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What works does /lit/ recommend a young man (20) who is currently drifting around in uni, has only very few friends, who wastes hours on this shithole called 4chan and most importantly is without the slightest real clue what to do with his life?

>> No.12592687

>>12592672
if you enjoy it? The Sound and The Fury

if you hate it? damn. can't think of an example of fiction designed to lift someone out of that. any ideas?

>> No.12592688

>>12592672
Try browsing 4channel instead.

>> No.12592733

>>12592672
Less Than Zero

I found it oddly comforting

Also
>Whatever by Houellebecq
>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
>Zero to One by Peter Thiel (srs, will teach you how to be productively ambitious + Thiel is /lit/)

>> No.12592762

who the fcuk reads fiction to help 'em out of a rut? at best its self-aware escapism. read philosophy and lift or kys

>> No.12592770

>>12592672
The Joker by Thomas Mann

>> No.12594241

bump

>> No.12594260

No books, start boxing.

>> No.12594425

>>12592762
Is this ironic midwit posting?

>> No.12594697

>>12592672
Meditations by Marcos Aurelio
Thus spoke zarathustra by nietzche
The New Testament
Letters from a stoic by seneca

God has a plan for you, anon. Seek him and you will find what you are looking for, happiness and meaning.

>> No.12594707

>>12594260
ex-boxer here, don't box unless you want to fuck up your face and end up stupid

>> No.12594712

>>12594425

I haven't seen what came before but yes, everything that you do is midwit posting. You should stop being here.

>> No.12594728

>>12592672
War and Peace. It's about a guy who doesn't know what he wants to do and another guy who thinks he knows what he wants to do but he keeps getting disappointed.

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Post more pictures that make me feel that feel.

Sadness, longing, loneliness, city, woman

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>>12595021

>> No.12595518

>>12594707
that only happens if you suck

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>>12595528
Gay

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>>12592672
V. by Thomas Pynchon

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>>12592672
If you're still drifting about, my two cents

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>>12592672
Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften

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>>12596131
>Kaufmann

>> No.12596164

>>12596159
Who cares?

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Growth of the Soil

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>>12595528
>>12595316

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Let me show u how its done...

>>12595316
>>12595528
>>12592672

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>> No.12596413

>>12596164
Yeah why care about the translator and editor when you're reading a translation?

>> No.12597617

>>12596244
gay

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the savage detectives by roberto bolano will prepare you to live with failure

>> No.12598630

>>12596143
Is this actually any good?
I only remember the infamous incident when Pardon, a west german satirical magazine, sent in 1968 minimally changed (to make the age of the text a bit less obvious and it slightly harder to identify) excerpts to quite a few publishers, magazines, newspapers, writers and critics in germany, austria and switzerland, asking for reviews in the name of technical department head who said he had been writing on the manuscript for few years in his spare time.
No one of the 36 people, publications and publishers that answered identified the excerpts as Musil and most of the reviews Pardon got were devastating, calling the text our for it's false sentimentality and calling the language primitive.

>> No.12598859

>>12595528
>>12595528
I like it, what's the source?

>> No.12599783

bump

>> No.12599790

>>12594697
I was going to say the Bhagavad Gita, but these are also fine. Whatever helps you to get on the Almighty's good side

>> No.12600096

I’ve read ‘A Hero of Our Time’ religiously every year since I was nineteen and not once have I regretted it.