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Ennui


Ennui Books

My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Play It As It Lays
The Bell Jar
The New Me
Conversations with Friends
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
The Virgin Suicides
The Pisces
Severance
The Stranger
Less Than Zero
The Catcher in the Rye
El descontento
Assembly
Norwegian Wood
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Cracking The Rich Code Volume 20 by Diane Merrill WiggintonGuidance to Death by Daniel V. Meier Jr.The Egg Man by Carlton Mellick IIIExtreme Makeover by Dan WellsThe Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 3 by Philip K. Dick
Corporate, Workplace and Capitalist Exploitation in Fiction Part III
31 books — 4 voters
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa MoshfeghThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanBunny by Mona Awad
The Female Malaise: She's Sad, Mad, and Bad
263 books — 235 voters

Black Water Sister by Zen ChoThe New Me by Halle ButlerMy Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa MoshfeghGouda Friends by Cathy YardleyLife As An Almost by Vered Hazanchuk
Quarter-Life Crisis
16 books — 7 voters
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa MoshfeghThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathConvenience Store Woman by Sayaka MurataConversations with Friends by Sally RooneyBoy Parts by Eliza Clark
women vs the void
243 books — 604 voters

Quotes Tagged “Ennui”

Don DeLillo
“ The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it. ”
― Don DeLillo, Zero K
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Jack Kerouac
“ Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe they have the power of love yet in their hearts just the same, I just don't know what that word means anymore- All I want is an ice cream cone ...more ”
― Jack Kerouac
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Videos Tagged “Ennui”

Chapter 15 -- In which Sam is invited to a punk rock show
Chapter 15 -- In which Sam is invited to a punk rock show