/lit/ - Literature

>"They—they won't let me—I—I can't be good!"

What did he mean by this? Who is they? Why won't they let him be good? What does it mean to be good in this situation?

he's literally me

*triggers /lit/*

>>22063542

>>21663952

A book similar to "Notes from Underground" but in which the protagonist is a I-fucking-love-science guy?

Or just recommend me a book similar to this classic one.

Is this just a giant sneedpost?

Reading picrel, i feel like looking in the mirror.
And i get angry at the mirror and angry at myself.
I first read Notes from Underground almost a year ago, and i thought it was pretty funny how the "Author" resembled myself.
Lately, ive been a bit frustrated with myself, and today ive read the first bit again.
And i hated it.
Do really ugly people get mad at their mirror?
Punching a mirror? Avoiding it?
I threw the book on the ground, careful to not damage it, just so i could hear that satisfying THUD.
Lately it has come to my mind that my innate sense of superiority is mostly groundless, and that im just a cynical asshole.
How do i stop being a cynical asshole?
Ive thought about either converting or taking shrooms and/or phenibut.
Im atheist, obviously.
How do i stop being a cynical, extremely unsocial asshole?
I unironically might order some phenibut, but there seems to be no EU Seller that accepts paypal.
Thanks for reading my blogpost
>INB4 didnt read
thanks for discussing the title topic then, asshole

Was it autism?

Did Dostoevsky anticipate neets?

If you read it before it's too late, you can change

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>[...] AT THAT TIME I was only twenty-four. My life was even then gloomy, ill- regulated, and as solitary as that of a savage. I made friends with no one and positively avoided talking, and buried myself more and more in my hole. At work in the office I never looked at anyone, and was perfectly well aware that my companions looked upon me, not only as a queer fellow, but even looked upon me—I always fancied this—with a sort of loathing. I sometimes wondered why it was that nobody except me fancied that he was looked upon with aversion?

>One night as I was passing a tavern I saw through a lighted window some gentlemen fighting with billiard cues, and saw one of them thrown out of the window. At other times I should have felt very much disgusted, but I was in such a mood at the time, that I actually envied the gentleman thrown out of the window—and I envied him so much that I even went into the tavern and into the billiard-room. ‘Perhaps,’ I thought, ‘I’ll have a fight, too, and they’ll throw me out of the window.’I was not drunk—but what is one to do—depression will drive a man to such a pitch of hysteria? But nothing happened. It seemed that I was not even equal to being thrown out of the window and I went away without having my fight.An officer put me in my place from the first moment.I was standing by the billiard-table and in my ignorance blocking up the way, and he wanted to pass; he took me by the shoulders and without a word—without a warning or explanation—moved me from where I was standing to an-other spot and passed by as though he had not noticed me.

17 pages in and this is some of the most depressing shit i've ever read. wtf is wrong with this guy.

how accurate is his analysis Notes From The Underground?
https://youtu.be/OFVK4dptbPM

unironically, what was underground man's fucking problem?

was the narrator, dare I say, based and redpilled?

>good/enjoyable
Lord of the flies
1984
Outsiders + That Was Then This is Now
Hatchet
Lost on a Mountain in Maine
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Willy Wonka + Glass Elevator
Flowers for Algernon

>shit/boring
Holes
To Kill a Mockingbird
Bell Jar
Color Purple
Bartlby, the Scrivner
F451
Of Mice and Men
>>12335894
Amazed you had to read Candide, even if it is on the approved US list.

Molested by her dad so turned into a self-destructive sex addict but still thought could be saved. Was wrong.
That's OK I already found a book for that

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