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poorfag here. anybody have a torrent or direct download of this?
So Sad Today: Personal Essays Paperback – March 15, 2016
Just came out, no ebook on amazon, this one may take a while.
>>7842342
yeah i figured :/
thanks for answering though.
do you know of a good torrent site for books?
>>7842345
Bibliotek is good but invite-only (I have none), most stuff is findeable on http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ or mobilism.org
Dumb germanfag here. Pls correct this text. Every advice welcome.
"Nowadays, personal pictures are presented on Facebook. The imaged persons are linked so other people know who they are. If one is not a member of the network, he will get an email or no message at all on the upload of his picture. Individuals who are not interested in participating in social networks still want to know what is happening on the Internet. Just if all contacts would have the same reserved adjustment regarding internet activity, privacy would be maintained. But it is a fact that personal...
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Homework board is here:
>>>/hm/
thank you very much
This doesn't seem like literature to me but I could be mistaken
where would you put the semicolon?
Last approach is to purchase textbooks; established around improving grammar and academic writing, which can be used for clarification.
>>7842266
I think that first clause is a fragment. there should be a "the" there I think
>>7842275
No, it's not.
Is anyone else here a luddite?
I've never read e-books, always bought physical books since I could read
I've also been buying vinyl for quite some time and no longer download musid
I'm thinking of getting rid of my computer entirely, and just using my phones to check emails/other assorted things, rather than wasting as much as two hours a day on the computer
Am I alone in this sentiment?
Who is this vested vestal?
>>7842215
>being a luddite
>using a computer/phone to shitpost on vietnamese knitting forum
pick one and only one
Who is this polaroid princess?
Who is this keyboard broad?
Non-fiction thread.
Can we discuss some non-fiction here?
I've been reading this book, the C Programming language, and it's changed my life.
Say what you will about about technical literature, but at least you can learn real world skills from it.
The book is also extremely well written, both throrough and succinct, with arguably not a superfluous word to be found in the entire text.
To quote a review:
> It has often been cited as a model for technical writing, due to the book's clear presentation...
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>>7842094
the holy bible
>>7842094
>not naming it simply "C"
For a book that takes pride in its conciseness the title is too god damned long.
Is Harold Bloom an outlier? Why can't I remember what I've read let alone recite anything?
>Pic, what's Hendrix reading?
Think about what you read as you read it. Make little annotations next to what you're reading or in a small notebook. Read things you're really interested in and are currently thinking about, something that relates to your day to day life, to your emotional struggles.
>>7842073
>Why can't I remember what I've read
So that you can enjoy re-readings. It is your gift, anon.
I remember the really good ones. I haven't read any Dostoyevsky in a decade and The Brothers Karamazov could not be any clearer in my mind.
I read Wind-Up Bird Chronicle in January and hardly remember anything except the main character's cat's (and brother in law's) name Noboru Wataya... shit book by the way.
Just read this. Was it good?
Ask your wife's son first
>>7841870
He's busy looking after his wife's son.
>>7841866
reddit general?
Thoughts?
>Let me fee. Alas poor Yorick, I knew Horatio, a fellow of infinite Jeft; of moft excellent fa he hath borne me on his back a thoufand times:
>>7841858
OMG IS THAT A MEME REFERENCE XDD
IS THIS MEMERY HEHE
epic!!
what did he mean by this
So what
Is the best edition of leaves
of grass? By this old-bearded
Homosexual gnostic-civil war
healer-saint?
>>7841818
library of america. next time take 5 minutes to google it you fucking faggot
>>7841838
Thanks anon, you
Sound like
A really well-adjusted
Human being
>>7841842
a real human bean
I really wanna do heroin and fuck my sister now.
Holden is that you speaking?
This novel isn't as appreciated as it should be. I'm with you, OP. I wish my life were as wonderfully pointless as Scribble's.
reboot totally ripped this book off
How do I increase my vocabulary, /lit/?
I come to you as a former loser NEET - I dropped out of the eigth grade and spent 4 years doing absolutely nothing but playing video games.
I grew tired of my NEET life very quickly and grabbed a job at a fast food place, and now I'm beginning to see and fully feel the truly negative effects that my lack of education has done to me.
I have very basic "advanced" words under my belt. I read a novel and I have to frequently go and look up words in the dictionary, and not only that - but in the actual workplace,...
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Read more and pick out words that you don't understand, look up their definition, then study them enough so you can effectively use them in everyday life. and yes, your skills can degrade over time if you don't put hem to use, hence the addage - "if you don't use it, you lose it."
>>7841768
keep reading and keep looking up words in the dictionary. dont be afraid to ask people what a word means when they speak. stop playing video games and movies. or at least cut back.
start going to your local library a few times a week.
>>7841768
Read more. Sorry for the loser answer but that's honestly the only way I can truly learn new words.
Just finished this. Some great stuff, and it flows nicely for a short story collection.
What's your favorite piece? Mine is probably A Painful Case or Counterparts.
why don't you like Araby? It's the fucking best.
Very patrician choices OP.
I read that my first semester at semester undergrad along with Scarlet Letter, House of the Seven Gables, Nine Stories, Raise High the Roof Booms and Seymour an Introduction, Lolita, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, and On the Road the original scroll. That was my side reading along with a Shakespeare class where we read about seven plays, and another lit class.
It's been a while since I've read that much. I'm having this weird aversion to fiction at the moment but I'm assuming it's temporary.
I really enjoyed my time reading Dubliners...
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This is my favorite book of all time. My heart bleeds. Do you have an opinion?
>>7841740
wtf is timshel. it's the name for my favorite song from I can make a mess like nobody's business. and I always wondered wtf a timshel was
>>7841740
off to the land of nod, are we, OP?
I loved the characters more than anything else. Samuel as a god figure was interesting, Lee was very well-developed. The themes might have been a little ham-fisted but it seemed like the type of book that was meant to be sappy and emotional like that, and since Steinbeck was able to do it with interesting characters and good prose I didn't really mind.
I'd say the description of country life and family make it a very comfy book. It is accessible and above all sincere, which can be good or bad depending on your tastes.
>Casually reading medieval Japanese poetry
>Find the lyrics to one of my favorite Jpop songs.
Say what you will, they know how to preserve their culture.
>Casually browsing anime image board
>Find image of one of my favorite Authors
Say what you will, they know how to preserve our culture.
>>7841723
>Casually reading post about a post on an anime image board
>Find the words resemble op
Say what you will, they know how to preserve our culture.
>>7841718
>>7841723
>>7841730
>Casually being on a specific tempus/locus
>Find the resembles of an aspect of reality and thefore its resemblance to itself
Say what you will, but it knows how to preserve its recurrent continuity.
I got back into reading about a year ago. I've read most of the /lit/ "starter" selection and a few random recommendations. Books have really helped fill the emptiness I'd been feeling in my life. I love reading all kinds and getting various perspectives through history real and imagined. But now I want to do some writing of my own.
I've been doing some prompts from this book I got but I'm not happy with my progress. Everyone in my life has always told me to just write what I want and not worry about others' opinions. Sure I get their...
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learn another language and read about art
>>7841683
>want to write in English
can you explain what good that would do me? and where am I even supposed to start with that second suggestion?
>>7841674
Take a college level creative writing workshop. There is literally no better way to improve than to write shit and get feedback while also reading other people's shit and giving feedback. Also, keep reading. Also, just write as much as you can and accept that if you want to be a serious writer, you'll never be happy with your progress.
