Books that changed you...

[seobeglobal]

Re: Books that changed you...

Books have not changed me people have.

i totally agree with you.!

[gia powers]

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I feel like a dipshit compared to some of these posters. But here goes, don't laugh...or laugh with me, not AT me

Lord of the Rings
The Sandman
Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing
Superfudge
Freckle Juice
A Wrinkle in Time
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Art of Happiness
Some Greek Mythology book my mom had from her college days
The Atlas (I love looking at maps)

But mainly Lord of the Rings...I didn't even know it was a book until the movie came out,. After seeing the first movie, I had to know what happens so I came across the book and I was hooked.

The Sandman was the first graphic novel I read and it changed my perception of the world. I know, it's basically a comic book, but seriously, it's so good. I've read the series over and over and every time I find something new.

[floridaorange]

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I have a few book snobs in my family and wanted to see which of these they had read before. I was a little suprised to discover that my Dad had read (and recommended to me) at least 25 of them

[scifi pi]

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Dan Milliman - Ways of the Peaceful Warrior
Dan Milliamn - Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

[peloquin]

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I think its the list from this thread.

at least one other person on here isnt retarded

[rubyraks]

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I think its the list from this thread.

Oh, now I get it...impressive list.

[Lorn]

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^^floridaorange...all those books changed you or is that your entire reading list?

I think its the list from this thread.

[Jenks]

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do you keep a laminated copy of that list in your wallet too?

[rubyraks]

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^^floridaorange...all those books changed you or is that your entire reading list?

[res0nat0r]

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^^christ you must be alot smarter than i am

[floridaorange]

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The ones that I wrote.

Titles?



Here is the running list so far, wow!

Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf
Terence Mackenna - Foods of the Gods
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 100 a?os de Soledad
Jeremy Narby - The Cosmic Serpent
Jack Kerouack - On the Road
William Burroughs - The Western Lands
Jose Arguelles - The Mayan Factor
tom brokaw- the greatest generation
dennis smith- report from ground zero
spanking the donkey - matt taibbi
brave new world- huxley.
The Bible
history from the other side- i forgot the authors name- but it was a history book written from the loser's point of view in all major historical wars.
- the metaphysics club (excellent history on the evoultion of pragmatisim and american academia)
- The Quantum Brain
- The Origin of Wealth ( throw traditional Economic Theories to the trash can and open your self to complex adaptive economics, a must read for anyone interested in comprehending the markets).
-Fooled by Randomness ( Do we have control?)
Jane Jacobs: The Death & Life of Great American Cities
Dale Carnegie - How To Stop Worrying & Start Living
Ernest Nightingale - Lead The Field
Women - Charles Bukowski
What the Bleep Do We Know or read stuff like The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
Conversations with God - Neale Donald Walsch
Dan Millman's Peaceful Warrior series
Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan
Max Weber: The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism
Harrison & Huntington: Culture matters, How values shape human progress
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
Moby Dick by Mellville
Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
Story of Civilization by Will Durant
The Bible
Elliot Wave Principle by Frost & Prechter
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Dune by Frank Herbert
Macbeth by Shakespeare
Heaven & Hell by Swedenborg
Great Expectations by Dickens

Doors of perception - Aldous Huxley
Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game and following series
Viven!
Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene
Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences - Edward Tenner
Ender's Game
Lord of the Rings
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Exodus - Leon Uris
Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Rayuela (hopscotch) by Cortazar
100 Years of Solitude - Garcia Marketing.
The Unbearable-by Kundera
The Aleph - Borges
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Flow My Tears The Policeman Said: Philip K Dick
The Sheltering Sky: Paul Bowles
The Colossus of Maroussi: Henry Miller
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Hunter S. Thompson
1984: George Orwell
Journey to the End of the Night: Ferdinane Celine
Collected Works of Antonin Artaud
The Rape of Nanking (the forgotten holocaust of world war II) by Iris Chang
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Persing
The Electric Kool Aide Acid Tests by Tom Wolfe
The Oddessy by Homer
White Noise - Don Delillo
The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
Magister Ludi - Hermann Hesse
The Cornelius Chronicles by Michael Moorcock
George Herbert Mead - Mind, Self, and Society
Herman Hesse Siddhartha
The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
The sane society by Erich Fromm
Marlo Morgan - Mutant Message Down Under
Collected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke(translated works by Stephen Mitchell)
The Catcher in The Rye - J D Salinger
Noam Chomsky - Deterring democracy
Marshall McLuhan - The medium is the message
The diary of Anne Frank
Muhammed Ali Al-Hashimi - The ideal muslim man
"the warrior within" bruce lee
the stranger - albert camus
the metamorphosis - franz kafka
The Tipping Point
Rich Dad Poor Dad
Biography of Edgar Cayce
The Three Pillars of Zen; Teaching Practice and Enlightenment
Reminices of a Stock Operator
The Elegant Universe; by Brian Greene
Missed Fortune 101
Imre Kert?sz-Fatelessness
Primo Levi- Survival in Auschwitz
Albert Camus - The Stranger
Thomas Mann- The Magic Mountain
J.D. Salinger- Catcher in the Rye
Stephen King - IT
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures - by Mary Baker Eddy
Egil's Saga
Once and Future King.
They Caught you Plotting Murder -Andrew Schuab
Osho-life, love, laugh
Reha Powers -Lightworkers Beyond
Barbara Ann Brennan - hands of light
Stephen king - The dark tower and Hearts in Atlantis
1984
Bertrand Russell's - Power
Spencer Wells - Journey of Man
Charles Wheelan - Naked Economics
E=MC2 - Einstein's bio
Essentials of Jung
The Invisible Man- Ralph ellison
Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickinson
"The curious incident of the dog in the night-time" - Mark Haddon
The Dancing Wu-Li Masters by Gary Zukav
A New Model of the Universe by PD Ouspensky
The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
Stranger in a Stange Land - R.A. Heinlein
Caves of Steel : - Isaac Asimon
The Freedom of Morailty ; C Yiannaras
Orthodox Spirituality: Dimitru Staniloae
the prophet - kahlil gibran
zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance - robert persig
many lives, many masters - brian weiss
Salman Rushdie - 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet'
Alain De Buton - 'The Art of Travel'
The Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness - Martha Stout
Because of Romek: A Holocaust Survivor's Memoir by David Faber.
Journey of Souls by Michael Newton PH.D.

[beanzncheez]

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The ones that I wrote.

[unrecogniseduser]

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The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins made me go from being an atheist who didn't care what other people thought to an atheist who wants to explain to people the damage that even moderate religiousness does to our civilisation. Was funny when some Mormons came to my house the other day, I invited them in, listened to them talk about their book a bit, and then said "now you can listen to me talk about my book." They didn't like it much..........

[GreenLantern]

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Because of Romek: A Holocaust Survivor's Memoir by David Faber.
(Mr. Faber came to my high school and told his life story, i immediately bought his book and devoured it.)


Journey of Souls by Michael Newton PH.D.

[Kat]

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The Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness - Martha Stout

Book is one of the 5x7 size and maybe like 150 pages long.
I am a major bookworm, and this was a very hard read for me. Not technical-wise, it's the way she explains the stories of her patients. Very emotional. I needed to take a breather every chapter or so.

interesting. hope it was translated to slo