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What was the last thing you read that genuinely made you feel warm inside, happy and fulfilled, even that life might be worth living?

>> No.11576724

>>11576709
k-on

>> No.11576725

I feel like that most of the time tbph. But Book of The New Sun was a very enjoyable experience.

>> No.11576729

>>11576709
A bhutanese woodcarving romance. It seems like the books I read are either not really emotionally engaging to me or hit me in the stomach with a crowbar.

>> No.11576734

Bhagavad Gita

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>>11576709
*enriches your path*

>> No.11576752

OP, you made me realise that I don't even remember when I felt like that for the last time. Th-thanks I guess.

>> No.11576774

>>11576752
I remember my last time, it was before she left me

>> No.11576775

>>11576709
B-bump...
>>11576774
Does it ever get better?

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>>11576775
No I think it only gets worse

>> No.11576792

Messages from my girlfriend

>> No.11576844

>>11576725
>I feel like that most of the time tbph
wtf? how

>> No.11576861

>>11576709
The sound of waves

>> No.11576976

>>11576844
Dunno, just the way I am. If I had to give a reason, I'd say that I was stereotypically sad and lonely for most of my teens, but then I got luckier/better at social contact. In comparison to being 15 years old, everything since has felt pretty great.

>> No.11577002

>>11576709
Hi mom. How's the estrogen?

>> No.11577006

>>11576976
Isn't funny--depressed people who have worked hard but experienced tragedies get lumped in the same pile as depressed people who are just naturally useless protoplasm.

>> No.11577603

>>11576781
It does get better.

>> No.11577631

>>11576792
Try the Redpill.

>> No.11577704

Wind, Sand and Stars

>> No.11577756

>>11576709
>even that life might be worth living

Life is always worth living, friend, though I'm sorry if it's hard for you to see that right now. I hope things turn around for you soon and that you're open to seeing it when it does. I know how hard it can be, but it gets better.

To answer the question though, Clan of the Cave Bear (and the rest of the Earth's Children series) always gives me the warm fuzzies when I think back on it, and the way it effected my life when I first read it.

>> No.11577784

>>11577756
ha ha fag

lmao

>> No.11577803

>>11576709
Bible.

Pomo memes are depressing af. Literary authors are more interested in impressing critics than actually creating something beautiful. Films are where I most often find the kind of comfy, unlooked-for pleasures you describe OP.

>> No.11577809

>>11576709
John Berger's And our faces, my heart, as brief as photos. Really any Berger is good for that feel.

>> No.11578629

The Hobbit, for about the millionth time.

>> No.11579266

>>11576709
first chapter of Mason & Dixon hands down had this feel for me

>> No.11579316

My dream diary from a decade ago that I found the other day

>> No.11579797

>>11576709
the ending of The Brothers Karamazov

>> No.11579880

growth of the soil
it's really beautiful

>> No.11581464

>>11579880
What've you got growing there?

>> No.11581571

>>11576709
Back by Henry Green with its English tsundere.

>> No.11581665

the tristram shandy

>> No.11581676

>>11576729
>A bhutanese woodcarving romance
Name? I can't believe the shitposting meme about this board being a Mongolian woodcarving collective is actually a literary genre.

>> No.11581694

>>11576709
DH Lawrence - The Rainbow
didn't even like the book much as i was reading but its characters and symbols keep returning to me.

>> No.11581892

>>11581676
It isn't. Bhutanese woodcarvings, Burmese shadow puppet theater, macarame from Ceylon, cape verdian expression dances and Chinese cartoons all just mean manga/anime. Most of the time at least

>> No.11581979

>>11576709
Les Miserables made me feel immense warmth even if I was left crying.

>>11576724
This is also a great example. Also want to suggest A Silent Voice, qt deaf grill is my waifu.

>> No.11582684

Cannery Row

>> No.11582765

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.