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

[accidentalhero]

No book ever came close to changing my life. Some got me thinking hard maybe but not to change my views entirely.


The Christian Bible did not make me an atheist.
I was a teen-age douchebag not because of Salinger's novel.

And I'm certain I didn't turn out sporting the alternative lifetsyle/orientation because of Oscar Wilde. Ha-ha!

I appreciate all these gamut of philosophy-cum self help books by who-else-but Coelho and his legion but I guess it's not my cup of tea.

The Art of War notable for me though. And yeah, those goddam Cisco books!!!!!

[F-A Soldier]

LOL.

[f0r5aK3n]

^^ Seriously! After reading Glenn Beck, does one become a democrat or be even more right-wing? hehehe

[F-A Soldier]

Neither. You become retarded. What I dislike with polaristic antagonists (left or right) is that they ridicule that side they 'belong' (like idiotic hippies to the left is the fundies on the right). Esp. Beck, he uses idiotic non-coherent scare tactics that is more gossip than political statement is retarded.

[dinky207]

William Forstchen , One Second After

[jansuing]

The Alchemist
Atlas Shrugged
Catcher in the Rye
Veronika Decides to Die


Currently reading: Thus Spake Zarathustra, Communist Manifesto

[LimpBwiZit]

The Little Prince

[Riza Hernandez]

i love "EAST OF EDEN" by John Steinbeck and "100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. These are the books which created big impacts in my views about life

oh..just finished reading "MY SISTER'S KEEPER" by Jodi Picoult. loved it.

[QT II]

"Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" by Tom Wolfe.

[C.I.C.C.I]

"Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" by Tom Wolfe.

Hello there.

Didn't know that Tom Wolfe wrote a book with the same title by TOM ROBBINS

[elhy]

University of Success by Og Mandino
the first self-help book I've read. This introduced me to the ideas about success.

Hot to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler and Charles van Doren
This book impressed deeply in my mind the love for reading.

Double Your Dating by David DeAngelo aka Eben Pagan
This led me to believe that it is possible to be good with women, but you must learn several inconvenient truths about women and disabuse your mind about the BS that your socio-cultural environment taught you about women and dating.

[QT II]

Hello there.

Didn't know that Tom Wolfe wrote a book with the same title by TOM ROBBINS

Thanks for the correction. Why did I let that slip!!!

[stepehenyan@12]

The Poltically incorrect guide to islam and the crusade by robert spencer.

[melala]

I think it'd be The Purpose Driven Life, Og Mandino's The Greatest Salesman in the World and The Bible. Backreading some of the recommendations here, would love to get a read of them some time.

[honey4evr]

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.

the above post was really old by can't help but reply.

just a reminder... we filipinos were enslaved in our very own land for hundreds of years by the spaniards, or have we forgotten already? at least yung mga blacks, let's say here in the US, they were brought here to be slaves. wala silang masyadong nagawa non kasi wala sila sa sarili nilang teritoryo to get help from. and i can say filipinos are still slaves of political mockery peddled by the oligarchs up to this day, something we inherited from our old spanish rulers. just my 2 cents.