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Anonymous Fri Mar 17 21:31:46 2017 No.9254433 [Reply] [Original]

What are some great books for a depressed, edgy 21 year-old?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 21:33:48 2017 No.9254440 The Bible or The Quran, but be careful because that's a text that's meant to be taken literally (as opposed the Bible) - read some of the popular Sunnah's so you don't misinterpret the primary text and go full durka durka

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 21:34:52 2017 No.9254442 on the heights of despair by emil cioran it's only dismissed as edgy by the exact people that cioran dismisses as superficial fuccbois

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 21:34:59 2017 No.9254444 File: 68 KB, 666x375, williamfdubsley.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9254433 The book of these digits

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 21:35:25 2017 No.9254446 An asshole will tell you The Stranger A smart person will tell you A Thousand Plateaus.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 21:35:59 2017 No.9254449 File: 41 KB, 271x200, 200_s[1].gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9254444

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 21:36:05 2017 No.9254450 >>9254444 i came

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 21:43:12 2017 No.9254478 >>9254433 Notes from Underground

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 21:44:46 2017 No.9254488 File: 5 KB, 219x230, ohmy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9254444

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 21:47:49 2017 No.9254497 On the Aesthetic Education of Man

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 22:18:06 2017 No.9254581 American Psycho, Less Than Zero, or Lunar Park

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 22:19:42 2017 No.9254589 >>9254444 A top one hundred post in /lit/ history, to be certain.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 22:23:58 2017 No.9254603 >>9254444 whough...

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 22:24:54 2017 No.9254606 >>9254433 Nearly all of Shakespeare.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 22:45:12 2017 No.9254705 >>9254606 No one actually reads Shakespeare, though. Everyone just lies about it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 22:48:32 2017 No.9254722 File: 31 KB, 333x499, ugh I never asked to be born, mom.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Read dat nigga Emi C Except no subtitutes

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 22:49:27 2017 No.9254729 >>9254705 this, and I've read everything Shakespeare ever wrote

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 23:04:34 2017 No.9254789 >>9254729 So have you?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 23:05:04 2017 No.9254792 File: 31 KB, 590x350, 1483740275460-tv.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9254444

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 23:17:30 2017 No.9254826 >>9254440 >read some of the popular Sunnah Where? I couldn't find a pdf on the internet.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 23:18:17 2017 No.9254828 there's a good chance that no amount of reading will help you with this anon if its real depression the roots are probably deeper than can be solved by intellectual gymnastics

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 23:31:18 2017 No.9254865 File: 16 KB, 320x320, 1470617971603.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9254444

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 23:34:18 2017 No.9254873 >>9254433 this game made me want to kill myself i just want friends man i have fucking nothing i work in a refinery plant cutting up carcasses all day

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 23:35:54 2017 No.9254875 File: 30 KB, 267x353, milton-friedman1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9254444 nicely done

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 23:37:44 2017 No.9254883 The Book of Disquiet

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 23:49:53 2017 No.9254926 >>9254873 this post made me suddenly very sad

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 00:04:41 2017 No.9254973 >>9254433 "The Sorrow Proper" by Lindsey Drager A deaf mathematician falls in love. A library closes its doors for good. Every word in this book has special meaning. gl edglord

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 00:20:02 2017 No.9255020 >>9254828 I don't care about overcoming it through books. I'm looking for books that can help me revel in my depression.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 00:31:50 2017 No.9255051 >>9254873 I feel you, anon. I don't particularly hate my job because I get to be distracted from the void for a while at least. But I feel you all the same.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 01:18:03 2017 No.9255161 >>9254444 This should have derailed the thread more than it did.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 02:34:04 2017 No.9255326 File: 34 KB, 340x450, The_Red_Book_by_Carl_Jung,_2009.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9254433

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 02:40:16 2017 No.9255352 >>9254433 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Notes from the Underground by Dostoevsky Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 02:46:08 2017 No.9255374 File: 19 KB, 242x354, Ego-and-His-Own-Stirner.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9254433

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 03:42:40 2017 No.9255485 >>9254444 Superb, excellent, really magnificent!

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 03:47:30 2017 No.9255488 File: 289 KB, 1024x1008, 1489561831761.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9255374

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 04:15:01 2017 No.9255532 >>9254705 Leaves of Grass Sir Gawain and the Green Knight A Midsummer Night's Dream >>9254581 teenedger

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 04:19:19 2017 No.9255536 >>9254433 Anything by Chuck Palahniuk

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 04:26:39 2017 No.9255547

>>9255020
Infinite Jest then. When I was 19 and super depressed, one of the only things, maybe the only thing, I enjoyed doing was reading Infinite Jest. Usually really entertaining, and the sections about depression are super validating and just really nice to read.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 04:27:19 2017 No.9255551 I am also a depressed 21 year old looking for books to read. I am in China. I am sending you my love and I hope we can connect.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 05:41:02 2017 No.9255667 File: 10 KB, 244x237, seenthelight.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9254444 wew

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 07:12:01 2017 No.9255894 Penthouse

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 15:04:47 2017 No.9257561 File: 44 KB, 560x375, prettygreatbob.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9254444 Gore Vidal BTFO

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 16:40:35 2017 No.9257965 The entirety of the Hermetica. Read it in one sitting while under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 17:23:38 2017 No.9258176 File: 61 KB, 546x366, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9254444 Witnessed

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 17:44:21 2017 No.9258271 File: 14 KB, 416x416, 1447918334965.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9254444

>>	Dr X Sat Mar 18 17:48:50 2017 No.9258290 >>9254444 1/ read the 9254444 2/ compare all available translations 3/ ???? 4? profit

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 18:27:51 2017 No.9258431 File: 186 KB, 457x303, 1484972444390.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9254444 Well done

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 19:02:16 2017 No.9258574 File: 66 KB, 630x354, genie.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9254444 holy fuck

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 19:17:58 2017 No.9258653 File: 112 KB, 719x776, mfw.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9254444 Magic.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:45:53 2017 No.9259454 File: 26 KB, 476x600, 1489768444936.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] No longer human or norwegian wood may be the stuff

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 04:30:17 2017 No.9260315 Spring Snow

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 04:37:18 2017 No.9260327 >>9254433 Journey to the End of the Night. Notes from the Underground.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 04:46:03 2017 No.9260344 w. somerset maugham

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 04:50:45 2017 No.9260359 >>9254433 everything jean rhys ever wrote.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 04:57:51 2017 No.9260380 >>9254444 pls stop you scare me

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 06:10:34 2017 No.9260525 >>9254433 Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 08:07:38 2017 No.9260779 >>9254873 turn to alcoholism dude

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 08:08:18 2017 No.9260782 >>9260779 /thread

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 08:11:39 2017 No.9260790 >>9254433 Whatever - M. Houellebecq

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 09:32:47 2017 No.9261081 >>9254433 just do whatever lol books are waste of time

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 10:10:31 2017 No.9261197 Walden 2-BF Skinner

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 15:51:56 2017 No.9262893 File: 98 KB, 719x531, IMG_1858.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9254444 Niiiiiiiiiiiiice

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 16:20:03 2017 No.9263051 The Road

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 16:25:51 2017 No.9263087 >>9263051 i second that

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 18:26:51 2017 No.9263687 File: 30 KB, 630x630, 381396_1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9261081 this

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 19:41:08 2017 No.9264005 >>9254444 Let them be checked.

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