/lit/ - Literature

my diary
also Confessions of a Mask

>>13545770
Pensées

Crime and Punishment

>>13545770
Also sprach Zarathustra

The Catcher in the Rye

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Of Human Bondage

Oblomow

Infinite Jest

>>13545822
Post feet

>>13545809
>sprach
yikes

>>13545851
It's the original title retard

>>13545770
The Fall - Albert Camus

>>13545770
the book of disquiet

>>13545922
German is an ugly language.

>>13545818
You must be 18 years or older to post on 4channel.

>>13545770
notes from the underground.

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No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai.

>>13546130
>>13546191
These two a lot too.

Portnoys complaint

>>13546191
Same

The great gatsby

>>13545770
>reading books because they're "relatable"
Never gonna make it.

>>13546234
What do you mean by 'make it'?

By Night in Chile

>>13546444
He knows.

>>13545770
I've seen this Wojack approximately three times and the right arm still bugs me.

theres not a single book out there in existance that could be even closely relatable to the sequence of unfortunate almost bullshit unlucky events that my life is, my diary would be practically an absurdist comedy because for any other person in the world it would seem that having this much bad luck and lack of charisma could only be a shitty slapstick comedy plot

>>13545822
Ooh kinky

Mein Kampf

That arm is fucked up.

The Secret History

>>13545770
Stoner.

Parts of the pale king were extremely relatable. That whole chapter on him worrying about whether people noticed how sweaty he was. Wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people here have similar issues shutting off their brains to that

>>13545929
Never has a book aped Notes Frim Underground so hard and tried so hard to make it look as if it wasn’t

>>13545770
Oblomov

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Catch 22 at the moment

Ecclessiastes

>>13545787
I just started this and i'm blown away by this book. I'm only on page 68 but i've never read something that so clearly details human emotional states as they impact decision making and how quickly they wane and wax.

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Steppenwolf

>>13546173
What a Reddit response

>>13546173
it's not a bad book. I rather like it.

>>13545770
Ham on Rye, but without the good parts

>>13546416
>By Night in Chile
Based Bolaño poster

>>13546173
I read it out of curiosity in my mid 20s. Found it to be extremely relatable in terms of moving and wanting to hold onto one's comfort zone.

The truth is that we never "grow up" in life. Just progress through new life stages in until we die, and deep down most of us want to be rescued from aging.

>>13546905
never really saw the appeal to bukowski. Just seemed like smut to me. am i missing anything?

>>13546690
notes is a wake up call, the fall is hardening and direction

>>13546130
This. Got 100 pages into it and had to put it down. Rocked me into and out of a severe depression for two years. Finally got around to finishing it 4 years after

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Hunger by Knut Hamsun

>>13546416
Why? Are you complicit in crimes against your people?

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>>13545770
Song of Solomon

>>13546191
This one hits deep

Walden

Mysteries by Hamsun or Suttree

The Loser by Bernhard

In terms of similar personality and temperament, it would probably be In Search of Lost Time; in terms of pure emotional relatability, where the author seems to be perfectly articulating my feelings and thoughts at that moment, it would have to be The Book of Disquiet.

>>13545770
The Sorrows of Young Werther
White Nights

>>13546234
>wanting to "make it"
Never gonna make it.

>>13545770
Bible

>>13547671
Were you actually cuckolded?

>>13545770
the sailor who fell from grace with the sea

>>13547304
>The Book of Disquiet
which edition? I've been looking into reading it for some time but the amount of differences between the editions has me worried I'll choose wrong and not enjoy it.

>>13546516
If you think you're so cool, post your diary desu

>>13545770
Brave New World

>>13548055
Do people only comment on porn videos in hopes that somebody screencaps them?

White Nights

The Last Binge Ever

>>13548075
based pass user shilling for londonfrog

>>13548055
Hedonists are scum, hedonists who aren't even well versed in the literature of hedonism and are simply giving in to desire are consummately vile.

>>13545826

/lit can't read books written in this century

>>13545787
>Crime and Punishment
iktf anon.

For years I wanted to kill someone to prove to myself that I was an "extraordinary" person. C&P felt like it was tailor made for me.

Demian by Hermann Hesse. The relationship between Demian and Sinclair is strangely similar to the relationship between myself and my friend.

>>13548601
gay

>>13548601
i wish i had a friend

>>13548601
Suck his dick and post results

The last chapters of 100 years of solitude. Aureliano Babilonia is basically the average /lit/ poster desu

>>13548346
My Twisted World, The Great Replacement, The Last Binge Ever, the list goes on......

Why Lolita of course

Hunger. I did not think that the feeling for that kuboa part could be captured in words.

>>13545770
Le Pére Goriot - Honoré de Balzac.

>>13548601
Which one are you though

The Clown Puppet by Thomas Ligotti

>>13545770
Schoolgirl by Dazai

On the Road was a vicarious relateability. I've never traveled, apart from one trip when I was 12, and I've lived my whole life in one city. Probably will die here.

My Twisted World

>>13546234
I'm just gonna assume you have no feelings or emotions with that kind of response

Don't think I've read a single relatable book. mostly because I avoid novels and fiction

>>13547671
>>13548068
iktf lads

America Psycho, depending on your interpretation

>>13546234
I use my powers of empathy to relate to every book.

a ticket to the stars. Even down to getting fucking betrayed by the woman I love God fuck bros why'd she do it to me?

>>13545770
Liveblog

>>13545776
Gay

>>13549465
go back to playing WOW.

Death poems by Thomas Ligotti

>>13548848
She's a female.
>>13549352
I'm Sinclair, she is Demian.

This side of Paradise, when I was 18. Since then I haven't found a book that could describe my life's situation so clearly.

>>13550360
Weird, usually the male is the mentor type. What did she teach you?

>>13545770
Good Old Neon

>>13550061
i prefer runescape

>>13549187
My man

My Twisted World by Eliot Roger

>>13546146
What makes it so ugly? I don't understand it when others say that.

>>13548216
Hedonism is the pinnacle of human nature. Instead of (what most people these days do) striving for Instant gratification, to strive for the greatest pleasure possible (even if said pleasure doesen't come instantly) is what any human ought to do. That exact strive for pleasure is what makes humans human. Denying that, is like denying human nature itself.

>>13550360
Then it’s a lot more like Steppenwolf is it not desu they’re practically the same book but Steppenwolf is slightly better packaged and has more goofs and gags

>>13551589
>steppenwolf
>gags
Did we even read the same book?

>>13545770
I have never read a book

>>13550771
Based

>>13545770
Crime and Punishment. I've had similar neurotic episodes to Raskolnikov and I harbored a lot of bitterness throughout college that I couldn't understand the source of.

I don't read fiction anymore and I unironically cringe to see people taking it so seriously (both the readers and the writers). Get over yourselves. Even the best of fiction is laughably cliche. Everyone would do better reading non-fiction and disregarding all art.

Pale fire

>>13552631
Based and bugmanpilled.

>>13545770
The Giving Tree.

>>13546871
this. people who complain about dostoevsky being too “melodramatic” do not understand human psychology

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

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Of Mice and Men

>>13552631
>he fell for the "fiction bad non-fiction good" meme

>>13545770
The Rum Diary - I, too, am drunk and wandering around for no clear reason while making a shallow pretense of being a writer.

>>13552759

>>13551384
You assume that pleasure in inherently good, and that humans cannot have more pleasure than is good for them.

>>13545770
Atomised

>>13545770
Justine by de Sade. I sympathize with the priest who likes beating the shit out of girls and smearing them with feces

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very hungry caterpillar

>>13546215
I was told about No Longer Human by /lit/ great book but the MC is a fucking asshole, kind of relatable but too edgy and had no empathy or others

Also he got a ton of pussy, as if I could relate to that

>>13548068
this, only I would have never allowed her to decide to be with me

>>13548351
dostoevskij exposing frauds like no other

Thus Spoke Zara-trust-a

On the Road by Kerouac

The Childhood of a Leader by Sartre

>>13546871
This.

When he turns himself in at the end is well written. Dostoyevsky has a knack for character development. Read The Idiot next.

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>>13555106
Also Thus Spoke Zarathustra, although not always to Zarathustra himself, as other anons have said. I greatly related to The Prophet & Kahlil Gibran's other works when I was an adolescent. Now I would say Leaves of Grass by Whitman, Pensees by Pascal, Paroxysm by Baudrillard (his interviews with Philippe Petit), The Foundations of the Moral Life by Spinoza and Temptation to Exist & On the Heights of Despair by Cioran. This is as a high-school dropout runaway living in poverty with my brother.

My older brother, a triple-major engineering and mathematics student, psychedelics-obsessed self-described "psychonaut", said Dune, Battlefield Earth, The Teachings of Don Juan & anything by Washington Irvine or Michael Crichton.

No confederacy of dunces, where are my poltards at?

Bartleby, the scrivener

>>13554936
That is the point though. Even the author thought Yozo must be some insane prick. It's kind of an insight into that perspective of entailed loneliness prevalent in young men of the time.

>>13555157
>the teachings of don juan
Your brother is extremely based

>>13555253
Thank you Anon. I know, I love and respect him deeply and value his brotherhood more than perhaps any other person I know. He's a good man, and I hate to see how much he suffers and doubts himself.

>>13554918
All of us are that little egg on the leaf.

>>13545770
Hamlet

>>13546191
The class reunion is top cringe

>>13555333
The whole book is cringe

It's a manga but My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness.

More emphasis on the loneliness.

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Proverbs and Sirach

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The Stranger

Meursault reminded classmates of me (without the loving gf)

>>13552599
What do you read? Political cartoons?

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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Nausea - Sartre

Apology of Socrates

>>13549518
Great contribution to the thread thanks

>>13556599
This tbqh senpai

Skylark

>>13549361
yes. disturbingly accurate metaphor.

>>13545770
The Iliad

>>13556570
You must be a massive loser, eh?

>>13545770
The Fall

It was Steppenwolf for years after I got onto a Hesse kick in my first semester of college. These days, it's probably Notes from the Underground these days, cliche as that seems.

>>13548068
This.

>"But that I should feel any resentment against you, Nastenka! That I should cast a dark shadow over your bright, serene happiness! ...That I should crush a single one of those delicate blooms which you will wear in your dark hair when you walk up the aisle to the altar with him! Oh no — never, never! May your sky be always clear, may your dear smile be always bright and happy, and may you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart ... Good Lord, only a moment of bliss? Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of a man's life?"

This ending comforts me when the thoughts of her being with another man overwhelm me.

>>13546215
Sorry for your life :*

Kafka's the Judgement was basically a step by step recreation of a dream I had a year prior to reading it.

Freaked me out.

>>13545770
Big Sur by Kerouac.

>>13546731
are you a vet?

Steppenwolf

>>13545770
The between-the-lines story within Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling.

>>13545833
SAme
fuck the memes its a damn good book

Person by Sam Pink

>>13546191
all of my this

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>>13545818
>>13546191
these, but unironically

>>13545770
Convenience Store Woman
I worked retail for ten years and couldn't escape so it just became an innate part of me.

>>13546874
this

A Confederacy of Dunces.

Finnegans Wake

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

>>13547098
tfw no gf

why is everyone posting depressing books? is everyone on this board depressed or something?

>>13558516
4chan(nel) attracts the mentally ill

>>13557447
Please elaborate as I recently read it, and felt an inexpressible connection towards it.

>>13547017
Very shitty book

Lord Jim

>>13548601
Post pics of his mom