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Still better than 90% of /lit/

>>7386078

No no no.

>take adderall
>inflated sense of self-worth
>not on adderall
>normal perception of quality

Amphetamine really fucks you up. That the American pharma-capitalist is willing to give it to children (considered a hard drug in Europe, rightfully so) is proof of his utter degeneracy.

> Not on anti-psychotics
> Perfect comprehension of every text I read that makes professors weep with joy
> On anti-psychotics
> Can't remember what I just read

Anyone?

>>7386070
Donald Barthelme - 40 stories

>>7386233
t-thanks...

Any other authors I should pursue?

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Chart thread.

>>7386057
That's what the wiki is for. It's in the sticky at the top of the board.

also, i will post results if anyone cares.

can't think of anything else but post the tattoo later

>>7386065
will do.

>>7385957
C U C K

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>>7385957
>Is it why most teenagers and females write well?

>>7385957
If anything the opposite would be true, fisherman, better luck next time.

It shouldn't be taken seriously. Style will always be style.

>>7385955
Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark
On Writing by Stephen King

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>>7386591
>Stephen King

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>>7385923
http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/products/2/231/the_soviet_chess_primer_by_ilya_maizelis/

I haven't read it, but the excerpt make it look pretty damn sweet.

When you're starting out the thing you should focus on is tactics. The book I'd recommend is Back to Basics: Tactics, but it's not really important what book/program you use as long it's at an appropriate level.

Outside of beginners books the meme trilogy of chess books are:

Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953, David Bronstein.
My 60 Memorable Games, Bobby Fischer
Life & Games of Mikhail Tal, Mikhail Tal

>Looking for history of the game
As far as I understand Edward Winter is your man if you want to go in depth, otherwise wikipedia + google should suffice.

>>7386052
Oh, and there's also free tactics training online on sites like chesstempo and http://chess.emrald.net/.

>>7385923
Read Silmans complete endgame course

>>7385876
shut up and read Yeats

he had a profound influence on Joyce and if you don't think the Second Coming is the tits, you're a pleb

>>7385883
I've never read him. I'll give him a try because I remember that "no country for old men" line being good.

But really what the fuck is the pleasure in forcing yourself to read and think about guys like William Carlos Williams.

I'm not gonna fucking analyse your red wheelbarrow.

>>7385890
if you can sit down and analyze the implications of the intro to Bloom's debut in Ulysses, you can shut up and analyze anything you pussyfart

By no means do I hold poetry as my favorite thing in literature but there's quality shit all over. Robert Creeley, Yeats, Robert Browning, Ozymandias

stop being a faggot.

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Get them into the habit of reading and make sure they find enjoyment in it. It should work it's self out by then.
Don't let them indulge in too much television or too many video games.
Hope for the best
My parents got me into reading a lot when I was younger but from 13-16 I barely read at all and wasted copious hours on Vidya, so it's not a fail safe method. I read a lot now though so maybe it's just a phase lots of people go through

>>7385656

I'm afraid too, but its not something that worries me too much because I don't think that books are the epitome of smartness, and there's a whole bunch of types of intelligence and you shouldn't push anything onto them, it'll make them hate it on the future. Be aware.

you can start with reading them night stories and later on having them read themselves to sleep. Just little things like that can spark their interest.

>>7385631
spends the entire first half lying in bed, almost gave up on anything actually happening.

>>7385631
Are you seriously this retarded?

>>7385678
>spends the entire first half lying in bed
Did you even read the book?

how would you achieve a better result but with "effort"?

gr8 db8 m8

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> Salman Rushdie
> shitty surrealism
kek
Either you are a cynic and lack any suspension of disbelief or you have such shit taste you can't even appreciate the level of beauty and complexity in the S.V. writing

So long as poetry is relegated to whining about social issues and not the effacement of the beauty of language, it will be dead.

Now please shit on this post.

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http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/23/instapoets-instagram-twitter-poetry-lang-leav-rupi-kaur-tyler-knott-gregson

>Kaur, an artist and poet who lives in Toronto, says on her website that she writes about the “experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity”. She already made headlines through her Instagram account earlier this year, when she posted a picture of herself in bed with a small amount of menstrual blood staining her pyjamas and sheets, a photograph which Instagram temporarily banned.

>On her website, she writes (all in lower case, as is her style): “there was no market for poetry about trauma abuse loss love and healing through the lens of a punjabi-sikh immigrant woman. so i decided to self publish. even though everyone said not to cause doing so would lock me out of prestigious literary circles.

All I know is this Lang Leav character makes the rest of that shit look like Whitman. Holy fuck. What a worthless fraud.

nope. not much else will happen.

>>7385560
Disappointing. I guess the wikipedia article was just written by an enormous fanboy blowing smoke

>Have you read The Magic Mountain?
>I read the first part, but I found it too boring to continue.
>Oh, okay.
>[What a fucking piece of shit pleb holy fuck.]*
>* "[...]" denotes internal thoughts

Your choice whether or not you want this to be how people treat you the rest of your life.

Finished it yesterday.

Loved every moment of it, even though it's true that the middle books are a bit tiresome.

I think the final volume is my favourite.

>series

Saged. Hidden.

>>7385415
It is. I heard it's getting a series.
The good thing about Game of Thrones is that everybody is clamoring to make a fantasy series now. I heard the Magician's Tree (?) and one of Tamora Pierce's series is getting a tv show.
But I've heard a lot of things, so who knows.

Both Harold Bloom and Allen Bloom are easy to get into and put up some solid rebuttals to liberalism/progressivism (focus on post 1960s America)

Read a bit of Edmund Burke if you want to get into the political/historical side of conservative ideas. Can still apply to contemporary ideas.

If you've got any Catholic (or generally liturgical Christian) inclinations, GK Chesterton is a lot of fun. CS Lewis is his Protestant version (Screwtape Letters a must for everyone).

just stop being a pinko commie desu senpai~

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>Hitler
>A National Socialist
>Held Conservative Views
Shaking my head family, shaking my head.