Books that changed your life

[Totenkindly]

It's a step. Now we just need to work on the funny.

Hmmm. Maybe the whole joke was meant to be situational comedy or something... <wanders off confused>

[Eileen]

Franny & Zooey
Brave New World
the Bible (both because it's spiritually significant to me and because I've spent a lot of time reacting against it)
Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love


I'm not sure that I'd say the His Dark Materials trilogy changed my life, but it would have, maybe, if I'd come across it earlier.

[SolitaryWalker]

Yeah. After all, complex and glorious ideas just spontaneously generate within people's minds all on their lonesome.

(Heck, we can't even learn language and thus learn to think cohesively without the influence of other human beings....)

...Wait a second... you were... making a joke! yay! yay! SW made a joke!

No, I was serious. You should let them influence you, but not quite that much.

[Ivy]

Franny & Zooey

Ooh, good one. I read and wrote about this in college on the advice of the professor I had a probably unhealthy attachment to, so it has some icky Fi stuff attached to it now, but it was very meaningful to me and probably did change me.

the Bible (both because it's spiritually significant to me and because I've spent a lot of time reacting against it)

Well said. This is what I meant by "maybe not for the reasons people might think."

[Eileen]

No, I was serious. You should let them influence you, but not quite that much.

I think, for most people, the title of the thread is hyperbole.

[ptgatsby]

I think, for most people, the title of the thread is hyperbole.

Well, the way I see it... what I had for breakfast this morning "Changed my life".

(That's cause I'm trying some green sludge health drink out...)

[Geoff]

Well, the way I see it... what I had for breakfast this morning "Changed my life".

(That's cause I'm trying some green sludge health drink out...)

Yep that would change my life. It would confirm that I dont do breakfast.

-Geoff

[reason]

How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell
The Retreat to Commitment by William Warren Bartley III
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Conjectures and Refutations - Sir Karl Popper

The first two helped get me thinking, the third broadened those thoughts, the fourth solved a difficult problem, the fifth was intellectually inspiring and the last was enlightening.

[Totenkindly]

I think, for most people, the title of the thread is hyperbole.

Yes. More realistically, it should be entitled, "How has SW changed your life?"

[rivercrow]

Yes. More realistically, it should be entitled, "How has SW changed your life?"

LOL!

Okay:

• Lord of the Rings
• Dragonriders of Pern Series
• Heinlein's speculative sci-fi (Stranger, Time Enough, Job, etc)
• Autobiography of a Yogi
• The Bhagavad Gita
• Beyond Good and Evil