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6995119 No.6995119 [Reply] [Original]

>dad tells you to stop reading Dostoevsky cause he's contributing to your depression and read Chekov instead

>dad hasn't read a book in 20 years

>> No.6995122
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6995122

>>6995119
my dad is dead and my mom wants me to drop out of college and go to the army

you don't have it that bad

>> No.6995123

>>6995119
Sounds like he's reached literary enlightenment, and is now beyond all books.

>> No.6995127

>>6995119
I god
damn
mother fucking
hope
that you are quoting that girl
other wise I'm going to
BEAT YOUR ASS
I N T O
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>> No.6995133

>>6995119
I'm the son of a truck driver. I'm the first male in my family to graduate college. I recommend books to my father and he reads them. I always hand him easy reads like Timothy O'brien, and Hemmingway. He reads them. This has brought our family closer.

>> No.6995142

>>6995119
>Chekov
>not even more depressing than Dostoevsky
>implying you shouldn't keep reading Dosty and accept Christ

>> No.6995166

>>6995119
>Chekhov isn't depressing

http://genius.com/Anton-chekhov-misery-full-text-annotated

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6995280

>>6995133
Wow. That is good. Glad you two are closer. Op should do same. I assume you also like Hemingway?

>> No.6995313

>>6995122
do join it
you may be able to retire after 40 and then you can live da literary lifestyle, supported by your pension

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>>6995133
this post made me happy

>you still need to go back to leddit though

>> No.6995323

>>6995280
>I assume you also like Hemingway?
I went through a Hemingway phase for a year. I've moved onto other authors of interest. His simplicity is good for those who aren't readers.

>> No.6995327

>tfw I have a bookwaifu that looks like a cuter Reagan but graduated from YA to undergrad tier freshman stuff like danielewski, Thompson, Burroughs, Dostoevsky and Hemingway
>tfw I'm gonna start getting her into Mishima, Plato, Nietzsche, Joyce and Faulkner
>tfw /lit/ saved my life and improved my dating game and helped me find precious eager unpretentious girls that balance out my pretentious, hothead personality

>> No.6995329

>>6995323
I bet you couldn't even tell me the significance of Hemingway or how his deceptively simplistic prose compliments the point he is trying to get across. Pseud.

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>>6995323
>His simplicity is good for those who aren't readers.

his style is accessible but his meanings are deep and rich; he's like a zen sushi-chef...deceptively simple to the superficial reader

>> No.6995402

>tfw father was in the military, deployed three times
>never talked about it much
>was never a big reader
>give him slaughterhouse-five
>he loves it, relates to it, and opens up about his war experiences

good feel tbh

>> No.6995403

>>6995329
Im assuming the answer to that is in his Wikipedia page.

>> No.6995451

>>6995127
Nxt Lvl