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I don't know what to read. Most everything disgusts me these days (I feel very depressed)

Recommend me the best books/things to read

>> No.3160236

gravitation by wheeler

>> No.3160241

read Tao Lin

not even kidding

>> No.3160244

>>3160241
Second this, and Erland Loe

>> No.3160247

>>3160241
reading Bed now
I think you recommended it, then used a spoiler, which read - 'not even kidding' - I must say that I'm glad you did.
Consequently, Tao - go to bed.

>> No.3160251

>>3160247
ha ha them crazy dashes... fuck i'm tired

>> No.3160254

>>3160236
I cannot into books like this because too stupid...

>>3160241
>>3160244

Tao lin and Erland Loe look like faggots and they disgust me...cannot read them

>> No.3160255

I guess it I find it hard to read any living writer. They all seem like faggots to me

recommend me books by dead writers

>> No.3160258

The Stranger by Albert Camus
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Demian by Hermann Hessse
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

>> No.3160260

>>3160258

looks like a god tier list, thanks

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>>3160254
Give Charles Yu a try. Pic related is actually fairly good.

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>>3160260
Cheers, mate. I'm no stranger to stormy moods. Sometimes it's nice to see other people who feel similarly (Camus, Dazai), and sometimes it's nice to see people get through it somehow (Hesse, Maugham).

So I hope you find something satisfying and get through it. Best of luck to you, OP!

>> No.3160270

>>3160260
Sure, good list if you want to stay an edgy depressed faggot

>> No.3160271

Read Stoner by John Williams. Or Augustus by John Williams. Or Butcher's Crossing by John Williams.

>> No.3160279

Is that Shining Force? Loved the fuck out of that game.

Read some Mishima

>> No.3160324

>>3160231
i love shining force! the second is still one of my favorite games of all time.

try haruki murakami. he's easy to read and his stuff has a detective/suspense element that can get your hooked.

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>>3160268

>charles yu
>MAH FUCKING NIGGA

I'm in an MFA program and all those snooty fucks refuse to read him. Goddamn do I love that book.

When I'm depressed I usually read philosophy. The store near me sells lots of semiotext(e) shit so I'm reading this one right now.

>inb4 pretentious ass

>> No.3160388

Shining Force, OP? Awesome taste.

Well then, why not some Lord of the Rings, or Song of Ice and Fire, in the fantasy-medieval genre?

>> No.3160389

Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse.
This book will cure you.

>> No.3160439

Sea of Ink - Richard Weihe

>> No.3161682

>>3160344
Semiotext(e)s are the apex of nonsense, but they are a cool read.