Not stuff like 50 shades or PS I love you or stuff like that. I just have grown older so I feel like these kinda books have such a teen sense of love or fantasy whatever. Plus ofcourse I'm not looking for books about sex. Nor violence lol.
Adult as in for adults. I'm not looking for escape, just truth in entertaining form. Or consciousness discussed. Atp Dinner with Andre is light years behind. Is there something written far further ahead? You've accepted truth, you live in it, you get life and commitment and definition… You know, you're an adult. A book at this stage.
I'm asking cause I haven't read in a long time. So I'm not even aware of the books out there that are for adults at this point.
Maybe also something that's actually interesting? Not like walking into someone's life and leaving, which is completely unnecessary. Something that'll raise real questions. It's difficult to explain.
Sort of like how revealing the idea of the basis of the Dark Forest was. That felt somewhat enlightening to me, how it described us as people philosophically while using it as a premise in the book how it could actually be plausible.
Basically I just haven't read in a very long time but I'd like to except I'd actually like it to be for adults? Like actually truly worth the time, a must read fiction after you've gone through and learned about life and know there's so much more.
I don't want it to feel like I'm reading someone's opinion. More like truth in book form.
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Tehanu, Ursula K LeGuin. Somewhat ironically for your ask it’s the fourth book of a series and the first three were marketed as YA (though they’re also adult literature as well, but the first three are not about mature people.) You do need to read the earlier books first, but they’re excellent in their own right, though somewhat tonally different; and they’re short.
You might enjoy The Wall by Marlen Haushofer. The premise is a woman wakes up to find an invisible wall surrounding the lodge she was staying in. She’s completely alone with a dog, and just has to get on with life to survive. It’s very domestic, despite the dystopian setting. I’m not sure of the woman’s age, but she has adult children.