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hey /lit.
im lonely and depressed, can you recommend me some books?

>> No.1264173

breakfast of champions by kort vonnogot

>> No.1264172

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy.

It's short, sad and beautiful. Like my mother.

>> No.1264177

>>1264172
lololol

>> No.1264175
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Childhood's End.

>> No.1264186

read schopenhauer, it will make you feel better

>> No.1264187

Dying Inside. i know the title sounds like some emo shit, but it's Silverberg's best book, it was in SF masterworks edition.

>> No.1264190

Of Human Bondage by W Somerset Maugham

>> No.1264192

>>1264187
>There's also an interesting moment where David's power causes him to vicariously experience his girlfriend's acid trip, and a bravura sequence in which the adolescent Selig, during a visit to a farm, enters the minds of, variously, a fish swimming in a stream, a hen laying an egg, and a young couple in the midst of passionate sex.

lol wat. not the OP, but i'm sold

>> No.1264194

i'd recomend anything by alan watts, but namely the wisdom of insecurity for this case.

>> No.1264208

OP here, thanks for helping

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>>1264166
R.D. Laing and thomas szas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ5l5Npfdsg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ouvTpEvt_U

>> No.1264213

the bell jar

>> No.1264227

The Bible ololololol

>> No.1264228

>>1264166

The Myth of Sisyphus.

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>>1264227
lol

>> No.1264268

>>1264227
GTFO

The Kuran, OP!

>> No.1264279

Bukowski!
how come nobody told him to read bukowski?!

>> No.1264292

>>1264279
Bukowski FTW!

>> No.1264304

>>1264173
>>1264213
These. Also No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

>> No.1264329

so many books, so much to read, such a little time to do it

>> No.1264338

>>1264173
This.
Plus Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut.

>> No.1264340

>>1264279
>>1264292

Goddammit, no. OP, at best this will just turn you into an asshole.

>> No.1264351

>>1264340
woke up this morning and seemed to me
that every night turns out to be
a little bit more like bukoski
and yeah i know he is a pretty good read
but who would wanna be
who would wanna be such an asshole (8)

>> No.1264357

>>1264351


...shit

>> No.1264379

read cortazar

>> No.1264398

I doubt you'll find anything, but read some Alfred Jarry.

>> No.1264410

Journey to the end of the night and Sorrows of young werther

>> No.1264416

>>1264379
This. Cortazar,

Also Samuel Beckett.

>> No.1264415

blindsight by peter watts. nothing like reading a book that has some terrifyingly convincing arguments that not only is being self aware not overly useful, but actually a handicap in evolutionary terms.

also it has one of the most bizarre alien species ive ever heard of. also, vampires. for some reason.

>> No.1264426

>>1264228

i see what you did there.

>> No.1264450

>>1264426
what?

>> No.1264455

notes from underground

>> No.1264465

OP here
thanks again.

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This one has rape, incest and nobel prize, one of my fav.

>> No.1264500

>>1264481
100 años de soledad, genial

>> No.1264571

I can't even read when I'm depressed ffs

>> No.1264596

Any novel by Denton Welch.