/lit/ - Literature

>>17860108
The Savage Detectives

The New Testament

Romans

>>17860108
You mean hopeful? Books generally don’t make me feel hopeful.

>>17860108
Perelandra by C.S. Lewis, also That Hideous Strength

Journey by Moonlight, kinda. Closing lines,

"He too would live: like the rats among the ruins, but nonetheless alive. And while there is life there is always the chance that something might happen..."

>>17860108
Thus Spake Zarathustra

Babbitt
The Razor’s Edge
The Bostonians

>>17861280
You've missed the point

>>17860108
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, especially the ending. There was this guy on /lit/ several years back that shilled it for months and then abruptly stopped. I don’t know if they’re even still here (that’s the magic and tragedy of 4chan I suppose), but they’ve made their mark at least on me. I don’t want to condone shilling and spamming, but I think it’s quite /lit/ in itself that some book mentioned by some random guy on the internet in passing can change your life and your entire worldview on literature if it happens to catch your eye, and you’ll never even know who to thank

>>17860108
journey to the end of the night

>>17860108
Blood Meridian

>>17860339
the dogma of a sandnigger death cult makes you feel that way?

>>17863295
Yes

>>17863295
Shut up you godless sinner

>>17863388

I feel like that after almost every book I read t bh

>>17863399
even mein kampf? you fucking nazi

>>17863399
Even Lolita? You fucking pedo

>>17863399
even 120 days of sodom? you're a fucking disgrace.

>>17863399
even Dianetics? you fucking cultist

>>17863399
Even the Bible? You absolute Saint

>>17860108
Meditations on The Tarot. It is a beautiful journey.

>>17863295
Yes.

>>17860108
The Fountainhead, desu.

>>17863289
seek help

>>17860108
Lolita, the most beautiful book ever written

Less happy but more hopeful

>>17863420
>>17863461
>>17863478
>>17863517
>>17863540
Haha we got him good, Reddit!

>>17860108
Les Miserables

Siddhartha

>>17864119
absolutely right, my choice aswell

>>17863420
Especially Mein Kampf

>>17860108
Any Robert Walser

Not a book but the episode "Family" of The Next Generation made me feel this way. I was caught up in a slew of personal failures and I was just so embarrassed and upset with myself. The man's simple assertion, "this will stay with you for a long time. You will have to live with it. You can choose to live with it below the sea with Louis, or above the clouds with the Enterprise." I realized that running away doesn't change the past, it doesn't make our mistakes go away, but our mistakes and our pain and our abuse don't close off the future either. It's possible to keep walking the same path.
https://youtu.be/LuzoxcErOc8

>>17860108
The Hobbit

Legitimately the comfiest book in existence

The Confessions: St. Augustine

>>17860108
Der wille zur macht.

>>17860108
pic related will fill your heart.

pdf and audiobook are free now:
https://creativitymovement.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Natures-Eternal-Religion-2017.pdf

Anna Karenina, the Levin bits

>>17864076
neck yourself newfag

>>17860108

https://realization.org/p/ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita.html

>>17864076
What is it with you and reddit

>>17860108
The Secret Garden

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

>>17861392
Full mode

>>17863673
based and tomberg pilled

>>17860108
Crime and punishment, I liked the book.

>>17860108

Marcus Aurelious' meditations
I know i know...

My Diary in an alternate reality desu.

>>17861280
>>17862822
You're asked to name a book. You can't describe a picture like OP's with just a single adjective.
Think of the feeling(s) the image evokes and feel what they really represent inside you, instead of trying to process them into superficial verbal reductions.

Moby Dick

>>17865913
Based

>>17860115
I saw somebody else recommend this in a feels good thread, are you that dude or is the book actually good?

>>17866412
>is this widely-loved, critically-acclaimed book actually good
for fuck's sake

>>17866428
I'm trans btw if that matters

>>17866997
why?

>>17867257
There's a lot of reasons one might be trans

>>17866428
The Book of Disquiet fits your description and it makes me want to kill myself. It's a great book, of course.

>>17866412
Its comfy-core, also a lot of cool sex scenes, and references to poetry, so everything one can ask for

>>17861453
/thread

>>17863276
Seems interesting anon what makes it so emotional?

>>17860339
based

i read catch 22 and it made me think the army and war is actually really fun and cool.

>>17860108
The ending of Masters of Atlantis

>>17860108

>>17864076
>I hate fun

>>17864162
this desu
>>17864234
good post

>>17860108
The Count of Montecristo

>>17860108
Being and Time -Martin Heidegger.
Black Notebooks -Martin Heidegger.
Contributions to Philosophy -Martin Heidegger.
The Question Concerning Technology -Martin Heidegger
Introduction to Metaphysics -Martin Heidegger
Hölderlin's Hymn "The Ister" -Martin Heidegger
Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics -Martin Heidegger
The Origin of the Work of Art -Martin Heidegger
The Fourth Political Theory -Aleksandr Dugin
Foundations of Geopolitics -Aleksandr Dugin

Being and Time is the easiest book you can possibly start with,just jump straight in.
If you can't even read that just tie a noose and hang yourself,it's over.

>>17860108
Herodotus

>>17863292
t. sociopath

>>17870802
B&T has at least 20 prerequisites. If you don't know which I'm talking about, then you didn't really get much out of it, sorry.

>>17864076
Kys newfag

>>17863393
>I'll post a wojak! That'll show him!

>>17871441
The first book I ever read in my entire life was Being and Time.
I didn't even know English back then,I learned the language as I went.
I told you,if you need to read 20 books to understand it then you have a problem.

>>17860108
This >>17860339 but accompanied with Milton and Blake.

>>17860108
The ending to Ramesh Menon's novelization of the Mahabharata made me feel proud to be a human being.

>>17861440
The ending itself didn't do much for me. Everything leading up to it was great, and yeah, great closing lines. The book had a ton of memorable lines in general.

War and Peace, the ending before the non-fiction part was peak comfy.

Siddhartha by Hesse
Island by Huxley

>>17872861
Read the Pali, fuck Hesse off

>>17863420
>>17863461
>>17863478
>>17863517
>>17863540
He said, "almost," you fucking retards.

Suttree

>>17864076
redditposting is probably the most reddit thing you can do

>>17860108
The prophet - Kahlil Gibran

>>17860108
the Brothers Karamazov
but only after a lot of crying first

>>17871669
keked

>>17863889
Read it ~2 years ago. As far as I remember the main character kills himself at the end? Or did that happen in the middle of the book? My memory is a bit foggy, but I remember it NOT being a hopeful book - an interesting one for sure.

>>17872861
Island sucks taint

Growth of the Soil

>>17875225
Wonderful book, but knowing that I will never ever get to live like Isak or Sivert depresses me

>>17860339
Based. Salvation lies within

>>17860108
Walden and the Tao Te Ching

desu i only read because it's the closest approximation to the kino that was the rankin and bass hobbit movie, all other animation and film being completely unable to capture that spirit.

>>17860115
Whats outside the window anon?

>>17864076
kek, based

>>17860108
Gravity's Rainbow, when I realized what happened to Slothrop

>>17864206
Based

>>17860339
Incredibly based anon

>>17875045
Almost at the beginning actually.

Gerusalemme liberata

>>17875892
In english, ofc though, so Jerusalem Delivered

>>17860108
War & Peace

>>17860115
Really? That's one of my least favorite books I've read in the last year. Very underwhelming. I'm always confused now when people talk about how great it is.

>>17864234
Would it make sense to start with The Next Generation or do I have to watch the original series first?

>>17860108
Klingsor's Last Summer, Hesse

>>17860108
Zorba the Greek
Odyssey
Aeneid
Brothers Karamazov
The Plague

>>17860108
Crime and Punishment

>>17863461
Lolita is tragic if anything

>>17865921
I read it and it had some interesting ideas, but how the hell would it actually make you feel like you had an epiphany?

>>17875923
>War & Peace
Whyy? The Decembrists just made me feel like the family would collapse and Pierre would die. Felt like more suffering to come

>>17861567
I second the razor's edge. I love maugham.
>>17864162
Yesssss!>>17872861

>>17874693
YEsssss!!!

Mine are
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
The Book by Alan Watts

>>17860108
TBK

>>17860108
New Testament
anything by CS Lewis or Tolkien
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
On the shortness of life- Seneca

>>17864076
This post should’ve been a gigachad yes tbqhwyf

>>17864306
Started this today, called my mom for the first time in a while to talk about it

>>17860115
First part feels amazing

>>17860108
Suttree, just wanna go fishing and get into shenanigans with my buddies desu, it's all I've ever wanted

>>17860339
Specifically Matthew and John.
>>17861453
Gay.
>>17863295
>death cult
>denial of death cult
Its actually a cult of death and resurrection brother.

>>17865900
this is peak anti-comfy, this book is suicide and feels like being stabbed

>>17875045
>As far as I remember the main character kills himself at the end?
No he is alive but very sick
>I remember it not being a hopeful book
more hopeful in the sense that no matter how bad things get, it only takes looking outside your own self to see how others view you to gain some confidence back. That line about the mc being "an angel" after the way he describes himself through the entire book destroys me everytime. And thats why I say it is hopeful.

>>17860108
Confederacy of Dunces, but not until the very end. It gives a great feeling of catharsis and deliverance. Also, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and Papillon. And Trainspotting somewhat, although you could just watch the movie for that one instead.

>>17860108
Gospel of Matthew

Every book. I learn something from every book I read.

>>17860108
Unironically Schopenhauer's World as Will and Representation.

>>17864076
>>17873005
Crossing my fingers, hoping these posts are bait.

>>17863295
The Holy Land is not a desert, when will this meme end

>>17860108
The myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

>>17861567
>>17877062
based maugham bros

Its almost too joyful. It makes you angry that you can't just throw down your life and set out on foot.

>>17879198
disagree, its comfy in its melacholia dream like state. For the most of the time im not sure what i feel, thus makes me more melancholic than anything. Seeing Pessoa writing gives me the pleasure of feeling sadness as it were mine.

Zettel's Traum and Evening edged in gold. Having grown up in rural germany, reading these books evoked feelings that only nostalgia about my own past can evoke. I don't recommend these books to anyone that isn't german though. you'll get filtered way too hard. And even if you're german, chances are you'll not have the ability to withstand these books.

>>17863889
This one OP

>>17861453
muh snake eagle camel lion baby

>>17864162
Good choice
Emotional and uplifting

>>17863393
Pretty much what I imagine the cruciforms from Hyperion looking like.

>>17864076
Just because you have a special board where you and your legion of fat noncy boyfriends post soijaks and you all piss into each others' open mouths doesn't mean you can newfag your way in here and miss the point.

>>17864234
Thanks anon, I needed that.

>>17880353
Same, but as soon as I close the book I'm repulsed by it's morbidity. Never read a book like this before.

>>17875839
the fact that he went insane when he found the spirit? body? of the little girl he fell in love with midbook?

>>17860108
It has been a few years, when I was really different, but the second time I've finished Neuromancer I felt like that. Really strange to explain
>>17865900
I kinda agree, this book felt to me a bit boring and repetitive, but at the same time it taught to me the beauty of the world, the world watched by the distance from a solitary dreamer

>>17860108
Watership Down

My diary desu in this reality :)
I love the struggle in life brehs WGMI

>>17864076
the logo on the shirt isn't foreshortened

>>17880326
Technically you could. But in this world a few years of fun traveling could prove disastrous to the rest of your life, and of course being a sort-of tramp like Fermor was is viewed with much more suspicion and ill-will these days

Crime and Punishment

>>17881692
>went insane
You didn't get it

Mason and Dixon and Brothers Kara for me

>>17875839
Enlighten me as to what happens to slothrop pls

>>17880957
The first time i picked up this book on my ereader i kind of went into a state of depression - im not sure which end was the falling point - my current life or this book, most likely both. I put it down and it went maybe a year+ before i bought it in physical edition instead. Reading it now its different - can't explain it, but i might separated myself from him on another level even if i take in his words as mine. Im also in a better state of mind now than then. Im fond of sadness, its an addiction of mine in a sense.

>>17882924
He realized that his old Calvinist ancestors were onto something with their theories of preterition. The Counterweight fighting back against Them is doomed, they're going to fail and be destroyed in the process. Pirate and Mexico and the others come to terms with this. Slothrop doesn't - he literally fades out of the narrative, disappearing into nature and into the background and into liner notes of that band's album, slowly becoming completely preterite and forgotten. That was his only option to find peace. One of Enzian's most important dialogues included:
>We have a word that we whisper, a mantra for times that threaten to be bad. Mba-kayere. You may find it will work for you. Mba-kayere. It means ‘I am passed over.’
The word preterite means the exact same thing.

>>17875936
starting with tng is fine, just remember that all sci fi shows have extremely rough 1st seasons

>>17883080
Oh I see. Very rarely find anyone ho actually understands that part

The Unique and Its Property.

And this
>>17861453

>>17883080
To add on: he's in the liner notes of a band called The Fool, which is also number 0 in the tarot and lines up with his quest for the rocket 00000. The Fool is a character who exists outside the cycle of the major arcana cards, neither beginning nor end but in the sort of interim before the cycle begins anew. The Fool wanders haphazardly without ever suffering, protected by his own innocence and disattachment from the world. There's an aspect of nirvana to Slothrop's disappearance: no longer dragged along by the conspiracies that rule the world, he fades away. The novel itself is a sort of conspiracy so it is only by being outside of it that Slothrop can find any rest.

>>17883146
Legit thought that image was a map of Chile for a sec.

>>17883256
But why does he dissolve then? Surely if he would be true to the fool he just would have been in the same position as at the start of the novel?

>>17861453
this

>>17882964
I see what you mean, the fact that my life kind of fell apart since the beginning of the pandemic has probably had a huge impact on my reception of this book. Waiting with finishing this book until the reorganization in the summer and reading it without feeling like looking in the mirror should work in that case.

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono (which is a short story, actually)
A story about hope and renewal

>>17875407
Based

>>17874693
Based

>>17883624
I think the book at its peak when you are at your lowest, yet being able to handle the melancholia and reading this at the same time is a different story. I would say you need to have a good sense of self. Just the other day i went around feeling everything being such a disillusion like nothing is real, similar to how he writes. His thought patterns flow over to me - even so i simply decide to observe it all and feel fascinated over all this sadness which creeps upon you. Its such a weird things to express sadness as something intriguing. Im currently reading it and im on page 346.

The Magic Mountain
East of Eden

>>17883297
At the beginning of the novel, Slothrop isn't there.

>>17883297
The Fool doesn't attach himself to any situation. He's the exact opposite of paranoid in that sense. Though the Slothrop at the beginning of the book is foolish, he has not attained the full meaning behind The Fool.

>>17863779
Is it that pessimistic?

>>17860108
Tao Te Ching
In Search of Lost Time (especially the first two volumes)
Montaigne’s essays
Anna Karenina especially when the bitch died

>>17883849
Exactly, also he dignifies solitude and it somewhat helped me. "To be alone is to be free" or something along the lines
>>17883080
Really interesting, thank you
>>17883948
>In Search of Lost Time (especially the first two volumes)

The second one was probabily the book that reasonated more with me, an amazing read

>>17877980
reddit invasion innit

>>17884709
I crave for more soltitude even as it's always been vast majority of my life. I just bought the first book of In Seach of Lost time, im hyped to read it asap as i get it. Books are the only medium that makes me feel something on a deeper level, except maybe music.

>>17860115
Came here to post this, based first poster

>>17884773
It's an amazing read, but be aware: the whole opera is not about solitude. The Narrator will often describe relationships and social events, dozen and dozens of characters

>>17860108
the tartar steppe

>>17884994
Why if may ask? From what I remember its plot is quite hopeless

>>17860108
Some random book about chimpanzees. I really like them now, I like most people too.

>>17885008
the existentialist conclusion
which can be taken one of two ways

>>17885134
Thank you, I should probabily re read it

>>17884709
I agree the second volume of In Search of Lost Time was my favorite too. Lot of killer quotes I had to underline, Elstir’s monologue about wisdom, loved this one. Also reading Proust’s prose somehow makes me examine life much more closely as I live it and that is the greatest thing art can do which was his intention

>>17864234
Of course one of the few posts that actually deserves a basedjak doesn't get one

>>17860108
Zhuangzi

>>17884980
I had no exception of such of this book to begin with, so it will be fine.

>>17884994
>>17885134
Agree, one of my favorites

Sun and steel

>>17865869
>>17874695
Definitely Bros K for the most recent one, even if its ending is really more apprehensive than it is happy

>>17860339
Based, blessed, and even a little heckin cute and valid.

>>17875449
What a great portrait

>>17877980
Those views are very popular dingus

>>17879289
I wonder how that line reads in the original japanese. Dazai couldn't have meant an angel in the Christian sense right?

metamorphosis of prime intellect.

Anything similar? A story that follows the main character instead of trying to build an entire world first

>>17860115
Real shit? Because 2666 makes me feel terrible.

>>17863673
based

>>17864162
>>17865383
>>17872861
>>17865913
These for me.

>>17887670
That was good, wasn't really a fan of the ending though. Have you read For a Breath I Tarry? That made me feel like OP.

>>17868011
Did you stop reading halfway through? That's what I felt for half of it and then it became a horrible tragedy.

The Magic Mountain
Gilead
Underworld

>>17871669
soul
>>17871441
no soul

>>17887673
Two different beasts. SD is much more hopeful and the potentials of life. 2666 is much much darker (obvs) and makes the world feel much more expansive and much more dangerous