Works of fiction that have forever changed the way you think and feel. Pic related. For me, it was The Watchmen comic.

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Anonymous Mon Nov 21 21:30:52 2011 No.2205658 [Reply] [Original]

Works of fiction that have forever changed the way you think and feel.

Pic related. For me, it was The Watchmen comic.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 21:31:52 2011 No.2205660 Watchmen was a good one. The Man Who Was Thursday warped my mind.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 21:41:48 2011 No.2205674 Fight Club

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 21:48:48 2011 No.2205688 File: 31 KB, 317x500, whitebitingdog.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Bible (KJV) King Lear Dracula Cat's Cradle Akira Life of Pi pic also related >>2205674 is a homosexual

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 21:48:48 2011 No.2205687 ITT: 13 year old boys.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 21:50:51 2011 No.2205690 Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 21:53:52 2011 No.2205698 Watchmen changed my literary tastes. A Song of Ice and Fire had changed my opinion on incest. It's OKAY if they love each other.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 21:57:50 2011 No.2205709 >>2205688 >Bible OP said works of fiction. Subtle christian appears out of nowhere.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 22:00:47 2011 No.2205715 >>2205688 is a Bible-beating Faggot who likes one good book (Life of Pi).

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 22:01:47 2011 No.2205720 File: 139 KB, 1254x1839, Big_brother_is_watching_you.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 1984 had to do it for me. George Orwell has got to be one of my favorite authors, despite the slight "mainstream" feel of it.

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Anonymous Mon Nov 21 22:07:49 2011 No.2205733

>>2205709
>>2205715
You guys couldn't be more wrong. I read the Bible for university literature classes, and it changed the way I think and feel about my culture primarily because I gained a better understanding of the literature that influenced it.

I'm not a Christian, but I live in a country where Christianity has been the most populous religion for the past few hundred years.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 22:12:46 2011 No.2205746 Engines of God. I never imagined trash like this would even get published. Quality of writing never matters as long as the shit sells.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 22:15:51 2011 No.2205756 Koyaanisqatsi & NGE This was when I was around 16 though so the impact was much greater. Nothing has really hit the levels I felt then since.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 22:17:47 2011 No.2205762 File: 17 KB, 320x284, 3140710632_oh_duh_answer_1_xlarge.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2205746 >Quality of writing never matters as long as the shit sells.

Anonymous Mon Nov 21 22:18:51 2011 No.2205766

>>2205733
> >>2205709 said "...subtle Christian" to refer to himself
>Was calling out the fact that >>2205688 implied the Bible was fiction when he put it in his list when OP asked for fiction books
>Hating on guy that admires the Bible and is Christian

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 22:18:51 2011 No.2205764 >>2205756 >Koyaanisqatsi Isn't that a movie? A documentary no less.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 22:20:50 2011 No.2205774 >>2205764 Yes and NGE is an anime.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 22:25:49 2011 No.2205786 Sunbird Eagle in the Sky The Prince Sweet Valley High

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 22:27:51 2011 No.2205793 >>2205658 Watchmen would have been my first pick as well. Just seeing that picture of Dr. Manhattan brings back memories of reading the comic. Second pick has to be Marcus Aurelius - Meditations.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 22:27:51 2011 No.2205794 Fight Club (film)

Anonymous Mon Nov 21 22:28:49 2011 No.2205799
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The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

I'm not even entirely sure why. I just know that, after I finished reading that book, I had somewhat of a different outlook of things and it stuck with me.

There's probably more I'm forgetting.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 22:33:50 2011 No.2205810 >>2205793 >Meditations >chuckle

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 22:35:51 2011 No.2205815 Listed in the order I first came into contact with them: 1. Neuromancer 2. Swann's Way 3. Sebald's Works (but especially Rings of Saturn and Emigrants) 4. McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 22:36:48 2011 No.2205818 Fight Club (off Broadway stage show)

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 22:37:49 2011 No.2205825 >>2205810 Why?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 22:46:48 2011 No.2205844 File: 79 KB, 255x199, niggadegrassetsyon.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2205756 >forever changed the way you think and feel >NGE >16

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 23:04:49 2011 No.2205884 Twilight. I hate everything now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 23:07:48 2011 No.2205892 Dorian Gray I often speak languidly now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 00:51:46 2011 No.2205982 Quixote, Hamlet, Tempest, Winter's Tale, Ada or Ardor, Ulysses

Anonymous Tue Nov 22 01:06:46 2011 No.2205992

I assimilate every piece of fiction as thoroughly as I can and call up on its significance often so that its internal logic and expression has in a way domesticated form of thought that is 2nd nature. Everything changes the way I think and feel (or if not its forgotten), so its hard to pick out central works.

But in recent history I can say Carl Jung's Liber Novus and Haruki Murakami's works have enriched, almost overwhelmed my conception of dreams and imagination. Also shout-out to the NGE guy, also a favorite of mine.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 01:12:47 2011 No.2205997 File: 53 KB, 500x342, hipsterasfuck.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2205720 >>despite the slight "mainstream" feel of it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 02:30:47 2011 No.2206062 Lord of the Rings changed the way I think about evil, that being something that once had the potential to be good but is corrupted and can happen to any of us.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 02:36:46 2011 No.2206066 The Catcher in the Rye Watchmen V For Vendetta Invisible Monsters Rant Dark Victory (Sequel to The Long Halloween) shaped me into the person that I am.

Anonymous Tue Nov 22 02:57:46 2011 No.2206107

LOTR definitely showed me the value of home, friendship, and journeys through life.

V for Vendetta stunned me with its incredible pacing, writing, and the chapter "Valerie" which made me forever give up hating homosexuals-- indeed any minority group.

There are many great books out there.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 02:59:45 2011 No.2206114 >>2206107 fag

Anonymous Tue Nov 22 03:03:46 2011 No.2206119

As cliche as it is, 1984 changed me forever. I read it in 8th grade. From then on I began to doubt the good nature of politicians. And from that I began to doubt the good nature of people in general. I have since moved away from Orwell as a whole. Huxley was more accurate anyway. 1984 colors me, politically, to this day.

Anonymous Tue Nov 22 03:04:45 2011 No.2206120

I've never found a book to change how I think or feel.

For me, books allow the individual to project themselves onto the world rather than the other way round. The characters and scenery I envision, the passages that stand out to me, the themes I notice and enjoy are representations of my personality in my opinion. Unlike film which can push another person's vision onto me, in literature I am able to discover more things about myself than anything else.

Anonymous Tue Nov 22 03:05:45 2011 No.2206122

>>2206119
which is precisely they make you read it in 8th grade, because it's great anti-communist brainwashing, too bad the people who set school curriculum are kind of hoisted on their own petard though because 1984 can just as easily apply to todays usa.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 03:05:45 2011 No.2206123 >>2206119 >doubt the good nature of people in general Then you read it wrong.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 03:06:46 2011 No.2206127 >>2206123 yeah, how did he get that out of 1984?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 04:19:46 2011 No.2206204 Reading Camus' The Stranger in high school sent me into a sort of angsty existential crises. Reading Camus' The Plague in college made see the beauty in the absurdity of life, thus ending my existential crises.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 04:23:46 2011 No.2206205 > mfw i quit high school in the 9th grade so i never had to read any of this gay plebery > mfw i still got a college degree anyways cuz im nice like that

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 04:24:45 2011 No.2206207 I've never read a life-changing book. Where do I start?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 04:34:46 2011 No.2206210 >>2206204 The Plague's the only book I'd really credit with changing the way I think but even that was more as a "man the fuck up" literary kick to the bollocks rather than suddenly making me see the beauty of life or something

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 05:45:45 2011 No.2206241 >>2205992 >Haruki Murakami's works have enriched, almost overwhelmed my conception of dreams and imagination. This. I totally feel the same. NGE's pretty cool, too. Didn't really change me, though

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 06:14:46 2011 No.2206251 Every book I've ever read has altered me in some way.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 07:09:46 2011 No.2206287 Do I dare say it....Atlas Shrugged.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 07:18:46 2011 No.2206291 >>2206287 did it make you realize republicans are retarded?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 07:19:46 2011 No.2206292 >>2205992 >>2206241 Fucking weaboos. nah eva's cool, I should probably watch it again actually

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 07:23:45 2011 No.2206298 The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. A work of fiction that had more impact on my life than any other.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 08:02:45 2011 No.2206337 myth of sisiphus

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 09:22:46 2011 No.2206412 >>2205799 After the chapter with the russians skinning the japanese spies, I think it's safe to say I was forever changed as a person. That whole book though...I don't even.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 09:33:45 2011 No.2206426 a video game called final fantasy tactics on the playstation one. Amazingly written. also, I hate to be a faggot that says this but, The Art of War.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 09:48:46 2011 No.2206443 >>2206426 YES UES YES YES ON TACTICS As a kid the occultism aspect underlyi.g the politics was my heroin. It was also pretty cynical about the fates of many characters. Like playing out The Wire set in a fantasy world.

Anonymous Tue Nov 22 09:57:46 2011 No.2206457
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>>2206443

yeah, entering spoiler territory, the fact that Ramza was stricken from history, as he was considered a heretic and would never be known to anyone despite all that he did to protect the people of the games setting always sat well with me in terms of great writing, it paints ramza as a very selfless character but not in the I JUST DO IT BECAUSE IT'S GOOD AND I'M A GOOD GUY sense. I also loved how Delita's story played out, such a great tale the Man who sees so much wrong with the world, becomes this revolutionary force, only to be turned into the thing he loathed his entire life. sure that sounds generic but you really have to experience it to understand where I am coming from.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 10:07:45 2011 No.2206464 >>2206457 The gameplay itself implemented so much of the storytelling in such a simple but exciting way. The entire game was a tightly structured masterpiece in my opinion.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 10:09:45 2011 No.2206465 The Stranger Cry the Beloved Country Crime and Punishment Blood Meridian these books transformed my taste in literature

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 10:09:45 2011 No.2206466 >>2206464 that is an opinion I would support good sir.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 10:10:46 2011 No.2206467 Just... Borges.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 14:31:47 2011 No.2206721 thus spoke Zarathustra. just...awesome.definitely changed the way I see the world.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 14:47:46 2011 No.2206734 Ulysses. Read it when i was 15. It introduced my into the modernism.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 14:48:46 2011 No.2206737 If people are getting away with saying Eva, then I may as well say that Trigun really made me think about action movies and their attitudes towards violence and killing. I was like 14 at the time though, but it's still good.

Anonymous Tue Nov 22 14:51:47 2011 No.2206741

>>2206412
>The skinning
That was pretty damn...descriptive. And I'm certain it was based on stuff that really happened, which makes it worse. Actually, a few of his other books kinda changed me too. Definitely "Kafka on the Shore".

>>2206292
Did you watch the Rebuild movies yet? You should

Anonymous Wed Nov 23 03:44:48 2011 No.2207745

>>2205658
Welp OP, since it seems to be ANY work of fiction and not just restricted by literature, here are mine:

1984 (the novel) taught me human nature and the futility of the one against the many...unless there are many ones.

2001: A Space Odyssey (the film) made me respect the vast unknown of the universe and the incredible ability of sapience that we humans are lucky enough to have. To this day, the last 20 minutes is the largest mindfuck I have ever experienced.

Anonymous Wed Nov 23 04:32:46 2011 No.2207774
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I feel like I must have read a different 1984 to some of you..

Planescape: Torment as well as Hamlet were both very thought-provoking (NATURE OF MAN), though I don't think
I have had any single book, game, film etc. really change my thoughts and beliefs.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 05:44:41 2011 No.2207790 Planescape: Torment Ulysses In Rememberance of Things Past

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 06:17:41 2011 No.2207799 File: 21 KB, 479x348, 1298241136301.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >come to /lit/ from /mu/ hoping to have an intelligent conversation >see people talking about Fight Club changing their lives

Anonymous Wed Nov 23 06:26:41 2011 No.2207804
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Novels/Drama:
Waiting for Godot
The Little Prince
Cat's Cradle
The Metamorphosis
The Trial
Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World
The Stranger
Franny & Zooey

Short Stories:
See The Moon?
The Dead
The Unnameable

Comics/Graphic Novels:
Ghost World
American Splendor/ Our Cancer Year
Calvin and Hobbes

Film:
Annie Hall
Blade Runner
Dr. Strangelove
2001: a Space Odyssey
The Seventh Seal
Synechdoche, New York
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Lost in Translation

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 06:27:41 2011 No.2207805 >>2207804 to add: vidya: Metal Gear Solid 2 & 3 Earthbound Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Chrono Trigger Super Metroid

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 06:42:42 2011 No.2207811 >>2207799 You do realize a lot of those people read/saw it when they were teenagers hence the strong impact? Try to think before you speak.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 07:13:41 2011 No.2207826 >>2207790 >PS:T Come on bro, it's a great RPG as far as they go, but game fiction is nothing more than good pulp at best. Even the best game writing can't compare to even middle-weight fantasy fiction, let alone the canon.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 07:22:42 2011 No.2207833 >Even the best game writing can't compare to even middle-weight fantasy fiction >has never played metal gear solid 3

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 07:26:42 2011 No.2207834 Sorry, but Fight Club.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 07:55:41 2011 No.2207860 The next time I'm arguing with someone on /lit/, I'll just remember this thread and how junk like "Fight Club" and "Watchmen" "forever changed" the way the people here think and feel.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 07:59:42 2011 No.2207863 > Fight Club lol

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 08:09:42 2011 No.2207868 >>2207860 So if I read something when I'm 13 and it changes the way I think about things you're still going to call me a retard 10 years later because as a stupid teenager I thought some book was the shit? You're retarded.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 08:14:42 2011 No.2207872 File: 415 KB, 908x1080, 1306325254177.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Fight club. Deal with it. >inb4 more stop liking what I don't like

Anonymous Wed Nov 23 08:23:41 2011 No.2207887
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I think I was around 12 or so when I read it... one of the most mind-blowing experiences of my life. It was pretty much the first time I discovered that society was a dynamic construct, and even 10 years after reading it I still think about it now and again.

I don't think I can recommend it to anyone on here unless you happen to be lurking/new to /lit/ and haven't read entry level dystopian fiction like 1984 or BNW or something like that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 08:29:41 2011 No.2207899 File: 334 KB, 551x550, 1319109895889.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2207887 >entry level I cringe everytime someone uses this expression with a work of fiction.

Anonymous Wed Nov 23 08:35:42 2011 No.2207905

>>2207899
>implying they aren't entry level
What happens after you read one of those 2 books I listed? You either read more advanced shit or you don't read anything because the only reason you actually read them in the first place was so you could do your shitty book report.

How would you describe them? Beginner? Intro-to-dystopian-fiction-101? It's really important to me that I don't make you cringe.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 08:38:41 2011 No.2207909 >>2207899 ok how about "high school level"

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 08:40:42 2011 No.2207913 File: 35 KB, 298x292, 1318469691934.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2207905 >>2207909 No need to get buttmad, children. Just calling you on your pretensions bullshit. I'll be on my way.

Anonymous Wed Nov 23 08:42:42 2011 No.2207915

>>2207905

it doesn't say anthing about the quality of what you've read, you're just saying "a lot of people have read it, it makes me feel nervous." if you have something to say, say it, there's no need to clasp your hands and look around for approval, you're anonymous

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 08:45:42 2011 No.2207920 File: 10 KB, 300x300, futuramafry.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2207913 >not sure if misspelled pretentious >or just doesn't understand meaning of pretensions

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 08:45:42 2011 No.2207919 File: 30 KB, 298x257, 1293301533241.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2207905 Is your post an entry level post or should I read other posts first? Can you recommend any? Please help, I'm new here :(

Anonymous Wed Nov 23 08:53:42 2011 No.2207932

>>2207915
>implying I want to make a comment on quality
It's just an observation. If every single person in the world read Dostoevsky in 1st grade then I would refer to it as entry level... but they don't so I don't. It wouldn't detract (or increase) its quality in the slightest.

Anonymous Wed Nov 23 08:57:41 2011 No.2207937
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Silent Hill 2, strangely. I was only like 13-14 at the time of playing it and hadn't read many books, so this was the first work of fiction that made me realise "Holy shit. Stories can have... Subtlety? Can tell the story through implication and sometimes symbols? Characters can be designed to contrast the protagonist? Sometimes you can only understand a story through repeated play-throughs/ reads/ watches? Different interpretations? Holy shit!" But, more relevantly to this thread, it's what sparked my interest in Psychology. A spark that was thoroughly extinguished by the A level course I took on it a few years later.

Add another person who saw NGE as a mid-late teen to the list, too. And another 1984 and BNW fan to the bucket.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 09:22:41 2011 No.2207965 File: 101 KB, 1024x600, nn.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] remains of the day, sorrows of young werther, hamlet, the mezzanine, on the road

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 09:36:42 2011 No.2207977 All Quiet On The Western Front made me a pacifist, seriously.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 09:59:41 2011 No.2208007 I change all the time and everything I read influences the way I think.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 10:03:41 2011 No.2208017 The Dhammapada I didn't convert, but it did change me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 16:43:46 2011 No.2208549 Poetry its wordsworth - Five years have past and five long winters

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 16:50:44 2011 No.2208556 Queen Mab by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Anonymous Wed Nov 23 16:52:42 2011 No.2208557

If we're talking about books, then 1984 is probably mine. Made me the paranoid, determined, cold on the outside but touchy-feely person I am today.

Regarding movies, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Comics? Probably Y: The Last Man.
And as silly as it sounds, Ocarina Of Time changed my life when I played it for the first time (age 5).

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 17:15:44 2011 No.2208589 File: 54 KB, 324x500, 5134GkH6CkL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] There are so many faggots ITT that trolling them all would be impossible. Special shout-out to all the people who posted comic books, though.

Anonymous Wed Nov 23 17:47:44 2011 No.2208657

This list sounds pretty stereotypical, but we're all probably not that different anyway.

>Walden Two
I went behaviorist hard for a while.
>1984
Was the first piece of literature I read independently of school in high school and really got me into literature.
>The Watchmen
Me too.
>Cat's Cradle
Also in high school. I could just as easily put breakfast of Champions but I read CC first. I read them together so I think they worked together.

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