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I have suffered from depression and mental illness for years. I Just finished reading Plath's 'The Bell Jar'. Was anyone else really moved by this book? I could relate to every line. I could feel her sense of hopelessness, yet find so much beauty at the heart of it. It made me see everything objectively. It was so incredibly cathartic. This reminded me a lot of Catcher in the Rye, although I enjoyed this much more. This is definitely gonna be added to my list of books that changed my life, along with Paul Coelho's The Alchemist and Herman Hesse's Siddhartha.
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>>9254667
>Paul Coelho's The Alchemist and Herman Hesse's Siddhartha.
Jesus anon, it's called subtlety, try it sometime.
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>>9254683
>you
>knowing subtle
I bet that not even last night's storm could wake you.
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>>9254801
"Dark and stormy night"? Jiub... something? No, I don't get it either.
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>>9254667
I'm guessing this is a troll but I read The Bell Jar recently and feel like discussing it anyway.
I definitely did not find it as 'angsty' as I was expecting to, nor as overtly 'feminist' either - aside from the parts about motherhood being a trap, but that's relatively minor and not put distastefully. Otherwise, I feel like the story is fairly straightforward, I empathise with her confusion over her own condition, the desire not specifically to die but to disappear. The bit where she returns to her old home and sits by the shore I found very touching.
Sure she's a cunt when she's in the hospital, but she's ill, and she gets better.
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>>9254667
Saw that earlier 9/10
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