/lit/ - Literature

>>23267616
this is that faggot who plagiarized Ligotti, right?

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>>18737642
This. It's the best time to be alive and it's still shit.

>>18618938
Pic related is Pessimism and Antinatalism for Dummies but very well written and pretty much irrefutable. The whole point of the book is to steer a casual doomer towards more difficult literature such as Schopenhauer, Zapffe or Cioran (all three referenced frequently).

No.

What am I in for?

are there any books that are actually detrimental to your life if you read them?

Now what?

Could you recommend me some authors in the same vein as Thomas Ligotti?
Books and texts filled with dread, pessimism, cosmic horror, brutality and hopelessness.
The bleaker, the better!

>>17239650

what am I in for?

>>16512931
each microscopic segment of this book is self-consistent and irrefutable.
macroscopically it is a tedious, weak mess. this guy seems like he would be such a fking pain to be around, and he himself admits this in the book which means "i just dont understand" him etc etc ugh. like the underground man.

maybe there is something to pessimism, i do understand and empathize with the sentiment he expresses in this book, i just think ligotti is not a capable enough writer / smart enough person to make an effective presentation of these ideas. what he has written is the opposite of poignant and just makes me hate myself more for ever thinking the way he does. these ideas are like that of a man who never outgrew their suburban high school phase where they were mean to mom and didnt finish his broccoli because it is yucky

>>16512959
yep

what else is on the antinatalist reading list? does anyone have a chart

Is the subtitle being "A CONTRIVANCE of Horror" supposed to be a self aware indication that he knows this is all a cope for him being a mentally ill incel?

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>>14970187
>There is nothing more futile than to consciously look for something to save you. But consciousness makes this fact seem otherwise. Consciousness makes it seem as if (1) there is something to do; (2) there is somewhere to go; (3) there is something to be; (4) there is someone to know. This is what makes consciousness the parent of all horrors, the thing that makes us try to do something, go somewhere, be something, and know someone, such as ourselves, so that we can escape our MALIGNANTLY USELESS being and think that being alive is all right rather than that which should not be.

Don't fight against it, follow through on something actually useful, OP (you larping bitch)

>>14950007
>Conspiracy Against The Human Race by Ligotti
http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=1F4E22E1D6E4D8FFD1128F404AF8F7CC

>Nihil Unbound by Brassier
http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=94F75F1B5CAF2A70567D86931500DF03

>There is nothing more futile than to consciously look for something to save you. But consciousness makes this fact seem otherwise. Consciousness makes it seem as if (1) there is something to do; (2) there is somewhere to go; (3) there is something to be; (4) there is someone to know. This is what makes consciousness the parent of all horrors, the thing that makes us try to do something, go somewhere, be something, and know someone, such as ourselves, so that we can escape our MALIGNANTLY USELESS being and think that being alive is all right rather than that which should not be.

>>14871843
Speaking of antinatalism, what do you think of this masterpiece (or any of ligotti's work in general)

Is this a fucking joke? Never have I read anything as disgusting as this. People please!!! read the Bible and not garbage like this.

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