/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11072557]

What book (singular) had the most profound effect on your life?

[Anonymous No.11072661]

My diary, desu.

[Anonymous No.11072671]

>>11072557
Winnie the pooh

[Anonymous No.11072689]

>>11072557
Lord Jim desu. I have mild fantasy prone personality, so it was truly eye opening.

[Anonymous No.11072696]

>>11072557
Unironically Catcher in the Rye. I was 10 and the book spoke to me.

[Anonymous No.11072699]

The Fountains of Paradise was the book that got me into science fiction as a child, and into reading as a hobby in general.
If I hadn't read it I would have spent the entirety of my childhood playing videogames and I'd probably still be playing video games.

[Anonymous No.11072702]

>>11072696
woah you UNIRONICALLY liked Catcher in the rye? Lmao it not even finnegans wake! hahaha!

[Anonymous No.11072708]

On the road forsure.

[Anonymous No.11072720]

>>11072661
Nice ;)

[Anonymous No.11072723]

>>11072557
The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus

[Anonymous No.11072724]

>>11072699
You're lucky. I wish I had never played vidya as a child.. I've only recently gotten properly into reading at 23 and I now realise how much time I wasted on that mindless trash... could have been using all of that time to expand my mind by reading

[Anonymous No.11072747]

>>11072723
Absolutely absurd, my dude

[Anonymous No.11072752]

Demian by Hesse

[Anonymous No.11072770]

>>11072557
Propaganda by Edward L. Barnays. I have completely gnored all major news outlets or mass media ever since, my "cluelessness" has actually become a running joke in my workplace. I could list few following books that really shook my world view aswell but wont since OP asked for singular book.

Fictional writing has always been just entertainment for me.

[Anonymous No.11072797]

>>11072770
>my "cluelessness" has actually become a running joke in my workplace.
I haven’t read the book myself but I know this feeling.. it’s actually quite liberating realising that you’re not plugged into the normie matrix. I find conversations with my friends to now be more and more shallow and meaningless.
I’ve been wanting to read it ever since I watched the BBC documentary “Century of the Self” but just haven’t gotten round to it. I’m going to find a PDF of it for my e-reader now. Thanks for reminding me about it anon.

[Anonymous No.11072821]

Mein Kampf desu

[Anonymous No.11072829]

>>11072752
do you know where I could find a .pdf of this?

[Anonymous No.11072833]

>>11072557
crime and punishment

[Anonymous No.11072841]

>>11072833
Came here to post this

[Anonymous No.11073054]

[Anonymous No.11073069]

>>11072770
List those books please

[Anonymous No.11073076]

Mans Search for Meaning

[Anonymous No.11073101]

>>11072833
this book made me interested in reading

[Anonymous No.11073106]

>>11072557
stoner calmed me down when i was constantly unsatisfied with the way things had been going.

[Anonymous No.11073116]

>>11072557

[Anonymous No.11073135]

>>11072557
why are they naked

[Anonymous No.11073154]

>>11073135
Because that's an old David Hamilton pic. 70s teens in St. Tropez liked to spend afternoons languidly reading while half-dressed in gauzy lingerie and old dresses, with occasional breaks for gentle pillowfights, eating grapes, and Sapphic experimentation. Here's a documentary.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xt7ovr

[Anonymous No.11073216]

>>11073154
David Hamilton was a pedo and seems like you are too

[Anonymous No.11073231]

>>11073216
I've jacked off to David Hamilton photography.

[Anonymous No.11073242]

>>11073216
>>11073231
On a board that can't go an hour without a Lolita thread, I'm sure lots of folks have.

[Anonymous No.11073244]

>>11073242
Would you believe that I've met a number of middle-aged women who adore Lolita?

It's kinda fucked.

[Anonymous No.11073259]

>>11073244
I'd believe it. I've met some too. I'm not sure why OP chose a DH pic to start this thread, though.

[Anonymous No.11073276]

>>11073154
>documentary
but that's just an hour of scantily dressed nymphets frolicking erotically

[Anonymous No.11073279]

>>11072752
Same my friend
>message from my Dad on the inside cover
;_;
>>11072829
https://mega.nz/#F!OhVgzDwD!C3lmbvrVwGecLnd_cRDhJQ
Here you go, it includes two translations of Demian and a few other less popular Hesse books.

[Anonymous No.11073288]

Faust

[Anonymous No.11073299]

>>11073259
>I'm not sure why OP chose a DH pic to start this thread, though.
because OP is a pedo
David Hamilton raped children.

[Anonymous No.11073797]

BNW made me realize I'm probably gonna kill myself sooner or later

[Anonymous No.11073964]

>>11072557

[Anonymous No.11074072]

If comic is included, Little Nemo in Slumberland. If not, The Neverending Story

[Anonymous No.11074081]

>>11073299

Yeah I bet OP thinks Lolita is a love story as well

[Anonymous No.11074091]

>>11072770
>>11073069
Seconded.

[Anonymous No.11074092]

>>11072821
Why is it that Nazi sympathizers use the attractive women as a source a validation for their belief structure? Do you think they'll fuck you if you're a good soldier for their ideology?

[Anonymous No.11074097]

>>11072557
Aside from the children's book that got me curious and made me a reader, Montaigne's Essays.

[Anonymous No.11074102]

>>11072723
This was true for me for a while - a few months, but I became tired of embracing the absurdity of life
So mine would be Crime and Punishment, I could relate to it way too much and it made me realize that there is no hope (aka there is no Sonya out of thin air in real life)

[Anonymous No.11074104]

>>11072557
i live in europe so the bible i guess

personally no book i've read has affected my life per se beyond granting me the benefits that reading books normally does

[Anonymous No.11074109]

>>11072557
I would say the Bible has had the most profound effect on everyone's life whether they've read it or not.

[Anonymous No.11074120]

>>11074092
It woks on lesser minds tho.

[Anonymous No.11074133]

>>11074092
yes they unironically think this
>>11074109
no it really hasn’t and you just perpetrated one of the venemous ploys of the priestarchy, infecting every single person and object with YOUR faith

[Anonymous No.11074136]

>>11074109
Which is kind of annoying but pretty much inescapable.

[Anonymous No.11074151]

Papa Goriot by Balzac

That was the frist book I throughly enjoyed from beggining to end, while also making me more sensitive toward style and form rather than argument. It's not like the argument of "papa goriot" is a boring one, but such a book can't hold itself without a proper prose and characterization.
Vautrin is the best character in the book. You cannot deny this, is a fact.

[Anonymous No.11074156]

>>11074092
it's shooped you simpleton

[Anonymous No.11074162]

>>11073244
Maybe their pubescent fantasy was to be abused by a father figure. Like the opposite of Humbert Humbert.

[Anonymous No.11074177]

the book of disquiet

[Anonymous No.11074179]

>>11074133
>no it really hasn’t and you just perpetrated one of the venemous ploys of the priestarchy, infecting every single person and object with YOUR faith

I think he's alluding to Fouccalt's idea that the Bible and Christian morality have sunk their roots deep into the model of western civilization, which is pretty much the current working model for developed civilizations, and that escaping it is hard work. Further, even the act of escaping it is such a monumental task that undertaking it is a source of significant influence in our lives. I'm not a christian, but my views on sex, violence, honesty, and money were all colored from an early age by living within a society which has largely been coded according to the various reported teaching of Jesus Christ.

[Anonymous No.11074191]

>>11074156
You're completely missing my point. It's not the image itself or its veracity that I'm concerned with, it's that these wannabe fourth reichers consistently use images of hot women, usually concersatively dressed but with some suggestive detail (nipples in the case of that pic), to promote some dreamed-up image of their ideology.

[Anonymous No.11074314]

>>11074191
>>11074191
>hot women
>used to promote something
yeah anon real good criticism on your part i wonder why people do that

[Anonymous No.11074321]

Stoner

[Anonymous No.11074336]

>>11072797
Those Adam Curtis documentaries...

[Anonymous No.11074403]

>>11074314
Don't be stupid. The issue isn't using images of women to promote something, rather the frequency and desperation of it. Communist posters do the same thing, albeit less frequently and ususally in a less veiled way (eg "tfw no thicc marxist gf" threads).

Posting a picture of a beatiful woman in a high-necked dress along with something vitriolic just screams of a desire to have the 'cool' ideology, and that the end of promoting that ideology for them is the fabled chaste thot who will satisfy their every need and agree with everything they think.

[Anonymous No.11074406]

>>11073299
>David Hamilton raped children.
Proofs?

[Anonymous No.11074482]

>>11074092
>>11074133
samefag

[Anonymous No.11074502]

>>11073299
I'm always amazed at how anxious some people are at accusing others of being a pedo, almost like they have a need to project it into another person.

[Anonymous No.11074504]

>>11074482
Nah, I think the Bible is a pretty big deal and I hate Nazis and want them all to die. So I can't be that guy.

[Anonymous No.11074509]

>>11074502
Yeah, they always seem determined to shame people whenever they come across any material that makes them uncomfortable and may align with deep/dark inner feelings within themselves.
It’s almost as if...

[Anonymous No.11074511]

>>11074504
Edgy

[Anonymous No.11074512]

>>11072557
The Virtue of Selfishness

[Anonymous No.11074516]

>>11074511
Not really

[Anonymous No.11074592]

The stranger.
We discussed it in my schools philosophy class. It interested me and then got me into reading.

[Anonymous No.11074618]

>>11072557
Stop using pictures of pubescent girls in scant clothing in your OPs, it's making me sweat.

[Anonymous No.11074620]

gaba

[Anonymous No.11074654]

>>11072557
God damn that pic is making no fap really hard

[Anonymous No.11074698]

>>11072557
>inb4 /lit/ judging my plebness
Unironically Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

[Anonymous No.11074812]

>>11074092
>why does fascism care about aesthetics
Do you know what propaganda is, anon? Even non-fascists tend to agree that fascist aesthetics are highly effective and attractive.

[Anonymous No.11074831]

>>11072557
Beyond Good and Evil ..... fight me

[Anonymous No.11074907]

Äldreomsorgen i övre kågedalen - Nikanor teratologen

[Anonymous No.11075019]

>>11074618
>>11074654
Imagine being the big spoon, kissing her neck while she giggles, smelling her hair, slowly caressing her thigh with a single finger

[Anonymous No.11075036]

>>11075019
Imagine slowly lifting her dress, seeing that she has a tramp stamp of a butterfly and a horrible infection of tapeworms.

[Anonymous No.11075125]

>>11072557
The Bible, of course.

Speaking secularly, Plato, The Republic.

[Anonymous No.11075299]

>>11072557
Homage to Catalonia by Orwell. It shines a light on leftist faggotry without the condescension or cynicism of your average right-winger. I recommend it to all American libteens and /leftypol/ tryhards.

[Anonymous No.11075312]

[Anonymous No.11075327]

>>11072557
Our need for consolation is insatiable

[Anonymous No.11075432]

>>11072696
This probably. I read The Catcher in the Rye when I was 13 years old and it ignited my interest in literature. There are books I prefer but I probably would never have read them if not for this one.