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Has a book ever ruined your life, /lit/?

>> No.19257534

>>19256004
Hi John Ebert

>> No.19257543

>>19256004
The bibble

>> No.19257591
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I was just at my university library yesterday and happened across some Spengler.

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Basically everything I've read from this guy has been mindblowing. Changed my entire outlook on life.

>> No.19257929

>>19257925
Now go find it blown out of the water as bullshit

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>> No.19257938

>>19257929
Never found any real criticisms of the book beyond maybe a few very minor mistakes here and there which everyone does. Even Chomsky

>> No.19257955

>>19257938
Any data it uses is either bullshit or has statistical mistakes at best, from that any conclusion it makes is wrong, any point it has is wrong.
The only mindblowing thing about it is why the fuck nazis cling to it so much, it's terrible, random words of a retard have more value than it.

>> No.19257969

>>19257955
Any examples? There is only one statistic in the entire book that people bring up to show that people had problems with it. One statistic in a 600 page book. That doesn't refute the entire book. I can find Chomsky make one mistake or literally any book you can find in academia. No one has 100% perfect objectively correct sources.

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>>19257955
>Any data it uses is either bullshit
welcome to the world of statistics

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Not ruined, per se, however the story (and additional novels in here) had me fucked up.

>> No.19258109

anna karenina turned me into a tranny

>> No.19258174

>>19258109
Based

>> No.19258176

>>19257938
EVEN CHOMSKY!

>> No.19258192

>>19258176
lmao

>> No.19258221

I believe reading tropic of cancer was a major factor in not getting a girlfriend until well into my 20s

>> No.19258238

>>19257925
Are you right wing? If so, shameful.
Such reliance on materiality is for uninitiated leftists.

>> No.19258313

>>19257955
>nazis
oooooooOOOOOOOooooooo watch out anon….I….I think the nazis are…r-right behind you!!!!

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>>19256004

yeah this book

it's better to be completely ignorant about some things

i learned that there are mites that live on your face because of this book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demodex

>> No.19258333

>>19258324

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis
also people cats mostly likely have that shit

>> No.19258342

Reading the beats as a teenager probably reinforced that stupid romantic junky failure thing in me and set me off on self-destructive behaviours for a few years. Rock music and growing up poor in a poor neighbourhood and a shity public school was far worse though. Role models and the media you consume really are important.

>> No.19258352

>>19258324
There are little worms that live in the follicles of your eyelashes too. They're everywhere.

>>19258333
I was bitten by a cat as a kid and it has always made me wonder.

>> No.19258456

>>19256004
I really want to get into this book but I think I'll need some context and pre reading tools to get the full thing

>> No.19258830

>>19257955
>Any data it uses is either bullshit or has statistical mistakes at best
Hey man can you point to a couple of these mistakes?

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>>19256004
Evola's Ride The Tiger simultaneously killed me and gave me new life, if that counts.