The Importance of Irony in a Story

I'm definitely hooked by the idea of someone addicted to self help books. But I really feel like this one's calling out for a soren because I'm what I'm lacking is the kind of grab me by the throat kind of aspect of the story. It absolutely needs a certain doesn't have also good qualities. Right, but it absolutely is an absurdist story at its base. The idea that you would become debilitated by self help is contradictory and so it points towards something absurdist. There's a central irony to that. Like there's and that that he thinks is a really good sign in any story.