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Download Balabolka, its a free text to speech app. Load up a book at a reasonably fast pace and read along with full comprehension. Eventually you'll get used to reading at a speed faster than you currently subvocalize, and you'll also develop the habit of not zoning out or rereading sentences unnecessarily.

>>9815734
I started a new thread because I phrased this one poorly. It's here:>>9815735


As you can see I don't necessarily want to stop subvocalizing or even to read faster, just read without unnecessarily re-reading.

>>9815761
Right, imo the app I mentioned is the best way to go about getting rid of that re-reading habit. Its not necessary but in my experience its a very easy way of getting back in the groove of effortless reading, so to speak.

>>9815625
Have you ever seen this happen? I've never seen a baby interact with any reptiles. Why are you so sure that the baby would cry?

remember: instead of responding to low-quality topics, report them and scroll past

>>9815745
i saw a video of this exact experiment
>>9815754
>low quality
how? im just disproving clean slate faggots

>>9815583

Duke Otterland my bitch

>>9815583
Bernard Cornwall

Voltaire (he lived in England for some time,and knew English)

Reading It in preparation for the film. I dunno, I can see why he's popular. He spins a good yarn.

He wrote some good books a few decades back. Everything post accident is lacking.

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Also, his stuff is just genre fiction. He has never, and will never write literature.

>>9815558
Pt 2

IT was the gang
The driver, who always has the pang
A tinkerer, a reliable boomerang
The last a true casualty of habits
Addicted to drugs, life is a gambit
Same for most of them
Yet he still had’n’t a job then
They smoked and shot the bull till ten
Then - they cracked their beers and off they went

A basement trap with tobacco all over the table, and an XBOX with two broken controllers

A downtown apartment, with pretty girls chatting about all the wonderful places they want to visit

An old dive with a band of retired locals playing classics while some old barfly reminisces with anyone

The destination didn’t matter
Only the ritual
The rolling dewy lawns
The phone playing songs
The squad high as Mars
A classic talk-a-thon
The paranoid whispers
The nonsensical arguments
A voracious discussion
On the weight of a woman’s compliment

And as they left
The night sky, lit by the sleepless city lights
Heaved, and wheezed, coughed
And a low, tremendous rumble echoed through the valley from which they fled
The brilliant sunset of infinites
Scarlet reds, citrusy oranges, rosey pinks, and warm violet indigos
The members of the squad had all independently witnessed
Was gone
The marchmallowey cumulus clouds
Bathed in colour
Seemingly primed to be pulled off an incredible stick and eaten by an infant God
Had been consumed by the imminent storm
CRACK!
A brilliant crack of lightning violently cut the sky in half

The group, trudging through the rain were unperturbed

For better or worse, the boys were back in town.

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>>9815558
Thinking about self-publishing (i have a few people that look for my stuff on here and other sites) I wonder how many reviews it'd take to be reasonable searchable.

pic-related is one of my pieces

>>9815558
>>9815559

Roses are red
Violets are blue
The beats were not good
But they're better than you

>>9815555

Everyone's writing in every language all the time dude.

>>9815555
Depends on what you mean by "contemporary". If you're asking if the corpus of literature produced in the last ten years in any country is as good as the remaining ~2000 years of Western literature, I'm going to have to say no.

But obviously English has good contemporary literature, if only for the sheer volume of it and the fact that English has an actual literary tradition.

>>9815706
>English has an actual literary tradition.

t. chauvinist

no

/thread

>>9815434
your cucked if u speak anyhthin but your white language because it mean your country is not improtant or culture not good enough so you need cucked by other country. redpill redpill redpill

Deaf people

>>9815411
no

>>9815411
worrying whether you're pretentious is pretentious

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>>9815411
nah m8, just put it in a really complicated way and someone will follow you

Eco is definitely too low. I know because I'm a total pleb and has managed to enjoy his books (though obviously without getting most references).

>>9815410
it would be funny if 'jkrowling' was the filename

>>9815410
>Is Joyce (late era) really that complex
Yep. He ranges from incredibly complex to deliberately incomprehensible in Finnegans wake, with some semi-sane passages thrown in for good measure;

>life is a-wake
>oh dear old gumpapar, he's gone on the razzledar, through blazing and gazing and crazing at the stars

>>9815278
Fuck off, you dumb frogshitter

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>>9815285
I'm sorry man

>>9815285
Please, no reddit posting.

>>9815216
I couldnt speak on specific books of his, but Malachai Martin is one of the most renowned Vatican/Jesuit whistleblowers/insiders. Pretty juicy and detailed stuff AFAIK.

>>9816800
>>9815216
"Keys of This Blood: John Paul II Versus Russia and the West for Control of the New World Order" by Malachi Martin has been hailed as "the Tragedy&Hope of the Vatican" in reference to Prof. Quigley's tome.

>>9815216
This is actually an excellent book by a serious writer who had good access to movers and shakers in the PRC and elsewhere. Also, given his finance background, he's able to to explain the shady dealings clearly without getting bogged down in conspiracy-theory-lite territory.

On a vaguely related note, I would suggest Aldous Huxley's biography "Grey Eminence" for a well written study of the mechanisms of power. (it's on Archive.org)

How do you even get started writing screenplays as a job? Always liked the script format for visual narrative media, but I can't imagine taking classes on film writing are any better than creative writing courses.

>>9815211
I try but my friends don't like the idea of taking someone else's idea and would rather do their own thing. It's a shame they're all lazy assholes who are more of the big picture type.

Got most of them convinced to do a short film on one of Edgar Allan Poe's story, but then they couldn't decide which one to do.

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>>9815219
Just adapt your favorite novel/la into a script and shoot it. If it's any good and gets attention, you should have no problem continuing to write scripts for money.

Also check em

>>9815194
omfg had he not taken the redpill? What unvirtuous swine. we must spread the redpill

>>9815208
>wow, if you don't like an author who was a pedophile, a druggie, and a literal murderer you're a fucking problematic Nazi
This is your brain on liberalism

>>9815217
>i don't like this author
>this author should be banned

see the difference?

>>9815171
If you want him to

are you retarded?

>>9815171
Sorry I meant "can't"

>>9815089
I am proud to be racist

>>9815089
Whats on your mind

>>9815091
It might be something I shouldn't say, but oh well. I'm a racist, always have been. Some races are inherently superior to other races, it's just science. To be honest, some races shouldn't even exist and are totally worthless. When's the last time someone chose to watch NASCAR over Formula 1? Never happens. It's the truth folks.