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7850695 No.7850695 [Reply] [Original]

My friend's dad just died. What are some books I can recommend him that deal with the loss of a father, of loss in general?

>> No.7850703
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>>7850695

>> No.7850715

>>7850703
Will do. Anything else?

>> No.7850772

>>7850695
If my dad had just died and some jabroni gave me a book, i would punch them in the mouth. Seriously, how the fuck do you expect this to play out? the only thing you'll be doing is making him feel bad for not liking your 'gift' and making yourself look like a retard in the process.

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>>7850783

>> No.7850805

>>7850703
Don't listen to this.

>>7850695
Don't give him a book. Be there for him as a friend, give him time alone if need be.

>> No.7850863

>>7850695
Maybe your presence and support as a friend would be more valuable than a book

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>>7850863
>>7850805
>>7850772
Don't listen to the mawkish advice of these effeminate Redditors, OP. Your friend needs his solitude in this time of grieving. Give him Walden, the Bugles, and the Queso Blanco dip.

>> No.7850885

>>7850695
Please someone recommend me a book with very smart/powerful main character, or a book about someone patrician? You would do me a huge favor.

>> No.7850887

>>7850783
>>7850803
>>7850703
You are too cute twiggs.

I plan on reading Walden when I go up alone to my cottage

>> No.7852115

>>7850695

Oedipus.

>> No.7852208

lol at substituing grieving for reading a book... millennials are retarded

>> No.7852221

The Stranger.

>> No.7852251

Pomes Penyeach for one. Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man too, really. Though really I'm not sure I would try giving someone who just suffered a terrible loss a book. They'll cope with it how they need to.

>> No.7852256

>>7852115
How old are you?

>> No.7852266

>>7852208

And you're the far bigger retard. The attempt at coping with loss through literature goes back at least as far as the Romantics. If the elegy can be interpreted as such, then it goes back to before written record.

>> No.7852314

>>7852256
43

>> No.7852340

>>7852314

Hmph! You should have achieved sublimation by now!