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Anonymous Fri Oct 12 02:36:25 2018 No.11919730 [Reply] [Original]

What books have you read that have made you a happier person?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 02:37:17 2018 No.11919732 The Bible

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 02:43:12 2018 No.11919749 Not my diary desu

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 02:43:45 2018 No.11919750 >>11919730 >Stoner Raise high the roof beam, carpenters >invisible man was really funny, idk if that constitutes as happy >Siddartha >Vonnegut

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 02:44:16 2018 No.11919752 The Importance of Living

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 02:44:56 2018 No.11919755 >>11919732 only post best post

Anonymous Fri Oct 12 02:47:26 2018 No.11919761
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>New Testament
>Cloud of Unknowing
>Longer Sukhavativyuha Sutra
>Shorter Sukhavativyuha Sutra
>Kyogyoshinsho
I ended up becoming a weirdo syncretist, though. A friend recommended I read some stuff on Tenrikyo but I'm not sure.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 02:48:32 2018 No.11919768 Orlando made me really happy for some reason.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 02:50:38 2018 No.11919772 >>11919730 absolutely none i get more miserable with every book

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 02:52:30 2018 No.11919780 >>11919730 Mogworld Lowbrow fiction has the power to do what all the world's storied sophistication can't.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 02:52:49 2018 No.11919783 W by E. E. Eussion

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 03:27:03 2018 No.11919887 12 rules for life. It contained some basic wisdom I lacked, being a fatherless bastard I am.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 03:36:31 2018 No.11919911 >>11919730 The Magicians by Lev Grossman

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 03:45:39 2018 No.11919933 >>11919730 Not one book will achieve that if you keep posting unobtainatble cuties

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 04:17:07 2018 No.11920015 >>11919730 Man's Search for Meaning

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 04:20:39 2018 No.11920026 >>11919730 i dont need a book for that, im happier in general since i beat the shit out of 2 niggers who tried to steal from me 3 months ago im getting used to life in germany

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 04:22:57 2018 No.11920030 >>11919887 kys

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 04:49:15 2018 No.11920104 >>11919730 None

Anonymous Fri Oct 12 06:09:39 2018 No.11920258

>>11919730
Les Miserables made me feel a lot happier but I had quite a cry about it too, but that sort of tears of joy cry. It made me want to become a better person than I already am and ever since I've tried to be more understanding and charitable to those around me. I genuinely think we could all be a little more like Jean Valjean.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 06:26:48 2018 No.11920288 Almost every book I've ever read has left me happier than I would have been if I had not read it

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 06:29:52 2018 No.11920295 >>11919730 Death of a Jezebel by A. Non

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 12:12:00 2018 No.11921176 >>11920030 It's spelled "kiss" you raging homosexual

Anonymous Fri Oct 12 18:21:33 2018 No.11922863

>>11919730
there was an issue of "Blue Blood" magazine i read once that had a review of a book that i had a short story in. the reviewer didn't know me and had no reason to, but they held out my story for particular praise. reading this gave me a weird feeling almost like an orgasm, except centered just behind my eyes.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 19:26:12 2018 No.11923148 every pynchon novel

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 20:24:38 2018 No.11923369 >>11921176 KILL THYSELF, THEN.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 13 03:45:19 2018 No.11924841 >>11919730 The 'tales of the city' series, it has some incredible happyfying power.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 13 03:59:08 2018 No.11924864 >>11923369 hello underage

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 13 04:13:06 2018 No.11924884 >>11919730 None, really. I enjoy reading but I treat it more like a passtime than a method of making myself happier, so I suppose the activity makes me happy (or at least less miserale) instead of the books themselves. Maybe I've been doing it wrong.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 13 04:18:10 2018 No.11924890 Twilight Ban me, I deserve it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 13 06:11:32 2018 No.11925146 The Three Tomes by Eduoard Musbodijk is excellent, left me on cloud 9

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 13 06:15:38 2018 No.11925153 >>11920288 Same <3

Anonymous Sat Oct 13 06:42:43 2018 No.11925196
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>The Enchiridion of Epictetus
For obvious reasons

>Terraforming Earth by Jack Williamson
The extreme timescale shows the true size of human problems: very small

>The Canfield Decision by Spiro Agnew
Now I know I'm at least less of a retard than Spiro Agnew

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 13 06:46:32 2018 No.11925203 >>11925196 underrated

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 13 08:55:03 2018 No.11925485 File: 236 KB, 547x724, sch.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Schopenhauer's essays, (un)ironically.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 13 08:57:53 2018 No.11925496 >>11919780 Is Croshaw's stuff actually good? I saw it and I was intrigued by the idea of a video game story but never thought about it beyond that.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 13 13:31:56 2018 No.11926415 >>11919780 Me too friend. I reread it recently and, I still like it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 13 13:56:00 2018 No.11926556 Plato’s Complete Works Aristotle - Complete Works The Stranger Siddartha A textbook on emotional intelligence called Resilience I feel joy, breath fully and effortlessly, and sleep like a baby.

Anonymous Sat Oct 13 14:11:15 2018 No.11926610

>>11919752
>Nobody has written “The Importance of Importance”
>Nobody expounded on the meaning of important in the import of things which are of a subjectively verifiable priority which is higher than not
>Nobody added to that by saying that on which import is placed is but a direct refection of the phenomenological bases of our psychologically attributed values which are but a function of our activities from conception unto the prescription of such working values

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 13 19:04:30 2018 No.11928029 File: 76 KB, 300x250, aa-big-books.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11919730 unironically

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 13 23:05:28 2018 No.11928982 unironically atlas shrugged by ayn rand

Anonymous Sat Oct 13 23:10:58 2018 No.11929002

The Sound and the Fury taught me that existential crises are normal and natural, because all things important to me are internal and inherently meaningless, and that even when I realize that I will still struggle with it, because that's what it is to be human. It eased the feelings of isolation and I don't think about suicide as often as I used to

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 13 23:50:14 2018 No.11929132 >>11919730 Nicomachean Ethics Ficciones but only because it made me fully grasp Aristotle's argument that intellectual virtue/contemplation is the highest form of happiness Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina when the whores suicided

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 00:25:31 2018 No.11929258 >>11926610 and yet here you are with all the free time in the world spent on 4chan go write the book faggot

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 09:13:40 2018 No.11930761 >>11928029 Can you summarize

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 09:15:12 2018 No.11930765 >>11929132 eunuch

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 09:21:08 2018 No.11930789 >>11919730 Unironically Ego and his Own.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 10:00:33 2018 No.11930935 >>11919730 Meditations

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 10:10:14 2018 No.11930962 >>11919730 >Everything by Nietzche

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 12:40:22 2018 No.11931600 File: 73 KB, 838x1255, the-varieties-of-religious-experience-by-william-james.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11919730

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 12:44:31 2018 No.11931621 >>11919730 How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 13:54:04 2018 No.11932004 >>11920258 selfishness is our greatest virtue -Ayn Rand

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 17:35:33 2018 No.11933053 >>11928029 please tell your inspiring tale, i'm thinking about drying up

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 18:20:08 2018 No.11933292 Life of Pi changed my life

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 18:21:24 2018 No.11933300 >>11919768 Orlando is great, Woolf is great. It won't make you happier but To the Lighthouse is incredible

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 18:22:25 2018 No.11933305 >>11924890 Twilight's fucked up man

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