/lit/ - Literature

>>23192147

>>23121583
Kind of. It lacks the fantasy and moe/feminine/cute elements though. I think it will be difficult to find something that comes very close. Even Hard Boiled Wonderland is ultimately very different.

How does one escape this life?

How do I not end up with the same fate as Drogo?

>Found the fortress and its routine surprisingly cozy and comfy

Am I lost?

>>22670962
Delete this image OP. Also pic related is what you're looking for.

books like this reach deeply into my soul and squeeze.

>Damn I hate it here. I guess I'll stay for a bit to not look bad in the eyes of my superiors. I'm young so whats a couple of months
>This place kind of has its charm, still hate it tho
>nothing happens here but it might happen soon
>it SEEMS something is about to happen. Stay sharp
>IT WILL HAPPEN SOON
years go by
>ITS ABOUT TO HAPPEN
some more years go by
>ITS HAPPENING
>too old/frail to partake, forced to stay in bed. Die waiting for the day that never comes.

I've read the first third of the novel and can already see how it ends. It's good but also repetitive. It kinda beats you over the head with its message. Not sure I'll finish it.

Has anyone else here read this? I finished it this week and really enjoyed my time with it. Somewhat Kafkaesque in its themes with straight forward prose. Thoughts?

ENTER

literally me
post novels you felt targeted by

Anon, why aren't you just leaving your shitty dead end job?

>>20222262
>>20222446
Similar motives in the picrel

>>19948375
Ok. Now read this
it will make you feel so much better ;)

>>19823818

Has /lit/ read it? What did you think of it?

Just finished this. Didn't make me cry, but it definitely hit me somewhere in the feels.

Pic related.

More practical advice: Distract yourself by buying shit and playing online games. Go wild and harass people until you convince some mentally submissive dork to become your follower. Realize how little it matters to have friends in adulthood. Or become an cultXist, it will distract you for these bad early years, and you can make us anons pay the price for you cause you're gonna be preaching bullshit, pushing threads off topic, and wasting everyone's time all the time. Good tradeoff?

Well, that was depressing. At least he steeled himself for the end. It reminds me a lot of NEETdom and the last few months of my grandfather's life. I hate old age and dying old people, elderly wings of hospitals and aged care homes just seethe ugly death and sickness, even though I'm patient and kind, inwardly I cringe. But at least I could give my presence and some dull conversation to a man already given up. No one else cared much, while I feel I failed him to this day. At least he didn't completely cease to exist immediately, maybe this feeling will stay for years. Some legacy is better than none.

I still have a dreadful ache in my heart after finishing this book. I can easily see myself in it despite only being 19. At the same time it also makes me think that oh I'll just take it to heart and make sure I do this thing properly, preferably never having to live with a failing and decaying body (hardest task of our times). But in truth that's just trying to reassure the dread away. COPE, (you) might say. Also, the fantasies of meaning and purpose hit really hard. So many hours wasted or meandering through my mind while repeating the exact same lines of pacing through an empty and dark house. Why do I like pacing so much? It feels so good, and when I start my mind just drifts away. At least Drogo had comrades for a few years. Even if I had some and they betrayed me so bitterly I would be fine, memories of the brotherly times are good enough to chew on. I've got nothing though.

Which character made you say: "Woah, that's literally me"?
For me it's Angustina from "The Tartar Steppe" by Dino Buzzati