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What is some essential "bloomer" literature? I don't like using these terms but I would consider myself a "doomer".
I find myself binging on depressing fiction, usually gaining nothing from it other than reinforcing my glum view of the world. I want to read something that will make me uncomfortable and challenge me.

>> No.14969003

>>14968938
> I want to read something that will make me uncomfortable and challenge me.
Don't read, actually do something good in RL ffs.

>> No.14969010

>>14969003
Can't get out of the house without getting a 1400$ fine. Unless you consider this something good.

>> No.14969012

Read Tolstoy, especially his two great novels. There is plenty of depressing stuff there but Tolstoy was searching hard for something beyond that and it really shows.

>> No.14969039

>>14969010
Read William S. Burroughs' essays on why words are virus. The Electronic Revolution. The Adding Machine. These are shorter and less of a bore to read, but you could also go for McLuhan's books, or just look up his lectures on YT. It seems that your problem is stemming from media consumption, get a grip.

>> No.14969050

>>14969039
Also watch Cronenberg's Videodrome if you can.

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>> No.14969058

>>14969055
Who is that?

>> No.14969066

>>14968938
If you enjoy his style, Joyce is very life-affirming and fun.

>> No.14969073

My diary, desu! :)

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>Joyce
>fun

>> No.14969147

Top pick for sure is Friday by Michel Tournier. Truly a life changing book. It features the exit-level bloomer theme of sun worship. Highly recommend.

For non-fiction I'd say Sloterdijk's Critique of Cynical Reason. Sloterdijk is insanely underrated in the Anglophone world right now and this book stomps on all the negative critical philosophies that dominated post-war discourse.