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>>8416920

antigone.

>>8416940
Thanks for reminding me of this but I was fishing for more modern options.

>>8416920
Ada or Ardour

you don't like the quote just because it's overused? what's wrong with you?

>Caring this much about modern media

>>8416852
Anything from The Raven.

>>8416808
>translation

>>8416810
wat?

skip it and read infinite jest.

faust is not so good.

You should read my diary

>>8416804
thewha?

>>8416804
chinese

>>8416796
no.

>>8416796
Started off too meme-esque. Try again without the faggot pic related

>>8416796
fk off with the fw mimi's

>>8416769
It makes sense from the start. The book isn't for you, drop it.

Have you read 'The Crying Of Lot 49'? Pynchon likes to throw many scenes together that rarely make sense, and most of us are 'trained' to follow a straightforward story when reading a book, which makes it hard to get used to Pynchon's style. 'Crying' is much shorter and a good intro to that kind of style.

>>8416770
Yeah I definitely had no problems throughout, so I assume you're just not smart enough to comprehend a book like that.

The only way to rapidly improve communication skills is to work with a coach and a practice group like Toastmasters.

>>8416726
the maxim of the book is you have to read it and apply what you learn. the book is a way to coach yourself on how you should communicate with people.
tl;dr ofc not you have to do that yourself

Had to read it for uni, actually a great general guide but its just that. Also the general maxim is "Dont be a dick" and "Go suck other people's dicks", which obviously only happens when you go out and try.

Communications is a skill like any other, practice practice practice

he is

>>8416687
He only created the self-aware character and was a complete master of the English language.

Find me one character in a work before Shakespeare who is self-aware and changes based on their self-awareness. Just one.

there are acouple ways someone could be thinking this
a) contrarianism. there is a default group of people who will never accept anything that is established as universally good, the same people who don't like beatles. contrarians will stop at nothing to prevent a unanimous opinion because it is the only way they can make their opinion important.

2) the "seinfeld isn't funny" trope. in retrospect, newcomers to the sitcom seinfeld find the show is apparently derivative but actually the show is the source material for what most sitcoms since have been based on, shakespeare is the epitome of this

pls no cornfather

Literally who ?

He needs to remember to pass the sacred corncob to another before he dies.

i feel like almost nobody on /lit/ reads any contemporary literature, and those that do seem to read mostly stuff by crappy recently graduated MFA students.

>>8416632
These charts were an assortment of literature, not just contemporary. I'm looking for year charts as far back as they go.

>>8416625
any /lit/izen that would have something like that probably wouldn't lurk in the summer. most come back in the fall after the summerfags leave, but you could check the wiki.

do you have the pic without your scribbles? I decided to get my fix of more modern classics out of the way before the greeks, all I have downloaded is mythology.

>>8416623
>How are the Greeks going?
pretty good. just finished the Iliad, waiting on my other books to arrive in the mail.

>>8416636
this being said can anyone compare Mythology and Bibliotecha?

>>8416581
Have you actually read any of her works, can you give a suggestion? I've seen Haneke's adaptation already, so I'm thinking of picking up Lust.

>>8416581
Don't know anything about her but every other Austrian author I've tried has been all right to amazing. Tell us about what you love about her, anon.

>>8417295
>Have you actually read any of her works
>this accusation
Lust is what I'd recommend after The Piano Teacher (unless you'd like to read the book and not just watch the film, of course)

>>8417309
Her depictions of sadomasochism are the most interesting I've seen anywhere, that is of course what's she most known for. I'm not a massive fan, but I feel like she's deeply underrated. And I think it's weird she isn't talked about more on here

>>8416537
Why would you want to read american garbage?

But...the light medium has no content

>>8416653
an introduction, would be a nice start

>>8416532
Facts don't matter (cf. Trump). Most of it is finding an audience who wants to hear what you will tell them.

Read Plato's Gorgias and ignore everything Socrates says.

Aristotle's Rhetoric

>>8416532
As stupid as Sam Harris is, he's a brilliant debater. He uses the language of his opponents to undermine them. He also tiptoes around important issues until he can find out what the "correct" public stance is. He doesn't get angry, because he doesn't really care about the outcome. He's just trying to pander to an audience and sell books.

pretty much.

>>8416463

There are psychic links between dragons and humans, so when dragons have sex the humans experience dragon sex psychically, and can't shut it out.

You think that's lit?
https://www.wattpad.com/user/MostlyHetero
Read michael and the sex goblin.

I'd hang out with that guy. This fucking wattpad has been getting memed all over lit I might as well meme it up.

In all seriousness it's actually not a bad read.