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21228042 No.21228042 [Reply] [Original]

No book has ever changed my life

>> No.21228078

Read Roland Boer - Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide to Foreigners and commit your life to the People's Republic.

>> No.21228103

>>21228042
so you’ve avoided invoking the sneering laughs of your so-called peers that then would have demanded you get off your high horse and get a jobby at your local Tesco ™ ? seem’s like you’ve dodged a lot of trouble anon.

>> No.21228105

>>21228042
Your mom extending my penis 6 inches beyond the opening of her lips changed my life momentarily until I had to pull out and jerk off while thinking of something shameful, grunting while she waited impatiently, sweating, until I finally came onto her ass/back and pretended it was alright. Haha gottem

>> No.21228114

>>21228042
It's time for the Turner Diaries

>> No.21228125

Not even when you got booked for indecent exposure?

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>>21228042
Wait you guys read books?

>> No.21228216

>>21228042
Ditto.
But saying that, i dont believe ive read anything that has the potential to change lives.

>> No.21228240

>>21228042
You are a stupid frog poster after all.

>> No.21228259

>>21228042
Stupid frogposter

>> No.21228486
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some books have completely changed the way I look at the world and life and love and whatnot, yet none of them have magically enabled me to break out of my self-destructive viscous cycles

>> No.21228490

>>21228042
Then you either don't read, read trash, or aren't intelligent.

>> No.21228630

>>21228042
Please do yourself a favor and read Charlie and the chocolate factory...

>> No.21228691

>>21228042
You would be a spineless and impressionable little loser if any had

>> No.21228711

>>21228042
me neither. a song has, though

>> No.21228773

life A:
>read a book
life B:
>didn't read a book
looks like it did change your life...

>> No.21228787

>>21228486
This.
>>21228773
Based gywpsy.

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>>21228042
Because you're completely broken. No one can fix you. It's over.

>> No.21229701

...for the better.


Yeah, same.

>> No.21229717

Almost every book changes my life.

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>>21228042
Literally every book I read changes my life.
I have no personality btw

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>>21229651

>> No.21229855

>>21228042
Books that have changed my life
>catcher in the rye - read this when I was 11, didn’t really get it, but cemented me as a “reader” personality among all the adults I knew and so was always encouraged to read and discuss books with adults which was very formative. Read it once every two years until I turned twenty.
>blood meridian - read this when I was a semi-söyish loser in college, which was a change since I was a football chad in high school. This book qualified masculinity and the intrinsic-in-the-dna quality of man’s propensity to violence made me go back to sports and lifting and join a fraternity, which I eventually became president of
>Moby dick - read this a month or two into my remote-work / traveling the country stint, which was only supposed to be for 3 months but now is going on a year. The first chapter’s musings about “healthy young men” having within their soul a craving for adventure, and having to do so around this age when they get a little “low around the mouth”. Confirmed that what I’m doing is worth the drawbacks because I’d be more miserable living in one place and doing the same shit every day

Other minor life-changing (more realistically, perspective-changing) works that have had a big impact on me is: War & Peace (serfdom vs aristocracy, work vs thought), One Hundred Years of Solitude (third world superstition and thought patterns), Suttree (glorification of folly and observance), Stoner (“chapterizing” life events), Steppenwolf (don’t take yourself seriously, you are a joke and you suffer because you take seriously what God made for fun).

>> No.21229884

>>21228042
Nabok has changed my life. Nabok of Vladimir, an obscure medieval thinker, you've probably never heard of him. I'm a pedophile now.

>> No.21229889

>>21228197
no

>> No.21229896

>>21228486
Notes from Underground

>> No.21231071

youre simply not paying enough attention

>> No.21231089

>>21228490
/thread

>> No.21231525

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM

>> No.21231565

>>21228042
Notes from Underground made me a Christian

>> No.21231577

>>21231525
what in tarnation

>> No.21231578

Your life is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things anyways, what would changing it matter for anyone

>> No.21232384

>>21228042
Stupid frogposter

>> No.21232400

>>21228490
What's your life changing book / best book. Anyone can answer, i need recs.

>> No.21232401

>>21228711
Which one

>> No.21232407

>>21228711
Which one?

>> No.21232408

>>21228042
You ought to change yourself in response to processing the content of the book, assuming you're reading pure non-fiction of course.

>> No.21232416

Every time you read it changes your life, because you go from a state where you aren't reading to a state where you are

>> No.21232419

>>21232407
>>21232401
Horse soldier, horse soldier by Corb Lund:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiMUOuYUy1w&ab_channel=CorbLund-Topic

Completely changed the way I think about death and god, unironically. I feel much better about it now.

>> No.21232421

>>21228042
How do you know that? Fewer things can change your life totally. An apple fell on Newton's head and triggered a long chain of thoughts that led to the creation of modern physics (inb4 I know the story is fictional, smartass, it's an example). I recently got fired cause I got into a fight at work for, in retrospect, no real reason. The entire course of my life was altered in 2 minutes flat. You think spending thousands of hours delving into the ideas of great men won't change you with or without your consent? You're a fucking idiot.

>> No.21232637

>>21231578
My life is literally all that has ever existed though

>> No.21232868

>>21228490
Tell me the books that changed your life
or you're a massive pussy

>> No.21233028

>>21228125
A novel comment for once. And I thought I read everything!