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À la recherche du temps perdu

>>9166871
The Brothers Karamazov

Ulysses

Straighten out your priorities, quit your job, ditch the slags and get on with it.

I have this same problem, I started studying engineering last month and I haven't read a single book since. I plan on reading in between trips(I only take the bus).

If I read at home I feel I'm loosing time in my studies and it's unbearable.

>>9166766
>yet u have time for the internet
etc. etc.

>>9166645
Kill yourself, loser

>>>/r9k/

>>9166659
Nice input faggot. I never said i liked this stuff. I just wanted some lit expert opinions

My guess is that they are called light novels so that they're not taken as serious works of literature.

>>9166637
dixon

>>9166637
Satan

Fonzie from the Happy Days novelizations

Comics

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Renaissance (art and) literature is The Literature of autism

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

>>9166541

I'll give you the meme answer: David Foster Wallace was taking about how tiresome that shit was getting in the mid 1990's. The internet has merely projected it to greater heights than ever before. It is commonplace to mock experts, people who dedicate their lives to study or to their works, and while this was once done out of jealousy it is now simply the herd mentality- being able to understand most ironic scenarios or craft irony from something is one of the most basic levels of intelligence and many people feel content to believe themselves intellectuals due to their understanding of irony. To go any further takes time, effort, passion, things that most people don't have all at the same time

>>9166541
Because on a society drowned by skeptical materialism the only consistent attitude is to mask your suffering with a layer of "le irony".

Does anyone consider it honest? I use it as an anaesthetic.

>>9166539
Rulfo

>>9166561
y tho

By what measurements? Why should one be better than the other? Why does it matter? It doesn't tell us anything about them, except that one was """"better"""" than the other.

good enough

>>9166488
I know when to use whom, whomever, whomsoever, and whomsoevers.

Makes me feel like a smarty to drop those pronouns on people

When I was a freshman the head of the English Department said I had a "remarkable command of the English language".

Please stop depressing me anon, I've already stopped reading any novels to read more philosophy and political theory.

>>9166468
That's tough as those are some of the most dense genres.

>>9166453
Getting a list of potential books and asking on decent forums would be a good start. Someone has to have read it to find out if it's shit, and you may be able to find one

There's thousands of great books being discussed here all the time. Just lurk more friend

Also don't read YA trash like your pic

>>9167021
The Giver is great intro lit you butthead.

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>Good
What did he mean by this? Also this pic might be relevant for you OP ;)

I prefer the Bleeding Edge by a long shot. I really hope they don't make it into a movie.

BE is dogshit. The first anon genuinely seems like a retarded person. Especially for that film comment.

Both are awful.

Ok

>>9166343
Popper more like Pooper

>Socrates had stressed that he was not wise; that he was not in possession of truth, but that he was a searcher, an inquirer, a lover of truth.

>How did Plato convert this doctrine? ... The change made by Plato is indeed tremendous. His lover is no longer the modest seeker, he is the proud possessor of truth. A trained dialectician, he is capable of intellectual intuition, i.e. of seeing, and of communicating with, the eternal, the heavenly Forms or Ideas. Place high above all ordinary men, he is 'god-like, if not . . . divine', both in his wisdom and in his power. ... He is the Philosopher-King. ...

>>9166339
Him and Steinbeck give me some hope that I don't have to finish college to be decently successful or god forbid, "accomplished" in life as a writer.

Are you working on anything, anon?

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>>9166339
Salinger is without a doubt my favorite writer. He had a truly unique style, which made him one of the preeminent American writers of the 20th century. He's, like, my writing idol.

>>9166413
Worry not, friend! According to whom do you need a ritzy college degree in order to write literature?

It's also worth noting that Salinger took a writing course or two at Columbia.

I hope you get cancer. Sage. Reported.

>>9166268
>introvert
>Steppenwolf

>VBBC
>your moms diary

>>9166253
What's he reading
It could be complimentary analysis

>>9166253
In my experience, another set of eyes is the best thing. It's easy to understand your writing when you've written it. Your readers won't understand it as easily as you. Leave a few days at least and perhaps write another story, short of not. You want your attention to not be on the writing your project so you can properly edit. First, just read. If there are story problems write them out and see what is necessary or not. Then, if needed, sound out sentences and dialogue to check if they sound natural. You may be repeating ideas in different words unintentionally. Third, the micro edit. You should be happy with the majority of your work. Read through and measure sentence flow. Pay attention to the first and last lines/paragraphs of every chapter. Make things sound interesting. Every page needs the reader to want to carry on. Obviously correct spelling and grammar errors. Then run it through a friend or, if you can afford it, editor. You are almost done. Eventually you will refine to a point where editing would change the meaning and nature of your writing and that means you are ready. Accept that it won't be perfect.

Hope this helps.

>>9166253

For simple grammatical errors and the like your software might not be picking up, scramble your story paragraph by paragraph so that in a contextual manner the overarching story makes no sense. Read your paragraphs backwards in full sentences to make sure they read correctly on their own. Because you are the author, and you have the general gist of how your writing goes, another set of eyes will always be your best editor- but if you force your brain to look at it critically and analytically instead of artistically via scrambling and backwards reading you can find a lot of errors.