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Hello /lit/ first time lurker here, I don't usually read books but I've decided to start reading a book since I've been depressed most of my life I'm starting to run out of things to keep my brain busy, what good books can you recommend me? I've only read "Catcher in the rye" which was a good book in my opinion, but I'd like to read something different, any suggestions? Thank you.

>> No.3310539

Starter kit:

Of Mice and Men
1984
Animal Farm
The Stranger
The Metamorphosis
Slaughterhouse Five
To Kill a Mockingbird
Frankenstein
The Old Man and the Sea

>> No.3310562

>>3310508
delete thread, read sticky

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>>3310539
I'm not OP, first time browsing /lit/.
>mfw I've read ~80% of that list

>> No.3310573

>>3310569

Most high-school kids have.

>> No.3310574

>>3310569
Well done?

>> No.3310582

>>3310569
Jeff, please fuck off back to /fit/ and never come back.

>> No.3310583

OP here

I once read a book that it was about a man that came into peoples life, helped them an moved on, I forgot what the name of the book was all I know is that it started with "The"

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>>3310569
>yfw you've received a standard american high school education

good for you anon...?

>> No.3310595

>>3310583

That was a movie, entitled 'The Sixth Sense'

>> No.3310605

>>3310595
No, it was a book. It was about an old man I think, he helped people with the problems they had and then just dissapeared, not dissapeared but moved on unto the next person.

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>>3310593
>implying I'm american
>implying english is my first language

>> No.3310621

>>3310605

Yeah, that was a movie, entitled 'Seven'

>> No.3310635

>>3310621
Nope, it's not that one

>> No.3310774

>OP is depressed
>Wants to read books to stop being depressed
That's adorable.

Books don't make you happy.

>> No.3310785

>>3310774
books? of course not. books are to be curiously examined by touch. the eternal knowledge that encircles it, though, has the potential to synthesize and metamorph ink into wisdom

>> No.3310788

>>3310785
You sound like you'd enjoy V for Vendetta. It's a comic, but one of almost /lit/ standards.

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>>3310785
>thinks he is intelligent because he uses hard words

Everyone knows what they mean and people won't think you're smart

>> No.3310793

>>3310788
how come?

>>3310790
splendour facial hair aesthetics, faggot

>> No.3310795

>>3310793
V's language is a bit like yours, from what I remember.

>> No.3310803 [DELETED] 

>>3310795
i sincerely fail distinguish your intent between the sarcastic and discreetly opprobrious textual odium and a genuine recommendation

which on is it?

>> No.3310806

>>3310795
i sincerely fail distinguish your intent between a sarcastic and discreetly opprobrious textual odium and a genuine recommendation

which on is it?

>> No.3310813

>>3310806
>which on is it?
>which on
>on

>> No.3310815

>>3310806
I'm being serious. It's very good; look at some reviews if you don't believe me.

Now, please tell me you don't fucking talk/write like this normally? If so, cut out that pretentious bullshit right now, and read Orwell's short essay, Politics and the English Language:
http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/patee.html

>> No.3310816

>>3310813
fail to distinguish*
one*

fuck. i'm heading to bed now

>> No.3310819

>>3310815
>orwell

not sure if serious; but i'll take a peek anyway, in a few hours