/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12538232]

What's a book that legitimately changed your life?

[Anonymous No.12538237]

[Anonymous No.12538238]

>>12538232
Lolita by Nabokov being paedo scum can be romantic.

[Anonymous No.12538239]

>>12538232
Catcher in the Rye

[Anonymous No.12538246]

Culture of Critique

[Anonymous No.12538247]

>>12538232
Walden

[Anonymous No.12538257]

>>12538232

blood meridian made me get my shit together

[Anonymous No.12538263]

>>12538232
The Anatomy Of Melancholy

[Anonymous No.12538277]

>>12538257
I'll check it out

[Anonymous No.12538311]

>>12538232
The Holy Bible.

[Anonymous No.12538312]

>>12538232
Harrypotyer

[Anonymous No.12538314]

>>12538237
based pascal poster

[Anonymous No.12538327]

Letters from a stoic, seneca

[Anonymous No.12538339]

Epictetus, the road to serfdom

[Anonymous No.12538376]

>>12538327
I only read it once, loved it and was sad when it was over
>>12538339
Wonderful insights

Despite both of these books, the best and all time greatest has got to be Marcus Aurelius

[Anonymous No.12538391]

>>12538327
>>12538339
>>12538376
You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at once fruitful and barren and uncertain: imagine to yourselves INDIFFERENCE as a power--how COULD you live in accordance with such indifference? To live--is not that just endeavoring to be otherwise than this Nature? Is not living valuing, preferring, being unjust, being limited, endeavouring to be different? And granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means actually the same as "living according to life"--how could you do DIFFERENTLY? Why should you make a principle out of what you yourselves are, and must be? In reality, however, it is quite otherwise with you: while you pretend to read with rapture the canon of your law in Nature, you want something quite the contrary, you extraordinary stage-players and self-deluders! In your pride you wish to dictate your morals and ideals to Nature, to Nature herself, and to incorporate them therein; you insist that it shall be Nature "according to the Stoa," and would like everything to be made after your own image, as a vast, eternal glorification and generalism of Stoicism! With all your love for truth, you have forced yourselves so long, so persistently, and with such hypnotic rigidity to see Nature FALSELY, that is to say, Stoically, that you are no longer able to see it otherwise-- and to crown all, some unfathomable superciliousness gives you the Bedlamite hope that BECAUSE you are able to tyrannize over yourselves--Stoicism is self-tyranny--Nature will also allow herself to be tyrannized over: is not the Stoic a PART of Nature? . . . But this is an old and everlasting story: what happened in old times with the Stoics still happens today, as soon as ever a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise; philosophy is this tyrannical impulse itself, the most spiritual Will to Power, the will to "creation of the world," the will to the causa prima.

[Anonymous No.12538395]

>>12538327
Pretentious fucker

[Anonymous No.12538398]

Eckhart Tolls & A Course in Miracles.

[Anonymous No.12538481]

>>12538232

Genuinely was one of the factors behind why I have decided to pursue medicine.

[Anonymous No.12538490]

>>12538391
F-Freddy?...

[Anonymous No.12538491]

>>12538232

Genuinely was one of the reasons I decided to pursue medicine

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[Anonymous No.12538786]

>>12538232
>Crime and Punishment
>Les Miserables
>Divine Comedy (Inferno)
>The Forbidden Forest

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[Anonymous No.12539152]

>>12538232
Unironically this
To my not-well-read teenage mind, it was really good at elucidating some of the mechanisms underlying our society, and some of the philosophical, psychological, sociological, economic, and historical tidbits were like pure richened fodder for my mind. I couldn't get enough of it. To me, it was the right mix of things told in the right way and with the right kind of insight.

Still haven't gotten to antifragile, might do it when I finish my current fiction run

[Anonymous No.12539156]

>>12539152
Motherfucker I forgot pic related
God I'm retarded fucking nonce cunt

[Anonymous No.12539157]

"The Innermost Kernel" by Suzzane Gieser

[Anonymous No.12539161]

>>12538232

[Anonymous No.12539168]

Sanshirō by Sōseki (pic related)
>helped me come to terms with the concept of lost love

Sound of the waves by Mishima
>Made me stop being a bitch about what i want in life, you get only what you work for

El Hablador by Vargas Llosa
>just a beautiful story which left an impressionable imprint on my mind

[Anonymous No.12539178]

Pleb: Any dostoevsky, any stoicism
Patrician: Any shakespeare, any tolstoy

[Anonymous No.12539191]

>>12538232
Stefan Effenberg - Ich hab's allen gezeigt

[Anonymous No.12539223]

>>12538391
Based Knee-cha poster

[Anonymous No.12539231]

>>12538232

Finnegans Wake

[Anonymous No.12539293]

>>12538232
not a specific book but i was reddit tier atheist before reading dosto. marcus' meditations also helped me deal with the death of loved ones.

>>12538391
fuck you nietzzchee

[Anonymous No.12539294]

>>12538238
I'm currently reading this right now and I find it absolutely fantastic. Are all his stories written that way? I love the prose so much.

[Anonymous No.12539319]

>>12539293
>reddit tier atheist

And now you’re a retard that believes a sky wizzard is the the ultimate truth to everything.

[Anonymous No.12539664]

>>12538232
Unironically Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, made me get back into literature. (Plus Hunter S Thompson can really look at the roots of issues you can really tell in The Great Shark Hunt)

[Anonymous No.12539681]

>>12539319
Thou ought not argueth with religious retards, lest thee wish thy brain to rot.

[Anonymous No.12539685]

>>12538791
i was a bit disappointed when i immediately finished the book but after a few months i am always surprised how it has affected me. its probably for worse than for the better objectively but it has nourished my soul i suppose

[Anonymous No.12539713]

The Alchemist. I went from gaming all day and getting high to moving to another country,finding a job and a gf. Now everything is better because of it. Yes,yes,bring on the shitstorm abouf the book.

[Anonymous No.12539721]

>>12539681
Please be respectful of our possessed brethren. They are not at fault for being indoctrinated.

[Anonymous No.12539850]

>>12539156
I am currently reading antifragile and the theme and content is fantastic, but Nassim sometimes tends to repeat everything a hundred times like an aspie and it gets tedious, even more than he did in the black swan

Also if you're on this path dont forget fooled by randomness

[Anonymous No.12539896]

>>12539850
Thanks anon, i'll definitely pick it up soon. hopefully antifragile can showcase some further interesting insights and perspectives

[Anonymous No.12539933]

Meditation on Peaks by Julius Evola

[Anonymous No.12539946]

>>12538311
only valid answer

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[Anonymous No.12540028]

Moby-Dick, the Daodejing, essays of Montainge, and the Iliad.

[Anonymous No.12540086]

>>12540028
Which translation of the Daodejing do you recommend?

[Anonymous No.12540246]

Not exactly high literature, but nothing can compete in terms of what inspired the most personal change in me.

[Anonymous No.12540291]

>>12539713
Sell me this book.

[Anonymous No.12540326]

>>12540291
Coelho is a funny guy and would probaly be a meme on /lit/ if Brazil wasn't so irrelevant.

[Anonymous No.12540418]

The Bible.

[Anonymous No.12540428]

>>12539933
Would you recommend this from Evola beyond his other works?

[Anonymous No.12540462]

>>12539293
Nietzsche was right about the tyrannical ature of philosophical systems.

Valéry, who despite his taste for general reasoning harbored a strong defiance to philosophy, made a very similar point in one of his essays.

[Anonymous No.12540537]

Not a "book" but reading Lenin's work on imperialism sparked my interest for international relations and economic development as a part of history. I don't think an intellectually honest person can defend the proposed solutions of Marxist-Leninism but I find their commentary on the natural direction of industrial capitalist society, from free markets towards a more homogeneous and centralized sort of mcworld, to be very prognostic of our state of affairs today.

[Anonymous No.12540601]

Loki.

[Anonymous No.12540604]

>>12539319
>>12539681
>>12539721

the insurgence of the aforementioned reddit tier atheist shows the absolute state of this board. please refer to pic related.

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[Anonymous No.12540637]

>>12539850
Yeah that was my main complaint about Antifragile. Genuinely interesting ideas, but I'd be skimming a lot by the end of a section.
If I feel like I get the picture of Antifragile, are his other books worth reading if I don't particularly care about the business/econ side of it?

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[Anonymous No.12540692]

this desu

[Anonymous No.12540757]

>>12540428
yes, it's a great read and it's perfect for beginners.
even my mom liked it since my edition explains all the hindu stuff pretty well.

[Anonymous No.12541970]

>>12539178
>Shakespeare
>Patrician

Jesus Christ, you are likely reading bullshit drivel his scribes wrote

[Anonymous No.12541984]

>>12538232
Siege by James Mason.

[Anonymous No.12542047]

Better to Never Have Been by David Benatar. Changed my life for the worse, don't read it.

[Anonymous No.12542221]

>>12538232
Industrial Society and its Future.

[Anonymous No.12542233]

>>12538391
Based Philosophical Assassin

[Anonymous No.12542251]

>>12540692
What did you got from it that changed you?I've never read it.

[Anonymous No.12542340]

camus got me into lit and philosophy. i can remember reading this real early one morning feeling like someone was finally putting into words all these vague notions that had so long been floating around in my head. i felt camus was explaining myself to me and further showing me that i was not alone and the world deserved greater credit and respect than my selfish teenage self at given it.

>>12540692
this too, probably. i read that book in the course of the night as a teenager and it pulled me, at least temporarily, out of my stupor of bitterness and resentment. i can remember thinking "I have missed out my whole life" and yet being totally exhilarated, like a new world was just opening up. unfortunately, reading On The Road did not solve my problems or bring me fully into a new and better world. but it gave me a real nudge in that direction.

[Anonymous No.12542405]

NONE OF YOU HAVE HEARD OF THIS BOOK
I WILL SHARE MY KNOWLEDGE WITH YOU

REALITY
TRANSURFING
BY VADIM ZELAND
VOLUMES 1-5

[Anonymous No.12542610]

>>12540664
This is my favorite book of all time. I was required to read it in school at age 15 and I fucking HATED it. A year later I read it again (after falling in love with a character just like Maria) and it shook me to my very core. I still re-read it once a year and it still blows me away every time. I tried reading On Heroes and Tombs but it hasn't quite "caught" me like this book.

[Anonymous No.12542706]

>>12538232
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius completely changed how I think

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>>12538232

[Anonymous No.12542743]

>>12540604
This board is like 95% christfags, you absolute mongoloid.

[Anonymous No.12543075]

>>12539713
You are such a fucking pleb. 4th grade level lit right there. Kys.

[Anonymous No.12543373]

>>12538232
I want to read Fear And Trembling because I get the impression it's this type of book.

Also Brothers Karamazov did change my life.

[Anonymous No.12543390]

>>12538237
>>12538247
>>12538327
noice

>>12538395
how is seneca pretentious?

[Anonymous No.12543713]

>>12543075
>*sips tea*
>"I'm actually a Joyce scholar"
>has only read the first paragraph Joyce's wikipedia page
>just had to google The Alchemist because had never heard of it

[Anonymous No.12544054]

Thus Spoke Zarathustra gave me a taste for hiking and going /out/, which I’ve been doing these last years on my own. Nietzsche in general is very comforting to read. Also Musil is a great inspiration for me, how could one man be so eloquent when talking about random states of consciousness or different feelings blows my mind. Cortázar was the one who made me think that I need to write a novel, which is still on hold because as of now it is pure sentiments but lack of ideas.
With Philosophy I’d say reading about epistemology had a strong effect on my perception of things too.

[Anonymous No.12544170]

>>12538232
On the road by Kerouac

[Anonymous No.12545029]

>>12542743
>pulls number out of ass
>haven't read what the post replied to
>calls someone else mongoloid

>>12540614
why? i've read it and enjoyed it, but it was not life changing.

[Anonymous No.12545055]

>>12544170
it's a pretty based book

[Anonymous No.12545091]

>>12544054
Du wirst es nie schaffen

[Anonymous No.12545094]

>>12538232
It didn't exactly change my life, but the way I view human relationships.