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UNBRIDLED OPTIMISM LITERATURE Anonymous Mon Jun 26 22:33:49 2023 No.22193288 [Reply] [Original]

Enough with the sad, melancholic, loser, feminine bullshit books,

GIVE ME BOOKS ABOUT UNBRIDLE OPTIMISM, NEVER GIVE UP CHARACTERS, AGAINST ALL THE ODDS CONFLICTS, MAN AGAINST FATE AND GODS! REACH FOR THE HEAVENS AND GRAB THE STARTS OR DIE TRYING BOOKS, BROS!

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 26 22:38:05 2023 No.22193302 >>22193288 Marriage of Heaven and Hell

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 26 22:39:06 2023 No.22193305 >>22193302 Also The Philosopher’s Stone and the Mind Parasites

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 26 22:41:30 2023 No.22193310 >>22193288 Doesn't make good literature

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 26 22:46:56 2023 No.22193327 >>22193310 So literature must be just sad bullshit and introspection?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 00:03:19 2023 No.22193508 >>22193327 Exactly, most people on lit are sad, lonely faggots who think they are too smart to engage with society.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 00:54:32 2023 No.22193658 Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 01:09:33 2023 No.22193696 File: 125 KB, 600x732, 1681496168007484.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22193288 The Ring of the Nibelung and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZKw9Br5opc

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 01:57:14 2023 No.22193801 >>22193310 >>22193288 Chekhov anon...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 02:10:39 2023 No.22193834 >>22193288 Wodehouse may be what you are looking for.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 03:50:02 2023 No.22194038 >>22193288 Candide (ou L'Optimisme) Despite being superficially a takedown of optimism, it's really just a permeatingly gleeful shitpost. What a fun read.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 05:11:27 2023 No.22194222 >>22193288 Leaves of Grass

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 05:16:03 2023 No.22194233 >>22193327 yes

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 06:04:05 2023 No.22194336 >>22193288 Feng Menglong's Sanyan

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 06:06:34 2023 No.22194338 >>22193288 I find The Epic of Gilgamesh an uplifting story of true friendship raised even higher by it being one of the oldest, even if there is a sad bit in the middle when he deals with the death of his friend and tries to find an answer.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 07:43:42 2023 No.22194491 Old man and the sea

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 08:35:36 2023 No.22194550 >>22193288 JOE! JOEEEEEEEEE!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 16:07:34 2023 No.22195695 >>22193288 TATSUNDA JOOEEE!! TATSU TATSU!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 16:11:01 2023 No.22195708 File: 22 KB, 324x500, the road.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22193288 the most optimistic character in all of literature when you consider the circumstances. makes siddhartha look like a fucking emo

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 16:11:38 2023 No.22195711 >>22194233 >dude just be a bugman sapped of vitality bro

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 17:42:46 2023 No.22196034 Bump

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 18:22:20 2023 No.22196176 For me, it’s books that have tragic events, but an overall uplifting and positive message (i.e Les Miserables). Those kind of stories are peak storytelling.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 18:26:32 2023 No.22196199 >>22193288 The Ring of the Nibelungs, The Lord of the Rings >>22194222 Optimism, not naivete

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 21:06:12 2023 No.22196817 Bump

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 23:37:46 2023 No.22197245 >>22193288 V. Stencil fags need note apply. Bennychads keep on winning

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 28 03:51:26 2023 No.22198003 >>22193288 The Alexandria Quartet

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