What are some books that have "transformed" you?Do you believe in the concept of transformative literature? Or do you think there are a lot of malleable brained lemmings who believe what they're told to believe? These are genuine questions.
>>25168712>books that have transformed youall of them equally>do you believe in transformative literatureno, the more it tries to transform you, the more a person's innate defense mechanisms kick in and push them away from the material which is naturally uncharismatic>do you think .. lemmings .. believei mean of course. but there are also people who are convinced they are not lemming at all, and define their own destiny or something else cringe like that, and they are generally the ones who are the most.. say.. affected by things
>>25168712Unironically the meme trilogy, but mainly Ulysses and GR, kind of rewired my brain and changed the way I look at literature and what I value in itAside for that I guess at most I have internalised some of the moral lessons in the screwtape letters, but undoubtedly only because they already aligned with my moral compass and what have youI otherwise remained impervious to any ideological or philosophical work I have readDunno what transformative literature is supposed to be. If you mean stuff like self help books I don't read those
Hmm.... Maniac MaGee got me to eat butterscotch krimpets back in the day so there was def some transformation that occurred thereBut I would not recommend eating then today, I tried within the last hear and omg it was so bad. They RUINED the formula or something, it was an oily mess and no longer had the super sweet taste I once enjoyed
>>25168719>there are also people who are convinced they are not lemming at allNot me, tho
>>25168749you're my special friend
>>25168712most of them, except some bad booksnow that i look at it, reading was very impactful on memainly greeks incl. homer, schopenhauer, nietzsche, descartes, leibniz, lacan, dostoyevsky
>>25168712Doctor Faustus made me interested in classical music.
