What is a book that has unironically influenced your worldview?

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The Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell to Arms turned me into a stoic.

Zhaungzi

Gulag archipelago really makes me hate public education that glosses over that shit.

>t. not born in the 20th century

The world as will and representation

Selby Screaming

This but unironically

Literally how? Plato's views are impossible to take this seriously.

How are they not?

Fanged Noumena, unironically

>true inner self
There's no such thing. The layers of irony regress infinitely.

The very hungry caterpillar.

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It's interesting how selective /pol/ is about which atrocities against humanity they believe actually happened.

Divine Comedy

Gone Girl.
It's turned me pro-marriage.

Christopher Lasch's True and Only Heaven
Ivan Illich's In the Vineyard of the Text

The Stranger

The Book of Job by G-d.
How to Design Programs as published by The MIT Press.†
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melvill.
McSweeney's #13 by Chris Ware (the Editor).
The City of G-d Against the Pagans written by none other than Saint Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis himself.
The Browning version of Agamemnon.
"The Electronic Ant" by the late, great Phil K. Dick.

† I'm too lazy to list all their names, so instead the publisher was noted.

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The analects
Unironically

Ah yes, the Weltanschauung

then you only read shit-tier stuff .... and/or are a shit-tier person

Orlando by Virginia Woolfe desu

End of Faith

Necromancer by Gibson, I think

Many books influenced my world view, but if you ask me the one that changed the most, probably was Starship Troopes, by Heinlein.
I can think of more, but this one, influenced all aspects of my life (sadly it didnt made me start working out like a soldier tho)

The gay science
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand

Notes from underground

When I was an adolescent: a collection of Edgar Allan Poe stores/poems. Made me aware of melancholy at maybe too young an age.

In my early 20s: The Brothers Karamazov. Made me think more critically about where morality comes from.

Late 20s: Anna Karenina. Continued moral questioning.

Early 30s: The Sword of Honor trilogy. Problems that face the believer in the modern world, especially acedia.

Current worldview:

The Bible
Liber Null and Psychonaut
Fear and Trembling
World as Will and Representation Volume I

Previous worldview:

Popper Selections
Being and Nothingness
The Rebel
Living in Truth by Vaclav Havel

Previous previous worldview:

Power and Market by Rothbard
The Social Contract by Ardrey
Free to Choose by Friedman

With some bleedover chronologically

>novel to big hurt my little wrist

Silence made me more patient and empathetic

Harry Potter.

It told me never to be afraid of fighting evil.

>Christopher Lasch's True and Only Heaven
I've only read The Culture of Narcissism, how is True and Only Heaven?

epic

>The Qur'an
Fixed me up wholly
>The alchemist
Gave me urge to find a wife, which I did.
>Notes from underground
Fixed my overthinking

Tristram Shandy

Picture of Dorian Gray

Unironically though

>liber null
wtf is this occult bullshit

The Symposium

Interesting. Any idea why?

Shut up

Yeah, depending on how strongly you view "world view". I have to remain open minded when trying to compare historical datas.

Man's Search for Meaning

On the Genealogy of Morals

Lone Wolf and Cub, it's surprisingly deep despite appearances.

Lolita. It made me a more confident man who gets what he wants.

My man

art of happiness

Confucianism is Eastern Slave Morality and needs to be destroyed

>Confucianism is Eastern Slave Morality
you should get some kind of award for how dumb this is

Thus Spake Zarathustra. It gave me the insight that people, and therefore power structures and traditions, are as full of shit as I am.

That's actually a fairly popular opinion

The Apology of Socrates when I was a teenager, it turned me into a shitty ascetist loser, now I'm healing myself by reading Homer and Thucydides nonstop.

Putting yourself as the catcher is something sad you fuck

Literally all of them.

Light thru an Eastern Window helped me convert to Christianity

Tolstoy's Confessions helped me understand my faith better and gave me a clearer understanding of philosophy, (even if it is severely limited)

Mere Christianity helped me understand the basic tenants of the faith better

Pleb detected

Corruption of Champions made me realize that if you do wrong you can't justify yourself, and if you do right you always can; that way you can tell what's wrong and what's right

How I first dipped my toes into biosemiotics. A very profound change.

Now we have a book that is starting to articulate that change that I, and apparently quite a few other biosemiotians have developed.

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Haha

The Nicomachean Ethics

Of course it didn't capture all the change in my world view or it's nuances but it gets close. More importantly it is a foot in the door.
Check out this portion of the review that convinced me to buy this book, I will be reading this asap.

interesting, can you elaborate

Chaos magik©

another wolf in sheeps clothing

Unironically opened my eyes.

literally how?
Never read the book, but the movie pretty much made me wanna to end mine.

The Ego and its Own
The Stranger/The Myth of Sysyphus
I think Leaves of Grass did it a lot as well, but in a very subjective way

Whatever

Most of the works by Koontz. His novels helped me improve myself.

a lot of books influenced me t.bh, but Notes from Underground saved my life

I feel with every new book i read my own world view becomes more clouded and opaque. I don't even think I have one anymore.

A mishmash but all of these:

Divān-e Hāfez
Sonnet 57 by William Shakespeare
David Hume generally
The German Ideology by Karl Marx
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts by Marx
Capital by Marx
On the Jewish Question by Marx
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Literally everything by Thomas Hardy
Poezii de Mihai Eminescu
History and Class Consciousness by Gyorgy Lukacs
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce
Poezii de Lucian Blaga
The Prison Colony by Franz Kafka
Four Archetypes by Carl Jung
Minima Moralia by Theodor Adorno
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
The Dialectic of Sex by Shulamith Firestone
Being and Nothingness by Sartre
Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
Critique of Libertarian Liberalism by Michel Clouscard
Complete Poems - Philip Larkin
Neuromancer by William Gibson
The Drowned World by JG Ballard
Super-Cannes by JG Ballard
Empire of the Sun/The Kindness of Women by JG Ballard
Everything Michel Houellebecq has ever written (including Lanzarote)
Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño
Fanged Noumena by Nick Land

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut jr.

The Myth of Sisyphus

So you're regressing?

Patrician

The Fountainhead

Ulysses

Made me realize how much goes on in my day-to-day life and made me slow the fuck down for a bit and get my shit together.

I recently read just read Saint Augustine confessions and had previously read Brother Karamazov, both made me a bit more religious. Speak, Memory by Nabokov made me think about my past a bit more and try to put them into themes. I know like butterflies a bit more now.

Hi Cliff

this is probably mine, too. I've focused more on bettering myself (mostly through working out) and my relationships with others after reading this.

The bit about working overnight while in Auschwitz and thinking about his wife and the bliss it brought him was sublime

the things they carried

dad pls

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