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Can someone recommend me a book with a simple story that doesn't go anywhere? The hero doesn't learn anything, there isn't any deep meaning or anything behind it. Just comfortable nonsense that doesn't go anywhere

>> No.21850553

Pickwick Papers
Wodehouse

>> No.21850563
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>>21850545
How about creating that labryinth in your mind?

weffriddles.com if you need something to guide you to the course of thinking.

but whatever, it's just my magnum opus

>> No.21851103

>>21850563
I've been stuck on 24 for the longest time. I thought the solution was either "mud" or "mind" but nope. Now it's just a guessing game to figure out how I'm supposed to interpret this shit.

>> No.21851118

A Confederacy of Dunces

>> No.21851130

>>21850553
>Pickwick Papers
>there isn't any deep meaning or anything behind it
Are you being retarded on purpose?

>> No.21851131

>>21851103
Motherfucker, I just got it. My fault for being small brain. It's always easier than it seems.

>> No.21851133

murakami. pick a random one of his

>> No.21851228

>>21851130
Dude, it's just weekly funnies he was making up as he went along to amuse a mass audience. Not that there's anything wrong with that
But ifyou want to read some deeper meaning into it, be my guest.

>> No.21851289

>>21851228
It was an indictment of the debtor's prison system. How does one not see that? It's the entire point of it. Did you even read it? The irony is that there was so much momentum of nothing of great import happening, that a man so innocent as Pickwick finding himself suddenly being prosecuted was shocking. You sound like you read the first half and quit reading after the set up.

>> No.21851305

>>21850545
Samuel Beckett’s Trillogy

>> No.21851357

>>21851289
>It's the entire point of it.
No it isn't. It's gentle humor made up as he went along. You are reading too much into it, or confusing PP with Little Dorrit perhaps? There is no overarching theme to the Pickwick Papers other than good humour and amusement.
The Christmas chapter is not about debtors prison. The cricket match is not about debtors prison. The embedded ghost stories are not about debtors prison. I could go on.
You've been filtered by the gentlest novel in the canon. My condolences

>> No.21851381

>>21850545
Isn't this Tristram Shandy?

>> No.21851440

>>21851357
>The Christmas chapter is not about debtors prison. The cricket match is not about debtors prison. The embedded ghost stories are not about debtors prison.
How about the part where he gets tossed into debtor's prison. Is at least that part about debtor's prison, or am I reading too much into that, also?

>> No.21852571

>>21850545
The Stranger

>> No.21852970

>>21850545
>The hero doesn't learn anything, there isn't any deep meaning or anything behind it. Just comfortable nonsense that doesn't go anywhere
The US constitution.

>> No.21853014

>>21852970
Vladimir Lao Xing pls

>> No.21853087

>>21852571
he literally dies

>> No.21853090

>>21850545
PG Wodehouse is a good answer since there isn’t some deeper meaning involved but there are certainly stories. Sounds like you’re looking for more of a Waiting for Godot type experience as far as the content goes but even that has too much meaning. Ulysses and In Search Of Lost Time would probably fit your bill but people will reply to say they’re deep and meaningful. You can see the world in a grain of sand if you try hard enough.

>> No.21853141

Check out The Four Children Who Went Round the World by Edward Lear .. king of nonsense .. short story available on Google