Hopelessness

>Already read "The Road"

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>7847378

oh. look. babby's first existential crisis.

Something Happened

Johnny Got His Gun

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>>7847378

A History of Philosophy

>>7847378
Just read something... really bad. Like shit women's magazine litterature.

>>7847378
The naked lunch?

100 days of Sodom

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>>7847384

you butthead

weve all seen the image you lifted that retarded line from

that doesn't make you look smart, it makes you look like a pretentious inexperienced idiot

trivializing things makes you look like an idiot. it is a purely destructive action

Op here.
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>>7847470
Thanks you guys. If you guys spot any more, lemme know

The sorrows of young Werther by Goethe.

The Jungle by Sinclair

>>7847639
came here to post werther... also whatever by houellebecq

Voyage au Bout de la Nuit

Candide or optomism by voltaire XD

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If you liked The Road you need to read this. It's infinitely better.

Nausea

The Foundation Pit
The City and the Pillar
perhaps The Book of Disquiet

>>7847378
Anything from Bukowski

anyone got the /lit/ chart for "exitcore" or whatever it's called? The absolute pinnacle of depressing of literature is on that list, and it makes The Road look like child's play, so people like >>7847482 can see that the romanticized nihilism they feel isn't even the start (better yet, it doesn't even graze the SURFACE of the hopelessness a man can go through).

I'm reading the Book of Ecclesiastes, and I'm astounded by the book's inspiring pessimism. Give it a read.

>>7850999
>too loud a solitude
10/10 rec

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>>7850375
>It's infinitely better.

Nah, it's just infinite jest

>>7850999
Yeah, thanks. Looking at it now I'm surprised at how little Russian literature is on there. Those guys are some depressing fuckers.

>>7851019
Yea they sure are, isn't it great? After reading so much Dostoevsky, everything pales in comparison. Going to try "Hunger" though, apparently it gives even Dost a run for his money.

>>7847378
may or may not like my suggestion but oedipus rex maybe
The Divine Comedy perhaps?
Catcher in the Rye

>>7850999
Whoever made this is a massive pussy. The Recognitions is hilarious.

>>7847378
the painted bird

>>7852665
This.

>>7847420
Thread should have ended here.

>>7847470
it's just "Naked Lunch"

1984

>>7847378
but the road is about the persistence of hope

Hell by Henri Barbusse

>>7850999
If Atomised is anything like his other books, it doesn't belong there. It's basically the diary of a middle-class French faggot who lives a decadent lifestyle which consists of having sex with everyone, and then complaining about everything afterwards, sex included.