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>Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West
>Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
More books with two titles please.
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Candide or optimism
Why is this a thing? Why do you care about this? How do you gain from this thread?
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>>8648118
Last night I was visited by The ghost of Mr. White Whale. Lavender smelling sperm will come to me but only if I get people to post things in my thread. Thanks for your contribution.
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>Dead Souls or Tschitchikows Adventures
>Waverley or 'tis sixty years since
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Are there any novels where the plot is nonlinear? Think Tarantino's Pulp Fiction or Ritchie's Snatch.
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>>8648005
i never watched those pieces of shit
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>>8648005
nope there aren't any sorry
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Honest question
Why do you read anything but poetry?
Why read some boring made up story just to get some good moments, those moments being not even half as heart moving as the greatest poems?
Poetry is pure ecstasy
Any other kind of literature is TV tier compared to it
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>reading anything but ancient longform portry in the original language
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>>8647960
Good prose is much better.
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>>8647966
Think again tubby
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How do I write humor? Pic related
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Read timelessly witty authors like Oscar Wilde. Autistically note all things funny in a database. Find trends to emulate in your own humor.
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>>8647928
Step 1be funny
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Shock humor is literally the only form of comedy that can make people laugh for real all the way from their bellies. All other forms of "comedy" can at best produce some fake laughs. You don't want to admit that your laugh is fake but it is
Is there an anon out there who can share a link to an pdf file of the Star Wars FOTJ book series?
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>>8647881
what if you better go and fuck yourself you normie pleb
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>>8647881
this is not what /lit/ is for.
this is also not what /lit/ is for
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>Write 700+ pages long novel
>Reread it after a month
>Its shit.
Oh well, time to start again.
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>>8647875
EdIT IT
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>>8647875
If this is your first book, which I assume it is, why did you choose to write one that is so long? What is the reason why it has to be 700 pages?
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>>8647901
Second book i write.
I write short stories too, but when im planning a novel i always go for long stories. I have tried to limit myself but there is no use for it.
I dont plan to publish so is not a bother in that regard.
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Alright /lit/izens, picked up these two bad boys yesterday.
Which one should I read first?
And furthermore, are they even worth the read? I've heard its mostly boring but I just can't see how Julius Caesar writing accounts of his war stories wouldn't be good.
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>>8647781
CORN
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Really disliking this new /lit/ meme of not knowing how to rotate pictures.
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They're mostly used as a tool for teaching latin, but if Roman History really interests you, go for it. I'd read Comentarii de Bello Gallico first, and just read it chronologically. Get ready for really, really dry history
What are you favourite biographies you'd rec? Can be in any field
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Kary Mullis' Dancing Naked in the Mind Field
For his wacky antics.
>trips balls
>sees glowing green racoon
>invents pcr machine
>Doesn't into the HIV-AIDS hypothesis
I didn't get past the second page of My Twisted World, but I hear there are some wacky antics in there, too.
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call me burroughs
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Robin Lane Fox's Alexander.
Anything by Peter Ackroyd.
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A Natural History of Dragons
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Are there any other series that approach low, or even high fantasy, from a scientific researcher's perspective?
This 4 book series is incredible, it's like if Jane Goodall spent her time traveling the globe researching Dragons, Wyverns, Leviathans, and other beasts instead of apes.
It's also very clinic in the biology without becoming pedantic.
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>>8647668
>Goes into fantasy with a scientific perspective
>Uses it to study fantasy biology, not to build a nice axion through which magic could work
Boo hoo.
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>>8647679
Actually in the end of the first bookshe discovers a method of preserving the bones, which typically dissolve upon the dragon's death, the they turn out to be lighter and stronger than steel. This becomes a problem later in series when the ersatz-Chinese society steals her research and start inventing proto-helicoptors by killing tons of dragons.
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>>8647668
this is actually interesting. Worth getting on my shelf OP?
I'm interested in this thread
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What is some good pirate literature?
Textbooks, fiction, anything.
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>>8647659
This is my chance to get a FPBP, here it goes:
Moby Dick.
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Exquemelin's 'The buccaneers of America'.
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>>8647680
this is awesome, more like this?
What would your favorite novel's title be if it were a cheap porno?
Journey to the end of the one night stand
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>Moby Dick
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life and death; with fucking in between
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Sabbath's Adult Theater
Who are some thinkers who defend violence?
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Hegel.
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me
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>>8647589
Can you elaborate any?
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Why do people believe all of his lies about his life?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGevY_nzSHw&t=15m
Start at 15 minutes and listen for 8 minutes or so
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Necrophagous gossiping, what's the fun of that.
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>>8647556
What lies?
>Grr people can't be this interesting because my life is so boring!!!
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>>8647562
Fuck nevermind. Sorry OP.
>Ernestine
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so, is reading one of the greatest accomplishments you can make in your whole life? Like reading for me is one of the ways I can connect to what's beyond my own immediate world. All the shit I see every day, when I read a book it transports me somewhere different, to something that's extraordinary. You can go places in life which aren't extraordinary, but reading a book can transport you into something extraordinary. Or for you is trying to get a job or something what you would call accomplishing and going places in life?
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>>8647552
>Reading one of the greatest accomplishments you can make in your whole life
Anon, you can't just make something anyone else can do and that you did for momentary pleasure your greatest accomplishmen.
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a thread died for this
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>>8647552
you're a dumb guy
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How do I learn cursive/handwriting?
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Go to the third grade,.
Or do they not teach it anymore?
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>>8647519
This. I learned it in the third grade and then didn't use it again until college, when I taught it to myself all over again so I could take notes more quickly.
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>>8647474
>Pick a calligraphy handbook
>Pick up a guide on how to make each letter
>Go through the motions until they stick
But honestly anon, why?