/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10720108]

What is a book that has unironically influenced your worldview?

[Anonymous No.10720112]

>>10720108
The Recognitions made me into a christian for some reason.

[Anonymous No.10720549]

All of them

[Anonymous No.10720555]

12 steps to life

[Anonymous No.10720558]

>>10720108
my diary desu

[Anonymous No.10720577]

Plato cured me of relativism

[Anonymous No.10720578]

None. All the books I read just provide more material for crafting layers upon layers of intricate irony designed to shield myself from facing reality and my true inner self.

[Anonymous No.10720621]

>>10720112
>reading 950 page novels

[Anonymous No.10720628]

>>10720108
Brothers Karamazov

[Anonymous No.10720637]

>>10720108
The Catcher in the Rye

[Anonymous No.10720669]

>>10720637
Cool pic from google bro

[Anonymous No.10720712]

The Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell to Arms turned me into a stoic.

[Anonymous No.10720735]

Zhaungzi

[Anonymous No.10720775]

Gulag archipelago really makes me hate public education that glosses over that shit.

[Anonymous No.10720811]

>>10720637
>t. not born in the 20th century

[Anonymous No.10720838]

>>10720108
The world as will and representation

[Anonymous No.10720841]

Selby Screaming

[Anonymous No.10720844]

>>10720558
This but unironically

[Anonymous No.10721180]

>>10720577
Literally how? Plato's views are impossible to take this seriously.

[Anonymous No.10721201]

>>10721180
How are they not?

[Anonymous No.10721293]

Fanged Noumena, unironically

[Anonymous No.10721309]

>>10720578
>true inner self
There's no such thing. The layers of irony regress infinitely.

[Anonymous No.10721311]

>>10720108
The very hungry caterpillar.

[Anonymous No.10721312]

>>10720621

[Anonymous No.10721314]

>>10720775
It's interesting how selective /pol/ is about which atrocities against humanity they believe actually happened.

[Anonymous No.10721369]

Divine Comedy

[Anonymous No.10722170]

Gone Girl.
It's turned me pro-marriage.

[Anonymous No.10722179]

Christopher Lasch's True and Only Heaven
Ivan Illich's In the Vineyard of the Text

[Anonymous No.10722182]

The Stranger

[Anonymous No.10722263]

The Book of Job by G-d.
How to Design Programs as published by The MIT Press.†
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melvill.
McSweeney's #13 by Chris Ware (the Editor).
The City of G-d Against the Pagans written by none other than Saint Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis himself.
The Browning version of Agamemnon.
"The Electronic Ant" by the late, great Phil K. Dick.

† I'm too lazy to list all their names, so instead the publisher was noted.

[Anonymous No.10722272]

>>10720108

[Anonymous No.10722637]

The analects
Unironically

[Anonymous No.10722646]

>>10722272

Ah yes, the Weltanschauung

[Anonymous No.10722651]

>>10720578
then you only read shit-tier stuff .... and/or are a shit-tier person

[Anonymous No.10722655]

Orlando by Virginia Woolfe desu

[Anonymous No.10722659]

>>10720108
End of Faith

[Anonymous No.10722665]

Necromancer by Gibson, I think

[Anonymous No.10722805]

Many books influenced my world view, but if you ask me the one that changed the most, probably was Starship Troopes, by Heinlein.
I can think of more, but this one, influenced all aspects of my life (sadly it didnt made me start working out like a soldier tho)

[Anonymous No.10724017]

The gay science
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand

[Anonymous No.10724038]

Notes from underground

[Anonymous No.10724057]

When I was an adolescent: a collection of Edgar Allan Poe stores/poems. Made me aware of melancholy at maybe too young an age.

In my early 20s: The Brothers Karamazov. Made me think more critically about where morality comes from.

Late 20s: Anna Karenina. Continued moral questioning.

Early 30s: The Sword of Honor trilogy. Problems that face the believer in the modern world, especially acedia.

[Anonymous No.10724059]

>>10720108

Current worldview:

The Bible
Liber Null and Psychonaut
Fear and Trembling
World as Will and Representation Volume I

Previous worldview:

Popper Selections
Being and Nothingness
The Rebel
Living in Truth by Vaclav Havel

Previous previous worldview:

Power and Market by Rothbard
The Social Contract by Ardrey
Free to Choose by Friedman

With some bleedover chronologically

[Anonymous No.10724065]

>>10720621
>novel to big hurt my little wrist

[Anonymous No.10724076]

Silence made me more patient and empathetic

[Anonymous No.10724261]

Harry Potter.

It told me never to be afraid of fighting evil.

[Anonymous No.10724320]

>>10722179
>Christopher Lasch's True and Only Heaven
I've only read The Culture of Narcissism, how is True and Only Heaven?

[Anonymous No.10725649]

>>10724059
epic

[Anonymous No.10725878]

>>10720108
>The Qur'an
Fixed me up wholly
>The alchemist
Gave me urge to find a wife, which I did.
>Notes from underground
Fixed my overthinking

[Anonymous No.10725884]

>>10720108
Tristram Shandy

[Anonymous No.10725885]

>>10720108
Picture of Dorian Gray

[Anonymous No.10725886]

Unironically though

[Anonymous No.10725887]

>>10724059
>liber null
wtf is this occult bullshit

[Anonymous No.10726001]

The Symposium

[Anonymous No.10726830]

>>10720112
Interesting. Any idea why?

[Anonymous No.10726836]

>>10725887

Shut up

[Anonymous No.10726869]

>>10720108
Yeah, depending on how strongly you view "world view". I have to remain open minded when trying to compare historical datas.

[Anonymous No.10726881]

Man's Search for Meaning

[Anonymous No.10726924]

On the Genealogy of Morals

[Anonymous No.10726947]

Lone Wolf and Cub, it's surprisingly deep despite appearances.

[Anonymous No.10727002]

Lolita. It made me a more confident man who gets what he wants.

[Anonymous No.10727201]

>>10720735
My man

[Anonymous No.10727207]

art of happiness

[Anonymous No.10727208]

>>10722637
Confucianism is Eastern Slave Morality and needs to be destroyed

[Anonymous No.10727214]

>>10727208
>Confucianism is Eastern Slave Morality
you should get some kind of award for how dumb this is

[Anonymous No.10727217]

>>10720108
Thus Spake Zarathustra. It gave me the insight that people, and therefore power structures and traditions, are as full of shit as I am.

[Anonymous No.10727225]

>>10727214
That's actually a fairly popular opinion

[Anonymous No.10727235]

The Apology of Socrates when I was a teenager, it turned me into a shitty ascetist loser, now I'm healing myself by reading Homer and Thucydides nonstop.

[Anonymous No.10727238]

>>10720637
Putting yourself as the catcher is something sad you fuck

[Anonymous No.10727305]

>>10720108
Literally all of them.

[Anonymous No.10727534]

Light thru an Eastern Window helped me convert to Christianity

Tolstoy's Confessions helped me understand my faith better and gave me a clearer understanding of philosophy, (even if it is severely limited)

Mere Christianity helped me understand the basic tenants of the faith better

[Anonymous No.10729130]

>>10720549
Pleb detected

[Anonymous No.10729151]

Corruption of Champions made me realize that if you do wrong you can't justify yourself, and if you do right you always can; that way you can tell what's wrong and what's right

[Anonymous No.10730511]

How I first dipped my toes into biosemiotics. A very profound change.

[Anonymous No.10730537]

>>10730511
Now we have a book that is starting to articulate that change that I, and apparently quite a few other biosemiotians have developed.

[Anonymous No.10730539]

>>10730537

[Anonymous No.10730579]

>>10727305
Haha

[Anonymous No.10730624]

>>10720108
The Nicomachean Ethics

[Anonymous No.10730627]

>>10730539
Of course it didn't capture all the change in my world view or it's nuances but it gets close. More importantly it is a foot in the door.
Check out this portion of the review that convinced me to buy this book, I will be reading this asap.

[Anonymous No.10730655]

>>10730511
interesting, can you elaborate

[Anonymous No.10730706]

>>10724059
Chaos magik©

[Anonymous No.10730759]

>>10722655
another wolf in sheeps clothing

[Anonymous No.10730811]

Unironically opened my eyes.

[Anonymous No.10731602]

>>10722170
literally how?
Never read the book, but the movie pretty much made me wanna to end mine.

[Anonymous No.10731609]

The Ego and its Own
The Stranger/The Myth of Sysyphus
I think Leaves of Grass did it a lot as well, but in a very subjective way

[Anonymous No.10731633]

Whatever

[Anonymous No.10731640]

>>10720108
Most of the works by Koontz. His novels helped me improve myself.

[Anonymous No.10731643]

a lot of books influenced me t.bh, but Notes from Underground saved my life

[Anonymous No.10731650]

>>10720108
I feel with every new book i read my own world view becomes more clouded and opaque. I don't even think I have one anymore.

[Anonymous No.10731805]

A mishmash but all of these:

Divān-e Hāfez
Sonnet 57 by William Shakespeare
David Hume generally
The German Ideology by Karl Marx
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts by Marx
Capital by Marx
On the Jewish Question by Marx
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Literally everything by Thomas Hardy
Poezii de Mihai Eminescu
History and Class Consciousness by Gyorgy Lukacs
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce
Poezii de Lucian Blaga
The Prison Colony by Franz Kafka
Four Archetypes by Carl Jung
Minima Moralia by Theodor Adorno
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
The Dialectic of Sex by Shulamith Firestone
Being and Nothingness by Sartre
Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
Critique of Libertarian Liberalism by Michel Clouscard
Complete Poems - Philip Larkin
Neuromancer by William Gibson
The Drowned World by JG Ballard
Super-Cannes by JG Ballard
Empire of the Sun/The Kindness of Women by JG Ballard
Everything Michel Houellebecq has ever written (including Lanzarote)
Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño
Fanged Noumena by Nick Land

[Anonymous No.10731972]

>>10720108
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut jr.

[Anonymous No.10732704]

The Myth of Sisyphus

[Anonymous No.10732766]

>>10727235
So you're regressing?

>>10730624
Patrician

[Anonymous No.10732939]

The Fountainhead

[Anonymous No.10732960]

>>10720108
Ulysses

Made me realize how much goes on in my day-to-day life and made me slow the fuck down for a bit and get my shit together.

[Anonymous No.10733355]

I recently read just read Saint Augustine confessions and had previously read Brother Karamazov, both made me a bit more religious. Speak, Memory by Nabokov made me think about my past a bit more and try to put them into themes. I know like butterflies a bit more now.

[Anonymous No.10735294]

>>10724065
Hi Cliff

[Anonymous No.10735370]

>>10726881
this is probably mine, too. I've focused more on bettering myself (mostly through working out) and my relationships with others after reading this.

The bit about working overnight while in Auschwitz and thinking about his wife and the bliss it brought him was sublime

[Anonymous No.10735560]

>>10720108
the things they carried

[Anonymous No.10735569]

>>10727002
dad pls

[Anonymous No.10735582]

[Anonymous No.10735588]

[Anonymous No.10735677]

The hidden dimension by Edward T. Hall, i gave me a very new perspective in general about the human behavior in space termns. Totally recommendable

[Anonymous No.10735691]

This webpage turned me vegan
http://aryanism.net/culture/veganism/
The rest of the website in general caused my morality to become universalist. I've read other stuff since then but mostly it's been just confirming what I believe at the time, like Mundus Millennialis, or is something that doesn't affect me profoundly. I think it's mostly that I had thought of tribalistic behavior as a pragmatic solution to the issues facing our society; I did not consider that it was ultimately perpetuating the condition that I wanted to transcend.
Also the Malkavian Bible turned me into a Gnostic :^)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o7G_3deGps&index=1&list=PLE80D7FD88E490520

[Anonymous No.10735699]

>>10735691
seems pretty nutso, friend

[Anonymous No.10735713]

>>10720108
Arturo's Island

[Anonymous No.10735723]

>>10720108
Where's Waldo

[Anonymous No.10735935]

>>10735699
It's meant to be that way, only people who are open to strange ideas would consider watching the video or reading the site I linked anyway. I will say that the payoff at the end of the playlist I linked was worth the short amount of time I spent with it. It profoundly changed my worldview, which is why I posted it.

[Anonymous No.10736025]

>>10720108
>On the marble cliffs - Ernst jünger
Cured me from being an edgy pre alt-righter
>Beauty a very short introduction - Roger Scruton
Made me realize the huge importance of aesthetics

[Anonymous No.10736086]

Man and His Symbols
Changed how I look at mythology and symbols.

1984
When I read this at 17 I never conceived that people would want power for powers sake because I had been raised on too much me-against-the-world individualistic American narratives.

[Anonymous No.10736205]

>>10726001
Same here — I find the speech of Alcibiades incredibly moving, in that it's the birth of the individual (as was dear to Kierkegaard). How did it change your worldview?

[Anonymous No.10737247]

Moby Dick

I had always been interested in nature and animals, but now I really truly respect and love animals, I'm not a vegan lol but now I hunt and procure all of my own meat and feel much more connected to the food chain

[Anonymous No.10737257]

>>10726001
I love when Socrates can't stand up and move to the other couch because he has such a raging hard on for the cute boy next to him lol

[Anonymous No.10737272]

>>10721314
You mean like parading the Holocaust, but denying/ignoring all the others? You communist fuck.

[Anonymous No.10737288]

None really. Only E7. The written word is a dead medium and always has been. I am not a nihilist and so I seek lively media.

[Anonymous No.10737329]

>>10720108
Moby Dick
my depression went savage but also with sparks of freedom and creativity-

[Anonymous No.10737552]

>>10731640
deep

[Anonymous No.10737610]

>>10737247
is Moby Dick somewhat similar to the movie 'Free Willy'?

[Anonymous No.10737644]

>>10720108
Siddhartha. Before I read it I was a fat neet wagecuck who wanted to kill himself. Now I'm a thinner, comp sci student who wants to kill himself.

[Anonymous No.10737653]

>>10721314
This isn't /pol/ though bucko, this is /lit/.

[Anonymous No.10738084]

>>10737644
How can you be both a neet and a wagecuck at the same time?

[Anonymous No.10738090]

>>10738084
Shit, I forgot one of the E's is employment.

[Anonymous No.10738319]

"No treason - The constitution of no authority" by Lysander Spooner

[Anonymous No.10738621]

>>10720108
1984

[Anonymous No.10738788]

Candide changed my life in high school.

[Anonymous No.10739074]

>>10735691
Are you still smoking weed? This isn't even the best presentation of Gnosticism.

[Anonymous No.10739188]

>>10720108
Conspiracy against human race and Tazkiratul Auliya (Gathering of the Saints)

[Anonymous No.10739506]

[Anonymous No.10739572]

Means search for meaning: for a sense of propose
No longer human: as a picture of what my bad qualities taken to the extreme might look like
Marcus Aurelius' meditations: not for the death shit but for simple living and being in the present

[Anonymous No.10740590]

>>10739074
>This isn't even the best presentation of Gnosticism
Did I ever make the claim that it was the "best presentation of Gnosticism"? All I said was the one I posted influenced my worldview.

[Anonymous No.10740785]

most important man alive

[Anonymous No.10741028]

>>10720108
2666, Amalfitano is inspiring.

[Anonymous No.10742248]

>>10720108
Meditations really helped my anxiety desu.

[Anonymous No.10742849]

Myth of the Rational Voter by Bryan Caplan
Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution by Ayn Rand
Leftism: From Marx and De Sade to Hitler and Marcuse by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
Explaining Post-Modernism by Stephen Hicks

As you can tell, I'm a right-wing libertarian.

[Anonymous No.10743974]

Robert Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land

[Anonymous No.10744275]

Huntington's Clash of Civilizations.

[Anonymous No.10744345]

The Holy Bible

>John 3:16-21