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What books about writing would you suggest reading? Besides The Elements of Style and On Writing by King.
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I wouldn't recommend Elements because it's outdated and I wouldn't recommend On Writing because it doesn't actually give you any useful information on writing.
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Also related, how does /lit/ feel about the oxford comma? I haven't seen much discussion about it here.
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>>8719542
>On Writing
I respectfully disagree. It's a great source of motivation for people who are getting serious. Of course, all those books boil down to "write more, show more people, be professional," but King states it well and succinctly.
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>tfw dumbass
will reading books make me smarter?
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if you read good ones
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ontd no read book i dont running
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/thread
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RIP Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Will there be an ablution?
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I think it's extremely insulting and jewish to release these special collections when the series isn't even completed
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>>8719467
It will never be completed so why wait?
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>>8719467
>jewish
This is a racist-free board, friend.
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This is absolutely the greatest novel of all time. How can Americans compete? 2016-11-13 17:23:19 Post No.8719427
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This is absolutely the greatest novel of all time. How can Americans compete? 2016-11-13 17:23:19 Post No.8719427
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This is absolutely the greatest novel of all time. How can Americans compete?
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wrong pic
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Yikes
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Is this worth reading? 2016-11-13 16:48:50 Post No.8719353
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Is this worth reading? 2016-11-13 16:48:50 Post No.8719353
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Or is it a meme fotm?
I've seen it praised for its thesis, but at the same time get a lot of criticism from liberal, leftist, even Marxist commenters for its analysis and methodology, not just the usual conservative or libertarian critics. Criticisms from people like Joseph Stiglitz, James Galbraith, and David Harvey make me think it's designed to appeal to the ows crowd on a mostly normative basis, rather than an analytical one.
Also concerned it will go over my head or bore me, as I am in no position to evaluate economic statistics myself; I don't have much of an economics background, particularly when it comes to econometrics and mathematical analysis.
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Again? Not worth it but do read it if feel like it. You can stop anytime.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-04/wealth-inequality-may-not-work-the-way-piketty-thinks
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/10/piketty-housing-capital-share.html
http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.de/2014/12/mccloskey-on-piketty-and-friends.html
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/09/thomas_piketty.html
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Its really really dry, but I have read most of it.
Ive borrowed a lot of his ideas for some of my economics assignments and presentations I did for uni. Its good shit if you have a background in econ and like empirical research.
Most important stuff is the second half of the book - Inequality of Labor Income, Inequality of Capital Income then the following chapters about marginal tax rates and his ideas for policy.
Labor Income section is practically the whole income inequality debate. Its very convincing. Before reading it I was against high taxes and many leftist economic policies but Piketty definitely red-pilled me.
I've heard about the methodology questions, but have never looked into it.
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>>8719423
By the way, you can start with "The Economics of Inequality" - its basically a primer to C21C. Its short and a lot easier to read too.
Name a single flaw
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watermark
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No ambitious works.
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Never had a cat named "Nigger Man"
Is he /ourguy/?
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He's pretty cool, and very knowledgeable.
I like his lectures on existentialism and phenomenology.
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>>8719112
He unironically is
Love based greggo
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>le atheist magician
no
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Is this statement grammatically correct, /lit/?
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No.
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>>8719119
Can you please rectify?
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Will someone rectify please?
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Best contemporary Canadian philosophers
pleb choice: jordan meme-rson
Patrician choice:Charles Taylor
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>>8719103
There is no Canadian philosophy, cuck.
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>>8719597
you can eat the tip of my gravy-tipped dick. george grant was redpilled af
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lament_for_a_Nation
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J.L Schellenberg. Non-fedora atheism.
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Boner thread?
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Woman detected
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>>8719089
Does anyone else get a bone from good prose, like really good prose? Not even sexual, just feeling out the sound of a really well-flowing, beautiful couple of sentences.
I'm not the only one am I? Is this the literary lifestyle?
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>>8719089
Houellebecq has your back.
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This has me thinking what would be the other reading list for the other pills. Well /lit/?
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bumpity
I just found out that i have a disease that is slowly destroying my eyesight. At some point in my life I am turning blind I just don´t know when. Could be in 1 year could be in 60.
Give me some books I should read before I can´t anymore. Something that holds me from suicide and gives me hope.
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Close your eyes. Stand up, walk, eat, drink. That's your life now. An eternal night.
You don't need to find a good book, you need to find a gun.
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>>8718977
read books about the blind and the terminally ill
also, make sure you read books that are obscure enough to not have an audiobook version
stay strong anon, life is still worth living
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Everything seems scarier in anticipation for it. Just get some audio books. You'll be fine.
Wait a minute
If Barthes is right and written communication entails a death of the author
Then we're all dead
And 4chan is the afterlife
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>>8718925
ironically posted by Anonymous
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>>8718925
>if Barthes is right
but he's not
he's a fraud
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>>8718925
If the internet is the afterlife and 4chan is hell, then what's heaven?my vote goes to reddit because heaven is the ultimate hug-box *dibs bedora*
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And I wonder if Piero,
the venereal undertaker
poking about for virgin corpses
in the quivering mist
of a profaned tomb,
if Piero,
the rattling bowels
of my shadow,
if Piero,
the dangling bat,
the bat upon the beam,
if Piero,
the noise behind this thought,
I wonder if Piero will ever die.
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THE FACT THAT
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>>8718917
Pieru in finnish means fart
So I read it as follows:
And I wonder if the fart,
the venereal undertaker
poking about for virgin corpses
in the quivering mist
of a profaned tomb,
if the fart,
the rattling bowels
of my shadow,
if the fart,
the dangling bat,
the bat upon the beam,
if the fart,
the noise behind this thought,
I wonder if the fart will ever die.
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Is this decent?
James hated sleep. Loathed it. Cursed it and fought it. He knew what waited for him there. The repeating film reel of nightmarish memories still fresh. The dead weight of Jackson straining the muscles of his arms and the sounds of bullets pinging off of metal and rock. The tumbling humvee heaved from the mountain road and twisting down down down along the slope in some horrible dance in which it spun itself apart. The smell of gunpowder and sandy dirt and gasoline. The stick of drying blood on his palms and the pistol grip of his rifle. Then he would blink and the battle on mountainside would be gone and replaced by darkness. And in that darkness the faces of his fallen brethren would slide out from the black and appear bloody and pale with lips roiling wildly in whispers and eyes stark wide with pupils engulfing their irises. James would scream and that scream would rip him from that hell and carry on into the waking world. Mom and dad and his little sister would bolt up from their peacefully dreams and rush in to see what was the matter to find a wild eyes man of twenty five weeping into his pillows. They stopped coming in to see if he was alright after the fourth night. When they stopped he knew that he had become more than a burden. He had become a shrieking annoyance and an unwelcome one at that.
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It sounds too self-important, like the work knows how great it is and expects to be interesting or experimental (really just imitation-modernist) but kind of fails at providing enough exposition to not be overly dramatic.
You did excellent at description and at capturing something for half a second at the start but then the reader ends up lost in just word after word of inexplicable emotion.
8/10
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>>8718877
Yeah, I'd say so.
There is something a little silly about it, but over all I'd say it shows a coherent and digestible structure that I seem to be missing from moi own writing.
I don't like the 3rd person though.
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>>8718890
Thanks for the input guys I'm fiddling around with a short story and this is an excerpt from it.
>I don't like the 3rd person though.
I don't enjoy writing it but for the stories I want to write about I need to learn how to use it. My best stuff comes from first person but there's only so much you can do with that.