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Can anyone write good combat scenes?

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>>8593441
Redwall Series tbhwyfam

>>8593273
>Are there any female writers who can write

no

>>8593261
I'm from /film/ as well. You have made the right path here. Film is a juvenile, infantile medium. I do not regret all the time I spent on it, but lit is far superior. Your example of Barry Lyndon might be the highest kino in film, but it's like a straight forward children's book to /lit/.

>>8593279
intredasting

>tfw took a Modern French Literature course last year
>70 year old professor made us read Beckett all semester while encouraging us to try some shrooms
>said weed was stronger these days than when he was young
>tried to sell me LSD saying it was the purest in all of Europe
>tried to convinced us the best way to enjoy a salvia trip was in the middle of the African savannah

fucking not what I expected

>>8593250
Where did you take this course

I almost exclusively read French literature and I've never read a French book written in the 21st century. I have no idea where to start. I guess I'll try reading the Goncourt winner this year but I'm afraid it might be shit.

Nope. They didn't let me watch R-rated movies, but they were happy to see me reading whatever I got my hands on. Not that they'd have recognized any books that were explicit. They also allowed me unrestricted access to the Internet, allowing me to easily circumvent the 'no R-rated' rule.

It was strange knowing that I could fap to futa and watch beheading videos all I wanted, but Hollywood sex 'n violence was a no-go. American upbringings are weird.

the kamasutra hidden under their bed

little do they know, I did read it and tried a lot of positions with my cousin

>>8593226
is that dhalgren? I'm surprised your parents were patrish enough to know what happens in the novel

I have never read a book that was both cute and oddly arousing at the same time. Maybe Lolita, but that was very sensual

>>8593187
>>8593362
both these anons are 15

>>8593369
you're mom is 15 lmao

I haven't read it, I know it's garbage, adding to that it's genre fiction.

But if you want to read it don't be a dumbass and go with the publication order

>>8593163
you should read the first 1 and then stop. first one is a good look at isolation, book 2 is mormon pilgrimage, book 3 and onward is about wishing shit into reality (so yeah they get progressively worse)

>>8593464
Speaker for the Dead is an absolutely wonderful book, I cannot recommend it highly enough.

The chapter with Jane is one of my favorite chapters ever of anything.

>>8593148
First off, stop saying yo, dumb nigger.

>>8593162
how did you know imma nigger?

>>8593162
Sound advice.

Nobody cares about your vocabulary. If you have something to say, just say it using the words you already know. Eschew extraneous words.

Of course, if you really feel you need more words consult that guy with the orange skin and a raccoon on his head; he has all the best words.

>inb4 "distinguish" not "differentiate"

>>8593136
Because they look different.

A lot of people don't do the things you described, because, while it may be helpful, it is unnecessary.

>>8593254
They look really similar if you have bad handwriting (like me)

From that brief passage it sounds like some type of inferiority complex or intrusive thoughts.

>>8593100
probably a painful disease, gout or something. since you typically get thorns in your foot. for resisting sinful desires in spite of weakness, he will be all the more praised in heaven or some shit.

>>8593100

The exact nature of his 'thorn' is unknown, although people have speculated long and wide. But the result was that Paul was humbled by it and put in a position to recognize his weakness before God and his reliance on God's grace. Paul's background was as an upright and devout Pharisee, someone who puffed himself up by his knowledge and adherence to the law of Moses. His 'thorn' helped keep him from returning to his old and alluring habit of self-righteousness and instead always returning humbly to the foot of the cross.

>>8593075
writing is something you have to put more effort into than beating dark souls with your feet, blind, and deaf with no damage, in under 10 minutes with no glitches. even if you have talent.

>>8593091
no, beating dark souls with all those conditions set is harder, trust me.

>>8593134
not if you want to write properly, faggot.

>>8593052
This country, in my man, he is nothing

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>>8593052
But OP, that's not pic related...

ps click the pizzas

As much as I find H. Murakami entertaining and easy to read, I would never give him the nobel. All he does is write about manchildren/teenagers with fetishes for old asian women and problematic 20 year old girls, and always in the same ironic, too logical, too calm prose of his. Not to mention the constant references to jazz and classical music in EVERY single one of his books. He writes YA books.

there are a few authors I can think of who actually write proper literature and not books aimed at non-cultivated women like he does, but the nobel is becoming more worthless every year and it's more of a popularity contest than anything else. I'm willing to bet that in 5 years time someone who was born in the 2000s and posts movie gifs on his tumblr will win the nobel prize for literature for his teen angst poetry and shitty hipster novels

Yes, I'm sure that's it.

I just hate pretentious cringe. I don't think intellect has much to do with it.

>tfw too intellegent to care about poetry

hamilton's mythology then go to major works like homer and hesiod

robert graves

>>8592951
Edith Hamilton - Mythology

It's pretty much the Gold standard.

Thanks for this.

>He made two photocopies of the manuscript, sent one to Michael Pietsch, his editor at Little, Brown, and loaned the second to a young woman whom he was trying to impress at the time
OUR GUY

>>8594263
lol. How would that impress a woman though? did he claim to've written it?

>Moby-Dick; or The Whale
>Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus
>Walden; or Life in the Woods

No. Pick a title.

>>8592876
count of monte cristo. you won't need anyone after that. besides, the best way to find the solitary note, is to put yourself into a situation where you have no choice, or have a strictly regimented system helping you. become a monk. if your mind can take being alone, which i doubt, you'll adapt.
t. guy who sat in solitary confinement for a year with only classic literature to guide him

>>8592876
do amphetamines. societal impulse gone. you'll be laser focused to your work. forever. until your stash runs out or you die.