/lit/ - Literature

>Picador
>... any door

what are some (modern/applicable) books on social skills and stuff that aren't just typical boomer salesman crap? PUA stuff might do if you can elaborate a bit on it.
its for a friend btw

Oba Yozo

I’m a Muslim with Christian blood and a Jewish heart, it pumps Hinduism to my Buddhist mind and generates a Sikh vision. I breathe Zoroastrian and think Bahai. My feelings are Yezidi and my dreams are spiritual. When I sleep I’m non-religious, and when I wake up... I’m human.

>meet yet another cute "literary girl"
>ask her yet again what her favorite books/genres are
>it is yet again literal childrens fantasy books like harry potter
>she says yet again that they don't know who dostoevsky or dazai are when i say those are my favorites

>>19042750
i've never read waiting for godot and i like the tartar steppe because of its grandiose military aesthetic. i am a man's man.

>>18913864
Anon
This is funny
I'm laughing

>accidentally spoil a book for myself again by googling a character
why am i such a retard

>>18895014
>unironic grammar policing on 4chan
I need too really try too understand they're mind set

Australians are better read than other Englishspeakers bar certain regions of England. Because they are wealthier and better educated.

i like the in-game books in the elder scrolls. i think telling a story from a plurality of in-world, finite accounts, myths, biases, lies, propaganda, etc. is a fun idea.

>>18227723
that's crazy bro
man i wish wizards and shit really existed

i've been daydreaming lots lately about delusions of grandeur, epic scenes where i am an epic person, mass death and destruction, more righteous than everyone, etc.

Whenever Aurelino saw the ice is referenced later in the book i'd get fucking chills, actually, it happened whenever something that happened in the early chapters is referenced in the later ones.

I had never seen "have sex" posters getting BTFO this hard before. Great thread, lads, made my day.

Can someone explain to me what is so sad about it? I just watched a plot summary and i don't get it.
>inb4 watch it
Only if you explain why it's so devastating

>>18041100
pls don't derail my thread. I just want recommendations

>>18007140

>>17866773

>>17713057
i didn't go to university but i think you will inherit the world my friend

just be yourself aha

>>17638480
>genre called "fantasy"
>literally meaning "impossible things/dreams"
>write story about a world full of impossible things
>some fucking neckbeards come up to you and calls you an incel because the characters in your fantasy world aren't fucking each other like feral pigs
>mfw

>>17599367
>work bad
What time to live in

>haves and havenots

i love terms like this. breaks down artificial limits on wordmaking to make something so elegant.

The Prince of Nothing and the Aspect-Emperor series. The author is a sceptic and it's a big theme.

The worst is yet to come