Books about missing out, being lonely, not being able to feel close to others, being hungry for love, being left behind...

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None of us can relate to the feelings you’re describing sorry user

why are you on Yea Forums desu?

write a novel about these feelings. I would read user.

lmao

There's a Japanese novel (something to do with insects in the title) on this, pretty sure the author offed himself. There was a kino mini-documentary on it too that I can't bring to mind atm. If you find it you'll know.

Notes from the Underground
Jakob Von Guten

Based

believe it or not some people just enjoy humor-oriented internet forums, and the reddit invasion that followed /r9k/ has nothing to do with us

You've just described The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa. It's a long book, so if you want to read something by Pessoa before tackling it, I'd recommend you to read a translation of his most famous poem, called "Tabacaria" (Tobacco shop).

Read this excerpt:

How should I know what I'll be, I who don't know what I am?
Be what I think? But I think of being so many things!
And there are so many who think of being the same thing that we can't all be it!
Genius? At this moment
A hundred thousand brains are dreaming they're geniuses like me,
And it may be that history won't remember even one,
All of their imagined conquests amounting to so much dung.
No, I don't believe in me.
Insane asylums are full of lunatics with certainties!
Am I, who have no certainties, more right or less right?
No, not even me . . .
In how many garrets and non-garrets of the world
Are self-convinced geniuses at this moment dreaming?
How many lofty and noble and lucid aspirations
–Yes, truly lofty and noble and lucid
And perhaps even attainable–
Will never see the light of day or find a sympathetic ear?
The world is for those born to conquer it,
Not for those who dream they can conquer it, even if they're right.
I've done more in dreams than Napoleon.

ronnowpoetry.com/contents/pessoa/TobaccoShop.html

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you don't belong here desu

Book of Job
(Critque of pure reason)

damn, he is literally me

Bro, this is Yea Forums, not /r9k/. If you want an indulgent self-hating pity-party for those who either are or aspire to be mentally ill, go to /r9k/. Yea Forums is not /r9k/, and /r9k/ isn't Yea Forums. Just lift the fucking weights and stop being a bitch If you want premium bullshit discussion on literature, then stay here.
As to answer your question, read Hamlet, read Kierkegaard, read Pessoa, read Camus, read Sartre, read Musil, read Strindberg, read fucking Werther like a faggot, read Mishima, read Houllebecq, read Kafka, and most importantly, stop killing the board with /r9k/ frogposting and lurk more.

you have to be at least a little bit messed up to use this site desu
i squat 5pl8 and bench 3pl8 twinkboy

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First 90 or so pages of crime and punishment

bump

hit close desu, grown out of this a lot recently tho

Das Kapital, unironically.

>grown out of this
how?

Marx was a chad

How do I stop being a fag like pessoa? I already lift weights

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it explains alienation

You need to meet more people, come up with projects, go unto the world instead of retreating inside your own head.

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how do you do that

how do i get a girlfriend

keep in mind im over 30 years of age and have limited social skills

What are even projects? I never met anyone who 'has a project'. I have a friend who sometimes makes joke songs and a friend that tried to make a video game. Are those considered projects? Seriously asking. Is it some rich people shit where they have a workshop in their garage and they get to make cool things? Is it just a fancy name for having a hobby? Someone please explain this to me, I grew up fairly poor and I don't recall ever just doing shit for free.

No fucking idea. After you leave college the only people you'll meet are the people from work. Life is over.

It's literally just luck. I got a gf a couple years ago. If I didn't get with her I probably would have been lonely today.

how old were you

bump

Just don't be a bitch, and engage with tje canon.

The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells (though he's not interested in society, but there's a lot to relate to about alienation)
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai (a guy was abused as a kid and can't make normal relationships and keeps abusing and being abused and is just generally useless and unhappy)
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal (more comedic but also has more darkness than anything else out there imo)
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (she can't pick a life path, famous fig analogy)

>No Longer Human
this is for chads

I have a book review blog, that's my project.
Some other examples of projects: knitting, needlepoint, bodybuilding, pottery, writing, making a meme page on FB, growing fruit tress, rescuing cats, raising birds or frogs or lizards...
I'd recommend learning how to cook some good recipes as a good first project.

So fancy name for a hobby. Got it

Unironically Werther

Back to plebbit, normalfag.

???

You have normalfag sensibilities, none of that trash matters.

samefags

fuck niggers jannies and trannies also fuck u niggerfag

Jesus Christ, we have ten or some fucks making threads asking for this kind of literature EVERY FUCKING DAY. Use the catalog or the archives, faggot.

also autist shitposter, look at him repeating word 'none'

Get a pet bro

Read this. Really good book.

b nice

Mars by Fritz Zorn

bump

Every incel needs to read Houllebecq

it'll keep you sane in this crazy world brother.

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House of Leaves
i was in a place i was trapped and felt essentially all the things in the post. Jonny Truant really resonated with me. I still think about that experience.

a project = a concentrated activity demanding a non-trivial amount of intellectual or physical energy, along with time
for me its mostly programming things and writing and music making.

1/3

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2/3

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Infinite Jest

3/3

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Most of Mann's short stories, and anything by Leopardi and Luis Cernuda. Mann's downwardly-mobile protagonists suffer negative epiphanies of self-realization (or lack thereof) that are spooky in their accuracy to anyone who has experienced massive failure to merge into the stream of bourgeois normalcy, Leopardi is somehow lovable in his desperate & intimately conveyed isolation, while Cernuda's elegant hatred for Madhouse Earth outside his windows makes me want to find him, and drag him through a long bacchanal, for a hard-reset. Honorary mention for Coleridge during his REKT years in the loft atop the house of his saintly doctor/patron: This magnificent ruin had a weirdly fetching sense of humor, and apparently enjoyed languishing in disaster-relief, as many NEET has-been survivors in their 2nd virginity do.

Buump

pet broject..?

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Yay

I stopped thinking that the greatest thing one could do was be a genius or impart something revelatory to the world. desu i just went down the spiritual path, realised most of the wanting to be a genuis or thinking myself as such was either a projection of wanting to be recognised, loved, valued and belong somewhere, also the thought of being one with an ultimate reality/source consciousness really put me in place and simultaneously comforted me.

Id rather be content with a loving wife and family, just walking through nature and going back to a comfy house. The small things are really the big things.

Being heralded as the greatest author in living history, revered as a genius demigod means quite little in comparison to being held by your soulmate.

Apologies, probs just ranted about nothing instead of giving you an answer.

That's sad and all, but do you really want to turn a literature board into /r9k/-lite?

thanks, good luck fren

Catcher in the Rye

you don't understand Soares

cute

Can relate.

Out of curiosity, is feeling those few points an indication of clinical depression?