Anyone have a favorite antidote book? Something that bucks you up when you're feeling nasty? I love the novels of PG Wodehouse, Tom Sharpe and the essays of Dave Barry. Anyone else have suggestions?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Earlier this year I read Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling, Camus's The Stranger, and Nietzsche's The Gay Science all side by side, and that combination really pulled me out of the despair I had been feeling.
anti-augustine49
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May 31, 2018
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Adam Gopnik always makes me happy, also Christopher Moore
AmelieMatisse
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May 30, 2018
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'Cider with Rosie' by Laurie Lee... failing that, any Calvin and Hobbes anthology 
moNOtheist
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May 30, 2018
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My favorites for when I am in a mood is pretty much anything written by david wong.
Izludehyral
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