What book has had the greatest impact on your life?

What book has had the greatest impact on your life?

Either The Bothers Karamazov or Leaves of Grass

I've been struggling to get out of bed for the last two years since reading this

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Now why's that?

I don't think a single book; just the accumulation of different books.

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Pretty much Demian and Steppenwolf.

Demian definitely. It's nice to see I'm not the only one so affected by it.

How would you say has it changed you?

Spinoza's Ethics. Most brilliant work I have read so far. Not only his metaphysical system, but the parts about the emotions and their relations. I need to read empiricsts and Kant next.

The Freud Reader. Fukn blew my mind and gave me a starting point for further reading in psychology, sociology and related fields.

And Tolstoy's novels in general. I love Tolstoy.

I identified myself with Sinclair a lot, my childhood was pretty much a 1/1 copy of his.
My teenage years went pretty much the same, except without the whole war stuff - It's almost uncanny.

Then I read Steppenwolf and found out that I was going to become just like our friend Haller, so I changed my ways, by doing so I knew a lot of people, including one that's pretty much like Hermine, minus the lesbianism.
I hope it does not end in a tragedy, or with me killing her.

The impact is that it serves as a justification of my behaviour. I did learn a few things but only because there was an ecological fit between me and the book.