/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10751018]

Which three novels changed your life the most?

Hardmode: no
>Brothers K
>Bible
>Meme trilogy
>Homer
u can if u rly wanna tho

[Anonymous No.10751081]

>>10751018
Only because I fucking love that picture will I respond.

The Stranger
The Sun Also Rises
Simulation and Simulacra

[Anonymous No.10751083]

>East
>of
>Eden
Sam Hamilton > your ideal father

[Anonymous No.10751126]

>>10751018
The Fault in Our Stars

[Anonymous No.10751135]

Diogenes, the first shitposter. Gotta love how many fucks he couldnt give.

[Anonymous No.10751214]

>>10751018
What's the meme trilogy? IJ, GR, U?

[Anonymous No.10751226]

>>10751018
Oblomov times three

Made me realize one of my best friends became him and there is no saving him

[Anonymous No.10751245]

>Harry Potter (read in 1st grade, got me into reading)
>Catcher In the Rye (read in 7th grade, made me edgy and aware of classics
>Focault’s Pendelum

[Anonymous No.10752871]

>>10751083
My fucking dude

[Anonymous No.10752880]

art of happiness

[Anonymous No.10752889]

>>10751018
>Ready Player One
>Rupi Kaur collected poems
>Mein Kampf

[Anonymous No.10752901]

>Infinite Jest
>Tropic of Cancer
>Stoner

[Anonymous No.10753540]

bump

[Anonymous No.10753563]

>>10751018
Denial of Death
Crime & Punishment
Paradise Lost

[Anonymous No.10754176]

Judge me

[Anonymous No.10754247]

>>10751018

>Ernst Junger - On Marble Cliffs
>Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time
>Roberto Bolano - Savage Detectives

These are books that I didn't only like because they were beautiful, but because they somehow touched me on a personal level. Junger because it made me thought I could write differently. Proust because it made me think about how mind, memory, imagination and the perception of beauty work - and how they are the only important things. Bolano to develop a general feeling of detachment from the vicissitudes of life, and for making me think that my very possibly nomadic life won't necessarily be an ugly one - though it may be unhappy

[Anonymous No.10754277]

>>10754176
Stop posting this bait.

>>10751018
Catcher in the Rye
In the Realm of the Wolf by David Gemmell (genre fiction I know)
Most recently Lonesome Dove

[Anonymous No.10754304]

>tfw read Brothers K and though I really felt the greatness while reading it I just can’t see it as a whole since it was supposed to be the introduction to the ‘real’ book. And it just doesn’t feel thight enough, unlike other Dostoyevsky’s such C&P or The Idiot wich are more compact and self contained

[Anonymous No.10754307]

>>10754304
tight* such as*

[Anonymous No.10754663]

Death of Ivan Ilyich, Catcher in the Rye, Junie B. Jones and That Meanie Jim's Birthday

[Anonymous No.10754698]

>Dostoevsky - The Idiot
>The Republic
- Paradise Lost/Regained

[Anonymous No.10754766]

>Faust
>The World as Will and Representation Vol. 1
>The Will To Power

[Anonymous No.10754813]

>>10754304
What do you mean introduction? Was there supposed to be another part?

[Anonymous No.10754824]

>>10754813
Not him. But yes there was to be a Book 2 following the preist son iirc.

[Anonymous No.10754850]

>>10754813
there’s a prologue where Dostoyesvky explains this book is to put in perspective Alyosha’s background for he is a great man and wants everyone to see what a great man he is, then he says Alyosha’s story is set on the present (1880~) and Brothers K is a story that happened 20~ years before that and it’s a necessary introduction to Alyosha’s story

[Anonymous No.10755060]

>>10751018
>Novels
>Bible
>Homer
>Novels
God I hate this board.

[Anonymous No.10755303]

>>10755060
The Bible is a novel tho

[Anonymous No.10755308]

>>10751018
Nausea
Moby Dick
Don Quixote

[Anonymous No.10755346]

Flowers for Algernon

[Anonymous No.10755439]

>>10755303
Sure, bud

[Anonymous No.10755562]

Something like this:

The Box Man (Kôbô Abe)
Là-Bas (Joris-Karl Huysmans)
No Longer Human (Osamu Dazai)

These at least stuck with me most and changed my taste the most.

Poems that most changed me:
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
Bodhicaryavatara (Śāntideva) [I shill it on this board so much that you've probably seen me mention it before, but I don't know how much of an effect it would have on anyone else]

[Anonymous No.10755565]

>>10751018
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe for getting me into reading
Flowers for Algernon for saving reading from my school's desperate attempts to get me to hate it
American Gods for introducing me to my favorite author

[Anonymous No.10755569]

>>10751018
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

[Anonymous No.10755572]

>>10755303
No, it's reallll!!!!!111

[Anonymous No.10755615]

>>10751018
Tale of Genji
The Critic as Artist
The Art of Seduction

[Anonymous No.10755644]

>>10755562
>Bodhicaryavatara (Śāntideva)
tell me more about this

[Anonymous No.10755704]

>>10751018
1984
A Farewell to Arms
The Sun Also Rises

I need to read more stuff though.

[Anonymous No.10755744]

>>10755572
The current state of /lit/

[Anonymous No.10757383]

>>10751018
The Masger and Margarita.
Basically the same anti-autheism idea.

[Anonymous No.10757413]

Flowers for Algernon
The Night Circus
Empty Mile

[Anonymous No.10757443]

>>10751018
>War and Peace (discovered my love for classics through this book)
>Siddharta
>Crime and Punishment

[Anonymous No.10757460]

>Kingdom of fear
>Leviathan
>Basic Economics

Bonus: Elements - Euclid

[Anonymous No.10757474]

>>10751135
pic related

[Anonymous No.10757494]

>>10751018
Hatchet
Of Mice and Men
Remembrance of Things Past

One gave me a love of reading, one was the first book to have a powerful impact on me, and one was the first serious novel I read after college.

[Anonymous No.10757644]

>>10751214
Das right Anon

[Anonymous No.10757813]

>>10752889

[Anonymous No.10757854]

>>10751018
Culture of Critique

[Anonymous No.10757872]

>>10751018

Does Flower for Algernon count? I think it was the one novel I have read in just the right age to fully let it sink in without the natural criticism experience brings. Other things I believe I have read too early or too old.

Also, it *is* meme tier, but I guess I have also been touched by the many RPGs I played at a young age (I still play but, back then I was really impressionable, which is the point here).

[Anonymous No.10759110]

Anna Karenina
Magic Mountain
The Golden Fleece

[Anonymous No.10759218]

>>10755615
My nigga

[Anonymous No.10759254]

> The Tale of Genji - The only book I read for college that I liked enough to keep
>House of Leaves - The first book I read by my favorite author
>The Mayor of Casterbridge - The only book I vivdly remember from high school, because I hated the shit out of it and used it as a paperweight and doorstop. Piece of shit brick trying to pass as a book.

[Anonymous No.10759348]

Anna Karenina
The Catcher in the Rye
Hamlet (not a novel but fuck it)

[Anonymous No.10759369]

>>10751018
Catcher in the Rye
Gorgias
Decline of the West

[Anonymous No.10759392]

>>10757443
>Siddharta
why does everyone love that book. It's shit in comparison to Thus Spake Zarathustra

[Anonymous No.10759399]

>>10755569
my nigga

[Anonymous No.10760252]

>tfw exposed to the Bible since I was a child, so I don't know what effect it really had on my life

[Anonymous No.10760331]

>The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>Doors of the Sea

[Anonymous No.10761412]

>>10755744
T. christcuck

[Anonymous No.10761885]

>>10761412
>T.

[Anonymous No.10762263]

>>10751018

Walden - Thoreau
Walden Two - BF Skinner
The Kingdom of God is Within You - Tolstoy