/lit/ - Literature

none. being a consoomer that I am diminishes the very notion of lasting effect

Society of the spectacle

>>15537000
Pic sort of Related: On the Genealogy of Morals. I'd never considered morality to be a genealogical process before (was raised Catholic until I left).
The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita - explained what it all means without the dreadlocked - tarred white people Hinduism take.
Anything written by Emmerson - the incorporation of the above into a western mode of thought.
The Rebel Sell - a little pedestrian but got me out of my teenage counter-culture phase.
Flow - Only self help book worth reading.

>>15537268
The Gita by Kriyananda, the pupil of Yogananda? That book is great, I've read it too.

>>15537284
Yeah that's the one. It actually explained it all in clear language which is my usual gripe with Eastern stuff.

Posthumous Memories of Brás Cubas

One that comes to mind is The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati. Pure existentialist nightmare fuel.

Thanks for the recs on Gita bros

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg by Kate Evans
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant
Writing My Wrongs by Shaka Senghor

Infinite Jest
The Fountainhead
No Longer Human

Journey to the end of the Night

>>15537700
My nigga, I'm currently reading Celine.

The Third Policeman, Ulysses, Crime & Punishment

>>15537700
what kind of lasting effect did it have on you anon?

I read it, liked it - but I am relieved that I remain less cynical than the novel

>>15537713
Care to explain why/ how?
I read it recently and thought it was a great novel, so I'm wondering what "lasting effects" it could have on someone.

>>15537721
was meant for >>15537700

Harry Potter

>>15537715
>>15537728
Some of it was his writing style, it was unique and expressive. I enjoyed the cynical and misanthropic style cause that's a bit similar to how I think

>>15537000
After Virtue
Ages of the World
Hermetica

>>15537000
The gay science by Nietzsche made me less of a faggot

The Foundation for Exploration

> The Brothers Karamazov (instrumental in shaping my faith when I converted ~5 years ago)
> Steppenwolf (helped save me from a period of deep depression)
> Stoner (affirmed my vocation in the study and teaching of literature)
> Diary of a Country Priest (helped me make peace with my own nature)

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Russian for dummies

>>15537713
>The Third Policeman

Really? Didn't expect to read that.

>>15537000
The Magic Mountain, the dudes searching for meaning in it, and that ending.

>>15537000
The World as Will and Representation

Jayber Crow - Wendell Berry

Nobody writes what it means to be a Kentuckian better than Mr.Berry

>>15538463
Based Thomas Mann poster. Have you read Buddenbrooks?

Just finished reading “Till We Have Faces” by CS Lewis, that’s going to stick with me for a while. Tough read but he takes you out to a cosmic view and it puts your entire life into perspective. Think it’s the best piece of fiction I’ve read in a long time.

>>15538512
Not yet. Since getting started on Mann I've learned German, but my level is only up to Hesse/Süskind so far. Will need a bit of time before I can come back to the Zauberberg in its original form. Buddenbrooks will be after that.

The Recognitions

>>15537268
>genealogical process
What does this mean?

>>15537000
This book changed my life, it really opened my eyes about why my teachers pushed the agenda they did.

>>15538403
Same

The Man Without Qualities
War and Peace
The Gay Science
Book of Disquiet (this is the ultimate life affirming book)

>>15537475
Based
Plus the Book of Disquiet and, pardon me beforehand, Stoic writings such as Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. The Sorrows of Young Werther also.
With Pessoa I felt genuinely understood, and saw a personal dread so finely articulated that - in becoming less nebulous - also became less dreadful. I no longer felt alone. The Stoics gaze at said abyss, and act. I trust I mustn't detail the impact of such writings on a young man. And Werther reflected a romantic side of me, one that rejects the draconian notion of ataraxia; I, too, had a love debacle early in life. Goethe absolved me of that burden.
Bonus: Ecclesiastes.

>>15537000
Crime and Punishment
Deep Nutrition
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Meditations

>>15538373
> The Brothers Karamazov
> Steppenwolf
These books are on my list, Faust as well.

>>15537000

>>15537000
Critique of Pure Reason
Phenomenology of Spirit
Thus Spake Zarathustra

>>15537000
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Blood Meridian
Anna Karenina

>>15537000
I once cut myself with a math book. I still have small scar.

Pilgrim's Progress
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Brave New World
1984

>>15537000
Why we are Polarized by Ezra Klein

>>15537000
Infinite Jest
The Recognitions
Siddhartha

>>15537000
Dante's complete works especially the Comedy.
Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Groundwork of the metaphysics of Morals
Melville's Moby Dick
Victor Hugo's Miserables
Stendhal's Life of Henry Brulard
Sandor Marai's The Sister
Stig Dagerman's Our need for consolation cannot be sated
Villiers' The Future Eve
Seconding Genealogy of Morals as well
Valéry's Essays (lot of pieces not necessarily bound by a common theme, but all very interesting)

Probably many more but those are the ones that come to mind today.