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Originally Posted by issybird
A provocative and worthy list. I’ll comment on three of the titles: I read sections of both Critique of Pure Reason and Being and Nothingness in college and nothing could get me to pick them up again and finish them, so I’d be beaten before I started. And Our American Cousin surely didn’t make the list because of literary significance, but because of its historical association.
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Some of the titles on the list were clearly meant to be used as placement during the plot of a particular episode. But Daria's misanthropy and borderline nihilism were the driving forces of the show and her reading always showed that. There used to be a social media post running around that had screenshots of each of these books actually making an appearance in the show.
I will never forget the flashback image of 12 year old Daria climbing into her cardboard "play fort" to read Moby Dick.