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this is a good question

mine always becomes awkward with describing the character's actions or details during the conversation

i think honestly if you have that much dialogue to write you should maybe just let it go as it is

>>7377293

Write a story about mute people.

>>7377293
Dialogue is essentially exposition, you're telling the reader what you want him to know by having him listen in on characters talking. If possible, try to show rather than tell the reader the same information. If you're using a lot of dialogue to tell the reader that a character is wishy-washy and unable to make a decision, try instead to cut the dialogue down to a minimum and reinforce it with an action - our indecisive protagonist talking while trying to pick between two nearly identical apples, for example.

When possible it is always best to read authors in their original language. Hence why modern-English Shakespeare will always be pleb-tier.

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>>7377242
>modern English began after the great vowel shift in about 1550
>Shakespeare wrote in the early 1600s
Shakespeare is in modern English

>>7377253
Do you think we ought to perform Aristophanes' plays in the original Greek?

>>7377240

Is there anything special about Library of America books? Or are they just another one of those "neat hardcover" publishers?

>>7377240
A mistake making a mistake. Yowch. But will it undo your parents's crime?

>>7377249
Check it out m8. These aren't the signature black books that a synonymies Library of America. They are really nice hardcovers tho and you get a 3 book set for like $10 to start then get a book a month for like $25 bucks

https://www.loa.org/subscribe

It remains relevant in many ways, though Brave New World has turned out to be a more accurate depiction of the future.

Why do you ask?

>>7377259
:') ...he said repeating an argument from an idiot...

>>7377278
Care to elaborate?

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>>7377115
You answered your own question, pop science is made to make the subject closer to a layman understanding, but if you want the real shit you have to read the papers.

>>7377121
Maybe i worded it wrong.

I mean, is there anything bad in just relying in pop science if you don't want to skim through thousands of pages of papers to look for the results only?

>>7377138
if you want a decent understanding of scientific topics then just read textbooks for undergrads. only once you get the general knowledge of the topic and importantly vocabulary can you begin to understand scientific papers

>>7377108
>mfw I don't know how to format anything other than ***

>>7377127
i do this

it doesnt matter.

>not commissioning new placeholder art from a professional designer for every single text break

Jesus, fucking poors. It's fucking amateur hour out here.

>>7377076
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2003/09/24/dumbing_down_american_readers/

Obligatory

>>7377085
/thread

It's not even fluffy entertainment. Millions of children were tricked into reading this product. It's entirely devoid of imagination. Looking back I'm embarrassed eleven year old me bought into it.

>>7377028
my diary, desu

>>7377028
accepting that everything is random and you have no control

The Bible senpai.

>>7376974
Ulysses

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>>7376974

>>7376974
The Evangelion manga.

>open up /lit/
>memes

this is the best

>>7376937
I mean, you dont go into the Atlantic trying to find right leaning issues.

I prefer BBC America, Reuters, the long war journal, christian science monitor, foreign affairs and ars and torrentfreak

>>7376937
>implying White people didn't commit horrid acts in the past and still do even though people who didn't commit these acts shouldn't feel guilty for what their ancestors did
>implying Wall Street and capitalism isn't excessive and bringing itself to utter collapse
>implying the media caused this pop-sci phenomenon and not engineers and bad researchers like Dawkins, Nye, and NDT

>>7376883

Completely pointless unless you've mastered symbolic logic

>>7376883
It's not really that important if your philosophical readings start with the Greeks. That's a different matter by the time you get to Augustine and the other medievals though. You could start with either, or you conclude your Greek and early Roman studies with the Bible.

>>7376883
OP here, this is my plan:
>read a book of general human history (very resumed ofc)
>read the holy bible
>get into philosophy and the history of the philosophical school i am reading more deeply

r8? tips?

and so on it goes...

KAWAIIII :3

>>7376912
Kek.
>>7376882
>>>/his/

Any of the classics that I haven't read yet. I have this weird idea that as someone who likes reading and books, I have a moral obligation to read certain authors.

>>7376876
There's always something. I read Recognitions, but I haven't read JR. I read Wuthering Heights, but I haven't finished Jane Eyre. I've read all of Shakespeare's stuff, but only the abridged Canterbury Tales.
My life is hell, senpai desu.

>>7376876
Das Kapital. Not memeing.

>>7376841
Yes. Canonical poetry and James Joyce are the very definition of pleb

>>7376841
Y'don't srsly wear breeches like thah'—? :')

>wearing shoes inside house

>>7376837
*imverno

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>>7376843
fugg

what is this meme's name?