Books are helping an awful lot

[lunargreenx]

This is the only thing I like about this world. I may not be liked by other people, but I find solace and companion in the pain and sorrows of others in books about real life and it's struggles. Reading about them gives me feeling of being less alone.

This came in my post today. This is my only friend and that little light in me that shines for living.

Authors and readers, thank you.

 

[sadworld]

That's beautiful. I've read a few books in the past that were good too but i think the last time i have read a book was a few years ago... but it's awesome when you enjoy it and find happiness in it.

 

[favourite]

Good choice and nice haul, I've already read R. Carver and now I'm reading The Lonely City. Poetry is also wonderful as a comfort read, if you're into it.

 

[lunargreenx]

Good choice and nice haul, I've already read R. Carver and now I'm reading The Lonely City. Poetry is also wonderful as a comfort read, if you're into it.

I would love to get into poetry, but I am pretty scared, since English is not my first language and I am having a hard time even understanding my national poetry. However, my most favourite book is called The Bell Jar and It's by Sylvia Plath which was mainly poet, so I might as well start with her.
PS: Sorry, I seem to have miscathegorized this thread, I meant to post it in RECOVERY section.

 

[Heart Shards]

It's difficult to read these days, but I must say that I find that fictional characters are more moral than actual ones. Sad really.

 

[AvaAdore]

I finished Normal People earlier this year,it was 3 out of 5 stars for me.

 

[Xocoyotziin]

I feel this way about music
I don't even listen to that wide a variety but knowing that someone made it and I'm essentially downloading their thoughts and feelings in nonverbal form, yeah it feels nice. Like they're reaching out to me and don't even know it. Butterfly effect shit. It's pretty cool.

 

[Deleted member 1465]

I used to read a lot, maybe too much. I found giving up smoking and drinking easier than giving up books. Now I barely read at all. For some reason, it feels too passive to me, I need to be doing something. I try to read, my brother donates all his books when he's finished them, but I find it so hard to relax into it. I think this may be linked to my OCD in some way. I have a mountain of books that once i would have devoured.

 

[TheQ22]

The only way I find that books help is when I pile them up like you have so i can get high enough to put my head through the noose

 

[lunargreenx]

It's difficult to read these days, but I must say that I find that fictional characters are more moral than actual ones. Sad really.

I wouldn't say more moral. The word I would use is human. Humans are not human anymore.
Nobody cares about anyone. The vast majority of relationship are superficial. Everything is fake.

I feel like I am not living in reality. Like this should not be happening. Books validate that feeling. We should all have normal families and at least 2 good friends that truly care.

I don't like it here. Get me out. Please. Sorry, now we don't say please, so I shall say fuck off to show off how independent and proud I am.

 

[Heart Shards]

I wouldn't say more moral. The word I would use is human. Humans are not human anymore.
Nobody cares about anyone. The vast majority of relationship are superficial. Everything is fake.

I feel like I am not living in reality. Like this should not be happening. Books validate that feeling. We should all have normal families and at least 2 good friends that truly care.

I don't like it here. Get me out. Please. Sorry, now we don't say please, so I shall say fuck off to show off how independent and proud I am.

What if we're characters in a book that is a super drama/tragedy. I mean it would be one damn boring book like The Hunchback of Notre Dame but still. Maybe we're the result of a terrible writer's story.

 

[TheQ22]

What if we're characters in a book that is a super drama/tragedy. I mean it would be one damn boring book like The Hunchback of Notre Dame but still. Maybe we're the result of a terrible writer's story.

I wish they'd just put the blinking pen down. And I hope there isn't a sequel.

 

[Gerard de Nerval]

The only way I find that books help is when I pile them up like you have so i can get high enough to put my head through the noose

Just like Mainländer!

Novels, Poetry, Philosophy and so on seem to be the only place the spiritual sequestered to, but it seems to be dimming in the twilight. I had a great joy reading, and love the connections each work of art brings to others in both the negative and positive.

 

[TheQ22]

Just like Mainländer!

Novels, Poetry, Philosophy and so on seem to be the only place the spiritual sequestered to, but it seems to be dimming in the twilight. I had a great joy reading, and love the connections each work of art brings to others in both the negative and positive.

Thanks I'd not heard of him. have had a read and I like him.