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>>8718169
Sounds easy to me senpai, just read and let that Russian syntax sink in. You should be perfectly fluent after your third Dosto.

>>8718169
Of course not, you need the basics first. Once you have passable literacy levels you might do okay, but you're guaranteed to need a dictionary.

>>8718304
i am doing all the free babble courses on the language, it seems like a lot of words are fairly similar, you'd just need a cypher until you memorize the alphabet because it throws you off easily.

for instance, И sounds like I, B sounds like WV, H sounds like N, ы sounds like y, Д sounds like D, etc..

but the words they form, at least the smaller ones i've heard, are very similar to their english counterpart.

i only ask because i have heard of people learning simply by reading. obviously cultural immersion is the best way, but russia is far away

oh fuck forgot the link
here: http://pastebin.com/LjF6Tinf

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Fuck you, you fucking stupid cunt.
sage

>>8718225
No need to be upset anon. Why don't you share your paper with the rest of the class. You wouldn't want to lose participation points would you?

>>8718130
On Human Bondage
Wise Blood
The Red and The Black
Orlando

If you are interested in Medieval literature, I recommend Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. I own the Norton Critical edition with Borroff's translation and I like it very much.

As for your request, perhaps Hamsun's Hunger or Thomas Browne's writings will interest you. Melville's Pierre is alsp excellent and under-read.

>>8718185
>not listing author

Thanks though I'll Google them.

>>8718191
Thanks

>>8717963
why

>>8717990
It was bad.

>>8717963
Learning to write is a beautiful process.

>>8717962
I dont really 'get' Kafka. I think his fellow Jews on the academy overrate him to hell and back. Typical jew writer, sickly and perverse. dont get what's special

>>8717965
I agree that he's writing from a place of mental illness. However, it's still writing that resonates with many people, including non-Jews. The argument comes down to whether or not examples of negative behavior are effective for self-improvement.

>>8717962
I'm not particularly well-read but I've recently started reading The Idiot and I the first few chapters have me really intrigued and 'hooked' as it were, especially The Prince's dialogues

>>8717927
I remember reading alot in elementary, stuff like Harry Potter and Robinson Crusoe. Stopped reading until later in high school were I read stuff like Dostoyevsky and Kierkegaard, so I guess I lacked a "teenage book" cycle for better or worse.

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Fuck adult conversation where people will challenge my perspectives and help me grow as an individual.

Member Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?

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Pic related was a fun read. It has been many years, though.

my diary desu

Quality IS entertainment.

>>8717816
Entertainment IS quality.

>>8717710
The great open mouth of anti-sadness is about as hipster-y as i get probably.

>secret
>hipster
>unknown
>newyorker


???


An actual answer would be hypersphere or that new Ideology literary journal or some shit if they were any good

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>>8717710
Trout Fishing in America because it's unknown to, say, Vonnegut fans and the like.. and the only people repulsed by it are pseuds anyway.

Also for a pseud audience I would change my answer to Prae.

>>8717620
Half of that brick is skippable my lad
Protip: all the prophet books are garbage

It's not that bad, you're making a lot more progress than you think

Go to the table of contents or look up the traditional Christian division of the Bible on Wikipedia and you will see that the Pentateuch and the History books are actually fairly small

Wisdom and Prophets are a lot easier, and the New Testament is a LOT easier

>>8717620
Genesis is so short wtf

Why are YOU here?

>>8717613
because where else can i talk about esoteric and obscure branches of knowledge without having to actually think about it for more than one minute (e.g. classroom, where I do get enough of real discussion in real life as opposed to the /lit/ whiners and complainers who are socially repressed or old and only have this board to discuss their thoughts and feelings) ?

Well its better than /b/

Whatever happened to Deep&Edgy anyway?

>>8717605
He bounces around hobby boards, posting on occasion. As far as I know, anyway.

All literature is escapism, op.

>>8717605
He got a job and a boyfriend

Secret History by Donald Trumpp

>>8717463
Submission - Michele Houellebecq

Camus, the stranger comes to mind as the antithesis of Stoner

>>8717349
If you had any kind of classical education, these words would 'mean' and 'sound' exactly as they do.

> livid
Means 'blue' or 'envious', much like English 'green' means 'envious', became 'angry'

> refulgent
Literally means 'shining again'.

> Terrific
terror + ficio = literally 'making terror', became something like 'awesome' (thing full of awe), became a form of 'good'.

>>8717402
PS.

There's an interesting word, 'hellish', which is going through the same process as 'terrific', but it's happening right now. Obviously, 'hellish' meant 'like Hell', but it's not acquiring the meaning of 'very good'.

>>8717349
I disagree. Livid brings out intense bleakness; refulgent, as long as you know its meaning, is easy to feel as sparkling up

Fuck /lit/ for being so useless

There was this one english writer known for his plays. Can't recall.

>>8717514
>muh Hackspeare

Fuck off, faggot. It's all about the new contemporary performing arts. Keep with the times, causal.

https://warosu.org/lit/

ok ur welcome

Is into a verb

>>8717206
accept that you want to fuck your mother