I am a young man who's just coming into the adult world, and i have a strained relationship with my father, as well as trouble making friends and connections with others.

What books should i read in order to better manuever through my situation?

another one looking for an excuse and a cure-all to avoid reality

>>24466279 (OP)
this except its Asian women.
I refuse to be someone's aspirational therapeutic device in dealing with internalized racially based self hatred

Read the Bible, particularly 1 Kings 18:5, Mark 6:39 and Isaiah 44:4. Let him who has ears, hear

Sierra: A Novel Of The California Gold Rush.
This is a very good book about a delusional young man and an instruction manual on how to live independently.

>>24466279 (OP)
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Yukio Mishima).
>>24466283
Real World (Natsuo Kirino).
>>24466290
Convenience Store Woman (Sayaka Murata).
>>24466301
Confessions (Minato Kanae).
>>24466305
Kokoro (Soseki Natsume).

>>24466331
A lot of japanese guys. What're these all about? I'm a bit of a weeb so i might give em a look.

>>24466305
>>24466301
Jotting those down. I'll try to read through em by the end of this week.

>>24466279 (OP)
>I am a young man who's just coming into the adult world
The Catcher in the Rye
> and i have a strained relationship with my father
east of eden
>as well as trouble making friends and connections with others.
how to make friends and influence people.

>>24466279 (OP)
I never went to clown college - Frank cain.

>>24466279 (OP)
I hate your image but I don't have time right now to get into it.

>>24466375
>The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
The (ugly) son of a Buddhist monk obsesses over the idea of beauty while he descends into nihilism during his own training to become a monk.
>Real World
A group of four teenage schoolgirls become involved with a young man who is on the run after murdering his mother.
>Convenience Store Woman
A (probably autistic) woman stumbles toward self-actualization while trying to adopt the facades of social conformity and societal expectations; her pseudo-love interest is a resentful incel.
>Confessions
A teacher holds her classroom hostage after her young child is found drown and she suspects one of her students is a murderer.
>Kokoro
A young man comes of age by way of his fascination, if not idolization, with an old man that is seemingly living a self-imposed exile.

Das Urteil by Franz Kafka

>>24466279 (OP)
What if I am like OP but in my 30s

>>24466279 (OP)
Hegelians really do be thinking that humanity collectively matures and advances intellectually and psychologically even after reading posts like this

>>24467041
Frog on the table therefore frogposter

>>24466279 (OP)
No book can help you make connections unless you create a book club

>>24466279 (OP)
Disown them all. Find your actual people. I did.

>>24467133
This. If anything the current period shows us that humanity has all but regressed on all fronts since the ancient Greeks, if not for the material and scientific aspects

I was in your situation when I was young. I’m 32 now. Personally, I still have hang ups sometimes but mostly I think I’ve overcome these complexes. Finding some sense of clarity on who I am, what I can do, and direction for my life has been enormous. The writing of Alfred Adler resonated with me a lot, but I will say that the most influential reading I’ve done in my life was reading through Greco-Roman classics, Medieval and Renaissance classics, history, biography, and poetry in general. Finding people from the past I could see a bit of myself in, finding heroes I could emulate, and finding something in the poetry of it all has given me great comfort and a certain strength. I think in some way I turned historical men into father figures I guess as surrogates for the absence of my own father. I think like Machiavelli said we can inhabit classics and see these people as teachers.

>>24468486
Maybe, but how many pages or rather books do you have to read until you can summon them? If I read aristotle, can I summon him in battle or even in another setting, like in a test or during a talk for a rise?

>>24468471
> since the Greeks
Yeah if you idealize them as greater than they actually were. In reality, the steady decline has been since about c. 17th century.

>>24468493
Life isn’t a series of checking off boxes, friend. It’s not studying for a test. It’s a constant process of learning and when you need to learn constantly you need teachers constantly. It’s a dialogue with these men that ends when we die, much like a real father. I’m not sure what use summoning Aristotle in battle would be but Xenophon and Caesar might be of great benefit.

>>24468496
That sounds about right. Hopefully soon enough we will hit rock bottom and there will be nowhere to go, but up.

>>24466301
>>24466381
Terrible recs, fuck you

OP read Hamlet and realize you are literally Hamlet

>>24468499
>summoning Aristotle in battle
He's 75 feet tall and made of iron! He has to be!!
>the rest of the post which is great and rare advice
OK, but where do I get a fireball scroll?
>summon caesar as in gaius julius
Arguably the greatest king ever lived

>>24466279 (OP)
>I am a young man who's just coming into the adult world, and i have a strained relationship with my father, as well as trouble making friends and connections with others.
Read the first chapter of Meditations and notice what Aurelius is doing. He is compiling a list of the greatest influences on his life that made him into the man he was at the time of writing. Now do that, but reflect on the failings of your parents/grandparents in secular rootless bugman society, but try and do so without harboring resentment. Undergo a period of Ouroboros, death and rebirth until you're the male role model you needed, the archetype of the loving father. Rooting yourself in history and mythology mostly depends on your ethnicity and nationality.

>>24466279 (OP)
https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/augustine_enchiridion_02_trans.htm#C31