/lit/ - Literature

Stoner by Williams always felt weirdly uplifting to me. At the end at least.

I made a similar thread a few days ago and got nothing, but:
Kierkegaard is pretty optimistic
W. Morris - News From Nowhere

Mans search for meaning.
cannot recommend it enough. easy read too

>>19744072
one flew over the cuckoos nest

>>19744103
> W. Morris - News From Nowhere

commie detected

>>19744072
Hello OP,just a friendly reminder that I'll never die.

kkb lyrics

>>19744103
Forgot:
Hesse - Siddhartha
>>19744117
Am I supposed to dislike the utopia where everyone is hot and healthy, works on what they want, when they want? Have you even read it?

Zhuangzi

Dandelion Wine.

>>19744127
just finished this book today, how does the judge signify anything deeper than "Satan (evil) is controlling every act of violence and is inherently a part of humanity". He was really, really interesting to read but I don't see that much meaning in the character, or the book desu.

>>19744156
>Satan (evil) is controlling every act of violence and is inherently a part of humanity
well if evil means acting without any morals then yeah nature and existence itself is evil and the judge is a miniature representation of nature's urge to to interact, map and seeking cognisance of everything in existence, including itself.

>>19744072
Emerson and Whitman.

>>19744179
>nature's urge to interact, map and seeking cognisance of everything
how is this nature? is he not a metaphor for mankind? humans do that, not nature.

>>19744072

>>19744191
((((((()))))))))((((()))))(()()()()()()()()

>>19744190
Ain't man just a sheer byproduct of life's urge to survive? How does one go about that problem anon?

>>19744179
>well if evil means acting without any morals then yeah nature and existence itself is evil
That's an oversimplification because you can have morals and still be evil like you can have no morals and still be good. Evil is a willing and intentional malevolence.

The baron in the trees

>>19744310
>good
meaningless in a moral sense without morals .
>you can have morals and still be evil
only if u accept 'morals' as some sort of godly truth.Some 'morals' do intersect with life surviving strategies while others do not.
>malevolence.
the word malevolent itself is based on the idea of 'evil' which inturn is problematic.

>>19744141

I actually have. I found it kind of boring but Morris was unabashedly communist and intended for it to be a convincing argument for a communist utopia. I think it falls into the same trap all utopian literature does: being boring.

>>19744127
>It makes no difference what men think of war. War endures. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.. This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. War is god. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. Men are born for games. Nothing else. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

>>19744072
Thus Spoke Zarathustra. I am serious.
Also Walden

>>19744127
I can fix him...

>>19744339
I have no idea what the author was up to. I read it because I'm tired of urban literature. The utopia was basically my town minus the looming threat of poverty. I don't need some hecking epic twist to happen for me to enjoy the daydream.
>>19744359
Ye Walden feels positive too, I agree.

>>19744432
Sounds like you want to go be a commie then

>>19744473
I don't want to attach myself to urban commies, though. Not being self-reliant makes you see all kinds of shit as the problem. I don't want my taxes to pay for people chopping off their penis, or party-nepotism. I want the weak to become the strong, not coddled. If that's under a king, a ruling class and a powerful aristocracy, or under a totalitarian commie, it doesn't matter.

James Allen, A man thinketh

Zen Comics

Plato's dialogues

Kornel Esti, Dezso Kosztolanyi

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.

>>19744134
kkb is ultimate bloomercore

>>19744072

>>19745979
my cats like to watch birds from the window

started reading Rousseau recently, I find his general disposition very pleasant

>>19746434
Where do I start?

swan - mary oliver

>>19744072
OP, I just made this thread: >>19746782

We must riding the same wave! Thanks for this thread.

This is a sorry fucking list of suggestions, so far.

I think the best you can look for, OP, is a book that will genuinely make you laugh. That always makes me feel optimistic. In which case, I recommend Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities.

>>19744312
Calvino in general.

My recommendation Zorba the Greek

“Stop thing start having sex with hot windows in you area”
T. Zorba

>>19746508
probably Confessions, though I haven't finished it yet. His book about walking -- I think it's called "Le Promeneur solitaire" -- is good as well. I'm looking forward to reading Julie sometime, apparently people really loved it when it came out

Books that interest me, regardless of the subject, have a positive effect on me. The joy of reading is at the same time the joy of being alive. Apart from that, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao, and Stalin cheer me up.

>>19744110
i read this book in high school and it was pretty sad

>>19744072
Moby Dick is pretty uplifting in its own weird way.

>>19744072
The Tanakh

>>19744191
>muh 12 million

>>19744072
Forest anon

>>19744072
Anything by Anthony Robbins (pbuh)

>>19744072
Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz

>>19744072
Just get away from literary fiction. Genre fiction, ya books, light novels, they're all super positive and have happy endings. It's only literary fiction that feels the need to depress the shit out of the reader.

>>19744097
the end brought my to tears, to think of my father or myself at that point in their life, what a brilliant story

>>19744072

>>19746914
You do know it's all bullshit from a pathological narcissist, right?

>>19744072
Earl Nightingale is literally a gold mine of optimism, not to mention it's a gold mine of realistic and achievable optimism.

>>19744072
Siddhartha is very uplifting

how to stop worrying and start living

>>19749164
>new thought movement
into the trash it goes. Just read the bible

>>19748021
McMurphy is the the most uplifting character I've ever read in a novel, and probably the funniest as well. In the end the book is definitely bittersweet, but the whole journey is absolutely hilarious and beautiful.

>>19744185
spotted a patrician amongst noobs

i read a few of Emerson's essays long time ago, loved them
any particular suggestions? thanks

>>19744072
Anne of Green Gables, LM Montgomery in general. Anne is the ultimate whitepill in lit and will cleanse your soul of all the tar and soot most classics leave there.
Emily Dickinson.
Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain broadly.

Montaigne's essays and The Book of Ebenezer Le Page

Twain

>>19748412
The author doesn't bring good or evil or politics into the book whatsoever. That's why it always gets recommended on here despite ((())). He just matter-of-factly observes how the different people around him are responding and changing in the most extreme circumstances.

>>19748413

>>19749437
He also mentions the bible, he is literally a christian boomer at it's core. Nevertheless he is one of those few people who actually got something useful to say and not just "be happy".

>>19744072
Brothers Karamazov