ITT: Books that challenged your thinking for the first time.

[Anonymous No.10412289]

Not necessarily "hurdur intellectual" or even dumb high school assigned books (like pic related). Just books that you felt were insightful that really made you think for yourself and you actually took something away from it

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[Anonymous No.10412853]

>>10412289
there is literally nothing wrong with cats cradle
anyway pic related for me

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>>10412289
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides.
I can't say exactly how it made me think, but I do keep thinking about it a lot. The ancient greeks were different than i imagined, perhaps more principled than people today.

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>>10412289
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race. Yeah, I wish I was memeing you.

[Anonymous No.10416667]

Unironically the Bible. (The Gospels specifically.)

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Based Hayek

[Anonymous No.10417604]

The God of Small Things simply because it was the first good book I ever read. My entire family's into books and although I had always enjoyed reading I wasn't particularly picky in my childhood or teens.

I picked the novel out of my mother's bookcase mostly because I wanted to brush up on my English, the second, smaller reason being that it looked like a fresh purchase and being curious and selfish, I wanted to read it before my mother would. To annoy her, and to discuss it while she was reading it. Maybe gloat and threaten to spoil it for her.

I was blown away and seldom touched genre fiction afterward. I think it could've been nearly any book, it was going to happen eventually. It just happened to be that one. Not that I'm not fond of it, I think about it every month.

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1984 unironically
memoirs of a geisha
since then all books i’ve read made me learn a thing or two. if you don’t have this too, you’re not reading. you’re just moving your eyes across the pages,

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As much as plebbit likes to circlejerk about it, probably Flowers for Algernon. I'm pretty sure it was the first "real literature" that I read. It definitely changed my world view about some things and got me to start reading actual literature instead of whatever YA novels I was reading at the time.

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[Anonymous No.10418390]

>>10417727
not true and you know it

[Anonymous No.10418395]

>>10417727
post the masturbation paragraph

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>>10412289
the bible