Which book had the most impact on you?

Which book had the most impact on you?

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

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The Last Days of Socrates was my introductionary work into philosophy. The dialectics and way of reasoning amazed me

The Lord of the Rings, since it got me into books in the first place.

This is not on topic. But I really enjoyed "Dark Ecology" and "Being Ecological" from Timothy Morton.

Biggest influence: "Letters to a young poet" and "Der Steppenwolf"

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someone threw a copy of the great gatsby at me once and it really hurt

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Siddhartha

Critique of Pure Reason

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Tim is such a fucking hack

Sex and Character

The Decline of the West got me into Intuitionism and somewhat into Determinism

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War and Peace. Something changed in my mind on a more visceral level with regards to compassion and what Tolstoy would think of as Christian love.

The Iliad

Man and His Symbols by Jung and friends.

Oblomow

Gatsby probably, got it as assigned reading in class and appreciated books a lot more afterwards

Harry Potter and the :3 of Butterfly

oxford dictionary gave me a concussion once

why do you think so?

The one that makes this year 2019.

After Virtue. BTFO Nietzsche

cringe and worst post.

you should become a tripfag

god it was great. almost as great as uncle ted's little rant about tech-stuff

Funny but irrelevant comparison.

The Bible
also Chronicles of Narnia got me into Platonism as a child

ironic shitposting is still shitposting
Don't do that

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X, The Motorcycle Diaries, and Post Office weirdly enough

The Technological System - Jacques Ellul

Malcolm X is pretty based. A dialectic between his philosophy (radical militantism) and Dr. King's (safer organizing, anti-capitalism) would've obliterated the status quo... Too bad

Rhetoric and Persuasion

Technically it's three books, but The Sword of Honor trilogy by Evelyn Waugh.

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Atlas Shrugged. Uni gave all business freshmen a free copy. I thought it was an entertaining enough story at 18, even if the message was a bit belabored.

Reading Crimes and Punishment when I was in the third grade of high school had a profound impact on me, as did all of Dostoevsky's writing that I've read so far (C&P, NfU, and The Idiot). Another book that came close was Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
Only book I've read more than once.

Crime and Punishment is also extremely relatable to many young men.

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Terry Pratchett books.
>b-but those are plebeian children's books!
Exactly. So they're what I read as a child. More specifically, they're what I read as a child who was turning into a teenager. I might wish I was influenced by Nietzsche or the Bible, but that's just not the case. A lot of my base reactions to life are founded in some alzheimers-riddled comic fantasy author who couldn't even survive to seventy.
There's some other books too though obvs.

no one cares mate

denial of death, don quixote, brave new world