what book changed your life for the better? & why?
The diamond age inspired me to become an inventor and start my own company since they mention a character that does that. It had not really crossed my mind that tech start ups were possible.
Unironically the Dao De Jing
>>24916395my diary desu
>>24916395Bart Simpson's guide to life
>>24916395my life hasn't changed for the better but I like reading plays
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https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/gouge/Domestical%20Duties%20-%20William%20Gouge.pdf
>>24916395this question bugs me. surely every good book changes your life for the better because they all feed into your soul and imagination and sensibility, and therefore they shape how the world looks and feels: how it enters into your consciousness and what your consciousness makes of it. without books the world would not exist for you in the same way, and you would not be the same person. when you look out at a landscape and feel it invested with meaning and history, or when you meet a new person and try to sense who they are and what that means to you, you're doing so on the basis of the deep layers of experience sedimented in your soul. good books are a uniquely powerful source of such experience. you meet an old college friend of your dad, and when he reaches for a handshake it's suddenly a jovial priest from an 18th-century novel reaching out to grasp your hand, and you realise that what you've sensed in him is also the gravity and the secret sadness of that priest. a green light flares past in the night beyond the train window, and it flares with the mysterious aura it does because it reminds you of what technology meant to 1920s modernists, liberating and awful and alien; you sense signals pulsing across remotest Eurasian steppes; and the clammy iphone in your hand, and the vocal-fried podcast you've been listening to, suddenly seem a commercialised, unimaginative betrayal of that possibility. culture allows the world to disclose itself. language (as they say) is the dwelling house of being.
>>24916620retard
>>24916395The bible, i use it to get to know my God and his will
>>24916456>The diamond age>woman protagonistyeah nah
>>24916395Life For Sale, Yukio MishimaI read it at the tail end of my depressed teenager stage, it helped me realize that I should live and that suicide was pointless.
>>24916473The Tao Te Ching was my introduction to philosophy while I was still in middle school.
David Goggins Can't Hurt MeStupid airport book made tough as nails in the cushy catlady industrial complex
>>24916620Bro just retweet your goodreads
>>24916395the c++ programming language by: bjarne stroustrupIt got me a job
>>24916395The final redpill.
>>24916473This, it made me calmer at the very least
The Courage to be Disliked
>>24916395Book of the New Sun, without irony. It was an entry-level spiritual awakening and an introduction to metatext that served as a gateway into even more profound works, such as the Divine Comedy and Shakespeare's cataloge. I'm a retard, but classics and literary novels "clicked" a lot more for me after I read BOTNS.
>>24920112That cover is the best graphic representation I've seen of a leftoid's brain.>inb4 direction brainTrump is an establishment hack who's stealing our money and giving it away to fund warcrimes in proxy wars, just like every president since Lincoln.
>>24916395A lot of books changed my intellectual life for the better, which has been a priceless gain for me. But none have helped change my material circumstances.For that, money is much better than books.>>24919067I thought this was a femboy joke at first.
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>>24920549Kino
Linear Algebra Done Right changed my life. I was a physics major but i realized i hate labs, pracical work and the application of mathematics, instead, i love its purity. Been neeting ever since
Infinite Jest, because now I can reference it to people who have no idea what I am referencing, and then I get to explain it, and the payoff is always catastrophically bad, but at least I now know how every conversation I am ever going to have will go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMMI cannot tell you yet why this book is so special to me; but I will write an especially good gonzo piece about the whole ordeal one day, which I expect to become famous here, along with my diary desu and the novel I wrote together and self-published with someone beautiful.I only hope one day the person who still has the original file puts out a working pdf, because I do not appreciate audiobooks and it is tedious to try to read the whole thing by right-arrow taps and constant pauses.
>>24920112It's actually kind of crazy that you can tell it's trump's silhouette in the image even without any additional informationThere's no denying that his character design is pretty fucking good.
>>24920534Faustian and even neitzchian. I have been a neet for 18 years and shoplift all my food is it does not matter to me
>>24922411Reality has a certain way of designing important historical figures, they always stand out in a crowd.
>>24916395Revolt Of The Masses. most people just exist on autopilot.
Completely refuted all my socialist/communist/marxist beliefs and opened my eyes to individual responsibility. It also caused a small life-crisis because it forced me to reevaluate my beliefs so much.
>>24922618Your convictions couldn't have been that strong if you abandoned them after reading a mid polemic
Chilote tales
both TBK and demons by dostoevskyTBK turned me into a christian tradlarper, then demons pushed me all the way into being an actual follower of the teachings of Jesus Christ
>>24922295Are you going to eventually use your math skills to get a real job? I heard data analytics pays well.
Made me realise how most of us only get to see life and reality through nothing but a pinhole, blissfully unaware of the layers of conditioning that weigh us down."We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch."
>>24916395The Brother's Karamazov changed my entire perspective on the world and implanted its philosophy into me without me even realizing fully until years later. I am more wise for it but I fear this has proved I am susceptible to subtle forms of control so reading scares me a bit now.
>>24922651TBK is a lot more about inner conflict and the source of evil than it is about Christianity. I'd fairly say that for most of my early twenties TBK did inform my Christianity but that was just because I think I refused to see what the book was saying until recently.
>>24916395>Outwitting the devil The section about what character is was very enlightening. There was also some passage that highlighted a certain way I was repressed my masculinity. My life instantly became better after that.>The Ra materialIf you ignore the alien woo, its just the NT but intellectually honest
it made me realize stealing is bad, even if you really need the money, before I read it I had no idea
>>24916395Chesterton
>>24922651>demonsAwesome. I'm reading it right now and it is really good. About 1/3 through and it is beginning to pick up stream.
>>24922971>it made me realize stealing is bad, even if you really need the money, before I read it I had no idea>>24916395Reading Jung together with Black pill content unironically made me understand women
Blood Meridian. It sparked my interest in literature.
>>24918857>checks notes>DEI hireinto the burning dumpster it goes
>>24922720I rather work some menial job, i dont like corpospeak at all. Data analytics involves the interpretation of the data in a way the feels like snake oil salesman's pitches, i dont think scientific rigour matters for most companies
This gave me a real solution to the problems I was suffering through, and has helped me develop a personal sovereignty that allows me to be less at-effect with the crappy world around me.
>>24918547Damn that image kinda goes hard
>>24922956>but I fear this has proved I am susceptible to subtle forms of controlIt just means you know how to read. Too many people read with closed hearts and never learn anything.
>>24924341I got it made right before they updated nano banana to no longer do celebrities. corpo ai is so gay. I love ai so much
>>24916395Got me out of "Trad" pseudery
