What Are The Books You Read That Changed The Way You Look At Life?

[OMGWTFBBQ]

I think learning and really understanding math more so than any single book had the biggest impact on me.

I can remember To Kill a Mockingbird having an impact on me when I first read it, but I don't think it changed my life.

I think A Demon Haunted World is a great book, but mainly because I agree heavily with it - so it didn't really change anything.

Some of that Curious George shit will seriously pry open your third eye though.

 

[BO-DEN]

I think learning and really understanding math more so than any single book had the biggest impact on me.

Some of that Curious George shit will seriously pry open your third eye though.

my favorit answers

 

[juve]

Beowulf and L'Etranger had the most profound effect on me, I still find myself quite often recollecting the two works..

 

[anabolicmd]

Melville's "Moby Dick"

Dickens' "Oliver Twist"

Yves Lavigne's "Three can keep a secret if two are dead"

Robert E Howard's "Conan the Barbarian"

George "Buffalo" Toomer's "American Extremes"


Bruce Lee's "Tao of Jeet Kune Do"

 

[digger]

Had a cool civics teacher -- he had to tell us about Karl Marx, but he didn't feel right leaving us all chanting "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." So he followed up with something that wasn't on the curriculum (and I hope he never got caught) -- he gave us a big slug of Ayn Rand. Who decides my ability? Who decides my needs? I do.

 

[Lift Chief]

Some of the books on Buddhism i have read have influenced the way i look at certain things.

 

[PIGEON-RAT]

crime and punishment

 

[sconoscuito]

wallstreet journal

 

[glennds]

"the fountainhead" by ayn rand.

 

[Testosterone boy]

"The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins. I hold that book partially responsible for my feelings of pointless existence and depressive behavior.

oh, yeah...Could Playboy be considered a book?

Yea...I read that book and can agree. I could add a dozen other books designed to depress that I had the misfortune of reading while a vulnerable college student.