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I just finished this and must say it was fantastic.
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It was surprisingly a lot more than just dump pulp scifi.
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I just finished Solaris. Should I read this flick?
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Can I get a good reader's summary and why it is better than most other novels of today?
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This is literally the most boring fucking book I have ever read in my entire life, and I do not understand how the fuck /lit/ parrots this fucking thing around like it's the reincarnation of Ganesh.
The dialogue is flat and sterile and unrealistic, the characters are INSANELY fucking two dimensional, and it's full of fucking horribly dragged on pretentious fucking bullshit.
The book ITSELF is dragged on pretentious fucking bullshit.
I have lost all respect for /lit/s views on books after this fucking shit. This is literally the book form of a piece of shit with gold coating on it.
You guys talk an awful lot about Reddit and how shit their taste in books are, but Jesus Christ, if this is the best you have to offer... It really makes me reconsider my fucking thoughts on the whole anti-Reddit thing.
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>>7840627
I congratulate you on your first reading of it, faggot. Now learn how to read better.
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One word: sheeps
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>>7840627
Read The Iliad and The Odyssey
Read Portrait and Dubliners
Read Hamlet
Then read Ulysses 2 more times
Would /lit/ consider 'Where's Wally' by Handford Martin, overshadowed by the common peoples naïveté and bewilderment of such a puzzle that led [them] to be bemused and lose absolute focus of what Handford really meant?
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>>7840616
What did he mean?
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>>7840617
Well I am not sure for certain but I would argue the true purpose of 'Where's Wally' is to show how someone wearing bright clothing (a metaphor for Wally's narcissism) would still be difficult from someone looking from one view only. I'd like to compare people like millenials into this equation; millinials are severe narcissists (I would believe but you may correct me on this) that wear flashy clothing, pointless technology for the sake of looking 'cool' (i.e. Beats by Dr.Dre), and among other things as well. Even though millenials do this, they have seem to blend into each other because they are all the same.
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>>7840616
>not waldo
bongs pls go
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Did Leopold ever actually cheat on Molly, or was she just paranoid?
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>>7840596
He was sending that one girl those letters under the name Henry Flower. I don't know if he ever physically cheated on Molly, but he wasn't necessarily faithful.
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>>7840980
Molly was already getting dicked at that point
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I think so. Not enough stories where both parties get cucked.
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What's a book that analyzes labour or student unions
Basically, I'm planning to start a student union and need to learn about this stuff a bit
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http://www.barnesandnoble.com/mobile/p/after-school-clubs-for-kids-lisa-m-shaia/1117227816/2691555848308?st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Marketplace+Shopping+Paperbackshopus_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP23180&k_clickid=3x23180
You might find this helpful
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>>7840568
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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What is some good Basque literature?
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The only Basque author I know is Bernardo Atxaga
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>>7840509
same here.
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>>7840475
Ramiro Pinilla is really good. I've only read his trilogy Verdes valles, colinas rojas and Sólo un muerto más, but apparently he's critically-acclaimed and and virtually unknown in America.
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Fuck you lit.
you told me to start with the greeks and now everyone at uni is making fun of me.
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>Not starting with the Egyptians
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>>7840481
>Egyptians
try again
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>Not starting with the Norse plus a bunch of other irrelevant shit
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>He was awoken by the sound of his alarm clock going off at around five-thirty. The sound it emitted was more than enough to bring his mind back from the nightmare he was having. None the less he let it rang for five more minutes as a deterrent until he was sure he won't fall asleep again once he pushed in the stop. Once he did that he stared at the ceiling for a moment or two, before getting up from his bed.
>He switched on the lamp placed on the bedside table, and got dress for his morning activities. Green long hunter shirt, wool hunting pants, and fraying boots. The clothes were perfect when hunting in the woods. He grabs a small notebook and wrote his to do list for the day. On the top of paper, what was written on it was, the current day, July 20th. With six objectives which consist of checking the hen house for any eggs, also feeding said chickens. Check the vegetable garden to see how far along are they. Check the animal traps he planted thought-out the forest. Hunt the buck he saw a week before today. And make something for dinner
>He then would walk in the dark kitchen room and opened the cabinet doors. The breakfast in which he would eat only consists of a glass of water, loaf of rye bread, and green apple.
>He finished his breakfast slowly, thinking back on how his grandmother would make breakfast when he was little. After finishing his breakfast he threw the remains of the apple to garbage, he put the bread crumbs into a muslin sack and the cup into the sink.
English is not my first language, I wanted to know if something was wrong.
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>>7840399
>None the less he let it rang for five
None the less, he let it ring for five
>once he pushed in the stop
not incorrect, but confusing wording, maybe "pushed for it to stop" would be clearer
>Once he did that he
once he did that, he
>or two, before
take out comma
>and got dress
dressed
>He grabs
grabbed
>On the top of paper, what was written on it was, the current day, July 20th.
oh hell, On the top page of the paper was written the current day, blah blah
>objectives which consist
consisted
last sentences in the second paragraph beginning with Check should be one sentence and seperated with a comma
>far along are they
far along they are
>and opened the cabinet doors.
open
>The breakfast in which he
the breakfast which he
>apple to garbage
into the garbage
wew lad, u gotta ways to go, but you'll get there, keep at it. try reading english books outloud to get a feel for present and past tenses, which u seem to have some trouble with
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>>7840399
>He was awoken by the sound of his alarm clock going off at around five-thirty
Well he was hardly going to be awoken by its ticking, remove the "going off". The "around" doesn't sit well with me either, you set an alarm clock for an exact time and it wakes you up at an exact time.
I'm so disgusted that I can read no further.
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>>7840399
I'm just gonna help you with a couple spelling and tense errors.
>nonetheless should be one word
>he let it ring*
>wouldn't instead of won't
>dressed instead of dress
>He grabbed* instead of grab
>On the top of the* paper was written the current date; July 20th
>With six objectives: Checking the hen house for eggs etc.
>Then he would walk into the dark kitchen and open* (future tense) the etc.
Frankly, OP, this piece of writing is terrible from start to finish.
It's riddled with too many errors for me to be bothered with.
I think you should read more English novels.
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Recommend me something about human relationships being carried out, be it friendship or love of any sort.
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>>7840378
being carried out?
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>>7840385
Meant books that succeed in capturing the interactions between people when such relationships exist between them
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>>7840394
Every book ever written, la
I don't get it. So what was he on trial for?
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DUDE
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>>7840265
For being guilty of a crime.
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shitposting
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This is so nice, and cozy.
ITT cozy books.
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>>7840243
go join one of those puppy rooms
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Tao lin pls go
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>>7840285
Tao's writing style has obviously been influenced by this, but who was Beattie influenced by?
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is it sensible to say that if you KNOW you're a great writer, you're probably a pretty good writer?also, Discord needs a new invite link. help a nigga out.
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https://discord.gg/0ssJKGTbo2pseIOu
hi soda
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No.
It can be pretty certain that if you think you're a bad writer you're a bad writer. In my experience, the best way to tell if you're a decent writer is if better writers say so.
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>tfw have never met a better writer
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Is there a standard or strategy for efficient proofreading that's widely used, so I can practice it?
I picked up English Grammar For Dummies two years ago and thoroughly educated myself on the theory, but I'm still not confident that my writing is free from inconsistencies in punctuation style, for example inconsistent use of semicolons versus em dashes, inconsistent decision-making on comma use, etcetera. I want to be able to repair these kind of amateurish problems in an efficient and formulaic way, so that my texts are up to publication-quality standard.
Some sort of manual/checklist subscribing to a major style guide reminding the user to 'check all these elements', to hold next to me while I practice proofreading my text, would be basically what I'm after.
If not, what's the best way to practice proofreading and editing? It'd also be a useful freelance skill to be able to proofread/edit other people's stuff, too.
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>>7840220
Chicago manual of style is the one most journos use I believe. Remember this is designed for newspapers etc. so not all of the pointers will be appropriate for things like novel writing.
>http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/contents.html
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>>7840232
Do you know if that applies to the British writing sectors too? Forgot to mention that I'm British.
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>>7840235
I assumed you were American. I think the major dictionary producers (Oxford, Cambridge, Collins etc.) also have their own versions. You might have to buy a hard copy though.
Here's another quite useful online-based resource:
>http://www.thewriter.com/what-we-think/style-guide/
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What do you think of Audre Lorde?
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Lordy, lordy, Audre Lorde.I don't know who she is.Should I?
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Regurtiatated basic concepts but is celebrated because
>BLACK GIRL MAGIC
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Meme.
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Is this the best spanish posmodern novel?
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>anagrama
JUSTO
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>>7840043
>Le spooky racism man
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>>7840047
JODEME