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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Some excellent passages scattered amidst what feels like convoluted nonsense. Reading it was like listening to a well read cynic babbling on his death bed and occasionally saying something strikingly incisive.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide
dark
inspiring
reflective
It’s strange reading a series of short, often self-aggrandising, suppositions. Cioran talks from a very personal, bordering on self-obsessed, perspective. His “in the moment” inner monologue fails to draw broader, robust conclusions on wider society. Some of his observations are simply immature. He truly seems to believe that he “feels” things more than others do. I could see why Cioran’s philosophy would be attractive to teenagers but I cannot understand how he has built up a credible following.
It did encourage me to get back into reading philosophy though. So that’s something.
It did encourage me to get back into reading philosophy though. So that’s something.
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Content Warnings
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
funny
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
dark
funny
reflective
slow-paced
The 15 year old edge-lord me would have loved this. I don’t really know how to rate this book. A subjective part of me reaaally hated it and tried to opose everything, but objectively it can be mindblowingly eyeopening. To each their own. Nihilism and pessimism is not really my cup of tea or rather the cup of tea I try hard to resist, but it’s a great cup of tea regardless.
adventurous
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Sharp, straightforward and kinda depressing. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
challenging
dark
funny
reflective