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what is everybody's life changing book?

peacocoaNMOpeacocoaNMO Posts: 99
edited February 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
fiction or non. personally, i can't think of any off the top of my head but i would like to read one so i thought i would ask.
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  • TrixieCatTrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    A major turning point for me came after reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Pirsig.
    Awesome, awesome, awesome
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • RygarRygar Posts: 8,685
    Garfield at Large!
  • markymark550markymark550 Posts: 5,154
    Where's Waldo








    Seriously though....Siddhartha by Herman Hesse could be that type of book for you...
  • smarcheesmarchee Posts: 14,539
    Green Eggs and Ham

    was my first book, laid down the path for discovering and appreciating that which is odd
    1998 ~ Barrie
    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
    2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
    2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
    2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • in_hiding79in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    "Are you there God, it's me Margaret"!

    Seriously, it got me through puberty..:)
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • ajedigeckoajedigecko Posts: 2,430
    tell it to the mafia
    live and let live...unless it violates the pearligious doctrine.
  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Under the Banner of Heaven...although it didn't actually change my "life" so much as it began my fascination with the Mormon church and FLDS cults.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • releaselaurenreleaselauren Posts: 384
    "The Four Agreements" by Miguel Ruiz and several of his other books.

    Everyone on this planet should read this book.
    "you shall be released" ~ EV
  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    AmentsChick wrote:
    Under the Banner of Heaven...although it didn't actually change my "life" so much as it began my fascination with the Mormon church and FLDS cults.
    I will paraphrase that with my own answer

    into thin air... although it didn't actually change my life so much as it began my fascination with extreme mountain climbing and polar exploration :D
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • Ms. HaikuMs. Haiku Posts: 7,265
    First was Frog and Toad are Friends. Even though I couldn't understand the words it seemed to remind me of me and my twin (my twin was 2 inches taller at that point.)

    Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels

    I realized then if someone recommends a book that is good, keep asking them for recommendations. If someone recommends a book that is bad (on the first try) don't ask them for more recommendations.

    The person who recommended this book opened the door to incredible writing further down the road. I wish I still kept in touch with her.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • nfanelnfanel Posts: 2,558
    hmm, it's sad that i can't think of any 'life-changing' books considering how much i love to read. the nancy drew and little house on the prairie series are the first books i remember being really excited about...and made me LOVE reading.

    oh, and 'who's a pest'...i freaking loved that book as a kid. it's the first one i read by myself and would walk around reading it to my brothers, sister, mom, dad, whoever would listen. so i was, probably, in fact, the pest. :)
  • jeffbrjeffbr Posts: 7,177
    Atlas Shrugged
    "I'll use the magic word - let's just shut the fuck up, please." EV, 04/13/08
  • jamie ukjamie uk Posts: 3,812
    Razzle year book 1983 :o
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • Steve DunneSteve Dunne Posts: 4,965
    i don't read books.
    I love to turn you on
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    mines was "Here's how to change your life: or your money back" by Victor Kiam.


    old fucker was right!!! and smooooooooth to the touch an' all
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    I will paraphrase that with my own answer

    into thin air... although it didn't actually change my life so much as it began my fascination with extreme mountain climbing and polar exploration :D

    Have you read Krakauer's Eiger Dreams?? It's a collection of stories from his climbs...interesting stuff...and I don't rock climb..and I never will.

    Basically, I think ANYTHING Krakauer writes about is interesting...or he makes it so.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 16,925
    No One Here Gets Out Alive
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • covered in blisscovered in bliss Posts: 1,332
    http://books.google.com/books?id=Sck8zqQYwugC&dq=amazon+it+will+never+happen+to+me&sa=X&oi=print&ct=book-ref-page-link&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail&hl=en

    It's not only about alcoholism but dysfunction/addiction in general.

    A fascinating read.
  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    AmentsChick wrote:
    Have you read Krakauer's Eiger Dreams?? It's a collection of stories from his climbs...interesting stuff...and I don't rock climb..and I never will.

    Basically, I think ANYTHING Krakauer writes about is interesting...or he makes it so.
    I haven't read Eigur Dreams... and into thin air wasn't even anywhere near as good as some of the books I've read SINCE reading it. Touching the Void by Joe Simpson is simply an amazing book.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    'Tropic Of Capricorn' by Henry Miller, along with....

    'Journey to Ixtlan' by Carlos Castaneda, 'Manson in His Own Words', and 'The Dice Man', by Luke Rhinehardt.
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    Penthouse, February 1986 US edition
  • SpunkieSpunkie Posts: 6,676
    The Cookie Monster's, "The Monster at the End of the Book"
    or
    "Big Bird's Busy Day." hehe "We like to dig."
  • TrixieCatTrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    jeffbr wrote:
    Atlas Shrugged
    I still haven't read that. I need to get around to it because I really loved The Fountainhead.
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    I would say Eat Pray Love was pretty damn inspirational as well.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • nfanelnfanel Posts: 2,558
    AmentsChick wrote:
    I would say Eat Pray Love was pretty damn inspirational as well.
    can you believe i'm STILL reading that? i don't know, i lost interest after italy. lol. i can relate to the eating, but i guess not the meditation....haha.
  • AllIAmAllIAm Posts: 1,309
    Chuck Palahniuk changed my life..
  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    nfanel wrote:
    can you believe i'm STILL reading that? i don't know, i lost interest after italy. lol. i can relate to the eating, but i guess not the meditation....haha.

    Oh, trust me...I know! The India part was SOOOOOOOOO boring. But, Indonesia is GREAT! Seriously! It's badass. I actually liked it better than Italy.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • nfanelnfanel Posts: 2,558
    AmentsChick wrote:
    Oh, trust me...I know! The India part was SOOOOOOOOO boring. But, Indonesia is GREAT! Seriously! It's badass. I actually liked it better than Italy.
    i'm into that now and you're right...it has picked up again. i'm looking forward to getting back to it and finishing it.
    and while i said i'm having a tough time getting through it, there are a whole bunch of pages that i bookmarked to go back and copy the quotes out of when i'm done. i can't think of a book that's made me do that in forever.
  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    nfanel wrote:
    i'm into that now and you're right...it has picked up again. i'm looking forward to getting back to it and finishing it.
    and while i said i'm having a tough time getting through it, there are a whole bunch of pages that i bookmarked to go back and copy the quotes out of when i'm done. i can't think of a book that's made me do that in forever.

    OH MY GOD! I did the SAME THING!!!!!!!!!!!
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • Foxy MopFoxy Mop Posts: 2,823
    Hope for the Flowers
    by Trina Paulus

    One of my best friends gave me this book and it was shockingly simple. I still read it when I need reminding and have given this book to at least 8 other people so far, who have consequently passed it on to others...

    http://www.amazon.com/Hope-Flowers-Trina-Paulus/dp/0809182491/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202412215&sr=8-1

    Buy it, read it.. you'll be glad you did :)
    ☆ Wishlist Foundation ☆

    This is my kind of love...
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