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

Yes, Krishnamurti can be a fairly brutal read sometimes, but well worth it. The title which I previously spoke of should, imho, be required reading for all young people.

 

The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
Shamanism - Mircea Eliade
True Hallucinations - Terence Mckenna
Design For Dying - Timothy Leary
Neuropolitics - Timothy Leary

And so many more

 

The book that changed how I looked at things-

The Jungle Book. By Rudyard Kipling. Disney turned it into a singing dancing mess and all the characters' personalities were different.

Disney also did the same to The Little Mermaid.

-Pedata

 

1984 - dont believe everything the government tells you, privacy is good

Brave New World - to truley live you must take the good and bad parts of life

HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy series - as stated before, dont take life too seriously



and a few others that are on the tip of my tongue

 

havent really read a book that had a real effect on me

 

Carrie - Stephen King inspired me to become a writer, but in general the works of John Irving (esp. A Prayer for Owen Meany), Stephen King & J R R Tolkien inspire me daily.


1984 rocked my world and Wacky Wednesday - Dr Seuss will always have a special place in my heart because I used to make my dad read it to me every night as a child!

 

I guess I would have to say the Bell Jar or Prozac Nation.. I guess that's pretty cliche.. But I enjoyed them..

 

"1984" by George Orwell (currently re-reading it)
"Steal This Book" by Abbie Hoffman

Nothing else really...

 

many books have made me look at myself and life differently becuase all too often i have a bad tendency to adopt what it is im reading as reality in a search for answers. its a bad habit to read literature while seeking ones own answers, but books that have invoked this in me were: crime and punishment, catch 22, siddhartha, and Demian to name a few

 

haha i enjoy your comments, keep them coming ..very awesome

 

LOL.....I concur^^^^

The most recent book I've read was Eric Schlosser's "Fast Food Nation". I'd like to get his book on Cannabis as well.

The current book I'm reading is David Horrobin's "The Madness of Adam + Eve -- How Schizophrenia Shaped Humanity". As the author puts forward, diet (fats) have a influence on schizophrenia.

Between the two books there's a nation that fits it to a T.

I've always enjoyed most of Robert Anton Wilson's books with the exception of The Illuminatus Trilogy which is touted as one of his better books, but I have to disagree. I would probably start with Prometheus Rising.

As for reading equating to intelligent debate, Ill put it this way, I've often met irrational people who have read liberary's just as I've met people extraordinary in their expression who have probably never read all that much.

 

Ditto on Celestine Prophecy (and for that matter, the 10th Insight)
and
Revolution from Within

first book that made me cry was Where the Red Fern Grows, I was inconsolable, locked myself in my room... etc. May explain my (sometimes annoying to non animal lovers) love for animals.


SingflowerCat
Be where you are.

 

NO I wasn't taking the piss...and yes, reading dulls my vision.

 

1984-George Orwell

 

white oleander and a clockwork orange

 

i don't think i could say has changed my life...but the most recent book to teach me a thing or two would have to be "Xenocide"


the very first book apart from the last unicorn [which made me harbour resentment for noah and his ark ] and black beauty was probably shakespeares complete works. really made me appreciate the english language and also helped me to read just that bit better than everyone else....it was my silent victory over the mean kids in my class

 

definitely aldous huxley, if you havent read island you havent read shit.

and BIG SUR by kerouac. such a wonderful wonderful book.

 

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh and 1984, orwell of course

 

Milan Kundera, 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'

 

The holographic universe turned me on to a higher plane of thought and percepton. It was written by Michael Talbot. He also wrote Mysticysm And The New Physics. The book is very readable and offers outstanding hypothises on many contraversial scientific questions. It covers phenomina such as ESP, stigmata, near death experiances, life after death, and a thorough explanation of holographic theory backed by findings of many popular scientists.