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books that fundamentally change your perspective on life. Inb4 Siddartha

>> No.4806528

>>4806421
Atlas Shrugged.

>> No.4806543

>>4806421
mein kampf

>> No.4806544

"Free Will" by Sam Harris

>> No.4806546

the god delusion

>> No.4806552

>>4806421
didnt we already have this thread

btw the responses so far are 10/10 epik troll

>> No.4806555

One Hundred Years of Solitude

>> No.4806556

The Shellfish Gene

>> No.4806577

"A first course of homological algebra"

>> No.4806627

>>4806543
Really?

>> No.4806630

>>4806627
yes
great book

>> No.4806639

Pedagogy of the oppressed.

>> No.4806642

>dat album cover

>> No.4806643

There isn't a book in particular. Studying philosophy in general has changed my views. If there's some philosophy that really affected me it has to be cynicism.

>> No.4806649

>>4806630
lol pleb.

>> No.4806668
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>>4806528
>>4806544
>>4806546
>>4806556
>>4806643
this much Fedora in one thread

to answer your question OP: Ride the Tiger

>> No.4806670

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Way of Zen by Alan Watts
Also, >>4806639

>> No.4806691

the manipulated man

>> No.4806708

>>4806668
>Cynicism
>fedora

Check your definitions shitlord

>> No.4806714

The Game by Neil Strauss
Shit's so cash
> tfw banging 8s and 9s every night
> don't need to read anymore to fill meaningless existence
> buy lots of nice looking books anyway to make my place look le sophisticated

>> No.4806715

>>4806708
All philosophy is fedora. Fedora is not just a headwear, it's a lifestyle characterized by unbridled pseudo-intellectualism.

>> No.4806728

>>4806715
>all of /lit/

>> No.4806731

why is it that nerds, fedora neckbeards are always ridiculed when they are the ones that make humankind progress? then all the plebs enjoy the benefits the guys they mock work hard for

the same guys with a better aesthetic sense and they are revered as geniuses

>> No.4806745

>>4806731
Nerds and fedora neckbeards don't do shit to advance humanity. Being socially retarded doesn't make you a genius, it only makes you a loser. Successful scientists also happen to be good at socializing. Being intelligent and being popular are not mutually exclusive but on the contrary strongly correlated. Go back to >>>/r9k/ you fucking failure.

>> No.4806746

>>4806745
nerd programmers do all the work and then some asshole like steve jobs gets all the credit

>> No.4806759

>>4806715
>being anti-intellectual on a literature board

Please tell us all about how we hurt your sensibilities with our 'pretensions' of having opened a book?

>> No.4806760

>>4806746
Programming is an intellectually undemanding service. Tons of people in third world countries with nothing more than elementary school education are learning programming. Have fun with your unemployment when all the programming jobs are getting outsourced.

>> No.4806765

>>4806745
fucking normalfag

>> No.4806769

>>4806759
The only anti-intellectual here is you. By still pursuing and overestimating philosophy even though it has been made obsolete by science you are denying reality and are counteracting the intellectual history of the last 2 centuries.

>> No.4806777

>>4806745
>all this projecting

What are you doing here socializing with social rejects and misfits? I were like you when I first got here as well, I bet we all were like you once. Pretending to be a normalfag to forget your misery for a while.

>> No.4806784

>>4806769
That one is getting old, go read the archives faggot.

>> No.4806800

>>4806784
The truth is never "getting old".

>> No.4806806

>>4806777
You come to 4chan for socializing? Wow, my sides. How fucking sad is your life?

>> No.4806808

>>4806800
How cliche. Do you have anything new to add?

>> No.4806820

>>4806806
Sad.

One thing though, do you think that I care about your opinion, if I'm here for social interaction?

>> No.4806821

>>4806421
Notes From Underground, Tropic of Cancer, The Crying of Lot 49, Lolita, Infinite Jest.

I would say that these are the books that have most changed my perspective of life.

>> No.4806829

>>4806820
If you didn't care, you wouldn't ask for my opinion. Why don't you go outside and get some friends?

>> No.4806856

>>4806829
You are really bad at reading.

>> No.4806869

>>4806670
>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Can I ask in what way it changed your life?

It's one of my favorite books but I can't say it changed me in any noticeable way.

>> No.4806871

>>4806856
>projecting

>> No.4806914

>>4806869
It was probably 2deep4u

>> No.4806922

>>4806914

Apparently.

>> No.4806924

this thread is amazing, and i am having a good time in it

once i read a dilbert comic anthology and then in the end the author had a thought experiment about "what if gravity isnt real but things are just getting bigger at a constant rate, falling isn't real" and i think about that a lot even though it's not a very good theory.

as far as "actually changing perspective on life," lawrence grossberg's "the affective sensibilities of fandom" was a really fun way of looking at popular culture, literature on the caveats of genetics really influenced my opinions on determinism and stuff, and Oblivion's first short story, the one with the guy working in the ad agency in downtown chicago that's horribly mundane, was an early impetus for me to stop pursuing advertising for a career.

I think a lot about calvin and hobbes, and if pokemon can be considered a "text," i think a lot about that too.

>> No.4807092

>>4806731
>why is it that nerds, fedora neckbeards are always ridiculed when they are the ones that make humankind progress? then all the plebs enjoy the benefits the guys they mock work hard for
>"progress"

The most central and irrational faith among the people is the faith in technology and economic growth" ~ Pentti Linkola

>> No.4807660

>>4807092
>"The most central and irrational faith among the people is the faith in technology and economic growth"
Uhhhh. Technology? Technology has been building a pretty solid track record for centuries now. Maybe I'm not getting the context.

But yeah, "economic growth" is some phony magic hat trick.