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Books that changed your life? Preferably for the better

>> No.12135712

>>12135699
saying of the desert fathers

>> No.12135715

>I bet they didn't read La Divina Commedia in its original Italian
>I bet they call García Márquez "Marquéz"
>tfw not at home reading the Greeks
>Is that Stephen King on the bookshelf?

>> No.12135737

Christ Recrucified, by Nikos Kazantzakis.

>> No.12135763

>my life is becoming notes from underground
nothing (nothing) wrong with this

>> No.12135810
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I've been taking much better care of myself for the past 6 months, since I finished this.

>> No.12135823
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>>12135699
Meme at me all you like but Capitalist Realism

>> No.12135832

1984

>> No.12135833

>>12135810
I'm interested. Why is that, anon?

>> No.12135834
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Hi, I'm the magic book faeri!
I'm sending you five cents for you to buy faeri magic books, good luck!

>> No.12135837

>>12135810
Spinoza is like Nietzsche without all the edginess.

>> No.12135842

>>12135832
2019. Maybe I was a little too wild in the 70s

>> No.12135848

>>12135837
So, boring?

>> No.12135908

>>12135699
The Outsiders

>> No.12136239 [DELETED] 

>>12135833
He also provides a method, which, while it can't possibly be applied at all moments in life (and he was aware of this), is very helpful in working through the despair which leaves one in a vicious spiral or self-pity, self-loathing, and hopelessness.
While dogmatic adherence to his metaphysical system would be silly in the current year, I still see in it the expression of some spiritual truth, and an actual method at applying it in a healthy way.
"PROP. XV. He who clearly and distinctly understands himself and his emotions loves God, and so much the more in proportion as he more understands himself and his emotions."
"PROP. XXXVI. The intellectual love of the mind towards God is that very love of God whereby God loves himself, not in so far as he is infinite, but in so far as he can be explained through the essence of the human mind regarded under the form of eternity; in other words, the intellectual love of the mind towards God is part of the infinite love wherewith God loves himself."

>> No.12136240

>>12135699
everyone should actively work on themselves to NOT be this person

>> No.12136254

>>12135810
He provides a method, which, while it can't possibly be applied at all moments in life (and he was aware of this), is very helpful in working through the despair which leaves one in a vicious spiral or self-pity, self-loathing, and hopelessness.
While dogmatic adherence to his metaphysical system would be silly in the current year, I still see in it the expression of some spiritual truth, and an actual method at applying it in a healthy way.
Here are some samples:
"PROP. XV. He who clearly and distinctly understands himself and his emotions loves God, and so much the more in proportion as he more understands himself and his emotions."
"PROP. XXXVI. The intellectual love of the mind towards God is that very love of God whereby God loves himself, not in so far as he is infinite, but in so far as he can be explained through the essence of the human mind regarded under the form of eternity; in other words, the intellectual love of the mind towards God is part of the infinite love wherewith God loves himself."

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12136281

Condensed Chaos by Phil Hine, it has done a lot to help me reprogram my brain to make me less of an unproductive, insufferable faggot.

>> No.12136365

>>12135699
Lazarillo De Tormez

I never (knew) how to read before that book

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>>12136281
>Post modern occultism

>> No.12136410

>>12135699
Dark Spring by Unica Zurn
High-Rise by JG Ballard

>> No.12136427

>>12135699
genealogy of morals
ride the tiger

>> No.12136433

lolita

>> No.12136446

The Fall by Camus
Das Kapital's chapter about M-C-M'
Society of the Spectacle
Fanged Noumena (specifically Meltdown)

>> No.12136456

Unironically Atlas Shrugged. Right after I finished, I stopped being lazy, got really productive and all, but I don't know if the book did this to me, but certainly was a factor

>> No.12136590

>>12136446
>Das Kapital's chapter about M-C-M'
>read this
>everything starts to make sense

>> No.12136694

>>12135699
lol sounds like it came from a comment I made. (And I agree with you, definitely literary fiction tends to change more than genre fiction)
Clannad [for the worse]

>> No.12136802

>>12135699
none, i mostly read fiction

>> No.12136962

>>12136254
>>12135833
To go off this, Spinoza pretty much provides good reason to get along with others and our natural inclination to do so. It's feel good, and as sound as one can get without involving Kant and Schopenhauer. His take on free will and God being not just a guy on a cloud are refreshing.

>> No.12137171

Sex and Character

>> No.12137199

>>12135810
Lmao

>> No.12137222

>>12136240
what should i strive to be?

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Made me realize how fantasy is a doomed genre

>> No.12137442

>>12136402
>he's not a meta-modernist cannibalizing post-modern work to create the new modernism
Out of the way, gramps