/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17370925]

The world is on fire and I’m scared about the future

Please recommend me some comfy literature, friends

[Anonymous No.17370945]

The Hobbit by Tolkien

or Silmarillion + the Hobbit if you are smart enough to read it

[Anonymous No.17370981]

>The world is on fire and I’m scared about the future

Can you state what, specifically, is wrong?

[Anonymous No.17371029]

Unironically Evola. There are always periods like this. What matters is keeping the flame alive. Read Ride the Tiger and Men Among the Ruins. There's a short essay you can start with called 11 Points of Orientation:
https://www.gornahoor.net/?p=4428 (1 of 11, click forward while reading)

This is simply Babylon. Periods like this happen throughout history like I said. Sometimes they last 200 years. We are doing better than many, and we have good things on the horizon. The pure and uncomplicated evil of the Chinese will probably unite humanity against them, and all the evil people in the West who are causing chinesification here are in bed with Chinese money, which will make them easy to spot. The tranny phenomenon did not sink in and TERFs are rebelling against it. Lots of little things point to a reaction against degeneracy soon.

What you should do is stay strong. It may take years. Have 10 kids, raise them to be healthy, teach them values, keep them off drugs and media. Make them all have 10 kids. Serve your community so it becomes the kind of community where people have 10 kids.

Remember, the people who are causing the problems are all effete childless liberals, or if they do have kids, those kids become polyamorous childless hedonists and/or fags and/or trannies themselves.

[Anonymous No.17371049]

>>17371029
imbecile

[Anonymous No.17371052]

>>17371029
heckin based Anon, and I feel you, but I'm also getting the feeling OP meant a bit simpler-to-read books than Evola, when he said "comfy literature".

[Anonymous No.17371077]

>>17371052
True, I may have jumped the gun and assumed this is a general mood people on /lit/ may lapse into from time to time, and then lost sight of the OP's actual request.

I recommend Der Wehrwolf (the Werewolf, or also The War-wolf) by Hermann Löns. It's a comfy volkish story about an isolated community during the Thirty Years War, on its own during the complete anarchy of the period with no one to defend it and autonomous mercenary soldiers roaming around raping and pillaging as they please (this was the strategy of the war, which is why the times were so brutal). Simple good people band together and fuck the jackals up. It's also short and breezy.

Comfy stories of overcoming: Anabasis, or the rabbit version, Watership Down.

[Anonymous No.17371090]

>>17370925
Wagner's short story (the first of a trilogy) "A Pilgrimage to Beethoven."

It is uber comfy and funny.

[Anonymous No.17371103]

>>17370925
>comfy books
I've always really enjoyed the Dresden Files.

[Anonymous No.17371152]

>>17370945
Seconding Hobbit, but why The Silmarilion? It's pretty tragic.

[Anonymous No.17371178]

>>17371152
Tragic can be comfy.

[Anonymous No.17371197]

>>17370925
Was I the only person in the world that 2020 was the best year of their lives? The world is in a state of extreme nihilism and I've never been more optimistic about the future

[Anonymous No.17371246]

>>17370925
>The world is on fire
no it isn’t
>I’m scared about the future
no you’re not
>Please recommend me some comfy literature, friends
no

[Anonymous No.17371256]

>>17371197
Career-wise? Yes. I made most of it and was making great strides. I was also able to return to family and friends for the better part of the year. Overall a good year.

However, my trust in institutions and people at large has irredeemably been destroyed. Not sure how to recover from that.

[Anonymous No.17371275]

>>17371197
No but it wasn't that bad, and I'm sure that most of the privileged normies crying about it are just exaggerating. I'm sure it was horrible for the less fortunate people though.

[Anonymous No.17371276]

>>17371256
What matters is that you made progress on what you like

[Anonymous No.17371429]

Irrungen Wirrungen
Anne Elliot
Vor dem Sturm
I really love travel reports from the 19th century. Before photos were widespread and travel niggas would describe a whole region to their readers.

[Anonymous No.17371681]

>>17371197
>changed jobs and doing something more valuable
>because socialization is at a minimum took the opportunity to take some uni courses online to prepare for a Master’s, just submitted applications
>became more conscientious with what I’m eating and tried to exercise more, I’m not ripped but feeling healthier than I ever have
>started meditating
>read more books in 2020 than I have in the last 5 years

2020 was a great year for me despite the circumstances, you’re not alone anon

[Anonymous No.17372157]

>>17370925
Bump

[Anonymous No.17372897]

>>17370925
The Magic Mountain

[Anonymous No.17372921]

>>17370925
The entire catalog of Italo Calvino, I Am a Cat by Natsume Soseki, The Good Soldier Svejk, The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono, and The Canterbury Tales are all good in this regard.

[Anonymous No.17372957]

>>17371029
Based except not sure I share same view on the trannies. Are you actually concerned about them? I don’t really detect a threat. Seems like a form of autism to me.

[Anonymous No.17372959]

>>17371197
based

[Anonymous No.17372961]

>>17370925
the book of revelations

[Anonymous No.17372966]

You could try “Horror’s Call.” It’s pretty comfy considering it’s the only series ever made from /lit.

[Anonymous No.17372969]

>>17370925
It's not literature but Gintama, trust me it's better than any book

[Anonymous No.17372982]

>>17372966
>from /lit.

... No.

[Anonymous No.17373051]

>>17370925
>The world is on fire and I’m scared about the future
Can you elaborate? I don't really watch the news on go on Twitter or Reddit.
Everything seems fine to me when I go outside.

[Anonymous No.17373100]

>>17373051
Based Antisocialmedianigga

[Anonymous No.17373104]

>>17373051
Based but bluepilled

[Anonymous No.17373201]

>>17373104
Bluepilled? No friend, I do my individual duty with regards to the Covid-19 pandemic, any other information outside of what the government whats from me is detrimental to my well-being, ergo it must be ignored

[Anonymous No.17373219]

>>17373201
But what the government wants from me is detrimental to my well-being.

[Anonymous No.17373225]

>>17373219
Well there's no alternative so better learn to live with it

[Anonymous No.17373300]

>>17373225
The alternative is to subvert it as much as you can while avoiding being caught.

[Anonymous No.17373337]

>>17373300
I mean yeah if you're willing to take the risk then sure

[Anonymous No.17373384]

>>17372921
the cat dies at the end of I Am a Cat.

[Anonymous No.17373422]

>>17373051
based

[Anonymous No.17373607]

>>17370925
I'm the only anon here who shills this but I fucking LOVED this book. Incredibly cozy on all fronts. It's a history, geography, folklore, non-fiction diary, travel, and environmental text all bundled into one. Very very very cozy.

[Anonymous No.17373681]

>>17371029
>le chink boogieman
go back to /ptg/ on /pol/ dimwit

[Anonymous No.17373699]

>>17373607

It sounds good.

"Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be given your own remote islands? Thirty years ago it happened to Adam Nicolson. Aged 21, Nicolson inherited the Shiants, three lonely Hebridean islands set in a dangerous sea off the Isle of Lewis. With only a stone bothy for accommodation and half a million puffins for company, he found himself in charge of one of the most beautiful places on earth. The story of the Shiants is a story of birds and boats, hermits and fishermen, witchcraft and catastrophe, and Nicolson expertly weaves these elements into his own tale of seclusion on the Shiants to create a stirring celebration of island life."

[Anonymous No.17373735]

>>17371029
>Unironically Evola
Stopped reading right here

[Anonymous No.17373787]

>>17373735
Based

[Anonymous No.17373814]

>>17371029
>This is simply Babylon.
This. Ride the Tiger is the perfect metaphor for this day and age. Big tech and the elites are more or less an unstoppable evil that cannot be faced head on. For most of us, our only solution is to try and ride the tiger so it cannot eat us.

What is interesting is how no matter how terrible America gets, my own personal situation gets better and better. This is something you should consider at length OP. You can easily make your own life antifragile and ride this whole thing out. And as people vote in more and more tyranny, you can be one of the first ones to respond to it and leave.

China does pose a problem, but this anon is correct in pointing out it is an obvious and uncomplicated one. Also, it is clear there is a bourgeois class in China who is questioning the ruling status quo so this might be something that takes care of itself in a couple generation. The externalities of something like social credit will probably be felt in decades to come.

[Anonymous No.17373825]

>>17371246
This was written by a woman

[Anonymous No.17373849]

>>17373825
based roastie detector

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>>17370981
An unattended climate calamity
A Goliath super power is bringing the whole world into the Greater Depression (not to forget its war economy is eyeing dozens of targets right now)
And there’s a really nasty virus going around with weird symptoms and fairly high mortality rate.
We’re kinda screwed
Until we take things into our own collective hands

>>17371246
>no you’re not
I think this is true though.

[Anonymous No.17374723]

hunter's sketches by turgenev