ITT life stuff books helped you with

1984 unironically made me realize I had never even read a good book until then in my life

>>8866702
Epictetus fixed my social/agora phobia

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Plath convinced me to pick a fig. It's a pretty bad fig, but at least I have a fig.

>>8866702
Mein Kampf made me hate Jews.

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The Art of the Deal unfucked my shit

>>8866702
Fahrenheit 451 made me realize how unhappy I am with my life... and that I should burn books to be like my idol, Adolf Hitler.

Infinite jest made me realize I was addicted to videogames

Pynchon made me stop caring—made me a right goofball!

Kierkegaard helped me understand what life of despair I had been living

Dostoevsky made me love humans

And Dučić made me love beauty.

>>8866702
Dawkins made me a theist

>>8866755
me too

it was also the beginning of a real political consciousness for me, (though maybe that was just reading in general) that slowly changed me from conservative to libertarian socialist

>>8866702
Steppenwolf helped me learn what was worth worrying about

shaekespeare made me realize i don't know how to read

>>8866902
>libertarian socialist
Sounds like an oxymoron

>>8866901
The bible made me an atheist

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I was such a loser in need of a positive role model I copied Socrates.

>>8866940
>I copied Socrates.
What's wrong with that

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>>8866951
Nothing

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>>8866702
edda made me stop watching porn

Walser taught me not to judge.

La Rouchfoucauld taught me what a selfish narcissist I am

>>8866899
How should I start with Keirkgaard? Either/or is enormous and it's dense af prose. Is there an easier one to start with or should I just jump in?

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>>8866933

>>8867076
>the fedora defense

Siddhartha made me stop being the intensely self-pitying, lovesick teenager that I was. I was dharma pilled about my desires and how they were fucking up my mind.

>>8867098
I need to read this next. I started really gaining interest reading The Dharma Bums, and I'm yearning for more. I have The Buddhist Bible and What the Buddha Taught on order as well.

Should I read Siddhartha first?

>>8866702
I kinda feel like Nietzsche has helped me with my drug addiction - self-overcoming, being cruel to oneself, sublimating the passions, not letting the will to get fucked up rule over my more "rational" drives, etc.

>>8867149

Nietzsche was addicted to morphine and a shitload of other drugs.

He forged his own prescriptions under 'Dr. Nietzsche'

American Psycho made me a better serial killer.

>>8867149
Bretty ironic since Nietzsche was a drug abuser himself.

>>8867107
Yes, it is so good. Siddhartha's meeting with the Buddha was a memorable moment

Catcher in the Rye taught me how to rape my sister.

Plato taught me about the joys of boipusssy.

>>8867198
Well he was a doctor, just not a medical doctor. Hilarious anecdote nonetheless.

Getting a partner put my shit together

>>8867441
Aww :)

Bottom's Dream turned me into a faggot

>>8866902
is this cheap pasta?

>>8866702
Plato made me more aware of what I was doing when I was discussing something.

Jordan Peterson made me speak against PC

>>8866755
>>8866902
1984 was awful though
but I'm a leftsocial too. Nice to see a comrade around.

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>>8866702
Evola, then Satre and Camus, made me realise that if there is no Divine or Natural Order then I, and I alone, are the most important thing to me

That and pretty much everything in my life was, is or going to be due to me - can't balme everyone else

>>8867015
Well, the anons here suggested that you should read Plato's Socrates' Dialogs and you should familiarize yourself with Hegel.
But that's for nerds tbqh.

TBK, IJ, The Stranger, Stoner and C&P kicked off my existential crisis and made my depression even worse.

>>8868625
how does C&P make depression worse?
It made me feel content for like 2 weeks after i read it.

Nausea helped me get out of my depression and
Bhagavad-Gita introduced me to deeper spirituality.

>>8868692
what is C&P?

>>8867441
House built on sand senpai, be careful.

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>tfw read most of the books/authors listed itt
>tfw perpetually unchanging in a spiral of self destruction

>>8868719
reading=/=understanding

you could read everything in existence and not grow

>>8866702
I found The Lord of the Rings mythos so staggeringly beautiful and tragic it's compelled me to keep living on several occasions.

>>8868727
I understood it all, but none of it resonated with me.

>>8867149
>sublimating the passions
What does this mean and can somebody elaborate on this?

>>8868747
when you want to fuck your best friend's gf but she rejects you, channel that lust into writing edgy aphorisms for example.

>>8866933
>>8867082

Look up "etymology of libertarian". It used to mean (French) anarchist. It has nothing to do with muh welfares.

>>8868747
in simple terms it means overcoming negative impulses by redirecting them into constructive ends. this means first to recognise those negative impulses, and then to allow them to occur but in a controlled manner which leads to betterment.

>>8868756
This was very helpful and I have been thinking about something like this for some time now. Any books you recommend for this?

>>8868705
Crime and punishment

>>8867015
Self-proclaimed Kierk expert here. If you don't want to read philosophy in general, and not even the Socratic dialogues, I'd say start with the essay: "The Present Age". I think if you read Kierkegaard it's best to read philosophy in general as well, especially Plato and Hegel....

But there are books that you can understand without it, such as Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, concept of anxiety (short, so maybe you want to go for that one first) and Concept of Dread.

If you read just Plato, then you can go for Concept of Irony.

TL;DR start w "The present age" which you can find here http://www.historyguide.org/europe/present_age.html

and then read Concept of Anxiety.

>>8866789
how?

>>8868344
>Evola
>Sartre

Wow what shit taste in books. Only Camus slightly redeems you.

>Muh no Divinity
Such a meme... Try Kierkegaard on for size...

Reading Finnegan's Wake made me an absolute madman

>>8868762
ah of course. thanks

Everything i've ever read has - to varying extents - formed my perception of the world.

Kierkegaard, Camus and Tolstoy stopped me from killing myself.

>>8867098
>>8867335
>>8868344
these

And António Lobo Antunes thought me me than I can put into words.

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>>8868777

The books I've read has only made a worse person desu

Steppenwolf and Siddhartha made me realise I was looking at life in a dumb way that made me unhappy.

Dostoevsky called me out on some edgier behaviour and helped me understand people better

Malcolm X's Autobiography made me ore socially conscious.

A Brief History of time made me interested in Science.

>>8866902
WTF is a libertarian socialist?

>>8866940
Me too, friend.
Some people here claim that Plato was "obvious" or "boring", but for me, as I was going through somewhat of a crisis at the time, I claim it was life changing.

Raids on the Unspeakable made me a happier person. The works of Ellis in general helped me realise that being rich isn't a worthwhile goal. The works of Sexton made me feel less alone in my illness. The works of Shakespeare, Sophocles, and assorted medieval playwrights showed me that nothing is new.

>>8866702
I never realized how much I let music rule my emotions until I read Epictetus' discourses. Also the book fixed most of my anxiety problems.

Kazantzakis taught me the value of living outside my basement and just letting shit happen instead of trying to control everything

Plato taught me how to overcome bad habits (including depression and lethargy)

Balzac unfucked my awful way of trying to communicate with people and naive vision of the world. Rastignac is a soul brother.

If a book or author doesn't have some kind of deeper relatability to your life I'm not sure why you would read it.