Post the piece of literature that was most influential on shaping

My diary, really. (Not that I keep one)

>>8814374
Will get to soon.

>>8814390
Nice. Felt incomplete. Good for the meek and other spooked folk.

Aristotle's politics; the hobbit and lotr; El ingenioso hidalgo, Don Quijote de la Mancha.

I'd include 1984; The Fountainhead, and Brave New World; but those didn't stand a third reading.

The Communist Manifesto not once states how the world ought to be, it merely states how oppression by a ruling class has historically resulted in a dissatisfied ruled class that eventually becomes so dissatisfied that they revolt and create a new society from the old with their own ideals mixed into it, and the result of the revolt has always been superior to their ideals alone or the existing society.

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I read this mainly by accident when I was thirteen and now I'm a complete failure

in fairness i don't know if the book had anything to do with it

good read tho, would fuck up life again

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>>8814369

The Bible
Plato's Republic
Atlas Shrugged

>There are still many, many important philosophers works I haven't read though.

>>8815460
It shows

>>8815460
El oh el

>>8815471
Well what is your greatest influence, Fancy Pants?

>>8815515
Seconded desu

>>8815491
My father

>>8815523
That's very sweet, but I meant "literature," seeing as this is a /lit/ thread.

>>8815530
My father is a writer, he likes to stay anonymous however

>>8815533
Then I would assume he used a pen name.

Otherwise, there isn't much hope of that.

So what is his world-view shaping literary work?

>>8815541
His most known work is called My Diary desu
I didn't mean to derail the thread, I just wanted to say My father to be a smartass, I'm not even the guy who called you out

>>8815545
Typical /lit/.