A Book That Changed Your Life

Cannery row and Tortilla Flat have both changed my life! There is joy in a simple life!

 

Conquest of bread was good, but it's way too outdated for me to see how it could change your life. "Anarchism: A collection of revolutionary writings" is a much better read in my opinion. But yeah all of Kropotkin's works are ingenious.

 

"where the wild things are" Ive always been as creative as max was and i always could see things the way he did. I know it sounds dumb but its true.

 

"On the road"

 

first, I love The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seus. yeah, i know its a kids book, but it is really a great inspiration to those of us who get down in life and think that there is no way up.
second, from high school The Peter Pan Bag, I don't remember the author. Very understanding of youth, drugs and the pressures of that period of our lives.
third, from college not life changing books, but gave me deeper understanding of literature. chekov, byron, yeats, judy jordan.
one other book White Oleander is good if you are a mother or a daughter.

 

Fast Food Nation. That book changed the way i thought about everything, and i became so interested in that book that after that i read several other books on different food topics, from GM foods, to other fast food books, to veganism. it really opened my eyes, because food is one of those things that sometimes you dont really think about the effects from your food choices. I am now a vegan and i am planning on growing most of my food this coming growing season.

 

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

 

"Steal this Book"

 

The book that changed my life the most has to be "The Celestine Prophecy". I was 18 when I first read it. It introduced me to a new way of thinking.

 

SHOGUN by James Clavell changed my life. It was then for definate that I knew that Japan is where my roots are and where I want to be.

 

Nice. Shogun was a great book.

 

The little Prince-Antoine de saint-exupéry
The Greatest Miracle in the World-Og Mandino
Being happy-(forgotten author:S)
Linda Goodmans Love Signs
Divine Beauty-John o'donohue(or something similar)

Hmm, sure there are more...

 

Is that Being Happy by Leo Buskeglia (sp)?

 

Yeah, the whole Asian saga is fantasic. Have you read any of the others?
I've only got Gaijin left to read.

 

what if you are an aunt? =/

 

three books from my childhood ...
A Separate Peace
A Wrinkle In Time
The Silver Crown
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1984 by Orwell
Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
The Alchemist by Coelho
Why Your Life Sucks: And What You Can Do About It by Cohen
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Bach
The Outsiders by Hinton
A Separate Peace by Knowles
The Tao Teh Ching by Lao Tzu
The Cask of Amontillado by Poe
The Fall of The House of Usher by Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart by Poe
A&P by Updike
The Piece of String by Maupassant
The Necklace by Maupassant
The Sniper by O'Flaherty
...and many, many more

 

im about to go write an essay about A Separate Peace.
it was a good book, but the fact that i was FORCED to read it makes it less apealing.

 

I know what you mean. I was forced to read A Separate Peace in sophomore year, but I ended up liking it a lot. Sometimes I get a lot out of books I have to read for school, but usually I lose interest in them really quickly.

 

it was a good book but essays are a bitch