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Can we get a depressing books thread. Make me feel like shit /lit/

Pic related Cormac MccArthy's the road

>> No.3265242
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Watch this OP.

>> No.3265249

The Homosexual and the Squid

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why you not look at sticky

>> No.3265882

>>3265253

>The Setting Sun
>depressing

list confirmed for incomplete

try the Death of Grass OP, and Atomised if you haven't read it yet

>> No.3266132

>>3265253
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is not on that list

>> No.3266143

>>3265253

>The Trouble with Being Born

i can already tell this is the edgiest book ever written. im guessing its fight club for depressive pseudoints

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>>3266143
>i can already tell this is the edgiest book ever written

You're absolutely right. Cioran is a good stylist and is pretty funny, but he's a total windbag. Look at this edgy motherfucker, look!

>> No.3266151

>>3266143
It's a philosophy book.

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>>3266151
Wrong. Cioran hates philosophy. He is decidedly aphilosophical and apolitical. It is basically "NOTHING REALLY MATRESS: The Book."

>> No.3266536

>>3266150
>Cioran
>good stylist, pretty funny, but ultimately a windbag

Spot on. I was reading A Short History of Decay and I was like, alright, history is a con, I get it.