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Books that changed your lives - or at least made you think!

Old Mar 19th 2008, 9:33 pm
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Default Books that changed your lives - or at least made you think!

Was just having a conflab with one of the girls at work (who is quite religious to the extent that the bible is the law) about how she can so vehemently defend it when we live in the land of the dinosaurs here and there is evolutionary evidence all around us.

It made me think about a book I read (well 3 actually) called Conversations with God. Now I didn't have some gospel moment happening, far from it because I think that the Bible is a lot of random stories heaped together with a bit of Chinese whispers thrown in for good measure, but it really made me have a lot more belief in myself and my own abilities to change my life and strive for the things that I want.

I'll never forget the minute I finished the first one, I just felt better about me.

Not saying it would happen for everyone or indeed if its true but have any of you read anything that has changed you.
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Old Mar 19th 2008, 9:49 pm
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yes "many masters many lives" by Brian Weiss changed my life and my thinking
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Old Mar 19th 2008, 9:51 pm
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Das Kapital.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Catch-22

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

...and lemme think, oh yes...

The Beano Bumper Annual.
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Old Mar 19th 2008, 9:53 pm
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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American Psycho.

Desert Solitude.

Horsekeeping on a Small Acerage.

The Sweet Smell of Psychosis.
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The Woodentops, volume 2, 1961.

Then

One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich - Sold-your-nits-in.
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Default Re: Books that changed your lives - or at least made you think!

Originally Posted by j42
yes "many masters many lives" by Brian Weiss changed my life and my thinking
OMG - I use to work with a lady who told me to get this book, never did as I just couldn't find it anywhere.

Would love to read it on the plane - where can I purchase this book?
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Bizarrely enough the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson reinforced some of my social thinkings, and changed my perceptions on others. It also have me a valid viewpoints and thinking patterns on economy and population control plus how the two can be linked.
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Default Re: Books that changed your lives - or at least made you think!

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance changed the way I try and live my life.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being changed the way I think about it.

Was your book about the power of positive thought mandymoo?
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Default Re: Books that changed your lives - or at least made you think!

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist, by Robert Tressall.

Germinal. Emile Zola

The God Delusion. Richard Dawkins

Mallory Towers, Enid Blyton, this made me think school should be fun. So wrong so very wrong.

That one about Transactional Analysis. Cant remember what its called.
I dont normally read self improvement books but this one made sense and I even finished it
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Originally Posted by Ben W Bell
Bizarrely enough the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson reinforced some of my social thinkings,

...and apparently caused you to become fluent in Martian. Social thinkings?
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Originally Posted by Tracie107
OMG - I use to work with a lady who told me to get this book, never did as I just couldn't find it anywhere.

Would love to read it on the plane - where can I purchase this book?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Many-Lives-M...5970800&sr=8-1

Is that worth some karma? I've got hardly any <sob!>
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Old Mar 19th 2008, 11:58 pm
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Is that worth some karma? I've got hardly any <sob!>
God, I'm a soft touch. Incoming K.
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Originally Posted by Novocastrian
God, I'm a soft touch. Incoming K.
Oh, thank you Novo

I was actually only hinting to Tracie107 that it would be nice to get some karma for doing her searching for her, but I'll happily take any that's going
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Oh, thank you Novo

I was actually only hinting to Tracie107 that it would be nice to get some karma for doing her searching for her, but I'll happily take any that's going
You're very welcome.

Tete Jaune Cache (with or without accents) is an unusual name for a place in BC, I'd have thought. Where the heck is it?
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