Which book has had the most profound influence on your life?

Fart Bums by James Joyce

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>>9173339
Sniff Sniff

>>9173342
*prrt*

http://journals.lww.com/amjforensicmedicine/Abstract/2002/09000/Asphyxial_Suicide_with_Helium_and_a_Plastic_Bag.5.aspx

Elle Fanning is an Angel, by Me.
i love her so much

>>9173432
Me, too anon. My goal in life is to become a famous European scriptwriter abd meet her at a film festival.

The alchemist

>>9173334
uhhh... dianetics by l ron hubbard

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>>9173432
great book!

>>9173334
The very hungry caterpillar

>>9173334
The Lord of the Ring and I'm not even memeing

Discourses by Epictetus.

>>9173334
Honestly Plato's Phaedo had a profound influence on me.

What a great man Socrates was.

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Has to be Demian by Herman Hesse.

The Kindly Ones turned me into a wehraboo

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>>9173334
bukowski ham on rye
Limonov

i'm not really convinced that books can actually have "influence" to the point where it impacts you, you mostly read a book because it speaks to you in the first place.

Any books with characters like Elle Fanning, who in my head can be played by Elle Fanning?
She's qt.

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>>9174227
Franny from Franny and Zooey
Leni in Kafka's The Trial
Marcelle in Batailler's Story of the Eye

>>9173334
Brothers Karamazov

Changed my whole perspective on life and made me happier as a result

STOP POSTING QT'S
IM TRYING TO DO NOFAP AND IS SO FUCKING HARD, HAVE SOME CONSIDERATION, I BEG YOU

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>>9174383
>he fell for the nofap meme

>>9173688
Bukowski for me too, I've moved on, but those days of reading Bukowski were fucking great. It felt like I had a friend who was just as much a scumbag as me.

Maybe that's why I enjoy 4chan. "enjoy"

>>9174388
Dude I got the chance to loss my virginity some months ago and I couldnt get it hard, and Im pretty young, so I need to rewire my brain

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>>9173334
The Zibaldone by Leopardi taught me everything I know about art and craft.

Confessions by St. Augustine turned me down from being a militant atheist.

Ficciones by Borges was my intro to literature, before that I wasn't that interested in this medium.

>>9173442
how can u be so basic, pleb

The Phenomenology of Spirit.

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Four Quartets.

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>>9173334
Primo Levi's "Se questo è un uomo"

The Remains of the Day

Trying to find happiness and meaning in a world that seems so hard to understand really resonates with me

>>9174368
>Marcelle in Batailler's Story of the Eye
l-lewd

The Metamorphoses

probably Of Human Bondage. If you want to read about a child becoming a person it's the best one ever written

Tom sawyer

Tao te Ching

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The Quran

I'm pretty sure The Count of Monte Cristo fucked with my head to the extent that can't be undone. The Count is literally my idol.

1984

>>9173522
Phaedophile.

>>9174418
how young are you? I'm 18 and had the same experience, now I'm nofap and bang my gf every other day

>>9174383
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqaGEu6u7b4

see and despair.

>>9174438
>Ficciones by Borges was my intro to literature, before that I wasn't that interested in this medium.
Borges made me really connect with literature and got me reading again. Something about him is inspiring.

>>9173522
This one for me as well. It really gave a good reason why someone should look to gain knowledge and become an intellectual. It's the closest I got to having a religion.