What book made you consider suicide?
What book made you consider suicide?
Asher Evans
Brody Mitchell
aquinas - city of god
Nathaniel Nguyen
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence by David Benatar.
Also The Book of Disquiet.
Jackson Moore
None. I read to escape such thoughts.
Luis Johnson
Oh yeah Kafka too. Anything by him really.
Adam Ramirez
>Also The Book of Disquiet.
Similar books for comparison?
Anthony Clark
I thought it was just a meme, but people say that The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat is cursed to make you commit suicide if you read it. I read it a few weeks ago, and I've been thinking a lot about suicide. Strangely, I can't connect my recent thought on suicide concretely to anything in particular I read in the book, so it might just be a coincidence.
Cameron Wood
I say this unironically: my diary desu
Ayden Morris
Infinite Jest
The Pale King
Moby-Dick
Pierre, or the Ambiguities
The Golden Bowl
Anatomy of Melancholy
Sorrows of Young Werther
Tolstoy's Confession
Anna Karenina
The Stranger
The Plague
The Sun Also Rises
Ecclesiastes
Job
Hamlet
Macbeth
King Lear
Pickwick Papers
The Count of Monte Cristo
Lolita
The Odyssey
The Iliad
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Kafka's Metamorphosis
Yeats' Endymion
Ginsberg's Howl
Hemingway's short stort involving shoes
Cooper Hall
my own
Benjamin Nguyen
My diary desu
Alexander Davis
confirmation bias
Juan Green
Whoa, are you some kind of genius?
Mason Richardson
>job
Tyler Hill
As in, "The Book of ___"
Michael Gray
The Book of Wagies?
Zachary Moore
The Book of More Men?
Matthew Williams
underrated
Alexander Watson
No, it is very evidently three letters: "___"—i.e. _, _, and _.
Joseph Reyes
I know, it's just weird that that one would make anyone want to commit suicide
Austin Hernandez
Jeremiah Thompson
OP didn't specify that you have to be considering suicide by the end of the piece, only that you consider suicide at some point in the reading; Job provides ample impetus during Job's torment, bemoaning of his fate, etc. One could also consider suicide even after finishing if viewing the closer to Job as a sort of jejune deus ex machine finale.
Blake Murphy
*machina
And while I'm at it:
*short story
Jackson Stewart
What book will put me over the edge?
Easton Martinez
You mean Augustine. Why did it make you consider suicide though?
Owen Nguyen
>Job
Based.
Angel Adams
This and Filth by Irvine Welsh
Easton Sullivan
butterfly's diary desu
Nathan Mitchell
the only reason i don't kms is because there's more books i want to read
Jose Nguyen
same here.
Austin Thompson
>he reads to escape rather than confront
Julian Lopez
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Easy with the big words, pal