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>these are the vocabulary words in the first 3 1/2 fucking pages of La Bas that I had to use google to look up the definition for. I kept them in a little notebook, this is fucking inane, it took me like an hour to get through these pages.
Lachrymose, Veracity, Sinew, Lanuginous, Diction, Fetid, Eulogize, Apothosize, Repudiate, Veritable, Baseness, Seditious, Adulating, Imbued, Erudition, Interminable, Harangues, Inchoate.
Holy FUCK.
Most of these would have been a piece of cake for you if you knew a hint of french, mango boy.
I know what Sinew, Eulogize and imbued mean. The rest are foreign to me .
>>8226741
>>Diction, Eulogize, Veritable, Seditious
I think you're reading a bit over your level friend
found it anonymouslly.com
>>8226690
>(as a youth I resisted all things "de-facto." I wanted concrete things to believe in)
Ah, a STEM man I see.
INSPECTION,show me your pass code before you keep lurking the board.
Post ending in:
0= Doesn't eat food for an entire day
5= Disregards distractions (Porn/Tv/Magazines,etc) for a day
7=Sleeps on the floor tonight
Dubs= Does everything cold including the night(Shower/beverages/little clothes/sheets/food)
9= Makes a vow of silence (1 day)
Everything else is your sophist safe card for the day.(We know Protagoras bought your way out) Move along
i already do 3 of these on some days so why not
not like anyone will actually do any of this anyway
Sure
Show me
interesting
>>8226625
>I was afraid to loose you
How is it /lit/?
It is just a timewasting doorstop?
Entertaining, but ultimately its gimmicks don't add up to much.
Post modernist garbage. I had to stop when the author goes off on a 3 page tangent about how a character impressed some girls at a bar.
>>8226731
I wish she was still young. goddamn you time!
What's the best bible translation? I got some NVR edition, good for joints, not much else.
KJV or nothing
>>8226599
retard spotted.
KJV is fine but ESV and NLT are both great (on opposite ends of the hand-holding spectrum)
>>8226585
Why read translations when you can read the original one as it was written by the Lord Jesus Christ himself? KJV is the answer.
Why should I read stories about some old fu*ks drinking wine and talking about nonexistent gods before reading anything else? Western thinking is a mess and /lit/ memes are the worst.
they were smarter than you'll ever be you dummy
Begin with the Bible
all the shit about the gods is a metaphor for humanity, dumbass. and the wine-drinking is just a frame story for the discussions
I am going to get banned from /lit/ now, simply because of the last 2 words in my post
'Elliot Rodger'
kek, do we get banned for typing Marcel Proust too?
>>8226542
You're about to find out
>>8226521
why would you?
I am bored and am depending on this board to create a few emotional short stories for me to read to some friends for kicks.
doesn't have to be real obviously but something that will make you feel emotional or perhaps laugh would be ideal
bazinga
noone cares
come on guys. this is your chance to have some fun
Who are the best authors at clean prose?
Someone who uses no adverbs, adjectives, dialogue tags; other than said, yelled, whispered.
Someone who pays attention to the rhythm of stresses.
Someone who has clear pane prose rather than stained glass prose.
Someone where they pull off description, while mixing setting, character, and plot into a single sentence.
Someone who allows the words to drive the story, rather than take one out of the story.
Hemingway
>>8226370
tao lin
>>8226370
Hank The Cowdog sounds right up your alley
ITT: Sum up a book as briefly as possible
A bachelor's ennui
Best translation!
>>8226346
ennui? homeboy is getting tried for murder i feel like that's a bit more than just an ennui idk please elaborate im curious honestly
Anybody read Columbine by David Cullen? Thoughts on the book? The biggest discovery I made reading the book was Columbine intended to be a bombing and not a shooting. Estimates of more than 500 dead if the bombs did go off. The book draws comparisons to In Cold Blood by Capote.
>>8226311
Didn't they try to go for McVeigh's high score deliberately?
Yes, they did. In memory of the Timothy McVeigh bombing, they decided to do the bombing on April 19th. Due to issues with ammo, they decided to wait one more day until they carried out the attack.
Book cover for those interested.
How many words can you skip and still claim to have read a particular book?
>>8226248
go to bed, Tai Lopez
Personally I like to read the surfaces of triscuits until I have an interpretation for every line and crossing desu family
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What's the most problematic book you've ever read? I'd have to say pic related. Islamophobic, fear-mongering piece of garbage written by and for white males
Why do Anti Islam guys always assume that everyone who disagrees with them is an SJW?
They're basically SJWs themselves.
>>8226241
lol you think that was problematic, you only managed to understand the most superficial meaning of the book.
Try this.
>>8227259
it's bait meants to trigger /pol/tards, don't bite
What does /lit/ think of Somerset Maugham?
>>8226193
lad
>>8226193
I read and really liked one of his stories. The Lotus Eater. good stuff.
He was a baller
