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I just finished reading this in a quick two day stretch. Absolutely loved every word of it. I can't think of one negative thing to say.
What are some other /lit/ approved books that can be read over the expanse of a few days?
I read this book because I had heard so many good things about it, but at the end I found myself saying "that's it?". It felt like a whole bunch of not much in particular going on. What am I supposed to get out of it? If anyone can tell me, I'd genuinely appreciate it.
>>7796032
poor b8
Pretty sure you'll do great with this
ITT: books that are good to read while high
vurt
>wasting a good high reading anything longer than 1-2pg long poetry
Shiggy
How long does it take to go from complete beginner in writing to competent writer.
>Learn how to draw after 5 years
>Still shitty but ok I guess for amateur
Please don't tell me it takes 5 years too.
My grammar is absolutely horrid as well as thinking of ideas.
>>7795943
10,000 hours
While you won't get any better at drawing simply by having spent your life looking at things with your eyes before you put pencil to paper, if you spend a significant amount of your life reading (preferably a broad variety of books), you'll have a huge head start on writing. While it also depends on your level of emotional maturity, by applying yourself with a little critical thinking, you can write competently pretty much straight away.
The artist needs to learn how hard to press, what pencil stokes to make, how to mix colours, how to arrange composition, thickness of line, colour balance, perspective and so many things that aren't generally innate.
Everybody already knows how to communicate as you speak and write in daily life. Somebody who is well read knows what makes a good sentence, what makes a good character, what makes a good story. It's already in there. You just have to start typing.
>>7795943
it took me 4 years of studying literature to start thinking I had some sense of a skill
Post your first editions!
I'm at work ill post mine later.
They aren't anything to special.
Middlesex
In cold blood
Mason and Dixon
How did you come about your first editions?
>not having a first edition of The Odyssey
Mason & Dixon
Carpenter's Gothic, signed
Nothing else I'm afraid.
I was asked to read this book.
How much is it BS/Real. Comments on those who've looked into all this kind of stuff.
>>7795760
you travelling, senpai?
>>7795785
What, bruh? Why's that matter?
B
so i discovered today that my school's library have pretty much the entire set of the everyman's library hardbacks, all which are basically untouched and untattered.
what does /lit/ think about the everyman's library editions? pic related, it's the one i picked out first, it's the P&V translation which i hear so many mixed reviews about but if it's bad and i want to try another translation i'll just go and buy the book.
Don't fall for the memes OP, I read the P&V translation as well and loved it immensely. Translations are oftentimes more about personal taste. No perfect translation exists and each one has its pros and cons. People on here just claim P&V is awful because they're some of the most recent translators for these classics and they have received immense praise. Sure, maybe they've been given too much praise, but the backlash they reveive on here is blown way out of proportion compared to the praise they get.
I think you should go for it before anyone else posts in this thread and if you don't like it then go for Magershack, his translations are usually good even though I'm not as familiar with him compared to P&V.
Avsey is better.
Then use Maudes for Tolstoy. They are good.
Read their Tacitus.
>>7795597
P&V sucks
Learn Russian comrade.
"We went to camp. An old man in old-looking clothes gave us directions to the camp site. We put down our tents. There were trees of various kinds around. There was a lot of green- green bushes and green plants and green leaves, but they were all different kinds of green- you know what I mean? Like they were all distinct from each other and not like one big pixelated green blur. Wow. And the smells - don't even get me started. There were so many smells and sounds, man. Awesome. And so many little sounds by little insects and birds. Yeah, there was also the sun, which was, uhm, shining down on us all. It was a very pleasing experience on all senses overall. I hoped I conveyed it to you well kthxbye"
This is an exaggerated version of what my prose looks like when I'm trying to descibe settings.
How do you know the proper words for sights, sounds, names of plants, describing the sunlight and the unique greenery, etc? My vocabulary isn't bad, I excelled in SATs. I hardly have to pick up the dictionary when I'm reading books. But I suck at bring those words forth.. like tattered clothes instead of old-looking clothes, or something even better that I can't think of now.
>>7795337
Look up some synonyms, use them sparingly.
Read more
Developing your writing voice is a matter of sharpening your observational skills, reading writers with good prose, and expressing your personality creatively. There's no "proper" way to describe a sunrise.
Going to visit Egypt in a couple of days and was wondering if there is any good Egyptian themed fantasy/fiction out there, as I haven't found anything related to it in the wiki or via search.
The Tale of Sinuhe
Egyptian: A Novel - Waltari
The Tale of Sinuhe & Other Egyptian Poems - Oxford World's Classics
On Egypt - Herodotus
Anthony and Cleopatra - Shakespeare
I hear this one is pretty good
Does anyone remember an older horror book where the cover has a house on it that is also a giant head of a man? I remember this book from my childhood but can't find it anywhere.
Is this it?
>>7795215
The shape of the house is actually pretty close. The head was of an older man and it was an illustration. The whole thing was fucking weird looking.
>>7795218
Ok, how about this?
I been reading Storm of Steel by Junger and I came to ask, any one else into World War books?
Any help? Looking for stuff about the first and second world wars to read. The side doesn't matter.
Just looking for more stuff to read.
Fucked up, forgot to mention, other wars are welcomed.
All Quiet on the Western Front - Remarque
From here to eternity
The naked and the dead
Band of brothers
Slaughterhouse 5
Religion
Is an expression of intuitive feelings
Beliefs
And or understandings
About our spirituality
That science has not yet been able to rationalize for us
Whoever your God or Goddess may be
May they compliment you
And anyone else you pray for
And so be it
God is a concept
by which
we measure
our tane
I'll say it again
>>7795054
>And or understandings
>About our spirituality
>That science has not yet been able to rationalize for us
Lmao
"Religion
Is an expression of intuitive feelings or beliefs about our spirituality
That science has not yet been able to rationalize for us
Whoever your God or Goddess may be
May they compliment you
And anyone else you pray for
And so be it"
Hows that?
Psychopathic Authors?
Heya, so, as a nihilist I try to be as callous and unfeeling as possible since emotions are for the weak, and, I really admire the psychopathic mind and wish I was a psychopath. I think reading Books by Psychopaths could help me in my transition.
So whom are some psychopath authors in, your opinion? Of course we got Adolf Hitler, but whom else? Was Dostoevsky a psychopath? I think Albert Camus is a contender tbqh.
Thanks in advance, and book on!
>>7795026
Camus is as far from it as you can possibly get you nut.
>>7795026
Hitler was the opposite of a psychopath, he dedicated his entire life to his people.
Hillary Clinton seems like a textbook psychopath to me.
>>7795038
He advocated a hedonistic, atheistic philosophy of selfishness and cruelty. His chief hero is an unrepentant racist murderer whose lack of guilt is lionized. Nice try troll.
orgy-porgy
>>7794962
agreed
Community, Identity, Stability :)
One of the better things in the book.
Post your favourite book and your MBTI
https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
Into the Wild
INFP
Then we can discuss our horoscopes, right?
>>7815215
>Into the Wild
To clarify, the one by Erin Hunter.
Listen up edgelords, post your edgiest philosophical views in here.
Multiculturalism might not be ideal.
If there were a button you could press that would wipe out all life on Earth I think it might be the right thing to do. I'm not sure, but as a guy feeling, it seems the right thing to do
Terrorism can be justifiable
