ITT life stuff books helped you with

me too

it was also the beginning of a real political consciousness for me, (though maybe that was just reading in general) that slowly changed me from conservative to libertarian socialist

Steppenwolf helped me learn what was worth worrying about

shaekespeare made me realize i don't know how to read

>libertarian socialist
Sounds like an oxymoron

The bible made me an atheist

I was such a loser in need of a positive role model I copied Socrates.

>I copied Socrates.
What's wrong with that

Nothing

edda made me stop watching porn

Walser taught me not to judge.

La Rouchfoucauld taught me what a selfish narcissist I am

How should I start with Keirkgaard? Either/or is enormous and it's dense af prose. Is there an easier one to start with or should I just jump in?

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>the fedora defense

Siddhartha made me stop being the intensely self-pitying, lovesick teenager that I was. I was dharma pilled about my desires and how they were fucking up my mind.

I need to read this next. I started really gaining interest reading The Dharma Bums, and I'm yearning for more. I have The Buddhist Bible and What the Buddha Taught on order as well.

Should I read Siddhartha first?

I kinda feel like Nietzsche has helped me with my drug addiction - self-overcoming, being cruel to oneself, sublimating the passions, not letting the will to get fucked up rule over my more "rational" drives, etc.

Nietzsche was addicted to morphine and a shitload of other drugs.

He forged his own prescriptions under 'Dr. Nietzsche'

American Psycho made me a better serial killer.

Bretty ironic since Nietzsche was a drug abuser himself.

Yes, it is so good. Siddhartha's meeting with the Buddha was a memorable moment

Catcher in the Rye taught me how to rape my sister.

Plato taught me about the joys of boipusssy.

Well he was a doctor, just not a medical doctor. Hilarious anecdote nonetheless.

Getting a partner put my shit together

Aww :)

Bottom's Dream turned me into a faggot

is this cheap pasta?

Plato made me more aware of what I was doing when I was discussing something.

Jordan Peterson made me speak against PC

1984 was awful though
but I'm a leftsocial too. Nice to see a comrade around.

Evola, then Satre and Camus, made me realise that if there is no Divine or Natural Order then I, and I alone, are the most important thing to me

That and pretty much everything in my life was, is or going to be due to me - can't balme everyone else

Well, the anons here suggested that you should read Plato's Socrates' Dialogs and you should familiarize yourself with Hegel.
But that's for nerds tbqh.

TBK, IJ, The Stranger, Stoner and C&P kicked off my existential crisis and made my depression even worse.

how does C&P make depression worse?
It made me feel content for like 2 weeks after i read it.

Nausea helped me get out of my depression and
Bhagavad-Gita introduced me to deeper spirituality.

what is C&P?

House built on sand senpai, be careful.

>tfw read most of the books/authors listed itt
>tfw perpetually unchanging in a spiral of self destruction

reading=/=understanding

you could read everything in existence and not grow

I found The Lord of the Rings mythos so staggeringly beautiful and tragic it's compelled me to keep living on several occasions.

I understood it all, but none of it resonated with me.

>sublimating the passions
What does this mean and can somebody elaborate on this?

when you want to fuck your best friend's gf but she rejects you, channel that lust into writing edgy aphorisms for example.

Look up "etymology of libertarian". It used to mean (French) anarchist. It has nothing to do with muh welfares.

in simple terms it means overcoming negative impulses by redirecting them into constructive ends. this means first to recognise those negative impulses, and then to allow them to occur but in a controlled manner which leads to betterment.

This was very helpful and I have been thinking about something like this for some time now. Any books you recommend for this?

Crime and punishment

Self-proclaimed Kierk expert here. If you don't want to read philosophy in general, and not even the Socratic dialogues, I'd say start with the essay: "The Present Age". I think if you read Kierkegaard it's best to read philosophy in general as well, especially Plato and Hegel....

But there are books that you can understand without it, such as Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, concept of anxiety (short, so maybe you want to go for that one first) and Concept of Dread.

If you read just Plato, then you can go for Concept of Irony.

TL;DR start w "The present age" which you can find here historyguide.org/europe/present_age.html

and then read Concept of Anxiety.

how?

>Evola
>Sartre

Wow what shit taste in books. Only Camus slightly redeems you.

>Muh no Divinity
Such a meme... Try Kierkegaard on for size...

Reading Finnegan's Wake made me an absolute madman

ah of course. thanks

Everything i've ever read has - to varying extents - formed my perception of the world.

Kierkegaard, Camus and Tolstoy stopped me from killing myself.

these

And António Lobo Antunes thought me me than I can put into words.

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The books I've read has only made a worse person desu

Steppenwolf and Siddhartha made me realise I was looking at life in a dumb way that made me unhappy.

Dostoevsky called me out on some edgier behaviour and helped me understand people better

Malcolm X's Autobiography made me ore socially conscious.

A Brief History of time made me interested in Science.

WTF is a libertarian socialist?

Me too, friend.
Some people here claim that Plato was "obvious" or "boring", but for me, as I was going through somewhat of a crisis at the time, I claim it was life changing.

Raids on the Unspeakable made me a happier person. The works of Ellis in general helped me realise that being rich isn't a worthwhile goal. The works of Sexton made me feel less alone in my illness. The works of Shakespeare, Sophocles, and assorted medieval playwrights showed me that nothing is new.

I never realized how much I let music rule my emotions until I read Epictetus' discourses. Also the book fixed most of my anxiety problems.

Kazantzakis taught me the value of living outside my basement and just letting shit happen instead of trying to control everything

Plato taught me how to overcome bad habits (including depression and lethargy)

Balzac unfucked my awful way of trying to communicate with people and naive vision of the world. Rastignac is a soul brother.

If a book or author doesn't have some kind of deeper relatability to your life I'm not sure why you would read it.