The Prince by Machiavelli. This is the book that highlights the way that 99% of the successful people I come across in the NYC area go about their lives. It sounds awful to say it, but we live in a Darwinian environment, where the strong survive, the weak and the losers die. The quicker you realize that, the easier life and inter-person relations becomes.
i read Star girl afew years ago (still my favourite book now!)and it made me realise that i didnt have to be in a crowd to be accepted and that theres no fun in conforming!i love it even though its really sad
Eleven Minutes - Paulo Coelho A book about a girl, hurt and learned in the fields of love and sex. After male deception leaves her stranded in another country she ends up a prostitute. She finds her one and then goes on the difficult journey of self-transformation and love without attatchment. It taught me many things
Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", I don't think I have ever read a book with such a broad range of complex and powerful emotions. It isn't exactly obscure or cool, but I really don't care, that book changed the way that I see people.
lame but... a river runs through it. he loses his brother, i pray i never do...but it's nice to know that the people we love never really leave us, and that...life can still be possible after you lose someone who means so much to you...and now i cry.
"I Know this much is True" by Wally Lamb--that was a good book, really kind of makes you think about how things in life can come full circle.
Definetly "The Wonderbook of the Air" by Cynthia Shearer. There is a line in it that goes something like this you know your problem? you have no real ambition. you have always let the love of men be your goal. that just lept out of the pages and i felt like i had this huge epiphany. i was like.....oh that's what my problem is!
The Left Behind Series. It shows me how quick the the Rapture of Christ will be and how unprepared we are. Its an excellent series and its very long. If you love Christ like I then you'll be hooked in no time!
i would not say there is one defining book but many books i read add new perspectives and views on things
Awesome book ~ Paraphrasing from memory one of the lines that stuck with me was when he commented on how he thought it was odd how casually people ask eachother if they have any children after he was asked that after losing his. "She's Come Undone" is another good one by him. ~ But to answer this thread's question, different books have changed me during different times in my life. When i read "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" for the first time in junior high it really shook my world. - Especially that one poem in it, I actually cried... "Angela's Ashes" left me with a whole new perspective as well.
