/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13947386]

Which book affected your life the most?

[Anonymous No.13947418]

beyond good and evil, made me stop taking philosophy and politics seriously and let me live my life more comfortably knowing everyone is a complete retarded and everything is just will to power anyway

[Anonymous No.13947462]

>>13947386
On the road: the original scroll by Kerouac

[Anonymous No.13947808]

>>13947386
blood meridian

[Anonymous No.13947982]

>>13947386
The Bible.

[Anonymous No.13947996]

>>13947386
unironically my diary desu. i read it after like a year and realized i was completely and utterly insane and now i'm posting from a special home.

[Anonymous No.13948054]

>>13947808
I’m curious anon, how?

[Anonymous No.13948066]

saving the appearances by owen barfield

[Anonymous No.13948092]

>>13947996
This. Sort of

[Anonymous No.13948097]

>>13947386
edge-induced livelong psychosis from reading Palahniuk's "Haunted" at 13

[Anonymous No.13948118]

>>13947386
Up next: The Mystical City of God

[Anonymous No.13948150]

>>13948118
let me know if its worth reading the whole thing after you're done

[Anonymous No.13948181]

>>13948150
625 pages, it'll be a while.

[Anonymous No.13948204]

>>13948181
thats all you have left? isn't it like thousands of pages?

[Anonymous No.13948208]

the part in the brothel made me cry

[Anonymous No.13948224]

>>13947418
>everything is just will to power anyway
Even Nietzsche acknowledged this was wrong. There are many wills, power is one of the least of them.

[House of Leaves Guy No.13948225]

>>13947386
House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski

The way he organizes his prose greatly interested me and gave me a lot of insight into creating unique methods of conveying detail in my own writing. It was also my introduction into postmodernism.

[Anonymous No.13948282]

>>13947386
Guns, germs, and steel.

It's like reading a manual for the human race. "Oh, so this is how it works."

[Anonymous No.13948362]

Understanding Media - Marshall McLuhan

This shit completely reshaped the way I saw reality. The medium really is the message

[Anonymous No.13948380]

Grant Morrison's The Invisibles. Your life literally starts to parallel the story and synchronicities with it are boundless.

[Anonymous No.13948385]

Seneca's Letters, it made me want to study Stoicism and eventually lead me to Catholicism

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>>13948282
hell yeah. same. makes me realized we are all truly the same and we need to acknowledge our privilege

[Anonymous No.13948408]

your diary desu

[Anonymous No.13948503]

>>13947386
Werther or Crime and Punishment

[Anonymous No.13949110]

>>13947386
Industrial society and it's future.

[Anonymous No.13949136]

Why i feel like i'm not allowed to say 1984?

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>>13948380
Sounds interesting. The only other Morrison thing I’ve read is WE3 which was fun. Will check out.

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>>13947386
The Worthing Saga by Orson Card. For years it provided fuel for my adolescent philosophical speculations and sentimental daydreaming.

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>>13948225
I love that there's someone else into this book on /lit/. Would probably be the same for me

[Anonymous No.13949358]

>>13947386
Divine comedy
Made me rethink how I live my life and commit less hideous sins that would make me end up in hell

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>>13949136
because you're a bit of a pussy

[Anonymous No.13950014]

phenomenology of spirit

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>>13947386
Werther (not that i would die for a bitch, but for his contemplation on nature and romantic attitude), Keats poems and Hamlet

[Anonymous No.13950350]

>>13947386
50-50 between Harry Potter and Atlas Shrugged.

[Anonymous No.13950364]

Earth Abides.

[Anonymous No.13950599]

>>13948362
>The medium really is the message
What the fuck does this even mean?

[Anonymous No.13950605]

>>13948054
made me realise how much of a pussy faggot i was and that i had to man up

[Anonymous No.13950619]

The Brothers Karamazov

I read it over the winter when I was roughly 16 and had several hard-to-describe spiritual experiences throughout, almost like I was giving my mind a long-awaited clean-out that allowed for divinity to spread through me in waves. I've never been the same since. I probably cry more now, and have a tenderer heart. I try to seek the goodness in everybody.

[Anonymous No.13950631]

>>13947386
This book has awakened me and changed the way I look at the world around me more than anything else I have read.

[Anonymous No.13950638]

>>13950619
cute and based

[Anonymous No.13950653]

>>13948054
Helped me realize that the human capacity for violence is endless, as well as developing a unhealthy dose of paranoia.

[Anonymous No.13950906]

>>13947386

Unironically Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child.

I went in for the reddit meme of learning to cook, going out to try new activities. For some retarded reason I told a girl I met at an art class I loved to cook and invited her over.

I panicked and bought the Child recipe book, I knew bouf bourguignon was fancy food so I made that and she liked it. We ended up going out for about a year.

So basically Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking because it saved me from buying into Professor Cleanyourroom or turning into Londonfrog.

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>>13947386
augustine's confessions

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>>13950653
why are you answering anon im the one who said blood meridian he directed it at me, if youre going to post in response mention that you werent the poster who said blood meridian i dont want to be confused with retards like you

[Anonymous No.13951429]

Still hoping for that book to appear

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>>13951429
just post it, dont wait for some1 else

[Anonymous No.13951576]

Drawing the head and hands; A.Loomis

[Anonymous No.13951623]

Atlas Shrugged

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>>13950978
>augustine's confessions
how did it affect your life?

[Anonymous No.13952424]

The Bible but unironically

[Anonymous No.13952581]

>>13947386
Steppenwolf

[Anonymous No.13952591]

Death of Ivan Ilyich and Stoner

[Anonymous No.13952686]

>>13952591
read them both but it didnt have that much of an effect to me. good books tho.

[Anonymous No.13952724]

>>13952686
Ah really? I think I was in the prime mindset for them, I read both of them quite close to the other, so they both played off each other well and that really affected me

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>>13951421
fuck off nerd

[Anonymous No.13953074]

>>13947386
Ecclesiastes
The denial of death by E. Becker

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[Anonymous No.13953246]

Soseki - Kokoro
The final line of the Suicide note got me good.
>>13948208
brought me near tears as well.

[Anonymous No.13953577]

>>13948204
Vol. I

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>>13947386
Moby Dick, made me a lot more receptive to other people and the world, everyone and everything has at least something of value you can take something from.

[Anonymous No.13953964]

Thomas Merton - The Seven Storey Mountain.

I’m now joining a monastic order next year because of that book.

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>>13953964
I love everything I've read by him. God Bless friend.

[Anonymous No.13954111]

The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald. What better way to understand man than by reading a convoluted abstraction of one man's Diary desu.

[Anonymous No.13954396]

>>13950350
>Atlas Shrugged
That book has been lingering on my shelf for a month or two now and I keep eyeing it.
I hear people say that book changed their life while others tell me I should burn it and abandon all traces of even associating it... That's usually a good sign that it strikes some kind of cord with some aspect of life.

[Anonymous No.13954407]

>>13950619
I can't wait to read this one. I have like 3 books I need to get through until I read it. I hope I'll be reading it around Christmas.
I think it's in Slaughterhouse 5 that a characters tells someone that "every answer to life can be found in [The Brothers Karamazov]" or something. Ever since I read that as a teen I've been wanting to read it.

[Anonymous No.13954431]

.Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and he let out a respectful whistle.
>"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.
>"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

[Anonymous No.13954434]

>>13947386
the last one i read, and the one before that, and it's been on and on since go dog go

[Anonymous No.13954444]

>>13947386
White Nights by Dostoevsky and War and Peace by Tolstoy.

[Anonymous No.13954447]

>>13954431
Catch-22 is great. That Snowden scene though...

Where are the Snowden's of Yesteryear?

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>>13954447
There, there.

[Anonymous No.13954636]

>>13950619
Didn't know a book could drop someone's testosterone levels so hard

[Anonymous No.13954699]

Honestly Joyce's Dubliners, this was way before I read Ulysses. It's an endlessly thematic book that can be peered down into without your gaze ever reaching the bottom, and it utterly shattered my view of literature at that time because it mainly was a book I sought out to read myself and interpret on my own lines and thought at through my own discoveries, thereby having myself imbue it worth a thousand-fold more meaning than anything I was reading for class at the time. I can also quote like half of Araby by memory

[Anonymous No.13954736]

>>13947386
Decline of the West

[Anonymous No.13955208]

>>13954444
quads of 19th century russia

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>>13954636
I’m not going to lie anon, I really want you to post a pic. I’m 6ft and have a fantastic physique that awards me more female attention than you’ve likely ever even dreamt of. I could probably fuck your Mum if I wanted to, in fact you should probably check with her to make sure you’re not actually my son - except I really hope not, I don’t want to have brought such a faggot into the world.

[Anonymous No.13955327]

>>13954407
That’s actually what spurred me to read it myself! You’ll love it anon.

[Anonymous No.13955455]

>>13947386
Well reading changed my life and as a teenager i was always playing games and watching television, after awhile the stories those mediums told didn't do it for me anymore as a way to pass time so i started reading some classics old man and sea and those sorts of books but none of them hooked me so i went to reading some light novels and fantasy/sci fi but after getting through alot of them i started finding them shallow and poorly written compared to classics i had read before. One day i came on /lit/ for first the time and i kept seeing the meme trilogy get mentioned and so i was curious to read one of them, reading threads i came to find that GR and Ulysses were not books a beginner should start with, so i bought infinite jest from a local book store and have been an avid reader since.

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>>13952581
Just finished it this weekend. Great book. Demian had a more significant effect on me, but steppenwolf seems like adult version of that book more or less. Gonna read Siddhartha next.

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>>13955478
Hesse's best stuff is his later works. Make sure you check out Journey to the East and Narcissus and Goldmund.

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>>13947386
Journey to the end of the night

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>>13948282
This post is a joke right?

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>>13954396
In this amount of pages you can read something that's infinitely more worthy than this piece of shit. You will only like it if you have no fucking idea about philosophy or history or thought in general. I'm halfway through it and I wish I read it when I was 16, it can push you into the right direction but from a broader perspective it's more effective to just read Rand's political writings. And analysing the likes of Stirner and Nietzsche will be better than all of the above.

[Anonymous No.13955831]

How to win friends and influence people, it was the starting point of a big change in my life.
>inb4 self help is trash
>>13950906
Confy.

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>>13950619
Same thing happened to me, was 16 too.

[Anonymous No.13955997]

The Unabomber manifesto.
Made me drop out of uni and seek a response to what seemed to me the inevitable conclusion of progress and technology.

[Anonymous No.13956242]

>>13950619
read it in high school too, changed me so much, really felt soul cleansing like you described

[Anonymous No.13956246]

>>13948380
best comic I have ever read, criminally underrated

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>>13948282
>nigs were secretly geniuses just like us but didn't have horses
>whites go to africa and domesticate zebras in less than a month, riding them like horses

Really made me think.

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>>13947982
Which version of the bible is best and which denomination is best for trad life?

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>>13947386
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.
I read it when I was eighteen and it had a profound effect on how I've viewed human civilization and psychology ever since.

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>>13955997
O SHIT U NIGGER WHY

Out of curiosity, what happened next?
How are you nowadays?

[Anonymous No.13957521]

>>13955997
I'm in a similar position desu. Couldn't find the purpose to continue working in STEM after reading that.

However I'm still living with my family in the city. I'm unsure what my next steps should be in order to become self sufficient. Might try to get a job on a farm next summer.

[Anonymous No.13957551]

2666

It was 2 months of subverting everything I thought I’d wanted to achieve. In short, I lost most of my ambition to be successful.

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>>13947808
This. I started wandering around my neighborhood picking up samples of rocks and plants. Some old man asked me what I was doing, so I told him, "whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent." Then I turned and walked back home.

[Anonymous No.13958499]

Unironically.

[Anonymous No.13958523]

My twisted world opened my eyes. I went from r9kpilled to blackpilled. I had even read Houellebecq before that but ER put it all so pathetically.

I spent my last few years of university and my entire life since with an internal monologue that notes how my ugliness results in sub par treatment by others and an all round hard life. It has been like a cloud hanging over me non-stop.

[Anonymous No.13958830]

>>13947386
Mein Kampf