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I'm poor and autistic and unemployed and a virgin and am generally unhappy with where I am in life and I haven't traveled any in my life

I like to read books with a strong sense of location (and optionally some traveling)

Not nonfiction stuff because it makes me jealous (unless the author is actually a nice person idk)
No fantasy or sci-fi stuff either I like things that feel close to earth like characters walking on actual earth and feeling the sun and getting rocked by waves and they go places and there are actual people living in those places

I read the count of monte cristo last year and really liked the sailing islands stuff and the parts in rome
Previously I read some chinese classics and I liked em but those are long and feel too translationy sometimes a bit dumb

Plot doesn't matter too much

>> No.12987685

subhuman

>> No.12987688

I don't know what you want!

>> No.12987689

>>12987680
I feel like Rings of Saturn (W.G. Sebald) had a good bit of what you are looking for

>> No.12987705

Read Robinson Crusoe, I really think you’ll get something from it

>> No.12987719

>>12987680
How about Rudyard Kipling? You'll get that comfy colonial era exoticism. Hemingway could work for you as well, check out For Whom the Bell Tolls. You could also start lifting, get a job/gf and travel.

>> No.12987723

Don Quixote

>> No.12987779

>>12987680
crime and punishment

>> No.12987836

>>12987680
Unironically Captain Fracasse. Plus it'll make you(want to)get laid.

>> No.12987939

>>12987689
>>12987705
>>12987719
>>12987723
>>12987779
>>12987836
Ty I'll take notes and start going through these in random order, read some of em but its been so long might as well read again

>> No.12987954

Read Gide and/or Garcia marquez

>> No.12987956

I know you said no nonfiction but I'm going to recommend Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone Around The World anyway

It's a fascinating little book and features plenty of sailing islands like in Monte Cristo.

>> No.12988546

Invisible Cities. And then every other sentence that’s ever been put to paper by the hands of Italo Calvino

>> No.12988576

>>12987680
LOTR then watch the movie when you're done with them

>> No.12988618

>poor
>unemployed
>virgin
Shouldn't you be working on these issues before reading?

>> No.12988631

>>12988618
he should, doesn’t mean he can or want to

>> No.12988642

>>12988631
>doesn’t mean he can or want to
What sort of excuses are those?

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12988655

>>12987705
Namely entertained. Remember pouring over this as a kid. No idea why i found it so fascinating but its a fond memory no less.

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>>12987680
You won’t regret it.

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>>12987680
Book of the New sun, the story is a big journey

>> No.12988966

>>12987680
The Sheltering Sky
The Riddle of the Sands