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What book makes you stop being an angsty faggot.

>> No.6124758

the catcher in the rye

>> No.6124764

You have to stop reading to not be one.

>> No.6124767
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6124767

Nietzsche my nigga.

>> No.6124769

>>6124746
The Bell Jar, so long as you ignore the whole Sylvia Plath thing.

>> No.6124771

Infinite Jest

Not shitting you, I started spending more time with people and being happier after I read it.

>> No.6124775

>>6124746
The Bible and Plato.

>> No.6124776

Any book on Zen or Taoism.

>> No.6124781

>>6124775
An angsty reading of the Bible will only make one even more angsty

>> No.6124813

>>6124746
Nah, angstiness is the new mode of living. We live in postindustrial times i.e. "risk society". Read Ulrich Beck.

>> No.6124829

>>6124771
Yeah well I read infinite jest and I spend literally 60% of my time in a library, 30% asleep, and the remaining 10% cooking, eating, shitting, etc

>> No.6124841

>>6124813

I think he means the bad angst, as in teenage angst, the 'nobody gets me' kind; more of a sense of the misgiving of others and self.

>> No.6124874

>>6124841
Yeah, I know. But this phenomenon of teenage angst is historically actually quite recent and is in connection to what I've mentioned. I don't want OP to think that his/her angst is merely an effect of some internal psychological imbalance or something like that.

>> No.6124899

>>6124758
No, really, this. At first, you might feel it enables your angst and you might think it is relatable, but if you wait a while and let it sink in, it'll give you a new perspective.

>> No.6124907

>>6124841
It's more of an ambiguous dread for a lot of things one encounters during day, but yeah.

>> No.6124914

>>6124746
The Fountainhead.

>> No.6125339

If you want to out of your angst but don't care if it's socially acceptable way: taoism. alan watts, the big lebowski.
If you want out in the normalfag way, don't read, get a fucking job.

>> No.6125346

Books don't make you anything. Lest you're a credulous imbecile.

>> No.6125348

Nietzsche
Moby Dick and Spinoza had a similar effect.

>> No.6125378

>>6124767
And lo! Neath thine whirlwind of greatest faggotry shall thine angst ruptureth and frotheth from thine limp asshole. Verily, a nay-faggot becometh he who partaketh in Nietzche.

Thus spake Zararthustra.

>> No.6125402

>>6124746
the iliad
the bible
getting your age above 22

>> No.6125409

>>6125402
What's the fastest way to increase my age

>> No.6125415

>>6125409
get a job
if you have one get another one

>> No.6125426

The Higher Infinite: Large Cardinals in Set Theory from Their Beginnings

>> No.6125428

>>6124746
Impossible when you read good literature.

>> No.6125434

>>6125428

Impossible to stop being an angsty faggot, or to be an angsty faggot while reading good lit?

Cause I've been upping my lit game recently, and I'm still a pathetic sack of shit

>> No.6125436

>>6125426
this op

>> No.6125442

>>6125409
Have fun

>> No.6125445

>>6125434
Read philosophy you pathetic sack of shit. And I don't mean meme philosophy like Nietzsche or the Greeks.

>> No.6125454

>>6124771
what is the deal with this stealth meme?

>> No.6125473

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjlCDQxqBR4

This song is fantastic

>> No.6125475

>>6124746

meditations - marcus aurelius

>> No.6125476

>>6124746
mwnw

>> No.6125480

>>6125475
This is beginner philosophy but it helps quite a bit

>> No.6125481

>>6124746
if you become complacent with anything going in in this piece of shit then you have lost. stay angsty, you pleb cunt, and read some Zapffe

>> No.6125483

Cant believe no one has said Tai Pei yet.

>> No.6125503

>>6125481
This, OP. The world is a dreadful place and you are right to feel as you do.

>> No.6125521

>>6125483
Why Taipei?

>> No.6125537

>>6124746
les mis.
I read it the first time when 17 yo, the barricades stuff made me look to the "claims" of my generation with another perspective

>> No.6125681

>>6125445

>not meme philosophy
You mean like Zizek and Stirner?
no really, which do you mean? I tried Camus recently and wasn't a fan