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Hi /lit/.

I'm looking for a world-view changing read. Something that shows a different perspective, or is somehow "enlightening."

Any suggestions?

>> No.987965

David Hume - Treatise on Human Nature

>> No.987979

Mein Kampf

>> No.988007

Maybe I was a tad vague, or maybe it was the un-related pic, but bump.

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>> No.988015

>>987965
I second this. Most of David Hume's work is mind-changing.

>> No.988017

Camus' The Stranger

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here you go

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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

>> No.988028

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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>>988027

This book changed my life.

>> No.988041

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

>> No.988048

>>988038
I am about to start a new book. My choices are between this and The Savage Detective.

How long do you think Homage takes to read?

>> No.988066

>>988048

It's not long at all, the book is quite short and Orwell's style makes it very easy and very fast to read.

>> No.988075

Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason

just kidding, try the dao or analects of confucius

>> No.988081

what do you have against /b/

because i am pretty sure whatever you read is going to change your position on that

>> No.988083

On the Genealogy of Morals

>> No.988097

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Especially good because it's a collection of poems, so continuity is not necessary. I regularly have parties where my companions and I flip to a random page and read the poetry, followed by a short discussion on the merits of each individual poem.

>> No.988180

>>987953
Thanks for the suggestions.

>> No.988187

>>988066
Perfect, I'll read that one before I start on the Borano.

Thanks

Captcha: soils moved

>> No.988196

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

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Someone mentioned "the Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" the other day. It's a worthy contender. Its author claims human self-awareness didn't exist until very late in the development game (up to three thousand years ago).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)

>> No.988254

>>988097

ware you gay or something? sounds like you throw some gayass "parties"

>> No.988352

>>988254
I would assume the commodities I possess would be happy, if they had feelings. My fellow party-goers also seem to be pretty happy at the parties, and for the record they're all young, very attractive women.

>> No.988371

>>988236
This is an amazing book, I should really re read it.
On a side note - in the animated Xmen series, the old Fox for Kids one, in the episode where Beast is in jail, this is the book he is reading.

>> No.988413

John Gray - Straw Dogs

>> No.988611

>>988352

>attractive
>ok I believe you because you said so

>> No.988642

Down and Out in Paris and London. It taught me a lot about poverty (at least as Orwell describes it).

>> No.988654

the wisdom of insecurity by alan watts

>> No.988656

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values.

Fucking do it.

>> No.988662

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

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>>988656
man, I loved that book! but I read that just a few months ago, and it feels so dated now... still awesome, but it feels like apple et al took it as a bible and now it just feels hipsterish....

>> No.988997

Graveyard book by neil gaiman

>> No.989138

>>988611
Young, beautiful, intelligent women who are interested in literature are not hard to find. Plenty of my acquaintances fall under this description. I don't know what's hard to believe about that.

>> No.989169

Fight Club.

>> No.989185

Germs, gun and steel.
It's more about how our society (western) came to be in power, as compared to opening your mind to new philosophies and ideals like most other books posted in this thread.