Post a book that has changed your life

[Joseph Goebbels No.19708472]

[Anonymous No.19708517]

>>19708472
Moby Dick opened my eyes for transcendentalism,and made me start reading Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, making me a more enlightened brand of autist than you dime a dozen existentialist nihilist faggots.

[Anonymous No.19708527]

The Bible, and Fear and Trembling after that

[Anonymous No.19709597]

>>19708517
Moby Dick was pretty anti-transcendalist though. "Over descartian vortices you hover" and all that

[Anonymous No.19709613]

>>19708527
post your favorite verse

[Anonymous No.19709628]

>>19708472
I'm trying to think of one but I can't. No book has had the honor of changing my life. Circumstance and experience did that. I believe this will be the case for most others.

[Anonymous No.19709721]

Notes from the underground made things in my head move. I realised that being bitter and self sabotaging is a suboptimal strategy for living a happy life.
Fuck the underground man, that cunt.

[Anonymous No.19709729]

>>19709721
Agreed. Although I simply laughed off the story when I read it the first time. It reached a bit too far into my psyche with his endless lies and rationalizations. Reading it again now

[Anonymous No.19709771]

>>19708472

[Anonymous No.19709783]

>>19708472
The descent of man cured my remaining Nietzsche ideals.

[Anonymous No.19709794]

This

[Anonymous No.19709811]

Party Monster made me realize I could just pretend to be a faggot and have endless drugs and warm holes to stick my dick into and even fun little sidegigs where I murder my drug dealer and stuff

[Anonymous No.19710369]

>>19708472
I am not too religious but Suma Theologiae and Aurelius's Meditations made realize that perception is more important than reality. It got me thinking hard since then on how can I alter my perception to enjoy all aspects of life regardless of how shit they are. I came to the conclusion that we can never see the world that is beyond our senses but we can change how we percieve it. Everything that's outside our bodies is a lie and it's up to us to make that lie suit our needs.

[Anonymous No.19710409]

>>19708472

[Anonymous No.19710463]

>>19708472
I have a horrible memory. I forget what ive read almost in a week

[Anonymous No.19710513]

[Anonymous No.19710523]

I will follow his footsteps but hopefully avoid the poverty and cancer.

[Anonymous No.19710525]

Truly

[Anonymous No.19710526]

>>19710523
Forgot pic.

[Anonymous No.19710689]

>>19708472
catcher in the rye unironically helped me overcome a coming of age crisis because i didnt want to be a faggot like holden and got my act together

[Anonymous No.19710729]

>>19710513
this was the most bullshit book i've ever read. it was garbage new age shit that new age idiots and bored housewives would typically read. i can't believe i fell for the meme.

[Anonymous No.19710741]

>>19708517
I would say Moby Dick, but for different reasons. I think up until that point in my life I didn't really understand the "classics" and only read fantasy/sci fi, but Moby Dick was so god damn good and it opened my eyes to how prose can be used as poetry. It was sort of the kick in the shin I needed when I was 18.

[Anonymous No.19710745]

>>19710729
Wow you couldn't even get it when it was dumbed down that much? Lower case posters proven retarded yet again.

[Anonymous No.19710753]

>>19709771
>>19709771
redpill me on this

[Anonymous No.19710760]

>>19708472
not sure which book specifically, but somewhere in the middle of reading Heidegger and Sartre for school i realized i had no excuse to keep being such a fucking loser and that my internal suffering had no merit to it so i stopped being a repressing transsexual and became just a normal transsexual

[Anonymous No.19710777]

This book helped me understand the world and myself more then anything I have ever read

[Anonymous No.19710785]

>>19708472
Book of disquiet helped me fix my shit. Journey by Celine helped me come to grips with everything else

[Anonymous No.19710794]

>>19710777
Now you have to move on to Zarathustra.

[Anonymous No.19710840]

>>19710794
Been meaning to for quite sometime, think I will now, thanks anon

[Anonymous No.19710866]

>>19708472
Ender's Game was probably the most influential.

[Anonymous No.19710876]

>>19709721
this this this. That book literally inspired me to self-improve just not to end up like the main guy

[Anonymous No.19710927]

>>19710777
I just started reading this yesterday and understand none of what is being said. Should I just go back to picture books? nice trips btw

[Anonymous No.19710940]

>>19710927
Stick with it the beginning is very heavy and is largely reliant on having read his previous book on the fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason, which is extremely heavy, but it gets easier after that and you can still derive alot from the book without fully understanding this section

[Anonymous No.19710951]

>>19708527
I thought fiction but especially fantasy was frown upon in /lit/?

[Anonymous No.19710992]

In no order:
>Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
>Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
>The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
>Basic Economics - Thomas Sowell

[Anonymous No.19711002]

[Anonymous No.19711004]

My diary desu

[Anonymous No.19711398]

>>19710753
you have to read it