Recommended Reading for Increasing Vocabulary and Speech

Finnegans Wake

Will Self

>>9446148
Twilight

>>9446552
>Will Self
Thanks, I'll check his stuff out. Umbrella looks interesting.

>>9446534
Looks a wee bit difficult lad.

>>9446574
:^)

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>>9446148
Herman Melville, only read Moby-Dick but I would guess that the rest are similar.

David Foster Wallace, Infinite jest, started a while back and put it down because there were so many words I didn't know. A lot of the words seem to me to never been used in real life but if you want quantity of words, try it.

James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or maybe Dubliners ( Was a while now ).

Vladimir Nabokov, personal favorite and you will learn some French as well...

Charles Dickens, not a personal favorite but still worth checking out.

Andrei Bely's book Petersburg translated by Dacid McDuff.

>>9446148
Read a Nabokov novel. He uses big words a lot but not so much that it feels like translating another language. Just write down all of the words you don't understand as flashcards and study them.

>>9446659
Thank you. Yeah, I'm not looking for it to be so advanced I have to put it down, so probably Wallace might not be the best for me. It's more just re-learning how to be well-spoken. I figure good literature is the best way.

I'll check out all these authors, thank you.

>>9446659
>>9446667
Which Nabokov novels do you recommend? Lolita? I read that a while back, is there another worth attempting?

Dictionary

Wallace Stevens.
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>>9446148
Read literally anything and look up words you don't know. It's that simple. I'd say it takes at least 1-2 years of dedicated reading to start noticing the effects of such a practice.

>>9446715
My Nabokov list is in order

Lolita
Pale Fire
Speak, memory
Pnin

Pale Fire is considered his masterpiece by a lot of people and if you have read Lolita go for it. Speak, memory is an autobiography but still a good read.

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>>9446148
Kauppisen Petekö se siellä enklantia opettelee,,, kjeh kjeh ...
Lontoon herratko,, maata haluaa siirtää ... kjeh kjeh ...
Se on kuule Olovi kolmosella ja lihaksilla työ ukot töitä tekkee.... ei kIELILLÄ... KJEH HEH HEH HEH

>>9446148
Frank Herbert, Dune

>>9446148
Read 4chan and reddit. Srs.
(I'm new here, what does /lit/ think of my advice?)

>>9446846
Cheers

>>9446957
4chan has done irreparable damage to my grammar

>>9446918
>No response
OP aren't you finnish?
Would feel a right doofus if you weren't

>>9446957
I think that's part of my problem though. I work with uneducated, many of whom haven't graduated high school, and then I go home and shitpost on a Mongolian basket weaving forum.

>>9446981
Not Finnish, but I love your memes. :o)

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>>9446989
Okay, the earlier post in english

Is it Pete Kauppinen there learning enklish,,, kjeh kjeh ...
Do the lords of London,, want to move land .... kjeh kjeh ...
Lissen here, it's Olvi 3 and muscle that the work man uses to get the job done.... not laNGUAGES... KJEH HEH HEH HEH

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>>9447031

I just suggest to read a lot. But try to avoid pandering genre stuff, try to stick to unique works that also interest you and just read a lot.

Posting online can also help sometimes :)

>>9447311
Thanks anon, sounds like I just need to get to reading. :o)

Yeah, posting online helps me write better. I try my best to write well on 4chan even (with varying success).

ignore everyone else.

shakespeare's works,

>>9448940
>shakespeare's work
>shakespeare is work
wtf?

>>9449024
lol