books that changed your life.

[Boiling in Acid]

The massages of Kryon.

http://www.kryon.com/

 

[fasteddie]

I am currently reading "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey, it is absolutely brilliant.

I saw him, once.

He was doing a show, "Twister" at San Jose State U. He was surrounded by his sons, who plainly adored him. I was about 5 feet away from him.

He looked like a lumberjack. I would have liked to have met him, but I had nothing particularly to say to him, and I don't believe in pestering famous people.

Oh, books that changed my life...Walden, by HD Thoreau...and, Steal This Book, by Abbie Hoffman.

 

[torture]

the real frank zappa book.

zappa had an amazing point of view on everything.
very mind opening.

 

[massiveinminiature]

^ Sounds Interesting Read Tell Me More Please. {ZOPHEN ]

 

[Larr_E]

The Stranger-Albert Camus

Until then I didn't know that there were oters that thought like me...

 

[aanallein]

Dune

These 6 books are simply incredible.. I don't even know how else to describe it while doing it justice.. I'm reading the series for the 3rd time in the last 5 years and I'm still amazed by their depth.

Wow just looked at page 1 and theres a post I made under my old name FOUR years ago!:

The Mahabharata (the English play version)
The Bible
100 Years of Solitude
1984
The Haj / Exodus (still need to read the rest of his books)
the Dune series (very good books)
I'm sure their are lots more I'm forgetting to mention..

Still the best books I've read in my life for sure. You can add Kite Runner, The Wheel of Time, and Mila 18 to that list though. Mila 18 is about the most impressive and profoundly saddening book I've ever read. The Dune series is amazing for its scope and incredible vision of the future, and 100 years of solitude is just simply disturbing as fuck. Kite Runner is a mixture of disturbing/enlightening..

 

[Ximot]

with compassionate understanding - by steve and rosemary weissman

 

[adrian89987]

Journey of Awakening
Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Elegant Universe
to name a few

 

[retired_chemist]

Demian - Hermann Hesse

 

[SpellmanT7]

"In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

Capote was the first person to show me, with that book, just how incredible reading could be.

but

"Death of A Salesman" by Arthur Miller - probably did change my life a little more.

Willy Loman's deterioration hit so close to former events at home. At times, I brushed tears off the pages .

I didn't think authors could *so perfectly* capture the intangibles before then.

 

[ebola?]

History of Sexuality vol. 1 - Foucault

The Limits of Capital - Harvey

Prison Notebooks - Gramsci

Eros and Civilization - Marcuse (Freud finally meets Marx)

On a less dramatic note:

Manufacturing Consent - Burawoy (NOT CHOMSKY) This really inspired the questions for my present ethnography

The Managed Heart - Hochschild Also influential in my research, but in a more vague way.

ebola

 

[BodhiSvaha33]

Zen and the Psychology of Transformation by Hubert Benoit. Words cannot do justice to how amazing this book is.

 

[lenses]

I haven't read a while, pot seems to scatter my focus and make my HPPD bad enough that it will be distracting to read.

But the one book i've read that has really stuck with me is The tao of pooh.

I asked this girl who was really "tuned in" so to speak what her secret was, and she reccommended it to me.

Taoism is very simple and empowering. Try it out.

 

[Pothedd]

The Celestine Prophecy
last book i read too, too stoned all the time these days, books can't hold my attention.
it's a really good piece of literature, gave me chills all the way through, basically confirmed my whole belief structure in writing. eerie.
it's got a lot to say, a lot of stuff that rings true inside you
but mainly it confirms my suspicion that every religion is right but wrong, all are based on some dude's beliefs that he wrote down, none are the word of god, because god is you, god is me, god is all matter in the universe, god is good and evil, not just one.
and all religion simply takes the basic principle of be a good person
and builds a cult around it with all these rules and regulations.

i'm against religion. blindly being shepherded is not one of my strong points.
it's important to have beliefs, but it's also important to let others have their's.

 

[haribo1]

The Manchester A-Z... It really told me where I was and how to get out. I mean, the characterisation is crap, but the places are so real!!!

 

[Chuck Norris]

1984 - George Orwell
A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
The Secret Life of Plants - Peter T(h?)ompkins
Extraterrestrials are Among Us - George C. Andrews
Chakras for Beginners - David Pond
As a Man Thinketh - James Allen
My Life and Prophecies - Jean Dixon
DMT The Spirit Molecule - Dr. Richard Straussman
The Biggest Secret - David Icke
Hermetic Philosophy - The Emerald Tablets of Thoth

 

[Chuck Norris]

Conversations with God, books 1 thru 3.

These books only re-affirmed what I already believed about God. I highly recommend them to all.

YES!!! I read the first. Awesomeness. Explained "God" in absolutely logical terms. It led me to believe in God.

 

[mariacallas]

 

[B9]

Just read "The Great Gatsby" impressive book I thought

 

[SKL]

The Bible (particularly the Gospel of John & Revelation)
Be Here Now