/lit/ - Literature

ITT: Books that profoundly changed the way you think or the way you lived your life.

Pic related. Make me fucking frightened that I was missing out on life and was being a pussy. That fear pushed me to actually do things in my life.

Others include:

>Existentialism is a Humanism (I know Sartre himself was a fraud faggot, but the ideas in this little book really pushed me)
>Letters from a Stoic
>Crime and Punishment

>>6327054
>the Gay Science. 10/10 in terms of range, freshness every time, precision, and compelling joy. Nietzsche achieved literary merit with this one more so than Zarathustra.

>>6145359

eh, it's from Nietzsche's days as a faggy romanticist.

The Gay Science was better (tho i coulda done without the shitty poetry)

So I ordered The Gay Science from my local library without little prior knowledge and no prior reading.

How screwed am I?

A masterpiece.

I love this cover so much

Try this instead of Thus. Make sure it's the Kaufman translation. By the way, I envy your intelligent sister. My brother and sister are retards.

did anyone else read this thinking it was about the (superior) homosexual lifestyle?

>>1403106
>I'd say try reading scientific literature

except for you it is quite literal yes