I've become obsessed with Schopenhauer and he's the only writer I can relate to and read...

I've become obsessed with Schopenhauer and he's the only writer I can relate to and read. What should I read along the same lines as him to not become pidgeonholed in one writer? Both fiction/nonfiction is fine.

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Ligotti

Yes, I am a virgin. But I'm not really bitter about it, I used to be but not anymore. I don't agree with his essay on women if that's what you're referring to.

I see that mentioned a lot due to his pessimism. Thanks for the recommendation.

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Peter Wessel Zapffe
Thomas Ligotti
Eugene Thacker
David Benatar
Maybe Nick Land if you can tolerate some William S. Burroughs-esque barely lucid cyberpunk shenanigans

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Zapffe and Thacker seem interesting. I'm definitely going to look into Zapffe I've seen his face posted before but never looked him up. They all seem to be devout pessimists. I enjoy Schopenhauer's ability to turn pessimistic critique into a kind of twisted and broken form of optimism.

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which videogames do you think schoppy would play?

Giacomo Leopardi is the only answer and I find it shameful that Veeky Forums has not recommended him yet

Zapffe was deeply influenced by Shopenhaur, read The Last Messiah, i'm sure you'll like it.

Thacker is very Ligotti-like, and sees the world as not unlike the world as portrayed in the works of Lovecraft.

He's be into some Furi, i reckon.

civ on max difficulty?

pic related is 100% true

I could imagine him playing Sims 2 just so he could remove the pool ladder from the pool and watch as the sims panics in the pool before dying

I think people don't get that Schopenhauer had sympathy for humans and our predicament in the world.

Thomas Bernhard my man

Phillip Mainlander

>I've become obsessed with Schopenhauer and he's the only writer I can relate to and read.

Are you saying this based on reading Will and Representation or just his aphorisms?

Mostly Books 3 and 4 of World as Will and Representation and his essay On the suffering of the world. But reading any of his random essays is a joy for me. I just read A Few Parables in his studies in pessimism and I enjoy his take and viewpoint on life.

This.

Something boring as hell.