/lit/ - Literature

>selections
>translated
>annotated

>>9233014
>writing in books

>jacket

>>9123401
>swamp german

>>9076305
>touching paintings

>paperbacks

>>8738291
>preferably pdfs

>yfw you see a pleb reading Atlas Shrugged

>>8663217
>Reason - which we'll leave undefined for now

You stopped doing philosophy the second you wrote this

>>8473856
>Et bien

>>7220043
>howard zinn
>guns, germs, and steel
You'd be better off just reading Wikipedia

An inability to recognise their value is a sign of illiteracy tbh.

While it's true that they're not necessary in the kind of sentences that most people read and use in their everyday lives, semi-colons do add a lot of clarity once you start to handle lengthier, more complex sentences with heavy branching, co-ordination, etc. In such instances where they are useful, to convey the exact same thing without semi-colons would require breaking the flow of the sentence and adding a bunch of filler words to ensure that the new independent clauses remained grammatical.

Any tips on becoming a better screenwriter (or writer in general)? I realize this is /lit/ not /tv/, but it seems a board dedicated to literature is more appropriate than one dedicated to arguing over GoT deaths.

Not obvious stuff, things you've learned from extensive writing that struck a chord with you personally.

>All other religions are memes.
What the fuck does that even mean?

>>6013009
>biology is b8
Only on /lit/.

>>5994825
>kekcellent

>>5937478

>magic the gathering cards

m8...

>literary lifestyle

>>5338641

If this award were actually worth anything it'd be going to Krasznahorkai.

Every patrician knows and agrees.

do you let your friends borrow your books?
a friends wanted to borrow some books for his holiday, he gave them back in such a state that i probably never let someone borrow a book again.
also, share your book lending stories/peeves

where in the world do you live where this isn't entirely expected?

>>5133516

she'd probably enjoy it too much and it wouldn't be fun

>Obsle wiped his mouth and blinked his eyes.

wtf, what else he could've blinked with, I wonder, his anus? Also 'Obsle' is a damn silly name, even for a gay-ass hermaphrodite alien from a half-medieval planet. Fuck this shit, I'm dropping it.