ITT: Books that have changed your life

ITT: Books that have changed your life

There are many good books, but definitely not this piece of shit.

what do you say to this book?

Not an argument

It's considered a literary master piece, stop being such an edgelord.

Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham Clinton

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Never heard of it or read it. Did it change your life user?

The Rational Male

;___;7

Never let me go.

Also, some essays by rothbard.

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never read it. from what i heard of it, its well known in political philosophy, but still the author takes on a minority position in the field.

communist manifesto and das kapital. Currently reading atlas shrugged though.

Underrated book.

Too bad her dad edited the shit out of i and added entries himself. The diary is a fraud because it's been altered.

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>denounces communism
>books main characters and best and brightest create a secret communist utopia

I loled.

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Orwell was a socialist.

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Then why'd he write books about why socialism is shit
>inb4 orwell was a "real socialist"

What books are Sup Forums must haves ? Aside from Mein Kampf

this
the admiration for trotsky is painfully obvious. the underlying message is the typical "real socialism hasnt been tried" nonsense

EDGY TWELVIE
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I liked it.

Filthy commie

They were all very specific critics of stalin. Notice how everything was fine before snowball got kicked out.

Really, really good, especially if you like Political Science and was left dissatisfied after reading Rawls' works.

For me it's pic related. Really great book that served as an introduction to Jünger's later works, which are the ultimate ironpill.

Illiterate. Orwell was a complex man who was a militant Trotskyite at one point, and was consistently anti-Stalinist.

praise allah

Edgemaster elite, is that you?

I fucking love the shit out of that book, and pretty much the entire series.

>trotskyite
>commie
pick 2 you fucking retard

I found "Der Friede" really weird, "Über die Linie" really good.. Looking forward for more.

She wrote a lot of very personal things in her journal, but yeah. An unadulterated version would be more acceptable.

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>Then I went to India where I met [name of Indian diplomat], who was very welcoming and intelligent.
>After that, we traveled to Germany, where [German diplomat] greeted me and we discussed many difficult issues.
>When I reached Mozambique, Mr. [Mozambiquian diplomat] was friendly and considerate and we discussed many things. Mozambique has a great future.
>Then I traveled to Argentina and [Argentinian diplomat] hosted a lovely dinner for me and my entourage. Argentina has a great future.

I honestly do little more than read books in my free time and this was one of the most uninteresting and disingenuous books I've ever read.

He believe in societal order, but wanted to subvert absolutism and SJW.

Faust, The Demon in Democracy, Brave New World and Lolita, to name a few.

He fought with the anarcho communists in Ukraine.

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The Ego and its Own

Have got admit, Atlas Shrugged changed my life

In the way that it encouraged me to get into politics in general, so now I've read loads of fiction and non-fiction about capitalism and socialism

Rand motivates you to work hard as well and hate welfare state, with valid reasons

BNW is the bomb. How's Lolita? I've seen the movie and liked it

>with valid reasons
kek

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Praise KEK
Shadilay

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Amongst the best worded pieces I've read (even, in my case, the translation). Starts of following the pedo throughout his life, from youth. Following a person's gradual descent into madness or wrongly directed zeal is a favourite theme of mine, and in the sense of pedophilia is incredibly well presented. Expect to start out sympathetic towards a man who knows fully well he can never live out his fantasies, and grow gradually more disgusted by him, as well as most other characters surrounding him.

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>so now I've read loads of fiction and non-fiction about capitalism and socialism

What did these books teach you? What are you now?

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (in Spanish: Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina) is a book written by Uruguayan journalist, writer and poet Eduardo Galeano, published in 1971. It has sold over a million copies and been translated into over a dozen languages, and has been included in university courses "ranging from history and anthropology to economics and geography."

In the book Galeano analyzes the history of Latin America as a whole, from the time period of the European settlement of the New World to contemporary Latin America, describing the effects of European and later United States economic exploitation and political dominance over the region.

The Library Journal review stated, "Well written and passionately stated, this is an intellectually honest and valuable study."

It enlightens you on both the pillage of LatAm and the power battles in Europe that caused it.

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Isn't that the book that's almost as thick as a tire and has like a 100 page speech by one their characters? Who the fuck would read that?

Even if you like Ayn Rand's philosophy, be free to admit she was a horrid writer.

Why blow it up that big if the quality's so shit?

>Amongst the best worded pieces I've read

This. The way Nabokov plays with language in that novel blows me away. I must have read it 4 or 5 times, and I still find new layers of wordplay every time. I've heard it's a love story between Nabokov and English. That sounds accurate to me.

The Jeremy Irons audiobook version is easily in the top 5 audiobooks I've ever heard. He nails the cadence. Absolutely perfect narrator.

This, and only this.

Also if you know anything about fractals and fractals in economy, you can easily see the roots of the power structures that shape the inequalities all over the world.
So the "freedom" speech is flawed from its beginning. It's not only the capital markets but the whole society and economy that behaves and grows like a fractal. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, and that Raynd cunt aims to justify domination over the poor.

I haven't read Lolita, though I've been planning too.
Faust is a great pick, Goethe is one of my favorite writers and poets especially since I've been learning German.

But I'm sure it absolves all the mestizos right?

I mean it was our dictator against their dictator. But why was there a dictator in the first place? There are hard questions for the people's of South Americs too

It's sometimes hard to know if it was for the best, but it certainly has been a journey.

thanks, english is not my 1st language so I don't know if I'll enjoy the subtleties but I'll try, hoping I don't become what I read

checked and praised

totally underrated

Good book user.

Definitely a significant part of the reason I went into the Army.

Also call me a faggot but Nietzsche changed my life for sure.

The past is the past, as you say. The problem is that TODAY we talk about freedom like saints and still enslave millions everyday.
America was refounded a couple centuries ago but... how? into what?
This is a book about future and action, not judgement of past regimes.

Still anti-communism and anti-socialism, because I still want to keep the money that I earn, obviously

Only acceptable answer.

>anti-socialism, because I still want to keep the money that I earn
That's illogical, do u even jew

Das Kapital,
pic unrelated

Don't be ashamed of your heritage.

The Killing Joke (comic book) by Alan Moore and Brain Bolland - made me a comic book fan what I was a wee lad (it was publish in Poland without the "mature readers" sticker so my young mind could be warped by Bolland beautiful drawings, Alan Moore scritpt, and Joker paralysing Barbara Gordon and making pictures of her naked body)

Miecz przeznaczenia/Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski. Made me a fantasy/witcher fan. It was looong before anyone thought about making a Witcher computer game

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - made me a Philip K. Dick/cyberpunk fan forever. Empathy is what makes us human.

L’Étranger/The Stranger by Albert Camus - made me confront existentialism and the absurdity of human condition

The Brothers Karamazov - after Dostoyevsky modern literature feels so simple... a genius...

Atomised/The Elementary Particles/Les Particules élémentaires by Michel Houellebecq. Described everything wrong with the modern world and resonating strongly with me. My favourite living author.

Stalingrad by Antony Beevor. Made me fall in love with history and WW2 again (I was a history buff in primary school, still love Napoleonic era).

because the book was British propaganda, and the movie was CIA propaganda.

He didn't write it as some great work of art, he wrote it just to push propaganda because he was paid to do it

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What's the edge thing all about with Rand?

Sorry but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have voted for Trump if I hadn't read Atlas Shrugged during this election cycle. I was a moderate Berniebro until I read it, and I voted for Obama in 2012. I see both as huge mistakes now.

I really have never seen a good argument against her philosophy.

Work is not voluntary. You work or starve.

he said "a good argument"

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is fantastic. Dick's writing is a thing of beauty.

>I really have never seen a good argument against her philosophy

Crack the first few pages of Das Kapital. You don't have to be a Marxist to accept that there are valid criticisms of capitalism.

NEETs don't understand this. They take everything for granted.

The problem inherent in any book or plan of action regarding the building of a future society is the fact that different tribes have differing levels of abilities.

How can we can around that fact while remaking humane and logical to all parties involved?

If Atlas shrugged changed your liife, you are truly autistic in the first place.

The culture of critique? I'm reading it and it seems well written and reasonable

Yes fucking yes, Red fuckin wall... holy shit were those books glorious to read. Fuck the rats and owls man

You haven't read it. Argument not valid.

Valis is also great

Is that the work you'd recommend after reading Do Androids...? I've heard Man in the High Castle is great too, not sure what to go to next.

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Really messed with the way I perceive everything

growth of the soil by knud hamsun and joyce's ulysses

Ok I'll take a look at it.

>>Then I traveled to Argentina and [Argentinian diplomat] hosted a lovely dinner for me and my entourage. Argentina has a great future.

Bullshit

Oh, I thought you've read more than Do Androids... In that case my friend I recommend The Man in the High Castle, Ubik and Through A Scanner Darkly, leave Valis for later, it's more autobiographical and metaphysical than the rest, it's also one of the last books Dick wrote. Also check out his short story collections, lots of gems there.