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Are there any books that let me pretend I have friends?

>> No.8325720

>>8325715
Gimme your email address and we can write a book simulating our friendship

>> No.8325727

Your diary desu ?

>> No.8325732

Harry Potter.
Which is sort of saddening. I haven't read anything since I read HP in elementary that made it feel like I had friends.

>> No.8325748

>>8325715
It's literally impossible to not have friends if you actually try and want one.

>> No.8325762

>>8325715
i would very much like to cum on her toes

>> No.8325781

>>8325762
>her

>> No.8325794

>>8325762
>>8325781
PLEASE BE A TRAP

>> No.8325859

>>8325762
>liking feet and not being able to tell when they're girl's feet and not a guy's

>> No.8325870

>flat
>wig
>covering face with phone
>sitting so you cant tell about hips or height
clocked

>> No.8325973

>>8325794
>>8325781
sadly, no.

http://www.cosplaypics.net/wp/tag/xidaidai/

>> No.8326325

There's a decently long sequence (5+ pages iirc) in Malcolm Lowry's Ultramarine which is literally just dialogue of a crew of sailors chatting and fucking around in their cots before sleeping. It's pretty chummy.

>> No.8326347

>>8325715
Reading Proust is like having an open invitation to your smart loser friends house. Whenever you get there he's already been drinking for hours and immediately waxes rhapsodic on the intricacies of his profound examination of his excoriating awareness's relationship with the mundanity of his everyday existence, or at least his everyday existence as it was ten years ago before he locked himself in his cork-lined apartment and stopped going out at all, on account of his allergies.

>> No.8327176

Am I the only one who gets depressed when I read books where the main characters have really good friends? Like it kind of reminds you you'll never have best friends that will leave their homes to go to mordor with you because you're so awkward and unlikable, that you'd have to make the trip alone and probably die?

>> No.8327181

>>8327176
Yeah. This is why I like books that are sad because after you're finished you feel very happy that things aren't worse off.

>> No.8327184

>>8327176
>>8327181
Yeah, Crime and Punishment gave me serious feels about not having a friend like Razumikhin.

>> No.8327189
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8327189

>>8326347
Damn dude, I've never seen such a good description of Proust before.

>> No.8327233

>>8325715
That pose makes me wanna bury my face in a juicy pussy and lick lick lick away.

>> No.8328074

>>8325715
Youtube is better for that. Watch Redlettermeida videos to pretend to have friends, watch ASMR videos to pretend a girl cares about you

>> No.8328087

>>8327233
I read "prose" at first and I thought damn this dude gets excited over words

>> No.8328089

>>8328074
I care about you, anon. And I'm a girl btw.

>> No.8329394

>>8328089
I appreciate that. But a line of text doesn't have the same impact as a video of a girl pretending to get drunk and high with me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2EW8vns0TI

>> No.8330208

>>8326325
I've always wanted to read that. Should I read it before our after Under the Volcano?

>> No.8330234

>>8328087
She can read a nice piece of prose to me while I do it, no problem.

>> No.8330257

harry potter was perfect for this for school kids. thats why it become so popular

>> No.8330260

>>8326347
sounds great. where should I start?

>> No.8330261

>>8325715
that's what tv is for.

>> No.8330331

>>8328074
>>8329394
If we're bringing other media into this, you may as well throw in Undertale and Planescape: Torment. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon too, weirdly.

>> No.8330336

>>8327233
Don't objectify women, subjectify them instead.

>> No.8330412

>>8330336
>objectify
Stopped reading there.

>> No.8330416

>>8330412
women, subjectify them instead.

>> No.8330451

>>8325973
Still looks like a dude, dude.

>> No.8330471

>>8330336
>>8330416
wtf does that even mean

>> No.8331484

>>8325715
facebook?

>> No.8331497

>>8325715
I browse /lit/.

>> No.8331504

>>8330260
kek

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8331591

>>8325973
Does wonders

>> No.8331596

I just play anime visual novels. The stories are (sometimes) interesting, the characters are easy to get attached to, all you really have to do is read, and you can try again and again if you fuck up. Win win. The only con is that you might feel even lonelier afterwards, but you can fill that void by purchasing merchandise of the character you liked most / dated in the game. Seeing the items around the house is like having a roommate or a girlfriend or something. Feels good, but kinda bad.

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8331634

>>8331497
Same. My one IRL friend is such a pleb that it's hard to respect her on an intellectual level. I know she's not stupid, just pleb.

>> No.8332108

>>8331634
At least you have one IRL friend

>> No.8332535

>>8325748
not true

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8332566

>>8326347

Please teach me how to write like that. I wish I wasn't a pleb.

>> No.8332729

totalitarianism in a tundra

>> No.8332751

>>8331596
Da fuck? Play a good game at least.

>> No.8332759

>>8331596
I played Katawa Shoujo just while beginning a new school.

That was rough. It killed me, playing a game where I stumbled into a new world and people made an effort to be friends with me, while I went to school and had none.

>> No.8332762

>>8325715
Read Trainspotting, maybe the sequel, definitely the prequel - Mark Denton is mah niggah

>> No.8332775

>>8332762
*Renton.

really need to sort this autocorrect

>> No.8332784

>>8332759
right? i played persona 4 like that.

>> No.8332859

>>8329394
>Blunt Roll Tutorial and Beer Tasting * ASMR*
>timecapsule.avi

>> No.8332877

>>8325748
>literally
Here that should be an actual crime to use that
And no its more then possible

>> No.8332884

>>8325715
No, but alcohol does.

>> No.8333971

>>8332759
>>8332784
Played both and I felt the same way. Since it's summer (uni) I've gone back to my old habits.

>>8332751
Games are also good but since OP asked for books (and the fact that we're on /lit/) visual novels are a more relevant suggestion.

>> No.8333989

Anything that would do this but with a girl. dont care if it's romantic or not. I used to have girlbros but now I'm a friendless loser and miss that since it was different from guy friends. I don't care if it isn't a serious /lit/ book.

>> No.8333995

>>8332751
>game
>good

>> No.8334004

>>8333995
Persona 4 really is fun as a friend sim of sorts.
>Choosing who to hang out with each day
>Hour long trips out of town with lots of shenanigans
>fun, believable characters
>long as fuck

>> No.8334356

>>8325715
I guess Bible was created for purpose of having additional imaginary friend.

>> No.8334360

>>8334356
This is actually a good answer, OP. Faith and shit can be a good comfort.