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Books that changed your life
quietnow:
everything by bret easton-ellis.
everything by francesca lia block.
and the stranger, by camus.
Ghostwriter:
I finished Catch-22, and yeah...
Super awesome-awesome.
Spike:
Brave New World-Aldous Huxley. It's hard to pinpoint exactly how this book has affected me but I know it has.
Existentialism and human emotions-Sartre. This is the book/ piece of writing that first introduced me to the concept of existentialism. Since then I've wanted to find his other works. I've adopted quite a few of his ideas and tried to incorporate them into my own life.
IntermittentEvil:
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. It took me a very long time to finish, but when I finally got through it, it turned a lot of ideas I'd had on their heads, and basically just refocused my thoughts on what I'd suspected was the root of it in the first place. But it's the first book to really do that, to actually show the consequences of these things which seem to have become a part of our modern-day society, and literature, for that matter.
A lot of Kafka's short stories also affected me, but it's hard for me to say how now. Honestly, every book I read does this, but these are ones that were particularly strong.
Forgot: Ishmael. I read this in high school and it blew my mind. It is perhaps my "pre" and "post" marker in reading. And I could mention Haruki Murakami's Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, but its main effect was confusing me as to how it affected me...
ramenXnoodles:
Fight Club was kind of lifechanging in a way.
I don't know in what kind of way though. It just kind of made me feel like not everything was material possessions.
Oh, and it made me want to start a fight club.
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