/lit/ - Literature

>>18866948
Gravity's Rainbow convinced me not to join an officer program in college. I regretted being so affected by that book until Biden put in all his faggot military guys. If we start a big war I'll probably try to be a tank commander or something idk.

>>18867163
tank commander!?!?
that's a pretty small space. how many guys can you squeeze in one of those things anyway?
when you're in the desert don't they go commando in those things?

>>18866948
Daodejing

Fear and loathing, i now have a crippling coke, speed and heroin addiction.

>>18867375
I didn't know anything about Fear and Loathing, but two or three months ago I have read it and now it's one of my favourite titles

>>18867479
It's a really great book. I really love the way Thompson tackles the failures of the hippie movement. The wave speech is one of my favourite parts of any book.

>>18866948
I read it pretty recently so maybe I’m just still hyped up on it but I feel like Don Quixote will have some lasting effect on me. Specifically I found it very joyous and uplifting and now I want to seek out more works that inspire me in that way instead of doomer shit.

>>18867556
good lad!

The Twelve Ceasars because it convinced me to actually read the Greeks and Romans. In Search of Lost Time because it permanently removed any fear of longer books that I had.

>>18867163
>calls generals faggy
>wants to drive around in a big armored vehicle that'll probably be deployed against african peasantsin some proxy war with china over rare earth metals

you should've done the officer program. you'd get more money and a better pension. instead you let old ruggles get in your head, and now you're calling generals fags in order to cope with your regret. lol damn. i'd hate to be you

>>18867575
Damn I can't believe I'll never get that sweet 40k salary and VA healthcare.

>>18867556
Based Quixote bro, funniest fucking book I've ever read

>>18866948
Introduction to Magic, Julius Evola and the Ur Group
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy

Hero of 10000 faces by Joseph Campbell

Got me thinking about spirituality and symbols intrinsic to human consciousness/biology and separate from ideological/psychological environments

Been meaning to read jung more because of it

'Tales of Butterfly loving me'

:3

Doesn't it feel good? Doesn't life feel good once you're honest Butterfly?

>>18866948
Shamefully, Atlas Shrugged.
More recently, The Bhagavad Gita.

Brothers K

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>>18866948
Infinite Jest. I wouldn't say it "changed" my life, but it did get me through a pretty rough patch in life a few years ago.

Subahibi

>>18866948
None. Every time I read a great book a powerful energy wells up within me and I feel changed in some way, like I'm a new person who will go on to live a new life away from all this quotidian drudgery. But then, within days, the energy dissipates and I go back to being an autistic mongrel.

>>18868538
I've just started reading "The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious." I don't have anything particularly insightful to say about it other than to encourage you to read it. If Campbell was interesting to you, Jung will be as well.

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>>18868792
check out Suttree

>>18866948
Balding by May Hedovitch

>>18867163
>tank commander
You would just get bombed by a cheap Turkish drone.

>>18866948
Unironically I read this book after technological slavery about 3 years ago and it changed my life. They prompted me to give up on 4 years study and a cushy career as a radiographer in the city for a job in a gov funded green initiative restoring native forests. I live on state property alone when planting so it's Tedpilled a cabin in the woods with no one else for miles. I am still planting trees but I was trained and work as a biosecurity officer and I am part of an emergency team to stop exotic agricultural pest and virus and such outbreaks too.

Currently awaiting the collapse of liberal capitalist democracy while planting trees.

>>18869035
based and future-pilled

>>18867556
Try Rabelais if you haven't already bro. He's the definition of joyful literature.

>>18866948
Brothers Karamazov made me turn to religion

>>18866948
Orthodoxy - GK Chesterton

>>18869035
how the hell did you land such a sweet gig

>>18868403
Is it the best practical guide on western esotericism there is? Also heard good things about Bardon, Regardie and Stavish

>>18867375
Sometimes I’m glad that I’m too much of a weirdo to have access to drugs,

>>18867479
On a scale from masterpiece theater to the cat in the hat, how similar is the movie to the book?

>>18869295
i dunno wtf this scale means but it’s extremely similar

>>18868816
Truth.

I really liked Eternal Golden Braid, got me to think about how everything connects

>>18869295
Its excellent, anon-kun. They paraphrased many lines from the book with excellent delivery (by Depp especially) and it is insanely funny. I'd give it a 9/10, desu.

>>18866948
Schopenhauer The World as Will and Representation's

Stopped languishing in optimism, if I didn't, I think I would be dead right now

>>18869015
It would be an honor to die by the superior Turkish race

>>18868845
What did you get out of it?

>>18868816
Read the quran

>>18866948
complete works of plato

The process is the punishment
Granted it is related to my studies, but it changed the way that I view lower level justice. ~80-90% of all cases are handled here, at the "bullshit" level. These are cases handled quickly, generally in a few minutes, and can have long term consequences for people. From convictions that can result in losing a job to financial loss. The feeling really is "if there is no jailtime and no victime, lets be sloppy" It really does show how little the prosecutors and general public cares about low level justice because the stakes are so low.

>>18866948
Unironically, The Autumn of the Patriarch, by Gabriel García Márquez, made me avoid turning into a communist when I was 15 yo.

Before that, I thought that simply putting in power a philosopher-king type of guy would be enough to save the world (or at least my country), and I was clearly in the way of becoming a stupid teenager communist. The picture of the clueless dictator of Autumn unintentionally made me realise that being the leader meant shit in itself. I could not take politics seriously after that book.

And I'm pretty sure that this wasn't the outcome GGM wanted.

changed how i look at drugs in a pretty positive way, i take it easy now and enjoy small dosages rather than taking them at festivals

>>18872771
Definitely wasn't, man was a committed socialist. Even worse, seems you've all your political definitions misconstrued. Communism isn't a state headed by a philosopher king, in fact it is quite, quite far from that.
Don't want to be cunty but you sound terrible misinformed.

>>18872862
I know and I get it. I was 15 at the time, pretty clueless about politics in general and communism in particular. It changed my life way of thinking. I 100% wouldn't get to the same conclusion now. Nevertheless, this cynicism about politics never went away.

>>18872901
>It changed my way of thinking
I forgot to edit out "life"

>>18866948
Bronze Age Mindset. Now i actively take part in a pederastic sexual relationship.

>>18872901
Oh I see, then ye it sounds like what a fifteen year old would take away from it all. A dose or so of scepticism regarding politics is always sensible.

>>18872931
Just to explain a bit better what I took out of Autumn of the Patriarch at 15: take my philosopher-king as a general term, it easily could be a "philosopher-party". The point is that it doesn't matter how much power you hold, if people simply lie to you, you are completely impotent. Take the Soviet Union as an example: planed economy wasn't in itself so much of a problem as people lying about the fulfillment of their quotas were.
In short: "putting the right people in power" is in itself meaningless. This, in turn, made me extremely skeptical of top-down politics in general. In particular, of communism (take into account that old-school marxism-leninism, and even maoism or stalinism are still pretty popular where I live, way more than some blend Bernie-like socialist shit, among highschoolers and college students. You unironically could find about 10 stalinist kids in any school 10 years ago. Today, things are probably worst.)

>>18869281
Best modern one that I'm familiar with.
What makes it so good is that it's orientation is towards an attainment of a higher transcendence, which is the objective and correct goal.
This is opposed to the common vulgar occultist goal of "creating your own reality" and other vain, delusional, and frankly demonic bullshit that will drive you insane and cause you to lose your soul. You do that shit then you will end up like the people on /x/.
All "lunar" illusory so-called magic will literally turn you into a medium/give you schizophrenia and you will be possessed by demons and it's not a joke.
This pertains to ALL alt-religions: new age cults, chaos magic, whatever. So be extremely wary and don't listen to anyone involved in that shit, they are probably very mentally ill and malicious as well.
Stay frosty.

(The evolian stuff may not have the same hidden goal of destroying you metaphysically, but it is still extremely dangerous so be careful)

>>18866948
None. A book cannot fundamentally alter your moral core.

>>18869306
do you mean Gödel, Escher, Bach?

>>18873839
there's no such thing as fundamental, unchangeable "cores", moral or otherwise, outside of genetic predispositions.

take the no-self pill, anon. you'll be better for it

>>18874153
>there's no such thing as fundamental, unchangeable "cores", moral or otherwise, outside of genetic predispositions
>outside of genetic predispositions
nice job invalidating yourself anon ;)

>>18874165
if you are genetically predisposed to be addicted to things, you can simply not become addicted to things. We have free will.

Boom, "core" shattered

>>18873839
> t. midwit

>>18874195
>you can simply not become addicted to things
wrong.

Brave new world, had a few chats with mike ma about it, Fordism is a hell of a thing.

>>18866948
none, i dont read books.

>>18874206
he's right

>>18869262
No one wants to do it because planting trees will eventually screw up your back. Depending on your country you can easily find tree planting and restoration jobs, having a 4wd and being willing to sleep in a tent for awhile with no running water will help.

>>18874123
yeah

>>18866948
Illuminatus

>>18866948
Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima.

>>18866948
les miserables

very beautiful

>>18866948
Not really the content of the books for me the process of reading them, the ASOIAF books. I spent 3 months sitting quietly and reading wherever I went. Before I was quite an annoying person and selfaware of it. I feel like since then I've been a lot calmer and chiller.

>>18875541
I listened to the audiobook on a 12 hr drive and I'm pretty sure it made me retarded

>>18869295
I don't like it as much as the book but it does the book justice visually and acting wise