Age

>24
>No
>Either/or, but I just started

>18
>No. I feel like a medioce piece of shit and a complete incel.
>The brothers Kazamarov

>i forget
>i dunno
>i dont read

>21
>yea but mostly excited nervousness and hyperactive thinking
>Talk like TED

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31
Getting there very slowly, through pure will
Journey To The End Of The Night

>18 year old twink reading Memestoevsky’s magnum opus, and probably hasn’t even read the Bible yet

I don’t get why youngfags do this. You should start with his other works first, assuming you haven’t.

>18
>what is happiness in the first place?
>Siddharta

>23
>Indifferent
>The Brothers Karamazov

>23
>the claw of the conciliator
>recently, yes.

>and probably hasn’t even read the Bible yet
Jokes on you, I come from a baptist family so I basically know the Bible better than I know a geography book.
>You should start with his other works first, assuming you haven’t.
I'm already half through, may as well finish the damn thing.

25
more or less
indo-european poetry and myth

>19
>I'm making my way towards it
>The War on Normal People

>21
>no, and that's a good thing
>Mason & Dixon

Twenty-two. Unhappy. The Master and Margarita.

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>24
>Nah
>To the lighthouse

46
Yes, very.
In the middle of several. Just finished a collection of short stories by Tove Jansson, cracked open the Oxford Readings in Classical Studies for Lucretius, edited by Monica Gale. A series of essays. I can see I’ll take my time with this one. Should get back to Bookchin though

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31
Currently yes, unfortunately more inconsistent than most, and can leave as fast as it comes.
Sayings of the Buddha and Jazz

Twenty-two. Unhappy. The English and their History, and, The Master and Margarita.

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your posts are like a masterclass in cope

>4
>severely depressed
>infinite jest

based zoomer savant

Kill yourself.

>21
>no
>The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

>25
>a little tired and a little lonely but i would say that i am a rather happy person
>viriconium, specifically storm of wings right now

we love shit talking to a middle aged loser who doesn't understand the philosophical idoicy of tripfagging on an user board

Fuck yeah, Egan

>27
>not particularly, some days are pretty good though
>Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang

>19
>Yes
>I read poetry and short stories

Why are old people always so happy? Is it because all of the sad people have killed themselves by that point?

>21
>Some days
>Dune

>22
>i think so
>12 rules for life

>25
>nah
>Les Mis

>19
>borderline suicidal
>Woolf's "The Waves"; Joyce's "Dubliners"; a fat stack of medieval poetry assigned for my lit class

You mellow out.

20
Cant complain
Catch 22

it takes a lifetime to be truly happy

>22
>Happiness is not real. No, never have been never will be. I strive for a continuous series of beautiful thoughts, but without the lows, I wouldn't enjoy the peaks.
>Die Erzählungnen von Kafka

>32
>in my own way
>the society of the spectacle

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31
Just glad to finally graduate this quarter
Homage to Catalonia

Defend Harari's shitty musings. The first part of the book is great.

24
Alternately suicidal and utterly numb
Augusto Roa Bastos - "I, the Supreme"

>22
>nope
>pic related

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>see a sunflower
>get really excited because user is reading The Color Purple
>look more closely
>it's fucking self-help
please throw yourself off a four story building in the middle of nowhere and bleed out over the course of several hours

>20
>Not truly
>Girl with Curious Hair, DFW

Here and There was painful for me to read. The primary character, Bruce, has a fundamental disability to observe himself, and introspectively approach his role in his external environment, especially with his lover. He reminded me of me, and it was painful to see myself there, realizing that I had an inability to see my own part in the relationship I recently lost with the girl whom I thought to be my "soul mate", or at least one of them. I had acted with the same avoidance that he displayed.

Little Expressionless Animals was illuminating for me as well.

My Appearance gave me insight into the vapidness and destructiveness of the anti-humor and post ironic state our society now lingers in.

Lyndon is just incredibly written.

I'm on the last short story now. Would recommend to anyone. Wallace has got some wonderful insight.

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>26
>No
>A Happy Death

>20
>as happy as could be man
>on the road

have sex

I had my ass fucked last night, and I may very well have it fucked tonight as well, thanks

cringe & GRIDSpilled

>not wearing condoms
oh you poor soul, go bug-catching somewhere else

>18
>Actually yes
>Mr Capone

21
I'm not depressed, at least.
Pale Fire

Yes, the first quarter or third is definitely superior to the rest, when he lets a few too many little points of commentary to infect the overall work.
But the book as a whole:
>engaging (I read it in six days)
>has several good insights, such that I had to put the book down and consider the concept he was suggesting (ex. the collective imagination that allows large social systems, like an economy or a religion, to function over a wide area; or the paradoxes intrinsic in things like the agricultural revolution [more food creates larger population, requiring more food, but creating greater devastation when a crop fails])
>it was a good, relatively concise survey of humanity and the way it evolves in the material and immaterial world

17
idk
the bible

>20
>I don’t even know what it is tbqh, I feel driven and compelled. That’s all I need.
>Brave New World, never read it in high school or junior high so I’m catching up.

>27
>yes
>red mars by ksr

>23
>yes
>Brothers Karamazov

>25
>not since I was 16
>just finished rereading Ender's Game. Rereading Thus Spake Zarathustra and The Waves (slowly). Gonna pick up Glass Bead Game by Hesse tomorrow.

why is this user literally me?

because this shithole forum attracts the same kinds of people and then we all read the same books

>22
>yeah, went out with a girl yesterday
>the technological society by Ellul
Haven't been happy for a while, but I'm moving out of a poor job soon and things are looking up :)

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20
yes
I don't read (anymore)

>26
>No. I'm wracked by loneliness in a foreign country.
>Borges' Collection Fictions published by Penguin, roughly 80% of it is new to me, but I am enjoying reading Fictions again. Also just finished Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. Murakami is comfort food.

>20
>Pretty much
>The Denial of Death

>32
>fuck no
>The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia.
>a biography of Baron Ungern Sternberg

>20
>very unhappy
>ubik

>23
>most of the time
>Storm of Steel

So what's the best way to improve self-esteem?

>22
>neither happy nor sad
>C&P

>18
>yeah I am
> More Happy than Not by Adam Silvera
This girl I know recommended More Happy Than not to me since I like the film Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind so much

>34
>Yeah
>The Technological Society

>Why are old people always so happy? Is it because all of the sad people have killed themselves by that point?
The storm is over. Young people (under 30) are too emotional.

>22
>No
>On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason

Just finished this. What do you think so far?

>19
>no(havent had a friend group since 14)
>Notes from underground
Started reading this year

>24
>no
>Armor

>28
>I should be but I'm not
>Grapes of Wrath

>19
>No but i have bursts of energy and happiness sometimes
>The Fountainhead

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> 23
> meh
> The Cossacks by Tolstoy

>24
>no
>the man in the high castle

>29
>consider suicide everyday
>how to read a book by mort adler

>34
>yes
>the merry men and other tales, rls

>mid twenties
>think about suicide every day
>i read 20 books at once

>27
>rarely
>brothers karamazov

21
no
calvino under the jaguar sun

>20
>realising that without my family and the people that love me in this world I'd kill myself, causing derealization due to the dissonance of being surrounded by the best people in the world and yet being so flawed by all the negatives in life that I lost my teen yrs to depression (obvious impact to the family I notice now I'm older) exacerbated by anxiety causing me to decide to wash my hands with the pangs of exsistance and thus becoming vastly apathetic to my life, T. I realised that I can't just not care about myself and expect my family to do the same. I don't live for them in desperation anymore, they stayed the course with all the bs I put them through and showed me the exact quality of decency humans can show to each other. I now do my best to show them I feel loved and recently I have noticed myself enjoying conversations with strangers and some of the people alienated by meeting their warm love with a my cold demeanour. I still haven't reconnected with the friends I've lost which saddens me but I no longer dispare.
>>>>>iamhappyandyouareloved

>19
>no
>Sex and Character

>29
>not even a little but I firmly believe that even death would find a way to inconvenience me if I considered suicide, theres no way out
>The Name of the Rose

>19
>Yes
The Republic

Is The Color Purple really good? I’m probably going to read it this summer

18
Happier than normal
Against the Day

>27
>Kind of. Currently going through Hematology residency, so overworked as fuck. One more year and I’ll be good.
>The House on the Borderland.

>23
>thinking of killing myself in around 3-5 years
>in the middle of reading A clash of kings, Lolita and Organon

>21
>Working on it, happier than I was a year ago
>Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

22
No
The Last and First Men

21
No
Book of the New Sun

>24
>no but maybe someday
>Paradise Lost and Tolkien Letters

>30
>Very cool now in Munich
>Song of Ice and Fire V Dance of Dragons
?
is it discussed here? GOT novels? someone help because I am a lit nothing I come from Yea Forums

t. I’m so lonely and horny ahhhhhh user

I'm rereading this series right now user, and despite what others on Yea Forums will say, I think these books are interesting and exciting.

For those who come to call my a pseud, tell me what the last 5 books you've read have been. I'd hope that they're all considered to be high quality.

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>20
>The furthest I've ever been from it. I've had an endless, painful headache for the past month along with ringing in the ears and trouble focusing my vision. I'm very worried that I might have brain damage and I'll probably have to live with the pain until I die.
>The Iliad, A Game of Thrones, and Ward

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well thank you user, its nice to see like minded people can have company here.

>22
> I believe that happiness is both subjective and momentary to any subject at some moment. One’s happiness may not mirror another’s, however the blissful euphoria from momentary happiness is universal. Happiness isn’t a particular designation or destination, but an ever-present ether of holistic potential.
>Introspective Rationale

>24
>Not at all
>After Dark

>21
>More or less. The last year was finally good to me.
>"Red Cavalry" by Isaac Babel and "Tomorrow and Yesterday" by Heinrich Boll

>22
>nope
>the idiot

>19
>Very happy
>American Psycho

ITT: people in their early to mid 20's that read fiction

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unless you're die-hard racist or have a weak stomach, it's worth reading. in the case of the former, you won't take any of it seriously, and in the case of the latter, you will be uncomfortable from page 1. otherwise, read it

>23
>Yes
> Gödel, Escher, Bach

>21
>No
>Rhesus by Euripides

29
neither happy nor unhappy
john farrenkopf-prophet of decline: spengler on world history and politics

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>18
>Zoomer bloomer
>The Iliad
Also, is it normal to have an adjustment period to reading verse? The Iliad is very comfy but I feel like an autist taking around 2 minutes per page.

18
No. Suicide? Soon :)
Columbine: A True Crime Story

>28
>no
>the dark eidolon and other tales by Clark ashton smith

Based.

24
no
Ulises Criollo by Jose Vasconelos

>20
>Yes
>Anna Karenina

>20
>very no
>Berlioz' instrumentation treatise

>23
>no
>singer's "practical ethics"

18
Yes
Confession of a mask

>50+
>content; "happy" seems a little twee, tBH
>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

>28
>Not happy but not actively sad
>The Tin Drum by Grass

based trips of egan

>19
>No
>I'm quite intelligent, so I'm currently reading 5 books at once.

27
Getting better
A Treatise of Human Nature

>21
>very
>Speak, Memory

>26
>yes
>Moby Dick

Based

>19
>no
>the stand

22
Yes, about to become a certified wage-cuck
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian

>26
>generally miserable, right now is alright
>lost the desire to read

To all the people my age saying they're happy, how did you do it

>23
>Not happy but not sad right now. Sometimes happy. More times sad.
>the golden book of dreams

29
lol no
Lucky Per

>29
>no
>Quo Vadis

In this moment, I'm euphoric
Dostoevsky - The Idiot

>23
>yes, very happy
>the master and margarita

>21
>Working on improving myself, not really
>The Odyssey

>20
>Would say so, I get somewhat good grades (pharmacy), lift 1/2/3/4 and I'm trying to learn french as my third language. Right know I just see life as self-improvement shit that I can get into
>Leviathan

I know that it sounds cringy as fuck, specially considering my age.

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>21
>no
>Oedipus Rex

>25
>somewhat, It's normal to have it rough most of the time
>Time and Narrative

>31
>yeah
>the palace of dreams

>21
>not happy or sad
>The temple of the golden pavilion

25
Normal
A Secular Age - Charles Taylor

Underrated

>26
>yes
>Libido Dominandi

24
Not really and I don't want to be.
Fear and Trembling

>24
>yes
>anarchy, state, utopia

>Getting there very slowly, through pure will
>Journey To The End Of The Night
that might not be the best idea if you want to get there

31
5/10
Just finished Divine Comedy, now reading Homo Deus

>27
>Not at a deeper level, but at least I'm not as fragile and miserable as I used to be. I'm able to find enjoyment in a select few activities
>Demons

>22
>yes but there is the gnawing sense that I need to be doing more.
>Nietzsche and Philosophy

>16
>not all the time but generally content
>walden

???
underage peusd get off Yea Forums zoomer

>25
>i'm the saddest motherfucker that ever lived
>Geometria 2, Sernesi

>21
>I feel a lot less aimless than I have before, so yea I'm pretty happy
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Why?

21
no, I’m a college dropout and struggling with sex addiction as gay as that sounds
the crystal shard & a Bukowski poetry collection

24
very happy
I avoid all books atm

> 22
> Could be worse but not really
> Trying to finish A Dance with Dragons; then will either read some Bukowski or start reading some french shit as part of language learning

Seems like most people over 30 here are happy. Is it mostly because you’ve given up?

>peusd instead of pseud
Your IQ has to me 110 minimum to post on literature.

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>31
>most days I experience happiness, but once in a while its a shit day and nothing can make it better
>Spain: The Centre of the World 1519-1682 (overrated desu)

>turned 23 few days ago
>yes, but there is always a bit of dread
>introductory lectures on psychoanalysis by freud

>20
>yeah, more or less
>history of the Peloponnesian war

I stopped comparing myself to other people and stopped caring about competition and career. Became NEET and and there is nothing else I could wish for right now. When I want to work again my old employer I could start there again any time I want to. I don't know many people but I started to love the few I know better for what they are without expecting anything. I became content with being stupid after overrationalizing everything for no reason and after becoming depressed about pointless abstract ideas. Stopped caring about philosophy. Apreciate life for what it is - the current moment is the truth. There is nothing behind it. No bigger meaning or concept than just direct perception of what's around you.

>22
>No
>The holy Quran

>18
>I'm okay
>One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

>24
>yes, soon no, and then yes
>Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep

>me instead of be
nice and hypocritical