Books that will give me knowledge in these areas?
>oral communication
The Complete Works of Plato.
Have to read a book till friday and do a report for class. I was going to do something on Plato or Seneca, but my teacher told me I can't because we're done with the classical period.
So, /lit/, recommend me an easy interesting book.
(bonus points if it's actually good)
The teacher recommends Tolstoy, Dostoyevski, Balzac, Zola & Stendhal, or any modern 20th century literature.
>>8649945
You only have five days to read the book and write a report?
Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground.
>>8649945
Heart of Darkness is a quick read, tons of material already out about it.
>>8649945
Just read notes from underground, pretty short and a lot to discuss about it
Can /lit/ decipher the Voynich Manuscript?
The guy who "wrote" it never learnt to write. I was just mimicking littera as symbols. [Paulson, 2012:54]
Autism. I'm not even joking.
>>8649853
By I I mean he. By symbols I mean semantically meaningless visual bits.
Any books to get me out of depression?
Feeling Good - David Burns
>>8649785
Tolstoy my man
Based Tolstoy works every time
There is no book in the world that will cure my small penis.
Also, how does the meme philosophy of niet, kierkegaard and wittenstein compare to this book in terms of leading a "better" life and other stuff
imo "discourses" of epictetus are a better stoic book if you are into stoicism
I like stoicism but never found meditations to really be the primer on self help, it's a lot of unstructured musings written by Aurelius when he was on campaign. They weren't even meant to be shared, much less as teaching material. You can get some good stuff out of it, but still.
Stuff like the Enchiridion is pretty short and more structured primer on the philosophy. Seneca's letters are also designed in a way of giving advice rather than just mulling over his life.
>>8649744
Nietzsche is a raving edgelord, Kierkegaard is basically the bastard child of Socrates and Augustine and has the best prose in philosophy, Wittenstein has autism.
Stoicism barely qualifies as a philosophy, it's more of a delusion if anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVK6_CJmKtk
Let my waifu explain it to you
>>8649502
>books in direct sunlight
She needs to get more sunlight. Unless you're into vampires, OP?
>>8649502
She sounds like a try hard with colored hair.
What the hell, I thought he was a /lit/ meme and then I actually read him and I fucking love him. There's just so much innocent candor and passion in his work. What are the best translations?
>translations
The one Jim Morrison liked. The one that had Rambo sleeping in a bed. It's a side by side
>>8649478
I can't read French, I already speak 5 languages and unfortunately French is not one of them.
Hello, /lit/. I was wondering if there's a book in which everyone lives in a sort of bubble, slaves to some sort of corporation that forces people to work for them, or something like that. I've yet to read 1984 and Brave New World, are they similar to what I'm asking for?
Yeah kinda
Not a book, but check out the second episode of Black Mirror
>>8649486
That's actually one of the reasons I wanted to read something like that. I've watched all Black Mirror episodes, and that one stuck with me the most.
I'm looking for something to read. It can be anything, as long as its realistic and set in about 30 years/in the year 2050.
Technologies at that time:
>Internet of Things
>Artificial Intelligence
>Bio-Engineering
Maybe you know a good book worth reading?
1984
Moscow 2042
Neuromancerr
ITT: One-hit wonders.
I would prefer not to.
u suck OP
>>8649310
Maybe if your knowledge of literature only comes from this board
Best writers that aren't American/British/European?
>>8649181
>tfw no 15 y/o daughter to sexual abuse & exploit like her
>>8649181
Couldn't you've just said "best asian writers"?
check out this neckbeard
Okay guys, I am going to take a break from reading blood meridian because it's too hard, and because it's halloween in a week, I'm going to start reading dracula.
>>8649160
>blood meridian because it's too hard
cool thanks for keeping us posted OP
>>8649184
you're welcome
>>8649083
>homework assignment was to write an extra chapter for the book
>I wrote about them being happy
>>8649083
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArNz8U7tgU4
I go into cartoon land where Lenny can exist sort of happily.
>>8649093
Let us see
Who would win in a fight, Gandalf of Dumbledore?
>>8649058
Why not ask the most important question: will they find love each other?
Gandalf is an angel, Dumbledore is an old queen.
Gandalf via casting Dumbledore into the fires of damnation.
Gandalf has God on his side who will just bring him back more powerful if he happens to get taken down.
For those who have read Knausgaard's ' My Struggle', how would you rank each book from best to worst?
2 > 1 > 5 > 3 = 4
1 and 2 were incredible. But after I read 5 I went back and read 1 again and enjoyed it a lot less than the first time. It's possible they're actually all about equally good, but the novelty of the project makes your first exposure to it the most powerful.
>>8649042
>the novelty
Kek come on now
>>8649061
Who did something similar?