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Does the author of this book insist on using "could of" "would of" "must of" as a style choice or is he a real dummy?
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are you retarded
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>>8204279
What, you think it's the first person narrator?
Yeah, he decided that the big dumb crazy Indian has this single hangup. All the rest of the spelling, grammar, and punctuation would be perfectly fine.
Or maybe the author is just a dummy.
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>>8204331
Or maybe writers in this period used colloquial forms of speech in their writing for various reasons. Read Trout Fishing in America or Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
Also
> big dumb crazy Indian
so you haven't even finished reading the book yet, why don't you do that and come back.
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/lit/ humor thread
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I've always hated Nietzsche, but since I hadn't read any of his work before, I never said a word against him. But now, I've already read Thus spoke Zarathusta and I'm currently reading Human, all too human.
And what the fuck.
How can people actually agree with this dipshit? In Human, all too Human he spends a fuckton of time glorifying rebellion without justification. He himself says that rebellion is a childish thing, something that all young people feel at some time, and he says it's also something great to mess with the sacred, to disrespect authority and basically send everything to hell, without saying why.
I'm completely against rebellion of all kinds, but Nietzsche is just absurd. Look at Sartre. He, at some times, spoke well about rebellion, but with justification. I don't agree with him, but it's just opinions. But Nietsche does it without saying why. He also attacked God frequently without a reason.
He were an arrogant self-indulgent asshole. Everytime someone attacked his ideals, instead of defending them he just attacked the attacker back. That's why he's idolized these days, he's the teenager model.
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One day anon, one day.
I can tell you that you are a shallow reader, you can go from there.
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I laughed my fucking ass of while reading this post.
Do us a favour and start with the greeks. Learn a bit about philosophy and as the poster above me said: learn how to read.
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>>8201356
>le meme the post
At least you tried.
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Hello /lit/ I just got this book what should I expect?
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a good book
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>>8201200
Just open up to the man
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Some of the best writing you have ever read
One of the best books in the modernist canon
One of the greatest books of the twentieth century
etc. etc. It's not nearly as good as Ulysses, but what is?
What is the absolute worst book you've ever read?
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Hamlet
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the lost world
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bunnicula
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>age
>location
>current book you're reading, and how do you like it
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Sekida Training / Zen Training
I'm not far, but I really want to get into meditation and this was recommended. Seems reasonable.
Technically, I have started a lot of books, but most are textbooks.
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>18 - x
> l o n d o n
>started reading "do androids dream of electric sheep" before I had exams and just picked it up again. Very interesting so far.
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The Bride of Ice and Some ether
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Rewrite better? Also Critique thread 2016-06-22 03:06:45 Post No.8193609
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Rewrite better? Also Critique thread
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I've started rewriting a paragraph of a short story I'm working on, but the rewrite is coming out too purple to me. What is /lit/'s opinion?
>First Paragraph
The harbor was quiet. Splashes of water attacked my legs in broken intervals, and bursts of dry air crept down my neck and chilled my spine. I sat on the precipice of the dock, growing more impatient with each moment that I wasted waiting. The aging wooden planks creaked behind me, prompting my head to turn with a sudden jolt. “You made it,” Frank joked. He knew that I’d been waiting for this night with incredible excitement. His hand reached down and grabbed my arm, helping me to my feet and, not waiting a moment, Frank walked off the deck and turned briskly onto the half-deserted street. I had to half-jog to catch up with him—the way pedestrians do when a car lets them pass—and was surprised that he was in such a rush.
>Second Paragraph [so far]
The harbor muzzled itself for my thoughts: waves of icy water edged gently towards the dock, seagulls and pigeons slept, dreamless, on chewed-up power lines that drooped lazily above half-deserted streets, and wind capered swiftly, circling me and shuffling along on tip-toed pointes. I sat on the precipice of a dock covered in mold and creaky planks. Splashes of water attacked my legs in broken intervals.
Also general critique thread
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>>8193609
There's nothing wrong with writing that way if the story warrants it for whatever reason. Does it?
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>>8193615
Well I'm trying to make the narrator come across as pretentious and haughty, hence why I did the rewrite in the first place--i didnt feel it was coming across as such. However I feel like prose that's overly purple doesn't get anything done, and I don't want to end up writing 10 paragraphs wherein nothing happens.
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>>8193627
If your narrator is a pretentious windbag or you're trying to set that kind of mood, wasting time with grandiloquent descriptions of everything that take forever to actually get anything done is perfectly fine. Though I'd advise against having that sort of thing in your first paragraph or two if you intend on trying to get this published because agents and/or acquiring editors tend to have no patience at all and will likely ignore your submission if the first two paragraphs bore or annoy them.
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Alright I'm having troubles on finding the book Armageddon that is related to what I just read on this link page.
Google isn't helping me on this and I really would like to read the novel itself but all I'm getting is stupid documentaries and history shit but that is not what I want.
I want to read the entire novel of the Armageddon that I read on here and I would really appreciate it alot if you guys would help me find the actual novel that I am looking for that is related to what I just read here.
Also can we PLEASE not turn this into a religious argument between who's right and who's wrong alright?
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https://www.wattpad.com/story/56605018-armageddon
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um ur welcome asshole
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I started reading Ulysses when I was in my early 20's and in college. I never made it. And over the years, I'd try and try. I probably read the first 50 pages a dozen times.
at 62 I decided I was going to finish it come what may. I won't say it was easy and I took a good month off in the middle of it. But 10 minutes ago, I shut the book on the final "yes" and can now say I read Ulysses,
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What I can't say is that I enjoyed it. Because I really didn't. The first part of the book was actually pretty good, but then, when Joyce stated playing with literary conventions, writing in different styles from different periods, went on a prolonged chapter (lasting about 150 pages) which is one long hallucination, there really wasn't any relief until the final chapter, Molly's soliloquy (which is one long run-one sentence with no punctuation which goes on for about 50 pages.
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I'd never recommend this book. I find it vastly over rated, over rought, and pretentious in many ways. It was in vast need of a good editor.
But, yes, i read it, yes. slogged through, yes, and yes, finally, yes got to the godamn end. YES!
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Is he the new meme author? I just picked up Conspiracy Against the Human Race and I'm a few chapters in.
So basically everything we do is for external affirmation, otherwise life is pointless?
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And what's the deal with Cioran? What are his essential works?
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is there a small subset of teenagers who post this shit every day or did people actually fall for the linkin park-core meme
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Ligotti's been big here since True Detective season 1 when Pizza plagiarized him and name-dropped ad nauseum because he thought that made it ok. His fiction is better than his antinatalism
Cioran is better, read A Short History of Decay and The Trouble With Being Born, and continue from there if you like him
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How could any person under 30 stay inside reading when all the cool attractive people are having sex filled lives spent outside?
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>Comments are disabled for this video.
Yikes.
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Normies are the most unbearable creatures on the planet. We're due for a reckoning.
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Did that dude just stalk her across the world?
When did you realize you were a complete pseud
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>>8207287
not /lit/
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I could be a depressive pseud, or a fat gay bro.all my friends and family are brosglad I picked pseud
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N..not me. Nope never. As long as i never admit, i shall never be.
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What's the hardest piece of literature you've read?
There's a non English classic prose which is infamous for having extremely long sentences, but I don't know of any comparable example in English.
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I read 50 shades of Grey. I was hard for days.
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There's no such thing as "hard to read", what you're lacking is comprehension.
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>>8207154
That's what I meant obviously.
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Ancient Greek literature 2016-06-25 20:46:40 Post No.8207117
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Brown pill me on good books from the ancient Greek period. Thinking of getting 'the oddessey'. What else is gud?
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The Lightning Thief.
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The Fault In Our Stars
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Me and Earl and The Dying Girl
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post your favorite erotic stories
https://www.literotica.com/s/taras-breeding
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Bambi
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little red riding hood
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>>8207091
>not exclusively reading Mf
stay pleb