Name a book that had you feeling like this
>>25193486Ulysses, The Divine Comedy, Faust Part 2
>>25193486The Grapes of Wrath
>>25193486Anna Karenina
>>25193486Augie March
>>25193486Portrait of the artist as a young man
>>25193486Stoner
>>25193513>>25193494Joyce is very life affirming despite the circumstances of his characters being somewhat unfavourable and sometimes even quite depressing.
>>25193486Malone Dies
>>25193486Lotrand>>25193506
>>25193486The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories
>>25193506Indeed
Siddhartha.
the Wizard Knight duology
>>25193534I second this
>>25193534This
Balcony in the Forest.
>>25193486Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>>25193486Myth of Sisyphus
>>25193534It's a rare book that is almost entirely positive and Siddharta is going to sit tucked away with its message in a corner of my heart for it.
Mason & Dixon
>>25193486Unironically the Vagabond manga. Not because it itself was incredibly deep by itself, but because the very good visual art with some of its quotes and explanations made me understand the Flow a bit better. I was reading it shortly after finishing Evolas Doctrine of Awakening. I have read some of Alan Watts before, half of Evolas Hermetic Tradition, some of the Stoics, etc. Most of them have that version of the flow that is similar. And Vagabond now reflects that feeling for me very well and every time I see its visual arts I am calm again. Very good.
>>25193486The Unholy Consult.
>>25193486Anabasis>θάλαττα, θάλαττα!
Roald Dahl “Going Solo”I read it as a kid and I still revisit it. It covers Dahl’s adventures through the empire and as a pilot in WW2. Very comfy
>>25193509tell us about it, anon
>>25193486Book of the Short Sun
>>25193486between two fires
>>25194994does it cover him being a sex spy?
>>25194994He was smart and very lucky to survive the war. What happened in Greece was so horrifying, but Dahl's writing style made it feel like an adventure. Also, he met Israeli settlers who were already planning to take Palestinian land. Very interesting to see how early that started.
>>25193486A Christmas Carol
>>25193537Is it good? Haven't heard of it before
>>25193486Leaves of Grass
>"When the road began to climb the first long swells of the Divide, Alexandra hummed an old Swedish hymn, and Emil wondered why his sister looked so happy. Her face was so radiant that he felt shy about asking her. For the first time, perhaps, since that land emerged from the waters of geologic ages, a human face was set toward it with love and yearning. It seemed beautiful to her, rich and strong and glorious. Her eyes drank in the breadth of it, until her tears blinded her. Then the Genius of the Divide, the great, free spirit which breathes across it, must have bent lower than it ever bent to a human will before. The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman." Willa Cather in O Pioneers.
