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which writer had the biggest impact on your life?

>> No.12856271

>>12856268
the bible

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>>12856271
are you a christian

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>>12856268
mark fisher

>> No.12856305

>>12856271
are you a christian

>> No.12856313

>>12856293
are you a socialist

>> No.12856320

>>12856313
yes

>> No.12856322

>>12856278
>>12856305

He's a big christian

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>>12856320
amasin

>> No.12856337

Unironically Daniel Handler, reading his books when I was super young made me want to branch out into all the literary references he hid in there. Plus his prose taught me how to be an asshole.

>> No.12856340

Thomas Carlyle

>> No.12856348

>>12856268
Arbasino

>> No.12856369

>>12856268
Hemmingway
Taught me how to be a writer, how to be a man and how to be an American

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12856385

Why is Rudyard Kipling so comfy, bros?

>> No.12857246

hermann hesse as well as whoever wrote the serial experiments lain story during late high school
narcissuss und goldmund was my favorite.

>> No.12857288

Myself desu

>> No.12857314
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12857314

This mfker gave me some fucked up perceptions

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12857500

My husband.

>> No.12857527

Joyce presented a summitless domain of knowledge I could only ever walk around and never fully fathom. His love of language was so pure and he gave so much to it.
Corncob sounded like nothing I had ever read and his works were not too numerable that you couldn't become very versed in them as well as interesting exegesis. I remember buying a paper on the bloody dark pastryman gun powder recipe in Blood Meridian.
Faulkner was gut wrenching to read and I feel like I have lived some of the traumas of his characters. As a result I have mixed enthusiasms because I feel literally hurt by him, but I marvel at his ability.
Hemingway demonstrated such communicative laconic poetry that he humbles all who read him. At his best, his text reads prophetic, the emotions and sensations he lead readers to as trustworthy and evident as math.
DFW's work was consumed aggressively while raising a newborn. I loved learning that he was a developed athlete and that his works all seemed to possess the frenzied ardor of someone used to discipline and pushing ones' self and doing so in a consciously felt and enjoyed feedback loop of positive reinforcement. DFW took good ideas and worked them until they broke, exhaustively, studiously, meticulously, patching whatever did not quite work but sending out unvarnished and ambling and organic a best attempt to convey something powerful, something that seems like it long dwelled in his psyche before he could render them in words. I trust him to deliver so much that I would literally read his text wherever it went.
I'm reading Robert Howard and Houellebecq right now.

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>>12856268

>> No.12857619

>>12856385
Best lad Bill Whittle made a comfy video on him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx9--zQDfog
Pure kino

>> No.12857670

Cormac McCarthy

>> No.12857679

Amos Oz

>> No.12858169

>>12856268
Hesse, Nietzsche, Plato, or John depending on the day.

>> No.12858174

>>12856268
Dr. Seuss

>> No.12858195

>>12857527

Thank you for posting an actual, honest response on here.

>> No.12858206

Haven't obtained a large repertoire of books yet but so far Dosto. It seems he has a knack for understanding human motives beyond what normal people would ever think about.

>> No.12858212

>>12856268
spengler and nietzsche repatterned my thinking the most

>> No.12858465

marcus aurelius

>> No.12858730

>>12856268
I have a really autistic understanding of power structures and the soul because of foucault. I like the idea that the soul is a secondary entitiy that is conjured up by rituals (the soul is not inside and not immortal, but rather outside and produced). The king is only in theatralics above the ordinary. His "king" soul only appears when the rituals surrounding him are being maintained. I really like it. This view is much closer to our present reality than the mythical one, metaphysical one

>> No.12859122

>>12857619
I don't know why he had to rewrite away from 'marketplace'. I think the term holds up in the same sense in a lot of ways.

>> No.12859141

>>12856322
for you

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>>12856268
Osamu Dazai, may he rest in peace

>> No.12859228

>>12859122
Nah he IS right cultural implications and assumptions around the word are different now. Nobody thinks whimsy and fads when they hear "marketplace" anymore.

>> No.12859256

>>12856268

Kurt Vonnegut.

I turned out to be schizophrenic, as an adult. I remember feeling like I had finally found a brain that functioned the way mine does... the structure of his narratives, the syntax, the lexicon. Later I felt the same way about Ezra Pound.

>> No.12859287

>>12857500
Clearly this anon is going to commit suicide at some point.

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>>12859287
YODO

>> No.12859381

>>12856268
Probably Steinbeck, specifically East of Eden.

I've had a contentious relationship with my brother over the years. We're currently good. But goddamn if that book (and the movie warrior) didn't make me think of my brother.

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Goethe, Byron and Jünger
give me power to live organically in toxication with life

>> No.12859499

>>12856268
Julius Evola, The Bible, Tanizaki's "Naomi"

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>>12857246
demian has had a profound impact on me. introducing me to Novalis opened u[p a whole new world. as for overall author it would be Aldous Huxley as I have read nearly every thing he has written; reading Huxley is like existing in my own thoughts in a way, such an open minded, conscious and thoughtful writer
>time must have a stop
>eyeless in gaza
>doors of perception
>ends and means

>> No.12859890

>>12856268
Sean Goonan

>> No.12859996
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Nico Tanigawa

A manga artist kek

>> No.12860247

Spinoza and Nietzsche lol

>> No.12860276

>>12857246
>as well as whoever wrote the serial experiments lain story during late high school
?

>> No.12860292

It's nice to read the posts here to know there are people that get enjoyment from things.
I've seem to forgotten how to enjoy myself.

>> No.12860314

sterne

>> No.12860317

Unironically Pareto, Taleb and Von Neumann; those 3 taught me more about the nature fo man than any renowned philosopher. Brainlets may not apply.

>> No.12860319

No book or author had an impact to me. I read them, think for a while after reading the book and then move on to next one.

>> No.12860338

Nietzche, Russell, and Whitehead. The rest of the philosophers are just a copycat of Plato and Aristotle.

>> No.12860347

Jack Kerouac has notably had the biggest impact on me.
Dostoyevsky, as well as Camus too.

>> No.12860381

>>12859256
can you elaborate on why exactly their (pound's and vonnegut's) narratives, syntax etc. resonate with you?

>> No.12860383

>>12857527
t. pseud.

>> No.12860419
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>>12857527
Your entire literary digest reads like an undergraduate curriculum; you're nothing more than a parrot regurgitating the opinions of his professors. These aren't the thoughts of aesthetic, taste and judgement; they are a worthless patchwork of falsified preferences drilled in by professors you just happened to develop affection toward like a child. Your post is without contest, the most pseudointellectual of any I've ever encountered on /lit/—you are the non-plus-ultra of pseuds.

>> No.12860421

Most of these replies seem pretty intellectual and philosophy based. As someone wanting to be an author that studies and practices writing and authors every day, Tim Winton and Chuck Palaniuk have had a huge impact on my own writing. Winton uses location heavily in his plot (the beach, childhood homes etc) which made me think more about why I choose the settings I do. Chuck's obsession with the human body really made me consider how I want my readers to connect with my work. Chuck uses the body as that connection point (Choke, Rant, Guts, Diary - Try to find a book that isn't body obssessed by him). also due to both being a modern success with a prolific career and yet a certain level of privacy. The perfect idea of success to me.

>> No.12860428

Kierkegaard.

>> No.12860431

>>12860319
this but they leave impact over time 2 me

>> No.12860439

Plato,Buddha and Aristotle.

>> No.12860492

>>12860319
based

>> No.12860520

>>12860439
>>12859405
based (not meme)
>>12860428
>>12860338
>>12860247
based (meme)

>> No.12860533

>>12856268
‘I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.’

>> No.12860540

>>12856268
Hunter S. Thompson - unfortunatey.

>> No.12860967

>>12860431
What do you mean overtime?

>> No.12860976

>>12860967
im indifferent to particular works as i pick them up but over time they seep in and leave impact especifically if they reinforce each other

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>>12859287
Not for at least another ten years. How can you say you love him if you won't even commit lover's suicide for him?

>> No.12861500

>>12860381
>>12859256
pls answer schizoanon

>> No.12861579

>>12859256
>you have to be schizophrenic to like vonnegut
It all makes sense now.

>> No.12861906

>>12857500
>>12859296
>>12861061
based

>> No.12861977

>>12856271
This.
I was raised in a cult, and the bible was inculcated into me. It had the biggest impact on my life regardless if I wanted it to or not.

>> No.12862028

>>12861579
>>12861500
>>12860381

Whoops, late reply. So perhaps the most striking feature of Vonnegut's prose, particularly in Breakfast of Champions, is that it is essentially a mosaic. Passages that stand alone, and only much later are echoed. Snippets here, a conversation there...

That's essentially how my brain "thinks" - a massive collection of information, anecdotes, concepts, etc are the background noise, and my semi-conscious thoughts are the lines of meaning traced between them.

The bulk of my "hard drive" is short-term memory storage. Long term memories are condensed, and usually don't solidify for a week or two. So...

When I read a book, usually in one sitting, the whole of the text imprints itself on me for a while. So for me, Vonnegut is incredible because I have the kind of brain that "holds" every fragment he offers up simultaneously.

This can be a pain in the ass, especially when I'm reading a 600+ page work and have to split it between multiple days of reading - it feels like being unable to close a program, sort of.

Thanks to the marvels of modern medicine I'm usually rational, and capable of thinking in an organized way, but that was a huge revelation to me because I didn't get diagnosed until I was 25.

>> No.12862093

>>12860419
Thankful for reaching some distinction in my humdrum bovine existence, I'd just like to say I only read any of those authors of my own accord, lead to them by means unclear to me. Like many /lit/ senpai I've stored and started far more books than i've finished, let alone taken the time to know the author, the pertinent historical periods, literary criticisms etcetera. In the listed authors I took a deep enough dive to feel much sentiment towards them, which is what I wanted to convey. I don't think I could make much of an riveting lecture with these superficial feelings alone. What expectations did you have ITT?

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>>12856268

>> No.12862126

>>12856340
Where should I start with Carlyle?

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>>12856268
pretty much pic related

>> No.12862297

>>12857246
>serial experiments lain story

Is there a plot in that anime?

>> No.12862307

>>12856268
Philip Roth

>> No.12862577

>>12862028
And what about pound?

>> No.12862586

myself

>> No.12862594

>>12856268
Adolf Hitler

>> No.12862610 [DELETED] 

>>1286031
please guide me about non-technical writings and ideas from von Neumann

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>>12860317
Von Neumann? Tell me something about his ideas, and where to read about them. I read everything from taleb and it changed my perspective and made my life happier

>> No.12862796

>>12862577

Given that the default state of my brain is "My name is Legion for we are many", reading the Cantos was like... one could tell it was all Pound himself, that there was a magnificent and noble mind behind it, but speaking as though in tongues, with many voices. Schizos with low IQ don't have the cognitive power to force coherence and meaning into their word salad, typically. During my worst psychotic episode, it was like there was a devil twisting my tongue - my thoughts, even - and whatever I tried to communicate came out transformed. I was able to convince people of my sanity at a cursory level, but in any longer conversation, it would inevitably become clear that I was floridly delusional - that there was a contaminant I was unable to identify or remove from my thinking, warping it. I kept trying to reassure my mother that I was lucid; I made her cry, several times.

It was his guidance as an editor that made TS Eliot's poems great - aping the forms established by Pound, but lacking the power to generate them. Pound had the exact opposite skillset, you could argue - the capacity to generate infinitely many forms, but with a diminishing ability to invest them with coherent meaning.

>> No.12862832

>>12862634
Neumann pretty much discovered game theory. I recommend his book Theory of games and economic behavior, but beware there is A LOT of math. I warned you, my authors aren't very suited for brainlets.

And if you liked Taleb you should read Kahneman if you haven't already.

>> No.12862855

>>12862634

I recently read Dyson's "Turing's Cathedral", and it is essentially about von Neumann's life. It provides a nice, entry level understanding of how dramatically he changed the world, without much math.

>> No.12862891

>>12856268
Unironically Marcus Aurelius's Meditations

>> No.12862919

>>12856293
Oof

>> No.12862922

God, Plato

>> No.12862929

Otto Weininger

>> No.12862934

>>12862919
>Oof
Is /lit/ a zoomer board now?

>> No.12862968

>>12862093
Shut the fuck up and talk like a real person. I take it you're so pretentious that people avoid you like the plague. Then, when you ask yourself why you're such a lonely faggot, you look down upon "normalfags" as if you have something above them when you're just scum. You'll whine about how much more sophisticated you than others rather than realise that, no, you're just a faggot.

>> No.12863320

>>12862796
Thanks man, really interesting. I hope you're doing well with your illness