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I wish I had never been born.
>what should I read?

>> No.4751554

>>4751522

iliad and odyssey

>> No.4751589

>>4751522
Bhagavad Gita.

>> No.4751623

>>4751554
done
>>4751589
and done

>any other suggestions?

>> No.4751626

any of cioran's books

>> No.4751630

>>4751623

do you know how easy it is for us literary types to find out if you've actually read a book or just a summary of it? you'll be ok in your bedroom where you won't discuss it with anyone though, and on shitchan of course.

>> No.4751642

>>4751630
I suppose you'd like to think I've only claimed to read classic literature and not had any of it sitting on my shelves, but rest assured, it's there. I'm currently waiting for the rosy fingers of dawn at this early hour and I fear that your coments might turn to shitposting, destroyer of threads. So please anon, give me more suggestions.

>> No.4751648

>>4751642

doesnt matter if you havent actually read it and finished it, dimwit.

>> No.4751653

>>4751648
You're funny, I'm sorry I already read your suggestions though. I do enjoy classics, but I'm looking for something that has a flavor for my current existential crisis, any suggestions?
>>4751626
Anything specific?

>> No.4751667

>>4751653

a job and a pleading to your parents to send you back to school.

>> No.4751673

>>4751667
My parents are dead, and I'm employed... I feel like you're an out of work psychic with a lot of pent up anger. Are you also experiencing an existential crisis?

>> No.4751675

>>4751667
The amount of projecting in this post is amazing.

>> No.4751677

>>4751673

sure they are..sure i am..sure i am..
you fucking retard

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>>4751522
"Wonder" by RJ Palacio

>> No.4751689

>>4751677
You seem rather angry over the topic of literature, I mean I have a lot of deep personal feelings about books too, but I don't really get angry when someone has read something I suggested.

I recently read Moby Dick for pleasure, and I found the experience to be quite enjoyable and the book itself extremely interesting and well written. I'm looking for something else in a similar vein.

>actually do you know if Stoner is any good?

>> No.4751705

>>4751689

sure you read moby dick for pleasure..sure you have original opinions...sure you can judge what's well written and what's not..sure it's a great book. im off. c u in spring 2015.

>> No.4751713

>>4751522
Depends whether you want to explore this position or feel better.

If you want to feel better you should read some sort of ridiculous life affirming work by somebody who had it a lot worse than you, like Man's Searching For Meaning.

If you actually want to dig into the whole "I should have never been born" philosophy, just find something on antinatalism (possibly the peak of edgy philosophy).

>> No.4751721

Lit - Existential self loathing: the board

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4751728

I'd recommend this.

>> No.4751734

>>4751721
Newfag shut up

>> No.4751735

>>4751705
I actually already graduated, but I hope you have a wonderful experience at uni.

>> No.4751746

>>4751713
Honestly, I feel like I've hit a strange crossroads where I'm either going to have a spiritual rebirth or full embrace nihilism. I'm not entirely sure which way I'm going to go because I feel like modern life really sucks all the optimistic illusions of life right out of a person and then all that's left is a kind of empty feeling of pointlessness. I feel like everything from the book of Ecclesiastes is true, and in fact that sentiment of wishing to have never been born is from that book.
>Best of all is the one who was never born, because he's never seen the evil done under the sun.

I regret my existence, but at the same time I had no say in the matter, and I have no desire to forcefully extricate myself from this world either.
no one wants to be here, and no one wants to leave.

>> No.4751769

>>4751746
Huh maybe something by Camus might fix you up.

>> No.4751822

>>4751769
suggestions?

>> No.4751830

>>4751746
>I feel like I've hit a strange crossroads where I'm either going to have a spiritual rebirth or full embrace nihilism

Do both. Fuck the police. It's what I did, it allows me to have my cake and eat it, I'm catholic and a Stirnerian egoist. I do pure ideology for a living, too.

>> No.4751858

>>4751653
"the trouble with being born"

>> No.4751867

>>4751830
This post makes me wet.
>>4751858
gonna check it out

>> No.4751882

>>4751822
Anything and everything. He didn't write all that much. Even his quotes are good alone.

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>>4751642
>now i am become shitposter, the destroyer of threads.

>> No.4752043

>>4751882
This. Camus is great.

>> No.4752045

start with the greeks

>> No.4752207

>>4751630
>literary types
lel

>> No.4752257

Stirner.

>> No.4752261

>>4751728
Depends on whether OP wants to stay depressed and hating life or man up.

>> No.4752276

>>4751728
Probably the most edgy book ever written.