/lit/ - Literature

What makes good prose? What structural techniques can be employed?

>>13278449
>passive aggression is obliterating someone

>>12993725
what is your fucking problem, brainlet. if you're unable to bring forward any counterarguments, why bother talking at all?

>try reading non-entry level non-fiction
>brain starts to feel dry and dense
DAE know this feel? How can I overcome this?

>>12570260
>debating politics on /pol/
>choose good ones

>>12494601
>media personality does something edgy & trendy among his core audience
>these actions definitely reflect their true beliefs

How do you guys manage to read so many books per year? PewDiePie read 72 books this year which approximates to around 1.4 each week. WTF
Any tips?

>>12195170
>let me repeat my strawman, that will surely work this time

>>12192802
>fever isn't a word

>>12184870
>this is a safe space because people disagreed with me

>>12180237
>breaking up oligarchies
>Stop rich people from monopolising institutions
>this happened here in the still most classist society on Earth where you're either privately schooled or not, where Oxbridge has 3 times the endowment of the rest of the universities put together, where the ruling class is almost exclusively Etonian-Oxonian inner circle boys

>>12049947
>deleting your twitter account

Any advice for getting good at reading? I'm nearing my mid 20s and have probably read <20 books in my entire life, most of them being easy reads. Once the syntax or vocab gets above moderate that's when I really start to struggle.

Ideally I want to become a smarter person but I'm not sure if its too late for me.

What books should I start with?

Help a brainlet out, /lit/