Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 4166. page

>>7796950
about 7 or eight knowledge

zero

Depends on the literature. I know that answer isn't particularly useful, but it's the only one I can give, unless you wish to elaborate.

File: nazarin.jpg (10KB, 512x400px) Image search: [Google]

10KB, 512x400px

>>7796941
Is there a specialized bookstore for learning foreign languages or medical books. I live in Guadalajara and we have Sandy's where they have a decent catalog but you can also ask them to bring anything from across the ocean or the states.

BUILD

>>7796941

*?

Also Gandhi is run by jews. You should better be buying used books downtown.

>>7796895
You can't write.

>starting 4 of the first 5 sentences with "The [noun] ..."

tears

>>7796901
This is the first time anyone bothered to critique my shit thank you

>>7796929
>it's peak
its
> The souls weren't on that mountain but could only hope to actually stare at from the top of a black ledge.
wut
>Some souls had to wait down below while the others struggled to take a single breath from the growing, morbid mass of souls.
is English your first language, my friend?

>souls
>souls
>souls
>souls
Stop

>She considered herself to be Emily's best and only friend, and right now she wanted to at least grant her job of trying to protect her
>you're breaking my concentration,” and at that her friend backed away with a pair of hurt eyes.
>but no one replied to the newcomer because, frankly, they didn't like him.
>etc
>etc
show, don't tell


>new comer
>newcomer
Have you even read this shit through?

>>7796875
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/

>>7796886
this is some good shit, cheers

>>7796907
thanks! hope we stay friends :)

If God Is So Smart, Why Do We Fart? -- Scott Adams (genius), The Religion War

nice bate mudslim fag, /pol/ is the other way

How are you an atheist and a Muslim at the same time?

You should try this hot new thing called a library with your broke ass

...what books are you trying to read? if you'r ejust starting to read i can't imagine there are many super obscure books that you can't find online with relative ease

>>7796645
I have literally no idea what to read so I just looked in some threads and found one that looked pretty interesting although I cant' find it on tpb

Procrastinate

Get drunk, get high, open word, get distracted, get more drunk, get higher, close word, do something else.

I print it and read it with a red pen, underlining and annotating anything that can be corrected

File: 1449966216559.jpg (96KB, 435x673px) Image search: [Google]

96KB, 435x673px

Here it is.

File: 1452339030907.png (659KB, 607x945px) Image search: [Google]

659KB, 607x945px

>>7796480
not even the best one familia

DAVVVVVIIIIIIDDDD

FOOOOSSSSSSSSTTTTTTEEEER

WAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLAAAAAAAAAAACCEEE

all his novels are major novels

major major major major

>>7796374
kek'd

I managed to grasp this book a little bit better than The Third Policeman, that one was just fucking bonkers. This one you can freshen up your celtic mythology and somewhat make sense of it. It's also one of those books every wannabe writer should read.

Some fantastic and witty meta-fiction writing here, aside from the occasional segment composed of Epic Irish poetry, which tends to drag. At just over 200 pages I thought it was a great light read.

>>7796060
I dont see how people struggled more so with TTP, this book is far more layered.

The pookah was top tier

I read this book because I had heard so many good things about it, but at the end I found myself saying "that's it?". It felt like a whole bunch of not much in particular going on. What am I supposed to get out of it? If anyone can tell me, I'd genuinely appreciate it.

>>7796032
poor b8

File: image.jpg (226KB, 736x1396px) Image search: [Google]

226KB, 736x1396px

Pretty sure you'll do great with this

vurt

>wasting a good high reading anything longer than 1-2pg long poetry

Shiggy

>>7795943
10,000 hours

While you won't get any better at drawing simply by having spent your life looking at things with your eyes before you put pencil to paper, if you spend a significant amount of your life reading (preferably a broad variety of books), you'll have a huge head start on writing. While it also depends on your level of emotional maturity, by applying yourself with a little critical thinking, you can write competently pretty much straight away.
The artist needs to learn how hard to press, what pencil stokes to make, how to mix colours, how to arrange composition, thickness of line, colour balance, perspective and so many things that aren't generally innate.
Everybody already knows how to communicate as you speak and write in daily life. Somebody who is well read knows what makes a good sentence, what makes a good character, what makes a good story. It's already in there. You just have to start typing.

>>7795943

it took me 4 years of studying literature to start thinking I had some sense of a skill

>not having a first edition of The Odyssey

Mason & Dixon
Carpenter's Gothic, signed
Nothing else I'm afraid.

>>7795760
you travelling, senpai?

>>7795785
What, bruh? Why's that matter?

B