/lit/ - Literature

>>16264074
Lonesome dove - larry mcmurtry

>>16264074
i'm just coming out of mine. good luck friend getting through the tunnel friend. don't kill yourself

>>16264074
Why you depressed anon?

>>16264074
You can re-read The Silence of The Lambs, it helped me before in your situation

>>16264074
Read some native poetry, I always find poetry which is of my own nation to appeal to something unique, and restful in what it does for me. In some sense, it gives me a hope for my present home. There's of course also the Bible, whatever works that you enjoy. Chaucer is probably the best thing for you right now though, I hope you love him and he makes you as happy as he made me.

>>16264271
thank u anon that felt nice to read im glad you're feeling better
>>16264289
loneliness and general extreme lethargy, beating myself up for not being creative, boredom, poverty, and isolation bc covid.
the ritual of going to class and learning was really uplifting and comfy to me and zoom classes and online learning sucks

>>16264303
thank you anon i really appreciate it

>>16264351
>loneliness and general extreme lethargy
Can't help with loneliness anon, but I've fought extreme lethargy before and changing habits gradually always do the trick. I don't even care if its towards goals I don't want. I just need to feel that the habits are working for me instead of against me. Habits habits habits, its always the starting point

Carl Jung, Alan Watts (videos), journalling and LSD pulled me out of my depression. I ended up analyzing some of my dreams and embracing my inner child. Positive self talk works.

>>16264351
So basically you treat your body like shit and therefore feel like shit

>>16264409
you're right, im gonna try and get a routine down. my problem is i always fuck it up at some point then end up feeling worse than i did before because it's like a failure lol, but that's on me i gotta be more disciplined, ty

>>16264489
love all those guys, i am the least familiar with jung though do you have a specific work to recommend?

>>16264527
i mean not really. im not like super /fit/ or anything but im fine, i exercise fairly regularly, only drink occasionally, have stopped smoking weed, dont jerk off as much, etc.

>>16264074
meditate and read unironically the bible

>>16264569
and meditations by Marcus Aurelius

>>16264265
Lonesome Dove and the sequels are truly underrated here on /lit/. It's the only novel I've ever read where I sincerely felt that the characters were real people, and by that I don't mean the verisimilitude of the story. The reality of the characters makes it's themes so much more powerful, even transcendental at times. It really is visceral. It is a magnificent story about friendship, regret, loneliness, and trying to find meaning.

>>16264670
The prequels were nice. Personally I disliked streets of laredo.

>>16264737
I can see how one would dislike Streets of Laredo because the tone is much darker than Lonesome Dove was as a whole. Also it took me a bit to adjust to Lorena and Pea Eye. I loved it because it expands on Call, who I believe was the main character of LD, and in tone and theme picks up where Call's journey in LD left off.

stranger in a strange land

>>16264920
As much as I enjoyed lonesome dove, that's how much I dislikedstreets of laredo. Larry McMurtry spent much of the earlier book demolishing the squeaky-clean John Wayne image of the Old West by showing it as realm of rape, sexual slavery, meaningless violence and random death, but he also showed the grandeur and beauty that drew men like Augustus McCrae. Gus is sorely missed in this novel, in which McMurtry seems perversely committed to focusing on the least interesting characters and reworking themes in the least interesting ways. Newt is already dead and still unacknowledged by his father, and the Montana cattle venture has collapsed. So, scratch two potentially fascinating plotlines for a tedious round of bandit-chasing. I never believed for a moment that railway men would hire an obviously way-past-his-prime Woodrow Call to hunt down Joey Garza, just as I never bought the idea that Lorena would marry Pea Eye Parker, apparently for no other reason than have a reliable man on call.

>>16264074
I've been there. Read something that doesn't require a whole lot of effort as far as actually keeping up with the undertones and messages of the story goes. For example, reading something like Dostoyevsky probably isn't in your best interest. Keep it simple, something with an interesting plot and not too many characters to keep track of.

>>16264489
>Alan Watts
people seem to enjoy this guy but isnt he a hippie hack? whats the deal, is it novelty?

>>16265360
>>Alan Watts
>whats the deal
he was a pseud but he admitted as much
he's an introduction to basic eastern philosophy for people who don't want to read (or devote the time to reading) real books

>crippling depression
>bloomer
I fucking hate meme lingo.

>>16265472
i am sad
recommend books that help with sad.
is this better

>>16265360
he's not super deep, but he's not Jordan Peterson tier.

>>16264074
PG Wodehouse's Jeeves books always worked for me.

>>16264074
>Am currently experiencing quite the bout of crippling depression
Exercise intensely. You don't need to read, you need to move your body. 90% of depression cases could be resolved by physical exercise and better diet.

>>16264265
>>16264670
>>16264737
>>16264920
>>16265312
Forest anon said in his last video that Lonesome Dove is his favorite book series. I'm going to Barnes and Noble today and I have seen it there before, is it worth buying if I'm not into westerns or have never read them?

>>16266384
It's more than just a western anon. I strongly recommend reading it.

>>16266441
I'm going to do it then.

>>16264271
fag

>>16266548
>I'm going to do it then.
American literature is usually so soporific and dull that it makes any depression that I might be undergoing significantly worse.

>>16266620
Shut up homo

>>16266085
Listen to this man

>>16266620
Imagine getting filtered this hard by America of all places

>>16268274
I like two American writers, and that's really it. I haven't been impressed by anything else.

>>16264074
Pellucidar series, by ERB

>>16266620
>American literature is usually so soporific and dull that it makes any depression that I might be undergoing significantly worse.

Funny, that's exactly what I think of British writing.

>>16268421
>Funny, that's exactly what I think of English writing.
>he thinks Shxpeare, Milton and Pope are boring
Pleb alert.

>>16268431
>a fag, a pretentious twit, and a douche

They're beyond boring, they're obvious. I also find it ironic that all the best writers from the UK are Irish as well.

>>16268487
Embarrassingly plebeian opinions. The Irish have two good modernist writers, that's it. The English have always dominated literature written in the English language.

>>16266555
dilate

>>16268545
>The English have always dominated literature written in the English language.

You have to name ass-pulls from 300+ years ago in order to pretend brit writing is any good, and two of them nobody outside of the UK has even heard of. Russian writers out-class the brits, and even then Faulkner, Twain, and Hemingway all go toe-to-toe with them. Lmao, keep coping empire-let.

>>16268707
>Faulkner, Twain, and Hemingway
Corncobby trash.

>>16268707
I named the English classics and they're all great. But Shelley, Byron, Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Tennyson are all amazing. Manley Hopkins is great too.
>Russian writers
Literally garbage and cheap rip-offs of the French.
>Faulkner, Twain, and Hemingway
All trash. Your taste is literally plebeian. You may as well read African literature because it's basically the same level literarily speaking.

>>16268721
>>16268818
Boy you brits are easy to push the buttons of. So triggered you had to samefag as well. Probably has to do with all that faux-arrogance, projecting it onto the French which don't come within a quarter-mile of the snobby pre-pubescent egotism of your kind, lmao.

>Byron, Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Tennyson are all amazing. Manley Hopkins is great too.
Yawn inducing trash. Highfalutin writing for the pop literary critic.