“The best overture for existentialism ever written.”
wievern on
Yellowface. Though it is partly (mostly) self inflicted.
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All fours. NOTHING made that lady happy. I’m not recommending it though because the book was truly insufferable.
randythor on
If you’re into fantasy at all, this is sort of the vibe I get from a lot of The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie, in a fairly entertaining way.
Dark, gritty, character-driven fantasy with a lot of violence and dark humor. Pretty much all of the main characters are highly-flawed bastards just struggling to survive in an unforgiving world, dealing with their own bullshit. One is a crippled torturer whose life is constant pain, with the most cynical/cutting inner monologue on everyone/everything, often pretty fucking funny. Another is a northman barbarian trying to escape his past, trying to ‘be realistic’, never having any choices, etc.
“Life is the misery we endure between disappointments”.
The first book is The Blade Itself, and the audiobooks are also super good if you’re into that, narrated by Steven Pacey.
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Catcher in the Rye
Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky
“The best overture for existentialism ever written.”
Yellowface. Though it is partly (mostly) self inflicted.
All fours. NOTHING made that lady happy. I’m not recommending it though because the book was truly insufferable.
If you’re into fantasy at all, this is sort of the vibe I get from a lot of The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie, in a fairly entertaining way.
Dark, gritty, character-driven fantasy with a lot of violence and dark humor. Pretty much all of the main characters are highly-flawed bastards just struggling to survive in an unforgiving world, dealing with their own bullshit. One is a crippled torturer whose life is constant pain, with the most cynical/cutting inner monologue on everyone/everything, often pretty fucking funny. Another is a northman barbarian trying to escape his past, trying to ‘be realistic’, never having any choices, etc.
“Life is the misery we endure between disappointments”.
The first book is The Blade Itself, and the audiobooks are also super good if you’re into that, narrated by Steven Pacey.