I've just experienced a pretty dramatic romantic disappointment...

I've just experienced a pretty dramatic romantic disappointment. Any shit I can read so that I don't become an embittered /r9k/ loser? I don't want to read any overtly feminist literature, just something centering on a complicated woman whose interiority is ultimately vindicated. Shit like Portrait of a Lady, The Man who Loved Children, Wife of Bath's prologue, Lolita, etc.

too late

what do you mean

definitely go with The Golden Notebook or something else by Lessing.

Mrs. Dalloway

>Bogdonavich once asked him about it
>You know how you stand in the doorway in that last shot?
>And how you have your arms?
>Was that on purpose?
>Wayne replied, I knew a guy who stood like that all the time
>And the pose always seemed so lonely to me

>Any shit I can read so that I don't become an embittered /r9k/ loser?
Starting Strength

Read Middlemarch you fucking pussy and understand how grand and sprawling sympathy can really be.

Read some Bukowskii dawg.

Lolita? Vindicated? Go read that one again.

(Not one of those SJWs who thinks the book is porn... just disagree.)

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also on my list, but I've always heard he was a a typical '50's gender essentialist, is that true?
vindicated in that the Humbert Humbert realizes how little he knew her by the end of the book

Nana by Emile Zola
Lady Chatterly's Lover by DH Lawrence
Ida by Gertrude Stein

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Don't. He's an idiotic bum who got famous somehow.

he became extremely popular with self-loathing talentless wannabe hipsters with poor taste. i think his increased popularity in the past decade is due to word of mouth amongst these types

I'd consider Anna Karenina's presence as validating over all, and it's a solid long read. The Christianity is kinda gross but I'd still recommend.

you're really gay dude.

>I don't want to read any overtly feminist literature

Why not? Any work that portrays a woman as something other than a one-dimensional object or helpless victim has probably been classified as feminist at one point or another. I'm not really sure what to recommend that fits your criteria. Maybe The Sun Also Rises?

If you actually want to grow a pair and read something overtly feminist, read The Second Sex. That was my introduction to feminist theory and it dramatically changed my worldview, for what it's worth. It is extremely likely to prevent you from becoming an 'embittered /r9k loser' as you put it. For feminist literature I recommend Djuna Barnes and Virginia Woolf.

>Any work that portrays a woman as something other than a one-dimensional object or helpless victim has probably been classified as feminist at one point or another.


Wow, a true idiot right here.

>Suggesting The Sun Also Rises after OP went through a "dramatic romantic disappointment"

This will either lead him assert his own unique form of masculinity in a painfully complex modern world or make him kill himself. Either way good suggestion 10/10

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it is natural for men like you to crave the validation of their existence and get depressed if they fail to feel relevant, responsible, dutiful.
The best way for a man to cater his need for approval is to serve some woman (and some of her children) through emotional&financial support, which he sees as ''a childish useless submissive woman'' [or whore and he feels betrayed by her]
Men are pleased to contribute to someone else life, to support their family.

Why women are a good way to feel relevant? Because women love to be provided for and each woman will always find a man ready to please her.
[for most men, the best feeling of feeling real is when the girl moans from your cock in her pussy, or for the most impotent, their tongue in the pussy]

THe problem for men is that they are disposable in the eyes of each woman, since all men wish to serve the few women who talk to them.
Men must thus invent several ways to please women, invention and creativity which strengthen their feeling of being worthy, relevant, in touch with reality.
Men are too impotent to find other way to feel real.
Once that the a woman replaces a man by another provider, the man gets very upset and depressed.
THis leads men to think that they are better than women, stronger, smarter and that they must built a life outside women. Some men manage to indeed built an empire, but they will always loose it for some women.
Women give meaning to men and betas, no matter how successful outside women, will always give up everything for some relationship with some woman who claim to fancy them.

I do this, kinda.

It's like crossing your arms but less forceful. You create a barrier between yourselves and others but in the Wayne pose it's more of a half-hearted attempt to protect yourself than a desire to separate yourself.

the kreutzer sonata by tolstoy.

I know.

Romance is a meme.

This

Did DFW funk Liz Lemon?

Look how uncomfortable he is.

Mrs. Dalloway was a fucking whore.

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>Once that the a woman replaces a man by another provider, the man gets very upset and depressed.
>THis leads men to think that they are better than women, stronger, smarter and that they must built a life outside women

Ouch

Look at you typing all that up as if it were new to anyone

>grow a pair and read something overtly feminist
10/10 i lol'd