/lit/, which books changed your life? Must reads?

>>8499479

berenstein bears and dr seuss

got me to start reading for enjoyment at a young age.

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>>8499479
Stirner freed me from a lot of conventional desires one is supposed to have. I've dumped a lot of dead weight since then and am capable of unapologetically just being myself now

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>>8499515
berenstain*

The Book of Disquiet is a fucking meme and I guarantee it didn't change your life.

Pessoa is a boss though--just not Edgelord Ramblings: The Book

>>8499687
its meme because people outside the portuguese spoken world ALWAYS get it wrong.

first of all, this is not a pessoa's book. it was written by a heteronym. Second, the book is written by THREE DIFFERENTS HETERONYMS. why? well, cuz it was no meant to be published in first place. its more like a notepad then a book.

so it's like three different books. see, the foreign editors don't understand that, and they continue publishing without this very detail that is crucial to the reading of this book.

also, you cant read that book without reading pessoa's poetry. you absolutely can't.

>>8499792
Because portugese is irrelevant lmao get over it

>>8499801
i'm not even discussing that, mate. i'm just making a note about the book.

>>8499479
how did pessoa change your life?

do you cry all the time?

>>8499792
pessoa was a one-trick pony

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee. Got me into socio-politically oriented fiction and now writing for real.

Crime and Punishment is a really great book and everyone should read it.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer got me into reading, and reading changed my life.

Lolita helped me learn to appreciate the written word as a tool for the creation of art. Before reading that I didn't think novels or poems could be works of art.

Plato's Phaedo.
It made me fully embrace the life of an intellectual.