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What are some books that are written so beautifully and are so engaging that you feel like pic related when it’s all finished?

>> No.11434899

>>11434890
Summer Of The Starlight by Hemingway did this for me.

>> No.11434898

>>11434890
None beacuse the visual medium is much superior for the aesthetic purpose.

>> No.11434907

>>11434890
The Waves

>> No.11434908

>>11434890
Vagina Woolf’s orlando

>> No.11434910

>>11434890
The Sun Also Rises

>> No.11434916

>>11434890
Anything by Thomas Bernhard

>> No.11434920
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11434920

>>11434890
Book of Job.
Book of Psalms.

>> No.11434924

>>11434899
I can find no reference to a Hemingway work named that anywhere on the internet

>> No.11436433

>>11434899
seconding this one. pure bliss

>> No.11437949

Daughter of Smoke and Bones trilogy

>> No.11437960

>>11434890

The elementary particles by Michel houllebecq

>> No.11438040

>>11434924
neither can i

>> No.11438084

>>11434899
This is actually the only extended work by Hemingway that really did it for me. The sense of total loss at the end is just heartbreaking.

>> No.11438108

>>11434890
East of Eden by Steinbeck. It's a very good book imo even if I had some parts I wasn't crazy about. But the ending was your pic related for me for sure

>> No.11438121

>>11434890
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. You'll feel enlightened.

>> No.11438145

the growth of the soil

>> No.11438362

>>11434899

The Old Man and the Sea hit me pretty hard desu boys

>> No.11438936

>>11434890
all the pretty horses

>> No.11438941

>>11434890
The Iliad

>> No.11438948

>>11434890
War and Peace

>> No.11439442

behead all satans

>> No.11439447

>>11434890
Ulysses for sure

>> No.11439451

The Snow Leopard
The Peregrine

>> No.11439466
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11439466

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

>> No.11439468

>>11439451
>The Peregrine
I gotta read this. Herzog says it's his favorite book.

>> No.11439473

>>11434890
Moby Dick

>> No.11439480

>>11434898
> brainlet with 0 imagination

>> No.11439482

>>11434916
Pseud

>> No.11439516

Metro 2034
The Forever War

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>>11434898
Literally the reason why Visual Novels are the only works that left me feeling the way OP described. Narcissu, Suba Hibi and Swan Song all left me in a state of awe and loneliness knowing I was done with the worlds portrayed in those stories. Books have given me a similar feeling, but not quite as strong. The audio component of VNs are what I find most immersive.

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>>11434890

>> No.11439647

>>11434916
yes, definitely this.

>>11439482
kys pseud

>> No.11439655

>>11434890
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is this.

>> No.11439842

>>11434890
The Opposing Shore by Gracq

>> No.11439868
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11439868

The Gift

>> No.11440203

>>11439647
What Bernhard books specifically? The only one I can think of that fits the OP might be the ending of Woodcutters, and I've read everything save for his plays and Extinction

>> No.11440220

Master and Margarita

>> No.11440221

Brothers Karamazov
>>11439451
Snow Leopard is hella comfy senpai

>> No.11440225

>>11439451
Seconding the Peregrine

>> No.11440499

The Final Martyrs by Shusako Endo. Seriously, people need to read this, the end is literally what OP is describing and Shusako's prose is Tolstoy like - it feels like life itself telling the story, you just keep turning the pages and it never gets dull. The violence is unbelievable and the statement on faith and christianity was so convincing that i think i finally "saw the light" when i reached the end of it. I'm not religious or a man of faith but that book made me respect the fuck out of faith for the common believer and, as all good books, made me lose and then regain faith in humanity. I'm currently reading Silence by Shusako.

>> No.11441424

>>11439442
so true.