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Anonymous Mon Nov 7 20:52:25 2016 No.8704387 [Reply] [Original]

What are some good books about coming to terms with isolation? Actually I'll take any recommendations because the only "important" books that I've read have been The Bell Jar, Don Quixote, and Brave New World.

I like to think I know a good deal about film, music, history, politics, and runway fashion. I've purposely been avoiding this board for a while but I feel like it's time.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 21:00:45 2016 No.8704418 >>8704387 >>8704405 >>8704411 that will be me this friday

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 21:05:50 2016 No.8704439 >>8704418 It's also me in February, happy birthday anyway.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 21:10:54 2016 No.8704457 >>8704411 >>8704405 >>8704387 >all of them are turning 20 they should all be friends hmmm

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 21:14:15 2016 No.8704468 >>8704457 Maybe do a gay threesome and lose their virginity together.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 21:14:43 2016 No.8704472 >>8704411 >>8704405 >>8704387 >hitler died for this ah yes bravo indeed

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 21:17:00 2016 No.8704483 >>8704387 >good books about coming to terms with isolation Try Robinson Crusoe.

Anonymous Mon Nov 7 21:19:48 2016 No.8704495

The book I am going to suggest has a very off putting title, but - bear with me.

Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness

Do give it a shot.
Don't let the title discourage you.
It is not some Paulo Coelho "feel-good" crap; Russell has extremely dry sense of humor.

For instance, his book of essays, "Unpopular essays", is called so simply because they never went popular - not because they are "politically incorrect", as one might be inclined to assume.

Just... go give it a shot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 21:24:04 2016 No.8704513 >>8704495 Buying it now thanks anon

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 21:26:37 2016 No.8704521 >>8704387 My diary, desu??

Anonymous Mon Nov 7 21:29:17 2016 No.8704534
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the chinese tradition has a lot for you.

http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=86C31DC6899F7F8AB41F4B8BEEDAD675

just allow your mind to accept the situation and it will adapt to it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 21:30:19 2016 No.8704537 also, hermitary.com

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 21:31:21 2016 No.8704541 >>8704387 Who is this qt?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 21:31:37 2016 No.8704542 >>8704387 >>8704405 >>8704411 >Having someone to bake you a cake Ree, etc

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 21:33:47 2016 No.8704553 >>8704541 He's the author of the famed canonical work, "My Diary: Desu"

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 21:34:48 2016 No.8704555 >>8704468 hot.

Anonymous Mon Nov 7 21:38:13 2016 No.8704564
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>>8704542
well if you could bake the cake you would certainly not be in such a situation.

the cake is the symbolic phallus that is castrated when the mom slices it and gives it to the boy to eat, in a sort of cannibalistic ritual of psychological union of the minds of the participants. this prevents the developing mind of the kid to emerge into an autonomous self, to be instead relegated to the role of a psychological prosthesis acting as a phallus to the mom, who hates herself for not being a male or simply who is trying to equilibrate some past trauma of her own hindered development.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 21:41:20 2016 No.8704580 >>8704564 Kys

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 21:44:36 2016 No.8704593 >>8704564 Poor effort

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 21:47:43 2016 No.8704603 >>8704542 When you are turning 18, I'll bake a cake for you, Anon.

>>	Jewish Mafia Mon Nov 7 21:52:05 2016 No.8704620 >>8704387 Notes from the underground

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 21:53:29 2016 No.8704626 >>8704620 notes from the undergrad

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 21:53:45 2016 No.8704627 >>8704405 this was literally me 2 months ago

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 22:13:21 2016 No.8704702 >>8704627 Fuck off Marcel

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 22:37:27 2016 No.8704786 >>8704603 5 years ago

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 22:41:09 2016 No.8704799 File: 14 KB, 456x320, c3b.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8704387 >>8704405 >>8704411 >>8704564 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXcdYBh3hgg Every time.

Anonymous Mon Nov 7 22:44:33 2016 No.8704810

I don't get it. I had friends when I was in my teens and I hung out with them, and for my 18th birthday I just asked my mom to get a lot of chicken and ground beef and I grilled up some chicken and cheeseburgers for her and I. Had a beer and stayed home. I didn't tell my friends it was birthday at all (though I got some birthday texts) and just ate a shitload of food.

It was probably my best birthday, honestly. Didn't have to go out and get annoyed. My previous birthday ended up with one of those Mexican hats and cake on my face which was pretty stupid.

I enjoyed staying in with my dog and my mom.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 22:46:49 2016 No.8704817 >>8704810 You enjoyed it because you chose it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 22:58:33 2016 No.8704869 >>8704564 >dat feel when green drank >dat feel when Mom got you abridged version of Zettel's Traum and you can wait to read it while eating cheesy poofs

Anonymous Mon Nov 7 23:12:33 2016 No.8704907
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>>8704387
I liked Osamu Dazai, its not quite just isolation

A General Theory of Oblivion is good

The Vegetarian too

t. had a 20th birthday like that (and lots of other birthdays)

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 23:15:15 2016 No.8704921 /fit/

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 23:15:53 2016 No.8704922 Theres nothing wrong with having birthdays with your family It feels more comfy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 23:17:26 2016 No.8704927 >>8704922 Yes, but not if you don't have any friends otherwise, then it just makes you remember how much of a loser you are

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 23:25:37 2016 No.8704945 >>8704810 Birthdays are dumbo anyway. Why celebrate the slow creep of mortality?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 23:29:44 2016 No.8704958 >>8704945 I guess because you are one more year alive? But actually is because for having fun and sharing with people

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 23:32:18 2016 No.8704967 I stopped celebrating my birthdays at about age 16. Probably stopped caring about them long before that.

Anonymous Mon Nov 7 23:39:23 2016 No.8704993

>>8704387
>>8704405
>>8704411
I dunno, 20 is a pretty lame birthday anyway. No new privileges worth mentioning, if you're in college the days of nearly compulsive socializing that came with freshman year have been lost to people actually having work to do, and you aren't old enough to legally drink (if burger) so nobody is at the very least excited to get you legally drunk for the first time. And then 21 is the last really exciting brithday.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 23:40:26 2016 No.8704994 >>8704521 Pushing that meme so hard is why you're friendless.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 23:41:51 2016 No.8704998 >>8704993 Its the year when you're no longer a teenager, so it puts what you achieved up to date in context

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 23:41:58 2016 No.8705000 File: 108 KB, 500x487, JF.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Your birthday is a reminder of the worst day of your life. If you liked this post, you're gonna love my diary!

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 23:44:39 2016 No.8705007 I get every birthday really depressed since I am 14 years old. Will it ever end?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 23:46:38 2016 No.8705016 >>8705007 Yeah when you die

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 8 09:24:59 2016 No.8705903 >>8705007 Nope

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 8 09:44:38 2016 No.8705950 >>8704945 cringed

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 8 11:30:25 2016 No.8706159 >>8705000 how does this gook know what i did and didn't do today?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 8 11:42:14 2016 No.8706195 >>8704967 I hope you've been studying the sword since then?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 8 12:29:39 2016 No.8706330 >>8704387 >>8704405 >>8704411 >>8704564 Oh God, it really makes be feel bad looking at these poor souls.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 8 12:40:51 2016 No.8706353 >>8704387 Kafka is what you need to read.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 8 12:43:20 2016 No.8706358 >>8704387 NO LONGER HUMAN by Osamu Dazai.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 8 14:10:03 2016 No.8706546 >>8704387 Well the first cake boy is actually kinda cute so he has no excuse

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