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Which books that you've read have improved your life the most and how?

I want to improve my life but don't know how, or what to read to do so

>> No.19959783

>>19959776
God bless you mr. Rosewater.

I taught me to ignore what other people deem as good or bad.

>> No.19959904

>>19959776
Siddharta by Hesse
L’Étranger by Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus
The Wall by Sartre
Meditations by Pascal
The World as Will and Representation by Schopenhauer
The Idiot by Dostoevskij
The Gospels (I’m not a Christian though)
Uno Nessuno Centomila by Luigi Pirandello

Note that this is obviously just my opinion.

>> No.19959930

All of Henry Miller’s work

All of Herman Hesse’s work

The Tao Te Ching

The Bhagavad Gita

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky

All of Knut Hamsun’s work

Memoirs of Hadrian by Yourcenar

>> No.19959978

>>19959904
>>19959930
How did these books help? Only The World as Will and Representation, Tao Te Ching, and Bhagavad Gita sound relevant

>> No.19959991

>>19959904
>Siddharta by Hesse

Just be attractive and smart bro :D

>> No.19960042

>>19959776
None. I just read books for fun. Do you go around asking people on /v/ which video games changed their life or people on /tv/ which TV changed their life?

>> No.19960048

>>19959978
They inspired me, or let me see life in a new positive, optimistic way. They gave me peace of mind and helped me spiritually

>> No.19960085

>>19959904
Bas

>> No.19960188

>>19959978
Siddharta made think about how one can only reach enlightenment by their own means; no doctrine or outside guidance is necessary to do so.

The Stranger is a reflection on passive nihilism and absurdism; the latter can be a life changing philosophy.

The Myth of Sisyphus is an essay on the philosophical reasons behind suicide. It reaches the conclusion that, no matter what goes on in your life, suicide is not worth it. One should accept life simply for what it is.

The Wall made me think about the shortness of life (motivating me to do something out of my life) and the horrors of death sentences. Same thing could be said for the Stranger.

The Meditations are a a collection of philosophical reflections, many of which are centered around existentialism. It is in one of those that, for example, Pascal talks about the idea of divertissement: being made aware of it made me start living a more fulfilling life where I try to avoid senseless activities I don’t need to do.

The Idiot showed me what an almost perfect human being is like. Same goes for the Gospels.

Uno Nessuno Centomila made me look beyond the illusory masks everyone wears. While no one can avoid wearing them and having different identities based on the person they’re perceived by, it is also true that one can try and be his true self everywhere and with anyone.

>> No.19960334

>>19959904
Huh, I'm pretty sure we'd be good friends.

>> No.19960493

1-Twilight Stephenie Meyer
2-Fifty Shades of Grey el james
3-The Secret Rhonda Byrne
4- Going Rogue: An American Life Sarah Palin
5- How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter Ann Coulter

>> No.19960896

>>19959776
Gita
Eddas
Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins. Didn't even finish the book just put it down half way and decided to stop being a bitch tits poopy pants pussy.

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>>19960493
You should own camo print yoga pants and confederate flag panties. And and AND

>> No.19960954

>>19960902
i am male

>> No.19961164

Iliad and the Eddas taught me how to confront the past, war memoirs like Storm of Steel taught me how to confront peace and war, and Meditations and Nichomachean Ethics to confront parts of myself I disliked. I realize these may be viewed as "basic" but they are personally significant.

>>19960954
perhaps he is so blinded by lust that to him it matters not

>> No.19961202

The Idiot
Don Quixote
Sapiens
48 Laws
5 Rings
Torah with commentaries

>> No.19961754

bump

>> No.19962069

If I'm including religion on this secular website I'd say the Holy Bible.

However, here are my secular books:

1. Conceptual Thinking: A Logical Enquiry
2. Meditations on a First Philosophy
3. Discourse on the Method
4. Novum Organum

>> No.19962714

The Power of Now

>> No.19962810

>>19959776
mein kampf, it taught me not to trust a jew and ive been better for it.

>> No.19962823

>>19959776
Being and Time
Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus
The Unique and Its Property
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

The more I read and take under, the more I begin to clear up the confusion that surrounds my everyday life and thought process.

>> No.19962873

>>19962823
this reeks of too-involved-in-politics brainrot

>> No.19962879

>>19960954
And?

>> No.19962885

>>19959776
i read a book called atomic habits, about year ago and i still think about it almost everyday. i couldn't quote anything from it or give you a detailed summary and i know it sounds corny to say this, but i look back on the past 12ish months see a lot of improvement in myself that i can attach back to this book.

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>>19959776

>> No.19964110

The School of Life books

>> No.19964807

>>19964110
bait

>> No.19965146

>>19960085
haan, bas

>> No.19965196

The Critique of Pure Reason

>> No.19965460

>>19959776
The Foxfire survival books. Been really handy for general practical knowledge and other cool shit.

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