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

The Pigman - Paul Zindel

Animal Farm - George Orwell

Don't ask me how it changed my life because I can't explain it, it just made me wanna clean up my act.

 

Oh, how could I forget Jonathan Livingston Seagull?! It's beautiful!

 

steal this book

 

The Way of The Peaceful Warrior...Dan Millman

 

Beyond Good and Evil, and an author, Will Durant. If it wasn't for the humility of some historians, like Durant, I think the former would have done more harm than it should have.

 

Don't remember the exact name. Can't find it again anywhere. It was called 2015 or 2051 or something close to that. About a guy, who met his next incarnation. Way Groovy book! If anyone KNOW the right title, please, Email it to me @ mattinvegas@earthlink.net

 

celestine and the bell jar (coupled with sylvia's diary/journals) both opened my eyes and such

 

The Cather in the Rye did it for me. I'm so much like Holden Caulfield, it's scary.

 

The Catcher in the Rye did it for me, too... I've always loved that book. Another is The Outsiders.

 

1984
Brave New World
The Car
Star Signs
Le Et'cume Des Jours (the foam of the daze)
Romeo and Juliet
Siddhartha

any good piece of literature i read...changes my life...i change alot

 

I haven't made my way through these zillions of pages so forgive me if someone else has posted this; E.T. 101 The Cosmic Instruction Manual for Planetary Evolution, it's absolutely hilarious but also has a lot of basic truth, it helped me through a really difficult period of my life too, you gotta have a read:

http://fosieht.tripod.com/spirit/et_101_toc.html

 

Taken as a whole, the works of Robert A. Heinlein had a profound affect on me--to such an extent that Heinlein probably had more influence on what I think and believe than anyone except my parents. Stranger in a Strange Land and Time Enough for Love were most likely the biggest influences, but everything he wrote was felt and thought about.

I first read Stranger when I was 13, and TEfL when I was about 15. In the years since, I've read them completely about five times each and favorite sections many times.

 

i ahve a few that affected me at different points in my life.



this book called teeth by hugh gallagher kkind of made me realize how appart from the rest of the world and society i realy am, mentally anyways. and i don't mean to sound liek some stupid anarchy loving teenager, no, i'm just weird.
the catcher in the rye did something really similar for me. and then i was reading ths book called living zen and it was the first time i found a religion that i could never ever be apart of. i am a big fan of buddhism, but i just can't follow some of the rules. i'm a dreamer.
oh, and the chonicles of narnia. those were the first books that really got me interested in mythological creatures and stuff.

 

Errm... Lost Souls, it made me realise that there is a eason why I feel different to the rest of the other people, The question is why?

 

I have a couple. I've read them all at different times in my life, and some of them still change the ways I see things, you are always are changing...
These are of course listed in no particular order, ad I don't remember all the authors.
The Pistachio Prescription
The Holy Bible
To Kill A Mockingbird
1984
The Song Reader
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Another Roadside Attraction
To A God Unknown
Hope For the Flowers
Women Who Run With the Wild Wolves
Spiritual Midwifery *wants to be a midwife*

and anything written by Thich Nhat Hahn

 

Education & the Significance of Life by Krishnamurti

 

i forgot . . .
the dictionary

 

Prometheus Rising- Dr. Robert Anton Wilson

 

Most of the books that have significantly made me look at things differently were stolen from my parents' bookshelf.

 

I don't know the author, but the book that made an impression on me was "Babbitt", made me realize how much I hated my father.