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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as hedonism)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,987,249 ratings — published 1890
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,116,805 ratings — published 1925
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.76 — 153,462 ratings — published 1934
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.59 — 614,198 ratings — published 2018
Against Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.79 — 15,826 ratings — published 1884
The Beach (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as hedonism)
avg rating 4.00 — 104,603 ratings — published 1996
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,144,438 ratings — published 1932
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.61 — 458,754 ratings — published 1957
The Hedonism Handbook: Mastering the Lost Arts of Leisure and Pleasure (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.81 — 554 ratings — published 2004
The Birth of Hedonism: The Cyrenaic Philosophers and Pleasure as a Way of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hedonism)
avg rating 4.19 — 47 ratings — published 2014
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.87 — 974,701 ratings — published 1955
Tropic of Cancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.65 — 79,807 ratings — published 1934
When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight For Joy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hedonism)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,128 ratings — published 2004
Snowdrops (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.29 — 10,249 ratings — published 2011
Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life (Guides to the Good Life)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 4.17 — 361 ratings — published 2022
Counterfeit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.48 — 107,857 ratings — published 2022
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,998,212 ratings — published 1951
Trust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.79 — 190,988 ratings — published 2022
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.87 — 36,001 ratings — published 1796
Untamed Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.76 — 5,343 ratings — published 2020
These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.79 — 173,266 ratings — published 2020
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.69 — 232,945 ratings — published 1899
A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.49 — 37,594 ratings — published 2024
Couples (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,966 ratings — published 1968
Sex and Rage (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.54 — 20,563 ratings — published 1979
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.80 — 379,764 ratings — published 1991
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,112,207 ratings — published 1992
Les Fleurs du Mal (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 4.19 — 83,316 ratings — published 1857
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,151,060 ratings — published 1908
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.62 — 106,078 ratings — published 1985
The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 4.26 — 16,905 ratings — published 1890
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.71 — 388,073 ratings — published 1856
Erotism: Death and Sensuality (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,414 ratings — published 1957
Marius the Epicurean (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.55 — 715 ratings — published 1885
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,775 ratings — published 1873
Catherine House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.11 — 29,736 ratings — published 2020
Money (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.70 — 26,451 ratings — published 1984
Ethical Porn for Dicks: A Man s Guide to Responsible Viewing Pleasure (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 4.08 — 134 ratings — published
Jesus’ Son (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 4.12 — 42,932 ratings — published 1992
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,479,249 ratings — published 2016
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.77 — 9,982 ratings — published 60
Tropic of Capricorn (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.81 — 21,709 ratings — published 1939
The Art of Seduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.90 — 44,213 ratings — published
The Wolf of Wall Street (The Wolf of Wall Street, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 3.75 — 39,663 ratings — published 2007
Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hedonism)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,140 ratings — published 1986
The Philosophy of Dress (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hedonism)
avg rating 3.81 — 16 ratings — published
Les Fleurs du mal (Ledroit) (French Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hedonism)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Principal Doctrines (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hedonism)
avg rating 3.79 — 244 ratings — published 2007
“The shrinks will tell you obsessions are curable.
You dry out, you get clean, you take up meditation, and you learn to sit quietly in a room.
But let’s be honest. People built like us don't get ‘cured.'
You drop one obsession and you violently latch onto the next!
From politics to whiskey to the absolute, terrifying pursuit of the Truth!
You swing from madness to madness, because the alternative is a slow, agonizing death by boredom!”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
You dry out, you get clean, you take up meditation, and you learn to sit quietly in a room.
But let’s be honest. People built like us don't get ‘cured.'
You drop one obsession and you violently latch onto the next!
From politics to whiskey to the absolute, terrifying pursuit of the Truth!
You swing from madness to madness, because the alternative is a slow, agonizing death by boredom!”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“An Orwellian world is much easier to recognize, and to oppose, than a Huxleyan. Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us. We are not likely, for example, to be indifferent to the voices of the Sakharovs and the Timmermans and the Walesas. We take arms against such a sea of troubles, buttressed by the spirit of Milton, Bacon, Voltaire, Goethe and Jefferson. But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture’s being drained by laughter?
I fear that our philosophers have given us no guidance in this matter.”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
I fear that our philosophers have given us no guidance in this matter.”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
