/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17779491]

I need a book that will permanently change my life, for better or worse. Give it to me.

[Anonymous No.17779498]

The old testament

[Anonymous No.17779504]

>>17779498
Based

[Anonymous No.17779507]

>>17779491
>Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

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[Anonymous No.17779529]

>>17779491
SICP

[Anonymous No.17779562]

>>17779498
Unironically considering this.

[Anonymous No.17779644]

>>17779519
unironically??
>>17779529
meme book

[Anonymous No.17779662]

>>17779513
kek. My dad who lives in a hut in the sticks of Colorado used this as a doorstop

[Anonymous No.17779664]

All Quiet on the Western Front made me anti war

[Anonymous No.17779669]

>>17779491
Peter Sloterdijk
You must change your life

[Anonymous No.17779689]

>>17779498
This, also go full metaphysics.

[Anonymous No.17779754]

>>17779491
christs samurai

[Anonymous No.17779917]

>>17779519
It’s not that good

[Anonymous No.17779926]

>>17779491
Who made this 3D rendition of Mr. Pičkousti and for which purpose?

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[Anonymous No.17780588]

A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind

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[Anonymous No.17780752]

>>17780588
just how much of this book is based on true events is it just /pol/ ramblings?

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[Anonymous No.17780848]

>>17780752
Read it and find out.

[Anonymous No.17780864]

>>17779491 the bible

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[Anonymous No.17780924]

>>17780888
I thought this book was hot shit in the 90s.
But it's mostly garbage.

[Anonymous No.17780931]

This may not get you a gf or make you /fit/, but it will make you a better writer. That's life-changing.

[Anonymous No.17780952]

>>17779491
Wash Ur pinus and vagene

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jg4PtAbRKYE

[Anonymous No.17780964]

>>17779491
Newton's Principia assuming Ur not a midwit or a lower degenerate

[Anonymous No.17780969]

>>17779491
The Cossacks by Tolstoy

Quite literally changed my life. It's not long either, but it has more life in it than books 10x its size.

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[Anonymous No.17781197]

>>17779491
Be careful what you wish for.

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>>17780752
Pretty much everything is based on facts with footnotes, and the author is very careful to say "allegedly" etc. when he does occasionally speculate.

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>>17779950
Based

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>>17779950
>They're STILL writing new books
What the fuck

[Anonymous No.17781653]

>>17779491
based Kawashima poster

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>>17779491
Napoleon Hill
Outwitting the Devil

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>>17779669
Not OP but I tried reading this. The analysis of Rilke's poem should be enough for people to change their ways desu. But I couldn't get through the rest. Whats with the fixation on Olympic sports? At least thats what I remember. Long time since I read it.

[Anonymous No.17784036]

>>17780931
No it will not. It's no coincidence that American literature has been so stifled since this book was published. It completely removes any creativity or experimentation with language which is so necessary to make a great novel. It seeks to standardize writing into identical structures, and on top of that it's also misdefines the passive voice.

[Anonymous No.17784353]

>>17781189
Can I get a basic gestalt?

[Anonymous No.17784380]

>>17784036
>that it's also misdefines
Looks like you need to read some Strunk & White.

[Anonymous No.17784384]

>>17784353
Meditation techniques from several esoteric eastern and western traditions synthesized and made accessible to grugs.

It works.

[Anonymous No.17785411]

>>17779498
Don't ignore this op. This shit is fucking wild

[Anonymous No.17785414]

Mein Kampf

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>>17779491
All books always do this to you.

Jesus read gateless gate, seriously read it until you understand it, and then until you no longer understand it.

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>>17785411
You need to have mastered basic hermeneutics before you read it, and you need to read it to master basic hermeneutics.

[Anonymous No.17785906]

for the worse is acceptable, you say?

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>>17779498
fpbp

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>>17779754
You didn't answer my question the last time. Why I you consider this book to be life changing?

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>>17781189
looks good

[Anonymous No.17786267]

>>17779669
>>17782963
im in the same boat, read a little over half and stopped, but not for lack of quality.

it's a very good book that i plan on going back to at some point very soon. also bump for anyone else reading this/opinions on this. surprised /lit/ doesn't consider him more or less /ourguy/

[Anonymous No.17786275]

>>17779498
Based..
...on lies.

[Anonymous No.17786298]

>>17779491
Itzhak Bentov- Chasing the Wild Pendulum (On the Mechanics of Consciousness)

This books is changing the way I see the world and Im starting to finally understand a great deal of the schizoposting as being misinterpretations of this guys theories. It works best if you have some very basic understanding of eastern philosophy and maybe Hinduism. Any higher level mathematical concepts or esoteric nonsense are broken down pretty well into easily digestible examples and metaphors. The only complaint I have is that its not longer, for the sake of making the book as non-technical as possible he forgoes some examples of why and how certain things would or would not work that I would have loved to see compiled together. But either way its a fantastic book and it will very likely change your perception of life.

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>>17780752
You have access to non-Google search engines to look up each story. Not every commonly agreed-apon fact of the Holocaust can be 100% likely to have happened.