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What's a book that changed your life? How did it changed you? How did it changed the way you think or you see things and people?

Bellum Gallicum.

None of them. At best they inspire me for a period of time but then I go back to my old ways

cave ab homine unius libri

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>>213679247
>Bellum Gallicum.
What's the book about, and what did it changed in you?

great expectations actually
i think about it time to time, more than most, it's not very good morality wise and it's not a strong story but it's empowering in a certain way

>>213679390
The Tartar Steppe
>>213679278
It's a constant fight but every time you fall and get up again you know something you didnt know before

It’s a collection of poems from Han Shan, red pine version

I keep the book very close to me and re-read the poems every so often. One of my favorite purchases of the last decade for sure

>>213679068 (OP)
>ur so weak and effeminate that a book can change ur life
lul

>>213679398
You should be able to tell from the title alone. War in Gaul. I think the full title is Commentarii de Bello Gallico or maybe he's talking about a different book about war with Gauls.

>>213679068 (OP)
Mein Kampf

>>213679068 (OP)
You guys are gonna hate on me for this but that's fine, I'm a normie anyway

>>213679068 (OP)
anything by Kafka

>>213679473
>>ur so weak and effeminate that a book can change ur life
>lul
it can change the way you perceive life more than a nigger gunfight in the favelas while revolving your whole life around a ball and hiv brown pussy

>>213679625
People nowadays read so little that Camus is underground shit.

>>213679782
especially in Romania, this country is full of brainlet retards and subracial gypsies

>>213679473
Your whole continent's history and future got altered by some dudes and their holy book.

>>213679458
whats so great about it

Asia is cool

>>213679068 (OP)
Quran

>>213679782
>>213679820
also a big fan of Cioran
I notice I read a lot of depressing books
also have stuff from Kafka, Bukowski, and I guess on the lighter side I have Viktor Frankl

>>213679902
out of curiosity i saw a Quran when i was in the public library, idk if it was the Romanian translation but from what i read it didn't really made sense, to me it seemed like a Temu cheaper version of the Bible

>>213679841
I don’t know, i just like them
They made me more open to life, less stressed, less tense, more curious

Every time i read them i feel calm

>>213679987
>also a big fan of Cioran
fellow suicidal only mid aged men talk about him from what i saw

>>213679068 (OP)
It was a self help book called who moved my cheese that I read as a child. Itbis about adapting to change quickly. I am deeply ashamed to admit this because self help books are for retards but they do work on children in their formative years

>>213680047
It's a weird disconnect reading those folks but being this weird little Southeast Asian kid
Sun is shining, cigarette in hand, girls are walking by, and I'm all "depressed" and gloomy

>>213680144
if i was a malay boy i'd just fuck as many malay girls as possible, they're cute sometimes and smile to you, that's what a friend who lived there told me

>>213679987
I once read somewhere that "the best books are those that teach you something you already knew". People will say that it's confirmation bias but I see it more as you have a hunch but can't quite put your finger on it and then comes this book that explains it. Maybe you're predisposed to melancholy or pessimism.
Cioran can be easily turned into memes with stuff like "It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late" or "A book is a suicide postponed".

>>213680005
Most religious texts will sound that way. You might need a version that also has an interpretation guide so you get what they're talking about.

>>213680194
they're very cute haha

>>213680216
>"the best books are those that teach you something you already knew"
I like that quote - and yeah I lean into melancholia a lot and for the past few years I've been really big into Buddhism
And I guess, in a way, you can interpret Buddhism to mean "world is a fuck, nothing matters, live life regardless"

'Changed my life' is too strong. But there were certain books that exposed me to new modes of thought I hadn't encountered before in my life:
CS Lewis and especially The Abolition of Man
Plato's dialogues and especially Phaedo, Protagoras and the Republic
Emerson's and Thoreau's essays
The Murderess
First time I read Hawthorne and Melville (I've read other great writers since then, but before Hawthorne I didn't someone could write this damn well)

>>213679068 (OP)
Every book, because if you hadn't read them then that time would be spent doing something else.

>>213680328
Nihilism gets misinterpreted as "life is meaningless :(" when it's actually "life is meaningless :D".
I think in Buddhism they say that life is suffering but one should participate with a smile.

>>213680481
If you didn't read that book you might have went outside and gotten stabbed. I've heard they haven't managed to bin all the knifes.

>>213680043
cool

might acquire it myself

It really shined a light on how the western(white) world is why humanity is worthy of continuing.

>>213679625
There's nothing to hate you for reading this. It's easier to understand absurdism from this, instead of his fiction.

>>213679068 (OP)
The Bible
Story of Philosophy
The quran w/ good chunk of tafsirs, good number of hadiths, part of ibn ishaq's sira - made me realize how horrifying it is and how it's the greatest threat to humanity

>>213680005
Fitting, because the Bible is the Temu cheaper version of all the surrounding religions and mythologies.

>>213680504
>life is suffering but one should participate with a smile.
Yep
Life is pain, suffering, grief
Life is also happiness, joy, wonder
Truly understanding this axiom will shift everything inside you

>>213680005
It's not put together in chronological order and you should be reading the accompanying tafsirs - which is funny as it claims to be clear

>>213680725
How'd you read the quran/etc and realize how horrifying it is, and not realize the same with the bible?

>>213680725
Oh and of course:
>The myth of the Andalusian paradise
>Sword and Scimitar

Absolutely insane books that shattered whatever I thought I knew about history

>>213680807
Harsher parts of the Old Testament have nothing even in the same league as the islamic corpus.

Also, the better counter is why did YHWH lose to kemosh

>>213680725
>>213680820
Per the last thread we talked in, you really did your homework hombre

>>213680862
One particular tafsir is wild, I think it was ibn kathir's portion on 33:59 iirc

>>213680862
And thank you, to be fair it's a wild rabbit hole. Also critically reading the story of how Momo's dad was going to be sacrificed to hubal... It's the latest iteration of repackaged baalism amr ibn luhay imported from palmyra

>>213680727
Saar

>>213680915
>>213680986
Just another day in Hejazi politics and power struggles

>>213680625
>western(white)
The first people identified as white were slaves in Virginia

>>213680625
Check out "Dominion" and "The Rise of Early Modern Science"

>>213680678
I've only read "The Stranger" - haven't found the time to read his other stuff like "The Plague"