/lit/ - Literature

>>22814061

>>22814061
>is it even possible to find something like this without feeling like the book was written in a much more favourable time for life compared to today?
It's a matter of taste and what problems you have in life, but personally I think Dickens is a good example. His time and culture was similar to ours in many ways: cold atheistic individualists thinking about their own interests in industrial cities. Many conditions then were far worse than ours. Yet his characters often shine with hope, curiosity, good-will, innocence and kindness despite poor external conditions. They are highly dramatised and unrealistic - but the message remains: see the good in people, be good, smile at a stranger, offer to help an old lady across the street. Put your phone down, be attentive in conversation and learn to be curious about people and want the best for them. Be a beacon of light when the rest of the world seems dim. Even by starting with one positive act every day.

The three musketeers

>>22814090
i dont know anything about dickens but the way you describe it is what i'm looking for, thanks

The Road

>>22814093
Based

>>22814061
Siddhartha, Siddhartha always works.

>>22814449
i guess i could re-read it, it did have the effect on me at the time but since then i've fallen off course again

>>22814061
enjoy

zorba the greek

>>22814061
something happened

>>22814090
Very good. And where should someone start with Dickens?

>>22816014
a good lesson (or warning) to not waste your life away. good answer; would serve op well

>>22814061

>>22817316
Not enough children's books.