/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20951058]

Any literature about comfy NEETs or recluses?

[Anonymous No.20951067]

"Against Nature" is a godawful translation for the actual title. "À rebours" means "backwards" or
"in reverse".

[Anonymous No.20951077]

>>20951058

[Anonymous No.20951518]

Walden maybe? There are books about recluses, but they are never comfy.

[Anonymous No.20951574]

>>20951058
Oblomov is the OG NEET.

[Anonymous No.20951776]

Proust

[Anonymous No.20951786]

I know you posted this thread Friedrich

[Anonymous No.20951807]

>>20951058
>comfy NEETs or recluses
Being a neet or a recluse is so depressing.

[Anonymous No.20951810]

Hikikomori

[Anonymous No.20951906]

>>20951574
This

[Anonymous No.20951912]

>>20951807
It is if you are terminally online

[Anonymous No.20951934]

>>20951807
Depends entirely on the way you spend your time. Nothing but shitposting, fapping and gayming will get you suicidal after few years - been there done that, even came close to getting a j*b in utter desperation. Luckily I managed to pull myself out of that ditch and now I'm focused on reading, writing, lifting, music/video production. Happiest I've ever been, and that includes previous long-term relationship with a w*man.

[Anonymous No.20951966]

>>20951934
Based
Having a hobby while being a neet is the ideal life

[Anonymous No.20951974]

>>20951934
how old?

[Anonymous No.20952010]

>>20951966
It really is crucial to pick some creative activities and stick with them, the only reason why NEETs tend to end up depressed is because they just rot away. Of course I'll probably have to off myself once parents are gone but who wants to be a senile cripple anyway?
>>20951974
32, kek. I've experienced couple of office jobs and sexual relationships though, normie life isn't for me.

[Anonymous No.20952019]

>>20951912
Anon, you honestly think people here go outside.

[Anonymous No.20952024]

>>20952010
Same about offing myself
Working out and getting into literature really helped me regarding mental health

[Anonymous No.20952033]

>>20952024
Absolutely. Reading + lifting saved my sanity, everything else is just a bonus.

[Anonymous No.20952063]

Guy graduates from college and before beginning his engineering job he decides to visit his cousin at a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss alps. Right before his two week visit is up he goes in for a customary checkup, optional in his case, and finds out he has signs of TB in his lungs, meaning that he has to remain at the sanatorium until he's cured.
The MC isn't a recluse, but the book ironically characterizes the experience of being a NEET who spends all day surfing the internet and learning stuff pretty well. 75% of the book is him wandering around, sitting in his room, or hanging out with people, just absorbing information. It's the most comfy book I have read.

[Anonymous No.20952108]

>>20952019
You can stay at home and still restrict your use of internet/audiovisual media.

[Anonymous No.20952257]

>>20952063
This is also extremely good, peak NEET lit.

[Anonymous No.20952266]

>>20951058
pic related

[Anonymous No.20952432]

>>20952063
he gets his wake up call at the end

[Anonymous No.20952479]

>>20952108
I really doubt that.

[Anonymous No.20952536]

>>20952479
Maybe you don't want to

[Anonymous No.20952555]

>>20952019
>you honestly think people here go outside.
No, but I like to think people here aren't that pathetic.

[Anonymous No.20952745]

I'd like some books like this, as well.

[Anonymous No.20952759]

>>20952432
So do you (plural).

[Anonymous No.20952782]

A story about a NEET and pre-internet autistic 4channer being forced against his will to get a job.

[Anonymous No.20953239]

POST MORE RECS
O NEED TO BE A NEET AND STOP THE WORKING JAHAHAHAJAJAHJAHA

[Anonymous No.20953273]

>>20952782
Look how he even larps as a based trad warrior fascist with that knife

[Anonymous No.20953288]

[Anonymous No.20953331]

>>20951934
Yeah first time I did neetdom I was very depressed.

But now im in neetdom again because I refused the vax I'm still pretty happy after a year of it lol. It's funny how ppl are mad at me enjoying being a NEET yet are the same ones who had no issues with me losing my job over the vax, now I'm kind of refusing to look for a job properly. If an opportunity comes up and its guaranteed and close to home ie. No retarded recruitment process then I'll definitely take it up

Day goes like this and I hate when it gets disrupted:
wake up
make coffee +read a bit.
Workout
Prep lunch and eat, listen to stuff on YouTube
Check garden stuff, cleaning, check out 4chan, twitter etc sometimes I get too distracted desu
Shower
Read
Prep dinner
Listen to YouTube while eating.
Read/browse
Play a bit of Vidya
Go to sleep listening to asmr

Tbh its pretty comfy lol

[Anonymous No.20953364]

Henry Miller, but it is a flavor that can’t exist anymore, definitely not with anyone here. Namely he was getting pussy and going outside.

I don’t get this high sense of cultivation that proudly disregards the need for others. Creative tasks carried out forever in a vacuum are pretty much always shit especially because most of the projects here will never be realized: you need friends for it to be seen.

[Anonymous No.20953386]

>>20953331
Based jinx asmr enjoyer

[Anonymous No.20953412]

Linton in Wuthering Heights is fucking 4chan incarnate

[Anonymous No.20953436]

>>20953412
Is that why /lit/ hates Wuthering Heights?

[Anonymous No.20953618]

>>20952063
Hans Castorp is not that shy or retiring by nature, and is a man of simple and well ingrained opinions. He is an everyman not a NEET.

[Anonymous No.20953632]

>>20951058
This was anything but comfy, that's not the point of decadent novels such as On Elegance While Sleeping and À Rebours. La-Bas is way, way better. Give it a try.

[Anonymous No.20954536]

>>20951934>>20951966

your hooooobbies are purely man-made and and you will go back to despair once you either see they are copes or jsut get bored with them. nothing orgnaic with hobbies

[Anonymous No.20954619]

Try Nassim Taleb

[Anonymous No.20954641]

i was a neet when covid hit. and i put all my unemployment money into crypto and it went to shit.
sold all my losses and had enough to last until this month. starting a new job next week
i wish i spent more time learning some skill to make money.
i spent it reading literature and making music. i did perform a few shows recently
but now i must go back working for shit money to pay rent and have less time pursuing my passions
i dont see anyone finds joy spending 40 hours a week at some job. its fucking torture

t.25 yr 0ld neet

[Anonymous No.20954663]

>>20954641
>i dont see anyone finds joy spending 40 hours a week at some job.
They don't, almost nobody enjoys their job, they just find ways to cope with it in whatever little free time they have, those copes can be hobbies, relationships, drugs, etc.

[Anonymous No.20954816]

>>20953412
I lost my shit every time Emily Brontë wrote paragraph after paragraph describing how much of a little bitch he was

[Anonymous No.20954832]

>>20952024
I'm serious. I'm going to kill myself in my 50's probably. (I've seen fit and active 40 year olds so it would be unnecessary to kill myself that early). What age do you intend to die?

[Anonymous No.20955054]

>>20952010
so you rely on parents but they don't torture you to get a job?
that can become a cause for depression itself when you're living with people who it's all they've done your whole life

[Anonymous No.20955137]

H.P. Lovecraft
Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Ligotti
Charles Bukowski

try them, they were NEETs irl at points in their lives and wrote NEETish books

[Anonymous No.20955254]

>>20955137
bukowski is definitely more defined as a wagie then as a NEET. his antiwork sentiment comes from a place of working miserable dead end jobs his whole life

[Anonymous No.20956638]

>>20951058
my diary desu

[Anonymous No.20956658]

>>20951058

[Anonymous No.20956835]

People who think being NEET is the source of depression are fucking idiots, and I say that as someone who is NEET now and way happier than when I had a job or did volunteer work or school.

The vast majority of people who act like their work is a source of pride are completely full of shit and it is a massive cope for how their souls are being sucked just so they can pay the rent on time.

>inb4 "lol poorfags you just have to get a GOOD job and be wealthy like me"

Yeah nice try I'm not falling for that.

[Anonymous No.20957998]

bump

[Anonymous No.20958006]

>>20951807
Not if you meditate to break the wheel lol

[Anonymous No.20958008]

>>20954832
Nta but 50 as well

[Anonymous No.20958067]

>>20954536
>wagie cope
enjoy slaving away for half your life so you can make some douchebag a billionaire while you can barely afford a house
>"working is more meaningful than reading/writing/music etc. because...well because it just IS!"

[Anonymous No.20958494]

>>20953632
>La-Bas is way, way better. Give it a try.
Where there any passages you had to force yourself through?. Overall I enjoyed a rebours but sometimes I really couldn‘t be bothered by the endless descriptions of certain things

[Anonymous No.20958509]

>>20952010
>normie life isn't for me.
I can relate. But I hope there is another way of life for me, without having to be a (complete) neet.

[Anonymous No.20958592]

>>20951518
Which Waldun books do you rec? I loved 'learned disguise'

[Anonymous No.20958606]

>>20951058
Thought this book was just okay. I share some of des Esseintes' sentiments, but overall it wasn't that stimulating to read. Probably because I didn't know more than half of the things he was describing. What am I missing? How does one enjoy this kind of work?

[Anonymous No.20958613]

>>20951067
My native language translates it as "Upstream". Would you say that's better?

[Anonymous No.20958881]

NEET artist here. The technophile basterds are messing with art now, using so-called "artificial intelligence" to generate abominable ahrimanic doppelgangers. TED WAS RIGHT.

[Anonymous No.20958894]

>>20958881
artists went through a similar crisis when cameras were invented and all the gigs painting portraits dried up. i'm sure art will survive. it will just flip to the next chapter of future art history books.

[Anonymous No.20958901]

>>20958613
Still better than "Against Nature".

[Anonymous No.20958907]

Nobody's gonna say it? Ok then...

My Diary desu

[Anonymous No.20959299]

>>20951934
>>20952010
I guess I was lucky then to keep my job during covid through working from home. Now luckily I'm permanently WFH and live a 99% reclusive lifestyle. Once a month I have to visit the office for admin maintenance but I barely talk to anyone and get out quickly.

I've been unemployed before and basically NEETed for 9 months on savings but that was fucking awful after a couple of months. I got tired of everything I found fun and felt like a complete burden to people I lived with. Now I've got a semi decent structure in place and time to do my own thing during work hours I don't feel too bad. I guess what I lacked before was stability and a created structure, so as long as you have that then the day-to-day doesn't seem too bad.

[Anonymous No.20961117]

Any of Woodhouse's Wooster and Jeeves novels/ Bertie Wooster is a neet, though a very wealthy and sociable neet

[Anonymous No.20961121]

>>20953436
/lit/ hates Wuthering Heights?

[Anonymous No.20961128]

>>20958881
read Pynchon already, ted is a shrimp

[Anonymous No.20961150]

>>20951058
This book is not very comfy, Oblomov neither
>>20951067
Its translated as "Na wspak" here

[Anonymous No.20961668]

>>20958881
shut up, Nick

[Anonymous No.20963281]

>>20951058
my diary desu

[Anonymous No.20963340]

>>20951058
Planning to read this soon. Try "No longer human", but not that comfy. "I am a cat" is kind like a neet story
Reading Nausea and the character isn't a NEET but he's close to it
>>20961117
Also this, Wodehouse is fun

[Anonymous No.20963845]

>>20954832
Same but my problem is I am in Europe. So with firearms being the only real way to guarantee success, its difficult to plan. My goal is to get a shotgun through a hunting license and have that ready to swallow at about 60. It gives me a lot of peace knowing I'll be going out on my own terms.

[Anonymous No.20963852]

>>20951058
Apt Pupil by Stephen King

[Anonymous No.20964170]

>>20952266
Gent Wholeweave does sound like a Pynchon character jej