Books That Changed Your World Views/ Life in a Profound Way

[F-A Soldier]

What are books you've read that gave you a very significant change on how you've viewed the world, politics, life, religion, philosophy, etc.?

Me:

Machiavelli's The Prince, one of my favorite books. (Although I like the Discourses on Livy better)

Freidrich Nietszche's Human All Too Human, and Die Spracht Zarathustra...although I'm not atheistic (anymore), my philosophy is greatly 'widened' by Nietszche.

Karl Marx's Das Kapital [esp. on reification] ...I'm by no means a "communist" but most people can agree on the at least the critique posed on many of his works.

Frued's Civilization and Its Discontents (also Group Psychology and the Ego)...a lot of which echoes Schopenhauer and Nietszche.

other i'll post it later when I recall...

[Nightwing05]

john steinbeck's..
the pearl..

[arrimacababayao]

What are books you've read that gave you a very significant change on how you've viewed the world, politics, life, religion, philosophy, etc.?

Me:

Machiavelli's The Prince, one of my favorite books. (Although I like the Discourses on Livy better)

Freidrich Nietszche's Human All Too Human, and Die Spracht Zarathustra...although I'm not atheistic (anymore), my philosophy is greatly 'widened' by Nietszche.

Karl Marx's Das Kapital [esp. on reification] ...I'm by no means a "communist" but most people can agree on the at least the critique posed on many of his works.

Frued's Civilization and Its Discontents (also Group Psychology and the Ego)...a lot of which echoes Schopenhauer and Nietszche.

other i'll post it later when I recall...

Ito yung mga books na we read while I was still in college.

Mine are:

* All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
* The Social Construction of Reality by Beger and Luckman
* The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn

[Meanie!!]

Ok nothing too fancy. While I read those Psychology/Philosophical books, they didnt really affect me( I though of them as burdens back in school lol). Here goes:

1. Any book of John Maxwell

2. Road Less Traveled.

3. Bible

[phil14:3]

as a former skeptic atheist, i would always ask believers questions about the bible. many of them can't give me straight answers regarding contraditories in the scripture. it seemed as if that i was reading and studying it more than the believers themselves do.

so one day, while thouroughly reading the bible, just like an epiphany, i did realized that there is indeed a supreme being. i know that this feeling in my heart is as real is it got as i experienced it personally. seriously, no feeling can decribe what i felt that day! at that very moment i fell on my knees and accepted Christ as my savior.

very ironic indeed. God decided to show Himself to me through reading and studying the bible that i used to do to argue with believers.

as for other books not pertaining to religion, i have a looooooot.

[...wakaranai]

The Little Prince
The Alchemist

[beefixer]

The Little Prince

awww... one thing my exes had in common... they all read this. my favorite quote from the book isn't "griffin and the eye" (hehe...obscure sci-fi reference) but "On ne sait jamais!" (One never knows!) with the runner-up being the snake's line: "It is lonely when you're among people, too..."

BUT the one book that's changed my life more than anything else is Trevanian's SHIBUMI, an espionage thriller heavy on japanese philosophy.

[...wakaranai]

^ my favorite line is "What makes the desert beautiful, is that somewhere it hides a well."

it's a mantra that i follow in my life; that everything and everyone has beauty and kindness.

[beefixer]

but, DOES it hide a well?

one never knows!

and THAT is the adventure.

[letran_j]

Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl

[foolmonkey]

rosales saga by sionil jose

[kim G]

Cane River, naiba ang tingin sa mga black people after understanding what they had gone through during the slavery.

I have a respect for them and understand the how,what ,why of their behaviour.

Mahirap isipin kung kaya i survive ng filipino race what they had gone through.

[harrypotterfan]

i think the Harry Potter series had a great impact on me. i know it's a children's book not to mention it's genre is fantasy but it really made me appreciate the things/people that i have in my life. i learned how to value my friends and respect people as well as other creatures. i learned that strength comes from within and when you believe in yourself you can accomplish things and be a better person.

another book that somehow changed my views about life in general is Paulo Coelho's Like A Flowing River. there are short stories in there that opened my eyes and appreciate life itself.

these are only some of the books that i remember because i've read so many books and i've forgotten some of them already.

[bambi7]

Ang walang kamatayang The Little Prince.

[Meanie!!]

Ayn Rand, anyone?

[beefixer]

^^ Atlas Shrugged!!!

dude, tanong ko lang, who's John Galt?

[Sailor Moon]

"Absorbing Spongebob" Ten ways to squeeze more happiness out of life. by Steven Harriman.
This book delivers the lessons with a light touch without spoiling the fun.

Now, when im about to make a big, and scary decision. i just imagine how spongebob squarepants would handle it...

[F-A Soldier]

The Underground Man, F. Dostoevsky

[beefixer]

"Absorbing Spongebob" Ten ways to squeeze more happiness out of life. by Steven Harriman.
This book delivers the lessons with a light touch without spoiling the fun.

Now, when im about to make a big, and scary decision. i just imagine how spongebob squarepants would handle it...

^^scream hysterically about it for the next ten minutes, then do something completely unrelated? hehe... just messin'

[pomona]

the bridge across forever (richard bach)