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What books would you give your teenage self?

>> No.15421557

>>15421542
As a teenager I had already fallen out of reading and just played video games with friends all day. Part of the social structure of the nerd circle was participation. I had no goals or aspirations to anything at the time. All the books I've read since that probably would have helped me adapt my skill set to something useful hadn't been published yet. And if you had told me 10 years ago I was gonna be a lawyer I would have laughed you out of the room and gone back to team fortress two.

>> No.15421583

>>15421542
instead of books i would tell myself to quit school in 8th grade

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>> No.15421953

>>15421542
Probably Rimbaud. I was a lonely fag, and knowing about him earlier might have helped.

>> No.15421963

Some book on breathwork and energy healing
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter Levine
Letting Go by David Hawkins
Levels of Energy by Frederick Dodson
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

>> No.15421974

Sea of Fertility

Hopefully he gets the hint

>> No.15422098

No More Mr Nice Guy by Robert Glover
Models by Mark Manson
And a shelf-load of Buddhist and psychology texts.

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>>15421542
Don't know probably Moby Dick. I read all of LOTR back in the 8th grade when the Hobbit movies came out. I think The Hobbit is actually one of the better books in the series, the first LOTR was my favorite and the end half of the 2nd and 3rd book was complete garbage.

Definitely reading books about facts or almanacs was a big mistake. I would probably read less physics books since doing physics was boring.

Pictured bottom right: LOTR

>> No.15422596

Patriotism by Mishima. Also leave him the Katana of my dad unsheathed before him.

>> No.15422711

>>15422098
Adding onto this, I'd also like to add another popular one:
The Rational Male by Rollo Tomassi

>> No.15422722

>>15421542

Unironically I'd start with the Greeks (and the Romans)

>> No.15422748

>>15421542
nietzsche, plato, hermann hesse, thomas mann, goethe, aristotles and most stoics (all the entry level shit basically). Those are the absolute backbone of my character today and if I knew them earlier my life would have been so much better. Back then I read 1000 page sci-fi bullshit that did nothing for me but offered escapism. Reading can be absolutely useless if you read the wrong stuff

>> No.15422755

>>15422711
Just thought I'd add that I'm a Catholic and so I don't believe in fornication and I believe all behaviour that excites the passions should be restricted to a husband and his wife but nonetheless, it's good to possess this information.

>> No.15422762

>>15421542
This essential Peirce and the anatomy of melancholy.
With a viscous lecture

>> No.15422769

>>15421542
I didn't get much out of the great books I read at the time. Believe it or not 16 year old boys are not the most intelligent readers.
I honestly think that period of life just goes to waste. Except for studying to get into a good college, which I did. You can't know what your future self 10 years on will want you have to have done. My interests now are completely different than back then.