Books that help you cope with the fact that you are not special and will never achieve your dreams?
>>25006156What were your dreams?
>>25006158To have a life I don't hate, and be happy.
>>25006158Become Hitler 2.0
>>25006164Start small and realistic. What's wrong with being Hitler 1.2?
>>25006156My diary. It's important to reread the passages from years prior to see how hope turns into despair and eventually self-loathing.
>>25006156Madame Bovary
>>25006156Its called isekai
>>25006183Escapist fantasies simply accentuate the pain.
>>25006161Do LITERALLY anything else. You probably know exactly what your problems are and what is keeping you from achieving your goals. If you have a bad friend group feeding a bad eating habit making you fat and unhappy move to a different city and be happy, start over.
>>25006156Crime and PunishimentThe Death of Ivan IlitchThe Dream of a Ridiculous Man As you see, anything by russians. They are a people very aware of their misery and meaningless.
>>25006156I'll get hate for this, but read some Stoicism.
>>25006228I can't understand why the anons here hate so much stoicism.
Anything religious that is against the world of the flesh.
>>25006236It got appropiated by grifters who sell AI-written philosophy tutorials in bookstores across the globe. We live in strange times.
>>25006287Well, you can always just read old editions and original authors. Problem solved.
>>25006156Weird how this fits so well both here and in the neighbor thread where a dude was asking recommendations of books for when you fucked up your lifeThe Tartar Steppe by Dino BuzzatiYou see Drogo also had a dream that was sold to him by the regime, he was convinced that this is the path to follow and he ignored every sign that pointed at him being wrong. Ultimately he paid the greatest price for his mistake and nothing ever happened.
>>25006156It's all a cope. Life is a fucking farce. Even if you are a great man the world's a shithole.
>>25006156Better to just get a job and start living life than to bury yourself in yet more fiction. >get a job>maybe go back to school to get a better job>date Move on with your life. Escape is at its most enjoyable when your life isn't falling apart around you. It is a good thing to come back to a reality which has its own comforts.
Jude the Obscure
i can never shill this enoughthe most pure direct true gaze into the absolute face of mediocrity i've ever read, compassionate, funny and devastating
>>25006156Stoner
>>25006156Malaparte's core thesis, which is restated over and over again throughout, is that a successful coup d'etat is a simple technical matter; far removed from ideologies or 'dialectical materialism' nonsense. A few dozen young men, armed with automatic weapons and fortified by the will to succeed, seizing control of a few key levers of State power, has been sufficient time and time again to change the course of history.
>>25006156Ehm... Books for to help this 1 cope with having been sent his Austerlitz/defining battle in his 20s, won despite all odds and machinations of demiurgic agents, and now sort of having everything seem trivial and funny and unimportant and what the fuck am I supposed to do with the rest if the time knowing its all going to be gently sloping downhills the rest of the way?
>>25006600based, be sure to read anna edes as well
>>25006156What are your dreams
