/lit/ - Literature

pls rec me some books to thoroughly fuck me up and ruin my mood for the next couple of months

>>22128773
Because you like storytelling and drama, not books.
>t. guy who likes storytelling and drama, not books

>>21356518
>I’m on my self improvement journey as a 24 yr old male living in the west
get off 4chan imo
t. 32 yo

Any good books about a living death?
A mute Purgatory that a nobody has to endure?
I'm looking for a book about a character who is drowning in real life and can't escape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6FukU7WtIY

I need a book to lift my spirits. What do you recommend?

>>20512041

>20
>student at Uni
>James Joyce - Ulysses
>Hamsun - Pan; Salinger - Catcher In The Rye (re-read)
>I genuinely can't tell. There's something with me, but I can't understand how I wanna change, which direction to take, which path I should follow. I'm thinking of changing things around me, my surroundings: it is only natural to grow out of relationships and contexts, even when they you've found yourself in them for so long, they feel like they're part of your very identity, at this point; but that's exactly the problem: you think they are so pivital, so important, so essential to you, you are afraid of leaving them behind, putting an end to them, move on. And that's the predicament I find myself in. It is only natural for you to change and alienate people around you, for you've changed and they won't be able to recognize you. But what if I'm chaning for the worse? Or maybe, by trying to stay true to my "former self" in order to preserve those thing and people so important to me, I will stagnate and, eventually, change for the worse anyway. I don't want to think about it too much, too.

>>20299935
And really what is the difference
Those who you are most deeply disgusted by you will eventually come to fear not even necessarily because you fear for your own safety but because of what they represent, because they allow you to witness first hand the deep well of darkness that exists in the human spirit...

>750 word pragmatics essay due in 8 hours
>haven't even started
do I just kms myself bros.. any books for this feel?

Have you ever felt so close to someone yet so far away?

>150 word essay due tomorrow
>haven't even started
Any books for this feel bros

>>18691046
>you just need love

>spend all they browsing 4chan and Youtube on Pc
>decide to take a break
>proceed to do the same thing on phone
Why am I like this

>>17451723
okay bros:
>Your gf wants to talk to you
>You've been dating for ~6 months
>"There's something in my past you should know about..."
>*Shows you video of her getting the Kelly Wang treatment*
>"S-so? Are you okay, Anon?"
What do you do?

>>17372129
Fucking hell I wish I could be religious. I cannot imagine how nice it must feel to legitimately believe that there is a benevolent father watching you and loving you. Imagine feeling the pull to SERVE and love such a father, a God.

>>17370259
Remember when this was an undesirable thing? When young women still desired to display some semblance of decency? When having your pussy repeatedly blown out wasn't a point of pride?

>>17199372
>the ending of The Idiot

>>17164414

>>16159260
Spoiler that shit

>>16159479
>>16159498
Well 6-10 year old me didn't know that

>>16069274

>>16019862
Speaking as someone who has experienced psychosis (though drug induced yet nonetheless persistent despite the cessation of said drug use), almost assuredly. Psychosis always makes you misjudge the intents of others, yet never in a consistent way for each person, this is beyond confusing as one would think that your paranoia would have a traceable source to some insecurity about the relationship you have with said person — but it never does. Certain hallucinations, furthermore, have a very bizarre way of interacting with the world around you, for example I have felt doors being pushed against for a split second, I have heard my own voice, how to go to places I have never been, and have remembered things down to how they felt that I have never experienced. Perhaps the most bizarre part of it all is the confluence of all these occurrences with intense religious symbolism, whether produced by my own feverish scrawling or simply by happenstance.

These experiences have lead me to conclude that there is most definitely a power higher than myself (former atheist), but that it does not belong to any one religion. I am still uncertain if it is benevolent force of good or simply an old and stupid thing unaware of its power but I lean towards the first option, no doubt for my own sake and to curb existential dread. Dreams are also excruciatingly terrifying and though I have plenty of trauma from which they could stem, they are also bizarrely disconnected from any emotions experienced in my real life.

>>15997729
I think the Han Chinese are more to blame than Confucius himself, but the history of that region overshadows both. It is really fucking sad desu, way too much suffering of far too many for far too long.

>>15175246
>>15175283
what

>>14891875
They're the same.

Modernity is the inevitable culmination of a will to improve. Any desire to make your life better leads inevitably to skyscrapers and twitter - just as it must inevitably lead past them as well.

>tfw reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
>have serious doubts whether I could pass the Voigt-Kampff empathy test
am i even human, bros