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I was wondering what books you think are essential to have read or read when you're in your adolescence
These can be books about anything, but mostly books which contribute to your personal growth etc
id say the holy books because of their teachings but i think it needs to be read with an open mind
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Dark tower series by Steven King.
Check Harvard's list of classics:
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essentially it doesn't really matter what kind of books young people read, as long as they read.
reading helps the vocabulary immensely, it educates on whatever topic but most importantly it gives people angles into thought processes from other people.
this is something unique to books and it opens up the mind and makes it more flexible in the real world.
obviously the more one reads....
the harvard list is for advanced readers. youngsters will most likely be putt off of reading when trying to skip amateur levels so to say.
it's like porn, nobody starts with bestiality and scat but we all end up the there anyways. but the youngsters are still shocked and awed by regular softporn. as it should be.
i hope this helped.
I'd add major philosophy works to the list - Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, St. Thomas, Descartes, Kant, Bacon, Hegel, Marx, Sartre, etc. And Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder, it sums up european philosophy very neatly. Oh, and books by C. G. Jung (Man and his symbols, the Red Book, Mysterium Coniunctionis, Psychology and Alchemy, Aeon).
reading is a waste of life you die at the end the best thing to do is drink alcohol
>reading is a waste of life you die at the end the best thing to do is drink alcohol
Why not do both and enjoy the best of both worlds? People live one life, readers live many.
Dostoevsky "The Brothers Karamazov", "Crime and Punishment", "Notes from Underground"
prometheus rising
quantum psychology
both Robert Anton Wilson
understanding how you are, why you are and how you got there.
The Green Man
by Kingsley Amis
Mein Kampf, obviously
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.
Post Office by Charles Bukowski.
remember the past, get unabridged version
Devil in the White City. You’ll learn a bunch of random interesting shit
The remarque trilogy. Specifically the three comrades changed me
The Qur'an
fairy tales of a medieval pedo, fuckottahere
You forgot the book of Mormon. If you are going to read a bunch of make believe garbage you might as well throw that one in there.
H.P Lovecraft (anything he has written) Jack London (also anything by him) Stephen hawking brief history of time, Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan) Jack Vance demon prince series, Edgar Rice Burroughs creator of the John carter of mars series and Tarzan series.
I dont know where I'd be without The Kybalion. Best philosophy out there. Made me believe in something greater than myself.
Read everything and with time your preferences will settle. Every book adds a bit to the personal growth.
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At the moment Last temptation by Nikos Kazatsakhi and East Of Eden are on my table /reader.
Siddharta
can confirm, I've read Prometheus Rising, and it presents an excellent model on the development of the human psyche back through the eons of time. Basically, it's a guide on how to ascend from mere unconscious ape-life, to enlightened mystic sci-fi superhuman life.
Can't comment on quantum psychology, haven't read it yet.