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What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction.
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 429245
8/31/2008 7:42 AM | |
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 491732 (OP)
8/31/2008 10:13 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
A Sea Change by Lois Gould Quoting: Hillcrest
What is it about? |
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a-noid
User ID: 494508
8/31/2008 10:29 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
- next, the Hidden Messages of Water by Masaru Emoto
- Quoting: aaron_o.o
Yeah! This book really floored me, aaron. It gave substance to the theory that an observer affects the outcome of an experiment. And that words REALLY DO have power to affect the environment. Good choice! |
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Tracy
User ID: 350460
8/31/2008 10:34 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Read a really good book today called Why Do I Keep Doing That? By Dennis Wholely, in it was the following;
Yoga Technique - to break a bad habit
Make 2 lists. One lists all the bad things about the habit. The second lists all the good things that will happen to you when you break the habit. You read both lists once a day. That is all you do. You do not need to think about breaking the habit. You do noth have to guide yourself into controlling your cravings. You live normally, indulging in the “evil” you are attempting to expunge. There is no forcing of will, there is no guilt or blame or any other consequence or any other consideration required. All that is required is that you read the lists each day. All you are doing is storing information. Let your subconscious do with that, as it will.
Example Lists
Bad Things About Cigarettes
1. Stained teeth
2. Smelly fingers
3. Bad breath
4. Clothes stink
5. Very expensive
6. Cancer
7. Shortness of breath
8. Have to smoke outside
9. People think I’m weak
10. Filthy ashtrays
Good Things About Quitting Smoking
1. Cleaner hair
2. Breathe easier
3. Less tired in the morning
4. Saving money
5. Feel livelier/motivated
6. House doesn’t smell
7. Will be able to taste again
8. Feeling of freedom
9. Kids wont be subjected to smoke
10. No more tongue fungus |
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Farm Bubba
User ID: 494523
8/31/2008 10:36 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Such heavy books that are read.
This book changed my life when I was young
"Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach
Just as profound as any of the books mentioned here but simple and only 93 pages.
Good book for kids too, read it to them :) |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 460121
8/31/2008 10:41 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Ultimate Journey by Robert Monroe |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 350460
8/31/2008 10:45 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Who Moved The Cheese? inspiring book about accepting/dealing with change in the workforce. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 491732 (OP)
8/31/2008 2:34 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Who Moved The Cheese? inspiring book about accepting/dealing with change in the workforce. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 350460
I think it is "Who Moved MY Cheese?" |
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Princess Bride
User ID: 490231
8/31/2008 2:55 PM
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The Power of Positive Thinking- Norman Vincent Peale |
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Joy
User ID: 489027
8/31/2008 3:12 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
A Peoples History of the United States
Stolen Legacy
Parable of the Talents
Parable of the Sower
Celestine Prophecy was pretty good |
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Michelle
User ID: 483767
8/31/2008 3:56 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
"Paris Hilton: The Naked Truth." Like now I want to like move to Beverly Hills and like get a chihuahua and like wear skimpy outfits, because I'm like hot, and that's SO hot. |
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Doh
User ID: 494148
8/31/2008 4:11 PM | |
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 494613
8/31/2008 4:27 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Poor Richard's Almanac
Tao Te Ching
Beginner's Guide to Shamanism Quoting: canislatrans
Tao Te Ching
[link to www.awakening-intuition.com] |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 494613
8/31/2008 4:28 PM | |
Tracy
User ID: 350460
8/31/2008 10:41 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Who Moved The Cheese? inspiring book about accepting/dealing with change in the workforce.
I think it is "Who Moved MY Cheese?" Quoting: Anonymous Coward 491732
Heheheh...thanks for the correction! could be who CUT the cheese....all I remember is cheese. I was guessing the rest ...but it did make me think about life differently. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 342639
8/31/2008 10:47 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Journey to Ixtlan |
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1echo
User ID: 491732 (OP)
8/31/2008 11:06 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Surprised not to see Neville Goddard, Stuart Wilde, Jane Roberts; they usually show up in these types of lists. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 482701
9/1/2008 12:59 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Since the OP asked for one book, I will have to say that in terms of my political understanding, "Our Enemy The State" by Albert Jay Nock was a big eye opener. A couple hundred pages of superb prose, and illusion-shattering ideas, written in 1935, but still profoundly relevant in today's context.
Other good books in the same vein
"The Road to Serfdom" - Frederich Hayek
" How Democracies Perish"- Jean-Francois Revel
"Man Vs. the State" - Herbert Spencer
And of course, who could forget, "The Gulag Archipeligo" by Solzenizyen(sp), or "Harvest of Sorrow" by Robert Conquest.
All having much to say about the monstrous crimes perpetrated against humanity by "the state". |
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Mush Mouth
User ID: 473627
9/1/2008 1:02 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
"Jesus will you please pass the pork chops"
George Carlin |
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Not a Sheople
User ID: 434929
9/1/2008 1:56 AM
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Very surprised this has not been posted yet.
The Master Key System by Charles F Haanel
Free if read online at [link to www.psitek.net]
"It is better to live your life as if there are no Gods, and try to make the world a better place for your being in it. If there is no God, you have lost nothing and will be remembered fondly by those you left behind. If there is a benevolent God, He will judge you on your merits and not just on whether or not you believed in Him." |
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<October> 
User ID: 427959
9/1/2008 1:59 AM
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Just popped in to say..."The Celestine Prophecy"...and any book by Seth (Jane Roberts).
Especially "The Magical Approach"... 
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I Serve The Lady
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For Goodness' Sake
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Hillcrest
Not For You*
User ID: 392015
9/1/2008 2:00 AM
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A Sea Change by Lois Gould
What is it about? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 491732
Its a horror story about a hurricane passing over an island... and it brings weird spirits that change people's identities... for example, one woman changes into the guy that raped her. she physically changes into this man by the time the hurricane is over. great book. |
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BVNDY
User ID: 486744
9/1/2008 2:11 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
1. ATLAS SHRUGGED
2. ANYTHING BY ROBERT RINGER
3. ANYTHING BY HARRY BROWN
4. ANYTHING BY JAMES P. HOGAN
5. CREEPY ISSUE #6 |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 462545
9/1/2008 2:13 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
The Secret Teachings of all the Ages-Manly p. Hall
The Golden Bough-Sir James Frazier
Tales of Ordinary Madness-Charles Bukowski
Most Everything written -H.P.Lovecraft
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
Gravity's Rainbow-Pynchon
Morals and Dogma-Albert Pike(long but -enlightening/Frightening)
Frankenstein-Shelly
Colin Wilson has written a lot of good books
The Ultimate Evil-Maury Terry
The Franklin Cover-up-John De Camp
Programmed to kill-David McGowan
Catcher in the Rye-J.D Salinger
Acid Dreams-Martin A. Lee
Popol Vuh-Delia Goetz
Excellent works by Eliphas Levy
Tarot of the Bohemians and other Works by Papus
That's enough for now..
Most of the other great titles in this thread too. Quoting: Frigg Stuyvesant
fuck you're a fuck wit.
ONE BOOK |
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DON WON
User ID: 340476
9/1/2008 2:18 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
carlos castanada books. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 492804 |
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LOGGY'S DOGGY'S
User ID: 340476
9/1/2008 2:22 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
1. ATLAS SCREW YOU
2. ANYTHING BY ROBERTA RINGER
3. ANYTHING BY HARRY BROWN
4. ANYTHING BY JAMES P. HOGUN
5. CREEPY ISSUE #6 Quoting: BVNDY 486744 |
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oloid
User ID: 494939
9/1/2008 3:10 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
stranger in a strange land by robert heinlien
siddartha by herman hesse
the stand by stephen king
the turner diaries...(forgot authors name) |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 267101
9/1/2008 3:17 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Bible |
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Duncan Kunz
The Debunker King
User ID: 466242
9/1/2008 4:15 AM
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Since the OP asked for one book, I will have to say that in terms of my political understanding, "Our Enemy The State" by Albert Jay Nock was a big eye opener. A couple hundred pages of superb prose, and illusion-shattering ideas, written in 1935, but still profoundly relevant in today's context.
Other good books in the same vein
"The Road to Serfdom" - Frederich Hayek
" How Democracies Perish"- Jean-Francois Revel
"Man Vs. the State" - Herbert Spencer
And of course, who could forget, "The Gulag Archipeligo" by Solzenizyen(sp), or "Harvest of Sorrow" by Robert Conquest.
All having much to say about the monstrous crimes perpetrated against humanity by "the state". Quoting: Anonymous Coward 482701
Excellent choices. If you like Nock, you'd probably like
Martin van Creveld (The Rise and Decline of The State),
Ludwig von Mises (Omnipotent Government),
Charles Tilly (Coercion, Capital, and European States), and, of course
Frederic Batiat (The Law).
July 10, 2002 - July 10, 2008
Six Years as the Debunker King on GLP! |
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Duncan Kunz
The Debunker King
User ID: 466242
9/1/2008 4:22 AM
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stranger in a strange land by robert heinlien
siddartha by herman hesse
the stand by stephen king
the turner diaries...(forgot authors name) Quoting: oloid 494939
I read The Turner Diaries in 1988, before Tim McVeigh blew up the Murrah Office Building in OK City.
When we were talking about it the next day, with the people arguing over whether it was the Iraqis or the Iranians, I said it was probably a local boy using an ANFO device.
They stopped laughing at me after a couple of days. Not surprisingly, that was Timmy's favorite book!
Even today, I consider it one of the most frightening books I ever read. The author is the late William Pierce, a former physics professor asked to leave the University of Washington, writing under the pseudonym "Andrew Macdonald".
Pierce also wrote "Hunter", which was in the same vein as "Turner", but had a lot more of his political theory tied up in it.
By the way, I also like all your other choices as well, although I would probably pick Narcissus and Goldmund or Steppenwolf over Siddhartha if I had to pick a Hesse book.
July 10, 2002 - July 10, 2008
Six Years as the Debunker King on GLP! |
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