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| What book has had the greatest impact on you?
Posted: 3/13/2006 6:02:45 AM | Farenheit 451
if memory is correct..
egads.. well there you have it I have disqualify myself,
for a living book..dang it..
After that book and movie.. I have read and read.
Hence one of the reasons I like coming in here..
to read all the more, the thoughts of all...
back to my books..at the moment am in
The Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice.
see ya's.. | |
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| What book has had the greatest impact on you?
Posted: 3/14/2006 3:07:34 AM | | "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" by Rabbi Kushner. As an assignment in a class I took, I was asked to choose a book to read and review. I chose this book because it was the shortest of the lot, lol. I was raised in a Christian home. We changed denominations a couple different times, but we always attended services regularly. I had never given much thought to other religions, but I often struggled with varying views among Christian denominations. This book made sense of all the frustrating ideals from my past. I was so excited that I immediately wanted to know more about Judism and other religions. My disappointment was great when I found that there are just as many over-bearing closed-minded Jews as there are over-bearing close-minded Christians. Even so, I felt "enlightened", and gained an appreciation for all religions. lol, I believe this was the whole point of the class. | |
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| What book has had the greatest impact on you?
Posted: 3/14/2006 1:03:57 PM | Ahh so many good books so little time:
Some fav's
Tuesdays with Morrie- Really touching story and morrie was a gift.
The Artist Way- Interesting for those blocked artistic types.
All's Quiet in the Western Front- fairly sad but still a good read.
Art of War and Art of War Two: Usful if planning a coup but applies well to all human physchology.
Many many others and its good to see Im not the only book worm out there.
SAd that so many of us stop reading after school....its still one of the best forms of entertainment/education going! | |
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| What book has had the greatest impact on you?
Posted: 3/16/2006 11:33:29 PM | TH Whites the Once and future king..
The Hiram Key by Christopher Lomas
The Marian Conspiracy.. by i dont remember..
And the cat in the hat by Dr Seuss...
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| What book has had the greatest impact on you?
Posted: 3/19/2006 1:10:51 AM | I agree with the OP on this one, Life of Pi was very eye opening.
Also another book that really hit me is THe Five People you meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. I am not religious, but this still was a good read and made me think of how I impact others around me without even knowing. Very very good! | |
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| What book has had the greatest impact on you?
Posted: 3/23/2006 5:54:12 PM | | i dont know about impact ,...i guess so,...but heinlein`s strange man in a strange land was one that makes me stop to this day because of it`s truthfulness and halariety all at once,... to make a long story short it plays on the english language and the expresions of it,... i found it ribachingly funny and yet the theme was erriely famaliar with steps taken in every day life | |
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| What book has had the greatest impact on you?
Posted: 3/24/2006 9:26:57 PM | Roots,
It changed my life. I read this at work when I had a part time job, back when I was in grade 11.. I have never been so profoundly changed, by any other book... It came at the perfect time in my life. Makes you really appreciate your family.. | |
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| What book has had the greatest impact on you?
Posted: 12/19/2006 6:34:35 PM | | The Callahan Chronicles by Spider Robinson as well as the rest of his stories in this universe he plays in. Lady Sally and Mike Callahan are great characters (as are the rest of the barflies at Callahans and the clients at the House) and Spider's view of the world and universal rules are brilliant. Remember 'shared pain is squared, shared joy is cubed or better' Lady Sally McGee and Mike Callahan aka the Mick of Time. | |
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bobby7
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Joined: 3/22/2006
Msg: 42 | |
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| What book has had the greatest impact on you?
Posted: 12/20/2006 4:59:05 PM |
Are you softening up, Kerry?...LOL Perhaps, humanity, with all its faults, tapped upon your door, As did "The Raven" Lmao
Normally, for those with a penchant for obsession, I'd recommend Melville's "Moby****. Somehow, though, "Don Quixote" seems more appropriate in your case.
-Kerry O., "And if you keep up with this off-topic trolling? Perchance we'll have one of the mods read you "Gone With the Wind." " | |
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| What book has had the greatest impact on you?
Posted: 12/21/2006 10:52:07 AM | The book that has had the most impact on my life other than the scriptures is called
Ariana:The making of a Queen, by Rachel Anne Nunes.
I thought the book was going to be a really boring book and way too preachy as it is a religious book, but it captured my heart about 1 chapter in and I bawled the rest of the way through it. The author turned it into a series, and I cried through each of them as well.
She has written several other books and they are all great. They aren't directly connected to Ariana, but they all somehow tie in to someone related to or friends with her. It's a great author than can do that without making it cheesy.
Jack Weyland is also a great author, and has written many books which have helped me to become a better person. | |
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| What book has had the greatest impact on you?
Posted: 12/21/2006 11:05:18 AM | A Child Called it was eye-opening
But my all-time favorite is ' Where The Red Fern Grows' and i've passed it on to my son as well...may sound silly, but that's been my favorite book since our teacher read it to us in grade five, and I have read it many times since | |
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| What book has had the greatest impact on you?
Posted: 12/23/2006 1:00:45 AM | "The Celestine Prophecy", it was recommended by a friend after a night of discussion... She thought I had read the book because of some of the thoughts I had expressed... Once she found out I hadn't she insisted I read it and gave me a copy, I was surprised and happy that others shared some of my opinions...
Another book that I have read a number of times is "Anam Cara - A Book Of Celtic Wisdom", below is one of my favourite passages...
"Beannacht
For Josie
On the day when
the weight deadens
on your shoulders
and you stumble
may the clay dance
to balance you.
And when your eyes
Freeze behind
the grey window
and the ghost of loss
gets into you,
may a flock of colors,
indigo, red, green,
and azure blue
come to awaken you
a meadow of delight.
When the canvas frays
in the curach of thought
and a stain of ocean
blackens beneath you,
may there come across the waters
a path of yellow moonlight
to bring you safely home.
May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
may the clarity of light be yours,
may the fluency of the ocean be yours,
may the protection of the ancestors be yours.
And may a slow
wind work these words
of love around you,
an invisible cloak
to mind your life."
On September 20, 2003, one day before my 32nd birthday my little brother who was 2 yrs younger than me was killed in a car accident when he swerved to miss an oncoming car and lost control of the car he was driving…
When we buried his ashes I placed a picture beside the urn of him and I standing in the middle of a huge sunflower field we had taken one year earlier and on the back of the picture I wrote those words… and to this day I am right beside him as I had been throughout his 30 years… “a path of yellow moonlight” to bring him safely home, as he has done for me so many times since then… | |
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ksue44
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Joined: 6/20/2005
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| What book has had the greatest impact on you?
Posted: 12/24/2006 12:21:37 PM | A couple of books come to mind:
"The Dream Giver" by Bruce Wilkinson
"The Richest Man in Babylon" by George Cleason
"The Slight Edge" by Jeff Olson
"Think & Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill | |
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| What book has had the greatest impact on you?
Posted: 12/24/2006 7:48:53 PM | The Secret Life Of Plants By Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird
A must-read, ground-breaking study of plants and their emotions.
Skeptics will always have doubts, but after 30 years of organic gardening and non-academic exposure to plants, I know Tompkins and Bird are onto something. So do many modern scientists who have discovered belatedly that much of what the authors described 30 years ago may be true afterall.
This book demonstrates that plants are indeed more alive than we suspected, and are our willing helpmates in all aspects of life, if we would but listen. Recommended for all who work with plants, and for those who already believe in the living universe, and who want to see scientific confirmation of that fact.
This book had a lasting influence on my life since the first time that I read it. I have always loved plants and had respect for them - especially trees. However, after reading The Secret Life of Plants I knew why. As the book so amply illustrates plants are living, sentient beings with a conscious life of their own. Plants have been around since the dawn of time and know a few things about survival, but more importantly we can learn a lot from plants. Most people know that plants provide us with oxygen, food, medicines, clothing, shade, and beauty, but very few people realised anything about the other side of plant life, the secret life of plants - their consciousness, feelings, pain, longings, and joys. Tompkins and Bird unlocked this closed side of plant life for many of us for the first time. Photosynthesis is a model for us, but we collectively, have not been paying enough attention.
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odim
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