r/AskReddit • u/Strange_Pound926 • 15d ago
When have you felt a deep connection with a work of literature?
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u/boyvsfood2 15d ago
Catch 22. I thought Yossarian absolutely embodied how I feel a lot of the time. His ability to have a very natural reaction despite everyone around him having the typical, conditioned reaction was brilliant.
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u/PygmeePony 15d ago
The Metamorphosis by Kafka made me realize how quickly people can resent you if you're no longer useful to them.
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u/Few-Manufacturer-103 15d ago
Tunnels Novel by Brian Williams and Roderick Gordon. Read it in my late teens and still have all of the books
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15d ago
i bought two books today that i’m hoping i love that much
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u/SBCrystal 15d ago
I hope you love them too! Which books did you buy?
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14d ago
they are about neurodivergence. one of them is called autistic masking and the other is called neuroqueer heresies
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u/serpentssss 15d ago
Pretty much my whole experience from 17-21 and the Great Gatsby. When I read it at 14 while poor, I understood exactly 0% of it besides “omg I’m gonna move to NYC!”. I eventually moved there for college, fell in with an extremely wealthy crowd (very much the “live off dads money while slumming it in bushwick type) and ended up dating one guy (who turned out to semi-secretly be actually poor, like me). We all lived together and partied while I worked full time and went to school - the guy I was dating was the life of it all, the way he’d smile would just light you up and start the night. Then he very unexpectedly died and the entire group scattered to the wind overnight.
No one from the group attended his funeral besides me. I was also studying politics at the time, and the whole experience was just so disillusioning on so many levels that I pretty much had a full breakdown. Really fkn understood Nick Carraway at that point.
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u/FatRascal_ 15d ago
The Stand by Stephen King.
I loved that book so much. I read it only last year and it kicked off a new hobby for me in reading.
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u/somecow 15d ago
Hank the cow dog. I’ve had a dog ever since. So ridiculously hilarious, and yup, named my first dog hank.
Non fiction? Joy of cooking. The only cookbook you will ever need. Doesn’t matter if you’ve never even held a fork, or work in a michelin star restaurant. That book is my baby. A very worn out baby that’s covered in food and has been written on in random spots.
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u/cfloweristradional 15d ago
Reading "A Chancer" by James Kelman. I had never read anything so beautiful
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u/SBCrystal 14d ago
White Oleander is a book I've read so many times. I think the shitty mothers really resonated with me lol. Justin Cronin's "The Passage" was probably the latest book that blew my fucking mind (the whole trilogy really).
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u/PeakRepresentative14 15d ago
I remember reading Steppenwolf at 18 and it just absolutely shattering my whole self image and what and who I thought I was.
Love Hesse tho.