Has a book ever changed your life?

the five people you meet in heaven.

teaches you that no matter what you do, you have a profound affect on others.

How to Raise an Emotionally Intelligent Child. by John Gottman.

it makes you realize how people can affect how you think emotionally from birth.

And

YOu just Don't Understand: Conversations between Men and women.

It really clears up some discprencies in points out why the sexes often feel frustrated with each other. It details how society encourages it. Fascinating stuff.

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Zen Mind, Beginners Mind

This did much for me...I am not even a Bhuddist but this taught me how to clear myself...almost like resetting me every time I meditate

-Kyo

Hmm, the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy definately changed my life. Since I was 7 years old I've wanted to be an author, and that was because of Jaws, but the film not the book. Then again, it was the revelation that films could be made from books that changed my life, so it was Peter Benchley's brilliant book that changed everything.

Jaws started me off, and then Douglas Adams came in to my life and showed me a different way of writing; but it was Lovecraft's short stories that brought out my imagination. Before that all I wrote about were stories involving ginormous sea monsters killing hapless victims on their boats, or things about the funny side of fate and luck. Once Lovecraft came to me, all of a sudden my imagination changed and I began thinking above and beyond what was normal to me and now I write about anything (as long as it's horrific ).

Rama D. Filofax on stories that influenced him

Oh by the way it would be 'Call of Cthulhu', 'Horror in the Museum' and 'from beyond' of Lovecraft's that sparked me off.

The Art Of War
The Code Of The Samurai
The Book Of Five Rings
Plato The Republic
Plato The Cave Or Cave

These books are really deep in meaning. You can learn so much about life, strength, confidence, business, and a better meaning of death.

there was a time frame where no individual book but a grouping of books taken together as a whole helped me evolve.

holographic universe - michael talbot (reality is illusion)

full catastrophe living - jon kabat zinn (meditation/stress)
-and his guided meditation cds

journey of the soul series - sylvia browne (reincarnation/afterlife/prelife)

lot of theory and speculation in these books but they really resonate with something within me.

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nice post.. i like it hmmm ill pick books from your thread friend!!

yeheayyyy...

How To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

It is simply just a great book that manages to evoke every possible emotion and feel as if you truly know the characters and can completely feel what they are feeling.

On the polar opposite, a book which had no effect on me and that I had to re-read just to make sure the book was not as bad as I thought but still ended up with the same conclusion: The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger. Apologies if I have offended anyone, but it really isn't a great book.

Hello All

Had to chime in on this one ...

1) Every-book-Enid-Blyton-ever-wrote.
She started me on my paranormal fascination at the tender age of 7 (all those witches and fairies)

2) The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You by Dorothy Bryant.
A must read

3) The Stand - Stephen King
But haven't been able to read anything of his since "Gerald's Game"

4) Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein

And there would be dozens more ...

- Hermit

Martian Chronicles and a compilation of short tales of Asimov that my mom had.