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Trying to face the horrors of life head on and reading philosophy is pretty shit it turns out.

Recommend me your favourite works of escapism. Which books made you forget your suffering temporarily? I want to be lost in fiction for the holidays and don't have to think about real life. Please help me get comfy.

Genre fiction welcome if necessary.

>> No.12211038
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>>12211029
Doyle's The Lost World. Frank Herbert's Dune series. Tolkien.

>> No.12211051

>>12211038
Comfy pic. I never read Tolkien, do you recommend starting with LOTR or something else?

>> No.12211075

>>12211051
start with the hobbit, then lotr, then silmarillion.

>> No.12211077

>>12211029
Holey shit that picture is fucking awesome!

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too late, can't escape

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>>12211081
quiet you. we are vulnerable to sensory input. fiction is especially tasty.

>> No.12211264

The Sherlock Holmes books can be grim but they’re delightful! Very easy reads too.

>> No.12211294

this is gimmicky, but Chucky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjiyV8mtXiU

I love this. I think I have more.

>> No.12211312

https://books.google.ca/books/about/Child_s_Play.html?id=Eb-nCQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

>> No.12211319

>>12211264
those are top comfy.

what are some other good victorian reads?

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Sorry about the despair OP.

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>>12211029
Where shall you flee, OP? What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world if he lose his own soul? Turn and face the horror and do not avert your eyes. Witness the gruesome belly of this world, this incestuous cosmos. Behold, and be edified.

>> No.12211588

>>12211473
Thanks.

>> No.12211607

>>12211029
The Asian saga by James Clavell
Conan the Barbarian stories by Robert E Howard

>> No.12211680

>>12211528
W-what if I don't back? If I lose the self and identity I've been attached to for so long, what will happen? Tell me, FAGGOT. Is everything going to be okay on the other side? Please, tell me. Uuuuuuuuu uuu u uuuuuuuuu ;_; help

>> No.12211686

>>12211029
>Trying to face the horrors of life head on and reading philosophy is pretty shit it turns out.
nah

>> No.12211794

>>12211686
Yuh

>> No.12211800

Kafka

>> No.12211861

>>12211680
There is no other side op. There is only this chance to seize your chosen destiny and make it of it what you will before it passes. Or don’t. The choice is yours, but make it quickly before it is too late.

>> No.12212491

>>12211800
That’s mean.

>> No.12212521

>>12211029
The Horse and His Boy, I just love it.

>> No.12212696

>>12211029
good thread

>> No.12212750

anything by Buddha

>> No.12212753

>>12211029
Just do drugs