That thing nobody understands about you. That book that explains it. Match me up.
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Anything by Douglas Adams, Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, music history textbooks, Samurai Jack slash fiction, public restroom graffiti, HVAC technical manuals, and the comment sections on porn sites.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR)
Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle might not explain it, but could add valuable context.
All volumes of the Uncle John’s Bathroom Readers. My brain is mostly just useless trivia.
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The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series and the John Dies at the End series
both 10/10s mixing gut wrenching existentialism and laugh out loud comedy
tbh I probably wouldn’t say I’m into comedy writing in general but those two and Terry Pratchett are the only writers to ever make me bust out laughing in response to words on a page
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain, and The Codex Borgia.
The State and Revolution by V. I. Lenin. It honestly isn’t a long read
The anarchist-faq will get you most of the way there, and the K-On manga will fill in the gaps.
- The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
- The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brian
I have PTSD and a dark sense of humor about it.
The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camut. Absurdism/it philosophically examines whether one should commit suicide.
I started reading The Myth of Sisyphus because I’m interested in absurdism but haven’t read much other philosophy apart from some of the classic Stoic books. I found it very dense and hard to get through the first parts with references to philosophers I hadn’t read, does it get easier to read?
Not OP but yes, if you can get through the dialogue with Kierkegaard the rest is pretty digestible. That said, you might get more out of it if you’ve got a basic foundation in existentialism and nihilism first. A lot of what makes absurdism interesting and important is its contrasts with other philosophies.
It does. Would recommend just skimming the first section as far as when you hit a reference to a philosopher you don’t care about. Once past that it’s a beautiful book.
No.
Also that book is extremely easy to read for philosophy. It is not very dense at all. You are in for a world of hurt if you try any legit philosophy. Camus is like the YA version of philosophy.
The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, Volume 1: The Earth Will Shake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Historical_Illuminatus_Chronicles
Anything else by Wilson would probably be a more productive starting place.
All of Wilson is fantastic, but this is probably the most accessible of his fiction.
His non-fiction though, man, throw a dart. 😉
I compulsively buy copies of Prometheus Rising so I have them on hand to distribute to interesting people.
Yeah, that’s a good one. I like the Illuminati Papers and Right Where You Are Sitting Now as well!
The only book I’ve ever reread was The Illuminatus Trilogy, and I’ve reread it twice. I give out copies of that one too.
My life is so complicated, you’d need an entire “wikipedia-styled” article of me.
If I had one, it’d probably be one of the craziest stories… well like not like any acheivements or anything, but more like depression and trauma. I’m gonna seem so broken that you’d not wanna be friends. People are gonna be like: “oh that’s that person, wow” then walk away since nobody want to hang out since nobody want to get afflicted/infected with my sadness.
I mean, I reflect on my past and I visualize the scene in “3rd person” and I look like a scared kitten hiding in the corner, except I’m not a cute kitten, but rather looks like a mini-tiger. That was what I was like in school.
I’m kinda just deciding on leaving an autobiography/journal, in case I kms in the future. I wonder how my parentd would react. Maybe leaving something behind would finally get them to understand what I’ve been through from my PoV. Maybe they’d live a better life without me being around. Idk.
