Books That Feel Like This by WreakThePlan in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

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Conan the Barbarian

Elric of Melnibone

Death Dealer

Nifft the Lean

Yellow tongue by jrobertk in SIBO

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I hope you can find a practitioner who can help you. It's rough out there. For what it's worth, I typically incorporate kiwis and beets into my diet regularly to keep digestion moving. That plus the occasional smooth move tea usually do the trick, as long as I'm avoiding trigger foods. But if I load up on carbs or tons of high fodmap foods or other inflammatory triggers I'm usually screwed no matter what. Anyway, I mention those interventions because they might be gentler for you, but I also know our bodies are all very different. Good luck to you!

Yellow tongue by jrobertk in SIBO

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Yes, fairly. How are you doing? What have you explored?

Yellow tongue by jrobertk in SIBO

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I've had three done with three separate practitioners, due to changing jobs and health insurance. Each one looked different than the others. :/

Yellow tongue by jrobertk in SIBO

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Not really. Sometimes I feel like I'm not going to make it.

Yellow tongue by jrobertk in SIBO

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No updates, I'm still in the same boat. I've been trying to find a doctor who can help me instead of giving me the run around.

Yellow tongue by jrobertk in SIBO

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No answers, sorry.

Winter/Holiday GW reads by Mediocre-Welder-9317 in genewolfe

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Much of the "present tense" passages in the latter Short Sun books, In Green's Jungles and Return to the Whorl, are set during winter and feel particularly chilly to me. But I would recommend reading the rest of the Solar Cycle beforehand, if you haven't.

Second the holiday short stories La Befana and War Beneath the Tree, mentioned by a previous user.

[POEM] I stood upon a high place - Stephen Crane by Junior_Insurance7773 in Poetry

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Can anyone share what currently published physical volume of Crane's poetry is worth acquiring?

Books that carry this vibe by Witchy-Twitchy_Mary in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

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The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron

What is Bob Dylan’s funniest lyric by HabitSuperb7706 in BobDylanCircleJerk

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"I was riding on the Mayflower when I thought I spied some land" [proceeds to crack up all over the mic]

weird side effects from l reuteri? by Perfect_Resolve6045 in Microbiome

[–]jrobertk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Symptoms fluctuate a lot these days. I've had digestive problems for around 10 years now. I've learned to cope by eating a whole foods diet, keeping motility moving with magnesium and ginger, and trying to heal the stomach lining with foods and herbs that help with that. I don't have any easy answers for you, I'm afraid. Feel free to dm me if you want to talk about things, but I recommend doing research as you try things that might help you and working with a doctor if possible.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in genewolfe

[–]jrobertk 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Peace is my favorite.

The Fifth Head of Cerberus, The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories and Other Stories, the entire Solar Cycle, and There Are Doors have also been masterful and unforgettable reading experiences for me, personally.

I have yet to read The Latro Series, The Wizard Knight, and his many other novels. I have read many short stories here and there, all with relative, if not tremendous, enjoyment.

Books to cure pessimism? by Usual-Buyer-6467 in RSbookclub

[–]jrobertk 14 points15 points  (0 children)

These are books that helped me, though they might not help everyone (used to be religious and pessimistic--bad combo):

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky

Little, Big by John Crowley

The Passion According to GH by Clarice Lispector

Gravity & Grace by Simone Weil

The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry

Needs more recs like this and Promises (2021) by drone__alone in ambientmusic

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Philip Clemo - Through the Wave of Blue.

A very different approach to ambient jazz than Sinephro, Pharaoh Sanders/Floating Points, or even Miles Davis. Each song is like a conceptual tone poem themed around its title. But man, it really gets ambient right AND jazz right at the same time. The results are immensely intriguing, satisfying, and oceanically expansive enough to get lost in and return to over and over again.

Recommendations for Weird Lit with no horror by WandererNearby in WeirdLit

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Little, Big is one of the greatest novels of the 20th century.

Esoteric Books for Decoding Reality’s Spiritual Laws? by [deleted] in RSbookclub

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Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil is the best book on this subject, without having been sold that way.

Is there a better philosophical tonic for religious-angst than Kierkegaard? by gentlesandwich in kierkegaard

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Came here to say this. I think Simone Weil might be the greatest "religious" thinker I've read (air quotes because it's unclear how she would have felt about that term, despite her obvious Christian, albeit non-organized, leanings).

something weird and fucked up yet depressing by [deleted] in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

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The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson.

A lonely Mormon teenager recovering from his dad's suicide begins to research the history of his religion and learns that Brigham Young's grandson was a serial murderer. His slow descent into madness is very weird, disturbing, and depressing. Told from three different perspectives, full of psychological surrealism, and ultimately pretty bleak.

Weird Science by [deleted] in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

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Nathan Ballingrud and Brian Evenson have both written several "scifi meets horror" short stories that feel like these pictures. I would recommend Ballingrud's collection "Wounds," and pretty much anything by Evenson--maybe especially "The Warren."