Please share with me some of the books and authors that inspire you,that move you,that give you perspective.
I've been struggling to find books to distract and to encourage a person with depression. Any good read is a distraction but I've been aiming at offering books with a little more than a cutesy or funny story.I would like to offer him books with interesting, perhaps moving, perspectives on pain, struggle, survival, happiness, peace or any subject that might be of help to the person.
I am completely over the self-help books.I've read so many and I think they are an insult to the person's intelligence. I am mostly focusing on non-fiction.I am not a very accomplished reader,beyond Dostoevsky,Kafka,Nietzsche,Trotsky and other dead Russians and Germans, I don't know anything.
So I come to you for ideas and suggestions. Both fiction and non-fiction work.I just want to find some stories or ideas that can give a bit of hope or an interesting perspective.I don't want to cure depression through reading.Just something that could contribute in a small way to win his daily battle.Books on any discipline, philosophy or philosopher, history, a novel, a memoir, anything with substance.It doesn't have to be a happy story,even if its hard to read,I want it to be a worthy read.
*I know someone will but if you really want to help me,please don't say the Bible.
Thanks!
I've been struggling to find books to distract and to encourage a person with depression. Any good read is a distraction but I've been aiming at offering books with a little more than a cutesy or funny story.I would like to offer him books with interesting, perhaps moving, perspectives on pain, struggle, survival, happiness, peace or any subject that might be of help to the person.
I am completely over the self-help books.I've read so many and I think they are an insult to the person's intelligence. I am mostly focusing on non-fiction.I am not a very accomplished reader,beyond Dostoevsky,Kafka,Nietzsche,Trotsky and other dead Russians and Germans, I don't know anything.
So I come to you for ideas and suggestions. Both fiction and non-fiction work.I just want to find some stories or ideas that can give a bit of hope or an interesting perspective.I don't want to cure depression through reading.Just something that could contribute in a small way to win his daily battle.Books on any discipline, philosophy or philosopher, history, a novel, a memoir, anything with substance.It doesn't have to be a happy story,even if its hard to read,I want it to be a worthy read.
*I know someone will but if you really want to help me,please don't say the Bible.
Thanks!