Life Changing Books... [Archive]

Smapdey

March 29th, 2003, 10:22 PM

Does anyone have any really life changing books? Things you've read that shaped the way you've thought forever since? I'd have to say that Venus on the Half Shell, Dave Barry Slept Here, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Starship Troopers and Catcher in the Rye have all changed me as a person. Anyone else got some great ones to share?

Downfall

March 29th, 2003, 10:27 PM

Einsteins dreams........thats was a pretty good book......and Dave Barry turns 50

Yian

March 29th, 2003, 10:40 PM

No books ever change the way I think about things since I never think too much there is no way you can influence something that doesn't occur too often...

There used to be a book called "The Selfish Gene", talked about a theory states that genes are the actually rulers of theis world. It kind of fits my philosophy... and It gave me a lot of confidence to the way I look at things...

ReDeeMeR

March 30th, 2003, 12:26 AM

LOTR

cr3am

March 30th, 2003, 12:40 AM

well, the movie was much better, but Fight Club really changed my outlook on life (is that a good thing?)

AVataRR

March 30th, 2003, 03:00 AM

Carl Sagan's Cosmos.

An uncle lent it to me. By the end of it I was an avowed atheist! That taught him!

:D

Really. Its an excelent book.

Odm

March 30th, 2003, 05:44 AM

The Joy Luck Club changed my view of chinese people... We had to read it for english. And Watership Down... sort of

portzebie

March 30th, 2003, 08:01 AM

mine is napalm ans silly putty by george carlin he makes think about everythingdifferetly now!:)

Bluu

March 30th, 2003, 10:20 AM

HMS Ullyses is a great book...teaches a lot abour bravery, courage and endurance of the human mind and body...

Obscurus

March 30th, 2003, 10:28 AM

Hell, thats easy! The 1995 Playboy Girls of College Edition! That altered my life, the articles of course...but in reality it would have to be J. D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye", great stuff.

Odm

March 30th, 2003, 10:30 AM

I really liked it until my brother pointed out that Holden complains all the time and is a hypocrite. But I still like it...

Hobbes874

March 30th, 2003, 01:02 PM

"ender's game" and "ender's shadow" gave me insite into a world that would possibly exist in 100 years or so, and political aspect of it as well makes me think a little different.

cr3am

March 30th, 2003, 01:11 PM

reading ender's game right now :D

Odm

March 30th, 2003, 01:34 PM

I don't think there's any one book that's changed my outlook on life, but many that have changed my outlook on a subject. For instance, Bravo Two Zero and The Regiment changed my outlook on the SAS/Army

Smapdey

March 30th, 2003, 03:54 PM

Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow are both books that belong on there as well.

Phoosh

March 30th, 2003, 03:56 PM

Fahrenheit 451. Not the shitty movie folks, the book.

portzebie

March 30th, 2003, 04:03 PM

kind of like Fahrenheit 451 ,1984 we got choose in class one these two which to read I read 1984 it is a great book

Yian

March 30th, 2003, 04:17 PM

Originally posted by Odm
I really liked it until my brother pointed out that Holden complains all the time and is a hypocrite. But I still like it...
Some people even called Holden a complete loser thus they thought the book was bad... hell no! What is wrong of reading a book about a loser? The book will be no fun if he never complain about the shit... in fact the best parts of the book are usually made up of his complaints...

It is good to know that you still like it... just like me:D

Smapdey

March 30th, 2003, 04:43 PM

In real life, right down to a T, I am exactly, well damn near exactly, like Holden. Slightly different here and there, but for the most part, I am the same. I even have a Jane like person in my life. That was a good book, I should read that again.

cr3am

March 30th, 2003, 05:35 PM

Catcher in the Rye was terrible. It was so repetitive it was just so boring. "I hate this. I hate that. What i REALLY hate is that. And when people do this, it pisses me off. Not just any kind of piss of, really pisses me off."

future man

March 30th, 2003, 06:03 PM

I love all the Enders game books as well, also the shadow of hte hegemon stuff.

cr3am

March 30th, 2003, 07:29 PM

if you haven't seen/read fight club, i'd recommend downloading this song, it brings the whole jisst of the life changing thing together, in a cool sounding way:

Movie Quotes - Fight Club - This Is Your Life.mp3

Hobbes874

March 30th, 2003, 09:45 PM

yeah I need to get the newer books by Orson Scott Card :( I think were all like Holden in a way :D I know i am

NuclearWhale

March 30th, 2003, 10:07 PM

Originally posted by cr3am
well, the movie was much better, but Fight Club really changed my outlook on life (is that a good thing?)

Fight Club makes so many good points in that movie

Hitman

March 30th, 2003, 11:51 PM

Hustler... after looking through some comments in Hustler I realised that women think the same things we're thinking.. so therefore I approach all chicks I meet with the idea that i'm going to get some, even their moms.. so far so good.