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Books that changed your life
sunniegreen:
Last Chance To See - Douglas Adams
I hardly ever hear anyone mention it, but it is a depressing and hilarious book about his tour with a naturalist to see as many different endangered animals that they could manage. It raised my hippie-ness a few notches and made me love Douglas all the more.
Xanth Series - Piers Anthony
My dad gave me Ogre, Ogre when I was in the third grade and it showed me that "Grown up" books were far superior to what my teachers had in their classrooms. It was because of this that I went on to read Tolkien and Frank Herbert with such enthusiasm. I love fansasy that takes the time to be clever and to create its own world.
The Nancy Drew Series - Carolyn Keene
In fifth grade my friend and I had exhausted pretty much everything that our small school library had to offer, and so we decided to see who could read all the Nancy Drew books first. The Library had a huuuuge collection, leaving an entire wall in various shades of old yellow books. We read most, and I quit first. It taught me that yes, books really can be that infuriatingly the same and totally ignore anything that might have happened in a previous book. Nancy's ever-changing hair colour, the brand new car at each introduction, the boyfriend who was always in school while she rarely even mentioned her own?
The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allen Poe
This is the book that I fell off the Nancy Drew wagon for. It introduced me to an abiding love of Poe. Our library had this and The Fall of the House of Usher in a dark corner. Odd illustrated versions. We loved them.
chupones:
Coming Through Slaugher - Michael Ondaatje
This Sweet Sickness - Patricia Highsmith
Dubliners - James Joyce
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
messynessie:
hitchhkers guide to the galaxy- doug adams (of course!)
east of eden-steinbeck (love that book!)
the 5 people you meet in heaven-mitch ablom (really moved me, i've read it a million times)
the curious incident of the dog in the night time
the lovely bones- ann sebold i think! (i cried reading this one)
i have always liked shakespeare too macbeth is my favourite
how to walk in high heels (my bible!)
Lise:
I'm not joking- this book changed my life (at least, improved my relationship):
"Why Men Lie, And Women Cry". It does a lot of explaining with scientific backup of why men and women seem to have the same recurring problems and how to fix them :x. It's a great self-help book, and a better alternative (IMO) to "Men are from Venus, Women are from Mars." It's quite humorous, and a lot of it I've found out, DOES apply to my life. The only chapters I haven't read are over mother-in-laws and retirement, as I'm not at the proper age yet.
And if you guys don't know about the "secret point system" women use, pick up the book and read on it :P. This book pretty much explains why in the movie "Click" Adam Sandler was such a workaholic and his wife was left dissatisfied.
ANYWAY. I also bought a book on philosophy, Sophie's World, and it presents philosophy in such an entertaining light that it doesn't feel like you're taking a correspondence course/being quizzed on. I've learned a lot, and it really makes you question your roots and how the universe came to be, etc etc.
onewheelwizzard:
On the subject of books that help people with their relationships, "The Mastery of Love" by Don Miguel Ruiz is a huge one. I haven't personally read it (I've read a different book by him and it was brilliant, "The Voice of Knowledge"), but there are a few people in this world who I trust more than anyone on the subject of love between people and how to express/feel/be OK with it, and they all swear by this book. So I heavily recommend it by proxy, because I know it's what they'd be talking about on this thread.
And I have no doubt that when I read it I'll only be louder about it. Go get a Miguel Ruiz book soon, I'd say ... it'll help.
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