Just found out that I'm going to be a father. What books can I read to prepare for this?
>>7435353
Stoner
Are you asking for book recs to help with your wife's son?
>>7435379
This one? Any particular reason?
>>7435384
Don't actually know the sex of the child yet.
Oedipus Rex.
>>7435353
A Modest Proposal
>>7435421
He implied that you're an actual kekkeridekkeridoo.
Maybe because I watched Gladiator last night
Every generation has to learn to raise kids pretty much from scratch, good luck OP.
THEY FUCK YOU UP, YOUR MUM AND DAD
>>7435353
Karamazov
Fathers and Sons
If you're into it, Arab poetry focuses on the father-son/father-daughter dynamic a lot
The answer (to the question of which books can prepare one for fatherhood) is probably none.
But a good book about fatherhood is The World According to Garp
>>7435353
everything you can cuz you're sure as hell not reading while covered with vomit to the soft sounds of projectile infant shit and bloodcurdling screaming. read. everything. before. it's. too. late.
>>7435353
how about a book about circus-arts? i have the strong feeling that your child will be a mongoloid.
Just read anything you want and come to the realisation that no book will help you with real life issues like this one whether due to a fictional character's lack of realism or completely differing circumstances to your own, and that one who requires a book to tell him how to deal with his problems will never become an independent, strong father figure just like a man given fish cannot feed himself.Parenting advice from 4chan? Really?
Proverbs
You should read anti-natalist literature about how you're the worst fucking scumbag on the planet and then abort the baby
>>7435611
this, op
>life is suffering
>baby didn't ask to be born
>take a realistic look at the risks of existence, the depth of horror that's possible, and the realization that it can and does happen to anybody
>realise you're literally gambling with the welfare of a sentient creature without its consent so that you can feel good for obliging the DNA molecule's agenda
>kill self, SO, and baby
search your heart, you know it to be true
>>7435353
try unbecome a father
>>7435660
this dezu
>>7435638
>not raising your child to be the übermensch
>>7435666
you just became a father of satanic trips. well done
>>7435660
rofling at ur brain atm
>>7435669
To what point and purpose?
>>7435353
>>7435666
Mephistopheles pls leave
>>7435677
>mfw when schopenhauer is burning in hell right now
Was it an accident OP?
>>7435701
Nice picture tbqh.
>>7435353
Madame Bovary.
Mother here
pic related is god-tier parenting book
There is not one fucking book to prepare you.
Be smart, vigilant, patient and frugal. Save your fucking money. If you read, it's to calm your nerves! No book is going to help you be a father. That comes from within
>>7435353
>>7437553
>>7435353
prepare your clitty
>>7435353
King Oedipus
King Lear
>>7435528
you couldn't get her pregnant and/or she couldn't get pregnant the old fashioned way?
stop weakening the gene pool with your shit sperm/eggs
>>7435353
Infinite Jest
>>7435353
David Benetar's Better Never To Have Been, so you can realize how bad you fucked up
>>7435371
I expected the first post to be Lolita, but this works too.
And this, if you want to keep your kids: http://goodmenproject.com/arts/a-guys-divorce-survival-guide/
