that one book that ultimately made you look at yourself and life differently...

"Ishmael" (forget the author's name), and "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

 

A Wrinkle in Time
The Giver
Carlos Castaneda
The Prophet
Stranger in a Strange Land
Collected Fictions and Non Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges
Spiritual Enlightenment The Damndest Thing by Jed Mckenna
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tao Te Ching
The Book of the Law
The Dissapearance of the Universe by Gary something
Joyce

 

the alchemist by Paulo Coelho and

Veronica decides to die by paulo coelho

mlmm alot of amazing books but these are the two that have changed my view the most.

 

The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, Richard Bach

The Education of Oversoul Seven
The Power of Now
The Basic Text of NA

 

JIM MORRISON Life, Death, Legend

by Stephen Davis

he was truly an American Poet

 

I was going to say the Tao Te Ching, too.

Also:
The Sermon on the Mount by Emmit Fox
Slapstick (and others) by Kurt Vonnegut
Tales of Ordinary Madness by Charles Bukowski
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

(to name a few)

 

The Stranger and Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

 

I see. A bunch of readers, and it seems that only one besides me noticed that the thread asked for "THAT ONE BOOK."


I note with dismay also that many people could not even correctly spell, punctuate or capitalize the titles of the books they were citing.

I'll go with this one, for me: Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

Yes, others have had quite an effect on me. But the thread asked for one, which I take to mean, "the most powerful one, leaving others behind."

I wonder if the problem here is one of reading comprehension, or of simple failure to follow directions...

Blue skies,
-Jeffrey

 

oh cummon... is there really a need to be that anal? so what if people want to name a few books that touched them

 

'An Open Heart' by The Dalai Lama

His views and philosophies on life and what all goes along with it are very mind broadening and sort of therapeutic. I've learned a lot from him and his books.

 

Hi Jeffrey:

Did you fail to read the first post by the thread initiator?
Defence Mechanisms said:
"ok i know you all have one... or two, or three.
please do tell." and followed that up with two of her own.

So, although we may have read the title, perhaps we followed it up by reading the posts in it as well.

Peace & Light to you Jeffrey.

 

How to be Happy, Dammit: a cynic's guide to spiritual happiness
by Karen Salmansohn.

It's visually interesting, but more over the meaning is great. Basically the point is not to let fear hold you back from happiness. It is actually VERY funny.

 

fogot one!

Oh, the places you'll go
by Dr. Seuss.

I thought it was pretty profound. I came across that after I'd already been done with school for a while, and it kind of helped me not feel so lost and alone in this big scary world.

 

[ "The Little Prince" by Antoine Saint-Exupéry (no clue how to spell that name!)]

I received this book from my sister when I was 6 years old. I thought the illustrations were cute at the time and some of the characters were funny. I read it again for the first time in years about 6 years ago and wound up sobbing through the end. It is powerful.

I can't remember who mentioned Richard Bach and Jonathan Livingston Seagull. That is awesome. So is his book Illusions. And of course my sentimental favorite: There's No Such Place As Far Away....

 

i too have several, the most important of which would be a book of collected poems by denise levertov, from 1960-1969, which was lent to me by an english teacher who thought i might like her work; i "forgot" to return it to him.

next would be the hobbit, by jrr tolkien

where the wild things are, and outside over there, by maurice sendak

the spiral dance, by starhawk

zen & the art of motorcycle maintenance by robert m. pirsig

the tao of pooh by benjamin hoff, although i was disappointed with the te of piglet.

zen seeing, zen drawing, although the author' name eludes me

laurel's kitchen by carol flinders, brian rupenthal, and laurel robertson

 

It, itself, is a magic book. Just pick it up, open it to any page and it will surely tell you something about your self. Ask a question, open it and it will answer it.

 

Everything I read changes or sculpts me in some way...but the most important ones are...

~The Dispossessed (uh, I forget her name, Ursala K. LaGuine I think...)
~The Hobbit (Tolkien)
~Do it! (Jerry Rubin)
~Woodstock Nation (Abbie Hoffman)
~Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
~The Last Battle- of Narnia...(C.S.Lewis)

 

Ursula K. Le Guin

 

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon.

 

id have to say the giver