What's a good book to help me cope with my complete and utter mediocrity?

What's a good book to help me cope with my complete and utter mediocrity?

All of them, that's why people read books to begin with

The Recognitions by William Gaddis

Ulysses

Our everyday lives can be something close to heroism

Your own.

i desperately want to write a novel that incorporates elements of Kierkegaard and Dostoyevsky that details the life of an average man as he leaves and then returns to Catholicism
but the only extended writing ive ever done is boring academic writing

Jude the Obscure

The New Testament

Everyone is mediocre.

I'm far more mediocre than most

That's an absurd statement.

if by 'cope' you mean 'collapse into madness', sure

try /pol/ and converting to alt-rightis

literally and unironically this

>accepting your mediocrity

i don't know I don't read. try posting on 4chin some more maybe that will help?

Faust

>I'm far more mediocre than most

Hmmm, I doubt that. Have you read and enjoyed Ready Player One?

No. I'm gonna be the next DFW, someone who desperately tries to disprove his own mediocrity until he kills himself after finally realizing it

No you're not, Dave had much more talent than you have or ever will have.

>tfw you don't even have enough talent to match a mediocre writer

except DFW was actually good and killed himself because of poorly-treated depression

DFW was mediocre at best, IJ is one of the redditiest books in existence

Jesus Christ you're pathetic

His depression wasn't discernible, just like his talent.

How about you just stop being mediocre and read books for better reasons.

Oh you haven't read it?
why are you on lit? have you read more than 5 books in your life?

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>depression is a real thing

pffft

Stoner

Ask the dust, Journey to the end of the night

I'd recommend "A Skeleton in God's Closet".
I for one enjoyed it.

None, because when you're done, you will realize your mediocrity vis-a-vis the author, and then your sense of inferiority will worsen.

Mandel's Marxist Economic Theory
Marx & Engels' Communist Manifesto
Trotzky's Theory of Permanent Revolution

Learn to blame everyone else for your mediocrity

This is the sort of shit I can get behind