The Critique of Pure Reason.
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Incy wincy spider
It's the Myth of Sisyphus for the under-fives.
One must imagine incy, not wincy
DSM-V
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR)
Anything by Douglas Adams, Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, music history textbooks, Samurai Jack slash fiction, public restroom graffiti, HVAC technical manuals, and the comment sections on porn sites.
Iceberg Slim [aka Robert Beck] was widely read in the Black community and almost completely unknown outside of it. He inspired many Black artists, and both Ice-T and Ice Cube named themselves in his honor.
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Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle might not explain it, but could add valuable context.
"They're not rocks Marie!!"
...ok, maybe some of them are, but they're really cool!
Realm of the elderlings, I mess my own life up through anxiety and overthinking, reading about fitz doing it makes me feel better about myself
Gentleman bastards, spurts of false confidence carry me through my days lol
All volumes of the Uncle John’s Bathroom Readers. My brain is mostly just useless trivia.
Killed by a Traffic Engineer by Wes Marshall.
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series and the John Dies at the End series
both 10/10s mixing gut wrenching existentialism and laugh out loud comedy
tbh I probably wouldn't say I'm into comedy writing in general but those two and Terry Pratchett are the only writers to ever make me bust out laughing in response to words on a page
I've lost count of the number of times and number of formats in which i've consumed The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and i've loved it every time.
- The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, by Susan Cain
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer, by Donella H. Meadows and Diana Wright
- Getting to Where You Are, by Steven Harrison
- Journey Without Goal, by Chögyam Trungpa
Gustave Doré- Illustrations for the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Read the Divine Comedy at like 12, and loved it. What I liked the most were the illustrations, they made a profound impact in me; and are probably the first artistic work I came to by myself that truly shaped me as a person.
https://archive.org/details/the-dore-illustrations-for-dantes-divine-comedy-pdfdrive
These are beautiful. They're what I want to draw when I grow up.
Same, still a work in progress
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camut. Absurdism/it philosophically examines whether one should commit suicide.
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Every single comment shown in my profile.
The anarchist-faq will get you most of the way there, and the K-On manga will fill in the gaps.
"Crime and Punishment". Doing something amoral only to find out I have morals.
Brothers Karamazov is way better.
It's all subjective. I really liked that one too but C&P hit me harder.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain, and The Codex Borgia.
I know everything I need to know just from the titles mate
Not as much a book, but the documentary Dominion. If someone can watch that and not understand reasons for going vegan if not choosing to do so themselves, I seriously question their moral compass.
The best part about being vegan is I'll never have to watch that doco lol
Same. I went vegan before watching it. Tried doing so and only made it about 15 min in. So hard to watch.
The Stranger - Albert Camus
My life is so complicated, you'd need an entire "wikipedia-styled" article of me.
If I had one, it'd probably be one of the craziest stories... well like not like any acheivements or anything, but more like depression and trauma. I'm gonna seem so broken that you'd not wanna be friends. People are gonna be like: "oh that's that person, wow" then walk away since nobody want to hang out since nobody want to get afflicted/infected with my sadness.
I mean, I reflect on my past and I visualize the scene in "3rd person" and I look like a scared kitten hiding in the corner, except I'm not a cute kitten, but rather looks like a mini-tiger. That was what I was like in school.
I'm kinda just deciding on leaving an autobiography/journal, in case I kms in the future. I wonder how my parentd would react. Maybe leaving something behind would finally get them to understand what I've been through from my PoV. Maybe they'd live a better life without me being around. Idk.
I look like a scared kitten hiding in the corner, except I'm not a cute kitten, but rather looks like a mini-tiger. That was what I was like in school.
You should write that autobiography. I think you have a way with words.
You can write something for yourself and for other people to understand you through, without the intention of leaving it behind. Leave it alive instead. You can do it and carry on. You can know their reactions instead of wonder, if you decide to show them. And you can work through your experiences through writing. Preferably while being in contact with a support group or therapist, because writing it will for sure drag it up.
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listen to all jethro tull till you can recognize every song and figure out the two bad albums.
Codex Seraphinianus.
Some pages may take two-three reads before understanding fully.
As a kid one of my favourite passages to read was about a girl who saw her twin get ran over by a car and killed. I don't remember anything else about that book... but I would devour anything sad and traumatic and upsetting. I would absorb those emotions and live those lives, and it would be like a daily catharsis to read something horrifying and cry it out.
To scrap the surface: Babel.
The description of what it means to be an expat, away from your culture, cut much deeper than it had reasons to. And it’s a great action/fantasy book
- The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brian
I have PTSD and a dark sense of humor about it.
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