All somewhat introverted teenage boys should be required to read Steppenwolf in my opinion. Just make them read it before it's too late for them.
Same thing goes for watching Evangelion.
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>Same thing goes for watching Evangelion.
One of the first and most impactful things I learned when I first started getting into reading literature was that old ass books did Evangelion better than NGE itself. Crazy to think I used to consider NGE to be creative and well-written. Still a fun series, but...
> old ass books did Evangelion better than NGE itself
Can you name the books pls
Steppenwolf for one, then you've got most of what Faulkner wrote, but especially Quentin's chapter in The Sound and the Fury. Flaubert's The Temptation of Saint Anthony is great as well, and...
Crime and Punishment
Leaves of Grass
Nietzsche as a whole (just don't get wrapped up in the autistic cult of personality the dude has)
Kierkegaard
Jakob Böhme
King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth
Moby Dick
I don't remember which chapter it's in exactly, but there's a dialogue in the first part of Don Quixote which is good
There are a few chapters in the latter half of Augustine's Confessions that deal with those same feelings
Jonathan Edwards' Original Sin
The Journal of George Fox
Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Oversoul, Nature, and Self-Reliance
And that's all I can remember off the top of my head.
Many good works, but none of these are anything like Eva imo
Get in the whaleboat, Ishmael
Explain why.
t. adult guy who was an introverted young guy long ago
The point of the book basically boils down to the idea that your personality isn't just made up of a "human" and a "wolf" but rather of a 1000 fragments of yourself and there are a 1000 possibilities and directions your life can take. Dont accept one of these 1000 fragments as your "true personality" but give all of them room to grow and develop and let them all come to the surface in the right time. Never be afraid to reinvent yourself and dont let one single aspect of your personality take control of your life.
Also: dont be a stuck up bitter cynical c**t who looks down on normies and learn how to fricking DANCE.
You can read any of Henry millers books and get the same kind of inspiration
>no Henry miller
Leave of grass was dusty as frick. I didn’t finish it. Made it to 230ish pages out of 400ish. Just too archaic. 1890 and beyond for me
>>no Henry miller
I haven't read anything by him. I'm guessing Tropic of Cancer would be the best place to start?
>Leave of grass was dusty as frick
Really? I've heard way more people say the exact opposite. It's too loose and proto-modernist for a lot of people on this board. Sucks that you didn't like it. Whitman's my favorite poet.
From Section 33 of Song of Myself
>Space and Time! now I see it is true, what I guess'd at,
>What I guess'd when I loaf'd on the grass,
>What I guess'd while I lay alone in my bed,
>And again as I walk'd the beach under the paling stars of the morning.
>My ties and ballasts leave me, my elbows rest in sea-gaps,
>I skirt sierras, my palms cover continents,
>I am afoot with my vision.
From Section 28
>On all sides prurient provokers stiffening my limbs,
>Straining the udder of my heart for its withheld drip,
>Behaving licentious toward me, taking no denial,
>Depriving me of my best as for a purpose
From Section 24
>To behold the day-break!
>The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
>The air tastes good to my palate.
>Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols silently rising freshly exuding,
>Scooting obliquely high and low.
Just absolutely breathtaking, this guy.
>do drugs and frick prostitutes lulz
It's absolute terrible fricking advice, if you can even call it that. You shouldn't "be a bitter c**t", sure, but that doesn't mean you should give up on everything and become a walking plant.
I tried to read it but couldnt get through it, im a 26 year old incel, whats the point of this book?
Its on the list along with siddartha, damien and the glass beed game. I'm 30 btw. Is it too late for me bro?
The protag is 50 in the book so not really but still the best age to read it is around 15-16
First third is mid
Second third is boring with a few funny moments of the protag sperging out
Third third is genuinely amazing beyond all expectations
So you're sayin there's a chance!
Booooornnn to be wiiiiiiilld
Get your motor, Evan
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First third is amazing, the second third is so weak that I gave up
Unfortunately I never did either growing up. Nowadays I find introverts annoying and gay.
eva was fricking juvenile crap. i tried. it sucks and isnt anywhere near good anime like GITS
Thoughts on Demian?
Im 20, I read recently and it really shook me up, in a good way
NGE is the worst anime series ever made. It's worse than even moeslop or ecchislop. It's anti-art. An insult to everyone who watches it.
Anyone who likes it should be sentenced to at least 3 years hard labour and I'm not joking.
I've never watched NGE but you sound like a homosexual.
>Same thing goes for watching Evangelion.
I will ignore the fact that EVA is terrible, but seeing the type of introverts that watched that show in their teenage years really makes me question what's the benefict in watching that dross.
There are a lot of anons in this thread who aren't madmen and it shows
how about you point them out instead of being a vague-posting pussy, then
Lighten up, did you feel attacked by my "vague-posting"?
Nah, taking thing personally on an anonymous message board would be way to unhinged for such a levelheaded s(oy)ane boy.
It’s proto hippy slop
Listen to some jazz
Smoke some hash
Frick mildly whorish actresses you get to support the arts and bust a nut
You only live once lol
No wonder boomers ate it up and proclaimed it wisdom literature
>teenage boys
Demian is the book for that market. Steppenwolf is way too sophisticated for teenagers. It's more for the much older age group.
In Germany Hesse is seen as an "Abiturienten" author, so an author you read when you are about to finish high school or before college.