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ITT: books that gave you depression

>> No.6229174

Everything by Bukowski, but I was already depressed.

>> No.6229210

>>6229174
>tfw you will never be even half as alfa as Bukowski

>> No.6229243

>>6229169
i actually found this book really positive

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>> No.6229426

>>6229210
Bukowski wasn't alpha, he retreated from everything difficult in life.

>> No.6229435

>>6229426
He's a pleb. A lumpenprole. Nothing wrong with that

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>> No.6229702

>>6229174
bukowski also made me depressed, but only because I couldn't handle living in a world where that hack was actually being enjoyed by people. nearly killed myself when I found out he wrote "poetry."
>>6229647
strange. care to elaborate? i'm interested because usually this book has the opposite effect on people

>> No.6229741

>>6229169
Cutter and bone by newton thornbug.
the sheltering sky by paul bowles.

>> No.6229860

>>6229702
Not the guy who posted Siddhartha but for me at least the trials and tribulations of life and the cyclical nature of it, and the nature of relationship as explicated by this book, I found all to be depressing. In terms of what it posited, I found it liberating though. I actually feel kind of similarly about The Stranger oddly enough.

>> No.6230073

>>6229343
Amazing book. I wouldn't say its utterly depressing however

>> No.6230078

the heart is a lonely hunter
suttree
jude the obscure

>> No.6230098

>>6229243
in the end, yeah

>> No.6230102

>>6229169
I didn't think Stoner was particularly depressing. Stoner lived his life for the most part how he wanted to. He could have risen up through the ranks of the university if he had chosen to do so, but he didn't because he loved teaching and learning. He had some hardship in his life, but he overcame or stoically accepted it.

>> No.6230143

Venus In Furs, because I am a masochist and I realised that I will have to give up on my masochism if I ever want a woman to love me.