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14078926 No.14078926 [Reply] [Original]

Do you ever get the feeling that if you read a certain book much earlier in your life, your future might have turned out completely different?

>> No.14078995

>>14078926
Not really. Since I started with the Greeks and have to read everything chronologically, exactly following the helpful charts made here, there really is no way I could have read something earlier.

>> No.14079000

>>14078926
It's never too late to be what you might have been

>> No.14079227

>>14079000
But it is too late. I've finished college, missed my chances, burned my bridges. I don't even have time to start over because I spend my best 9 hours every day working just to keep a roof above my head and food on the table.

>> No.14079240

>>14078926
not really

>> No.14079353

>>14078926
Yeah The Bible

>> No.14080291

Probably would have legit killed myself if I had read Steppenwolf as a teenager.

>> No.14080299

>>14080291
Good sales pitch. Will read. Hopefully it gives me the courage to do the deed.

>> No.14080302

>>14078926
I'm early in my life. What books besides the Bible (currently reading it) should I have read before 30?

>> No.14080310

>>14078926
what's his stands name?

>> No.14080369

>>14080302
Similar works like
William Blake
Dante
Milton

>> No.14080376

>>14080291
I read it when I was like 14. What was so sad about it. All I remember is drugs, double psyches, and some cafe stuff. It's been so long

>> No.14080380

>>14078926
Fucking, YES.

>> No.14080406

>>14078926
yeah, i wish someone had taught me about personal investing, financial management etc much younger

>> No.14080407

>>14080302
Ulysses
In Search of Lost Time
Being and Time
Discourse on Method
The Magic Mountain
The Republic
Godel, Escher, Bach
Schizophrenia and Capitalism
Art of the Deal
Foucault's Pendulum
Les Miserables
Against Method
12 Rules for Life
Paradise Lost
The Aeneid
Zyzz: Life of a Star
Ecrits
Notes from Underground
How to Win Friends and Influence People
The Elementary Particles
Crime and Punishment
Diary of a Slut
Becoming
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
The Order of Discourse
The Wealth of Nations
The Right Side of History: How Reason and Sense of Morality Made the West Great
The Magus
Hooking Up: A Guide to Modern Campus Life
Capitalist Realism
Divergent

>> No.14080658

>>14078926
Yes, but not in a good way

>> No.14080664

>>14080407
>classics mixed in with random bullshit books
Haha fucking kek

>> No.14080685

Have you ever wanted to read a book, but then decided that you will enjoy reading it for the first time more at a later life stage, so you didn't read it and are waiting to read it when you are e.g. 50 years old?

>> No.14080702

yes and no. After I've embraced Taoism, time no longer matters

>> No.14080729

I don’t think books that made an impression on me as an adult would have done so if I’d read them when I was more immature.