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4 Juni 2023

everyday is like sunday

für überzeugte oder angehende pessimisten wärmstens empfohlen. fan von schopenhauer, cioran, mainländer und wie sie alle heissen, bin ich letzens über ligottis namen gestolpert und habe mir direkt dieses als erstes buch von ihm bestellt - und wurde alles andere als enttäuscht. ja, er wiederholt eigentlich nur sämtliche talking-points obengenannter, bzw fasst sie zusammen, jedoch fand ich seine art oder seinen stil dabei so angenehm unprätentiös und unaufgeregt, dass es mal eine nette ab

13 Juni 2023

Thomas Ligotti has been hailed as a successor to H

Thomas Ligotti has been hailed as a successor to H.P. Lovecraft, though not from any similarity of style or theme. The comparison comes from an intuition that Ligotti has a unique, interior sense of the horrific, the weird and the uncanny that brings to mind the unsettling originality of Lovecraft. He seems to be plugged into the same power conduit. Ligotti has laid bare the nature of his interior vision in his non-fiction work "The Conspiracy Against the Human Race". It is bleak, pitiless, pes

7 Juni 2023

This was a super interesting book and I’m glad I read it

This was a super interesting book and I’m glad I read it. The writer is erudite and thoughtful and I learned a lot from his references. For example, his account of Buddhism as the most pessimistic religion was interesting and I watched the film “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” based on his discussion. Despite these pluses, I found some of the core premises of the book unsupported/insupportable. For example, the notion that consciousness is inherently bad just seems like a value judgemen

10 Juni 2023

Upon reading this book, little knowledge I had of Thomas Ligotti and the pessimistic bent philosophy

Upon reading this book, little knowledge I had of Thomas Ligotti and the pessimistic bent philosophy. Although I have always favoured more pessimistic philosophies within my life, the book helped me to understand the psychological horrors which lay in our consciousness, as well as pointing out the turpitude of humanities purpose. Thomas Ligotti previously known as an author for writing more supernatural horror stories, taking the mantle after people like Edgar Allan Poe and H.P Lovecraft. In th

8 Juni 2023

Llegó antes de lo previsto y sin ningún daño

Llegó antes de lo previsto y sin ningún daño.

9 Juni 2023

Well that's partly the message of this book

Well that's partly the message of this book. It's written by a horror writer who is afraid of, and sickened by, being a kind of puppet. Yet he's honest enough to communicate what's pulling his strings when he writes horror. As it happened, I had read most of his short-story collections before this book, but the specific message of pessimism wasn't very precise in them. I certainly got the life-is-REALLY-weird and the universe-is-against-me type of "pessimism" found in horror, but I did not under

4 Juni 2023

- Professor Nobody in "Pessimism and Supernatural Horror - Lecture Two

- Professor Nobody in "Pessimism and Supernatural Horror - Lecture Two." In a cogent, straightforward elucidation that pulls no punches, reclusive author lets us in on what feeds the atmosphere of lurking perniciousness pervading his short stories of the metaphysical horror kind. The root cause of human suffering is identified as consciousness being a double-edged sword, which has greatly facilitated humanity's evolutionary premiership, yet at the same time allows more than just a glimpse at the

16 Juni 2023

I've been reading books loosely associated with the group known as Speculative Realists (a group of thinkers who critique 'correlationism', the view that we can never reach what is real beneath our language systems, our means for perception, or our finite manner of being-in-the-world) and came upon this book whose forward is written by Ray Brassier

I've been reading books loosely associated with the group known as Speculative Realists and came upon this book whose forward is written by Ray Brassier. The alignment between Speculative Realism and Ligotti lies in the realization that humans are sentient puppets who have effloresced out of a mindles

9 Juni 2023

Typically the philosophical treatise by an established writer gets ignored by professional philosophers & laymen alike

Typically the philosophical treatise by an established writer gets ignored by professional philosophers & laymen alike. Make that a cult author in a despised genre, a tone of unrelieved despair, & the edition itself costly as all-get-out, & you have all the ingredients for an unread book. Luckily, the latter barrier has been removed. So fans of Thomas Ligotti's personal, unique, & exquisite prose style, or his wizardry with disturbing innuendo, should be gratified; the absence of narrative bein

8 Juni 2023

Notice even the eloquence of the reviewers

Notice even the eloquence of the reviewers. You see, this is what Magician Ligotti is accomplishing. The level of expression, the beautifully crafted sentences and vocabulary requiring the benefit of the Kindle lookup function I’m myself now feeling linguistically challenged to make the grade even in this my own review. Whether you do or do not accept the main thesis: consciousness is a cruel joke played on humans and other living things (start with Schopenhauer and move fo

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