What books would you recommend to someone who is trying to get their shit together and had no positive role models growing up?
Iliad and Odyssey, The Enchiridion, and biographies of great men.
>>8161430
>someone who is trying to get their shit together and had no positive role models growing up
Always struggled with this. I feel like I've spent my early 20's just trying to make up for my adolescence.
Marcus Aurelius-Meditations
>>8161441
Think this would be a good start?
I don't really read, but I'm trying to change my ways and I pulled these out of my roommate's collection. He has more but it's mostly anthropology and greek history.
>muh greeks xD
People c'mon give real advice. Stop trying to be unique /lit/posters.
>>8161511
According to my older friends, your 20s are just full of worry and then shit gets better in your 30s but I'm nearing 30 and it doesn't seem to be getting any better, at least not with how I've been doing things.
I don't know how fast moving lit is, so polite self-sage
just get into the lives of writers that you like. buy auto/biographies, correspondences, essays, whatever, and try to emulate them.
>>8161511
>I feel like I've spent my early 20's just trying to make up for my adolescence.
Literally me, but I actually did lost my adolescent years
