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Which book has changed how you view the world permanently?
For me, On the Wealth and Poverty of Nations,
Manufacturing Consent
>inb4 edge lord
The Zeroes by Patrick Roesle
>>7570023
>>7570032
Thank you for your contribution anon!
>>7570023
War is a Racket, Schopenhauers essays.
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, by Vladimir Lenin. It's not a masterpiece of analysis or some perfect economic tract, but it did a great job of getting a much younger me to think "hang on why does the world economy of World War One sound just like today's that doesn't seem like a very good omen".
>>7570042
Actually super interested in the essays you linked, thank you for the contribution!
Treasure Island. It got me into reading seriously when I was younger.
>>7570079
No problem. I actually bought a book recently called "Essays and Aphorisms" by Arthur Schopenhauer (published by Penguin Classics in hard cover) and it's a collection of all of Schopenhauers shorter works. I recommend it.
>>7570091
just downloaded the pdf for it, but thank you for the recommendation!
>>7570105
Cool, well, enjoy. If you're a feminist you can feel free to skip "On Women." I usually like to parade /lit/ proclaiming how Schopenhauer is right about everything and his essay on women is completely and undeniably true but I disagree with him about some things.
denial of death
>>7570125
an interesting suggestion
>>7570023
>On the Wealth and Poverty of Nations
That book made sense when I started reading it, but it was so wrong about every country whose economic history I am familiar with that now I can't trust the rest of its contents
>>7570023
the god delusion
>>7570223
elaborate? South America and the African countries suffer from over glossing, but the main histories actually seem to be quite thorough. I think he over-depends on culture but other than that not too bad.
Could you elaborate on what you mean that it was invalid?
>>7570023
bamp
The Karamazov brothers converted me to orthodoxy
>>7570023
What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
The Globalization of Poverty by Michael Chossudovsky
>inb4 someone accuses me of being some hippy buddhist/socialist/anti-globalist/edgy/etc
It was just interesting to be exposed to articulately-explained points of view I was unaware of.
>>7570023
Proust led me to worship the past
Atlas Shrugged
>>7570618
What? Why?
Guns, Germs and Steel.
It taught me that black people will never be hold accountable for their own actions or lack thereof.
Also, zebras can't be tamed.
>>7571968
just a trick, they're painted
>>7572450
Are they white horses with black stripes or black horses with white stripes?
Mein kampf and Schopenhauer's on women
1984
>>7573653
bamp
>>7570023
Mein Kampf. I keep a shrine of Hitler on my room, and jack off to him every morning
Catch-22 made me realise I should be laughing at things more.
>>7570618
kek
>>7571940
made me a liberal athiest
>>7574430
>made you
>>7570618
800 pages in and it has affected me a lot.
Even though the political theory is nothing short of garbage in most cases, and Rand's boner for rich blonde guys cringe-worthy, I have been affected by the concept of self-attainment so widely touted in the novel. I don't think that everyone should fend for himself, however, I do think that on a personal level it is incredibly important to take action if you want to achieve your goals.
deep politics and the death of jfk
>>7575239
Definitely respect that opinion a lot more than otherwise would've.
>>7570023
The Tunnel made me more bitter than I thought possible.
>>7576263
You got the wrong ending. Play again.
>>7576279
Dammit. Can I at least keep my stats?
Phenomenology of Spirit
>Reflections on the Revolution in France by Burke
>Leviathan by Hobbes
>>7576655
deep
Brothers Karamazov
Chronicles of Narnia when I was a kid
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
The Prince
The Way of Men
>>7570226
retard detected
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge — Berkeley
And you skipped the Greeks, you filthy pleb; try The Outlines of Pyrrhonism — Sextus Empiricus
>also, the above are my books for OP's inquiry
>>7579148
>Brothers Karamazov
noice
>Philosophy:
Philosophical Investigations
>Nonfiction:
Self-Insight: Roadblocks and Detours on the Path to Knowing Thyself
>Fiction:
Ulysses
>Short Stories:
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Being and Time by Heidegger made me understand the world around me better and be more critical and engaged in my thought. That and to stop dismissing my history and my nationality. Also the Nazi issue made me think long and hard about how important the author is in a work more seriously. I concluded that you couldn't really and it just made me less judgemental in the end.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being has made obsessed with maturity and Europe. Kundera's earlier work made me lose all confidence in communism and left me unwillingly apolitical.
Tropic of Capricorn showed me the true meaning of élan and a sensitivity which isn't pathetic. They've really given shape to me.
