/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19312076]

I want to read a story about a man buying a piece of land and making something out of it with his own two hands. What do you suggest.

[Anonymous No.19312086]

Walden in a sense I guess. Most other books i know like your question are how-to books to actually do it.

[Anonymous No.19312125]

>>19312076
east of eden

[Anonymous No.19312133]

>>19312076
You cannot unplug from the Matrix. Even if you somehow manage to do something like it, you WILL end up being Waco'd sooner or later.

[Anonymous No.19312168]

>>19312076
The growth of the soil, Knut Hamsun.

[Anonymous No.19312174]

>>19312076
Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell

[Anonymous No.19312208]

>>19312133
Dying defending your land from bugmen, globohomo glowniggers, or even aliens is a more beautiful death, should it come in youth or old age, than wasting away our lives in this materialistic hellscape we've allowed ourselves to slide into.

You will own land.
You will build your own house.
You will homestead.
You will have a beautiful, loving, faithful wife.
You will be true to your family.
You will teach your children the value of life and the purpose of living as you, yourself, will understand it.
You will eat what you desire.
You will revolt against the modern world with every act of beauty you exhalt.

(You will post an answer to OP's question, or I'll write the damn thing myself)

[Anonymous No.19312360]

>>19312086
thoreau was living on emerson's property. but walden isn't about homesteading, either, it's a dialectical critique of town life (which of course is the first fucking paragraph of the book if you'd actually read it)

[Anonymous No.19312378]

>>19312208
You will larp on 4chan.
You will live in a suburb.
You will shop at the grocery store.
You will work a day job.
You will keep pretending.

[Anonymous No.19312485]

Life & Times of Michael K. by Coetzee explores this in a way. Trust me, just give it a try.

[Anonymous No.19312567]

that was my grandfather's life. he and his brothers sold their pasture in the countryside and moved to the city, constructing large four-story houses brick by brick. they made over a hundred descendants and after a life of hard work my grandfather died at the age of 95 surrounded by family. he was also a notorious abuser who beat and starved his thirteen children. i think his greatest accomplishment was not his material creations but how he traumatized his children so much that they vowed never to repeat his mistakes

[Anonymous No.19312573]

>>19312076

[Anonymous No.19312587]

>>19312076
Growth of the Soil

[Anonymous No.19312630]

>>19312567
inordinate amount of basedness

[Anonymous No.19312677]

how much land does a man need by tolstoy

[Anonymous No.19312743]

If you're okay with simultaneously reading a soap opera love triangle than Anna Karenina's good for that.

[Anonymous No.19312821]

I don’t have a book for you OP but the movie Minari perfectly fits

[Anonymous No.19313177]

>>19312125
came to write this

[Anonymous No.19313649]

Jung bought a piece of land in some village and built a small castle in it with his own two hands. He was that based.

[Anonymous No.19313670]

>>19313649
>From the beginning I felt the Tower as in some way a place of maturation a maternal womb or a maternal figure in which I could become what I was, what I am and will be. It gave me a feeling as if I were being reborn in stone....At Bollingen I am in the midst of my true life, I am most deeply myself. Here I am, as it were, the "age-old son of the mother." That is how alchemy puts it, very wisely, for the "old man," the "ancient," whom I had already experienced as a child, is personality Number 2, who has always been and always will be.... In my fantasies, he took the form of Philemon, and he comes to life again at Bollingen. There I live in my second personality and see life in the round, as something forever coming into being and passing on.

[Anonymous No.19313686]

>>19312360
That's why i said "in a sense I guess," very much qualifying it. There are parts that go into what he does and how he gets by, those are the parts i was talking about.

[Anonymous No.19313706]

>>19312076
Dick Proenekke, one man's wilderness. It's very good, you will like it.

[Anonymous No.19314257]

>>19312076
> Having a piece of land and making something out of it with his own two hands.
This is how life is supposed to be.

[Anonymous No.19314291]

>>19314257
try selling anything you produce on there nowadays.
>laws
>taxes
>conditions for subventions
>organic or conventional dilemma
>locked markets
>dead markets
>international markets
>droughts
>floods
be happy to slave away from 9 to 5 instead of all day every day.

[Anonymous No.19314300]

>>19312208
you WILL cope

[Anonymous No.19314307]

>>19312573
post some excerpts, I'm interested

[Anonymous No.19314312]

>>19312076
>I want to read a story about a man buying a piece of land and making something out of it with his own two hands
americans are really lame

[Anonymous No.19314321]

>>19312076
>a man buying a piece of land and making something out of it with his own two hands
Absalom, Absalom

[Anonymous No.19314352]

>>19314291
I don't mean becoming a farmer. More like a fantasy. I dream of buy an isolated, faraway island with 0 interaction with people all the time.

[Anonymous No.19314411]

>>19312076
unironically my diary desu. Bought 1 year ago. Development slowly underway.
>>19314321
good choice

[Anonymous No.19314416]

>>19312168
Came here to post this as well.

[Anonymous No.19314484]

>>19312076
Silas Marner is not literally this but is thematically this.

[Anonymous No.19314497]

>>19312076
One Hundred Years of Solitude

[Anonymous No.19314525]

Absalom, Absalom!

[Anonymous No.19314529]

>>19314352
me, too, anon. me, too.

[Anonymous No.19314600]

>>19312208
This has been the most beautiful thing I read on /lit/ in a while

[Anonymous No.19314602]

>>19312076
Walden

[Anonymous No.19314604]

>>19312076
O Pioneers by Willa Cather

[Anonymous No.19314608]

>>19312076
Anna Karenina

[Anonymous No.19314703]

>>19312168
Bingo

[Anonymous No.19314732]

Robinson Crusoe (although he doesn’t buy the land)

[Anonymous No.19314755]

>>19312076
McCabe

Unfortunately though this novel is out of print and impossible to find for a respectable price.

[Anonymous No.19314770]

>>19312076
Not precisely what you're looking for, but check out the story Gooseberries by Chekhov

[Anonymous No.19315181]

>>19314529

[Anonymous No.19315195]

>>19312076
the bible

[Anonymous No.19315324]

>>19312076
Under the North Star by Väinö Linna. A Finnish classic.hysgr

[Anonymous No.19315381]

Are there any books about a third grader who gets a mansion with a McDonald's and a bigscreen tv for video games and coke machines on every floor and his parents can't tell him what to do because it's his house so he gets to make all the rules now?? Or maybe a book about a teenager who runs away from home and hitchhikes across the country and proves to his parents that maturity and responsibility isn't just schoolwork and chores?

Your childhood fantasies of unimpeachable independence are never going to come true. You aren't the inheritor of some aristocratic strain which can't bear to support the atrocity which modernity has made of natural society, you're an overgrown teenager screaming at his parents to knock before they come in his bedroom. In the event that society were to actually kick you out, you'd be back at the front door by dinner time.

[Anonymous No.19315556]

>>19315381
I legitimately do not understand what point you're trying to make, what you're addressing, your thought process, or anything else behind this post. It's like having a homeless person shout at you but in digital format