I'm poor and autistic and unemployed and a virgin and am generally unhappy with where I am in life and I haven't traveled any in my life
I like to read books with a strong sense of location (and optionally some traveling)
Not nonfiction stuff because it makes me jealous (unless the author is actually a nice person idk) No fantasy or sci-fi stuff either I like things that feel close to earth like characters walking on actual earth and feeling the sun and getting rocked by waves and they go places and there are actual people living in those places
I read the count of monte cristo last year and really liked the sailing islands stuff and the parts in rome Previously I read some chinese classics and I liked em but those are long and feel too translationy sometimes a bit dumb
I feel like Rings of Saturn (W.G. Sebald) had a good bit of what you are looking for
Mason Gutierrez
Read Robinson Crusoe, I really think you’ll get something from it
Eli Morgan
How about Rudyard Kipling? You'll get that comfy colonial era exoticism. Hemingway could work for you as well, check out For Whom the Bell Tolls. You could also start lifting, get a job/gf and travel.
Austin Rivera
Don Quixote
Isaac Hall
crime and punishment
Elijah Myers
Unironically Captain Fracasse. Plus it'll make you(want to)get laid.
Dylan Ross
Ty I'll take notes and start going through these in random order, read some of em but its been so long might as well read again
Owen Long
Read Gide and/or Garcia marquez
Benjamin Sanchez
I know you said no nonfiction but I'm going to recommend Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone Around The World anyway
It's a fascinating little book and features plenty of sailing islands like in Monte Cristo.
Logan Fisher
Invisible Cities. And then every other sentence that’s ever been put to paper by the hands of Italo Calvino
Hunter Richardson
LOTR then watch the movie when you're done with them
Benjamin Gonzalez
>poor >unemployed >virgin Shouldn't you be working on these issues before reading?
Zachary Bailey
he should, doesn’t mean he can or want to
Asher Evans
>doesn’t mean he can or want to What sort of excuses are those?
Luis Williams
Namely entertained. Remember pouring over this as a kid. No idea why i found it so fascinating but its a fond memory no less.
