[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 538 KB, 633x758, 1473908450185.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9867033 No.9867033 [Reply] [Original]

What's a good book to help me cope with my complete and utter mediocrity?

>> No.9867039

All of them, that's why people read books to begin with

>> No.9867089

The Recognitions by William Gaddis

>> No.9867110

>>9867033
Ulysses

Our everyday lives can be something close to heroism

>> No.9867142

Your own.

>> No.9867149

>>9867142
i desperately want to write a novel that incorporates elements of Kierkegaard and Dostoyevsky that details the life of an average man as he leaves and then returns to Catholicism
but the only extended writing ive ever done is boring academic writing

>> No.9868667

Jude the Obscure

>> No.9868676

>>9867033
The New Testament

>> No.9868681

Everyone is mediocre.

>> No.9869300

>>9868681
I'm far more mediocre than most

>> No.9869313

>>9869300
That's an absurd statement.

>> No.9870266

>>9867089
if by 'cope' you mean 'collapse into madness', sure

>> No.9870324

try /pol/ and converting to alt-rightis

>> No.9870336

>>9868676
literally and unironically this

>> No.9870369
File: 1.96 MB, 1197x1241, nietzsche decadent.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9870369

>>9867033
>accepting your mediocrity

>> No.9870376

i don't know I don't read. try posting on 4chin some more maybe that will help?

>> No.9870405

>>9867033
Faust

>> No.9870691

>>9869300
>I'm far more mediocre than most

Hmmm, I doubt that. Have you read and enjoyed Ready Player One?

>> No.9870762

>>9870691
No. I'm gonna be the next DFW, someone who desperately tries to disprove his own mediocrity until he kills himself after finally realizing it

>> No.9871554

>>9870762
No you're not, Dave had much more talent than you have or ever will have.

>> No.9871581

>>9871554
>tfw you don't even have enough talent to match a mediocre writer

>> No.9871601

>>9870762
except DFW was actually good and killed himself because of poorly-treated depression

>> No.9871610

>>9871601
DFW was mediocre at best, IJ is one of the redditiest books in existence

>> No.9871684

>>9871610
Jesus Christ you're pathetic

>> No.9871727

>>9871601
His depression wasn't discernible, just like his talent.

>> No.9871729

>>9867033
How about you just stop being mediocre and read books for better reasons.

>> No.9871747

>>9871610
Oh you haven't read it?
why are you on lit? have you read more than 5 books in your life?

>> No.9871787
File: 235 KB, 640x360, quirk_seinfeld-puffy-shirt.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9871787

>>9867110

>> No.9871794

>>9871601
>depression is a real thing

pffft

>> No.9871863

Stoner

>> No.9871951

>>9867033
Ask the dust, Journey to the end of the night

>> No.9873257

>>9867033
I'd recommend "A Skeleton in God's Closet".
I for one enjoyed it.

>> No.9873291

>>9867033
None, because when you're done, you will realize your mediocrity vis-a-vis the author, and then your sense of inferiority will worsen.

>> No.9873315

Mandel's Marxist Economic Theory
Marx & Engels' Communist Manifesto
Trotzky's Theory of Permanent Revolution

Learn to blame everyone else for your mediocrity

>> No.9873558

>>9873315
This is the sort of shit I can get behind