/lit/ - Literature

>>5717753
nah, i'd reeeeeally recommend this instead. easy to read, excellently captivates the feeling of lostness and the perpetually present inescapable self-doubt at everyone's core. it doesn't provide an answer to what you should hold close or value; it's just a semi-satire on our search for it and how futile it is when you don't let things just happen naturally.

but if you don't give a fuck, the main message is this: if there's a meaning to life, you won't find it by blindly grasping outside. look inward instead.

i don't care if vonnegut is entry level pleb shit. i don't think this is the greatest literary accomplishment or anything, but it was my first "literature" book that sucked me in, and i relate to it on so many levels that it makes me cry every time i read it.

in particular, i seriously relate to boaz's plight, whose ambient condition of consciousness is constantly trying to convince himself that he appreciates the power he's been given and pretending that he knows the body that's given it to him, as well as his attempts to apply meaning to everything when he knows deep down it's meaningless just to avoid catatonic depression and find solace to the shitty, bleak truths of the world.