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Anonymous Sat Aug 11 09:20:46 2018 No.11604846 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: books that changed your life for the better

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 09:26:35 2018 No.11604865 File: 428 KB, 1400x2100, 1533949373744.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 09:30:17 2018 No.11604876 File: 123 KB, 220x342, 220px-SurelyYoureJokingMrFeynman.PNG.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 09:31:32 2018 No.11604879 >>11604846 I don't get it what is a Virgin Recommends? Does this deter all womemes from reading it?

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 09:36:50 2018 No.11604903 >>11604876 Feynman was so personal here, felt like he was talking to me over an espresso and a cigarette

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 10:10:13 2018 No.11605023 Artsybashev - Sanin Nietzsche - On the Genealogy of Morality

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 10:11:07 2018 No.11605026 >>11604846 These displays are getting way out of control.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 10:12:33 2018 No.11605030 >>11604846 The display in back "youtubers" is more disturbing.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 10:14:47 2018 No.11605040 >>11604879 >>11605026 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Group

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 10:52:45 2018 No.11605201 >>11605040 Excellent find, incel. I'm sure daddy will let you stroke his cock for defending his honour.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 11:08:55 2018 No.11605256 >>11604846 "Thus Sprake Zarathustra", first Nietzsche book I read. Definitely kinda cliche, I suppose "The Ego And His Own" by Max Stirner "The Myth Of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 12:42:44 2018 No.11605608 The Stranger

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 13:02:58 2018 No.11605693 For me, it's What Is To Be Done?

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 13:07:41 2018 No.11605710 Pretty sure my life went infinitely better with writing one. Does that count?

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 14:02:44 2018 No.11605962 >>11605710 It does; well done, anon!

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 14:12:01 2018 No.11606017 Violence and the sacred by René Girard I used get confused or upset when I saw conflicts or cruel behaviour, now I just think: mimetic desire and scapegoat mechanism. It's so simple and explains so much

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 14:13:27 2018 No.11606022 >>11605201 uhh... what?

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 15:06:19 2018 No.11606238 a portrait of the artist as a young man honestly familia

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 15:15:40 2018 No.11606283 >>11606238 I wish I had read it at a younger age. It still moved me and I really appreciate it, but I think that its impact on me would've been bigger; at the time I finished reading it, both me and Stephen had chosen our paths.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 15:22:20 2018 No.11606299 File: 54 KB, 333x500, 515-0f9c4jL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11604846 this was the best uk focused personal investment book ever. it changed my life, anyway.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 15:28:26 2018 No.11606326 >>11606299 Give me a quick rundown

Anonymous Sat Aug 11 15:33:24 2018 No.11606347

>>11604846
Is Rumi one of the only poets that is great for both patricians and brainlets? He sells really well on a mass scale even to this day, and yet his themes are very spiritually sophisticated to appeal to a higher brow audience as well.
The only other poets that come to mind that are close to his appeal are Robert Frost and Basho.

Anonymous Sat Aug 11 15:41:15 2018 No.11606396

>>11606326
start early
you don't need much money to start with
compound interest is your friend. so is dividend reinvesting
stick with stuff you understand, or if you don't really understand anything, stick with big index funds
if you want to invest in individual shares, learn a bit about how to read financial information
technical analysis is for charlatans
a diverse portfolio protects you against company collapses
don't try to time the market. also short term investing/day trading is a disaster for 99% of people
live within your means. don't get into debt (mortgages are an exception)
keep a bit of cash on hand for emergencies
it's not rocket science but at the time internet investing was in its infancy and most people didn't have a clue about personal finance. actually most people still don't

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 15:57:42 2018 No.11606493 File: 11 KB, 180x280, infinite jest.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] this book got me back into reading. which is kind of ridiculous when i think of how much of a roadblock the book is, but i was blown away

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 16:01:48 2018 No.11606517 >>11606396 >(mortgages are an exception) Absolutely dropped.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 16:03:33 2018 No.11606523 >>11606396 >wasting capital investing in index funds with crappy returns meaning you're wagecucking for life rather than making a 1000% return on crypto

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 16:04:11 2018 No.11606525 >>11606347 Walt Whitman, Shakespeare, Kaur, Dickinson,

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 16:09:09 2018 No.11606548 File: 17 KB, 201x310, can-life-prevail.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Mainly because it concerns my home country and sheds light on how fucked everything here really is. Unironically activated my almonds and redpilled me out of my mind

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 16:09:11 2018 No.11606549 >>11604846 The discourses by epictetus https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/content/books/ebooks/discourses-of-epictetus.pdf

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 16:27:14 2018 No.11606621 >>11606283 I read it as a junior in high school... my grandmother gave it to me.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 16:46:27 2018 No.11606677 >>11606621 Nice. I read it 5 years after entering uni. Good to see that your grandma gave you a book like this. Mine gave me Christ Recrucified, which made me love Kazantzakis. t. greek

Anonymous Sat Aug 11 17:03:25 2018 No.11606748
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>first actual literature book I read (shortly after I started browsing /lit/ back in '14~'15)
>even though I didn't know literally any reference I absolutely loved it
>although I was a rebel angsty edgy atheist I always loved reading about religions/mysticism
>made me see beauty in christianity and question my beliefs
>made me want to know more about literature, philosophy and religion in general
>because of this, kept reading, started with the greeks and started reading the bible (among other classics)
>every time I re-read divine comedy I understand and enjoy it more and more, get more references, and every time I get to see how much I ""evolved"" literature-wise
divine comedy (along with moby dick and ulysses) was one of the books I wanted to re-read the moment I turned the last page and I feel I'll never get tired of reading it, specially when reading along Doré's illustrations. Currently working on my italian (currently able to read calvino in italian) to one day read it (and re-read it, and re-read it) in italian. Already got a bilingue edition ready.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 17:44:21 2018 No.11606907 "Awakening" by Anthony de Mello made me follow buddhist teachings

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 17:46:26 2018 No.11606917 >>11604846 gravity and grace

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 19:23:43 2018 No.11607438 >>11604865 Rapist Frat House?

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 19:32:52 2018 No.11607479 File: 329 KB, 1024x639, the-summa-theologica-of-st-thomas-aquinas-wallpaper_2_2 (1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 19:34:28 2018 No.11607489 Crime and Punishment. I didn’t read a book for a good 6 years and picked it up. I realized after reading it that I do in fact love reading books in my spare time and now I am a voracious reader

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 22:12:49 2018 No.11608143 The Bible

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 22:36:07 2018 No.11608218 >>11604876 MISTER Feynman?!?

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 22:36:28 2018 No.11608219 File: 27 KB, 259x384, book Illuminatus1sted.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11604846

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 22:37:21 2018 No.11608221 Gravity's Rainbow

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 22:37:39 2018 No.11608222 File: 34 KB, 500x305, bugs principia.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11608219

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 22:38:32 2018 No.11608227 >>11608222 bugs, easy on the carrots

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 23:02:29 2018 No.11608288 >>11604876 Kino

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 23:09:54 2018 No.11608315 >>11605962 That's incorrect use of the semicolon.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 23:29:56 2018 No.11608375 File: 32 KB, 161x84, temp.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11604846 What the fuck?

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 23:32:34 2018 No.11608385 >>11606022 sucks on Peterson's incel cock Daddy giv me more!

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 23:45:14 2018 No.11608445 File: 150 KB, 398x397, 1527449950052.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11608375 oh gOOd

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 23:51:39 2018 No.11608467 >>11607438 ah yes the Dudebro Occupied Government

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 12 02:03:04 2018 No.11608842 File: 111 KB, 728x546, the-enchiridion-by-epictetus-68-728.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11606549 I was going to post that.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 12 02:07:08 2018 No.11608849 File: 76 KB, 684x546, 1526836511471.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11608842 algebraic

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 12 02:12:00 2018 No.11608866 >>11608849 What's the matter with you? Are you unable to stop being ironic for even a moment?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 12 02:16:41 2018 No.11608881 File: 268 KB, 736x1102, 68bd9f914904f440b455c3002b4b52a4--junji-ito-ero-guro.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11608866 That was sincere.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 12 02:52:47 2018 No.11608969 >>11604876 cool jew

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 12 03:27:59 2018 No.11609029 Fear and Trembling

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