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>>8296398
i have a notebook where i shit out some stupid ideas every now and then and i wrote down that exact same concept or whatever like a month ago, it's a great feeling

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>>8297229
(it's the bottom paragraphs for both pages)

>>8297229
Nice diary. Would read

Your writing is shit because you don't read.
If you want to write read classics.
Otherwise it'll be shit.
Start with the Greeks.

>>8296534
This is good advice. And Aristotle even has a bunch of guides on writing and that.

>>8296534
>>8296541
What about stuff like writing descriptive, narrative compositions and commenting on writers style etc?

>>8296313
It's not really writen as a true history. It's a story that helps you understand worldviews and the sentiments and conditions which create them.

>>8296313
is that wonder woman

>>8296331
It's meant to be a history of the conditions that created Christian morality, as well as the conditions that created the morality it replaced.

>>8296282
I got into him with Moby Dick, and stopped after that, though Moby Dick was amazing. Is some of his other work on the same level?

>>8296282
I kept going. So far, I've read Moby-Dick, Pierre, Clarel, The Confidence-Man, and Bartleby. His prose is god-tier and his stories like Pierre and The Confidence-Man have an experimental and modernist feel to them. Moby-Dick is still his best, even though Pierre comes close—funny, tragic, weird as fuck.

Don't force yourself through his oeuvre, but at least give it a chance. The Confidence-Man is great; Melville is in complete control and really fucks with you.

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I've read Moby Dick and Bartleby. I thought Bartleby was really good, but not "amazing." Moby Dick is by far my favorite book.

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Seus

David Foster Wallace

>>8296254
semniotic? did you mean semiotic? you did spell it as semniotic twice so I assume it can't be a mistake...

Wow... I've said and written 'semniotic' since first being put onto this assignment... gross misunderstanding on my part... I never even once noticed google correcting me. You've already shaken the foundations of this for me. Thank you anon.

>>8296337
You ignorant pleb, thou shall study, semniotic bastard. Have you ever read a book in your entire life, fucker?

>>8296106
the notes from brothers karenina

the greeks

>>8296106
Crime and Punishment
The Idiot
Brothers Karamazov

Shorter stories

Demons and The Possessed if you want more

i didn't read any of this but you are gay

Wew, lad.

The book definitely has nothing to do with what you think it does.

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How about you start thinking about it.

>>8295954
by defining "Rectification" as the process elaborated in/undertaken by their works.

ism cannot be rectified. they can only influence better new ways, that will eventually get fixed in new isms.

Duolingo. Currently at 40% and I feel like it works. I'm slowly starting to get pretty good at French.

Just do a couple of levels every day.

Once I finish the Duolingo course i'll go onto something more technical i.e. textbooks.

>>8295976
Seconding this. There's nothing like immersion, and so once you have finished learning the basics of grammar and vocab, try reading one of your favorite (simple) books in French. Then try some French films.

>>8295952
l'école... j'y suis allé

>>8295932
Are you by any chance Australian

>>8295965
Fuck yeah mate

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>>8295844
You're making one of the best choices in your entire life, OP. Prepare to reach transcendence and realise the state that the world is in.

Revolt Against The Modern World > Men Among The Ruins > Ride The Tiger, is the order in which to read the primary body of his work - each book captures his thought and philosophies well.

>>8295920
Revolt Against the Modern world is really fucking expensive. If it's his most important work, why is it not printed as much as other books?

>>8295920
Where would The Doctrine of Awakening fall? The premise seems fascinating

>>8295814
>ywn love a fair twink like Rimbaud

>>8295814
Rimbaud was a qt
Is he worth reading?

For some reason I thought he died at 27 and was like yeah he had a full life but he died at 37 and it's a pretty average life

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I like to discuss the merits of both as far as storytelling goes. Too bad about faggot mods though

>>8295830
But what do you think of it?

I don't think about it.
I watch anime occasionally and read manga just a little less than I read books.
Nothing wrong with it.

I closed it like 3 chapters in. I thought it was going for "intentionally bad and trope filled" like a b movie and that's just not my bag man

Abercrombie has decent characters but does fuck all with them.

You're literally better off reading GRRM

>>8295990

I find character-driven fantasy a nice change of pace from tedious world building.