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Think about what you read as you read it. Make little annotations next to what you're reading or in a small notebook. Read things you're really interested in and are currently thinking about, something that relates to your day to day life, to your emotional struggles.

>>7842073
>Why can't I remember what I've read

So that you can enjoy re-readings. It is your gift, anon.

I remember the really good ones. I haven't read any Dostoyevsky in a decade and The Brothers Karamazov could not be any clearer in my mind.

I read Wind-Up Bird Chronicle in January and hardly remember anything except the main character's cat's (and brother in law's) name Noboru Wataya... shit book by the way.

Ask your wife's son first

>>7841870
He's busy looking after his wife's son.

>>7841866
reddit general?

>Let me fee. Alas poor Yorick, I knew Horatio, a fellow of infinite Jeft; of moft excellent fa he hath borne me on his back a thoufand times:

>>7841858
OMG IS THAT A MEME REFERENCE XDD

IS THIS MEMERY HEHE

epic!!

what did he mean by this

>>7841818

library of america. next time take 5 minutes to google it you fucking faggot

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>>7841838
Thanks anon, you
Sound like
A really well-adjusted


Human being

>>7841842

a real human bean

Holden is that you speaking?

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This novel isn't as appreciated as it should be. I'm with you, OP. I wish my life were as wonderfully pointless as Scribble's.

reboot totally ripped this book off

Read more and pick out words that you don't understand, look up their definition, then study them enough so you can effectively use them in everyday life. and yes, your skills can degrade over time if you don't put hem to use, hence the addage - "if you don't use it, you lose it."

>>7841768
keep reading and keep looking up words in the dictionary. dont be afraid to ask people what a word means when they speak. stop playing video games and movies. or at least cut back.
start going to your local library a few times a week.

>>7841768
Read more. Sorry for the loser answer but that's honestly the only way I can truly learn new words.

why don't you like Araby? It's the fucking best.

Very patrician choices OP.

I read that my first semester at semester undergrad along with Scarlet Letter, House of the Seven Gables, Nine Stories, Raise High the Roof Booms and Seymour an Introduction, Lolita, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, and On the Road the original scroll. That was my side reading along with a Shakespeare class where we read about seven plays, and another lit class.

It's been a while since I've read that much. I'm having this weird aversion to fiction at the moment but I'm assuming it's temporary.

I really enjoyed my time reading Dubliners but don't remember many specifics.

Thanks for reading my blog, brehs.

>>7841740
wtf is timshel. it's the name for my favorite song from I can make a mess like nobody's business. and I always wondered wtf a timshel was

>>7841740
off to the land of nod, are we, OP?

I loved the characters more than anything else. Samuel as a god figure was interesting, Lee was very well-developed. The themes might have been a little ham-fisted but it seemed like the type of book that was meant to be sappy and emotional like that, and since Steinbeck was able to do it with interesting characters and good prose I didn't really mind.

I'd say the description of country life and family make it a very comfy book. It is accessible and above all sincere, which can be good or bad depending on your tastes.

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>Casually browsing anime image board
>Find image of one of my favorite Authors
Say what you will, they know how to preserve our culture.

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>>7841723
>Casually reading post about a post on an anime image board
>Find the words resemble op
Say what you will, they know how to preserve our culture.

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>>7841718
>>7841723
>>7841730
>Casually being on a specific tempus/locus
>Find the resembles of an aspect of reality and thefore its resemblance to itself
Say what you will, but it knows how to preserve its recurrent continuity.

learn another language and read about art

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>>7841683
>want to write in English
can you explain what good that would do me? and where am I even supposed to start with that second suggestion?

>>7841674
Take a college level creative writing workshop. There is literally no better way to improve than to write shit and get feedback while also reading other people's shit and giving feedback. Also, keep reading. Also, just write as much as you can and accept that if you want to be a serious writer, you'll never be happy with your progress.

>>7841669
Bukowski wrote his poetry almost exclusively in free verse, no meter, no rhyme scheme, not much of any of those technical devices that seem to make poems "poemy." Hence the appearance of "ordinary prose with weird indentation."

I'm no poetry expert, but aside from those aforementioned poetic devices like rhyme and meter, really the only thing that makes something a poem is being called a poem. A poem should also elicit some kind of emotional response. Bukowski wrote a fuckton of poems, some of which were great, and a lot of which were dogshit. The "ordinary prose with weird indentation" ones are likely the latter. The good ones stand out, but you gotta dig for em. Here's a good, brief article about Bukowski's appeal as a poet:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2007/sep/05/bukowski

>>7841735
Poetry is metrical writing.What Bukowski produced cannot be called poetry.

>>7842030
grandpa please

>>7841554
das coz ur dumb lol

>>7841554
There's not much to "get" besides vague ideas of how the earliest philosophers thought about the world they inhabited.

Right now this is largely a stepping stone for you to get into Plato. Maybe later you can return to these guys and maybe glean more from them.

Why would you want to read Sophist drivel? The real philosophers all started off by destroying the sophists and then getting to the point

>>7841526
i made it 100 deep into this before giving up.

just put it down and read Manon Lescaut

>>7841526
there's a movie with Carry Mulligan m8. Now you can see the plot unfold with a certified qt. Solves the issue of spending hours reading the shitty book.

>>7841526
Just go watch the movie, it's very good.

>>7841516
>It's not even that I'm not interested in the subjects I want to read
that's your problem. it has to be interesting to you. as paul goodman saif about how children learn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlbhIqmM_oE

>>7841518
*said

>>7841518
but I said that it is interesting to me, or at least, I'm interested in the idea of learning it... which I guess might not be the same thing. But then, how do I evaluate this dissonance between what I want --or think I want-- and what I feel? I feel envy those with innate discipline.

kys

Drop out and stop wasting money on a garbage degree.

>>7841433
Had the same thing happen to me. Enjoy it, and try not to be the overly critical Harold Bloom of your class. But do try to figure out how well read this professor is. I was able to get my professor to talk about some high literature pretty far until he was unable to keep track of some novelists I mentioned.