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Authors that changed your life, and love them almost as a relative

>> No.3799674
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>>3799639

>> No.3799680
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Not even kidding.

>> No.3799693

>>3799680
But Jesus didn't write anything. If anything that should be a picture of Paul.

>> No.3799700

>>3799693
Semantics. Socrates didn't write anything either, but someone could justifiably throw him up here.

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>>3799700
He wrote directly in my heart.

>> No.3799720

>>3799713

<3

>> No.3799757

>>3799693
But I feel like Paul was rejecting everything.

>> No.3799788

Dr Freud, and uber-Stirner.

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This man wrote The Cave of Time.

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>>3799639
Michel Hoellebecq - with polite but defiant apologies to those who consider him to be some sort of modish opportunistic media whore.

His last three or four novels haven't done a l lot for me but his first two....well, it wouldn't be correct to say they "changed my life". Let's say they were, for me, what Vonnegut defines as "literature in the finest sense: they made me my own hero in very trying times".

>> No.3799915

>>3799639
John Fowles. The Magus

Aged 17, turned my life from monochrome to colour

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Not even kidding

>> No.3799930

>>3799928
Me too.

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>> No.3799962

joyce

i consider him my crazy uncle

i consider hemingway my cool uncle

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Two penetrating, beautiful novels. It's a shame he died so young.

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Its been over 10 years since I read 1984, still trying to find a better book.

>> No.3799971 [DELETED] 

>>3799962
>tfw orphan
>tfw never met a single member of your family
fuck off

>> No.3799999

>>3799970
1984 is the only book to elicit any sort of physical emotion from me. That emotion being rage resulting in my copy being ripped due to me throwing it across the room.

>>3799928
I've never read any of his stuff. Is it accessible to somebody like me who is more of a "casual" reader or is it pretty full on? Also, what is it about his work that changed your life? I like the idea of long books and Infinite Jest appeals to me for that reason, but I have no idea what to expect.

>> No.3800006

>>3799971

wot

>> No.3800009

>>3800006
>>3800006
hes saying he doesnt know what its like to have a cool uncle so he cant compare these novelists to anything like that.

>> No.3800012

>>3800009

>tfw i got told to fuck off for saying the word uncle

>> No.3800014

>>3799971
>tfw your entire extended family is abusive in various ways
>tfw you're the youngest of it
u first

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>>3799999
>physical emotion

>> No.3800044

>>3800015
I'm bipolar if that makes a difference.

>> No.3800059

>>3799713

>Implying Socrates actually wrote anything.

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>> No.3800069

>>3800014

>tfw father is a weedsmoking hippie who moved away when I was 2
>tfw no living grandparents, where all dead or died when I was very young
>tfw whole family is plebeian

Let's cry on each other's shoulder, /lit/

>> No.3800071

>>3799957
Fucking terrible writer[s]
>>3799970

>> No.3800070

>>3800069

*were

>> No.3800074

>>3800071

Now, how was Orwell a terrible writer? He might not be a favourite of your or mine, but how do you justify calling him terrible?

>> No.3800076

>>3800074

*yours.

>> No.3802359

>>3799639
Tolstoy for me. Although I do love me some Dostoevsky. Starting Brothers K in the next few days after I finish Sentimental education.