/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13074003]

Which book radically changed your life for the better?

[Anonymous No.13074007]

My diary desu

[Anonymous No.13074008]

The player by dostoievsky made me leave the slots so I guess it basically saved my life.

[Anonymous No.13074016]

>>13074003
Britannia Encyclopedia

[Anonymous No.13074023]

Tao Te Ching

[Anonymous No.13074028]

Wheelock's latin

[Anonymous No.13074054]

>>13074003
The Wisdom of Insecurity.

[Anonymous No.13074058]

Oblomov

[Anonymous No.13074064]

[Anonymous No.13074168]

>>13074003
Ortodoxy by Chesterton

[Anonymous No.13074273]

On the road by Kerouac made me decide to live more adventurous and carefree life. Haven't done anything to put that idea into action yet tho

[Anonymous No.13074471]

Unironically jurassic park when I was 10

[Anonymous No.13074493]

>>13074016
you mean the encyclopedia britannica

[Anonymous No.13074561]

>>13074007
This is my answer

[Anonymous No.13074601]

>>13074003
>for the better
None. I wasn't strong enough to play with the expressed ideas in a distanced way like they weren't my own, every book I've read made me become more like its characters, and I haven't read a single work where there is a heroic protagonist, it's always tragedies.

[Anonymous No.13074602]

The Gospel of John

[Anonymous No.13074612]

>>13074003
Orthodoxy, by Chesterton. It's a very interesting ride for a 15yo when mixed with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

[Anonymous No.13074615]

>>13074601
nice

[Anonymous No.13074620]

Philosophical Investigations, desu

[Anonymous No.13074629]

>>13074003
Meditations I guess. Can’t say any real improved my life. Just helped me to be more aware.

[Anonymous No.13074683]

>>13074028
This.
Also, 'Science Discovers the Physiological Value of Continence' really improved my life too. Helped me quit fornicating and masturbating.

[Anonymous No.13075850]

>>13074054
This

[Anonymous No.13075856]

Mishima's Confessions of a Mask.

[Anonymous No.13076306]

The New Testament

[Anonymous No.13076366]

>>13074602
based and logos pilled

[Anonymous No.13076375]

>>13074612
>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

How does that hold up? I remember reading it at 15 and thinking it was genius then denouncing it like a month later. I've been wrong about a lot of stuff though.

[Anonymous No.13076384]

>>13074493
no

[Anonymous No.13076389]

The Bible

[Anonymous No.13076438]

>>13074003
Anti-Oedipus, because "better" lies past "worst" and accelerating misery will get you there faster. I ended up chopping off my dick and balls which prompted my family to disown me. I'm all in, there's no turning back. If you want accompany me in this journey join this server this discord server: qK3puV

[Anonymous No.13076444]

>>13074003
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Complete 360 in metaphilosophy. Turned me into a pragmatist.

[Anonymous No.13076768]

Industrial Society and its Future for a number of reasons

[Anonymous No.13076791]

>>13076438
Yikes lmao

[Anonymous No.13076807]

>>13076438
>Literal discord tranny advertising in a wholesome thread
How does it feel to be mentally ill.

[Anonymous No.13076830]

Invisible Cities changed a lot of the ways I approach thought and psychology, as well as my perspective on language and communication. Most people prefer “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler” but Invisible Cities will always be what I come back to on a bad day.
Pic unrelated, it’s my cat

[Anonymous No.13076856]

>>13074064
How the fuck did you come to understand Being and Time?

I'd probably say Decline of the West for me, though.

[Anonymous No.13076904]

>>13074064
Same. It's a great read.

[Anonymous No.13076917]

>>13074273
He was never satisfied though.

To me that book only further emphasized the importance of settling down and making meaningful relationships

[Anonymous No.13076929]

>>13074023
Good fucking choice. Steve Mitchell's English translation is where it's at

[Anonymous No.13076933]

>>13074629
But awareness improves life

[Anonymous No.13076941]

>>13076830
I want to fuck your cat

[Anonymous No.13076951]

>>13076941
I’m gonna fucking cut you

[Anonymous No.13077521]

>>13076830
I have a very similar set of bed sheets. It's actually a little unnerving

[Anonymous No.13077796]

bump

[Anonymous No.13077887]

>>13076375
not that guy but pirsig isn't the stupidest human of which I've read their words

[Anonymous No.13078423]

Ecclesiastes

[Anonymous No.13078462]

>>13076856
>How the fuck did you come to understand Being and Time?
it wasn't the first philosophy text i had read, i had been reading some stuff before that. mostly about capitalism and culture. B&T just filled in a major puzzle piece. once you understand his basic ideas the rest of it really isn't so hard to grasp, he's reacting against the world becoming taken over by technology and mounting a critique against Plato and others.

plus his idea of Dasein, of how we relate to objects, Das Man and the rest. reading this helped, and the Zimmerman guide, and other stuff. B&T was definitely dense going at first but once his language and terminology clicks with you the rest of it is a breeze. he was the only philosopher who could really articulate the connections between time and mood, how we don't choose to fall into moods, and all the other stuff that gives him the reputation that he has.

Decline of the West was super-awesome as well, i loved reading that for the first time, i was bloc-quoting huge segments from almost every page.

[Anonymous No.13078478]

The Essential Peirce.

[Anonymous No.13079391]

>>13074003
"The Interpretation of Facepalms" by Sigmund Freud, it really helped me understand the oedipal-cocainic underpinnings of a gesture I had previously conceived of as fundamentally anal

[Anonymous No.13079518]

>>13079391
I concur, however I cannot agree completely with the sources of that information due to previous establishments within my history that Freud is a fucking looney

[Anonymous No.13079522]

>>13074003
It's a twofer
The Daodejing gave me perspective and a toolkit, the Blue Cliff Record gave me direction and inspiration

[Anonymous No.13079523]

So far, none.

[Anonymous No.13079525]

The Bible; Confessions (Saint Augustine); The Brothers Karamazov.

[Anonymous No.13079560]

[Anonymous No.13079592]

>>13074003
Principles by Ray Dalio

[Anonymous No.13079595]

>>13076929
I prefer Mair's but it's up to you

[Anonymous No.13079628]

>>13074028
Picked this up awhile ago, but started slacking a bit in my self driven studies. Did you find Wheelock's to be the text to successfully teach you Latin?

[Anonymous No.13079856]

Homo Faber and Steppenwolf.

[Anonymous No.13079885]

>>13074003
The Bread Book

[Anonymous No.13079901]

>>13079628
It gave me the base I needed to learn Latin. After the textbook it was all about reading reading reading. I got a couple intermediate readers, then loeb bi-lingual books.

[Anonymous No.13080014]

Solitude: a return to self by Anthony Storr