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Such that you finished and your behavior, attitudes, and motivations were completely altered permanently?

>> No.22446742

>>22446734
Wittgenstein

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The divine Comedy. i am not the same man after

>> No.22446763

>>22446734
Dandelion Wine did it for me when I was 16, I believe.
Before that book I never liked reading, I thought it was the most lame way to spend your time (At the time I did not think that spending hours upon hours playing Quake 3 Arena and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was a waste of time).
Something about that book just worked my brain in a very good way. I finished it in two evening. It made me slow down in life. It made me feel like I am here and now and that it's the only thing I really have.

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>> No.22446819

>>22446763
>It made me slow down in life. It made me feel like I am here and now and that it's the only thing I really have.
This is probably what most people experience when they say that a book changed them. Except when it's Ayn Rand

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Unlike everything else in my life, it gave me permission to be excellent.
Mediocrity really is a failed-crab bucket.

>> No.22446860

Critique of Pure Reason, no cap.

>> No.22446864

>>22446734
Rousseaus Emile

>> No.22446876

>>22446734
Mystery Method although I didn't carbon copy it

>> No.22447554

>>22446734
lots of books have moved me and left me thinking for weeks or months. I dont think any changed my life.

Its odd, but Papillon (although likely an exagerate biography) has had the most impact on me and I still revisit it, and its sequel frequently when I feel unsatisfied with the direction of my life

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>>22446734

Unironically Worm by Wildbow.

>> No.22447567

Umineko no Naku Koro Ni

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>>22446742

>> No.22447585

The Spud from Outer Space by Susan Gates

>> No.22447655

>>22447573
I see you are a man of exceptional taste as well sir.

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>>22446734
Yes, I managed to improve significantly in art with this book that I managed to quit my day job and pursue being an artist. I do digital art and illustration for a living now. Never thought I'd be able to pull it off, but here we are.

>> No.22448291

>>22448243
happy for you son. I wish I could draw

>> No.22448295

>>22446734
The King in Yellow

>> No.22448383

>>22446734
Leviathan

I see everything through its lens now. It has tamed a lot of neuroticism over world affairs

>> No.22448445

>>22447557
I love worms. I gotta read this. What was your favorite quote? Or part that spoke to you?

>> No.22448461

The Enchiridion of Epictetus, literally stopped me from roping

>> No.22448491

>>22446734
Stoner made me switch majors in college from computer engineering to philosophy. I ended up dropping out after a year and now I work in a foundry.

>> No.22448500

>>22446734
Peter Watts' Blindsight broke me in such a way that it let me see my narcissism as profoundly silly, which eventually led me into therapy, and later into grad school for philosophy and psychoanalysis. It was my bridge out of genre fiction.