/lit/ - Literature

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Bump. Hope you get well friend

All Creatures Great and Small By James Herriot
Easy read, makes you appreciate life in all it's forms.

All the pseuds on this board will try to get you to read 900 page Dostoevsky novels they've never even cracked open in their life, ignore them.

>>18143519
Go out, take the sun, do some exercice, quit smoking, quit alcohol, quit other drugs, fix your sleep.

There, I fixed your life in only a sentence.

>>18143519
A little Buddha couldn't hurt. Maybe Dhammapada? I always feel calmed reading the Tao Te Ching. I don't see who's credited as the translator, but my Barnes and Noble classics version with notes and intro by Yi-ping Ong has some really satisfying poetry.

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Incal by Jodorowsky and Moebius.

>>18143519
Terry-Pratchett, is the only really non disturbing, non mass murdering, non thrilling, non dystopian, non sad literature i ever read.
There for i cant give you any other recommendations.

>>18143519

Our Man in Havana

>>18143519
I assure you its length is worth the investment. A lad is sold into slavery by his own brothers for over 20 years; 20 years of veritable limbo; and he has to make the best of it. It sounds like you might be in a limbo yourself. Spend some time with the lad. By the time you're done the book you will have felt as though you truly lived with him, both for its length and time taken to experience its splendor, yet also for the master craft of the story being told. Nothing magic or mythical despite being a religious story; something completely grounded in reality and dramatic invention. I urge you to consider it.

>>18143519
The lowest point so far friend.

>>18143519
picrel is calm an quite funny at times.
be sure to leave your pc and go outside and exercise

This, honestly. Shit was a comfy read when I had this weird, sudden onslaught of depression a few years back.

Also, I'm going to suggest a few titles, OP.

Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum. Great works to get lost in for a bit without any of the depression.

Italo Calvino - The Complete Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, The Baron in the Trees. Really great reads that are just fantastic, my friend. You can get these in a nice, all white paperback at Barnes & Noble.

I really wish you the best, brother.

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thanks anon, I appreciate it
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this isn't an option for me rn, but I'll check out the book. I'm just here for some recs

>>18143519
Spend some time in Nature. It's not funny but "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl might be able to help you out. Just remember that there is meaning in suffering and you will get past your troubles. Take care.

>>18143519
Try The Ball and the Cross, by GK Chesterton. Very light. Witty. I find it has the opposite effect of Baudelaire.

Essentially, a rustic and somewhat ignorant Scottish Catholic from the highlands and a pompous Scottish atheist from London become something of friends as they traipse around England to try and escape the police so that they can fight each other to the death in peace. Along the way, they encounter many light-hearted caricature's of many then-contemporary-and-fashionable schools of thought. Your typical understated British bemusement ensues.