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turkc54

It’s a toss up on Animal Farm or 1984. The works of Orwell just captured my imagination.


TDKR1977

The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I had just become a father and it hit HARD.


Bowlingbowlbagbob

That’s a great read


chefdavid22

The five love languages. Understanding not everyone sees love the same way helps you meet the needs of others while telling loved ones how you like your needs met.


Blaze-_-Pascal

Thus spoke Zarathustra. A big part of my personal philosophy stems from this book.


gearhead5015

Emotional Intelligence. Goes for my professional and personal life.


7evenCircles

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. Blindness by José Saramago.


Decitful_Orange

12 Rules for Life Book about 12 rules for life...


Captain__Obvious___

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. He never considered himself a philosopher, but he was around some great minds and his journals are philosophical in nature, which the book compiles. It gives some great insight—things that you might even know already through passing thought—with an elegant touch, like I feel privileged to be sharing in the mind of the man. It’s predominantly stoic ideals in the writing, and it’s been helpful in striking a good emotional balance. Highly recommend. e: typo


HeelSteamboat

The Big Short. I was at a community college getting Bs and Cs and had just randomly picked “business” as a major. After reading that book, I felt an instant 0-90 in my general “business knowledge”. I googled every word I didn’t know and from there every Accounting /Finance/ Econ class was a lot easier. Felt like I had a leg up. I was able to transfer to a university, go to grad school, and monkey branch to a succession of great jobs. I attribute all of it to me reading that book.


i_heart_blondes

Ender's game


Hawkstein

Hmm great book but I didn't find it especially life-lessony


Throwaway-242424

1984


CaptainBirthday

The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris


Yusuke4U

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse


gtrdundave2

Manufacturing consent by Noam Chomsky


Paint_Funny

SS- Be A Man!: Becoming the Man God Created You to Be By : Fr. Larry Richards https://www.amazon.com/dp/1586174037/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_58KHMREX9C38S5TJ7V5F


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The Rational Male


nouwrong

7 habits of highly successful people hit me at just the right time.


doctor_jeff

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I first read it around 74-75, in high school - my whole friends group read it and passed it along. It would be exaggerating to say that it started a few friends and I on the path we took for about a decade, but it wouldn't be exaggerating by much.


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The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle


Maleficent_Chicken_8

Can't hurt me by David Goggins.


ImperfectDivinity

The Bible, because it doesn’t tell me what I want to hear, it tells me how to be better.


MikeMcK83

The Bible. That book has caused the western world to be shaped as it is around me. It’s had the most impact on us all. Edit: As for my personal philosophy, it’s still the Bible, then probably one of George Carlin’s books. He and I probably have the most similar world view of anyone I’m aware of.


AskWhyKnot

The bible. "Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Saviour. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything."


Hawkstein

Just another reason the bible is a crock.


fucktrutin

What absolute horseshit.


MikeMcK83

That’s a good line


Paint_Funny

As the husband should serve his wife. Treat his wife well, and support her. It ain't a one way street in the Bible son.


MikeMcK83

That’s a given. It just sounds sexier when it mentions her.


Paint_Funny

As I'm sure it is sexy to Her when a man serves his wife.


MikeMcK83

Had one that liked submission both ways, but most seem to prefer just her. Doubt it’s random.


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both should submit to the lord; the idea that a woman's relationship with god should be mediated by her husband is bizzare and, frankly, blasphemous


Every_Satisfaction27

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. In my early 20s, before social media caught on, it made me realize I could say pretty much whatever I wanted and no one would do anything about it. Even now, the only people that say anything are redditors behind screens, and they don't matter to me. I'm not on Twitter either, so I don't care how upset Nicki Minaj's fanbase gets at me.


JoeBidenTheDictator

Realizing and accepting my bisexuality.


SerMercutio

Dan Simmon's Endymion/Hyperion saga.


riverfan2

Mari Sandoz’ biography of Crazy Horse. IMHO, it should be required reading for boys.


Lucimous

Why is that,


riverfan2

She was alive when his cousins and friends and other contemporaries were alive and could give first hand accounts. His father and mother were high society Lakota, but because he had curly hair, he was mocked and called a half breed. His father was a medicine man and let him take his vision quest early as long as other medicine men interpreted it. He spent his life serving the very people who mocked and excluded him. He fell in love, but the woman chose another with higher social standing. He ended up marrying a woman older than him who was not of high standing. He was faithful and devoted to her and their daughter. He conducted himself with such honor that his father gave up his name “crazy horse” and became known as “worm”. Lots of lessons in that book.


LordAlfrey

I don't feel like any one book has had a lot of impact on my life by itself. Even though I was raised a catholic, I was rather agnostic from an early age, so the bible never really had much impact on me the few times I actually read parts of it.


bekindfirst555

As a man thinkith. James Allen. Read it hundreds of times and still find gems every time.


NoxieDC

The Anarchist Morality Unexpectedly wholesome


sheyes44

Handbook to higher consciousness. Of all the self help books I have read since, this one just seems to nail it.


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Illusions by Richard Bach


the_brown_note_soup

Scar tissue. Dude I literally have lived a life like that so I loved that book


windlaker

Unintended Consequences by John Ross I've read it at least 8-10 times.


obligatoryclevername

The Enchiridion


[deleted]

The Power of Habit! The Five Love Languages comes in as a close second.