/lit/ - Literature

You guys are well-read, right?
>set in 80s
>follows gay guy who can't shake the feeling his parents are ashamed of him despite their support
>goes to a gay pride parade at one point, internalized homophobia vibes
>hooks up with some guy, more shame
>ends with image of his mother smoking in a dark room
>Ronald Reagan and nuclear disarmament are mentioned at some point

>have to read every line 10 times

If the only writing material you personally consumed was the great works of Shakespeare, eventually his language would be your natural way of thinking and communicating, and you would speak in beautiful soliloquys and metaphors effortlessly.

All it takes is getting off /lit/ and only reading the author who you most want to write like, so who is it going to be?

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>/lit/ in 2043
>shitting all over the new popular fiction writers on the scene
>constantly defending and referencing the classics like Game of Thrones and Stormlight Archives
>doing mental gymnastics to strain deeper theological meaning out of the blonde dragon girl squirting diarrhea out of his puckered anus in the mud
>insists that no good books have been written since 2021
>staunchly defends post-modernism against it rapidly declining popularity in the face of the new neo-feminist cybersociety
>the new Muslim children of the west staunchly defend Islam on the internet and call Christians cucks and betas when they post

Wew laddy.

What are your favorite works of Shakespeare /lit/? Least favorite? Do you consider him the GOAT or is he just a populist King-esque pseud who liked penis jokes too much?