What books would you recommend to a broken hearted 19 year old who loves tragic stories?
What books would you recommend to a broken hearted 19 year old who loves tragic stories?
try this or young werther then fuck off to /r9k/
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A step-by-step guide to suicide
read "mein kampf" and blame the jews, then fuck off to /pol/
"The stranger" by albert camus
what animu is this image from my man
Hypersphere
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
Sun Also Rises by Hemingway
Revolution Road by Richard Yates
What the fuck is with modernists and "tragedy?"
wisdom
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Norwegian Wood. You're the same age as the protagonist too.
Start with the Russian
Stoics so you can stop being a little bitch
Jude the Obscure
This guy has good advice Going off of that I'm still gonna rec you some shit.
>TC Boyle stories
to remember that life is an absurd clusterfuck and shouldn't be take all too seriously.
>Raymond Carver stories
if you wanna get depressed by the realization that everyone on this planet really is just as mediocre as a roadside diner in bumfuck Iowa, but theres still a broken beauty inside of it in it's pretty neon lights and the joking way the truckers flirt with the waitress. (Not the basis of one of his stories, just conveying the feel)
>Sun Also Rises
nothings more tragic than a great romance ruined by the fact that someone got his dick shot off in the war.
>Autobiography of Red
I just think its a comfy fuckin book
Pan by Hamsun is the best you'll get
Victoria by Hamsun fits the bill too.
Endless Love by Scott Spencer. Really made earning your red wings seem appealing.
Beware of Pity - by Stefan Zweig.
Honestly Stefan Zweig is the best at stories that induce the specific "pang" you want. I can't recommend him enough, he is easily one of my favourite authors
Skylark
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer.
hamlet
Zeta Gundam
it's shit
You most definitely want Turgenev's Torrents of Spring
Im an expert in this field.
Never let me go and the remains of the day by ishiguru
the virgin suicides by an whose name I will not attempt to spell
the sweet hereafter by I forget who
the english patient
vurt by jeff noon
mason and dixon by pynchon
Bear a heavier burden.
Currently reading right now. It's great
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