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17347640 No.17347640 [Reply] [Original]

Can we get a thread like this started?

>post a specific feeling, emotion or thought
>other people reply with a short story, novel or poem relevant to that specific thing


For example:

>Dreading having to work the same dead-end job for the rest of my life.
>A Room Forever by Breece D'J Pancake

>> No.17347648

>>17347640
I hate niggers

>> No.17347652

great more flaccid wah-wah posting
can you fuckers migrate to r9k already? we get it, you're sad

>> No.17347663

all of a sudden I miss everybody and it hurts bros

>> No.17347669

>>17347640
>Regret over letting your life be wasted and losing the person you love

>> No.17347725

>>17347648
Against the World, Against Life: The Life of HP Lovecraft by Michel Houellebecq

>>17347663
On the Road, Catcher in the Rye. Will try to think of some less obvious examples.

>>17347669
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid.

>> No.17347786

>>17347725
>I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
That title doesn't give me much confidence though...

>> No.17347866

Addiction drained my motivation to make my life better

>> No.17347873

>>17347786
It deals with the first part of your feel, not so much the latter.

About losing the person you love, for an obscure suggestion have you tried Offloading Mrs. Schwartz?

>> No.17347882

>>17347866
Le feu follet by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle.

>> No.17347999

>>17347866
The Player, Dostoyevsky

>> No.17348015

stuck in place; no longer wanting to move forward due to fear of failure