i'm ok with reading but retailing is incredibly mentally exhausting. i could read shit for like 10 hours a day and i could retail shit for an hour max
>>25259268depends how smart you areppl with average intelligence can't do that
>>25259268without retailing*
>frogngger>retarded thread
Typically English-lit essays done at a college level want you to assume that the reader is already familiar with whatever text you are discussing. Your goal is to make an argument and use citations from the book to reinforce your argument, not to summarize the novel as though it were a highschool book report.
This book won the Pulitzer Prize today. What did we think of it?
>>25259222That's all threads, no one here reads
>>25259141>muh victimhood
>>25259222>pay 28.99 USD and put the turd in your mouth or you can't say anything!>Noo you have to chew it tooPiss off sister
>>25255074if this is a straight white male, i find it Problematichttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FgxacX72snA&ra=m
>>25259225Yes we do
Are any of you hunchbacked from reading all the time? I think I'm starting to look like quasimodo.
Read in bed or in an armchair.
i tts at 4x while jogging
>>25258724You mean the Nostradamus?
>>25258724Put your shoulder against a door jam and lean forward (so your shoulder is pushed back). Do this with both shoulders regularly.
>Career professional woman finds herself in a compromising situation with someone beneath her, whom she doesn't respect>This someone caused immense damage to her daughter>The story flashes back to the damaging act>Goes into gruesome detail>Reader gets full context>Comes back to the present>Reader understands the woman's rage>Reader is invested in the woman's justice>Chapter 1 ends>Chapter 2>"She looked forward to the taste of his ass..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cf-qdZ7GbA&list=PLSH_xM-KC3Zv-79sVZTTj-YA6IAqh8qeQI think this might work as a general. The mac and cheese is ready. Jump in the journey as a character and test your writing. Above link is a lucky find, An author talks about his process. Might be a helpful watch. I think its a all whole semester or something.I'll be back later, as I think of the next scene. Maybe we meet up in the narative sandbox and work together to find the smell of a dead body south of Las Vegas, USA.
>>25256096bmp
>>25257481bumpbump
>>25248798You should add a section to the book where one of the main characters was accidentally left on Mars. You should try to make the audience sympathetic to this character. You can do this by adding a small part of detail on the character and their possible return to Earth at the end of every chapter —whether the chapter previously mentioned them or not. Essentially, this forces the audience to want to continue reading through your chapters to get to the part of the person trapped on Mars.
>>25256096.ive decided to make a general. just to complete this character experment, i'll leave this thread to die, but within the construct of the thread move characters to the general. i think this could be an adjunct to the other generals regarding writing. ill be back with the next scene.
Han Kang. Ever heard of her? Is she worth the hype or just a pretty face?
>Herro? Me NOT ruv u rong time
>>25256841https://granta.com/the-fruit-of-my-woman/
>>25246933I've only read "Human Acts", but it was very boring and at times cringey with that second person narrative. She really has nothing to say about the fascist regime, besides some trite "humanism". Although the fourth chapter (I think?), which is about that one guy getting tortured by the police, was good.
>>25251790She's an angloid. A real asian would write in Korean, Chinese, Japan, etc., not fucking English.
>>25258636She does write in Korean retard, the translator handles the English
>Who is John Galt?
I'm not a libertarian but the obvious difference in intelligence and sanity between posters like>>25257346>>25257370and>>25257359>>25257360makes the libertarians look good
>>25257901Thanks anon. I'm curious about objectivism, but it's more of a mild interest. I haven't read Moby Dick yet, so I'll read that first
>>25257888>Real capitalismLOL"Real capitalism" morphs into "corporatism" or "crony capitalism" or whatever you want to call it. Always.It's like playing Monopoly and expecting all the players to stay flat, never gaining the upper hand or going bankrupt for weeks and months straight.
>>25257370The global ascendancy of the US came directly from war profiteering during the first half of the twentieth century. We were considered a pointless backwater during the periods you favor.
>>25259054The global ascendancy of the American Empire was the doom of the American nation. Jefferson was right.
>Dude I can't believe the Bolsheviks took away our castle, our stable of Arabian ponies, and our 300 serfs! Communism is le evil!
>>25258621Somehow I do think the system of constitutional monarchism which developed over hundreds of years and has been shown to work quite well is less retarded than whatever the fuck is happening to right wingers in America right now, but you must be American so you probably like the taste of jewish cum.
>>25258401>>25258425The world would be a better place without you.
>>25256615Shut the fuck up. Peolle are turning against you, soon Tucker Carlsen will be ruler and your lot will be thrown in camps. This time everyone will see you pushed into the chamber, banging on tthe doors many will laugh and jeer, seig heil!
>>25258743People who dont pay taxes shouldnt have the benefits of welfare, section 8, food stamps and they shouldnt even have voting rights. If you are not willing to enter a contract with the government you shouldnt have it's benefits, having paved roads, non poisoned food and working streetlights is already more than enough to claim you're a parasite if you're not a taxpayerI completely agree with this take
>>25256724Least delusional monarchy cuck.
Do you need anything else?
im honestly not well-read enough to know but id imagine the answer is Yes, why would two books cover everything
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>>25256510>No satisfactionIt did has suspense though.It was a terrible anxiety dream and could have gone on another 400 or 500 pages, but like those kinds of dreams it just breaks off, just before you have a slight chance to score with those women, you have to speak with some old woman you will be staying with in a shake in the backyard... Then nothing. Like you wake up.The modern world is a nightmare and there's no time for the artists to write anything else but these sardonic horrors
>>25256528Was this around the time Joker came out?
>>25259024>satisfactionThe hell? I thought I highlighted "suspense"
>>25256508You thought that most of the characters were capricious, including K., while the humble and forthright characters (Barnabas, Amalia, etc.) were secretly envied and cruelly treated. As >>25259024 correctly points out, you thought the novel was a sardonic horror, and what was most terrible about it was the general complacency of the characters being subject to a farcical bureaucracy and lawless whims.
>>25259030NTA but I feel like anyone who doesn't see the humor in Kafka's works is missing out on a lot of what makes them great
for context I am american and unemployed
>>25257140
TorahPhenomenology of Spirit
you will most likely get trapped in a chimney and die
>>25257664>He thinks the Zionist police droids will require proof of faith. In the next two years.Are you from the UK?>>25257665>He thinks OP is a Santa LARPer???
>>25257140Is the book in op picrel good? Looks interesting
Does all of /lit/ want to have a bunker in the end of the world and read books all day ?
>>25258603The NEETs already won you dumb bitch.
>>25258609I've been unironically daydreaming about this life since my 16th birthday... I'm 30 now kek I still don't kms cause my delusions tell me I'm going to make it one day
>>25258603if you don't have the unconscious assurance that cultural history will develop and become more than it is now, unless you feel you are part of an ongoing human project with strange, unknown possibilities on the horizon, you will lose the essence of cultural history; nothing you turn to will have a meaning, will evoke anything; culture will hide from you its beautiful face and seal its mysterious lips. in a real sense reading today already is reading in a bunker at the end of the world, and that's why so few people do it, and why those who do are so full of doubts.
>>25258603No, we want to live in a cabin in the middle of the woods.
>>25258603Yes, im glad I have rich parents. Will sell the expensive house after they die and get a cheap house in the middle of nowhere. No electronics of any sort. Will use all excess money for food, water, and other things I would need.
Is it a hoax? Is all of it made up or is there bits of truth in it? I'm looking for non-biased sources that did research into it's origins. I recently read it and it's pretty entertaining and inciting for sure.
>>25258232Exactly. Jews are so shrewd that you wonder if some Zionist didn’t write the protocols to poison reasonable discourse about Jewish influence.
>>25258232They’re goys.
>>25258913Taking the Protocols seriously is reasonable. It's the Jews that are ridiculous along with anyone trying to minimize their insanity.
>>25256543Tsarist hoax but it says a lot of things chuds want to believe, and the will to believe is more important than facts
>>25258967>All copies that were known to exist in Russia were destroyed in the Kerensky regime, and under his successors the possession of a copy by anyone in Soviet land was a crime sufficient to ensure the owner's of being shot on sight.They were just covering for the overthrown Tsarist regime. Makes perfect sense.
What are some books about colonialism that aren't just the author ranting about how it's evil and Europeans bad? Pic related is solid and fairly unbiased.
>>25251997>>25251981Mesoamerican history anon here.While I obviously would suggest reading Cortes's letters, Bernal Diaz's account, and any other primary sources about encounters with Mesoamericann civilizations, you need to keep in mind that they were very much writing to glorify and justify their own actions and a lot of the information they provide is contradicted by other accounts. Diaz was also writing many decades after the fact where memory is an issue and he (intentionally or not) incorporated many myths and misconceptions into his telling that had become popularized in the time since the events of the expeditionThe books I recommend as companions to any such primary sources are "7 Myths of the Spanish Conquest" and "When Montezuma Met Cortes" by Matthew Restall. I talk more about the latter here: >>25237421In relation to what OP is asking for, there's absolutely some moments in both books where Restall is going hard with moralizing stuff and stressing the plight of say Indigenous women in particular, but both books, especially the latter, are excellent overall for the reasons I state in the linked post and I'd recommend them.
This is a good book on the changes that colonialism brought in the people that it interacted with To my suprise it dosn't really take a stance on things besides narrating the events of the story
>>25251981Can also recommend this. Very good and fair overall from a man who loves the continent.
>>25251981
I heard Don Quixote was relatively good with female representation for its time. I prefer classics written before the 20th century.Of course, this greatly depends on what you consider "good female representation," because it seems like people complain about anything that isn't Ghibli or whatever else is their favorite having "bad" female representation.
>>25257480just started reading iti read the signet proverb by robin morgan, and it complains that it has bad female representation
>>25257473Balzac has a very diverse cast of female characters that represent countless different types of woman from beautiful to outright vile
>>25257473Anna Karenina
>>25257571>ballsack
Korean radical feminists are complaining about this genius author being overlooked and are saying that men always get attention for their writing skills instead. Personally, I really liked the book.
>>25258415what does christianity have to do with feminism, if anything, they would be more traditional if they were christian, that's just retarded reasoning
>>25257483No, like all gender war shit it begins and ends with women violating the social contract by abstaining from their sole role of sustaining the domestic and reproductive spheres and attempting to encroach into male spaces.Men in South Korea are required by law to perform two years of military service when they turn 18, which they do for minimum wage (until 2025 it used to be below minimum wage). This puts them two years, educationally, experientially, and monetarily behind women, who use time to forego the only role society has ever required of them: domesticity and reproduction.The gender war shit won't end until women once again have some sort of obligation to society, as men do, and have since the beginning of civilization.
>>25258865shalom.
>>25258865Man you are not gonna believe who a large part of the first christians were, drawn to the fact that separation of the soul distanced themselves from their social obligations.
>>25258865Dānava alert.
