Which writer had the biggest impact on your life?

Thomas Carlyle

Arbasino

Hemmingway
Taught me how to be a writer, how to be a man and how to be an American

Why is Rudyard Kipling so comfy, bros?

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hermann hesse as well as whoever wrote the serial experiments lain story during late high school
narcissuss und goldmund was my favorite.

Myself desu

This mfker gave me some fucked up perceptions

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My husband.

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Joyce presented a summitless domain of knowledge I could only ever walk around and never fully fathom. His love of language was so pure and he gave so much to it.
Corncob sounded like nothing I had ever read and his works were not too numerable that you couldn't become very versed in them as well as interesting exegesis. I remember buying a paper on the bloody dark pastryman gun powder recipe in Blood Meridian.
Faulkner was gut wrenching to read and I feel like I have lived some of the traumas of his characters. As a result I have mixed enthusiasms because I feel literally hurt by him, but I marvel at his ability.
Hemingway demonstrated such communicative laconic poetry that he humbles all who read him. At his best, his text reads prophetic, the emotions and sensations he lead readers to as trustworthy and evident as math.
DFW's work was consumed aggressively while raising a newborn. I loved learning that he was a developed athlete and that his works all seemed to possess the frenzied ardor of someone used to discipline and pushing ones' self and doing so in a consciously felt and enjoyed feedback loop of positive reinforcement. DFW took good ideas and worked them until they broke, exhaustively, studiously, meticulously, patching whatever did not quite work but sending out unvarnished and ambling and organic a best attempt to convey something powerful, something that seems like it long dwelled in his psyche before he could render them in words. I trust him to deliver so much that I would literally read his text wherever it went.
I'm reading Robert Howard and Houellebecq right now.

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Best lad Bill Whittle made a comfy video on him.
youtube.com/watch?v=rx9--zQDfog
Pure kino

Cormac McCarthy

Amos Oz

Hesse, Nietzsche, Plato, or John depending on the day.

Dr. Seuss

Thank you for posting an actual, honest response on here.

Haven't obtained a large repertoire of books yet but so far Dosto. It seems he has a knack for understanding human motives beyond what normal people would ever think about.

spengler and nietzsche repatterned my thinking the most

marcus aurelius

I have a really autistic understanding of power structures and the soul because of foucault. I like the idea that the soul is a secondary entitiy that is conjured up by rituals (the soul is not inside and not immortal, but rather outside and produced). The king is only in theatralics above the ordinary. His "king" soul only appears when the rituals surrounding him are being maintained. I really like it. This view is much closer to our present reality than the mythical one, metaphysical one

I don't know why he had to rewrite away from 'marketplace'. I think the term holds up in the same sense in a lot of ways.

for you

Osamu Dazai, may he rest in peace

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Nah he IS right cultural implications and assumptions around the word are different now. Nobody thinks whimsy and fads when they hear "marketplace" anymore.

Kurt Vonnegut.

I turned out to be schizophrenic, as an adult. I remember feeling like I had finally found a brain that functioned the way mine does... the structure of his narratives, the syntax, the lexicon. Later I felt the same way about Ezra Pound.

Clearly this user is going to commit suicide at some point.

YODO

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Probably Steinbeck, specifically East of Eden.

I've had a contentious relationship with my brother over the years. We're currently good. But goddamn if that book (and the movie warrior) didn't make me think of my brother.

Goethe, Byron and Jünger
give me power to live organically in toxication with life

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Julius Evola, The Bible, Tanizaki's "Naomi"

demian has had a profound impact on me. introducing me to Novalis opened u[p a whole new world. as for overall author it would be Aldous Huxley as I have read nearly every thing he has written; reading Huxley is like existing in my own thoughts in a way, such an open minded, conscious and thoughtful writer
>time must have a stop
>eyeless in gaza
>doors of perception
>ends and means

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Sean Goonan

Nico Tanigawa

A manga artist kek

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Spinoza and Nietzsche lol

>as well as whoever wrote the serial experiments lain story during late high school
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It's nice to read the posts here to know there are people that get enjoyment from things.
I've seem to forgotten how to enjoy myself.

sterne

Unironically Pareto, Taleb and Von Neumann; those 3 taught me more about the nature fo man than any renowned philosopher. Brainlets may not apply.

No book or author had an impact to me. I read them, think for a while after reading the book and then move on to next one.

Nietzche, Russell, and Whitehead. The rest of the philosophers are just a copycat of Plato and Aristotle.

Jack Kerouac has notably had the biggest impact on me.
Dostoyevsky, as well as Camus too.

can you elaborate on why exactly their (pound's and vonnegut's) narratives, syntax etc. resonate with you?

t. pseud.

Your entire literary digest reads like an undergraduate curriculum; you're nothing more than a parrot regurgitating the opinions of his professors. These aren't the thoughts of aesthetic, taste and judgement; they are a worthless patchwork of falsified preferences drilled in by professors you just happened to develop affection toward like a child. Your post is without contest, the most pseudointellectual of any I've ever encountered on Yea Forums—you are the non-plus-ultra of pseuds.

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Most of these replies seem pretty intellectual and philosophy based. As someone wanting to be an author that studies and practices writing and authors every day, Tim Winton and Chuck Palaniuk have had a huge impact on my own writing. Winton uses location heavily in his plot (the beach, childhood homes etc) which made me think more about why I choose the settings I do. Chuck's obsession with the human body really made me consider how I want my readers to connect with my work. Chuck uses the body as that connection point (Choke, Rant, Guts, Diary - Try to find a book that isn't body obssessed by him). also due to both being a modern success with a prolific career and yet a certain level of privacy. The perfect idea of success to me.

Kierkegaard.

this but they leave impact over time 2 me

Plato,Buddha and Aristotle.

based

based (not meme)
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‘I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.’

Hunter S. Thompson - unfortunatey.

What do you mean overtime?

im indifferent to particular works as i pick them up but over time they seep in and leave impact especifically if they reinforce each other

Not for at least another ten years. How can you say you love him if you won't even commit lover's suicide for him?

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pls answer schizoanon

>you have to be schizophrenic to like vonnegut
It all makes sense now.

based

This.
I was raised in a cult, and the bible was inculcated into me. It had the biggest impact on my life regardless if I wanted it to or not.

Whoops, late reply. So perhaps the most striking feature of Vonnegut's prose, particularly in Breakfast of Champions, is that it is essentially a mosaic. Passages that stand alone, and only much later are echoed. Snippets here, a conversation there...

That's essentially how my brain "thinks" - a massive collection of information, anecdotes, concepts, etc are the background noise, and my semi-conscious thoughts are the lines of meaning traced between them.

The bulk of my "hard drive" is short-term memory storage. Long term memories are condensed, and usually don't solidify for a week or two. So...

When I read a book, usually in one sitting, the whole of the text imprints itself on me for a while. So for me, Vonnegut is incredible because I have the kind of brain that "holds" every fragment he offers up simultaneously.

This can be a pain in the ass, especially when I'm reading a 600+ page work and have to split it between multiple days of reading - it feels like being unable to close a program, sort of.

Thanks to the marvels of modern medicine I'm usually rational, and capable of thinking in an organized way, but that was a huge revelation to me because I didn't get diagnosed until I was 25.

Thankful for reaching some distinction in my humdrum bovine existence, I'd just like to say I only read any of those authors of my own accord, lead to them by means unclear to me. Like many Yea Forums senpai I've stored and started far more books than i've finished, let alone taken the time to know the author, the pertinent historical periods, literary criticisms etcetera. In the listed authors I took a deep enough dive to feel much sentiment towards them, which is what I wanted to convey. I don't think I could make much of an riveting lecture with these superficial feelings alone. What expectations did you have ITT?

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Where should I start with Carlyle?

pretty much pic related

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>serial experiments lain story

Is there a plot in that anime?

Philip Roth

And what about pound?

myself

Adolf Hitler

Von Neumann? Tell me something about his ideas, and where to read about them. I read everything from taleb and it changed my perspective and made my life happier

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Given that the default state of my brain is "My name is Legion for we are many", reading the Cantos was like... one could tell it was all Pound himself, that there was a magnificent and noble mind behind it, but speaking as though in tongues, with many voices. Schizos with low IQ don't have the cognitive power to force coherence and meaning into their word salad, typically. During my worst psychotic episode, it was like there was a devil twisting my tongue - my thoughts, even - and whatever I tried to communicate came out transformed. I was able to convince people of my sanity at a cursory level, but in any longer conversation, it would inevitably become clear that I was floridly delusional - that there was a contaminant I was unable to identify or remove from my thinking, warping it. I kept trying to reassure my mother that I was lucid; I made her cry, several times.

It was his guidance as an editor that made TS Eliot's poems great - aping the forms established by Pound, but lacking the power to generate them. Pound had the exact opposite skillset, you could argue - the capacity to generate infinitely many forms, but with a diminishing ability to invest them with coherent meaning.

Neumann pretty much discovered game theory. I recommend his book Theory of games and economic behavior, but beware there is A LOT of math. I warned you, my authors aren't very suited for brainlets.

And if you liked Taleb you should read Kahneman if you haven't already.

I recently read Dyson's "Turing's Cathedral", and it is essentially about von Neumann's life. It provides a nice, entry level understanding of how dramatically he changed the world, without much math.

Unironically Marcus Aurelius's Meditations

Oof

God, Plato

Otto Weininger

>Oof
Is Yea Forums a zoomer board now?

Shut the fuck up and talk like a real person. I take it you're so pretentious that people avoid you like the plague. Then, when you ask yourself why you're such a lonely faggot, you look down upon "normalfags" as if you have something above them when you're just scum. You'll whine about how much more sophisticated you than others rather than realise that, no, you're just a faggot.

Thanks man, really interesting. I hope you're doing well with your illness