/lit/ - Literature

John Williams' Stoner made me reconsider a career in teaching and marriage in general. Don't want to go through what Stoner goes through.

Also Notes From Underground was uncomfortable, but in a cautionary tale kind of way. Like, I've felt frustration and depression before but reading that book made me feel like I never wanted to get to the point like Dostoevsky's protagonist who really is just a mumbling fucking mess.

In Platform there is a sentence that goes like - anything can happen in life, especially nothing, that kind of brutal, down to earth, truth shocks me.

the story of the eye made me wince a few times
huysmann is uncomfortable reading
ryu murakami is uncomfortable-lit especially in the miso soup the part with the sliced ear placed into a woman's vagina has stuck with me years after reading the book

>>11087617
American Terrorist

The fact that I agree with many of Tim McVeigh's beliefs (in principle) and the realization that there are millions of people like him (and me) who are just a few bad experiences away from blowing up a building.

>>11087617
Houellebecq's Submission

Prometheus rising

I hate to think I'm just a product of chemical reactions in a chaotic world

From what I've looked up his book is an educated guess more than fact and humans are more complex than he leads on though

>>11087885
Wow what a faggot. Get a life. Fuck a girl. How absolutely stupid must you be to substitute suffering wih self improvement? Just stop being such a worthless piece of shit.

In Watermelon Sugar left a horrible taste in my mouth after reading it. I think it was the imagery.

Reading atomised and whatever made me feel even more miserable because back then i never kissed or fucked a girl.

The sailor who fell from grace with the sea.
That part.

In Cold Blood for me; i have lived a lot of my life on the margins, since childhood and even ended up in jails a number of times, and I identified with Perry because I have lived with the same lingering vague ideas of freedom somehow somewhere and also because if i look at my actions objectively a lot of them were borderline sociopathic; so the book just made me feel really fucked up inside like how close am i to just murdering someone, probably in a blackout..nothing to ever change the fact that i am fucked inside.

IJ towards the defining when the girl describes her depression

Every Dosto Chefski book

>>11088353
What the fuck are you on about?

>>11087909
I found it reassuring, maybe i missed the point._.

>>11088372
The kitten, the hole in the mother's bedroom, the ending._. There's at least three parts i can remember that left me in discomfort

>>11088363
me too

Part 4 of 2666

>>11087617
The sermon episode in a portrait of the artist.

Coin locker babies.
Holy fuck.

>>11087885
I am with you there, he really believed in freedom.

>>11087617
palahniuk's rant

left me feeling weird. also i had headaches while reading it.

>>11089792
I read Haunted in college and after reading Guts, 16 year old me was genuinely disturbed and I thought it was the edgiest thing.

>>11087617
the castle.
already feeling sick just thinking about those childish helpers of k and that fking barnabas guy. ive read it every night in the bed, fell asleep multiple times while reading and it gave me such albtraums.

>>11089887
Fucking this. I know the assistants are supposed to be funny and clowns in a way but after you find out the implication of trying to cuck K. the book descends into a nightmare 10 times worse than The Trial

>>11089792
Of course Rant would make you uncomfortable.
>children playing with real organs in the dark
>the abuse Rant suffers and the psychopathic things he does to his community and then the wider world
>the spiders
>the cyberpunk horror of downloading memories and tweaking them by running them through the brains of other people
>the day/night class system