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I'm entering into a state of deep melancholy. Please recommend books that will either lighten my mood or make me want to kill myself. Either works.

Thanks in advance.

>> No.1842428

If books can still move you at all, you're not that lost.

>> No.1842426

Yichard Rates

>> No.1842432

The Elementary Particles(or atomized)


ahahahahaha just kidding.

>> No.1842434

Les Chants de Maldoror

>> No.1842445

Why are you entering a state of deep melancholy, OP?

>> No.1842446

>>1842445
It's something that happens.

>> No.1842451

>>1842446
I'm aware of that, but can you pinpoint the source of it? What started you entering into it?

>> No.1842452

>>1842451
I'd prefer not to discuss that on 4chan.

>> No.1842463

>>1842452
Discuss it with someone buddy. Also go out in the sun. It's shown to help raise serotonin which in turn can help relieve depression.

Or just throw back a few beers and forget your troubles. It worked for many great writers, including Hemingway.

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>>1842463
>Or just throw back a few beers and forget your troubles. It worked for many great writers

>> No.1842469

>>1842463
we all know how that ended.

>> No.1842485

>>1842463
Thanks. But...books?

>> No.1842492

Books will not help you out of your depression. It is not a problem of your perspective..this is just plain falsehood peddled by professionals of the hedonistic ''feel good culture'' which we are a part of..the reason you are depressed is because rationally you cannot reconcile the absolute cruelty of life. You notice how utterly futile your attempts at feeling better are and even worse, because what you are feeling is thought of as a disease, you are left with a lingering sense of guilt for even feeling it. What will happen is clear, you will either end your life or you will continue to live and if you do live, you will feel a dull ache, sometimes made a ravenous agony by the insanity of the world around you. You are not sick, the world is sickening.

>> No.1842544

PKD - Valis

>> No.1842550

>>1842492

Uh no, I think I am sick. Just want something to read.

>> No.1842557

The Holy Bible. Could go either way, really.

>> No.1842560

Killing Hope.

>> No.1842569

>>1842463
Hemingway ended up going through several electroshock therapy sessions at a hospital, his mind was literally rotting by the end, and then he blew his head apart with his favourite shotgun. Sure, the booze worked for most of his life, but eventually he gave in.

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you had my heart
and we'll never be worlds apart
maybe in magazines
but you'll still be my star

>> No.1842576

>>1842569
everybody's gotta die of something

>> No.1842579

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

>> No.1842582

>>1842576
This is true.

>> No.1842588

>>1842569
Is it not easier to drink away todays problems, and ignore those that will arise tomorrow?

>> No.1842600

>>1842588
"Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." -Matthew 6:34

>> No.1842603

>>1842588
I could really use a drink but I'm afraid I've got nothing here.

>> No.1842605

MFW I had sex with a whore without protection a few weeks ago and now I think I have AIDS.
I really don't care if I do. I will just read a lot and then an hero when I'm done for.
>andnothingofvaluewaslost.bmp

>> No.1842614

Look for some book by Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti.
You will probably feel better after reading a bit.

>> No.1842621

>>1842605
That's pretty bad man. I hope you don't, but if you do, then do something. I mean just take whatever little money you have and go forth. Adventure my land, live your last moments in the gutter of Paris, Berlin or even Helsinki. I'm not trying to mock you, this is just what I would do if I had a motivator.

>> No.1842623

>>1842605
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=147fALyfxJU
this song is for you but your probably didn't catch it just so you know..statistics are on your side.

>> No.1842641

>>1842605
You should be fine. Seriously, don't threat it.

>>1842623
I love Xiu Xiu. I wish I had Jamie Stewarts talent.