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1) read more
2) write more
3) ????
4) no profit!

honestly though just write. its gonna be shit and you're gonna hate it. then you edit it and you hate it a little less. so on and so forth. also, I'd recommend you write with pencil and paper instead of on a laptop or tablet or, god forbid, phone. it will help you in the end. if you're not creating you're simply not creating. so create.

I'm in the same boat as you though except I also am a songwriter. for 5 years now I've been struggling with actually creating when I want to. I'm moving into my first apartment next week and I'm looking forward to cultivating an environment where I will actually fukken write.

/lit/ is gonna shit on you though

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I became an avid reader like fifteen months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time on 4chan anymore.

Here's how I did it.

-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person

-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure

-Read various books at the same time. When I grab a difficult book or one that makes me sleepy I grab another and switch. This should refresh your head. Keep them thematically different. I read economics and fiction.

-It isn't a race. Reading slowly won't make you sleepy that fast. Try to acknowledge what books are for you to read fast and which aren't.

-Buy the physical copies. When you get the books from your own money you'll feel the need to read them to avoid the feel of wasting your money.

-Start with books highly discussed here so you feel motivated to discuss.

>>7628392

>/lit/ is gonna shit on you though

Well you didn't, and that's a great start. Any reason you think pen and paper helps? I used to do it all the time with notes on my world, but I have terrible hand writing and my hand cramps very easily. I do like the lack of distraction, but I could also use my laptop and not access internet.

I have to admit, after sitting at a computer all day the idea of real pen and paper is exciting. I also like to draw, so it could double as a sketch book.

The Story of Art - Gombrich (spelling maybe I can't be arsed to google it)

>>7628198
Gardner's Art Through the Ages is the bible of art history.

>>7628198
It's definitely not the best, but in terms of enjoyement I recommend Umberto Eco's "History of Beauty" and "On Ugliness"

must suck to be you if this is how yo uthink

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>>7628057
not exactly accurate either

>>7628072
God damn it what the fuck
How did I hear different then? Why does evola say different? This shakes up everything I believe in

I'd like one french book that's both a classic and not so hard to read.
My idea is to read this alongside its translation and, hopefully, learn a little bit of the language.

PS: I've read The Little Prince already, but the book I want now doesn't necessarily have to be that easy.

>>7627829
Sorry fami/lit/, I don't know any.

Any recommendations for all things of, or about, Caodaism.

>>7627829
I've heard good things about "Osman's Dream"

>>7628324
Blagov, Sergei (2012). Caodaism: Vietnamese Traditionalism and Its Leap Into Modernity. Nova Science Publishers. ISBN 1590331508

are those literally the only two translations they have? neither are ideal

>>7627600
P&V would be better than Garnett I think.

It's a small local shop I'm just trying to support him

>>7626984

Currently reading it and enjoying it. Just made it to chapter six. Interesting thoughts the qualities of the image and its relation to reality so far.

So far I agree with your observation of seamless interweaving. He pulls it off quite well.

It's far too early for me to form a comprehensive opinion on the work, but so far things are boding very well.

Still not liking it as much as White Noise, go ahead and call me a pleb, it's probably true. But then again, I'm only 1/4 through the work.

>>7626984
>this might be the most beautiful work of American literature written since I was born
You haven't read The Tunnel.

Don DeLillo thread?

I have an ebook of Underworld of only 623 pages, whereas it's actually supposed to be 823 pages long.
I've been wanting to read this so bad but I'm not because I think it's incomplete. Can you guys give me a nice little link for downloading the complete epub?

Dubs.

Read it now and see how far you get before giving up. Then read it again in five years or so when you can actually enjoy it.

That's what I did at least.

>>7626690

Start with Dubliners.

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here ya go

>>7625379
Hello!

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>>7625379

>>7624498
I cant even justify a tiny little aspect of this being literature.

>>/ic/

>>7624586
yeah, but no one else is literate enough to talk about art and aesthetics, or critical enough to consider the affects of the economic system on culture production

>>7624591
The entire population of this board are pretentious English major undergrads, many of whom wear tight pants suggesting an apathy towards capitalism or success. Just because they cruise through books does not mean any have gone to an art gallery.

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>killed off
>author's intentions

>>7624256
you're not reading genre fiction and you're going to dislike most of the characters in this novel it's intentional

>I dislike a certain character!
>I hope she's killed like this is some kind of soap
>what are the A U T H O R ' S I N T E N T I O N S ?
jesus fucking christ are you addicted to drugstore paperbacks?

Eve in Crackland.

Walter Moers. Read Rumo and The City of Dreaming Books. Great tales.

Angela Carter's the bloody chamber

I thought part 1 was pretty linear & sequential aside from the digressions. I could be remembering wrong. I took pretty extensive notes of the characters though, I remember that being the most confusing part of the entire novel, and especially in pt 1.

Absorb what you can and don't think about it too much. Then come back and read it again. Don't feel bad, nobody understands GR the first time around, especially not a novitiate to Pynchon.

>>7626912

I haven't been taking notes or anything. Should I? Reading this reminds me of when I tried to get into jazz and couldn't follow anything musically. I just read it and if I don't understand something I just keep going forward but I'm worried that I'm cheating myself out of the experience. But I also worry that if I tried to understand every little thing then I'd never finish it. I think I'm enjoying myself though. I can't even tell anymore.

I've recently learned that Samuel Delany is black, very surprising (and homosexual but that was no surprise). Nova was very meta and pretty OK, I still haven't understood Dhalgren. Is there anything besides Dhalgren one has to have read by Delany?

I didn't know that Octavia Butler was black either.

>>7626485
>muh identity politics

>>>/tumblr/
>>>/pol/

Just read good literature, fag

>>7626499
What I've realised is that Ive mostly only read dead white men, Im just wanting to see if anyone on /lit/ can recommend good literature that was written by others, The works of Achebe/Okri and Baldwin can't really be compared to what Ive read before.

>>7626432

Every study is a useless study on a cosmic level. But if you feel philosophy suits the time spent between this fleeting moment and your death, go for it homie.

Yep

>>7626432

Minor in it. Don't major in it unless you plan to go to law school or become a professor.

>>7610045
good style, I like it. its actually really good imo. the content doesn't matter I suppose, on its own this story isnt much, but I guess you wanted a critique of writing.

>>7610045
It reads like you're trying too hard to be smart.

Many of the sentences drag on and need to lose some weight.

Will post something of mine in a sec...

This is so bad but whatever. Hit me with your thoughts.

A peculiar headache reached up through the coils and folds of my brain to nest beside the left temple. Every second moment a piercing throb would remind me of its enthusiastically effectual existence. Had I known that an insufficient mix of coffee and water were to blame (not enough water, more than enough coffee) I could have solved the problem in a moment while digressing from a disease succinct enough to ensure fatality: boredom.
My father and his old high school friend still chatted at their table across the cafe, intent on each other, dad rarely casting a glance toward us, his tedious charges of myself, Amy, and my friend Sarah, where we lounged on a couch apiece. Our wide-spread leg space demanded too much comfort for others to relax.
“Sweat pants were made to be comfortable in,” Sarah said when we had sat down. She spread her legs in the typical male fashion of knees far apart. Victorian-era ladies would have swooned from embarrassment, but I laughed and mimicked in my worn and faded jeans.
Ninety minutes later, Sarah had her legs tucked underneath her and flipped through the same Cosmo for a tenth time. My legs were ladylike crossed, to the enjoyment of royalty and fucking pompous asses everywhere. To be accurate, it contrasted my lazy grunge mode of dress nicely even though I scanned through another Cosmo.