/lit/ - Literature

I don't get this meme. No book has ever changed me. Some has given me food for thought, some have made me consider things but nothing has ever changed me significantly.

every single piece of writing has changed me. even this thread

>>22614030
Not even my passion for writing comes from books. I owe that more to the video games and anime of my childhood that led me to writing fan fiction before I started working on my own stuff.

>>22614033
OP here. I suppose the books didn't really change me either, but they did unlock something that was always there. Reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra made the part of me that thinks in Nietzschean terms come out in full.

Him.

>>22614047
Sounds like reading >>22614033 has had a fairly profound change on your life, anon fundamentally changed the way you view literature. You don't come across as very self aware and easily influenced.

>>22614129
>*rips bong*
It isn't that at all. The anon just made me reconsider my wording. My OP should have said, "what books brought something out of you" instead of changed you. Or maybe more accurately, it should have accounted for both scenarios.

>>22614081
based

>>22614030
The Qur'an, also The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times

>How many books have you read that actually profoundly changed your life or way of thinking

bout tree fiddy

OP here
>Blood Meridian
>The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>Misc Buddhist Sutras
>The Turner Diaries desu
That is about it.

>>22614156
How did these two affect you exactly?

For me, reading Marshall McLuhan in my early 20's completely changed how I saw almost everything. Understanding Media and The Gutenberg Galaxy stoked my imagination so hard it sent me into a curiosity-driven reading frenzy for nearly a decade.

Mogens from Mogens and Other Short Stories
Niels Lyhne
Plato's Republic
Hume's Philosophy
Moby Dick
All of Samuel Johnson's writings
The Book of Disquiet

The philosophy has changed me, and the writings have graced me with myself and I love myself as I am and have been even if I didn't know myself back then but always felt myself as I am.

>>22616044
Based schizo anon

>>22614030
30+

I think Arthur de Gobineau's books about race have made me schizophrenic and not in a good way.

i started the practice of libation after reading greek literature (and listening to gangsta rap)

>>22618009
What are some of them?

"[...] This condition was indispensable, and here's why: the Celts of Gaul, animated by a very franc local spirit, and full of turbulence, were much more concerned, in the affairs of their cities, with questions of persons than with de facto issues. The politics of their nations had, in this habit, taken on a liveliness of allure that was hardly-pro-portioned to the size of the territories. Perpetual revolutions had worn-out most of these peoples. Theocracy, overthrown almost everywhere, first erased before the nobility, then, at a time when the Romans went beyond the limits of Provence, democracy and its inseparable sister, demagogy, invading in turn, had attacked the power of the nobles. The presence of such ideas clearly heralded that the mixing of races had reached the point where ethnic confusion created intellectual confusion and the absolute impossibility of getting along. In short, the Gauls, who were not barbarians, were people in the midst of decline, and if their good times were infinitely less bright than the periods of glory at Sidon and Tyre, it is no less unquestionable that the dark cities of the Carnutes, the Reams and the Eduens died of the same evil that had ended the existence of the brilliant Canaanite metropolises (1).
The Gallic populations, mixed with a few slavic groups, had variously allied themselves with the Finnish aborigines. From there came fundamental differences. The result were strong separations of tribes and dialects of the most primitive fashion. In the north, some peoples had been relieved by contact with the Germans; others, in the south-west, had suffered that of the Aquitaine; on the coast of the Mediterranean, the mixture had taken place with Ligurians and Greeks, and for a century the Semitized Germanics occupying the Provinces had come to further complicate this disorder. The development of evil was also favoured by the sporadic provision of [...]"
"(1) Tacitus, a great admirer of the Germans, although often in a somewhat romanesque way, betrayed the Gauls of his time with extreme severity. (Germ., 28, 29)."
I mean what the hell is this crap like seriously how can someone read this without becoming mentally ill.
Yet I can't stop reading it and become more brainwashed day by day.

Christopher Lasch - Culture of Narcissism , The Minimal Self