Who are some good contemporary Playwrights?
None. If they're good enough they become authors or screen writers. Live theater is a dead medium
>>8666078
Insufferable cunt detected
>>8666096
So prove me wrong, which playwrights are worth paying attention to today?
exactly when...when did we go from people like this
to this
I don't even know why I haven't dropped out. The professor is just there to summarize the readings and to politely affirm our bullshit amateur opinions.
Education got shittier once it became less elite
lets be real
Do you guys prefer your fantasy stories to follow people who remain relatively powerless compared to the events around them, to follow powerful people, or to follow people who become powerful? Someone's always gaining or losing power in these stories; what point of view on that do you prefer?
I prefer my fantasy stories in the recycling bin.
It doesn't matter as long as it's portrayed well. Your arrow is aimed at the wrong set of targets.
End your pathetic existance OP
You're working in a book shop. A timid young man enters and makes two purchases: Sense and Sensibility and Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams.
What assumptions do you make about the man?
>>8665809
I would probably assume he wanted to read those books
I would feel sympathy for a person that (i suppose) isn't cucked by the conventional memefication of freud and wants to make up his own mind about Freuds revolutionary work on the human psyche.
I don't care about sense and sensibility
>>8665839
This, but I would also assume they would be relegated to a bookshelf after a few attempted reading sessions, never to be read again.
Can someone enlighten me on the point of reading?
>>8665751
No you fucking idiot
>>8665751
How, if you don't yet acknowledge the point of reading? Do you expect us to make a vocaroo?
If you parents didn't, I feel sorry for you.
Is it worth it to read Le Morte d'Arthur, or should I just read The Once and Future King?
>>8665733
You should read both. The once and future king is one of my favorite books but le morte de Arthur is awesome. I haven't read a lot of stuff from that period but it's so different from modern storytelling.
>>8665733
White is satirizing the heck out of Malory, so read Malory first, and then enjoy White so much more (and don't forget Book of Merlyn).
>>8665752
i got that really fat hardcover that came with merlyn
Is reading a good way to learn a language?
>>8665695
...is watching TV a good way to make money
Of course it is, what kind of stupid question is that?
>>8665695
reading in another language is a good way to learn reading in another language
>1100 page dostoyevsky book: £9
>100 page williams play: £10
Why?
Capitalism.
>>8665502
Bet me to it.
>>8665502
Then shouldn't Dostoyevsky cost £110?
Burns is truly the most human writer ever to have lived.
>>8665409
you don't say
why is that now?
>>8665409
No shit Sherlock.
But why?
Are you telling me all other writers are aliens? Interesting. Expand.
>This dude literally lifted up one half of the lake and stacked it on top of the other half
Fuck me, how do I do this?
Will this Egyptian literature teach the muh ancient secrets, or do I need to find the secret underground translations somehow?
>>8665380
Exodus confirmed.
Christians 1, Atheists 0.
>>8665380
>>8665390
Beautiful.
>>8665390
Anyone else like combining fiction and non fiction when they're reading to enhance the overall reading experience?
I'm sure there are better examples for combos - these are just some I found worked well for me.
electric kool aid acid test also works well with one flew over the cuckoos nest
>>8665351
>Trout: In France They're Out
>>8665351
Moby-Dick does this by itself
What's your interpretation of Rimbaud's "Novel"?
>>8665260
I'd Rim his Baud if you catch my drift.
So what happened with A Boy Named Wolf???
It was an amazing short story book! But litwritesabook.com is gone, where is the google doc?
Can we make it again? I still have one copy but I don't know if it is updated.
That cover is dank as hell.
>>8665075
It was the best one we had, we should write it again, m8
I found the link!!!!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ntfk1PTsiD2E3KabYXS2q4XmgX7f3o7htzkIxsaDGVs/edit
Looking for more books like this which give you that soul sucking emptiness.
>>8665040
Brah, you totally misunderstood the book. Kafka was primarily a humorist, this book is supposed to extremely funny, and it is. haha
>>8665044
>soul sucking emptiness can't be funny
wew lad
>>8665040
My diary, desu
I just found this at my local used bookstore. I'm not sure what to think of it, thoughts?
No you didn't
>>8664935
I did. It's 7 bucks and I'm still there with it.
>>8664918
Why don't you read it, retard?