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father figure Anonymous Mon May 24 07:34:21 2021 No.18308529 [Reply] [Original]

what novel /lit/ recommends to an 18 yo boy who was raised without a good father figure?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 24 07:35:20 2021 No.18308535 >>18308529 The Swiss Family Robinson

>>	Anonymous Mon May 24 07:39:21 2021 No.18308565 The Bible

>>	Anonymous Mon May 24 07:41:14 2021 No.18308571 >>18308529 juden peterstein.

Anonymous Mon May 24 07:42:16 2021 No.18308574

>>18308529
The Denial of Death

>“When we are young we are often puzzled by the fact that each person we admire seems to have a different version of what life ought to be, what a good man is, how to live, and so on. If we are especially sensitive it seems more than puzzling, it is disheartening. What most people usually do is to follow one person's ideas and then another's depending on who looms largest on one's horizon at the time. The one with the deepest voice, the strongest appearance, the most authority and success, is usually the one who gets our momentary allegiance; and we try to pattern our ideals after him. But as life goes on we get a perspective on this and all these different versions of truth become a little pathetic. Each person thinks that he has the formula for triumphing over life's limitations and knows with authority what it means to be a man, and he usually tries to win a following for his particular patent. Today we know that people try so hard to win converts for their point of view because it is more than merely an outlook on life: it is an immortality formula.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

>>	Anonymous Mon May 24 07:45:24 2021 No.18308583 not the heckin father figurino!!

>>	Sufism Mon May 24 08:58:54 2021 No.18308925 schopenhauer's essays. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11945/11945-h/11945-h.htm My dad is a good man, and a good father figure, but he never sat me down and told me things about life. I am grateful to have had one though.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 24 10:20:00 2021 No.18309373 >>18308583 Ywnbam

>>	Anonymous Mon May 24 10:50:01 2021 No.18309521 Kerouac, Turn him into a bum with mad Respect for his moms

>>	Anonymous Mon May 24 10:52:10 2021 No.18309533 >>18308529 Robert Bly

>>	Anonymous Mon May 24 10:56:36 2021 No.18309557 >>18308529 The sailor who fell from grace with the sea.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 24 11:09:09 2021 No.18309626 Unironically 12 rules to life by Jordan Peterson

>>	Anonymous Mon May 24 11:20:46 2021 No.18309688 No book can replace the love of a father >t. 25 yo no dad Also >>18308565 is legit a good answer

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