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Hey /lit/erati.

After reading The Stranger, Nausea and Journey to the End of the Night, I'm feeling weighed down as it were, slightly misanthropic etc.

Could anyone recommend a book or books that make one feel a little more hopeful about humanity and the human condition.

And no, I don't mean works selected for Oprah's bookclub.

>> No.884200

Anything with Chicken soup in the title. :)

>> No.884219

Everything is Illuminated made me feel good about life, being alive in general.

Ends with a suicide, though. LOL!

Also If On A Winter's Night a Traveler.

>> No.884220
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884220

Yotsuba

>> No.884223

The Road

>> No.884226

>>884219
Thanks for the suggestions.

>> No.884239

Metamorphosis.

>> No.884246

>>884223
Thanks for the suggestion. Not.

>> No.884270

Medschool-fag here.

Just in case anyone cared,
OP's pic is a "Phag" Phagocyte, that is...

Clever, op... Clever....

>> No.884274

OP is a Phag.

>> No.884276

>>884270
I try, I try.

>> No.884281

>>884276

It caught my attention for sure. Thanks for the lulz. ;-)

>> No.884283

>>884239
not a good idea.

>> No.884300

Lamb by Christopher Moore

>> No.884311

If you haven't already, you could always read the Count of Monte Cristo. It's not so much a spirit lifter throughout, but it is a hell of a hope-filled success story, and a classic to boot.

>> No.884347

The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath :)

>> No.884352

>>884270
Op, you get some of my internets.

>> No.884358

The Myth of Sisyphus.
It's downright irresponsible to read The Stranger without subsequently reading The Myth of Sisyphus.

>> No.884361

>>884358
And The Rebel

>> No.884385

1984

>> No.884388

>>884361
Perhaps after I get some uplifting, I'll return to these for a swift return to the darkness.

>> No.884398

>>884385
Posting books which are depressing or have depressing endings is pretty lame and unimaginative trolling, especially when it is so obvious.

>> No.884414

>>884187

Leaves of Grass?

>> No.884415

>>884358
>>884361
Good books, in fact I'm reading The Rebel now. But I do not think that is what op is looking for.

>> No.884471

You read them in French?

>> No.884515

My Dog Stupid by John Fante

>> No.884535

I didn't find Journey to the End of Night depressing, nor did I find that it expressed any sort of disagreeable or misanthropic world-view. I actually found the book hilarious. Does this make me a bad person? Wasn't this Céline´s point?

>> No.884542

>>884535
It's tragicomic