/lit/ - Literature

Books that will help me get through extremely rough times..

Let me guess
>the Bible

what are you /lit/ red flags?

for me:

>amazon self-published
>woman author

>finally fix my sleeping patterns and start eating less, ready to get back to work and get my shit together
>also im getting crippling abdominal pain followed by the most obscene diarrhea ive ever seen every single day and i feel weak and sickly and its not getting better after a few days of vastly improved diet

it never ends bros. I just cant win.

>can only read 500 pages in 8 hours

any other low iqs bro here?

>>20886940

>>20459912
I live in Manila not Bogota

>>20459661
I'm not an election tourist, I've been here since 2019 (before the election).

>"PHILOSOPHY IS A FANTASTICAL GENRE OF LITERATURE"

Borges

I understand you so your post-death fears are not my problem.

I just realized that the version of Moby Dick I read in middle school wasn't the actual book but an adapted text for children.
I spent decades believing I read the real thing and not understanding why everybody gushed over it when I found it to be just alright

>>16957507
>Dante (married with several children)

I am severely narcissistic and schizopathic.

>remember my paper on Plato's cave that I wrote in one night after reading a wikipedia article about it my first semester of college
>That time I wrote "ladder" instead of "latter"

>>14366724
Wow!

>>14265920
You will meet your destiny in Argentina...

How do I leave 4chan?

>only 2 years left to write 2,000 words

i read every work on bloom's western canon and the st johns college greats reading lists in their original languages and i don't member any of it

Frankenstein

>I have good dispositions; my life has been hitherto harmless and in some degree beneficial; but a fatal prejudice clouds their eyes, and where they ought to see a feeling and kind friend, they behold only a detestable monster.

-The Monster to the Blind Man in chapter 15.