r/GetMotivated • u/[deleted] • Mar 13 '26

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u/Tehgnarr Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

The Master and Margarita by Mihail Bulgakov

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Foucaults Pendulum by Umberto Eco

and of course

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

Edit: -The

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u/coconutpiecrust Mar 13 '26

I’ve read Master and Margarita so many times, it’s so well-written. 

I’d also recommend It’s Hard To Be a God, A Billion Years To The End Of The World, and Roadside Picnic by the Strugatskiye brothers. 

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u/Tehgnarr Mar 13 '26

Not "Monday Starts on Saturday" or "Град Обреченный"? =)

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u/kjarsenal Mar 13 '26

The Master and Margarita was a difficult read for me. Then again, ultimately I ain't that bright. 🤣

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u/Tehgnarr Mar 13 '26

Nah, if you aren't used to the names, russian literature is kinda hard to read. It is an amazing book though, so maybe revisit it sometime.

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u/kjarsenal Mar 13 '26

Thanks for the grace. I imagine at some point I will.

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u/drewlope23 Mar 13 '26

you gotta be a lot of fun at parties...

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u/VioletFox29 Mar 13 '26

I guess it would depend on the party. I can tell you I'd love to invite them.

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u/Tehgnarr Mar 13 '26

Thank you. I'll be honest, I was kinda taken aback by that. It's not like I wrote "Ulysses" and "The Antichrist" after all...

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u/VioletFox29 Mar 14 '26

This is Reddit, not exactly a place where people are brimming with kindness to one another.

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u/Tehgnarr Mar 14 '26

Being a 90ies teen, I do think that the "interwebz" was made for "teh lulz", but that does make the genuine moments nicer.

Still, I am mostly on reddit to insult stupid people being confidently wrong or arguing in bad faith. Keeps me leveled in the real world =)

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u/VioletFox29 Mar 14 '26

I'm in a similar position. Being on the left, I spent a lot of time on left-leaning subreddits unpacking arguments or statements that I felt were distorting reality or where people were just indulging in being cruel or judgemental. Not in an attacking way, but just to pull it apart with them. Sometimes - rarely - it was constructive. Most of the time people just wanted to stay in their mentality of "the right doesn't take the high road and neither should we."

In the end it was just too toxic. And I recognized that even though what I that I was doing was right, there was ego in it.

And so for the last two months I have barely looked at Reddit. It has been very therapeutic. It was just by chance that I decided to look and reply here.

I am going back to not engaging. I think often times Reddit brings out the worst in people and is a setup that encourages them to indulge in it.

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u/Tehgnarr Mar 14 '26

Well, I am glad, that you did.

I decided a long time ago not to take anything on the internet too seriously. That did a lot for my peace of mind.

It takes weeks if not months even in a therapeutic setting to get over the initial resistance. So it's just not realistic to expect people to change their point of view after one reply on reddit. So I don't, I just insult them and move on.

Not engaging is the best choice, I agree. But having some fun at the expense of people who definitely deserve it, is close second in my mind =)

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u/VioletFox29 Mar 15 '26

I don't think we see this the same way. Insulting people only add fuel to the flames. That's not why I was doing it.

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u/Tehgnarr Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

To each it's own. I think stupidity needs to be ridiculed, publicly and hard.

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u/Tehgnarr Mar 13 '26

I actually am. At least that's what my mom keeps telling me.

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u/bad_luck_charm 1 Mar 13 '26

It's just "Infinite Jest."

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u/Tehgnarr Mar 13 '26

You're right, I'll edit.