Comments | meschew: maybe you wanna pick something up.

meschew

maybe you wanna pick something up.

Dec 22, 2005 20:29

Arrghh. Why is it that I can't get anything I want? I finally have like a million books I want to read. And I can't get at any of them ( Read more... )

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xins0mniacdream December 23 2005, 04:43:22 UTC

I've heard good things about Waiting for Godot.
I looove absurdism. :D

meschew December 23 2005, 22:30:24 UTC

Yeah, me too.. obviously. Which is why I'm excited to read it.

yeah. I'm into existentialism right now, too - a lot of these books are.

markymarkstyle December 23 2005, 05:03:11 UTC

I understand existentialism, but I don't really like it.

I think it's just a bunch of losers trying to invalidate their own shitty existence because they realize that everyone is better than them...but that in itself is an existentialist idea probably or whatever BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHB

meschew December 23 2005, 22:32:33 UTC

I like it. I don't think it's that.

I think a lot of athiests are into existentialism. I'm more agnostic, but - it's not that everyone is better than them, and it'd be more like they were trying to validate their own existence rather than invalidate it if they were saying that EVERYTHING is equally pointless. I just don't believe there's a point. And it interests me. But I don't think that it means you have to act totally apathetic or be dark or weird or whatever. Plus, existential fiction is usually really good.

embracesthedork December 23 2005, 13:19:31 UTC

Yeah, I really want to read NAked Lunch, but it's really hard to find.

Anna Gallo has a copy if you want to read it.

meschew December 23 2005, 22:29:19 UTC

I'll ask her... thanks.

I haven't been able to find it for months.. it's annoying.