Books that changed your life?
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- scarabin9
- Well I am just shocked. (sarcasm) :PGM278
- Was going to post be here nowjaylarson
- another book I've been seeing everywhere constantly (reticular activating, likely) is the second one down. ...good?notype
- Be here now is a classic. Nice.sea_sea
- i love that book; probably given out six copies to friends so far. cheap, too http://tinyurl.com/y…scarabin
- can't see your tinyurl.notype
- +1 T.A.Z.oey
- Satanic bible. Of course. Lol
Wouldn't expect anything else.pango - it's just a link to "be here now" on amazon. $11. link won't even fit here hahascarabin
- Thanks for the copy!pinkfloyd
- That Temporary Autonomous Zone book is very interesting and prescient...unfortun... the author Peter Wilson turned out to be a pedo :/yuekit
- no? a pedo?oey
- Yeah search Hakim Bey or Peter Lamborn Wilson (his real name).yuekit
- Love be here now. Special book ..set
- that's nice set, be gone nowpinkfloyd
- Be Here Now ordered thanks. Went under my radar. Is it anything like "Zen and the art of..." ?fadein11
- I had read lots about him over the years but incredibly I never stumbled on that issue at all neither did i ever checked for him in wikipedia...LOL!oey
- i have more books from him, I actually recommended TAZ to a friend...fuck! I guess I didn't understand that part...oey
- it really feels awkward right now...I really like his books.oey
- if you judged every man's works by his kinks there'd not be much "valid" stuff left, i imagine. none of his writings support pedophilia ¯\_(ツ)_/¯scarabin
- (at least not in that book)scarabin
- exactly scar I know. also not in the pirate utopias for example.oey
- just came in the mail. sshoot, it's not AT ALL what I thought it was. Did I get the right version? these pages in the middle? https://i2.wp.com/bn…notype
- ^ http://bnzr.vot.pl/w…notype
- Lol yup.sea_sea
- wordssssss4
- I was going to purchase this yesterday! Nice to see it here. I wasn't convinced, but what'd you like about it?notype
- teaches disciplineuan
- Yes the discipline aspect. Also it was nice to hear someones perspective on running - parts of which I share. Great writer too.wordssssss
- thanks. i'll pick it up. reading so much lately though. the cover that i saw DID NOT look like that.notype
- Yeah the cover I have is different and looks like it was designed in 1997.wordssssss
- black and white landscape with red sun, was the cover in mineuan
- If you’ve ever read As a man thinketh — finding it is so similar.notype
- It’s gooooooooooood!!notype
- exador11
- ok. total junk mystical new age stuff here. but what the hell. everytime i read it, i find it makes me feel good about life.exador1
- i read this in my early 20's, i dug it at the time, i also thought it was a true story lolLMFAO
- after reading the first 3 books, i become vegetarian. for no real good reason at all. now i have 4-5 good reasons to be a vege. ahh to be impressionablejaylarson
- good life lessons that I still use like not bullshitting your kids._niko
- ^ yeah. I'm a practicing occultist (queue abuse) and fucking hate the new age but that lesson about kids really has helped memugwart
- fadein112
Ha I made this thread.
Scoff at these if you like but two of the best books you will read on the phenomenon.
Both books treat the subject intelligently with zero tinfoil hat nonsense, just looking for answers and/or raising questions.
Highly recommended.These did change my life in that they made me realise there was way more to this stuff than first meets the eye.
- And I posted the wrong image. A.D. is great but this one is better:
https://images-eu.ss…fadein11 - david foster wallace (in the original post) is awesome.plash
- i love it.notype
- think I'll have to check these out...exador1
- And I posted the wrong image. A.D. is great but this one is better:
- face_melter3
The book I have probably read the most over the past 25+ years or so and the one that has had the greatest effect on my outlook on life. The Post Office, as with life, is a machine so large it can't be seen and exists purely to break and slowly grind people into sand. And it is your duty, as a human being, to fuck with it in as many exciting and inventive ways as possible. The novel that taught me, more than any other, that no matter what happens, it doesn't matter - any of it - and no fucking bastard can tell you otherwise. The Earth will still turn and the sun will still rise.
A book about insects, fucking, wild rent boys, the absolute and pure benefits of a serious *serious* drug dependency, the pursuit of artistic endeavour, international politics, and more fucking. A book that makes no sense yet perfect sense at the same time. It throws so much incredible imagery at you on every page it is, for me, without equal in terms of a reading experience.
- notype4
Holidays are coming up kind of soon. Hitting me hard where I was this time last year. In a far better place today.
A friend of mine years ago said, “there’ll come a time where you will not be thinking of when the last time you had a drink was”, didn’t believe that could ever be true. Thank to “This Naked Mind”.
The days are now too short to get done all of the things I desire :)
- formed0
- My wife's reading the power on now. Have any of these helped you in any quantifiable way?_niko
- +1 for tollejaylarson
- I get so cynical, like that book from Napoleon hill and the like. I always assume the big reveal is write a book about getting rich and make millions_niko
- _niko the first, I can say, is an amazing read.notype
- that book from hill was flipping boring.neverscared
- My folks used to run a bookshop and every one of these was a best seller, I particularly remember people raving about Tolle.BuddhaHat
- sem5
- Krassy2
- Pt 1: http://cardhouse.com…
Pt 2:
http://cardhouse.com…GM278 - ^ TLDRKrassy
- ^^ also, TTS;CR (Type Too Small; Couldn't Read)Krassy
- hahaha TLDR - it's a whole book compressed into a two page cartoon. hahahaGM278
- Pt 1: http://cardhouse.com…
- Continuity2
- Got neuromancer in the queuenotype
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- not a book, ...but changed my life.notype
- futurefood1
- seeing some lovely titles in here, great threadfuturefood
- Loved this bookcanoe
- exador10
- 1st read it when I was 15...totally blew my mind. great story.exador1
- love this bookplash
- I read this when I was probably 9-10 years old. Left a deep impression. Especially the shower scene where he bashes a kids nose up into his brain and kills him.monospaced