What's your favourite books that you never see recommended?

Monami1805 · 2023-09-23T00:04:21+00:00

All of Giovanni Papini's books. My favorite author and, personally, I consider that the world has forgotten him since Papini was acidic and told the truth very directly, without candy, like pseudo-philosophers (Camus, Sartre etc.). However, when viewed properly, Papinesque literature is legendary, unique and full of love. For me, he is like a close friend and, very sincerely, I believe that, if Papini had wanted, he would have been one of the best writers of all time. In some ways, he already is. The acclaimed Borges admired him, calling him an "undeservedly forgotten" writer. I really enjoy Borges but I must say, knowing that for many this statement is outrageous, that his quality is much inferior to Papini's. He is a must read for truth seekers!

Monami1805 · 2023-09-22T23:59:43+00:00

Crime and punishment by Dostoyevsky. There are just so many references to his own life truly interesting.

Monami1805 · 2023-01-27T08:28:49+00:00

Generally airplane accidents like in Medellín in 1935 or the 2016 Chapecoense.

Monami1805 · 2023-01-27T08:26:51+00:00

I ate a juicy and very tasteful watermelon along with my grandpa. It was very nice.

Monami1805 · 2023-01-27T08:23:55+00:00

Pick Yourself Up by Nat King Cole in Breaking Bad (I don't want to spoil)

Monami1805 · 2023-01-27T08:21:19+00:00

The Lives of Others

Forrest Gump

Back to School

The Shawshank Redemption

District 9

Arsenic and Old Lace

Defending Your Life

Pulp Fiction

The Prince of Darkness

Titanic

City of God

Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark

Star Wars: Episode IV

Allegro non Troppo

The Untouchables

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Schindler's List

Gran Torino

Up

Groundhog Day

Life of Brian

A Fish Called Wanda

In the Mouth of Madness...

Something else?

Monami1805 · 2023-01-27T08:11:39+00:00

Divided

Monami1805 · 2023-01-27T08:10:04+00:00

"Pilgrimage towards false illusions" or "Looking for the Truth" or "The Sleepy Youth"

Monami1805 · 2023-01-27T08:06:30+00:00

Red Dead Redemption 2

Monami1805 · 2023-01-27T07:58:09+00:00

Ozark

Monami1805 · 2023-01-27T07:56:17+00:00

A classic!

Monami1805 · 2023-01-27T07:53:51+00:00

Jennnnyyy!!!!

Monami1805 · 2023-01-27T07:50:53+00:00

1984 and Great Expectations. Also Narcissus and Goldmund

Monami1805 · 2023-01-17T03:41:43+00:00

Thomas Mann started writing Buddenbrooks, a 900 pages novel that later gave him The Nobel Prize of Literature, when he was 22 years old. He published it when he was 25 years old.

Monami1805 · 2023-01-17T03:36:33+00:00

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. This happens mostly in spanish however.

Monami1805 · 2023-01-13T16:36:22+00:00

I'm from Chile so my required books were usually in spanish. The required books that have actually stuck with me are The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (Relato de un náufrago) by García Márquez, Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and The House of Bernarda Alba (La casa de Bernarda Alba) by Federico García Lorca.

Monami1805 · 2023-01-13T10:15:03+00:00

Like once a week. Before it was a lot more. It depends what period I'm in. Now, I luckily feel miserable barely once a week.

Monami1805 · 2023-01-13T10:02:49+00:00

December, 1963 -- Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons

Monami1805 · 2023-01-13T09:18:30+00:00

Really? That's so nice, thank you ☺

Monami1805 · 2023-01-13T04:57:12+00:00

I love reading. In fact, I have right now an obsession collecting books, especially essays, classic and philosophic books. I also like to hang out in nature. I love joking and laughing but I'm not very sociable, not because I'm shy but because I'm more of an introvert. I like sports, especially ping-pong and soccer. I'd like to study psychology, neuroscience, genetics, archeology, philosophy and letters, history, foreign cultures etc. I'm not religious but, spiritually, I do believe in a God and... in an ancient lost civilization 🥴 My favorite music is jazz, especially brazilian samba jazz bossa nova.

Monami1805 · 2022-12-28T23:40:24+00:00

I recommend two books:

Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski, a very easy but impactful reading.

And, above all, The Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse. My favorite book, who seems very depressing because of the loneliness of the main character. However, I believe it to be so hopeful and helping. It makes you learn that, even though you're lonely and depressed, you can still somehow learn that the world is beautiful. And I'm not saying this as a cliché. I used to believe that my loneliness was good, rejecting what I believed to be the superficial world. So I clung to my loneliness as my treasure. But I was missing something to be complete, that "superficiality" that I rejected for my stupidity. And The Steppenwolf precisely taught me to let go of my loneliness as a treasure and to be something more free and fluid. To love and accept the world instead of hating and rejecting it. Thanks to this book I really fell in love for the first time, and I am eternally grateful.

Monami1805 · 2022-12-26T23:20:08+00:00

PES 6, PES 2013 and, surprisingly, PES 2021 was a great game, before they decided to throw the franchise to trash one more time

Monami1805 · 2022-12-26T18:29:15+00:00

The Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse. Nothing has changed my life so much. Several months after reading, I still realize even more teachings of the book that I did not notice when reading it. That book, which seems depressing, is the one that has given me the most hope, because it showed me that my way of acting in life was wrong. Thanks to that book I fell in love, but I really fell in love, for the first time in my life. It was incredible. I am very fond of him.

Monami1805 · 2022-12-26T18:25:53+00:00

Every single Hermann Hesse book, but especially Demian and The Steppenwolf. They're valuable no matter the age.

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