/lit/ - Literature

>>18565232
Based keanu

are you that rich anon who turned down his music dream? stop fetishizing this shit man it's corny.

>>18565232
If they never tell anyone about it why the FUCK WOULD TGHEY WRITE IT DOWN IN A BOOK?

>>18565232
Being rich in itself isn't interesting. Characters are interesting for being a character, regardless of background

>>18565318
Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you

>>18565318
I'd like to know how they get through life being rich. I've heard of too many fuckups who got rich and then lost all. I don't like the idea of flexing in front of others.
>>18565308
good point. I'm hoping one of them wrote a fiction based on real life experiences (being rich). I should probably read more about Keanu since he's the closest example of what I'm looking for.

Read about old money people that's the aesthetic. Invest and live a humble life. Dress in old money stuff like shirts and trousers.

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>>18565232
Les Miserables

>>18565318
Fuck you.

>>18565232
>WOW DUDE LIKE IMAGINE IF SOMEONE HAD MONEY BUT THEY LIKE DIDNT FLAUNT THEIR WEALTH WOULDNT THAT BE LIKE JUST FUCKING CRAZY AS HELL DUDE LIKE ZOINKS BRO WOOOOOOOOOOAH DUDE SO COOL
Seriously, OP i can't imagine you not being dangerously mentally ill. What is wrong with you? The concept of someone not being a complete braggard is really that fascinating to you that you need a full book of that? Get help bro. The rich not flaunting their wealth became common in the decline of the nobility and the rise of burghers.

>>18565391
Lol this. He is just some tortured rich soul and made it his whole personality. Real rich people would laugh at stuff like this it's childish. Teenage behaviour.

>>18565232
My dad's diary.
his 2003 audi a4 car's battery wont last 24hours so he has to get the neighbor to help start it, but apaprently he lost nearly 2 million in worth when the stock market kinda dipped last year with corona.

i live off only 500€ a month but could have gone to epic international boarding schools doing blow at diplomats' homes, but instead I was forced to walk to the nearest school and do sports with older neighbor kids hand-me-downs shoes and racketts.
I dont even know what the point of having all that money is if you dont do anything but invest it into more numbers on a screen and homes you never will live in yourself. He never spends any.

>>18565410
the point is feeling financially secure while not having to work and being able to hang out with friends without them alluding to your wealth all the time.

>>18565318
people repost this as an ironic joke?

>>18565462
Read the image, it says if you don't repost it you will have your worst week ever.

>>18565410
Based dad.

>>18565232
>>18565301
After this guy promoted the world's shittiest game of the decade, everyone hates him.

>>18565318
ok

>>18565481
I never repost or respond and my mother's still breathing, although heavily, she's had some really bad nights.

>>18565544
JeJ but remember: correlation is not causation.

>>18565318
nigga please it's my worst week every week anyways

>>18565318

Check out The People of the Abyss by Jack London.

>>18565232
Keanu has several bikes, cars, and most likely houses. people losing their minds over him riding the subway or using a park bench is some spectacle 4th wall break shit.

>>18565857
rich people using subway or parks in cities is also common . it's only a peculiar elite who taxi everywhere

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>>18565916
The upper middle class is so focused on appearing wealthy to others that it does not make sense to them that someone who is genuinely wealthy would not do the same.

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>>18565318
fug

>>18565318
Circumstances can help drive character and plot. In general circumstances are not in and of themselves interesting (or, rather, they are all interesting in an equal amount, with variations in the amount depending on what you do with the circumstances.)

>>18565318
I'll take the week

>what are some books about common sense

One of wealthiest guys I know tells everyone he’s a janitor.
Dude makes 50k/day.
Has a basic car, invests it all.
I once asked him: “bro, why do you never flex?”
He laughed, smiled, and said:
“Because I know who I am.”
Major lesson here

>>18565410
I found a picture of your Dad.

>>18567353
>One of wealthiest guys I know tells everyone he’s a janitor.
>Dude makes 50k/day.
>Has a basic car, invests it all.
>I once asked him: “bro, why do you never flex?”
>He laughed, smiled, and said:
>“Because I know who I am.”
>Major lesson here
This guy is supremely based. It also fucks up golddiggers. "A millionaire almost pretending to be a beggar."

What does he work with?

>>18567365
Did this dude just work for pennies or was he secretly a millionaire after all that penny pinching? I never got what his money situation was, he was even landlord too

>>18566731
thanks for the dog

>>18565410
The thing is, the penny pinching mindset is what got him rich in the first place. I think with people like this there is never a point where they can just "turn it off" and actually enjoy their wealth.

>>18565318
Sh-

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>>18566676
unless you are just reposting it as a joke,all of you need to be fucking euthanized

>>18567577
This board is full of christians who are trained to have blind faith and following orders out of fear. Now you be the judge if these people reposted it as a joke or not.

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>>18565318

There's a Kosztolányi short story about a man who gets a large inheritance and actively tries to get rid of it without letting anyone know that he's rich. It's the 6th chapter of Esti Kornél, you can read it without reading the other chapters but you should read the whole book if you liked it.

>>18565232
Based

>>18565506
To be fair, it's not like the studio was keeping him up to date with everything that is and isn't ready. And it shouldn't be a surprise anymore that game studios pump out unfinished shit and then patch/force microtransactions for everything else.

People keep complaining about shit but keep buying from those studios. Nothing will change until people actually force their hands.

Anything by Venkatesh Rao and Sebastian Marshall.

now to actually answer the question: multiple houellebecq novels, for example platform, possibility of an island, map and territory

>>18566731
Thanks pal

>>18565232
Do you want it to be a story about a person, e.g., novel or biography, or are business and personal finance books acceptable?