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How do I become more articulate when speaking and expand my vocabulary?
>>8053466
converse with articulate people
>>8053468
I'm bilingual so I don't speak English at my house. What do?
>>8053469
Speak to people outside of your house
Trivialize an author/book/philosopher with
>muh
eg for our boy with the forehead
>muh spooks
that doesnt work op since the book literally is 'muh spooks' and that's the point
>muhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuh
>muhmuhmuh oui oh oui
>googoogaagaa heeeeyo
Rock and roll.
Not one without the other.
Both 'rock' AND 'roll'.
All the way.
>>8053434
but if thats the point then how does it not work
So tell me /lit/, does good young adult fiction exist?
define good, "young adult fiction", and exist
define drinking piss, "drinking piss", and drinking piss
define piss piss, "piss piss", and piss piss
Will Self? More like kill self
>>8053347
he is cute like a giraffe
nice hairline
looks like he got sucked through a straw
>Mine: #KweliClub
Let us know /lit/ers
No, nor do I belong to Princeton. Princeton belongs to me.
>>8053335
Elitist rebel detected
Yes
What is the best age to finish/publish your first novel?
21 and am almost half way through my first sci-fi novel but I think it's too shit to get published so I need to make a better one once it's finished
wondering at what age I should finish a publishable one
>>8053277
There, A Best Friend Coming Out of Darkness by Randy Lenz
>17th grade
that nigga dumb
>>8053277
Stop worrying about age. It literally doesn't matter.
I'm reading Kant right now and i'm taking notes like crazy.
it's only the introduction and he's defining all the terms he'll be using throughout. I'm read seriously not even a page and a half and i wrote 3 pages worth of notes and thinking everything through to really 'get it' took me nearly an hour, but i have a pretty solid grasp on the abstract concepts he's putting forth.
I'm reading the Critique of Pure Reason btw.
So my question: anybody else read philosophy really slow like this? i don't want...
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>>8053252
That's why you start with the Greeks you dip
i hope you're reading kant solely for academic purposes
if not, you're really dumb and should kill yourself right now
>>8053252
just read the prologema (Idk what I'm talking about)
He'd almost got killed
vs.
He'd almost gotten killed
Which is the correct grammar
>>8053240
2nd
>>8053240
1st is UKE; 2nd AmE.
he was almost killed
Need some good old fantasy.
and more similar to Tolkien and less like R.R. Martin. Actually, preferably nothing like R.R. Martin.
Eragon
How much Tolkien have you read
If it's just Lord of the Rings you still have The Hobbit (which is the fun fantasy adventure people who haven't read LoTR think LoTR is like) and the Silmarillion (which is where most of the actually interesting stuff about Tolkien comes from, including the so called world building).
Otherwise, I don't think there are many authors like Tolkien. His main draws were being a great storyteller and extremely dedicated worldbuilder (if not a exceptionally good writer strictly speaking), and since both of those came from his...
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>>8053156
>2003
>reading for the plot
i'll shiggy if you'll diggy
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce;
Considered one of if not the hardest novel in the English language. I've been meaning to read it, but I don't know if it's worth it, any thoughts?
>>8052952
If you haven't read Joyce's previous stuff don't both. Especially Ulysses. If you aren't a huge fanboy by that point, I would also not bother. It's the kind of thing you have to be convinced that what the person has to say is important to have the stamina to go through it. Even then, without an annotated guide you won't get much from it.
>>8052952
You won't make it passed page 10 because you're a huge fucking pleb faggot.
Good luck.
>>8052952
If you're asking whether you should, the answer is no. I loved it myself, but I never doubted Joyce for a second after Ulysses.
When should I read this book? My English skills are not very good (ESL).
It's not actually worth reading, but if you're committed to doing so, I'd say once you hit the B2-C1 range.
>>8052739
After Gravity's Rainbow but before Ulysses.
>>8052739
Penguin books have classifications for different levels. I think they number their levels (1-10) and you should just go on their website.
Was he into Nietzsche? What would Nietzsche have thought of Joyce?
neet would have thought he's pleb shit
>>8052686
Ulysses alone contains more vocabulary words (30,030) than the entire Shakespearean canon of thirty-eight plays and 150 sonnets (29,168).
fun fact
>>8052686
IIRC Joyce considered Nietzsche a very minor thinker and was mostly dismissive.
This is ridiculous. No one's life is this pathetic.
>>8052599
Has Denis Johnson ever even done heroin lmao
>>8052599
>no one's life is this pathetic
>>8053046
Is there anything more infuriating than pic related to read?
Ellipses!
>>8052548
semi-colon
my diary tbqh
Hey /lit, so after reading a very inspirational thread a few days back about an anon driving 100 miles to steal Women and Men from a uni library, I think I'm going to steal a bunch of books from my high school right before graduation time. Any tricks/tips? Are there usually cameras in libraries that I'll have to watch out for? It seems like it will be a piece of cake, but I want to make sure I don't goof.
>>8052426
Oh yeah, also what specific books do you think I should go for (They don't have W&M, obv because it's a shitty high school library), and how many do you think I can get away with?
dont steal from a school you fucking lowlife
end your life homie
