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Novels that changed you as a person.

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>>10818376
I was hoping someone would post this. Reading this pairs well with Stoner. Two sides to the spectrum.

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Made me realize how extraordinary our minds and existence are and how much goes on in a single day.

>> No.10818830

>>10818312
In what ways did you change?

>> No.10818892

>>10818312
Not sure how this can really change you...

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>>10818904
That was a prety good read. That ending though, I was like really. Come on now.

>> No.10818914

Unironically Infinite Jest

>> No.10818929

Most of my list is generic but they still changed me and my worldview immensely.
>The Brothers Karamazov
>La Divina Commedia
>The Everlasting Man
>The Book of the New Sun
>Moby-Dick

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>tfw the entirety of my personality is just a reaction to my reading of Demian from when I was a 16 yo

>> No.10818980

>>10818312
Dorian Grey.

It shaped my entire personality.

>> No.10819002

notes from the underground, rly

>> No.10819154

>>10818980
How? Who do you take after? Dorian? Basil? Henry?

>> No.10819158

>>10818312
Notes From the Underground made me realize there was something wrong with myself. Meditations told me how to fix it, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra gave me a goal for once I dug myself out of the pit.

>> No.10819168

>>10818980
I actually just got Dorian Gray. Heard good things.

>> No.10819175

>>10819154
Henry.

He allowed me to articulate cynical observations I had about people and the world, but could never find the words to express.

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Read this and Naked Lunch around the same time when I was 15. They really illuminated the oddness of the social rituals and norms I had grown up with. I remember going to mass with my parents at the time and, instead of my usual boredom, I found things fascinating, but in a disconnected way. But it also exacerbated a pre-existing outsider self-image.