/lit/ - Literature

>>20971536
Just google it, anon.

>>20971536
>Books about being alone all the time in your room, not having a social circle, not being part of groups, clubs, not going to parties, to school, not working with other people, not participating in society in general

Not technically a book, but this VN is about just that

dude i cannot WAIT to retire.

>>20971536
Just read case studies on hikikomori and then extrapolate from there since it's now happening globally

>Any recommendations?
First, delete that image and all other images like it from your computer. Get off the slippery slope to tranny hell.

Lovecraft's The Outsider.

>>20971536
I understand what you mean OP and I hope you're not desperate in this situation, if you are in it.
Despite spending 95% percent of my life alone, I have a stable above average job and a fulfilling hobby (sidejob). I am alone, but instead of feeling guilt I'm rather just questioning: "Is something wrong with this? - because I am feeling just fine". Something tells me media doesn't want you to be self-sufficient because that way they won't make money.

I just thought I'd share this, because I hope you're not asking for these books because you need help.

>>20971536
Hsin Hsin Ming and Tao Te Ching. For a more western take, Jed Mckenna's Enlightenment Trilogy.
First, of what use is socializing, for you in particular?
Second, what is your greatest desire?
Third, are you willing to suffer for your greatest desire?

>>20971629
You say that like it's an irreversible end of the line from which you can never come back. I did it for a couple years for fun and to fit in with the people I was around then (although I never bought fully into any of the more delusional crap), then simply grew out of it and also got tired of maintaining the look, and just went back to being a normal guy.

>>20971536
That's called being an introvert, a lot of people are like this.

>>20971536
That’s me and my gf and we’re totally fine and happy. We love doing groceries and cooking at delicious meals and home (and not inviting anyone).

The outside world, the normie world, is full of stupid, annoying, retarded and evil and dangerous people. The greatest thing about COVID was normalizing home office.

>>20971852
There's a difference between being an introvert and having zero social life. Op said not just that he likes alone time, but that he has no social circle what so ever.
I'm a complete loner and it's definitely not good longterm. I feel incredibly stunted and disconnected from everything.

>>20971852
it's more common for introverts but definitely still a pathological social state
t. shut-in

>>20971650

>>20971716
grim, what did your parents think?

>>20971536

I only have a poem:


windows all aglow
in a fluorescence
only my neighbors know

lightning bugs
aimlessly dancing through the night

do you feel it too?

a clog in the arteries

everyone living in the same vein
but scattered in some spots
crowded in others
-always alone

or I don't know
maybe it's just me
walking late at night

on the curled up sidewalks
among the curtled strangers
who walk dogs
and smoke there cigarettes

some chat on phones
so loud against the deafening
cries of frogs and crickets

so loud
is the quiet death of an age
aged to death
by a drunken obesity

or is it just me?

Where did everyone go?
Yet another vacancy
and we don't want your vagrancy

get lost

lost
loitering
in public like a criminal

we are private people
isolated in so many separate buildings

nothing builds
it only erodes
-everyone shut up in their homes
-everyone shut up

alright
airtight polite passage of time

do you feel it too?

>>20971882
This. Don't romanticize the normalfag existence. It's boring and depressing since normalfags are perpetually stuck in the present and completely ignorant to more abstract things.

Eumeswil

>>20971866
That sounds like a paradox. How in the world did you guys find each other?

>>20973583
I'd say don't romanticize being completely alien to society and not having at least some social circle or other form of human interaction. Being alone in a room with a computer your entire youth is clearly unhealthy and undesirable (for most, it seems). Now, obviously the normalfag way of life has its flaws and is very far from perfect. But what could be harmful in enjoying a sunny day at the park playing ball with some friends and then going home watching a movie and snuggling with your girlfriend? I'm not putting it on a pedestal, by the way, I'm only wondering how different life could be. Anyway, got any books recommendations?

>>20971536
Yeah it's a little obscure book called "The metamorphosis"

>>20973380
I Fucking lol'ed im sorry

>>20971536
Notes from Underground

>>20971536
Notes from the underground

>>20974773
:D
my >>20975127 bro

Oblomov.

>>20971536
oblomov, confederacy of dunces, first part of crime and punishment and my diary desu

>>20971536
The Unamable, although it's not a room.

>>20971536
My novel in progress about a 26 year old NEET. I'm about a third of the way done.

>>20971536
Welcome to the NHK

>>20975127
The underground guy is isolated but still socially functional. Is there any book that describes literally going insane, by being isolated, from a healthy normie gradually into a complete schizo?

>>20973583
This guy is correct, took me years to stop being envious of normalfags. Doesn’t matter if they have friends and and get laid or whatever. They are broken fucked up people who will only drag you down.

>>20971607
same, going to visit all the landmarks.

Things Fall Apart

>>20971599
Shame that Agora Road is filled with 'schizo based' zoomies and unironic mexican communists.