I'm planning to shun internet and electronic stuff from my life during a week...

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the books are a distraction the same way the internet is
you'll have an easier time reflecting without them

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you ain't getting (you)s outta me retard

St. Augustine's Confessions
Siddhartha
The Brothers Karamazov and/or Demons

Came here specifically to recommend Walden, as this fine person has.

fiction*

You're the only retard here, mate.

I thought TBK would be the book to read during this time, but it'd be my first Dostoyevski work, and I heard it has plenty of bible references.

Did this last winter desu, absolutely carry on with it.

I read Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, Seneca On the Shortness of Life, and Epictetus' Discourses and Selected Writings

Good luck!

dialogues of the cynics

what

Richard Henry Dana's Two Years before the Mast. Journal of an ill mid 19th c college student whose doctor advises him to go to sea for his health. Becomes a crew member of a fur trading merchantmen, rounds Cape Horn twice, and documents his view of the California Coast twenty years before the building up of LA and San Francisco. One of my favorite American books.

>a week

Holyshit. People today are hopeless

Well if you'd like to try a book series that has no electricity let alone computers or internet, I can shill you something. Also addresses some social issues and has some naughty parts. As for changing you, I can't quite see it going that far unless it awakens an interest in survivalism or firearms or something. I've been told the books get better as you get further along, the first is only a dollar even though it's also the longest in the series.

The Republic and the Prince

The Complete Works of Sigmund Freud

Meditations by Marcus Aurelias
Confessions by St. Augustine

if you don't understand a reference (and they're all quite basic and on the nose), you can just skip over it with no harm done. the symbolism doesn't get in the way of the narrative at all. people who haven't read TBK prop it up as this daunting intellectual masterwork, but in reality, it's one of the most human and accessible books i've ever read. use the ignat avsey translation, for lord's sake.

anyway, i'd recommend:
>plato's five dialogues + republic
>st. augustine's confessions
>TBK
>maybe something cozy, like the lord of the rings or whatever floats your boat

So most of these suggestions Pretty much ignore what you want. Stephen King isn't going to enlighten anyone.
So maybe delve into philosophy a bit. A basic go to is thus spoke zurathustra. Nietzche can get the job done. A portrait of the artist as a young man is also a nice one for this. Good luck bro. You'll make it.

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Psalms
The Imitation of Christ
Apophthegmata Patrum

damn a whole WEEK user?
what a display of willpower

came here specifically to recommend Walden, just as these fine guys did

You should definitely read the biblical book of Job. An user recommended it to me on this board like a week ago and I tuned off my edgy atheist complex and just read it. I really almost cried at the end of chapter two, and connected with Job's sorrow.

I would also recommend a book titled "Provocations" by Soren Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard says in one of his writings that men who can isolate themselves from society and be content are the types of men he prefers to write to.

interesting thanks

do you have a pdf?

The Beckett Trilogy and There's Treasure Everywhere, by Watterson.

one step at a time, fronds

thank you! very intriguing recs
kierkgaard is on my wishlist, but is it okay reading Provocations as the first work from him? Also, with no knowledge on Bible?

lol

how the fuck will you use pdf without the electricity?

kierkegaard is a waste of time without knowledge of the bible.

kek. that wasn't me

grendel by john gardner