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Should i read the introduction?
pros and cons
i'm just about to start it, i don't want spoilers but if the introduction is necessary then i will
thanks in advance senpaitachi
Skip it and begin with the greeks.
Nah jump right in, read the intro after if you're interested
>>7528508
the blurb kinda implies the intro is more focused on the history of the work rather than the contents so i'll just read it afterwards, thanks
Do you guys ever get lonely when reading? It gets so quiet and, unless I am at an interesting plot point, I can't stop from feeling sad and pessimistic. I end up reading fewer than 25 pages per hour this way.
I guess this is part of the reason why few people read nowadays, silence can be hard to handle.
Wtf no
>>7528226
No. Although, sometimes, when I read if I see the word "love" "sad" dreams" or "suicide" I keep my eyes on that words and my mind goes around that words and stop the reading process. It's annoying.
Books make good companions, friendo. You should start reading better books, or at least work your way up, if you're reading books above your reading level.
At what age or stage of your life did you stopped being, or gradually became less, clever? By 'clever', I mean the general know-it-all, frequently sarcastic, attitude, that tends to infect students of philosophy, mathematics, and computer science background.
When I shit the bed, got depression, had my GPA drop to 1.8, lost most of my career options, realized I'm quite emotionally vulnerable, found a qt underage gf who was more depressed than I was, watched her spiral into suicidal tendencies and eventually get incarcerated in the mental ward and subjected to electroshock "therapy", losing most of her memories of me, and had to work my way back up from that
It's hard to empathize with other people's difficulties in life if you have never experienced your own
>mathematics and computer science students
>clever
You're the funny one.
>>7527964
i.e. "when did life finally defeat you and strip you of your pride?"
Has anyone read this? Is it any good?
just wait for the movie
I was talking to my dad about it yesterday and he said it wasn't that great.
>prose
Thank fuck you can hide threads.
>>7527565
That is the face of a man who has literally never seen sunlight.
I don't even know what prose is.
what books should i read if i want to improve my writing?
none in particular is going to be the key to becoming a better writer. just read broadly, and often.
if you already do this and don't think you're getting enough out of the books you're reading, try going out of your comfort zone and read something you wouldn't usually go for or that's more difficult to read.
go back to your favourites and dissect them, figure out what makes them your favourites and how you can incorporate that into your own work.
If you're writing fiction then John Truby and Donald Maass
>>7527426
The Tunnel
hardcover or paperback? which do you prefer if you have a preference? asking because I'm thinking of starting a small physical collection.
Paperback is cheaper, but hardback generally stays in better condition. Choose your pick.
leatherbound > hardcover w/ dust jacket > paperback > jacketless hardcover / mass print paperback
generally
>be Shakespeare
>son of illiterate peasants
>little to no education
>teach self to read and write from reading books
>write adaptations of novels and ripped from the headlines plays
>remembered as greatest writer ever
>mfw
>reads for plot
>>7526183
>reads
>>7526189
>plots
how many people on /lit/ read on a tablet?
tablet? you're out of your league, i read on a god damn laptop.
>>7526049
Desktop master race reporting in
plebs
i don't even fucking read
new to /lit/, redpill me on this man
He's a meme philosopher
I can't, I've already read Nietzsche.
>>7525955
why?
May I bring to your attention, should it have escaped your notice, the beautiful construction of the word "museum"?
that is pretty nice actually. Thanks OP
Thank you based OP
>>7525655
I like how dyslexia is a combinaton of "dys-" meaning "bad" and "lexical" meaning "relates to words"
I just read the Stranger.
Where to next? Do I go straight into the Myth of Sisyphus?
>>7525547
Do whatever the fuck you want. I'm not your mom.
>>7525547
I advise you re-read the Stranger if you do not see the irony of your post
What's your favorite place to go pick up new material, /lit/?
amazon
My local hip, independently owned book store.
>>7525250
I give it a few years before it goes bankrupt
Has anyone else read this piece of shit? This thing is literally "Show don't tell: the book".
The fucking narrator in this tells you everything about everything EXCEPT what the fucking world is about, and what is happening in the world. I'm about 30 pages in and I still don't know if the fucking world is like.. High tech or low tech like traditional fantasy. I don't fucking know, because it doesn't fucking show me or tell me at all.
A fucking punk girl is introduced, and instead of showing us that she is a punk by describing...
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I fucking do hate that shit. Pic related: The biggest show-don't-tell wankfest I've ever read. There's all these references to bullshit from the '80s but he barely describes the actual shit so I had to look up all his references on Google like a caveman. It's like reading Infinite Jest all over again but instead of footnotes I'm reading wikipedia articles on fucking Cowboy Bebop.
>>7524840
Jesus.
Like, there's nothing worse than fucking trying to get into a God damned book and get invested in the world, but you can't latch onto anything because the fucking retarded fanfiction-tier author doesn't want to flesh his worlds out.
>>7524827
bump
What happened to bibliotik? Is it gone for good, or what?
Am i going to have to start paying for books again?
>>7524146
good riddance, that community was terrible
There's more than one pirate site lad
>>7524146
You know you can go to the library for free books?
