What books added value to your life?

And yet you can't help but prove/acknowledge that your post is a punchline.
How does that work?

Pic unrelated, I hope? Milton Friedman is based but FtC is literally EXAMPLES: THE BOOK. Read Capitalism and Freedom instead you dolt.

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How to Read a Book

Moneyball, The Stranger and The Road to Serfdom

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Gospel of John.

That's why I think Free to Choose made a better tvshow, then it was just: hey, look at these people being free, look at this example of freedom and how well it works

The stranger fucked me up when I was 15. Not that I'm discrediting the book, it's good, that's just when I read it

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What the fuck did illuminatus add to your life?

OC do not steal

been meaning to check this out. it's about cuckoldry right? Is Pinochet in it?

it's about him and his wife laying around in bed all night with shotguns waiting for the commies to invade.

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My life is valuable as it is.

one word at a time

>The Crooked Timber of Humanity, Isaiah Berlin
>Rationalism in Politics, Michael Oakeshott
>Crime and Punishment
>The Stranger
>On Liberty, JS Mill

As odd as it may be, when I read Blood Meridian I was going through a thought process where I was annoyed at how conflict seemed to be everywhere; people would make jibes at me in the street if they were in groups, I was delving into politics and EVERYONE was hell-bent on being right and giving their relentless opinion to me and others; walking through the town at night as I often did and seeing drunk people abusing each other, fighting and worst of all, having to deal with people who just wanted to antagonize for no reason.

After reading Blood Meridian, and witnessing all the violence and savagery in it, I seemed to be relieved in a way and came to accept that conflict was natural and a lot of the time, it was perpetrated by people for no good reason.

My own experiences throughout life are what I accrue in relation to this. I had always been one to attract unwanted attention, often in the form of being antagonized, at school, in some public places, or in the areas I live (which have always been sort of rough (UK council estates)) and never having been a rough person myself, I can see why now.

I try not to devolve into completely going full 'Conflict is nature and man's way of life!' tier but once my mind flicked to that thought and paying attention for the last few years as I have been doing to the subject, I can't help but notice how much conflict there is in daily life and how often weaker or more timid people pass it by and how those who dish it out are always stronger, either physically or from the position they sit (wealth, physically, maybe even smarter etc,)

How long have people been yapping about world peace and yet where are we now? The same place we were since some Neanderthal way back when wanted to fuck another's shit up.

Maybe it is anecdotal paranoia, from a man who has had many conflicts but it is how I see it.

No it isn't.

That is anecdotal, you see what you pay attention to.
These are by faar the best times to live in, wiht almost no violence comparatively to the rest of history.

Thank you for your response(s, in advance).

Bit surprised that the dark ages have such good records

Moby Dick and The Fountainhead

The removal of Christianity will inevitably spiral the world into another Middle Ages.

>uses a chart that doesn't include post-millennial white genocide deaths

The Bible

The Quran (or Koran, if you prefer)

Meditations

Summa Theologica & Commentary on Aristotle's Politics

Mythology

The Federalist Papers

Foundations of Constructive Analysis (caused me to reevaluate my Platonist mathematical worldview)

The Aeneid

Changed my life. Made me more rational and logical. I gave up all hope of there being a God after reading this.

Start with the Gospels. Then treat the rest with discretion. That's how the Catholic Church conquered the world (before they lost it.)

>Berlin, Mill, Dostoevsky, Camus

Jesus, it's like you are another version of me. Great taste, user.

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The person who recommended me this also tacked on 'The Selfish Gene' by Dawkins at the time. Both great for warding off delusion.

That's a good book user. Sincerely.

It makes me feel less lonely. I always carry it around with me and it's filled with notes.

Ovid's Metamorphoses added a lot of value to my life. I took Latin in college for no real reason until I translated this work. It instilled in me a passion for the antiquities to this day.