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>>8503901
The only pill you need is the redpill

>>8503903
the what?

>>8503945
Come to pol and r9k and we'll teach you the truth about women and nonwhites

>>8503696

Yeah, if you combine it with other things.
Usually you'll want a grammar book, some immersion stuff and at least one other way of picking up vocab.

It's a good start but it won't get you far.

Duolingo
Memrise/Anki
Grammar book
Music/TV/Films
Pen pal

>>8503688
Alas, poor Harambe! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at
it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know
not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your
gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,
that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one
now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?
Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let
her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must
come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell
me one thing.

#dicksoutforachilles

>>8503688
>Harambe
Who?

because nivolas are better

>>8503512
Because most readers feel ripped off by anything that isn't 500 pages minimum.

yeah i like short stories because you can see what an author is really about in one sitting, rather than investing a week or more. its like watching a movie instead of watching multiple seasons a tv series.

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>>8503284

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>>8503285
i wanna count the red stars and those of plum-color with her

mainly I'd want to suck her t1ts. however as of late those desire have passed away like the memory of a dream in the morning

Ok. I don't want to be a dick. But one of the faults of our world is that people can say whatever they want without god killing them, mostly (maybe not a fault, leaves it up to us to correct lies).

Someone saying something in front of a crowd of thousands doesn't make whatever they said true. Neither does saying it in the form of a pretty poem. Neither does writing it in a really well-designed, cool book that you can get for cheap on Amazon.

Do you catch my drift? The idea of "six core competencies for writing" may be reassuring to you, but it's fucking bullshit. Writing isn't math. It's not physics. It's not the case that if you forget to carry the one, the challenger disaster will happen. Mostly likely nothing will fucking happen.

I understand that you want guidance, but you shouldn't go to fucking self help books. Go to the greatest of the greats and read and understand what they wrote (if you dare) and try to understand how they did it (sometimes, the more recent ones describe their process). Otherwise your own good nature is just fucking you in the ass.

Ok. Thanks

>>8503375
And I say good nature because you're acting as if we live in a pure world where the laws of literature are as inflexible and as teachable as the laws of physics. You BLASTED POLYANNA!!!

New Oxford Guide to Writing is all you need.

>>8502862
Probably the biggest hack to be taken so seriously by so many people who should've known better. An absolute disgrace.

>>8502872
Care to elaborate?

>>8502862
corncobber.

basicallyw hat >>8502872 said.

>>8502896
Is Percy Shelley really celebrated in literature?

Kek.
I'll give you a one our of ten for a laugh.

Been reading Infinite Jest on my Kindle for the past couple of months. I'd heard that the footnotes were the same length as the actual text for the book (slightly longer, in fact) so at 47% through I assumed I was very nearly finished. Now I've got the horrible suspicion that my Kindle version doesn't include footnotes at all, and I'm still not even halfway through the book at all.

Maybe I'm just not /lit/, but I really can't see the purpose of the book being this long. It's neatly written and humorous, but to my mind there seems to be many passages or even chapters which are completely superfluous. But I'm not all the way through yet, maybe it will all come together at the end. If I still do have 500 pages to read, I guess I'll get through the hump by setting myself a 50 page per day goal and sticking by it, even if I'm not really enjoying it. I hate starting a book and not finishing it.

>>8503521
Yep, the footnotes are like 10% the size of the rest of the book. The book doesn't get "better" per se, but its good. Don't feel like you have to get through it asap. Take it slow, read it alongside other books. Even if its like 10 pages a day thats still only 3 months to finish

opie here. I'm enjoying it a whole lot, but I worry that I'll hit a wall with all of the doorstoppers I want to read. GR, The Recognitions/JR, The Tunnel, are all on my docket, but I don't want to be slogging through each one just because they're long. Any advice on getting over the mental fatigue, or is setting a page count per day quota the best way to go about it?

This is one of the slowest boards. There are threads still active from weeks ago. We don't need these. Got a question? By all means, fire away.

>>8502445
Chronological order, same as you would for any other philosopher

Where can I find a list of books I should read to be "well read"? I wanna apply for med school and need to up my reading for entry exam

>>8502408
You shouldn't read anything translated by a woman

>>8502408
Yeah P&V are the masters of Dost, dont let butthurt faggots who wasted their time with inferior translations tell you otherwise

>>8502423
This

didnt you say you completed this already in another thread

>>8501272

No, I'm still working on mine. You may have the wrong Anon

Not rich so no.

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>>8500631
Karl Marx walks into a bar

and upon seeing you there tells you to go fuck yourself

>>8500631
To bad socialism is shit

Finnegan's Wake does actually have a plot you know, like you can actually explain what is happening to someone who hasn't read the book.
Do you think the book is just random funny words talking about nothing for like 600 pages?

>>8502031
what is the plot

>>8502031
>Finnegan's Wake
>Finnegan's
>gan's
>n's
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could you go an hour without posting shit

"sage" in the option field works newfags, use it

>>>/pol/
>>>/b/
There you go OP, two links to places you'll have much more fun than here without annoying the piss out of 80% of the board population

>>8500085
so thats a no..