Such that you finished and your behavior, attitudes, and motivations were completely altered permanently?
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Has a book ever changed your life?
Such that you finished and your behavior, attitudes, and motivations were completely altered permanently?
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Wittgenstein
I see you are a man of exceptional taste as well sir.
The divine Comedy. i am not the same man after
Dandelion Wine did it for me when I was 16, I believe.
Before that book I never liked reading, I thought it was the most lame way to spend your time (At the time I did not think that spending hours upon hours playing Quake 3 Arena and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was a waste of time).
Something about that book just worked my brain in a very good way. I finished it in two evening. It made me slow down in life. It made me feel like I am here and now and that it's the only thing I really have.
>It made me slow down in life. It made me feel like I am here and now and that it's the only thing I really have.
This is probably what most people experience when they say that a book changed them. Except when it's Ayn Rand
Unlike everything else in my life, it gave me permission to be excellent.
Mediocrity really is a failed-crab bucket.
Critique of Pure Reason, no cap.
Rousseaus Emile
Mystery Method although I didn't carbon copy it
lots of books have moved me and left me thinking for weeks or months. I dont think any changed my life.
Its odd, but Papillon (although likely an exagerate biography) has had the most impact on me and I still revisit it, and its sequel frequently when I feel unsatisfied with the direction of my life
Unironically Worm by Wildbow.
I love worms. I gotta read this. What was your favorite quote? Or part that spoke to you?
Umineko no Naku Koro Ni
The Spud from Outer Space by Susan Gates
Yes, I managed to improve significantly in art with this book that I managed to quit my day job and pursue being an artist. I do digital art and illustration for a living now. Never thought I'd be able to pull it off, but here we are.
happy for you son. I wish I could draw
The King in Yellow
Leviathan
I see everything through its lens now. It has tamed a lot of neuroticism over world affairs
The Enchiridion of Epictetus, literally stopped me from roping
Stoner made me switch majors in college from computer engineering to philosophy. I ended up dropping out after a year and now I work in a foundry.
Peter Watts' Blindsight broke me in such a way that it let me see my narcissism as profoundly silly, which eventually led me into therapy, and later into grad school for philosophy and psychoanalysis. It was my bridge out of genre fiction.