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books that changed your life
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what books have you rread that changed the way you saw the world?

here's some i love:

:grin:luke rheingold - the dice man
:grin:j r r tolkien - the lord of the rings
:grin:lonely planet - guide to southeast asia (my first backpacking bible, 12 years ago!)
:grin:richard bandler - using your brain for a change (NLP)
:grin:john steinbeck - the grapes of wrath

got some to recommend? 


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott]
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Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Musrhooms, Russia and History by R. Gordon and TIna Wasson.
Harvard Botanical Museum Leaflets, atrticles by Schultes, and andrew Weil,
Marrigae of the Sun and the Moon, by Andrew Weil.
Sir WIlfred of Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott.
Poems by Robert Service, Kipling and
Henry Fieldings Tom Jones.

The Declaration of Independence by many.

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott]
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Terence Mckenna - Food Of The Gods  :smile:

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott] * 1
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Bury my heart at wounded Knee- Dee Brown

Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions- John Fire Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes





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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott]
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that book about sneeches taught me a lot way back in like 1st grade


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In addition: SHPONGLE

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott]
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Here is a short list;

Food of the Gods- Terence McKenna (right on Effed!)
Storming Heaven- Jay Stevens
Lord of the Flies- William Golding
The Abolition of Man- C.S. Lewis
Danse Macabre- Stephen King
Anthem- Ayn Rand
Watership Down- Richard Adams
Angry Candy- Harlan Ellison
The Weir and other Plays- Conor McPherson
Four Quartets- T.S. Eliot
The People, Yes- Carl Sandburg
The Clam-Plate Orgy- Wilson Bryan Key



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"I hate having to pick between the lesser of two evils. But I'm glad Obama was elected. McCain was another war monger. I'd rather deal with our country going into debt than trying to take on afghanistan...oh wait FUCK!" - Fungus_tao

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott]
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Horton Hears a Who - by Dr Seuss
The World Book Encyclopedia - by Various Authors
Why I Am Not a Christian - by Bertrand Russell
On Liberty - by John Stuart Mill
The Seven Mysteries of Life - by Guy Murchie
For The New Intellectual - by Ayn Rand
The Prodigy (The Story of William James Sidis, who had an I.Q.estimated at 250-300) - by Amy Wallace
Forgotten Founders - by Bruce E. Johansen
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - by Henry David Thoreau
Tao Te Ching - by Lao Tsu (translation by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English)
Economics in One Lesson - by Henry Hazlitt
The Goal - by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
Cosmic Trigger (Final Secret of the Illuminati) - by Robert Anton Wilson


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To call humans 'rational beings' does injustice to the term, 'rational.'  Humans are capable of rational thought, but it is not their essence.  Humans are animals, beasts with complex brains.  Humans, more often than not, utilize their cerebrum to rationalize what their primal instincts, their preconceived notions, and their emotional desires have presented as goals - humans are rationalizing beings.

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: Evolving]
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Quote:
Tao Te Ching - by Lao Tsu (translation by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English)


I have this too - the one with all the beautiful photographs? It is truly a work of genius, good call.


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott]
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The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot. This was the first book I read that pertained to psychedelia, and at the time I was a staunch enemy of drugs and drug culture.


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: chunder]
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The Holographic Universe changed the way i percieve reality.

also,

BE HERE NOW by Ram Dass

The Middle Pillar by Israel Regardie

True Hallucinations by Terence Mckenna

The Cosmic Serpent - DNA and the origin of knowledge by Jeremy Narby

Tetragrammaton by Donald Tyson


"...the Secret is reading the right books" ~ Carl Sagan



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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott]
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the little prince


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott]
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A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

The Way of Zen by Alan Watts

Entry into the Inconceivable by Thomas Cleary


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    n.  3rd generation derivitave of a combination of 'bastard' and 'blasted'.  Used as both an insult or an expletive.
    ex.  Blastrid!

Stereopattern  <--My music.

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott]
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Re: books that changed your life [Re: infidelGOD]
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Be Here Now...yep yep yep :wink:

VALIS Philip k Dick...shit everything by dick has touched me deeply

Psilocybin: A magic mushroom growers guide

While not books they still deserve a mention as they have been a great aid and a big influence:

The Shroomery
Erowid.org
Deoxy.org
and links...links...links and more links




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Re: books that changed your life [Re: Roger_irrelevant]
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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dieing......a tibetan name that i havent memorized :/
Faerie's...Brian froud
Alice in Wonder Land..Carroll Lewis
Cat in the hat...Dr.Seuss

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: funkymonk]
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The Archivist by Gill Alderman.
None of that new age earth mind "stuff" :tongue: 


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: Scvotto_Turellskey]
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-the zhuangzi
-breakfast of champions: kurt vonnegut
-fight club: chuck pahlaniuk
-the trial: franz kafka
-a wild sheep chase: huraki murakami
-ham on rye: charles bukowski
-stanley kubrick interviews
-1984: george orwell

none of these books "changed my life", but they were nice additions to my mental atmosphere. I think, if anyone is interested in daoism, they should skip Laotzi, and read the zhuangzi, it is, in opinion, the superior daoist text...."superior" meaning, that if I had to make a choice between being able to read one of them, i would choose the zhuangzi. and another thing....fuck Ayn Rand, she was a total fascist. She was involved with the HUAC, (house of unamerican acitvities) in the 1950s, which persecuted anyone left of the extreme right. anyways........


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: atomikfunksoldier]
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Dianetics by L Ron hubbard



j/k

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: Faaip_De_Oiad]
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Also,
Oh the Places You'll Go
By Dr. Seuss


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Blas'?trid (bl?s tr?d)
    n.  3rd generation derivitave of a combination of 'bastard' and 'blasted'.  Used as both an insult or an expletive.
    ex.  Blastrid!

Stereopattern  <--My music.

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: Blastrid]
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yeah....fuck new age....


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: atomikfunksoldier]
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Indoor Marijuana Horticulture : The Indoor Bible - Jorge Cervantes

The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger

Edited by Twista (04/25/03 10:55 AM)

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: Twista]
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And STILL not on the list, the best selling book EVER...The Bible!


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After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action.  If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it.  - Ernest Hemingway

If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it.  In the law courts, in business, in government.  There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.    -Cormac MacCarthy

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.  - Aeschylus

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: Madtowntripper]
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The bible is the greatest story ever told.

The best book is Candy by Tery Southern.

It was one of the most controversial books of the sixties.

Check on this classic.

mj

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: mjshroomer]
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A Brief History of Everything: By the Smartest Man on the Planet, Ken Wilbur

The Book on the taboo against knowing who you are: Alan Watts

The Tao Te Ching

Probably the biggest one on the list, The Lesons of Don Juan: by Carlos Castaneda (I also include all the subsequent Castaneda books, but did not feel like listing all of them.)

Introduction to Metaphysics: Martin Hiedigger(i know, i probably spelled it wrong, i cant spell to save my life) This book got me into philosophy.

The Bible: Cant exlude this, You can read this through and through and come up with all kinds of meanings, depending on how you are thinking at the time, i prefer to go through it and look for all the times they are possibly refering to the use of psychedelics. it's a lot, a whole lot.



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Ken Wilbur

"this is life changing"

welcomehome

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: thestringphish]
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Carlos Castaneda was a big liar.

There never was a Don Juan. HE made it all up and that ruined the magic of the books.

The book is the Teachings of Don Juan:: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge.

I have posted the Richard De Mille works here over and over . They are inthe archives here somewhere at the shroomery.

mj

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott]
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i figgers the one book that messed my mind the most was a paperback copy ("hot off the presses")(given to me by my dad when i was like 11 years old & had read pretty much all the available heinlein juvenile novels, and the "lucky starr" series by asimov & most of the andre norton stuff at my local ibrary) of:
_stranger in a strange land_
(mine da also gimme his pb copy of henry miller's _tropic of cancer_ just because it was a banned book in some places, but i never managed to finish wading thru that turgid prose :wink: ... but heinlein's _stranger_ i have returned to quite a few times over the next 4 decades of my life...)
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old enough to know better
not old enough to care

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: gnrm23]
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Yep. Stranger in a Strange Land was a classic, for sure.

Apparently it is now available in its original un-edited form. Heinlein's publisher had originally asked him to trim it down some before it was first published -- in those days there was concern that an overly-long Sci-Fi book was unsellable.

Next time I am on vacation in the real world I intend to get a copy.

pinky


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: atomikfunksoldier]
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i will say one book as reading it led me to everything else i've ever read or done:
Tao Teh Ching by Lao Tzu.
Zhuangzi's short stories are great as well.


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott]
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Karl Marx--The Communist Manifesto
Heidegger--On Being and Time


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"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."--Voltaire

Edited by silversoul7 (04/27/03 12:38 AM)

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: atomikfunksoldier]
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i took a philosophy class and learned quite a bit about thinking about thinking.  Nietzche, Sartre, Descartes, and all those other many people throughout the years, had some interesting things to say and i kinda like the way it makes your mind bend to grasp some of their ideas.  yeah, i bet that makes good sense. fuck.  anyway, as far as books that made a lifelong inpression, I'd say The Hobbit, which I read in fourth or fifth grade.  brings on good thoughts.  i read the Doors of Perception in high school around the time I started taking acid, and it made things kinda click. If you can dig that.  Cool-e-o :smile: 

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: SoundsOfWar]
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oh, and if you want to fuck your head up sometime try reading a book called House of Leaves. Sorry, I forget who wrote it right now. Crazy stuff, though.

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: SoundsOfWar]
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if you really wanna fuck your head up, try reading the bible backwards. there are lots of hidden messages that say jesus did mushrooms.


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Post deleted by TrippeeChik

Reason for deletion: :wink:


Edited by TrippeeChik (02/07/16 05:28 AM)

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: TrippeeChik]
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the holy bible

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: atomikfunksoldier]
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Profoundly life-changing:
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
A Language Older than Words by Derrick Jensen
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Life-changing in a more subtle way:
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Survivor by Chuck Palanhniuk
Life After God by Douglas Coupland

UH


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They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do, just as well. You just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference - Bill Hicks

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: unlikelyhero]
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Quote:
Indoor Marijuana Horticulture : The Indoor Bible - Jorge Cervantes


Ahh.. I had that book once. Truly amazing... some fucker stole it off of me.

Handbook to Higher Consciousness, by Ken Keyes Jr.

Definitely worth a read. :grin:
Peace.


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If I should die this very moment
I wouldn't fear
For I've never known completeness
Like being here
Wrapped in the warmth of you
Loving every breath of you
:heartpump: :bunnyhug: :yinyang:

:yinyang: :levitate: :earth: :levitate: :yinyang:

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: fireworks_god]
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Tao te Ching - Lao Tzu
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Island - Aldous Huxley
On the Road, Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: Pala]
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"Illusions" by Richard Bach. I wouldn't say it "changed my life" but it definitely gave me some philosophical insight. It's one of those books that's telling a completely different story than the one you're actually reading.. the story you're reading is just a vehicle to get you to the actual concept the book is trying to convey...

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: JacquesCousteau]
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1.- Mein Kampf-Adolf Hitler. This book taught me how bad a human can be.
2.- Cocina espa?ola (spanish cuisine)- Many authors. This one taught me how to eat and drink right.
3.- The Tao of health, sex and longevity-Daniel Reid. No comments.
4.- Mushrooms and Truffles growing-M. Garc?a Rollan.
5.- Marijuana Grower?s Guide-Mel Frank & Ed Rosenthal.
6.- The complete Book of Self-Sufficiency-John Seymour.


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: Semilanceata]
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Bible
Mysteries & intigues of the bible,  J.A Michaels
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
Green Rage,  Christopher Manes
The Electric Kool-Aid Test,  Tom Wolfe
The Further Inquiry,  Ken Kesey

oh and of course,  The Mushroom Cultivator,  Stamets & Chilton

:smile:


 


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Stay Kool, and enjoy the bus ride.....



"Intrepid Search For Innerspace"

DAVID JONES where are you?

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: kindkesey]
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tao teh ching
be here now
Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life
777
Jurrasic Park (Chaos Theory rulez)
The Universe in a Nutshell/Brief History of Time
the Bible
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
the "Myth" series by Robert Aspirin
The Dark Tower
A Light in the Attic
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas

thats all I can think of now

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: kindkesey]
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Bible
The Electric Koolaid Acid Test
Acid Dreams
Cactch 22
Clockwork Orange

too name a few.


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott]
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the ancient secret of the flower of life vols 1 and 2 by drunvalo melchizedek
the holographic universe by michael talbot
cosmic trigger by RAW
everything you know is wrong and you are being lied to both by russ kick
dmt the spirit molecule by rick strassman
the 72 names of god by yehuda berg
anatomy of the psyche: alchemical symbolism in psychotherapy by edward f. edinger
intermediate studies in alchemy by saint germain
post office by bukowski
and finally, even though it didnt change my life, its still one of my all time favorites...
cosmic banditos by a.c. weisbecker


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: starseed]
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as a child brave new world and 1984 were my introduction to "grown up books".

the black cauldron series/ he kestrel by loydd alexander.

the foundation saga by asimov.

stranger in a strange land by heinlien.

the sirens of titan by vonnegut (and most everything he did).

hot water music by bokowski.

do it by jerry rubin.

soul on ice by eldridge cleaver.

the autobiography of malcolm X.

manchild in the promised land by claude brown.

fahrenheit 451 by bradbury.

the republic by plato.

nicomachean ethics by aristotle.

beyond good and evil by nietzsche.

the closing of the american mind by alan bloom

fast food nation by eric slossenger.

lies my teacher told me.

the year or so I read adbusters.

that peter singer paper about animals.

epistemology by audi

informal logic by some modern philosopher I can't remember who...

the prince by machiavelli

wealth of nations by adam smith

on liberty by john stewart mill

etc, I'm a philosophy major so you get the idea... the "philosophy of the simpsons was a good one....

oh, I liked ishamel too.

island by huxley.

demian/siddhartha/that one I can't remember the name of... not the bead game, not the journy to the east... wasn't there another hesse book that was really good? I can't recall...

the electric kool-aid acid test, of course, and one flew over the cuckoo's nest, and one the road, and that burroughs book.. "interzone", right? that was a trip...

and I think I'd have to even credit 'ol terence mckenna, and castenadia and leary, as while of course I differ in opinion quite a bit from them all, they all helped get me to where I am.

these are the ones I can think of as really effecting my development.. that stand out. the bible, of course, kinda, and the lord of the rings saga was good too, but they really didn't change my life.






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The ultimate meaning of our being can only be fulfilled in the paradoxical leap beyond the tragic-demonic frustration. It is a leap from our side, but it is the self-surrendering presence of the Ground of Being from the other side.
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Re: books that changed your life [Re: Malachi]
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kama sutra made my life or i should say my better half's life a little bit better :smile:


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: atomikfunksoldier]
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The Electric KoolAid Acid Test-Tom Wolfe
Forrest Gump-Winston Groom
Anything and everything written by JRR Tolkien
On the Road-Jack Kerouak
Roots-Alex Haley


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Now, if I accept Jesus into my heart, I'll get to walk beside him in the Kingdom of Heaven. Did you hear what I said? Walk beside him in the Kingdom of Heaven. Well, kiss my crippled ass. God is listening. What a crock of shit.
--Lieutenant Dan

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: AmericaNightmare]
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"The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image" by Leonard Shlain


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: Adamist]
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every book, every sound, picture, person and stimulus percieved or otherwise effects your life..i think

here are some books i still remember and love:
where the wild things are
the hobbit and lord of the rings -tolkein
all of the dr suess books
the holographic universe -micheal talbot
siddhartha -herman hesse
dmt: the spirit molecule

some other ones i liked:
prometheus rising
food of the gods
the unexpurgated code
1984
lord of the flies
the hithikers guide to the galaxy
tao te ching


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at this point i think we can be relatively certain seperation exists as a fallacy of finite perception, and the only barrier to infinite creativity is a preimposed notion of certainty and artificial conditioning. nothing is without origin

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: reflectedlight]
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Alice in Wonder Land, by Carroll Lewis is amazing for me, I love the overall message of perspective.

The Art of War by Sun Tzu is amazing, a handbook, not just for war, but for all the plans you will ever make in your life. Memorize it.

Anything Nietzsche wrote, just for the evilness factor, its the same feeling i get when I destroy something beutiful!! MUahahahahaha!

And hegel is awesome too...

Edit: Assata, by assata shakur is a very inspiring book...

Edited by domite (09/22/03 09:38 PM)

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: domite]
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On the Road by Kerouac


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As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know.

-Donald Rumsfeld 2/2/02 Pentagon

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: Xochitl]
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Illusions - Richard Bach
The Art of Happiness - His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler
Love - Leo Buscalia


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott]
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The Politics of Consciousness by Steve Kubby is a good book. did'nt change my life though.

and Choke by Chuck Palanhniuk sorta put my capacity for evil into my head, helped me see it, and deal with it, live with it instead of ignore it and pretend it's not there. so in that aspect, it changed me a bit.

The Tao of Physics pushed my leanings twords eastern mysticism further and got me interested in Physics.

The Laughing Sutra by Dan Salzman reminded me that I can read for fun and entertainment soemtimes without always trying to learn something, that helps alot,

and Sex, Ecology, and Spirituality by Ken Wilber totally blew my fucking mind, put into words so many of my thoughts. then I ate some mushrooms (about 3.5-4 grams) and decided to never again read Wilber, and to start puting the thoughts into words my self. Possibly the most life changing one so far, but it worked in conjunction with the fungus.

the philosophy of Thomas Aquainas is very interesting to me as well.


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Ken Wilbur

"this is life changing"

welcomehome

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott]
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aldous huxley - brave new world

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: greenhaze]
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the laughing sutra is mark salzman, not dan. made a mistake.

brave new world is great. so is moshka.


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"this is life changing"

welcomehome

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott]
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interesting how many of the same titles keep popping up on people's lists...

R.A.W. - Cosmic Trigger volumes I and II (haven't found the third one yet)

R.A.W. and Robert Shea - Illuminatus Trilogy

Brian Greene - The Elegant Universe (intro to string theory)

Drunvalo - Ancient Secret of The Flower of Life (volume ii)

E.T. 101

Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums

H.S.T. - Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas

Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha

Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler - War Is Just a Racket

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott]
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Robert A. Hienlien - Tunnel in the Sky, Beyond This Horizon, The Green Hills of Earth, Stranger in a Strange Land (edited or unedited), To Sail Beyond the Sunset (last published work)

The Collected Writings of Abby Hoffman (Woodstock Nation and his later essays and lectures have been most influential)

Richard Farina - Been Down So Long It Seems Like Up To Me (I read this and Cosmic Banditos around the same time and it would have taken longer to apreciate one without the other, my opinion)

( ? ) Steakly (sp?) - Armor

Spider Robinson - The Stardancer Trillogy, Calahan's Bar (storys and novels), Lifehouse (if only for the Beatles anecdote)

Theodore Sturgeon - More Than Human

Hemingway (sp?) - The Old Man and The Sea

Honorable mentions:

J. R. R. Tolkien - The Silmarilion

Jack Herer - The Emperor Wears No Clothes

( ? ) - Like Water For Chocolate

( ? ) - Programing for Dummies

Laura K. Hamilton - all works (creativly influential)


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: seeker]
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God Speaks - Meher Baba

^ it about the evolution of consiousness...try getting your head around this book and you sir are very well on your way to enlightenment.

alos

the everything and the nothing - meher baba
the only dance there is - ram dass
still havent read be here now but am on my way.
tibetan book of the dead


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Love like you never been hurt.

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: Vulture]
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Illuminatus! + Shro?dinger's Cat Trilogies

High Priest + Politics of Ecstasy

Chronicles of Narnia + Tolkien's works

Lots more, but those are the ones I attribute the most change to.

Have fun :thumbup:


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"If all are One," Brother Otto replied nastily, "all sex is masturbation..."

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott]
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jeez there are so many amazing books that ive read...the only one i can think of currently that had a large impact on me were (in no particular order):

  • Aldous Huxley - A Brave New World
  • Brian Jacques - Redwall Series (got me into fantasy)
  • Richard Bach - Illusions
  • My first Neuroscience text (Physiological Psychology, 6th edition i think...)
  • Dr. Rick Strassman - DMT: The Spirit Molecule
  • Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell
  • Carlos Castaneda - The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui way of knowledge
  • Everything i read in my Eastern Religions Class (Indian, chinese, japanese religious texts)

--Kremlin


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"Human suffering has been caused because all too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use, and that the mere presence of a word in the dictionary does not mean it necessarily refers to something definitive in the real world"
--Richard Dawkins, "The Selfish Gene"

"It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours."
-George Gissing

"Without a firm idea of himself and the purpose of his life, man cannot live, and would sooner destroy himself than remain on earth, even if he was surrounded by bread."
--Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott]
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robert a heinlein's _stranger in a strange land_


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott] * 2
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In no order:

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values - Robert Pirsig

The Dune Series - Frank Herbert

Siddartha - Hermann Hesse

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu

Tao of Jeet Kune Do - Bruce Lee

1984 - George Orwell

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - Judi Barret

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: gnrm23]
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the Bible


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"Well the first days are the hardest days." When life looks like easy street there is danger at your door.....

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: peleg]
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you do realize that the bible is just one book of many, right?

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: DoctorJ]
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everything david sedaris has ever written


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott]
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"the way of the peacefull warrior" by Dan Millman.

the only reason im still alive right now. absolutely inspring and beautifull. i recommend that everyone pick up this book, its not a very hard or complex read, but it changed my life.

~JSlice~


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: angryjslice]
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Catcher in the rye
Salinger


The Stranger
Camus

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Dune..... "fear is the mindkiller"; "I will bend like a reed in the wind"
Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand Brutal philosophy-There really are winners and losers. "We are all created equal" is a legal dictum, not an actual fact
Breakfast of Champions- Vonnegut "how do I know that you're not all robots put here to make me react" Showed me that there is no way we can have direct knowledge of anyone else's cognitions or if they even have them
Time Enough for Love- Heinlein raised the perrenial question "why the fuck not"
Naked Lunch- Burroughs judging others always ask "wouldn't you?"
Foundation- Asimov the idea of psychohistory is a natural continuation of social engineering
The bible- because it has given endless generations of nitwits justification for all sorts of hideous behaviour. "When we believe absurdities, we will commit atrocities"- Voltaire (I think)


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: zappaisgod]
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I hope someone has posted this one already,

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

That book made me completely rethink everything I've ever been taught in school.

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: LairMonster]
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"No one here gets out Alive" a Doors bio.
"Travels With Charlie" Steinbeck.
Maybe not so much changed my life, but they opened a door to a certain way of thinking about things.


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott]
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Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Altman's Tongue by Brian Evenson
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
Some Of The Dead Are Still Breathing by Charles Bowden


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: Left Of The Dial]
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Curious to hear what you think of Blood Meridian, once you've finished it.

I love the writing and think the imagery is absolutely sublime, but it gets mixed reviews amongst the literary set.


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After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action.  If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it.  - Ernest Hemingway

If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it.  In the law courts, in business, in government.  There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.    -Cormac MacCarthy

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.  - Aeschylus

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: Madtowntripper]
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Madtowntripper said:
Curious to hear what you think of Blood Meridian, once you've finished it.

I love the writing and think the imagery is absolutely sublime, but it gets mixed reviews amongst the literary set.


I've seen some mixed reviews on Meridian and Cormac also, the bulk of which are people complaining about Cormac being 'unnecessarily complicated....like Faulkner' [what???] or repetition [so?] or the lack of quotation marks in his dialogue. Personally, I wouldn't let bad grammar stand in the way of a great story.

Honestly maybe I shouldn't have included Blood Meridian on this list as I'm only three quarters through but as far as changing my life - I've never had to put a book down as many times to think until it's just like fuck! as many times as have done with Blood Meridian. Sorta beautiful and exhausting like the tail-end of a trip.

So far I find BM horrifically effective like Brian Evenson, maybe you've heard of him [the rogue Mormon and former professor at Brigham Young University, who's noir fiction created so much controversy around these parts that he was forced to resign and eventually even the church excommunicated him, I think they may have even deported his ass to Rhode Island as last I heard he was teaching at Brown.] Still, like the couple other McCarthy books I've had the privilege to know, though often bloody, upon reading I always feel like I'm walking away with rare treasure. Like, I found The Road grim and all but that's a love story through and through and so that's what I'm getting all the fathers I know for X-mas next year.

I've gone on a bit too long I'm afraid, sorry, it's just I REALLY love this author.

Have you read other Cormac? What else are you into? Death Match: Anton Chigur vs. Judge Holden???


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott]
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I would recommend CONVERSATIONS with
God by NEALE DONALD WALSHE, changed my entire outlook, have read  BOOK multiple times picking up more from it each time I READ it

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: Coffin dodger]
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The Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison.

Not that Invisible Man, it's one of the top three books ever about race.


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I don't want no commies in my car. No Christians either.

Simulacrum
The truth which conceals that there is none

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott]
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The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: peleg]
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peleg said:
the Bible


:psychsplit::heart::thumbup:


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"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance." — Confucius

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott]
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This book blew my mind, changed the way I see the world
https://www.amazon.com/Road-Heaven-Encounters-Chinese-Hermits/dp/1582435235/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=bill+porter&qid=1633709035&sr=8-1

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: ODhaze]
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Good book:cool::thumbup:

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: 3hunna]
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Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins - I started to focus and smell everything

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: 3hunna]
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1984 - George Orwell

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: Foot]
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Desert Solitaire- Edward Abbey.


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: MatsutakeSnuff]
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MatsutakeSnuff said:
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins - I started to focus and smell everything


I remember really getting into his "Another Roadside Attraction" in the 70's. I can't remember it except one guy called himself Marx Marvelous because that would offend the most conservatives.


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"The Rolling Stones will break up over Brian Jones' dead body"    John Lennon

I don't want no commies in my car. No Christians either.

Simulacrum
The truth which conceals that there is none

Edited by Brian Jones (11/17/21 07:34 AM)

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: Brian Jones]
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Zen flesh, Zen Bones - Paul Repps

Uncommon Therapy: The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. 
Jay Haley (Author)

Many by Milton H. Erickson, himself

Organic Gardening, magazine
Psychedelic Review, journal

Psychedelic Prayers , Tim Leary

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
by Harlan Ellison 

Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language
by Robin Dunbar (Author)

Walden
by Henry David Thoreau  (Author)

influential authors
H.G. Wells - short stories & science Fiction
Huxley - Brave New World
Jules Verne, science fiction
Harlan Ellison, science fiction

Franz Kafka  , In the Penal Colony

Marvin Harris, anthropology
Robin Dunbar, anthropology

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: laughingdog]
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nice list ^^


Here's mine:

The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs

VALIS by Philip K. Dick

Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson

Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe

The Game of Life or Info-Psychology by Timothy Leary

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Wholeness and the Implicate Order by David Bohm

Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Dune by Frank Herbert

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography by Aleister Crowley

The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K. Dick

Jailbird  by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

This Is It by Alan Watts

Cannibals and Kings by Marvin Harris


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: DividedQuantum] * 2
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The prince of tides!!!!!

I tell people how good it is and people compare it to the movie. The books is on my list of favorite books.

I am so excited to see someone else loves it!!!


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Re: books that changed your life [Re: loladoreen]
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Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi

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Re: books that changed your life [Re: shirley knott]
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Marianne Williamson
" A womans worth"


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