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Will pic related cure my depression?

>> No.17611644

>>17611577
OP, this book's author committed suicide.

>> No.17611645

ask DFW

>> No.17611668

>>17611577
Yes maybe even more if you’ve had drug dependencies but the walrus did sudoku so...

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>>17611577
uh... the dude offed himself...

I still love Wallace and his short stories too.

Good luck with it if you do go for it.

>> No.17611745

>>17611577
I’m 730 pages into it and so far all it’s done is clarify some deep seeded character flaws I have. As if a book has repeatedly called me out on my bullshit. I think it’s a very helpful book for a particular type of person, but it’s no ‘cure’.

>> No.17611746

>>17611577
No. I'm on page 700ish and if anything, it's made me depressed.

>> No.17611747

For a few days, yeah.

>> No.17611756

>>17611746
Were you depressed before? Because my experience has been one of empathy for many of the most pestering thoughts and actions in my life.

>> No.17611774

>>17611577
To me, it's sort of like Evangelion. Everyone reacts differently. For some, it changes their life for the better. For others, it's thrown out as a waste of time or mentioned as some kind of name drop to sound deep. And for others, it's just made their depression, cynicism, and pessimistic outlook on life worse. (It doesn't help that DFW ultimately killed himself.) But it's entirely individual. Read it if you have the time and don't try to speed read it.

>> No.17611898

>>17611577
It'll probably make it worse

>> No.17612254

>>17611577
The author killed himself.

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17612317

No but this might.

>> No.17612334

>>17611644
So do I kill myself now or.....

>> No.17612355

>>17611734
>short stories
You mean his essays?

>> No.17612361

>>17611668
Well thanks anon, i'll give it a go.

>> No.17612375

>>17611745
I love the idea of a book calling me on my bullshit. Already on top of my list.

>> No.17612383

>>17611746
Minus plus minus is a positive right?

>> No.17612414

>>17611756
I really think I am but I try not to speak about, nowadays everyone is depressed so no one takes you seriously when you say you're depressed so I just self improve in Hopes it will go away with time. So far lifting and losing weight has me motivated but I feel it slowly waiting for me to slip in my routine so It can come back. A friendly anon told me this book could help guess I took the bait lmao but I still want to read it.

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>>17612355
he did short stories too

>> No.17612442

>>17611898
I don't know if it can get worse man haha but I guess trying something is better than doing nothing

>> No.17612486

>>17612414
The book isn’t a cure for depression, but it is a conceptual understanding of many of the problems we face in modern society. The feelings we struggle with. The regrettable actions we take. The things we obsess over. It’s a very sad and empathetic book that tricks you with funny little bits that are actually just Kafka levels of ‘so sad I can’t stop laughing’. When I said this book has called me out on shit, I meant it. For example end note 286. It’s really funny, but hits way too close to home. There are so many little moments, not just about drugs, but about motivations and expectations and social interactions and self inflicted issues and the way we deal with other people. This book is painful and difficult, not because it’s ‘hard’ in the sense of difficulty or that it’s vocabulary and construction are detailed and nuanced, but because it’s not a book you read for fun. I have to put it down every so often because this dead rope store aficionado mother fucker keeps calling me out on a deep and painful level. And I see that as catharsis and empathy. I see it as a developmental tool and an interesting take on the life we live. It won’t cure anything, but it’s had some sort of impact on me.

>> No.17612496

>>17611577
I'm on page 130, it's a sad book but his attention to detail makes me feel less lonely

>> No.17612519

>>17612355
yes and >>17612443

>>17611774
a difference is that Eva is a television series and as such is less controllable in terms of how you are presented it (unless you count the many versions of the subtitles or dubs) compared to a novel. still love it tho

>> No.17612531

>>17612496
Sometimes his detail is annoying, but there are those moments where he spends a whole paragraph describing the most mundane experience and you’re just like “god damn, yes. Exactly that. That’s how it fucking is.” It’s wild.

>> No.17612579

>>17612486
Well i mostly struggle with finding meaning in life. Most of my family passed away due to non covid related issues and I just feel like suddenly I'm all alone in this huge symbolic spaceship and I have the wheel but nowhere to go. Nowhere I want to go. No where I can go. Just cruising until I find whatever I'm looking for.

>> No.17612721

>>17611577
A bullet would do the job quicker.

>> No.17612769

>>17612486
Well said anon :)

>> No.17613362

Ah, so we still have time before the monthly good IJ thread happens. That’ll give me enough time to finish the book.

>> No.17613672

>“That 17 can go into 56 way more than 3.294 times.”

This fucking book.

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>>17611577
depends on how many cocks are involved

>> No.17614349

>>17612443
His short stories are really fucking good too. Forever Overhead is my favorite story

>> No.17614359

>>17611577
the point of reading is not to cheer up fag but to deepen your experience of pain

>> No.17614363

>>17613672
I havent though for long enough on why John Wayne is sleeping with Avril. Like. Why is that even in there? To show the virtue signaling mother just pretends that she isnt fucking with the lives of her kids? And why John Wayne? Ig he seems like the most 'perfect' of all the tennis kids and it takes him down a little peg. Also he's got that direct connection with JOI

>> No.17615086 [DELETED] 

Yeah? well, Luke uh, that's just like, your opinion, man.

>> No.17615097

>>17614359
Yeah? well, Like uh, that's just like, your opinion, man.

>> No.17615646

>>17614363
I’m 200 pages from finishing it, so I dunno if it’s even covered anymore, but it’s also the key part of Wayne flipping out and getting pemulis in trouble.

>> No.17616016

>>17611577
Nah but you’ll probably come out saying shit like ‘anachronism’ and ‘commensurately’ and ‘psychodysleptic’ a bit more.

On another note, if you can really tolerate dense work, I really enjoy reading Aquinas. Helps me put stuff into perspective and justify my own existence so that I have to stop being depressed.

>> No.17616046

>>17611577
why the fuck did you take a screencap and not just use the millions of images that exist of the cover correctly cropped