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I Want to Know What Books Changed Your Life

Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Carnegie
Think and Grow Rich - Hill
The Fountainhead - Rand
Atlas Shrugged - Rand
Animal Farm - Orwell
1984 - Orwell
(actually all Orwell books)
The Stranger - Camus
The Plague - Camus
Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
The Heart of Darkness - Conrad
The Denial of Death - Becker
The Art of Happiness - Dalai Lama
The Depression Cure - Ilardi
The Power of Now - Tolle
Wuthering Heights - Bronte
Lord of the Rings (entire collection) - Tolkien
Ethics - Aristotle
Portrait of Dorian Gray - Wilde

A lot more....let me think of them.

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Jm31xxx · 41-45, M

Rand is such a bad writer (leaving aside her political theory) that I actually feel for her

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okaybut · 56-60, M

@Jm31xxx I adore Orwell (and BF Skinner) and in reading his books I learned a great deal about the Left and to appreciate some of its finer points. I lump Rand in with Nietzsche because of her ability to clearly outline the notion of self-reliance.

Jm31xxx · 41-45, M

Okay I get your point. But my understanding of Nietzsche (and I could be way off), is that that there is also a strong vein of disinterest. For him, there is no winning, no populist notions of 'success' and he doesn't seem to celebrate the virtues of capitalism.

I could be way off though. I like Nietzsches writing because it seems so evocative in a poetic sense (at least in the English translations) and a big part of his message might be escaping me.

okaybut · 56-60, M

@Jm31xxx Definitely that is one aspect of his writings for me. And in that aspect he would almost be the opposite of Rand. But his notion of the Overman fits well with Rand's characters. In reading both (and even Dostoevsky notion of superman) I gained insights into the self-will.

Jentlemen · 46-50, M

The Black Obelisk
by Erich Maria Remarque
A Hunter's Sketches
by Ivan Turgenev
everything by Guy de Maupassant
most of Shakespeare
Zija Dizdarević- Prosanjane Jeseni
Derviš Sušić - Uhode
Ivo Andrić - Travnička hronika

etc
edit. The Heart of Darkness ofc

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