/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20322425]

Suggest me a book every person should have read in his life once. I am talking about THE book. A book where you learn about yourself and understand the world.

I liked andorra cause its a model of society

[Anonymous No.20322426]

The Quran.

[Anonymous No.20322429]

The Torah

[Anonymous No.20322435]

The Bible

[Anonymous No.20322441]

The Book of Mormon

[Anonymous No.20322444]

The novelization of Star Wars

[Anonymous No.20322445]

If have a job, and especially if you plan on having some kind of career, read The Gervais Principle essays by Venkatesh Rao. It's a short read and it's absolutely essential.

[Anonymous No.20322451]

>>20322444
numerals therefore true

[Anonymous No.20322469]

>>20322425
Leviticus so you learn what you should do and what not to do

Deuteronomy is another solid option since it explains what happens to you in case you disobey the laws (and also what happens if you obey them)

>>20322429
5 books so it's too much for OP

[Anonymous No.20322488]

>>20322426
Nice try ahmet
>>20322429
Nice try maybe ismael?
>>20322435
Nice try gunther
>>20322444
Nice try george
>>20322445
Not actually but sounds interesting

I am looking for a book which is like a acid trip that opens your eyes to i dont know. Life and all that stuff around

[Anonymous No.20322496]

>>20322469
Solid answer.
Any anons can confirm? We need to reach general consensus.

By law, do you mean the laws of the state?

[Anonymous No.20322521]

>>20322425
>Andorra

>Population of a small city
>No standing army but all adult males must own a rifle to defend the nation if called on
>Over 90% white
>Very high human development, very low inequality
>Moderate climate
>Official language is Catalan, the second-most beautiful romance language after its sister Occitan
>Most of the population is trilingual

Why yes, it is the model of society

[Anonymous No.20322555]

>>20322521
You miss the best part:
>Ski in the alps on Friday
>Sunbathe in Barcelona on Saturday
Unbelievably comfy place to be

[Anonymous No.20322692]

Ok you got me there with leviticus its another religious book

So you really want me to read the bible?

[Anonymous No.20322751]

>>20322425
any actual understanding of "self and the world" you might get out of reading comes out in the long term, from exposure to a thousand books. it doesn't matter if you read something "important" today if you haven't developed the necessary literacy and capacity for nuance by reading for the last ten, twenty, thirty years. there are no shortcuts for this.

[Anonymous No.20322761]

>>20322425
Tao Te Ching

[Anonymous No.20322810]

Siddhartha, so you realize what you’re looking for will not be found in any book but from experience alone

[Anonymous No.20322913]

>>20322445
I really dislike Indians. Their people tend towards despotism.

[Anonymous No.20323023]

Besides the KJV Bible, probably Behind Communism by Frank L Britton

[Anonymous No.20324145]

>>20322810
Hmm this probably but again some religious stuff. Atleast its written in the last 100 years.
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What the
>>20322751
I dont know man. Just tell me something that comes with a bang and you think every person should read that. And is not about any religion or written 1000 bc

[Anonymous No.20324170]

Harry Potter. Trust me it can change your entire worldview. A truly groundbreaking series with grandiloquent prose. Even the Ulysses can't hold a candle to it.

[Anonymous No.20324205]

>>20324170
Meh too much fantasy also i am spoilered too hard

ulysses actually sounds good, sb confirm? we need general consensus, give me the best shit you got

[Anonymous No.20324209]

>>20322692
Yes, with commentary by Rashi
https://www.chabad.org/parshah/otherparshas_cdo/aid/9175/jewish/All-Parshas.htm

[Anonymous No.20324214]

>>20322913
makes sense why their invasion of high level jobs coincidided with massive cuts to private welfare

[Anonymous No.20324325]

>>20322425
Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse.
I always reread the final paragraphs when I find it in a bookstore.

[Anonymous No.20324329]

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[Anonymous No.20324335]

Bronze Age Mindset

[Anonymous No.20324340]

>>20322488
Man and his symbols by carl jung
Ted kaczynski manifesto

[Anonymous No.20324343]

Marx's Capital to understand how bad things really are.

[Anonymous No.20324356]

>>20322555
andorra is kino, barcelona is shit though

[Anonymous No.20324497]

>>20324209
No i dont care too much about religions and stuff, also mostly kind of outdated.
>>20324325
Ok we got 2 times siddharta thats a start
>>20324335
>The 77-chapter "exhortation" is written with intentionally poor grammar, mixing Nietzschean philosophy with criticisms of modern society.

I think thats too high iq for me
>>20324340
Both seem to quite good somebody confirm this mans take

[Anonymous No.20324500]

War & Peace because reading a 1200 page novel teaches you a lot of patience

[Anonymous No.20324524]

>>20322425
How to Measure Anything by Douglas Hubbard.
The exception is if you already know about decision theory then don't bother. But not only are there a whole lot of nerdy statistical tools you can use, there's three important insights:
1. If something would change the decision you intend to make, then it is measurable. When people try to measure 'intangibles' like "Security" or "Collaboration" usually there's downstream decisions that it could affect, such as a new keypass system or what software tool should be used to manage email.
2. No measure needs to give you absolute certainty, especially if you have absolute uncertainty and no information then almost any measure will reduce uncertainty about your decision and thus be an improvement
3. It's worth doing a measure as long as the cost of taking the measurement is less than the cost of a bad decision, don't worry about potential projections about profits. The costs of a poor decision are usually very easy to glean (i.e. re: "security" - if there was a break in, how would it cost to materially replace and get things back to normal for example)
There's a lot more to it than that. But as a paranoid type from a arts background being able to think in numeric terms about intangibles and reframing my approach to certainty was a fucking gamechanger.
I think the book is valuable if only for the bit about intangibles. Too often I see people ask about Sheinproblems.
>>20322445
I see that guy's posts come up a lot on twitter, can you give me in tweet form a lesson or observation from the book?

[Anonymous No.20324537]

>>20324524
Good post, I probably won't read that boo though because I hate numbers

[Anonymous No.20324543]

>>20324500
Keked
>>20324524
Cool but is it wrapped in a story or something? I dont want to read something like a guide


And please confirm takes from others if you think they are legit takes and you approve them

[Anonymous No.20324565]

>>20324543
>Cool but is it wrapped in a story or something?
No it's not. I prefer my non-fiction books like that. Just give me the information without flab. But apparently that's not for you.
>And please confirm takes from others if you think they are legit takes and you approve them
What takes? I think the only book I've read is the Tao Te Ching and I can't remember anything from it aside from a vague notion that you have to act with expedience and don't resist things? And I never finished Ulysseus because I'm a pleb. Wonderfully written work, but I don't think it's the first thing I'd recommend as "the book" to understand yourself and understand the world. In fact I think novels and fictions only give you pleasure when you have some degree of understanding of the world.

[Anonymous No.20324981]

>>20324537
Lang Math

[Anonymous No.20324996]

Dune or I, Robot

[Anonymous No.20325336]

>>20322425
I liked Cat's Cradle as a thought provoking story.

[Anonymous No.20325342]

The Bible, unironically

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Pic rel has worked wonders for me.

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bait/10

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>>20322425
The reign of quantity and the signs of the times by René Guénon

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>>20322425
Demian by Herman Hesse

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>>20322425
The Origin of Species

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>>20322425
Gottfried Benn's early poems

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>>20322425
The Bibble