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Okay, I do not go on this board, or 4chan, regularly. I am a high school student who has recently turned 18 and got kicked out of my old high school, leaving me with two misdemeanors that I have to take care of ( 1 year probation, community service.) I was dealing/doing drugs daily while attending school and while calming down and sort of clearing my mind or sobering up, I have just realized that I have no idea what the fuck I am doing. When I do read I usually stick with Murakami and Kurt Vonnegut, they just really grab my attention and distract me like another drug. Are there any books you think might help or just "enlighten" a lost man who has no idea what is even going on?
>>8247688
Start with the greeks.
>>8247688
My Antonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather.
>>8247688
stay off the internet, go camping and hiking
>>8247693
This, time to start reading everything and get a GED, and then enter a masters program. Stop hanging out with your shitty friends and dealing drugs. Educate yourself, do not lean on someone else to do so. Just think, as bad as it is now, your story will make an excellent college entrance essay. Also, get record expunged:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics
>>8247688
Apologize to your parents for being a fuckup, get GED, read the books on the left (NOT THE RIGHT) http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/
>>8247699
oh im getting my record cleared unless I fuck up. Still getting an actual diploma too, thanks for the recommendations/advice
>>8247705
>the top books are rand and elrond
i usually despise the left but, only in this case, it's much better than the right
>>8247705
Trust me I regret putting my mother through this shit. I appreciate the list but I have read almost all of those already, I should have added I was an avid reader
>>8247693
this. not even memeing. The Illiad and Oddysey were my bible in school.
>>8247717
In that case, BEE.
I usually dont recommend this as high lit as BEE is a meme author faggot, except to people who's lifestyle is degenerate and need to feel disgust for someone similar.
>>8247726
I actually loved american psycho, made me realize how huge my ego was but I still ignored the realization. Less Than Zero is on my list now, ty
Ok, you guys have really given me great advice so far. I am hoping stuff will work out and I do not slack, but I have moments or episodes that leave me driving away from a robbery the first time I snorted xanax or getting FTP tattooed on my wrist. Who really knows what will happen! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_ICl20EJjY
>>8247758
almost robbery, im too melodramatic when I dont sleep
>>8247758
i bet you dig the brian jonestown massacre too
>>8247766
a little too tame for me, I like a lot of shoegaze and contemporary psychedelic rock.
>>8247781
most druggies i know like them
