I've noticed this board has been pretty miserable lately. Lots of bad vibes. Post a book that made you happy when you read it. Doesn't matter when you read it, or at what age. Just post a book that reminds you why you read books.
>>25453234what about it did you like?
>>25453245I loved the writing style, the entire book felt like a prose poem, with nearly every page containing a passage that left me awestruck. I also loved its breadth and ambition, commenting on nearly every aspect of the world around us, from physics, through history, sociology, politics, exotic cultures, to religion. It reminded me of Moby-Dick in the best way possible. Its sense of humour can be somewhat questionable in places, but there are many, many passages that had me actually laughing out loud. It's such a vibrant, imaginative book that has so much going on on every single page.
>>254531704chan is dying and, as people leave, the only ones left are people acting in bad faith. jeets, bots/shills, shizos, and worse, redditors, are the ones dominating the site's traffic and have made genuine discussion impossible.
>>25453256That's really cool. I'm glad you enjoyed it so much. I'll admit, I did try to read it once, but I got filtered almost immediately. I'll have to try again.
>>25453261It's really sad. 4chan is basically all that's left of the old internet, and now it's dying by inches.
>>25453261Yeah it's honestly depressing.
>>25453170I picked this up as a small boy who'd only ever seen the Disney movie, and discovered poetry for the first timetruly a watershed moment
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Franz Kafka - The Castle
I read Wodehouse's Jeeves Stories from Standard Ebooks. And it unironically made me happy. Very similar effects to a good therapy book, like Burns' Feeling Good. I laughed quite a bit while reading the book. Then I was grinning like an idiot the whole day.
This is the first proper book I ever read. I loved it. I still have it, too.
fuck nostalgia, what books are you reading now that make you happy to live in current year
i read this in the past year. its pretty cool sci fi with decent characters. i like the time scales that the book takes place across its fun to think about
I had a lot of fun with pic related, it was fascinating trying to get into the mind of Frank and see what drove him to do what he did. I really enjoy reading horror, I'm planning on reading Tender is the Flesh next.
The Man Who Was Thursday is my go-to if I need a pick me up.
>>25455605DittoI was bitterly disappointed to learn that such an island did not exist
>>25453170Books aren't supposed to "make you happy." Books are to be studied, critiqued, supposed to broaden your mind and provoke questions and debate. Don't be superficial.
>>25458139I think OP was referring to "the joy of reading" which, as you hopefully should know, is a real observed phenomenon.
>>25458139>Books aren't supposed to "make you happy."what a miserable world view
>>25456424Roberto Bolano. He makes me happy
>>25453170I read this earlier this year, short and sweet, I highly recommend it if you like Proust or just lit in general.
Been reading the Hard Luck Hank books recently. They're really great slop. Their quality varies a lot and they don't make much sense, but I found them to be pretty fun up to around book 6. After that, they only go downwards.The third book, where his mutation turns him into a barely mobile slab of superdense mutant meat, does a pretty good job with the first-person perspective, to really make you feel like you're trapped inside this body with him. A lot of the scenes are pretty claustrophobic and would be horrifying if the MC didn't have such a relaxed, fatalistic attitude about them. He'll be laying on the ground, paralyzed by an ongoing heart attack, just thinking himself that, 'yep, this sure fuckin' sucks, and I hope it kills me or stops soon because if I'm not dying I got work to do.'
>>25459280Fun! Is it like a Doom parody?
>>25453170I will not elaborate.
This is the first book I ever read by myself. I remember running downstairs to tell my dad. I got it from my kindergarten teacher, and I still have it.
>>25453170Jones is a delightful author. Her books are strange and whimsical, yet they always hit.
>>25458139Faggot retard>>25453170A Confederacy Of Dunces, I don't think I've even come close to laughing so hard at a book before.
This is where literature peaked >>25455605 is pretty good too though
