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My friend and I were bored and we wrote some canon for harry potter after the events of the last book.
I think its much better then the actual canon they used. Thats not saying much and I dont think its great but its better

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I have no problem being a virgin, the only problem is the older I get the weirder it seems to others

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I love you, Tibor. Something burns me on the inside when I remember that we'll never be together.

>Scandinavian literature
>posts Finnish author

Delete your thread and try again.

>>8471941
What is the unknown soldiers about?

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Finland
Arto Paasilinna

>>8471989
you're literally retarded

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>>8471900
Maybe he misbehaved one time?

sure

>http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/

>>8471718
For a right-winger, might look into more left-lib stuff like mutualism and american anarchism. Kevin Carson definetely.

Carson's 'Mutualist Political Economy'
Proudhon 'What is Property?'
William B. Greene 'Mutual Banking'
Benjamin Tucker 'Instead of A Book'
The Liberty Periodical
Clarence Lee Swartz 'What is Mutualism?'

Also Georgism, the seminal text being 'Progress and Poverty'

If you want a headfuck and know basic Smith/Ricardo maybe some Ricardian socialists as well?

>>8471718
Ego and Its Own, obviously.

Oscar Wilde. Soul Of A Man &c. as well as his fictional works.

Hegel, while not left, is worth reading if you can be bothered to.

Utopia, for shits and giggles.

It really takes a long time. All I can say is stick with it. Spanish and other romance languages are fun because of the roots though - maybe make a game with new words where you try to guess the origin and/or related English words?

You can also buy parallel translations and just look at the other page when you get stuck (though for me it's tempting to read the English even when I'm not stuck, so I have to cover it with a large bookmark). It's faster than using a dictionary, and some even come with translators' notes.

You can get intermediate/advanced "readers" that have footnotes for difficult words at the bottom of the page. I have one for French that really helped in my second year. Unfortunately, most of these are superlatively boring.

Seriously though, the biggest suggestion I can give is to persevere. Building vocabulary takes time and effort, especially high level vocab. Don't read texts that will screw you over until you've built some confidence with grade-school kids' books (seriously, often they combine complicated grammar with decent vocab). Maybe a book of Mexican folktales or something?

Good luck with your studies!

I've used English daily through the Internet for ~10 years but I wouldn't say I grasped it enough for serious reading until maybe 4-5 years ago. It's a huge amount of work and I don't recommend it unless you're learning a really common, everyday easy language like English is. Even when you grasp the contemporary usage of a language, reading something pre-20th century can totally throw you off and make you feel clueless.

>Been learning russian for 5 months
>can browse and post on the Russian 4chan (дчa.ч) without much difficulty
>take a look ay the first page of war and peace with a bilingual reader
>understand maybe a quarter of the Russian at best

After hitting it with a dictionary for like half an hour I had the first coupl paragraphs down. Translations change it a lot. Tolstoy isn't done justice by English translations. He writes beautifully. It's a shame about all the French though. I didn't get a word of that.

>There is no objective morality
Yes, there is.

>>8471656
Prove it

>If X doesn't exist I'll feel bad, therefore X exists
Seems to be the only argument for objective morality if you get to the base of it.

>>8471484
They effectively facilitate the development of the story. It's vague, but beyond that it's personal preference by a reader.

>>8471484
If I can place said character in a hypothetical situation and have a reasonable idea of how they'd react.

>>8471521
THIS

>>8471415
butcher's crossing

stephany king - the gunsling

Thanks for recs.

Another couple I forgot to include in the OP:
The Sisters Brothers - Patrick DeWitt (worth an afternoon of your time, fun and well-written but nothing special)
A Moment in the Sun - John Sayles (scope is quite expansive with a lot of Western elements. It's a big fat doorstopper so probably not for those who have to budget their reading time)

Get an annotated edition - if you like reading on your PC, nfs.sparknotes.com is nice

For ebooks/paperbooks I love the Royal Shakespeare Company editions, they're heavily annotated

Just start with the more well known plays. I mean I read Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, MacBeth and Julius Caesar in high school and I got the gist of it. They're not THAT hard if you're patient and careful in your reading.

I liked Hamlet best.

>>8471394
My high school english teacher always said Shakespeare was meant to be heard, not to be read. Get some audiobooks or see if you can find a theatre adaption on youtube. Actually hearing/seeing the play can make things a lot easier.

>>8471346
Lü Bu and his wife are the dumbest parts of the recent TV show. Thank God for Cao Cao.

>>8471351
There's a TV show? I am in the wrong country. I did not know this.

Also, how's Liu Bei in the show? He was always my favourite.

>>8471378
He's annoying perfect. Well, except for the occasional incident.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhdqnsiDSa8

full sincere it's a great book

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LIFE! you poor bastard!

>>8471430
That entire monologue is satirical but so many people miss out on that

>>8471329
Nah it's legit great
Prepare for the best first 100ish pages ever

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I want to read Women and Men but I'm reading Blood Meridian. What to do?

void

>>8471315
finish blood meridian and read the other one next

Are you, pepe?

Do you contribute anything to life or are you always this useless?

>>8471293
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDK9rhWBUlg

>>8471268
the former

>>8471268
Yes.

>>8471268
>save me
Neither. Pursue truths and stop being lard.

Ispak soþlik as an þe ne haþ þee bok iræd.

based milo trump cuck redpill nu male


MAGA anime degenerate

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>>8471256