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recommend me books about misanthropy or books that will reinforce my misanthropic ideas

>> No.4951887

Just read /lit/

>> No.4951901

>>4951887
pretty sound actually, just seeing the newest lolita thread ticks me off

>> No.4951903

Someone please write a new, improved and doubly long 'Lolita' featuring the girl in that gif and VERY graphic s*x scenes.

>> No.4952036

bump
post in this fucking thread

>> No.4952452

>>4951882
Read a Newspaper.

>> No.4952457

>>4951882
Why so pessimistic, anon?

It's not all that bad :^)

>> No.4952614

>>4951882
Journey to the end of the night.

>> No.4952631

>>4951882
>deliberately destroying yourself

Just choose the quick suicide if you must, friend.

>> No.4952706

My Twisted World

>> No.4952828
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4952828

Umberto Eco's 'Prage Cemetery' is about a misanthropic man and everything he said and did against the human race.

>> No.4952957

>>4952631
if I had a quick, painless and risk-free way of killing myself, I would do it

>inb4 jump from a building
there's no buildings more than three stories high in my town

>> No.4952988

>>4952957
>not even dedicated enough to buy a bus ticket

But friend, if you're going to stick around anyway, you might as well embrace arbitrary jolliness instead of arbitrary bitterness.

>> No.4953001

anything by thomas bernhard

>> No.4953014

>>4952828
Eco is fucking based.

He'll die soon. ;_;

>> No.4953031

>>4952457
Misanthropy isn't pessimistic. Quite the contrary, since death is the only thing that will certainly come to everyone, by wishing for them to die you guarantee yourself some degree of satisfaction in life.
On the other hand, if you love people and want for them to be happy, you are opening yourself up to all manner of disappointments.

>> No.4953039

>>4953031
Disappointments included, the latter is still more worthwhile.

>> No.4953056

Anything by Linkin Park

>> No.4953058

>>4953014
>mfw he's 82

>> No.4953066

>>4953058
i sweat profusely every time I remember how old he is. we can only hope that his extreme wealth allows him to live and function into his hundreds.

>> No.4953067

>>4953014
Don't say that anon, wtf man.

;___;

>> No.4953070

>>4953039

it's not practical if you're intelligent though

although the guy you're quoting has a skewed view of misanthropy if he thinks it entails wishing death upon others

>> No.4953072

>>4953070
>it's not practical if you're intelligent though
How come? You realise value judgements are quite arbitrary, right?

>> No.4953105

>>4953039
>the latter is still more worthwhile
Maybe to you. I've enjoyed my life much more since I gave up on the human race.

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>>4953105
I guess we're pretty much doomed, but that doesn't mean I have to dislike them for it. It's not like they can help who they are.

>> No.4953123

>>4951882
Mark Twain's Autobiography or the Mysterious Stranger
James B.V. Thomson's City of Dreadful Night,
Suetonius' 12 Caesars ought to disgust you properly
Then the usual "life is suffering" Russian lit

>> No.4953154

>>4953039
>>4953031
it's not about what's more comfortable, convenient or what will make me the happiest, it's about what's true

>> No.4953156

>>4953154
>value judgements being truth truth-apt

>> No.4953169

>>4953156
it may not be universally true but it's definitely true to me

>> No.4953175

>>4953169
So you realise your 'truth' is arbitrary yet you still choose it even if you don't like it, while other 'truths' are equally valid?

>> No.4953185

>>4951882
Robinson Jeffers. Particularly his later work, The Double Axe and The Women at Point Sur. The Double Axe is his most contemptuous work, in which he openly names his philosophy Inhumanism, and it is also his most blatantly political.

>> No.4953195

>>4953175
you seem to be under the assumption that I *choose* to feel or think a certain way

I don't deliberately make myself believe in certain things, my beliefs come spontaneously. I do want to read books about them though, because they resonate with me

>> No.4953358

>needing books to reinforce misanthropy

>> No.4953399

I just read the complete plays of Sarah Kane, and I gotta say, there's some pretty misanthropic shit in there. Doesn't hurt that she wrote her last play and then pretty much immediately killed herself. When they are misanthropic with a touch of redemption, they're just about being completely lost. Psychosis reads like a goddamned suicide note for Christ's sake.

>> No.4953400

>>4953399
*aren't

>> No.4953413

>>4953399
I saw her Blasted in a theatre in Germany, it was amazing.

Baby eating, male on male rape, suicide, caring for a half-eaten baby. The audience was mostly older, upper middle class Germans, a woman cried. It was a good day.

>> No.4953418

>>4953413
I would love to actually see a staging of that, Phaedra's Love, or Cleansed. Sadly, the only things online are either awful clips or stagings of Psychosis or Crave, both of which work better as text and have none of the brutality depicted on stage.

>> No.4953539

>>4951882
Just keep coming to /lit, that'll do it

>> No.4954560

>>4953195
I'd read books on other more pleasant ideas so that they might resonate with you.

>> No.4954646 [DELETED] 

>>4954560
Come to think of it, leading shitloads of misanthropic works actually leads to seeing how silly the whole thing is.

>> No.4954654

>>4953418
I really like the German title of the play, too: Zerbombt. Listen to it: http://de.forvo.com/word/zerbombt/

The Germanic Ts makes it sound more like the play