A Book That Changed Your Life

My first published book changed my life. yeah.
And SURVIVOUR by Palahnuik

 

I haven't read that one yet
and you suck at self-advertising, if I was published I'd be pushing my book like a crack dealer

tell me, what is the name you write under?

 

Did I say "Hey everyone read mybook? Did I say the title of my book? I just replied to topic.
So, man, where's an ad? I won't tell you the title not to suck at self-advertising.

 

i'm sorry... but did you just say the wayans brothers are better than antoine de saint-exupery?

 

i love the tao te ching. right on.

 

Be Here Now - by Ram Das.

This book might seem a little crazy to most people, but it really helped me to break life down and understand what's imoprtant, and what's trivial. All we need to do is be *free*

 

Trainspotting E and Glue by Irvine Welsh (pretty fucking weird to read fiction that was very similar to the life/society i grew up in, thank fuck i was only an observer and not a heroin addict) ..... he's the obsever par excellance of a time and subculture(s) that existed in this part of the world :sunglasse

And the alternative for the Sue Townsend books (a social observer of a culture(s) of life here i wasn't a part of)

Naked Lunch by William Burroughs (it's all just a trip, baby)

The Narnia Books - Cs Lewis (introduced to me when i was a microdude by my mum... popped the cork on my bottle of imagination, and gave me a love for the fantastic and bizarre that has been with me ever since)

Oliver Reed - self titled autobiography (*hic* deffo an inspiration )

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (you don't have to be mad to live here, but it helps, they are all crazy anyway )

loads more.....

 

"The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle. Blew my mind, it's so simple and self-evident, about how all our problems are caused because we are never fully present in the Now. I highly recommend it to everyone.

 

not necessarily better, but better for me to connect to, as I find that is my major problem witrh the little prince, it's too... foreign
The story, I think it would be better for a child to connect to, but it is too deep and abstract for a child to get the meaning...

 

The belljar- Sylvia Plath (made me relize how crazy iam... )
Chuck Palahniuk books- Introduced me to a different world of humor and realism.
Drawing blood and Lost souls- Poppy Z. Brite- i just get lost into these books, and they make feel like everything is magical and has a darker stranger purpose.

 

Autobigraphy of a Yogi, and the Carlos Castaneda books

 

I agree--those two books are AMAZING! Like, even with the dark "scary" themes, there is so much positivity and goodness in those books, and things you can relate to. Poppy Z. Brite really knows how to write! For me, the biggest life-changing book was The Electric Koolade Acid Test by Tom Wolfe. Not for its drug content really; this book just showed me that people aren't always uptight and square and that life can be a lot better if you just let yourself go.

~Nova

 

ok. good. i was worried for a little while.

i'm a child. so i guess i can connect easily.

it's cool that you can see meaning in things that aren't neccessarily in-your-face meaningful. i hope you get what i mean by that...

 

haha, I do

and I'm a very abstract thinker, I find meaning in thigns that aren't even suppossed to have any

 

awesome. now if you could just see the meaning in things that are meaningful, you'd be all set.

ha.

abstract thinking is always good. everything is inspirational... if you're easily inspired.

 

I find most of the time inspiration happens when I am in a very... curious mood
when I start questioning things, more and more thought seem to arise from it

 

The book that changed my life (not completely, but mostly) was Dharma Bums because it made me appreciate nature much more than I did. It also makes me want to grow up and be free. By free, I don't mean free of work or anything like that. I want to have a free soul, regardless of how little money I have. In the book, Jack Kerouac (or Ray Smith) and Gary Snydeer (or Japhy Ryder) climb mountains together, meditate together, have orgies, drink jugs of wine, shout haikus to each other, and constantly yell "woo!" back and forth to each other.

Now, I wouldn't say that my life is exactly like theirs, but my friend Anthony and I do a lot of those same things together, and he, my friend, reminds me of Japhy Ryder and I think my friend Anthony is my Japhy.

 

Thor Heyderthal's "Kon Tiki", as it was the first book I ever read, on my own. It instilled in me a sense of adventure, a love of the ocean, and the realization that within books was a way to escape.
Now, the book, or, books, more accurately, that changed my perspective were "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson, and "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. They opened me up to other Beat and hippie writers.

 

The Tao of Pooh. Hands down the most influential and impacting book I've read. It came my way exatcly when I needed it.

 

a couple of books had and i'll give the reasons

Slaughter house five- becuase who deosn't like a book that's all about slughter houses. i know i'm hilarious and there's proably people out there getting ready to kill me for that. any way i like it becuase it changed my veiw of time and made me think about war heroes.

tortilla flats- becuase it made me realize it's all about justification to yourself and otheres.

The mr. men books becuase they taught me to read

the animorphs series becuase they tuaght me to love to read.