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[Anonymous No.5133007]

Post picture recs/reading charts
Particularly looking for the one about grammar
or just any recs for books about grammar or general writing

[Anonymous No.5133011]

[Anonymous No.5133072]

[Anonymous No.5133075]

>>5133007
check the wiki you massive faggot

[Anonymous No.5133092]

>>5133075
wiki a shit

[Anonymous No.5133100]

>>5133092
kill yourself, faggot

[Anonymous No.5133128]

>>5133075
gone through the wiki
it has a lot of these but I'm looking for one on grammar/editing which it doesn't have

[Anonymous No.5133246]

[Anonymous No.5133253]

>>5133100
>>5133075
he asked for grammar books you stupid cunt
>>5133007
go to your library and search 'grammar' you stupid cunt

[Anonymous No.5133254]

>>5133253
>Post picture recs/reading charts
faggot

[Anonymous No.5133269]

Made this recently

[Anonymous No.5133274]

>>5133269
and this one

[Anonymous No.5133282]

>>5133269
>>5133274
You did good pig

[Anonymous No.5133301]

>>5133282

Thank you. I like finding books that aren't just overly esoteric for no reason but are also slightly underdiscussed here on /lit/. I'm hoping to make one for thrillers and mysteries next. That or horror which is a VERY difficult genre to find good stuff for, let alone stuff that isn't mentioned every damn thread.

[Anonymous No.5133305]

>>5133301
>esoteric
>for no reason

[Anonymous No.5133315]

>>5133254
I haven't. are you yet another stupid cunt in this thread? we must be over some limit, now

[Anonymous No.5133317]

>>5133269
>>5133274
those are great
thank you

[Anonymous No.5133324]

>>5133253
i could go to the library but I was hoping that some kind anon could save me the time and gas by posting the grammar chart that is always floating around

[Anonymous No.5134152]

[Anonymous No.5134173]

>>5134152
>Howl
>above anything on that list besides 2pac

[Anonymous No.5134208]

>>5134152
>2pac
>bob dylan
>edgar alan fucking poe
>no Wallace Stevens
>no Shelley
You are a fucking illiterate nigger.

[Anonymous No.5134235]

>>5134208
>Shelley

But he's a second-rater at best. That chart is for ESSENTIAL poetry.

[Anonymous No.5134263]

>>5134152
>>5134208
agreed that is a terrible pic, almost like it is designed to discourage people from wanting to read poetry. picked terrible translators for the non-English texts there. avoid. avoid that list

I recommend Bloom's "Best Poems of the English Language" for anyone looking to into poetry

[Anonymous No.5134271]

>>5133246
did you make this? If so, thanks. I was looking to read more contemporary novellas. Already read (and liked) some on the list so I'm willing to trust the judgement of whoever made this

[Anonymous No.5134282]

>>5133007
>grammar
Is there a particular grammar question you might have? Because I'm not aware of a grammar chart floating around. (I think there's something about the semicolon from The Oatmeal, but that's different.)

[Anonymous No.5134305]

>>5133075
the wiki is awful you mongoloid. can't find shit on there ever.

[Anonymous No.5134491]

>>5134305
Dumbfuck

[Anonymous No.5134740]

>>5134282
just general interest
I've seen it a few times on threads similar to this, the only book i can remember on it is eats, shoots, and leaves

[Anonymous No.5134742]

>>5134271
nah i didn't, it seems very solid though

[Anonymous No.5134748]

>>5134173
>>5134208
>>5134235
>>5134263
don't agree with it either but that's the chart from the /lit/ wiki

[Anonymous No.5135604]

>>5133007
Some grammar and writing recs

For Grammar there's obligatory Elements of Style. The "Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need" is a nice and portable rundown of a lot of grammar rules. There's no one definitive guide for grammar, just a lot of books that have rising and falling degrees of quality depending on what you're looking for. Spunk & Bite is a great guide to fresh, contemporary writing and regardless of whether you agree with it, it can give you some good direction as far as the writing style you want to adopt.

On words in general, try the Eymologicon or recently published Authorisms which is basically a short dictionary of all nonce words and phrases by authors that are in current use today--I didn't even know that "you struck gold" or its variants was coined by Mark Twain.

On writing itself, I highly recommend Annie Dillard's "The Writing Life". It's a short (~120 pages) no bullshit book about what it means to write, what it means to be a writer, and what you should expect, etc. It's a moving meditation. There's also Steven King's "On Writing" but that's longer and much more autobiographical.

correct etinsl

[Anonymous No.5135952]

>>5135604
For Danish grammar, I highly recommend Tegn på Dansk by Lars Bjodstrup.

[Anonymous No.5136239]

>>5133007
Are you looking for descriptive grammar? If you are then Syntactic Structures - Chomsky

if you're looking for prescriptive grammar then get the hell out of my sight

[Anonymous No.5136292]

>>5134152
>howl
>the same level as ts eliot

[Anonymous No.5136463]

>>5133269
The Castle a downer? It read like a zany comedy to me.

[Anonymous No.5136467]

>>5134305
Can you explain exactly how it's awful so we can try to fix it?

What is keeping you from finding things? The recs are laid out in table form with charts at the bottom.

[Anonymous No.5136470]

>>5136467
And here's the one you may be looking for.

In exchange, any suggestions for how to improve the usability of the wiki? Since no one ever seems to use it...

[Anonymous No.5136519]

Replace this with a picture of the Norton Anthology of Poetry.

[Anonymous No.5136522]

>>5136519
Ok, will do.

[Anonymous No.5137335]

>>5133274

These are addicting to make.

[Anonymous No.5137341]

>>5137335
where the fuck is The Atonement

[Anonymous No.5137354]

>>5137341

That one and Catcher didn't make the cut. I don't want to pick super obvious or well-known reads where every book has been talked about to death here. So although Stephen's King It is extremely popular for example, it's usually praised as being a horror book so I wanted to underline its coming of age themes. And Cormac McCarthy is talked about constantly here but 99% of the time it's about Blood Meridian.

I could have also included stuff like To Kill a Mocking Bird but I'm sort of trying to find books along the lines of The Cement Garden and The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys that could use a little more attention.

[Anonymous No.5137389]

essential plastic furniture core pls?

[Anonymous No.5137869]

>>5135604
this is wonderful
thank you so much

[Anonymous No.5137879]

>>5136470
yes, this is it
thank you

[Anonymous No.5139018]

[Anonymous No.5140823]

>>5137335
Add A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

[Anonymous No.5141072]

>>5133007

I'd love to make some of these but don't know how. I am a total software pleb. What do you use to make these? Will MS paint suffice? I have no other image editing software.

[Anonymous No.5141243]

>>5141072

MS Paint will work; something with more flexibility, but that's still free of charge, is the GNU Image Manipulation Program.

[Anonymous No.5141298]

>>5134152
>Howl
>Up there with Eliot and Hughes.

>2pac
>Anywhere
If you were going to include hip-hop, you really failed badly. Listen to Del the Funky Homosapien or MF DOOM. They're good as rap goes, but just keep these lists seperate.

[Anonymous No.5141304]

Anyone have any of these for non-fiction books?

History, critical theory, politics etc.?

[Anonymous No.5141408]

>>5141304
Not a chart, but The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt is good.

[Anonymous No.5141507]

>>5141408
That's a weird coincidence.
I started this thread and listed it:
>>5140714

[Anonymous No.5141513]

>>5141507
I don't believe in coincidence.

[Anonymous No.5141532]

>>5141513
Then you believe in fate?
I don't believe in fate.

[Anonymous No.5141533]

>>5141532
Neither do I.

[Anonymous No.5141653]

>>5137335
Captains Courageous needs to be on that