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Life Changing Books
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Hey, I'm new to this forum and have read alot of back posts. I've noticed that unlike similar forums there seem to be alot of mature intellects here. I've come to a point in my life where I need a change. What books have you read that were life changing?

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Re: Life Changing Books [Re: DISILLUSIONED]
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Hmm... Jane Goodall's Reason for Hope was not necessarily life changing for me, but it was probably the most inspirational and spiritually uplifting book I've ever read.

It's an easy, interesting read, and not too long either. Give it a shot!


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Edited by RebelSteve33 (08/12/02 12:42 AM)

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Re: Life Changing Books [Re: DISILLUSIONED]
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Gods Debris by Scott Adams
The Third Millenium by Ken Carey


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Re: Life Changing Books [Re: ChubbSubb]
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Thanks guys, I'll check on these titles.

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Re: Life Changing Books [Re: DISILLUSIONED]
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The Third Millenium by Ken Carey

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Re: Life Changing Books [Re: DISILLUSIONED]
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Disil,
Try 'Nausea', by Jean Paul Sartre. Excellent book.
Also, Brave New World by Huxley for a classic. I read it earlier in my life but have recently re-read it.

No one can compare with Sartre, if philosophy or existentialism are what you crave.

Bullfrog1


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Re: Life Changing Books [Re: DISILLUSIONED]
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First to change me:
Starnger in a Strange Land Robert Hienlien

second
Way of the Peacefull Warrior Dan Millman

third
The Celestine Prophecy James Redfield


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Re: Life Changing Books [Re: DISILLUSIONED]
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My life changing books:

Zen Guitar - Philip Toshio Sudo
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff - Richard Carlson
The Four Agreements - don Miguel Ruiz
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut


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Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.  For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire.  Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it.

~ R.W. Emerson, "Self-Reliance"

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Re: Life Changing Books [Re: WhiskeyClone]
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The Four Agreements - don Miguel Ruiz

A very good read!


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Re: Life Changing Books [Re: DISILLUSIONED]
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Stranger in a Strange Land - RA Heinlein
Time Enough for Love - ditto
The Emperor Wears No Clothes - Jack Herer


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"Those that would sacrifice essential liberties for some temporary safety deserve neither."
Ben Franklin

Edited by SoFarNorth (08/19/02 10:39 AM)

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Re: Life Changing Books [Re: DISILLUSIONED]
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I would like to say that the book which most altered my life was written by Sartre, Camus, Rimbaud, Melville, Thoreau, Joyce, Maugham, Lowrey,Vonnegut, or Pynchon, or was even Jack Kerouac?s, "On the Road," but alas, sadly, it was none of these.

The book that probably had the most profound impact on me, because of the young age at which I read it, was Hunter S. Thompson?s, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." It combined a high degree of accessibility with a velocitous prose style -- the likes of which, I have yet to see matched -- and displayed a high-level of intelligence as well as astute cultural references.

It opened up whole new world of life-style possibilities to me, and it was all sort of downhill from there?

PS: I also enjoyed the book's humor...


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> Did you see, "Where the Buffalo Roam" with Bill Murray?

Still one of my personal faves. I own both Thompson movies on DVD, and I like that one the best. I feel it captures the humor of Thompson's writing better.

I like how Neil Young opens it too. He was a good choice for musical director.


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Re: Life Changing Books [Re: Papaver]
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Got it on dvd myself, and think it's funnier 'n shit...

The scene w/ Thompson and Nixon in the restroom is classic...


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The scene w/ Thompson and Nixon in the restroom is classic...

FUCK THE DOOMED!


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Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.  For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire.  Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it.

~ R.W. Emerson, "Self-Reliance"

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"Earth: The only planet of choice" Excellent book that entirely changed the way I see things.


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