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I wouldn't know they were unneccesary until I read them, and even then the author put them there for a reason. Absolutely not.

>>9813223
I never skip chapters.

And you're a dumb cunt, OP. Those chapters are immensely significant in establishing the context and theme of the next narrative-based chapter, as well as offering beautiful scripture-like prose. It's like you fucking hate reading you cunt, I would smack you through my monitor if I could

My piss is boiling so hard that my dick is a fuckin kettle now motherfuckerrrr I'm genuinely mad

>>9813223
> people actually do this on /lit/

I could imagine people would do this on Reddit or Tumblr due to lack of attention span, but I genuinely expected better from people on /lit/.

Maybe after Summer this place will improve.

>>>/tg/
These dudes will be more helpful

Study language

guy who makes the languages for got has a youtube channel on making languages. Think he's david peterson or something similar

>>9812964
Is it on Amazon?

>>9812964
Save it for your blog faggot

>>9812967

Yeah. It's only digital for now.

>>9812956

James Patterson is a very successful author (in terms of $) at least, so he probably has some wise things to say (about making $), but honestly for 90$ it's probably better to just buy a bunch of good books on writing instead of listening to this hack.

>>9812985

How about the David Mamet one? Guy has a Pulitzer prize and a Tony

>>9812956
I know people who have done these masterclass things in other unrelated fields. They're generally just super common sense lectures that don't delve into anything of immense depth. Basically just skims the surface of whatever the top is.

>>9812985
> it's probably better to just buy a bunch of good books on writing instead of listening to this hack.
Pro-tip: do this.

My aunt gave it to me when I was 12, good stuff

It's good. They could have cut about 200 pages out of it easily, but good.

OP here: The new trailer have just arrived tho

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>>9812941
>He didn't start with the Sumerians.

Read the books here that you haven't covered already:

http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html

Is it really that hard to figure out on your own?

>>9812926
Job

>>9812926
Jonah

>>9812930
Why

Mark, but haven't read it all yet

>>9812909
Seriously though McElroy poster what was I supposed to get out of this book? Seemed like a book of short stories about David's memories? Please this is killing me.

>>9812909
Can I bump?

McElroy posting should be bannable after the W&M scam debacle.

Richard Hughs' last book in The Human Predicament Trilogy :(

>>9812781
But it was more of a serial installment in a newspaper, not really a novel to be finished. But semantics aside you're completely right, jolly ol' Svejk never eached the front.
On Svejk, is it worth finishing, I quit halfway through.

Also, Musil's The Man Without Qualities

>>9812911

I think so, although I cannot rate the English version as I read it in German. It really depends on if semi-absurdist humour is yours. It is not really "funny" in the traditional way but it succeeds in making you laugh at the Habsburg attempts to keep an empire together by depicting a character just bumbling from a court into a prison cell into a drunken priests company etc., thereby exposing the dissatisfaction and corruption of Austria-Hungary at every level, while using these absurd situations, these absurd reactions from a changing society with ossified upper echelons to still be funny. The really messed up thing is that the book ends just as Svejk is ordered by telegram to the front. I was expecting a conclusion of tremendous hilarity and extreme impersonal cruelty at the same time and got disappointed so hard...

>>9812716
>I'm now thinking it would be more profitable to study grammar in English before trying to learn a second language.

Well.... English doesn't have cases, and it barely has tense and person.

So yeah, brush up on grammatical terms and such, but be advised that case languages are simply harder to learn than other languages, especially Classical languages.

>>9812743
My problem is more that I'm not entirely sure what these concepts mean and what their place is in the overall structure of a language.

That's why I'm looking for recs for a good introduction to grammar or linguistics.

>>9812779
Here you go:

https://www.uop.edu.jo/download/research/members/oxford_guide_to_english_grammar.pdf

>>9812709
What's an MFA?

>>9812738 >>9812709


Major in Fine Arts, i suppose

>>9812738
>>9812762
Master in Feminine Arts

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>>9812651

>>9812651
Everybody Poopoos or whatever is its name.

>>9812618
Eh hem

TO BE OR NOT TO BE

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A spooky story with skellingtons? >:)

disgusting. you can almost smell them from here.

>>9812489
where is this from?

No I don't

>>9812489
Can't tell if this is Deleuze or string theory.

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Not giving that demon slut a penny

>>9812487
I gave all my spending money to Milo

>>9812487
So it's a book about Russian hackers? Cool I'm in.