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Recommend books that make you happy.

>> No.467097

>>467063
lol ironic image.

>> No.467104

The Great Gatsby.
except in the end I felt really fucking miserable.

>> No.467128

The Adventures of Dink the Slant-Eye Chink, vol. 1: "SO SORRY CHARRY,"

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Pale guy gets sword, kills girl, destroys world.

4 volumes.

>> No.467183

The executioners daughter. If you love something throw rocks at it.

>> No.467198

"Sad is happy for smart people."

A few books that I've felt "happy" about after reading:
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Passage to India
The Sunlight Dialogues
Blindsight (I felt very, very "happy")

>> No.467207
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467207

Life of Pi

>> No.467209

I'm reading Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

and its realing ringing with me I love it
makes me feel great about life

>> No.467234

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of The World, Les Miserables, The Importance of Being Earnest.

>> No.467274

These are my feel-good reads:
Galapagos
Everything is Illuminated
Amerika
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler
His Illegal Self (But you have to work through some sad stuff)
Candide
And pretty much anything by Nabokov, simply because it's so beautiful.

>> No.467499

bump for more awesome books

>> No.467514

>>467207

really? The ending I find really upsetting

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I know it's not /lit/ but Yotsuba always makes me happy.

>> No.467580

Siddhartha

>> No.467587

Cracker!
World War Z
Also, any book about the Holocaust, as long as it gets to the part where the inmates are freed.

>> No.467592

this book named "Slapstick" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

hiho

>> No.467634

>>467207
That is a DEEP picture. Props.

>> No.467670

The Man Who Was Thursday. To me, it was The Invisibles by Grant Morrison if it was reimagined as a child's dream of bowler hats, whistles and bombs.

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I don't know what it is, but this book always has me feeling better about myself at the end. Great read and highly recommended.

>> No.467683

The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas