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I finished Notes From the Underground, I loved it. It made me laugh and cry and cringe, and now I don't know what to do. What next?

>> No.3005203

The Tunnel by Sabato or Hunger by Hamsun. Look them up, I'm sure you'll love them.

>> No.3005218

>>3005203
Will do, thank you

>> No.3005288

American Psycho. Exactly the same thing as what you just read, but set in the 80s with way wilder prose.

>> No.3005292

came to mention 'hunger'.
I see its already posted.

>>3005288
no

>> No.3005300

Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard. Exactly the same thing as what you just read, but set in the 80s with way wilder prose.

>> No.3005311

>>3005292
>no

Why? Oh wait - because
1 You haven't read it
2 You didn't get it

I really pity plebs like you.

>> No.3005317

>>3005183
Process and Reality- Alfred H Whitehead

>> No.3005323

>>3005311
no because I did read it and fully understood it...considered what you said and found it to be a silly recommendation.

did you just spout the first title that popped into your head?

>> No.3005333

>>3005323
Both books deal with a distilled product of society - a sick concentration of a selfish and unpleasant worldview. For Dostoyevsky, this was rational egoism. For Ellis, this was the nameless hedonism and cruelty that defined the times. Both books demonstrate the failure of such a worldview.

If you've got copies of both books on hand, compare the underground man's second encounter with the prostitute with Bateman's lunch with his secretary. They are offered an escape from their respective hells through a kind, gentle figure with Christian (or at least Christian-like) values. Both are unable to accept, and return to their lonely worlds.

I really think you failed to understand the book at some level if you can't see the similarities.

>> No.3005367

>>3005323
Am I going to get the decency of a reply? I must say, I'm quite anxious. I haven't had an argument with someone on the internet in quite a while.