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What are some good non-depressive books?
Most of the stuff I read makes me want to hang myself
I want to read about beauty

>> No.8743802

Start with the Greeks.

>> No.8743891

>>8743802
Unironically this. There was a time in my life where Plato was the only reason I was still living.

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Walden

>> No.8743916

The Iliad will provide you with some adrenaline shots.

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>> No.8743932

anything by Tolstoy

>> No.8743937

Ligotti is pretty good.

>> No.8743940

Siddharta - Herman Hesse.
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

>> No.8743949

>>8743937
ligotti is fucking brilliant

a lot of real niggas on /lit/ tonight.

>> No.8743962

Moby Dick makes you feel like a man. And teaches you a lot about sperm whales too.

>> No.8744039

>>8743929
this

>> No.8744043

>>8743940
Not funny

>> No.8744045

>>8743962
>95% autistic obsession over boats and equipment
>5% actual character interaction and progression

It's the literary equivalent of building an entire city in minecraft by yourself.