>be me, 40 year old neet loser>solicit /lit/ for recommendations to help pass the days in less of a malaise>one of you cunts recommends The Tartar Steppe>have a strong presentiment of how the book will go in just the first few chapters>the obviousness of the narrative if anything adds to the story's effect rather than detracts from it and I remain gripped to the very ending anticipating and praying against what must come>have thought of nothing else for the last 2 days but this evil book acting like a repulsive mirror on the inadequacies of not just my life but humanity in general>have the hideous revelation that 4chan is my Fort Bastiani Discuss this accursed tale even as it discusses you.
>>25222113I remember reading this book 15 years ago, finding it a grim warning of what COULD happen to me, but I decided in the end that I have nothing to worry about, there's no way I could end up in Fort Bastiani.Well, look at me now.
Well, at least something DID happen in Bastiani, nothing ever happens here, nor are we even waiting.
>>25222113This is one of my favorite books as well; furthermore I do believe the correct lesson to draw from it is to cease your neetly ways immediately and take part in the exciting lifestyle your local amazon warehouse is currently offering.
>>25222136Yes of course the idea of waiting for the site to be good again, to know some nebulous notion of fulfilment and camaraderie... it is just a joke among ourselves, no one actually believes it....yes, and you can leave at any time you like, after all it's only volunteers here.At the end I like to think the defenders were killed to a man, especially Simeoni whose name I only just realized is probably meant to imply he's an ape. >>25222129Happier are those who died young. moot was an Augustina, maybe.
Literally the only book that puts romanian on the map for me and makes me want to learn it. Its romance so how hard can it be
>>25222113>>have the hideous revelation that 4chan is my Fort Bastiani
Since we on topic anyway I always recommend people to give a shot to the film adaptation, captures the mood quite well.If you read the book and still decided to come back here then you deliberately choose Drogo's fate.
Essential reading for young men.
>>25222483Does it teach you not to throw your life away for an army/state?
>>25222485it's about the terrible sorcery of dreaming of the future instead of acting in the now.
>>25222316damn, tru
check out the magic mountain by thomas mann
>>25222494>just abandon all hope
>>25222501I like how Mann took:>I have pursued, alas, philosophy>Jurisprudence, and medicine,>And, help me God, theology,>With fervent zeal through thick and thin>And here, poor fool, I stand once more,>No wiser than I was before.And turned it into a doorstopper.
>>25222113That was probably me. Glad it was relatable for you too.t. approaching 30
>>25222153Romanian?
It just is what it is. It’s like that one Thoreau quote about most people living lives of quiet desperation. Or Steinbeck’s “it’s a hard thing to leave any routine life, even if you hate it”. I could go on I feel I’m floating through my days anymore and melatonin at night to force sleeps hand and deliver me to morning
>>25222519Nah. In a sentence, the book is "Don't sit around waiting for your real life to start - it's happening now."
>>25222113Drogo didn't have doomscrolling though. Lucky us.
>>25222113>read this on /lit/'s recommendation>vow to move on from my isolating, soul sucking job and change my life before I end up like Drogo>year passes>changed nothingAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>25223212There is a suicidal resignation in every coward's soul.
>>25222113Okay. Fine. /lit/ you've convinced me. I'll read this after I finish Joy Williams's collected stories. Fine. I should learn to trust you guys by now I guess
>>25222578Mann's Faust sucks?
>>25222113You're only 4 years younger than me
>>25222501Magic Mountain was comfy though.Tartar Steppe is a horror story in comparison.
>>25223266It turns out where not making this hapen, after all. Where making nothing hapen.
>>25223626>tfw you realize both of Drogo's dreams came true>tfw you understand that you knew the future all along but spent your waking life asleep instead of dreaming
>>25222885The author is Italian and so are all of the names but it is kinda ambiguous where the book actually takes place.
>>25224429And what suggested you romania of all places? I'm reading it right now, I'm 100 pages in, just curious. Buzzati is italian, the names are mostly Italians with a couple spanish influences and Tartars were turkish/russian.
>>25223012that's trite and its also really not what the book is about at all
>>25224442Well where the hell would the frontier border Tartar territory in Italy?
>>25225770Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia, Serbia? I was just curious why The Tartar Steppe "put romanian" on the map for you, as if the novel was focused on Romania or romanian language. Maybe if it was Dracula I would get it, idk
>>25222113That book seems relevant to what I wrote in this thread: >>25220182
>>25226503Kys
this isn't a book you should read when you are doing bad in life, although you could start with 'the remains of the day' which is similar but tries to hide it
>>25226546is a movie or book better?
