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Books that changed your life
kompan:
The books below didn't really "changed my mind", but I find them important:
* 1984 by George Orwell
mentioned many times before, dark and scary vision of totalitarism
* I, Robot and Foundation by Isaac Asimov
(my first books read in English) written with logic storyline, and presenting future in very convincing way
* Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
long but impressive look on military, the movie was far from book, but also good
* Hyperspace and Visions by Michio Kaku
I'm a lame in math and physics, but I like to hear what smart people have to say :)
* The Physics of Star Trek and Beyond Star Trek by Lawrence Krauss
although I'm not a trekkie, but, as above - the books are very addictive
* most of Erich von Daeniken books
yeah, he's a bit crazy, but puts his theories clearly and in convincing way, it's fun to read it
* The Poland of Piasts and Poland of Jagiellons (Polska Piast?w i Polska Jagiellon?w) by Paweł Jasienica
these are books about history of Poland, but with extremely interesting story, the authors of history books for school could learn a lot from this writer
* The Amazing Perils of Discoveries and Inventions (Niezwykłe perypetie odkryć i wynalazk?w) by Juliusz Jerzy Herlinger
fascinating book which - as the title says - describes the history of many inventions, inventors and adventurers, famous and enarly forgotten
* The Witcher (Wiedźmin) by Andrzej Sapkowski
well-known fantasy saga placed in familiar, polish-like realms
SaskiWhiteflower:
Yeah Kompan. Witcher rocked. I read the whole saga and other Witcher books.
mqarcus:
Polish people! I'm polish!
Withcher is far from good I think, maybe slightly better if you don't take it seriously.
patong:
Here's mine:
1. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton - couldn't put it down; read it in an hour and wanted to reread the whole bloody thing all over again.
2. A Separate Peace by John Knowles - read it in high school. Loved the whole 'triumph of the human spirit' shtick going on.
3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky - introduced me to the greatness of postmodern coming-of-age fiction.
4. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey - i know he's a liar and that Oprah hates him, but the guy sure can depict those gorey images.
5. Infinite Crisis by Geoff Johns / Amazing Spider-Man by J. Michael Straczinski - character exposition at its finest. These guys remind us that web-slingers and kryptonians have shitloads of problems like the rest of us do.
That's as much as i can think of at 2 in the morning. Later, all.
SonofZ3:
"The Art of War"- Sun Tzu
Great guide to dating (seriously).
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