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STOP.


Give me one fucking book that has really had a huge positive impact on your life.


No stoicism, no Jordan Peterson, no faggot ass "my diary desu",
Just ONE recommendation that you would give to your son.

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>>17340245

>> No.17340254

>>17340245
That’s a really tall order for a book, OP.

>> No.17340264

the prince

>> No.17340268

>>17340245
Like asking to chisel a sculpture in one blow.

>> No.17340277

Platos complete works faggot

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>>17340268
Here's your self portrait sculpture

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>> No.17340294

>>17340245
Infinite jset, best book i've ever read, sohuld be required readign for everyboyd. Period, i will fucking debate you.

>> No.17340297

The Way of Men by Jack Donovan

>> No.17340310

>>17340245
I will give you three, the books that made me start to write 'my diary desu.'

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21448988-expressive-writing

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30107973-minha-vida-de-menina

https://b-ok.cc/book/2717651/ad7cc4

Particularly the first and third books. Best books ever.

>> No.17340320

>>17340245
Logic of Sense
good luck faggot

>> No.17340323

Les Misérables

Year of the Intelligent Tigers

People of the Book

>> No.17340331

>>17340323
I have three kids, one for each.

>> No.17340332

>>17340310
I only speak American but I will check out your first rec

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>>17340245
https://opensyllabus.org/

>> No.17340346

>>17340297
I said no reddit tier high schooler books

>> No.17340357

>>17340334
It's a good website anon, I have it bookmarked. Off topic, but if you like music : http://everynoise.com/

>> No.17340427

>>17340346
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

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Decartes is so underrated

>> No.17340429

>>17340245
Years of Rice and Salt

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>> No.17340444

>>17340245
Jordan Peterson - My Meditations diary desu

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>>17340444
GET THE FUCK ON THE GOROUND AND PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK NOWWWWWW!!!!!

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No stoicism...? B-but stoicism has changed how I view the world and made me a more rational man in a world of irrationality Anon

>> No.17340519

Nicomachean Ethics, obviously

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its edgy but you can't refute it

>> No.17340566

>>17340245
Watership Down
Bad things happen. To survive it you have to be clever, quick, bold, and steady or you'll liable to end up in the belly of one of the 1000.

>> No.17340579

Cat's Cradle

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>>17340245

>> No.17340695

>>17340245
The Myth of Sisyphus.

>> No.17340724

Notes from Underground. It taught me to tone down the autism.

>> No.17340833

>>17340245
Chuang Tzu.

>> No.17340847

>>17340833
Zhuangzi?

>> No.17340859 [DELETED] 

>>17340428
Agreed. This book profoundly changed my way of thinking for the better. Take your time with it.

>> No.17340874

>>17340428
Agreed. This book profoundly changed my way of thinking for the better. Take your time with it and you will be rewarded.

>> No.17340876

>>17340289
This but unironically. Had these checked out nonstop from the library

>> No.17340908

>>17340847
No son of mine will be raised to respect pinyin, it's a shit system. Wade-Giles or get disowned, the choice is simple.

>> No.17340920

Capital vol 1

>> No.17340949

>>17340724
how so? Gonna add it to my reading list just based on that lol

>> No.17340966

>>17340245
Tao Te Ching

>> No.17340967

Siddhartha

>> No.17341030

>>17340277
This

>> No.17341086

The little prince. I try to read it every couple years. I seem to get something more every time

>> No.17341206

Bhagwad Geeta

>> No.17341225

>>17341086
Same. The Little Prince always makes you see something else

>> No.17341275

>>17340245
the faerie queene by edmund spenser

>> No.17341288

>>17340245
Meditations on the Tarot and the Hermetic Corpus. Being born into a biblethumper household I have always had a weird relationship to faith and Christianity in general. Researching into Hermeticism under a Christian skein lead to my first qauntifiable religious experience. Though I still have some insecurities about coming off as a LARPer or ingenuine, that is just my life as a whole I guess.

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>>17340245
It showed me that reading can indeed be an immense pleasure.

>> No.17341338

Tractatus Theologico Politicos

>> No.17341353

>>17340264
Based as shit

>> No.17341376

>>17341288
>Meditations on the Tarot
Thanks bro, downloading this one

>> No.17341418

>>17340245
How to be miserable
Wheel of time
Book of Mormon

>> No.17341435

>>17341376
If you have any workable knowledge of Christianity or Hermeticism it is a wonderful book, and even still if you dont. All around it is a wild ride and I hope you get as much out of it as I do, anon.

>> No.17341458

The tartar Steppe. By Dino Buzzati.
The surprising thing is I've become Drogho already, anonei. Read and weep and laugh in despair, o directionless beings.

>> No.17341467

Evola

THE DOCTRINE OF AWAKENING

No joking

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unironically

>> No.17341523

>>17341521
sounds like a good way to inflame my hernia

>> No.17341530

>>17340245
Leaves of Grass

>> No.17341542

>>17340496
my nigga

>> No.17341560

>>17340320
What was the number of the based department again?

>> No.17341599

>>17340245
20 000 miles below the sea. it's a cool adventure and there's a lot to get out of it for all ages.

>> No.17341604

mother night by kurt vonnegut made a big impact on me when i was younger.

>> No.17341607

The Sot-Weed Factor

>> No.17341611

Can't do one, but here's a random bunch that either struck me immensely, or to which I re-read every year.

Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
Christopher Lasch - The Culture of Narcissism
George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss
Roger Scruton - The Soul of the World
Maurice Shadbolt - Winter Fires and Summer Country
Bernhard Schlink - The Reader
Natsume Soseki - Kokoro
Maurice Gee - In My Father's Den
Kenzaburo Oe - The Silent Cry
Laurie Lee - Cider With Rosie

>> No.17341620

>>17341611
*Summer Fires and Winter Country by Maurice Shadbolt

>> No.17341626

>>17340245
Don Quixote

>> No.17341632

>>17340966
>>17340967

These two massively

>> No.17341666

>>17341521
Wake up
Shit your pants
Run 16 miles


Tear your hamstring on mile 8
Keep running anyway

>> No.17341678

>>17341666
that's not shwifty

>> No.17341720

>>17340949
It has detailed descriptions of a bitter, socially inept salaryman having awkward and calculated interactions with people and a manic narration style which is similar to the inner monologue of someone who spends more than 8 hours a day on 4chan

>> No.17341724

Suttree

>> No.17341759

>>17340245
Obligatory "Industrial Society and its Future"

>> No.17341769

>>17340245
Demian by Hermann Hesse

>> No.17341779

for personal benefit, nicomachean ethics. Nietzsche's works, especially twtp, are very informative on the state of the world, however; a biography on Napoleon is particularly relevant to what is happening at this very moment in washington as his actions after becoming consul are nearly equivalent to the democrat party playbook in the past year.

>> No.17341855

all books have a positive impact in my life because reading books is positive

>> No.17341895

The brothers Karamazov. It's the only book you actually need, all other books are memes.

>> No.17341912

>>17340245
The essays of Miche de Montaigne

>> No.17341915

here are some books my dad gave me when i
was growing up

life of pi
great expectations
diary of a young girl
hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde
feluda
charlottes web
ruskin bond omnibus

read these between the ages of 9-11 and i guess each of these books had their own impact on the trajectory of my life.. revisiting books you pored over for days when you were younger can be such a strange and disorienting yet familiar experience --

he also gave me a bunch of bhagwad gita/nich that hanh/eckhart tolle type stuff that i kind of resented then and never read, but i get where it was coming from ..

>> No.17341918

TSATF

>> No.17341930

>>17340245
Cioran, regardless of the book, had a profound impact on me. He's not "le wicked nihilist" faggots make out of him, his thoughts are often beautiful and made me look and my humanity differently.

>> No.17341959

>>17340245
Unironically Being and Time

>> No.17341984

>>17340245
Dante's Inferno

>> No.17342013

>>17340245
A canticle for Leibowitz

>> No.17342204

>>17340245
Sophie's World

>> No.17342209

>>17340245
greater community spirituality lol

>> No.17342235

>>17342013
Had an impact with me also but it already during was during a time of positive change, so it was compounded.

>> No.17342238

>>17342235
Excuse the aneurysm lmfao

>> No.17342479

The Odyssey
The Republic
The Bible
Hamlet
Candide
Brothers Karamazov
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Storm of steel

>> No.17342549

>>17342479
Almost perfect minus the last two.

>> No.17342558

>>17340334
>Communist Manifesto above Nicomachean Ethics

>> No.17342571

>>17342549
would sooner drop the 3rd and the 6th one

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This one. A pocket book, if you will

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>> No.17342653

>>17341292
based Fantomas poster

>> No.17342673

>>17340245
Swiss Family Robinson

>> No.17342690

>>17340245
Any big and basic cook book.

>> No.17342709

>>17342571
*tips fedora*
A fellow intellectual I see. Heh...

>> No.17342711

>>17340245
The Hobbit
First book I really enjoyed reading and what got me interested in books and reading throughout my life

>> No.17342712

>>17340268
This and /thread

>> No.17342713

>>17340245
Brothers K
Now fuck off

>> No.17342714

Self reliance by Emerson

>> No.17342734

>>17340245
A Brief History of Time

>> No.17342760

Screwtape Letters

>> No.17342787

Denial of death

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>>17342709
your days are numbered, oblivious kike puppet

>> No.17343002

>>17340245
>Politics and the English Language
>Simulacra and Simulacrum
Helped me see the news and the whole media landscape as propaganda
>The Republic
Made me a schizo conspiracy theorist

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>>17340245
Goodbye things by Fumio Sasaki. I was already a minimalist before I read it, but Sasaki's way of thinking about minimalism helped me in other aspects of my life beyond decluttering.

>> No.17343018

>>17343002
>Helped me see the news and the whole media landscape as propaganda
Read Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control

>> No.17343042

>>17343009
I lent this book to my neighbour.
Nige, is that you?

>> No.17343148

>>17343042
Nope, bought the book myself. Cool to see others have read it though.

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not letting my son touch philosophy until he's read this

>> No.17343171

>>17340245
The Book of Disquiet.

>> No.17343657

>>17340245
The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenberg
On The Heavenly Spheres by Helena Avelar

>> No.17343701

>>17343163
I had the amazing luck to read this all for free, because I just happened to find myself on the manga site when someone was uploading it, but before people could tell them scans of official translations are not allowed. Good manga, but it only works as an introduction to the books.

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>>17343163

>> No.17344692

>>17340245
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

>> No.17344839

>>17343163
>Make your socks happy by folding them a certain way


Let's hope you never reproduce

>> No.17344874

>>17344692
based

>> No.17344992

>>17340245
Sleeping Freshman Never Lie by David Lubar

>> No.17345081

>>17343002
>Simulacra and Simulacrum
This is basically the same idea of Society of the spectacle am I right?

>> No.17345095

>>17340245
Roadside Picnic

>> No.17345105

>>17340245
Two Hands of God by Alan Watts

>> No.17345118

>>17340245
Anna Karenina, so many lessons.

>> No.17345128

>>17340294
Take a breath, anon

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>>17340245
Learn to code

>> No.17345407

>>17345362
Rust gang