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books that changed your life.

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
the Hichhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy by Douglas Adams
 
Colin Wilson - Outsider
Robert Anton Wilson - Cosmic trigger Pt.1
Liber Aba - Aliester Crowley
 
A book I read recently - Dalai Lama – The Art of Happiness.

Not so much a self help book, though defiently an amazing book to read. It explains how one can change perspective and by altering a few different parameters in life can live much more contently and happy. It in no way enforces religion on you, though it is based on the belief of Buddhism.

I really enjoyed it! :)

Shal.


=D
 
Wise Child - Monica Furlong
Any and all Robin Hobb books

Oh and yes anything written by the dalai lama is amazing, he is such an unbelievibly humble and compassionate person, i wanna marry him :)

lol i have to keep editing this post as i remember such excellent books!

anyways, Kahlil Gibran, i really reccomend EVERYONE in the entire world reads his stuff, esp The Beloved. He is a wonderful philosopher of like umm 1930's i think, and alot like the old romatic poets. hes just brilliant.
 
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The Drifters - James Mitchner
what? people actually are going through the same mental dilemmas as i am? what?

Physical Chemistry - McQuarrie
taught me that the world both makes perfect sense and is an absolute miracle. also taught me that differential equations are evil little bastards...
 
When my father was in prison, I sent him three books, The Handbook to Higher Consciousness by Ken Keyes, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig and A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber.

(I keep an extra copy of the Handbook around so I can give it away.)
 
I loved The Perks of being a Walflower !

a book that reaLLY changed my life I found it at a coffee shop for a dollar!

''Das Energi'' - paul williams
 
wow this thread has kind of inspired me to hit the books, lets hope this doesnt fade away. When I was a kid books like the Hardy Boys (my school actually had the old blue hardcover books!), Tom Sawyer, and Robin Hood (not watered down versions either) helped make me a well above average smart kid, thus affecting my life, which I am grateful for. Im pretty sure I was a better reader back in 4th grade though than i am now, i dont read unless i have to because i dont have enough time. but i think im going to start trying to make time for this. Haha and the funny thing is I had a good grasp of Samuel Clemens' writing style in Tom Sawyer back in i thnk maybe first grade, I actually understood the book very well. And here I am a senior in highschool, and we are reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for english class. So I guess I really was way ahead of the average intelligence level back then, and I believe I still am but I think I'm losing my lead. Time to read!
 
^^ why would "Mein Kampf" change *your* life? it's a heap of crap and gibberish, out of the ordinary only because of the intensity of the author's fanatism and its impact on the world in the mid-20th century...

really don't understand that..

"war and peace" is a really, really good book...didn't really change my life though
 
Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - once described to me as "west coast hippie crap". But an important book which helped me form my views when in my early twenties.

Siddharta - helped me regain my perspective a few years later when it was slipping away.
 
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