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How can you possibly study a language for 6 years and have no vocabulary? ¿Eres idiota?

>>8326083
Si. Also lack of effort outside of class. I think it has a lot to do with the way the classes were structured. At my high school most of the focus was on reviewing the same grammar rules every year rather than vocab. And most of the vocab would be forgotten after the test.

>>8326035

Have you ever read a book in Spanish?

It sounds like you got complacent and rested on a plateau, and now you're trying to overcompensate by running headfirst into the biggest meme Spanish novel you can think of.

Paul Krugman.

Actually 99% of them.

>>8326012
All books have prose you worthless cocksucker. Just some are good and some are bad.

Anyway, what are you looking for? Novels or a school book which is all about the data?

Damn it. Mine is too similar.
Cummings, Blake, Donne, Dickinson, merwin/heaney/ashbery

1. Rilke
2. Hoelderlin
3. Stevens
4. Wordsworth
5. Baudelaire

>>8326010
>>8326018
boring as fuck

cummings is good tho

not a one

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>>8325962
A Maze of Death's pretty good. Also Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep goes much deeper than Blade Runner. Most adaptations go light on the whole Gnostic Simulacra mind trip/absurdist black comedy side of things that's where PKD really shines.

>overrated.
You failed before you started reading it, dude.

Is it just me or is it really hard to find a copy with that cover these days, even though it's the most famous

>>8325964
Perhaps overrated is the wrong word, just disappointing. It's talked about frequently, and after reading it I felt very disappointed. Not overrated, I just overhyped it. Though even if I didn't, I probably still wouldn't have enjoyed it.

>implying

This is not /mu/, faggot.

>>8325969
I'm not sure what it is you think I'm implying, friend

There's nothing about this thread format that doesn't work on /lit/, and I've seen threads like it posted in the past.

Is the issue that you don't read and so you can't make a rec?

Anonymous - OP and His Undying Thirst for Cocks

Just read more. I know /lit/ likes to wank about "prose" but it simply means - in this context - 'the way a thing is written'.

If you really need an example of bad prose just visit the critique thread. Then clean your palate with Borges or something.

>>8325865
Ayyy I like this answer. Shitting on the critique thread.

>>8325848
If the prose is good you'll enjoy. If it is not you'll loathe.
It is fairly simple. Try to measure prose's quality by how unberable the book is.

>>8325779


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

For your own literary good, get off this board as soon as you can. No one here actually reads, and the shit they recommend is horrible. Don't buy into meme books and read what you want. I recommend making a goodreads account and going from there. There is hope for you.

>>8325780
Hahaha, sounds good. Thanks for the advice.

>>8325780
Pretty much this.

>>8325734

>getting "into" anything

that's already a green flag for suicide, friendo

Patricians don't "get into" anything. They simply consume art whenever they are inspired to, and they have done this all their lives.

>>8325742
You perfectly know what i mean with "getting into X".

>>8325734
>musics, films, literature
>hobbies
Those aren't hobbies anon; they're interests. You're consuming a form of media/art.

>>8325719
Tbh I find Jung himself to be tedious and perambulating and preferred secondary analysis of his work to the primary stuff since the interesting ideas are preserved and refined, though detractors of my viewpoint will no doubt use the words 'oversimplified' instead

>>8325719
I liked it.

It's more interesting if you want a peek at Jung's first person mystical experience, rather than being interested specifically in his contributions to psychology

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Not OP, but is there a guide out there for reading Jung? Or could someone gimme the lowdown?

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4chan

>>8325682

If you need to learn how to teach yourself, then how do you even teach yourself to learn in the first place?

>>8325690
Don't do this, OP. It's ruined my life and my love of literature, film, video games, and anime. Everything I used to love is gone because of this god forsaken website.

Why are you reading?

When the aesthetics hit u

When you've realized you're enjoying the story you're reading. Whenever I start a new story I'm automatically like "ughhh boring work" but at some point something makes me interested in it, either sentences, pages, or chapters in.

a rilly good book, enjoy

>>8325616

You're in for a bizarre, saturnalian plunge into the underground. A streamlined doomsday machine.

>>8325616
really good

green stories. really?

>be me
>want to be a writer
>write novels
>finish the first one
>take a break before revisiting and start writing the second one
>revisit the first, it still needs work
>back to second novel
>meet a cool girl
>good chemistry but I managed to dodge the "what are you writing about" question
>half a year later there is no way around it
>realize that I can't sum up my story for shit
>she still keeps motivating and pushing me without knowing shit about the shit I am writing
>we talk about getting published
>I still don't have a query letter or synopsis for the first book and working on the second
>things happened and I told her that I'll try get an agent by the end of the year
>I take my promises very serious so there is no way around it now
>tfw still no synopsis, query or agent
>half a year left

And this is my experience with agents so far.

>big black manly man says Luke
>I am your agent
>he couldn't sell the book for shit