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Anonymous Sat Mar 27 04:29:33 2021 No.17879449 [Reply] [Original]

What are some good novels with themes of positive family values, "traditional" morality, self respect and dignity etc? real "anti-degeneracy" if you will

and I dont necessarily JUST mean real boring PG rated stuff where nothing degenerate happens, just that the overall themes at the end of the day lean towards these things. Also I have already read Dostoevsky

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 04:44:58 2021 No.17879493 ITT: incel cope

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 04:46:44 2021 No.17879503 Pride and Prejudice Twilight Sleep

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 04:52:47 2021 No.17879521 >>17879449 120 Days of Sodom

Anonymous Sat Mar 27 05:34:37 2021 No.17879675

>>17879493
I just want a break from the type of media my life has been completely saturated with from birth. reading something that deviates from the hypersexualized grittiness and edginess and nihilism I have been bombarded with since birth is like a breath of fresh air. surely there are times when you find than being submerged in that kind of content all the time everywhere you look to be tiring, no?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 05:39:11 2021 No.17879697 >>17879449 Lotr

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 05:50:20 2021 No.17879745 >>17879697 a good suggestion, though Unfortunately i just read it and the silmerillion relatively recently

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 06:46:58 2021 No.17879946 try John Steinbeck

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 06:49:27 2021 No.17879953 File: 25 KB, 305x499, JAHB.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17879449

Anonymous Sat Mar 27 06:57:29 2021 No.17879977

>>17879675
>reading something that deviates from the hypersexualized grittiness and edginess and nihilism
There are tons. Go on project gutenberg.
The problem is that you won't find any of them interesting because you're actually searching for vapid entertainment, not self-fulfillment, and you want your entertainment to match your ideals, instead of living a life working towards those ideals.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 09:00:21 2021 No.17880469 >>17879449 Growth of Soil

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 09:03:04 2021 No.17880482 >>17879449 Read Fathers and Sons, it effectively gives you a novel of tradition and progress pitted against one another. It's a fantastic book.

Anonymous Sat Mar 27 09:07:45 2021 No.17880500

>>17879449
The works of Willa Cather are about pioneer families in Nebraska who through hardships find happiness. "O Pioneers!", "The Song of the Lark" and "My Ántonia". Her later works, such as "A Lost Lady" and "The Professor's House" tackle a more critical angle in which she denounces how the new spirit of commerce is consuming and destroying tradition. If you are not against reading female authors she'd be a good choice for you.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 09:09:15 2021 No.17880504 Anna Karenina

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 09:57:51 2021 No.17880767 >>17880500 Sapphira and the Slave Girl is fantastic as well.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 09:59:57 2021 No.17880790 >>17880469 unfathomably based

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 10:00:22 2021 No.17880791 >>17879977 /thread

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 10:00:24 2021 No.17880792 >>17880500 >>17880504 Madame Bovary fits this too then

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 10:01:58 2021 No.17880799 >>17879675 Yes, but I try to do something positive with it. I don’t retreat into the past and my rage, I try to use them to create something better

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 10:04:48 2021 No.17880813 Jane Eyre

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 11:53:32 2021 No.17881474 >>17880813 This. A very morally demanding look into romance.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 12:08:02 2021 No.17881553 >>17879449 It's a children's book, but "The Animal Family" by Randall Jarrell.

Anonymous Sat Mar 27 12:09:38 2021 No.17881562

>>17881553
"This story by Jarrell is gentle, mythical, and stands the test of time. A short story about a solitary hunter on an island, who meets a mermaid, and together form a family with animals they meet. The tone is warm and soft, kind and at times bittersweet.

While perfect for bedtime, cold or rainy days, this book is appealing to me even as i grow older. The subtle lessons about companionship, newness, differences, loneliness, loss, and joy are not forced to the fore. Rather, an old-fashioned sense of creating an environment as a way to tell a story is key here. Inviting wilderness, homely relationships, and just enough magic and mystery to compel the story forward.

One of my most treasured books since i was a young child, the is a timeless and infinitely re-readable story." <- from an Amazon review

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 12:13:47 2021 No.17881586 >>17879449 Watch Gawr Gura.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 12:16:42 2021 No.17881604 File: 730 KB, 1200x1971, 91e6fmoxmML.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Swiss Family Robinson

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 15:03:37 2021 No.17882855 >>17879977 i know you people like to play armchair psychologist and all but this simply is not true, ive already read books that fit what i am looking for and I found it quite fulfilling compared to what I am used to being exposed to

Anonymous Sat Mar 27 15:13:16 2021 No.17882938

>>17880799
im not "retreating into the past with rage" dude i have goals and things i am working towards, and there are times when the best thing for reaching those goals is to just sit down and occupy my time with something that makes me feel at least momentarily comfortable and content.

good lord some of you people are completely insufferable and nowhere near as clever and intelligent as you think you are

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 16:07:44 2021 No.17883373 >>17879449 >and I dont necessarily JUST mean real boring PG rated stuff where nothing degenerate happens Because you know a book without this would be boring as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 16:19:40 2021 No.17883445 >>17880799 How is not wanting to be bombarded with degeneracy and wanting content that contains decent values retreating into the past? Are you fucking dumb or just trying to be pretentious?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 16:23:24 2021 No.17883483 >>17879977 Wow, you sound really intelligent anon. You can read people's minds just like that?

Anonymous Sat Mar 27 16:33:26 2021 No.17883564

>>17883373
im just trying to be clear that as far as im concerned something being wholesome and good or whatever does not necessarily mean it does not feature unwholesome things. dostoevskys works (that I have read so far) for example have all sorts of murder and degenerate behavior and unpleasantness, but are ultimately positive and uplifting.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 17:05:59 2021 No.17883815 >>17883445 >how is being a dumb boomer afraid of casual sex, strong women, drugs, and fun not retreating into the past

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 17:42:39 2021 No.17884102 >>17879449 Μarkens Grode.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 18:14:40 2021 No.17884301 >>17879977 Roasted that nigga

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 18:22:01 2021 No.17884345 >>17884301 He literally just sperged out because he thinks everyone is some loser trying to live through books like he is

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 18:26:29 2021 No.17884383 >>17879977 can you explain how enjoying books with themes that reflect certain values disqualifies someone from actually living according to those values? Im really not understanding what kind of point you think you are making

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 18:29:42 2021 No.17884402 Take a look at John Senior's list of 1000 good books.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 18:34:58 2021 No.17884428 >>17879675 Les Misérables, War and Peace, Anna Karenina

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 18:39:12 2021 No.17884460 >>17879977 >>17880799 >projecting this hard

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 21:24:00 2021 No.17885585 >>17884460 many such cases

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 21:26:09 2021 No.17885609 Walter Scott

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 21:27:10 2021 No.17885619 Little Women Comfy as fuck anon.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 21:30:02 2021 No.17885629 >>17885619 is this unironic or is the book about women being whores or something

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 21:33:20 2021 No.17885643 >>17879521 Based

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>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 23:20:27 2021 No.17886198 >>17879449 Most literature written before 1900

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 23:25:09 2021 No.17886219 >>17886198 A wife ruining everything by being a cheating whore was probably the single most popular trope of 19th century literature

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 23:32:13 2021 No.17886266 >>17879449 yeah..... this nigga has never had sex

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 27 23:40:04 2021 No.17886308 >>17879449 Les miserables desu

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 28 00:23:26 2021 No.17886548 Have you considered doing drugs and having sex?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 28 00:24:27 2021 No.17886552 >>17879449 The Secret Garden

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 28 00:24:53 2021 No.17886559 >>17879449 All Jane Austen

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 28 00:24:57 2021 No.17886560 >>17886548 sounds like a good way to ruin your life thanks i'm good

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 28 00:27:35 2021 No.17886569 File: 158 KB, 970x582, greek-symposium.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17879449 Start with the Greeks

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 28 00:46:41 2021 No.17886670 File: 39 KB, 338x500, 51VnXQz3h1L._AC_SY1000_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17879449

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 28 01:19:58 2021 No.17886839 >>17879977 armchair psychologists should be banned and have their cock and balls physically removed.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 28 05:37:17 2021 No.17888060 >>17885629 Unironic. It's wholesome as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 28 06:02:53 2021 No.17888121 >>17879449 19th century fiction is what you want.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 28 06:07:17 2021 No.17888137 >>17880469 this book is far from wholesome the portrayal of women in this book is aligned with blackpill/incel views

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 28 06:10:11 2021 No.17888147 >>17879977 I can smell the pseudointellectual smugness radiating from this post

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 28 09:30:34 2021 No.17888967 Sounds like you'll like Sigrid Undset

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 28 10:23:38 2021 No.17889184 >>17879449 Check out the works of joan didion. Essays and fiction.

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