Enough with the sad, melancholic, loser, feminine bullshit books,
GIVE ME BOOKS ABOUT UNBRIDLE OPTIMISM, NEVER GIVE UP CHARACTERS, AGAINST ALL THE ODDS CONFLICTS, MAN AGAINST FATE AND GODS! REACH FOR THE HEAVENS AND GRAB THE STARTS OR DIE TRYING BOOKS, BROS!
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Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Also The Philosopher’s Stone and the Mind Parasites
Doesn't make good literature
So literature must be just sad bullshit and introspection?
Exactly, most people on lit are sad, lonely homosexuals who think they are too smart to engage with society.
yes
>dude just be a bugman sapped of vitality bro
Chekhov anon...
Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian
The Ring of the Nibelung and Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
Wodehouse may be what you are looking for.
Candide (ou L'Optimisme)
Despite being superficially a takedown of optimism, it's really just a permeatingly gleeful shitpost. What a fun read.
Leaves of Grass
The Ring of the Nibelungs, The Lord of the Rings
Optimism, not naivete
Feng Menglong's Sanyan
I find The Epic of Gilgamesh an uplifting story of true friendship raised even higher by it being one of the oldest, even if there is a sad bit in the middle when he deals with the death of his friend and tries to find an answer.
Old man and the sea
JOE! JOEEEEEEEEE!
TATSUNDA JOOEEE!! TATSU TATSU!
the most optimistic character in all of literature when you consider the circumstances. makes siddhartha look like a fricking emo
For me, it’s books that have tragic events, but an overall uplifting and positive message (i.e Les Miserables). Those kind of stories are peak storytelling.
V.
Stencil gays need note apply. Bennychads keep on winning
The Alexandria Quartet