What book changed you as a person the most ?

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Ego and his Own. I was so, so spooked.

The Phenomenology of Spirit.

Finnegan's Wake.

>>8743693
>Finnegan's
It better be ironic.

>>8743607
is this a meme
I am new to this board so I have no idea of your culture.

Ulysses
Also the book of the new sun changed the way I see religion. Used to be an atheist, now I'm not sure

>>8743602
Atlas Shrugged

I was a right wing libertarian teenager but after reading that book I wanted to learn more about socialism.

>>8743705
My sides

>>8743699

It's a meme, and a shitty, obnoxious one at that. You might as well just filter "spook" and "spooked" and all other permutations of that word now.

>>8743716
It's past Halloween bro, you shouldn't be this spooked so close to Thanksgiving.

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>>8743723

>>8743602
Tao Te Ching

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LoTR unironically made me Christian.

>>8743602
>What book changed you as a person the most ?
As if we do not inherit a personality and a culture, that more or less pushes you into a direction. So it is not so much changing at all, as moving towards something that is controlled by biophysical and psychological factors.

You fit as to say that which conforms the most to your experiences, associations, personality and so forth. The book is not changing you as much as it is reaffirming your ideology or simply moving you towards a change that is only a change in the sense of a new direction, but one that you take because of a priori factors.

Thus a true change is unlikely, it is more a kind of pseudochange.

>>8743704
>Also the book of the new sun changed the way I see religion
im feeling a bit of the same thing at the moment. It's such a shame that BOTNS gets written off by so many people because it's really a beautiful book.

In the same way as the book depicts time as a cyclical recursive tapestry, every time we find an answer to one of its mysteries the book brings new questions to the surface

Malone Dies - S. Beckett

Science Set Free by Rupert Sheldrake. It convinced me against materialism.

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>>8743602

How to Read a Book, for teaching me the true value of analytical reasoning and intellectual etiquette. I suddenly had a torch in a sea of difficult literature, I started truly approaching things properly.


Starting Strength, because lifting just has so many positive benefits, physically and emotionally.

I have never had a piece of fiction directly change my life though.

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>>8743918
Dostoevsky converted me.

>>8743602
The New Skepticism by Paul Kurtz.

I always tried to rationalize religious beliefs against my usual critical outlook, mainly to satisfy my family. Kurtz kicked dirt in the face of my cognitive dissonance and helped me admit what I already knew deep down inside.

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I got my value of work from Hans Fallada and I was made aware of the importance of self esteem by Thomas Mann.

Virginia Woolf and Joyce made me more considerate of other people's actions, by considering that they are people with complex thoughts and feelings and ambitions just like moi.