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ITT: Words you hate and words you love
Love:
>recalcitrant
It springs off the velum and slides into a wonderfully confrontational fricative that underscores its meaning
hate:
>pulchritudinous
It's a carcinoma. An obligation, not worth the effort to write or say or think. Unwieldy and intrusive, sounds nothing like what it means. Have never seen it used appropriately; doubt there is such a usage.
They don't have to be long.
"twig" is a fantastic word.
"mulch" embodies its meaning very well.
"inveigle' and "seraglio" just sound cool.
>>7718036
Agree with your thoughts OP, especially pulchritude.
Love
Shmuck
greatness surely self-evident
Lugubrious
a word I find hilarious, a way of saying sad so overwrought it can only be comedic
Malevolence
downright lascivious tongue and lip action (Lascivious is another one I like too)
Marooned
A howl of a word best expressed by the dog Mundo Cani
Sarcophagus
A word that rings hollow, and perhaps foreboding, at least in my mind if not the ear
Orangutang
Orangutan...
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I hate the word "pretentious" because I see it used very often in many different contexts. It's developed a very vague meaning over time and is often just a placeholder for "I don't like this".
Post a book without actually posting what the book is.
An American ww2 spy loses his humanity post war
Post apocalyptic pedo porn. Bunch of adolescant and pre-ad's, only boys, alone on an island, half naked, shaggy, skin glistening in the sun, all the grown ups absent or dead. Blow my conch shell!
A bunch of stuff from the 80s with some fedora aphorisms tacked on for good measure.
I thought it was pretty boring.
>>7717840
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
ISBN: 9780765334565
Lowest Price: $1.45
Source: http://www.textbookly.com/Search/?id=1451673310
>>7717849
The price of a book doesn't determine the value of its prose or message, you fucking goon. You can find copies of Ulysses in a thrift store for fifty cents.
Personally, I've read Fahrenheit 451 twice, once in high school and the second time about a year or so ago. The first time around I quite disliked it but I really enjoyed it a lot more on the rebound. Bradbury has quite a bright style of prose which may come off to some more arrogant readers out there as unnecessarily flowery and purple. I find...
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>>7717913
You've put it a good way, I still think there's much better material out there but it certainly doesn't commit any acts of literary tastelessness...except the razing of the city imo
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/12166052/Italian-author-Umberto-Eco-dies-aged-84.html
>>7719753
We already have a thread, nigger.
Use the catalog
Hey, I was wondering if anyone knows creative ways that I can have a character in my book represent freedom, or freedom of speechS
maybe have an autistic character who gets mad at people for telling him that he shouldn't use racial slurs and he cries about free speech and gets fired from his minimum wage job
Make him a transgendered, multi-ethnic, women's major who does everything he/she can to destroy anyone who disagrees with he/she.
But the theme is that we need freedom of speech, if you think otherwise maybe you belong on tumblr.
I really need help /lit/ for a while now I have been wanting to start reading poetry but i dont know where to start, i was thinking about starting as far back as poems and poets go. Someone suggested the greeks so does anyone know any good poetry books that has a collection of greek poets? Or any good poetry books?
im in the same boat as this anon but im more interested in modern/contemporary works
help me too please
May 8, 1937 - still kicking it - in February 19th 2016
What are his most memorable prose samples?
The entirety of "She Hangs On The Western Wall"
>>7719134
pynchon is a meme author, he has no discernible talent. clearly a juvenile author.
>>7719142
this isn't going to be a meme
To all my other 9-5 bros out there, how and when do you find time to read? Do you have a schedule? Do you sneak in a book during lunch break? How do you get over being too tired to read at home?
pic unrelated but cormac mcarthy is great
desperate self bumb
I'm more like 6-5, but I spend some time reading for an hour or two most nights before bed and in the morning for about 30 minutes before work a couple days a week. I also read a lot on the weekends.
I dunno what to say about not being too tired to read after work. I usually nap for about an hour after work before dinner, so I guess that helps.
by becoming neet
>tfw you finish a good book and the characters had become your friends, now they're gone and the loneliness has returned.
that's what fan fiction is for anon
>>7718574
But they are always-already your friends
>>7718574
You'll be someone friend for awhile and then disappear forever one day too anon
how do i motivate myself /lit/?
Compare yrself to others and see how limp and impotent y'are.
Slowly do what you "should" be doing and you'll realize you are sleeping happier.
>>7718523
Step 1: Contemplate how porn motivates you to wank.
Step 2: Use that knowledge
Step 3: Become POTUS
Step 4: Get a blowjob from your secretary
?????????????
Step 5: Profit
How many pages/books a day does /lit/ read?
Post your all time favorite book, or one of your favorites if you cannot decide on a particular.
I read about 10 pages a day while taking my lengthy dump. I almost never read fiction anymore. My favorite book is the novelization of Gex released in the late 90's.
Also, your book is mediocre, and you're trying too hard to impress others with it. No one actually enjoys that snoozefest.
I study English and am required to read about 300-400 pages of varying material a week. The problem is that I am real fucking lazy and cannot focus when I read. So I procrastinate and read everything I'm supposed to the day before my classes begin. O
>>7715043
It's actually pretty enjoyable with the bloat trimmed.
Let's write something together, /lit/.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PY7-wzSH0qUqxl5-gPUMpwhNcd0DuKcbRFE7wUhLZVk/edit?usp=sharing
>>7715017
bump
>>7715017
second bump
third bump. I'm interested since I wasn't here for "Tundra".
How do you hold your book when you're reading?
with my penis
I created a specialized headband with a mechanical arm that grasps the book and dangles it in front of ny face so I can read and still have my hands free to fap or do other tasks.
leaving you a spare hand for other activities
ITT: In search of lost time
Best translation?
Best editions?
General Opinions
>>7719395
>translation
French
>>7719403
nice meme
I just realized that it has been about a decade since electronic music and the rave scene got big again in the US.
Have there been books coming out reflecting that? People write about doing drugs in small little groups together like alt-lit did but what about the rave scene?
whoever makes these dumb threads about "did someone do a book about xyz yet" is a fucking big dummy. reading for the setting equally pleb to read for plot, why don't u just take it to reddit
