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What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction.
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Jomama
User ID: 154988
9/1/2008 6:38 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Atlas Shrugged, without a doubt.
But folks here posted many other good ones.
to herd or not to herd
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amazination
User ID: 153788
9/1/2008 8:21 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Right Use Of Will
a previous poster commented that the book made God sound like a whiny little boy ... hmmm, interesting observation.
I find the series acts more as a trigger and springboard for investigating ones own being, that is, the reactions one encounters during the read is more the point than the story line or 'plot' itself. I consider these books to be the most profound of any I have read.
I am also a fan of the Seth books and Carlos Castenada's series, but RUOW (especially Imprinting and Heartsong) has truly changed my life. |
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gooderboy 
User ID: 70293
9/1/2008 8:44 AM
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... lol, yikes.... way too many many books to mention here... and the coursings of me life has often changed with one or more of them in hand too. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 241684
9/1/2008 8:56 AM | |
1echo
User ID: 491732 (OP)
9/1/2008 8:57 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
... lol, yikes.... way too many many books to mention here... and the coursings of me life has often changed with one or more of them in hand too. Quoting: gooderboy
Do share. We may learn a thing or two. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 439297
9/1/2008 9:08 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
journey of souls
a course in miracles
disappearance of the universe |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 484655
9/1/2008 9:15 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
As a child, the book with the deepest impact and meaning to me would have been "The Velveteen Rabbit".
As a teenager, it would have been "Creative Visualization" by Shakti Gawain....and "Celestine Prophecy".
Now as an adult, there are too many to list. But I think my favorites are still "Journey of Souls" and "Destiny of Souls".
JJ Hurtak's keys of Enoch was also very good. |
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gooderboy
User ID: 70293
9/1/2008 9:33 AM
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... lol, yikes.... way too many many books to mention here... and the coursings of me life has often changed with one or more of them in hand too.
Do share. We may learn a thing or two. Quoting: 1echo 491732
... double yikes, lol... waaaayyyyy tooooo long of a story too... and sorry. But... the book 'Pilgrim's Progress', and I guess I might would say... really 'kicked it off' for me, and so to speak, and when I was like 10 years old. And it's been just the most incredibly never ending ever changing adventure 'ever' (and, 'kicked it off' meaning as far as exploring these here 'inner realms' are concerned anyways).
But golly... there's been loads and loads of books along me way as well... and here's but some of them for ya.
The Bible
The Koran
The Tibetan Book Of The Dead
The Gita
The Torah
The Buddha's teachings
Three Magic Words
I Seem To Be A Verb
Illusions
Stranger In A Strange Land
The Nature Of Personal Reality
(et al Seth's/Jane's books)
Bringers Of The Dawn
Sidhartha
The Prophet
Through The Looking Glass
Don Juan's books
Lord Of The Dawn
Joy Of Cooking
The Conversation With God books
The Dictionary |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 350460
9/1/2008 9:43 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Creed for the third Millenium Colleen McCullough |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 491732 (OP)
9/1/2008 10:50 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
... lol, yikes.... way too many many books to mention here... and the coursings of me life has often changed with one or more of them in hand too.
Do share. We may learn a thing or two.
... double yikes, lol... waaaayyyyy tooooo long of a story too... and sorry. But... the book 'Pilgrim's Progress', and I guess I might would say... really 'kicked it off' for me, and so to speak, and when I was like 10 years old. And it's been just the most incredibly never ending ever changing adventure 'ever' (and, 'kicked it off' meaning as far as exploring these here 'inner realms' are concerned anyways).
But golly... there's been loads and loads of books along me way as well... and here's but some of them for ya.
The Bible
The Koran
The Tibetan Book Of The Dead
The Gita
The Torah
The Buddha's teachings
Three Magic Words
I Seem To Be A Verb
Illusions
Stranger In A Strange Land
The Nature Of Personal Reality
(et al Seth's/Jane's books)
Bringers Of The Dawn
Sidhartha
The Prophet
Through The Looking Glass
Don Juan's books
Lord Of The Dawn
Joy Of Cooking
The Conversation With God books
The Dictionary Quoting: gooderboy
Thanks for sharimg GB! I know of them all, but have not read all. Pilgrim's Progress is by John Bunyan, right? You are a puritan! Have you heard of "The Way of a Pilgrim" , written by Anonymous about a truth seeker in the old Orthodox Russia, sustaining on his Bible and the Philokalia (Book of the Desert Fathers)? Search it. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 495100
9/1/2008 10:53 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Destiny Of Souls by Michael Newton |
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gsbltd
User ID: 495099
9/1/2008 10:58 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
"MEDITATIONS" -by Marcus Aurelius
I first read it 39 years ago at the age of 16 and still return again and again to remind me of how shabby men have become in the past 2,000 years. |
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aaron_o.o
rarely pure, never simple
User ID: 487215
9/1/2008 11:00 AM
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- next, the Hidden Messages of Water by Masaru Emoto
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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! Quoting: a-noid 494508
you think that one is good? oh, it is good. Anyone interested in the Hidden Message of Water should definitely try the Holographic Universe by Talbot. Not more of the same at all. More of what you want. Answers, but even far more questions.
"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes"
- Justice Felix Frankfurter
"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing NO allegiance and acknowledging NO responsibility to the people." - Theodore Roosevelt, 1906
Pythagoras
...never allowed his neophytes to see him during the years of probation, but instructed them from behind a curtain in his cave
- H. P. Blavatsky (Isis Unveiled)
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[link to www.myspace.com] |
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The Analog Guy
User ID: 495112
9/1/2008 11:08 AM
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At a low spiritual point, The Michael boooks. I found them in the desert.
The best work of fantasy fiction ever: The Book of the New Sun by gene Wolfe.
[link to www.cafepress.com]
"If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning round in a circle of insignificant interests and insignificant aims, if he could understand what they are losing, he would understand that there can be only one thing that is serious for him—to escape from the general law, to be free. What can be serious for a man in prison who is condemned to death? Only one thing: How to save himself, how to escape: nothing else is serious-Gurdjieff |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 471886
9/1/2008 11:28 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
1984 - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger
Misery - Stephen King
The Stand - Stephen King
The Shining - Stephen King
The Dark Tower - Stephen King
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K Dick
Ubik - Philip K Dick
A Scanner Darkly - Philip K Dick
Second Variety - Philip K Dick
We Can Remember it for you Wholesale - Philip K Dick
Minority Report - Philip K Dick
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Watchmen - Alan Moore
V for Vendetta - Alan Moore
From Hell - Alan Moore
Fight Club - Chuck Phalanuik
One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest - Ken Kesey
The Prince - Nicollo Machivelli
The Art Of War - Nicollo Machivelli
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
Richard III - William Shakespeare
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
The Di Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The War of the Worlds - H.G.Wells
The Time Machine - H.G.Wells
The Invisible Man - H.G.Wells
20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne
Around the World in 80 days - Jules Verne
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr
Thats just what ive read or re-read in the past 2 years or so that had a huge impact on my psyche, Ive yet to read any Ayn Rand, which so many of you have mentioned, Not read any Kurt Vonnegut, No William S Boroughs so although i have read a huge amount of popular literature im missing some huge classics here and there.
I am a huge literature collector though, id hate to actually count how many books i have but its probably 200-300, ive actually started forgetting what i have and buying multiple copies, i have more than one copy of Stephen King Desperation, multiple Phil K Dick collections.
I need to offload some of my duplicates on ebay.
But yeah, Literature is one of my passions, probably stems from having a terrible English education at school, which then turned into a passion for books as i got older.
The Only decent book i ever read in school was Flowers for Algernon, no 1984, no animal farm, yeah my school was bad. |
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HannibalTheCannibal
User ID: 471886
9/1/2008 11:29 AM
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Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
1984 - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger
Misery - Stephen King
The Stand - Stephen King
The Shining - Stephen King
The Dark Tower - Stephen King
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K Dick
Ubik - Philip K Dick
A Scanner Darkly - Philip K Dick
Second Variety - Philip K Dick
We Can Remember it for you Wholesale - Philip K Dick
Minority Report - Philip K Dick
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Watchmen - Alan Moore
V for Vendetta - Alan Moore
From Hell - Alan Moore
Fight Club - Chuck Phalanuik
One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest - Ken Kesey
The Prince - Nicollo Machivelli
The Art Of War - Nicollo Machivelli
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
Richard III - William Shakespeare
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
The Di Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The War of the Worlds - H.G.Wells
The Time Machine - H.G.Wells
The Invisible Man - H.G.Wells
20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne
Around the World in 80 days - Jules Verne
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr
Thats just what ive read or re-read in the past 2 years or so that had a huge impact on my psyche, Ive yet to read any Ayn Rand, which so many of you have mentioned, Not read any Kurt Vonnegut, No William S Boroughs so although i have read a huge amount of popular literature im missing some huge classics here and there.
I am a huge literature collector though, id hate to actually count how many books i have but its probably 200-300, ive actually started forgetting what i have and buying multiple copies, i have more than one copy of Stephen King Desperation, multiple Phil K Dick collections.
I need to offload some of my duplicates on ebay.
But yeah, Literature is one of my passions, probably stems from having a terrible English education at school, which then turned into a passion for books as i got older.
The Only decent book i ever read in school was Flowers for Algernon, no 1984, no animal farm, yeah my school was bad. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 471886
Yeah that wall of text was me, unfortunately.
I must say, i like Duncans taste in Literature, and is Ayn Rand really that good?
There is NO PROFIT IN PEACE, There is NO PROPHET IN PEACE.
Resident GLP Religion HATER and PROUD Atheist.
Carl Sagan "A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." |
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HannibalTheCannibal
User ID: 471886
9/1/2008 11:35 AM
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Im in the middle of about 10 books at the moment, including, The Satanic Bible, Mein Kampf, Moby Dick, The Illuminatus Trillogy, American Psycho, The Dice Man.
There is NO PROFIT IN PEACE, There is NO PROPHET IN PEACE.
Resident GLP Religion HATER and PROUD Atheist.
Carl Sagan "A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 491473
9/1/2008 11:38 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Captains and the Kings by Taylor Caldwell
I am totally astonished that no one here has mentioned this book! It is classified fiction but tells a real story of the power behind the powers. Caldwell had a devil of a time getting it published and researching the references tells why.
Anyone interested in knowing about NWO and its roots should check out this excellent tale... AND the bibliography!
Interesting timeline anomaly... I could SWEAR I read this book for the first time in '71 or '72... then again in '77 when I actually took the time to read the referenced materials... Now, I see it listed as Published in 1976... WTF? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 179005
9/1/2008 11:40 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
"Mystery Of The Ages" by Herbert W Armstrong Quoting: C.c 388618
Absolute trash |
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1echo
User ID: 491732 (OP)
9/1/2008 1:19 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Copying from another thread reply: (Quoting user "tracy"):
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
It is in the "Name a book that changed the course of your life" thread in GLP. |
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ObeyTheOctopus
User ID: 452708
9/1/2008 9:52 PM
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Im in the middle of about 10 books at the moment, including, The Satanic Bible, Mein Kampf, Moby Dick, The Illuminatus Trillogy, American Psycho, The Dice Man. Quoting: HannibalTheCannibal
You have excellent taste my friend.
"Buy the ticket, take the ride." |
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gooderboy
User ID: 82268
9/1/2008 10:12 PM
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... lol, yikes.... way too many many books to mention here... and the coursings of me life has often changed with one or more of them in hand too.
Do share. We may learn a thing or two.
... double yikes, lol... waaaayyyyy tooooo long of a story too... and sorry. But... the book 'Pilgrim's Progress', and I guess I might would say... really 'kicked it off' for me, and so to speak, and when I was like 10 years old. And it's been just the most incredibly never ending ever changing adventure 'ever' (and, 'kicked it off' meaning as far as exploring these here 'inner realms' are concerned anyways).
But golly... there's been loads and loads of books along me way as well... and here's but some of them for ya.
The Bible
The Koran
The Tibetan Book Of The Dead
The Gita
The Torah
The Buddha's teachings
Three Magic Words
I Seem To Be A Verb
Illusions
Stranger In A Strange Land
The Nature Of Personal Reality
(et al Seth's/Jane's books)
Bringers Of The Dawn
Sidhartha
The Prophet
Through The Looking Glass
Don Juan's books
Lord Of The Dawn
Joy Of Cooking
The Conversation With God books
The Dictionary
Thanks for sharimg GB! I know of them all, but have not read all. Pilgrim's Progress is by John Bunyan, right? You are a puritan! Have you heard of "The Way of a Pilgrim" , written by Anonymous about a truth seeker in the old Orthodox Russia, sustaining on his Bible and the Philokalia (Book of the Desert Fathers)? Search it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 491732
... you are for sure welcome, and yes... yes it is.
And I for sure don't know nothing about being any sorta Puritan, but... lol, I am one of them gooder guys. And no, I haven't read that one... and please oh please... and oh please again too, lol... please don't be adding any more to the stack of books I already have piled here next to me... and yikes! It does sound pretty dang gooder though.
(and no, I say to myself, stop it Owen!... get through that stack there first, and then we'll see, lol) |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 494621
9/1/2008 10:14 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
The Celestine prophecy
it changed my life since it represented a lot of what I believed before reading it! It's an amazing feeling when you read something from another person that you belief (and think you're crazy for that)
but that was a long time ago |
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anime eyes
User ID: 408056
9/1/2008 10:48 PM | |
Don Juan
User ID: 445168
9/1/2008 10:59 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge |
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HannibalTheCannibal
User ID: 471886
9/2/2008 6:53 AM
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Im in the middle of about 10 books at the moment, including, The Satanic Bible, Mein Kampf, Moby Dick, The Illuminatus Trillogy, American Psycho, The Dice Man.
You have excellent taste my friend. Quoting: ObeyTheOctopus
Thank you, so do many others in this thread, not sure if you posted a list, but ill check now.
There is NO PROFIT IN PEACE, There is NO PROPHET IN PEACE.
Resident GLP Religion HATER and PROUD Atheist.
Carl Sagan "A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." |
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HannibalTheCannibal
User ID: 471886
9/2/2008 6:55 AM
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Ah, can't pick just one... Any one of these on a given day...
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Tao Te Ching
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
Behold A Pale Horse by William Cooper
Be Here Now by Ram Dass
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Casteneda
Valis by Philip K Dick
Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson Quoting: ObeyTheOctopus
Ahh Steppenwolf, i need to buy that, i really should check out some Hunter S Thompson too.
Only books i know are Fear and Loathing and Hells Angels?
Seems like you have good taste too dude.
There is NO PROFIT IN PEACE, There is NO PROPHET IN PEACE.
Resident GLP Religion HATER and PROUD Atheist.
Carl Sagan "A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." |
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C.c
User ID: 494444
9/2/2008 7:02 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
"Mystery Of The Ages" by Herbert W Armstrong
Absolute trash Quoting: Anonymous Coward 179005
Why? |
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Fée des bois.
User ID: 495628
9/2/2008 7:09 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
1st. All the T. Lobsang Rampa books at 14
2nd. The Bible in my 20
3rd. All Carlos Castanada story in my 20 too
4th. The celestine prophecy in my 40
since the last 8 years Godlike Production Forum. |
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gsbltd
User ID: 495346
9/2/2008 11:25 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
After reading the titles of the books that have CHANGED THE COURSE OF YOUR LIFE [Dracula, The Cat In The Hat]?, I'm really not surprised at some of the things I read in the threads here at GLP. |
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