Need some books that are filled with depravity and loss of hope. The more brutally depressing, the better
Already read "The Road"
>Already read "The Road"
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>7847378
oh. look. babby's first existential crisis.
Something Happened
Johnny Got His Gun
>>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
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
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
>>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.
