px
>>9226389
While this is up, anyone read Houellebecq's reading of Lovecraft?
>>
>>9226389
The Thing on the Doorstep is best. Any other answer is a memeing.
>>
start with The Color Out Of Space and work your way inward from there.
honorable mention: "A Colder War" by Charles Stross
File: tumblr_okww6ukYn31rc5v2so1_540.jpg (167KB, 540x657px) Image search:
[Google]
167KB, 540x657px
What's a good book for learning about personal culture from other countries? I specifically want to learn more about the social culture of Korea.
3 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
move out of your mom's basement to basically any college dorm
>>
http://www.exploringkorea.com/working-holiday-visa-korea/
reading is for queers.