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Anonymous Fri Jan 31 15:47:14 2014 No.4523760 [DELETED]

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Which book has the greatest potential of making its readers miserable and unhappy?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 15:51:14 2014 No.4523765 It's subjective man. I almost cried reading the Virgin Suicides on the tube earlier on.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 15:53:14 2014 No.4523771 File: 11 KB, 215x301, ligotti.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4523760

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 16:31:01 2014 No.4523862 If you're reading depressing books, it's likely you were already depressed beforehand.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 16:38:02 2014 No.4523874 Camus' The Stranger

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 16:40:01 2014 No.4523879 >>4523862 Aren't there any books that make mentally sound people depressed?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 16:41:01 2014 No.4523880 >>4523760 Don Quixote will do that while also making you cry with laughter

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 16:42:01 2014 No.4523883 File: 6 KB, 330x370, bible3.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4523879

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 16:42:01 2014 No.4523885 >>4523771 I really found this to be tripe. Read Schopenhauer's essays on pessimism instead.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 18:04:36 2014 No.4524135 >>4523885 What about Zapffe?