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>sister attempted suicide this past Friday
>she was ~2 hours away from liver failure
>now she's in an in-patient facility
>she's allowed to have a book, but I have no idea what to get for her

She loves the Game of Thrones books and has said that GRRM's writing style makes everything else seem lackluster/bad. What would you guys recommend?

inb4 >shes plen

>> No.6188346

>>6188340
The Conspiracy against the Human Race.

>> No.6188349

>>6188340
Infinite Jest

Not joking. Some amazing stuff in there dealing with suicide and depression.

>> No.6188353

>>6188340
1000 ways to die

>> No.6188354

>>6188349
Came here to post this

>> No.6188356
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6188356

>> No.6188368

>>6188349
>>6188354
"The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
― David Foster Wallace

>> No.6188375

The new testament and quick.
She MUST accept our lord and saviour.

>> No.6188379

>>6188368
thats funny cuz he offed himself and wasnt in any immediate danger whatsoever

except being a loony toony
guess you could say that's "A CONSTANT"

hehehe

fight me on this fag i dare you

>> No.6188380

I'd recommend a big-hearted Dickens book just because they always make me feel great and affirm life, and the style is also just a pleasure to read. I like Hard Times a lot, but pretty much all of them are good. Really not sure how helpful this is, though, hope she gets better.

>> No.6188387

>GRRM's writing style makes everything else seem lackluster/bad
She's probably better of dead. I'd rather be dead than an absolute pleb.

>> No.6188392

>>6188379
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV9qvauLlmo

>> No.6188397

>>6188379
reread the quote pleb, it has nothing to do with "immediate danger" the "flames causing terror"do not have to be literally flames you enormous fucking idiot

>> No.6188408

>>6188340
>>she's allowed to have a book, but I have no idea what to get for her

why don't you try asking her before forcing /lit/core meme books on her

>> No.6188417

>>6188397
its a metaphor, i get what it is, he even says that's an "EASY WAY OUT", since getting burned and slow-roasted is way worse than just a split-second before you make a funny horror movie soundeffect on the pavement

he knows nothing about suicide other than the fact he committed it.

>> No.6188422

Are there any fantasy books that are better than GoT? I'm assuming there are; I forgot to mention that I'd like to get her something that isn't too heavy. The fantasy genre seems like the best choice.

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>>6188417
>people like this exist

What can we do?

>> No.6188431

>>6188408
She doesn't have a phone, mang

>> No.6188432

>>6188422
maybe LOTR if she hasn't yet read them

>> No.6188434

>>6188422
Definitely "The Rules of Attraction"

>> No.6188435

Something by Neil Gaiman? I don't know.

>> No.6188442

>>6188430
hey man, at least one of us doesn't have a folder full of DFW reaction images


>mfw when dfw

>> No.6188444

>>6188432
nah, Tolkien's prose is unbearably archaic. It's worse than the Book of Mormon.

>> No.6188447

give her the D

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6188449

>>6188442
>Full of

>> No.6188451

denim fox

gene wolfe

>> No.6188454

Infinite Jest isn't terribly heavy OP... Don't count it out just because it is such a meme. It is really a good novel for somebody in her position and could even be a gateway for her into less pleb literature

>> No.6188461

A Once and Future King

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>>6188349
>>6188380
>>6188434
>>6188454
>>6188461
Thanks guys. I'll see if I can pick up a few of these for her.

Here's a qt as a thank you.

>> No.6188526

the myth of sisyphus

>> No.6188568

The little prince, bro

>> No.6188611

>>6188526
Correct answer, saved my life actually

>> No.6188705

Franny and Zooey

>> No.6188752

>>6188340
how old is she?

>> No.6188831

>>6188752
18 since December

>> No.6189360

>>6188380
Hard Times is absolute fucking shit.

>> No.6189393

>>6188340

Just get her to watch some SOL anime. Pretty heart warming and cute stuff.

It's probably one of the big contributors as to why so many /a/nons are still clinging on to life even though they know their misery. It's like a wonderful warm, mallow, fluffiness washes over you and you can just forget the real world.

>> No.6190994 [DELETED] 

Mouchette

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6191151

>>6188349
Considering the author hung himself, doesn't seem like a good idea.

>> No.6191161

>i hope she doesnt become im-patient

>> No.6191184

>>6188368

DFW was such a fucking lowlife. Comparing people who are forced to leap to their death in order to escape immolation to people with depression who have a hundred different options other than suicide is fucking disgusting. I suppose that's how he justified taking his own life, the fucking pussy.

>> No.6191190

>>6188340

Give her No Longer Human or Jude the Obscure, both uplifting books.

Or maybe just not bother with books all together if she loves GRRM. Maybe get her some shit young adult stuff instead.

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>>6188340

I'm sorry this happened to her OP. I ended up in a ward once and pretty much the only thing I read that summer was Orson Scott Card SF novels - it was all I could stomach. Anything less predictable or more complex was too hard for my weary, messed up brain. I could only listen to certain music too. Get her something random like poems or comedy writing.

>> No.6191260

>>6188340
who cares, she's a pleb

>> No.6191272

>>6188346
This, maybe this time she realizes to order barbiturates or something. Keeping a failed suicidee alive is just wrong.

>> No.6191292

>>6191184
You know having low empathy is a sign of Autism.

>> No.6191439

>>6188447

Seconding this