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What are Books that changed your life /lit/?
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>>7570347

mostly just changed how I saw things but I guess that counts
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>>7574386
Ah, sorry, didn't see that thread.
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>>7574392

no worries, it basically died from people only posting jokes anyway instead of being serious so we can always do a serious one here

just a tip for next time though if you want a more serious thread where people open up you would be better off posting a picture that is more neutral like a nature scene so people don't feel like the thread is being made by a joker/troll/etc.
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right book at the right time
fueled my interest in philosophy and philosophical novels by Hesse, Dostoevsky and Camus.
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How the fuck can you be a neo-reactionary?
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>>7574412
thanks for the tip
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denial of death
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>>7574372
this baby in pic related
evola and hitler are also cool btw, every white man has a duty to read them
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>>7574550
t-that's a nice d-dick.
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state and revolution
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>>7574431
>common sense
>logic
>philosophy
>not a degenerate reddit pot smoking faggot
>not a cuck
>not wanting to see our beautiful white women ravished by virile and brutish islamists
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>>7574431
http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy-in-an-enormous-planet-sized-nutshell/

look a guide written for you by your kind
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>>7574573
the white man deserves everything's that is coming for him for colonizing and enslaving the entire world for his profit.
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Warrior Cats
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>>7574596
>implying

Mankind what at its height in the Roman Empire. They did more for mankind than any other group ever will.

>implying the whole planet shouldn't have belonged to them

Survival of the fittest.
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>>7574614
>Mankind what at its height in the Roman Empire.
The Roman Empire during it most of its history was a large state that was well-extended out of its limits that was in a constant state of moral, military, and economic decay. The idealized picture of ancient Rome was a consequence of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment's romantization of Rome because their extant material on Rome were ancient Roman historians that portrayed themselves (and the Greeks) as the best people ever.
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>>7574372
Emotional Intelligence
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>>7574614
>Survival of the fittest.
unfortunately, that also applies to ahmed and tyrone who not only are fit but well endowed too
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>>7574661
Then that romantization of Rome is the height of mankind. You won't see any other cultures with anything as glorious as that, fiction or not.
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I've not read anything aside from the odd non-fiction (how to) book in the past 8 years or so
I'm a bit lost though so I've been looking for cool things to read so I read 'The Stranger' by Albert Camus but to me it was nothing but a short story about a made up kind of man essentially. Nobody acts or thinks like this man in real life
Can somebody help explain this book to me?
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>>7574614
Lol no they didn't, building a Colosseum here and there doesn't count as monumental achievements
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>>7574372
Waiting for Godot made me not want to kill myself. Something about it just clicked for me.
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>>7574372
Do the girls find him "haha he's so eccentric" funny or "omg what a dweeb" funny?
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>>7574862
whatever you might have heard, the truth is girls can't resist fedoras. That explains the irrational hatred feminists feel for the fedora. It awakens primal submissive instincts. That's why they must stigmatize it
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>>7574372
I just got this one over the weekend and it is amazing. I particularly like when his character of Demopheles defends religion and beats off the fedora by stating that the truth of the parables outweighs the literal truth.
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>>7574862
It's because he's a fucking dweeb. He should be focusing on getting his shit together so he can fit in with normal people but he failed at both.
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>>7574862
They think he's badass. They are in awe of his fedora/ suit combo.
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Read it when I could have been out getting shit faced in college. I don't know how I came across it or why I read it, but I'm glad I did.
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This book is the genesis and exodus of my life.
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>>7574959
Set me on the long path of the redpill to b honest
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Space Wolf got me into reading.

Ringworld got me to read for ideas instead of action

Book of the New Sun got me to read for prose/beauty instead of ideas

Bridge of Birds made me want to write

Illuminatus! Trilogy made me wake the fuck up
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>>7574914

from what I understand that book is mostly selections from one 1000+ page essay of which there exist English translations
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>>7575033
How
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>>7574959
>>7574985
ditto
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Ride the tiger
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