Books that changed your life/perspective?

[Marsilius]

I have had recommended to me
It's All Politics, by Reardon.

[pensplash]

Woodcraft and Camping, Bernard Mason

Annapurna, Maurice Herzog

Seven years in Tibet

Living the good life, Helen and Scott Nearing

Books by Jack London

Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey

Coming Into The Country, John McPhee

The Dangerous River, R.M. Patterson

[dneal]

The Great Thoughts by George Seldes
The Tao of Pooh

[Tiggercat]

Think Like a Freak

[SeminarianMike]

Platos the Republic also had a impact on my life would like to throw that into the hat

[Inxoy]

Platos the Republic also had a impact on my life would like to throw that into the hat

The Republic is on my upcoming read list. A quote from it is one of the driving factors for it being on my list. "The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows."

My books:
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Extreme Ownership, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

The two quotes below are from different books which I haven't read but likewise have really enjoyed pondering.

From Kite Runner - "I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."

From All The Little Live Things - "There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences."

[Marsilius]

Books that transformed perspective? Hmm, for starters:
Amphigorey, Edward Gorey
The Cyberiad, Stanislav Lem
Kings Row, Henry Bellamann
The British Broadside Ballad and its Music, Claude Simpson
Ethics, Baruch/Benedict Spinoza
The Mellon Chansonnier, Leeman Perkins
The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank
Sabbatai Zevi:The Mystical Messiah, Gershom Scholem
Touches of Sweet Harmony, S. K. Henninger

[sharmon202]

Blink by Gladwell
The World is Flat by Friedman

I still think about what these authors said today and it was several years ago I read them. Friedman's was a thick book but a quick read.

[bluesea]

- Musashi (Eiji Yoshikawa)

Didn't quite chance my perspective, but great book. Read it at least a couple times. Had a very hard time finding it the first time. Think he also wrote Taiko, which was pretty good.

[Marsilius]

Wel, now that you mention it, I had one of those transformative moments reading Pseudo-Dionysius. Platonic, Pyhtagorean, and a beautiful image of the Divine descending to imperfect creatures. Wouldn't call it light reading, though.

[TSherbs]

Emily Dickinson said that she knew that she was reading "poetry" if she encountered herself having this experience: "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way?”

Are you looking to feel this way?

[Waski_the_Squirrel]

Am I boring if I say that Science for All Americans was that book for me. It revolutionized how I thought about teaching science and math. I'm still not at that ideal, but every year I teach, I get closer.

[sharmon202]

Platos the Republic also had a impact on my life would like to throw that into the hat

The Republic is on my upcoming read list. A quote from it is one of the driving factors for it being on my list. "The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows."

My books:
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Extreme Ownership, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

The two quotes below are from different books which I haven't read but likewise have really enjoyed pondering.

From Kite Runner - "I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."

From All The Little Live Things - "There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences."

I have read Atlas Shrugged 2 or 3 times. An amazing book but often a person in certain situations is reviled saying you like her books. Anthem is one often overlooked.

[Inxoy]

Platos the Republic also had a impact on my life would like to throw that into the hat

The Republic is on my upcoming read list. A quote from it is one of the driving factors for it being on my list. "The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows."

My books:
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Extreme Ownership, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

The two quotes below are from different books which I haven't read but likewise have really enjoyed pondering.

From Kite Runner - "I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."

From All The Little Live Things - "There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences."

I have read Atlas Shrugged 2 or 3 times. An amazing book but often a person in certain situations is reviled saying you like her books. Anthem is one often overlooked.

It is true that by itself, liking Atlas Shrugged or not liking Atlas Shrugged will tell people where you stand on much of life.

[penwash]

I have read Atlas Shrugged 2 or 3 times. An amazing book but often a person in certain situations is reviled saying you like her books. Anthem is one often overlooked.

Maybe I've bee living under a rock.
But why would anyone be reviled for liking Atlas Shrugged?

[Inxoy]

I have read Atlas Shrugged 2 or 3 times. An amazing book but often a person in certain situations is reviled saying you like her books. Anthem is one often overlooked.

Maybe I've bee living under a rock.
But why would anyone be reviled for liking Atlas Shrugged?

Some find it morally corrupt because it doesn't care for charity or entitlements. You should reap what you yourself sowed. Anthem and The Fountainhead are also good Rand books. A is A.

[TSherbs]

Maybe I've bee living under a rock.
But why would anyone be reviled for liking Atlas Shrugged?

Some find it morally corrupt because it doesn't care for charity or entitlements. You should reap what you yourself sowed. Anthem and The Fountainhead are also good Rand books. A is A.

Unkind people "revile" others for all sorts of aesthetic or political or social likes and dislikes. This kind of judgment is unpleasant, uncharitable, and sometimes caustic.

[SeminarianMike]

Why has no one else's life been changed by grumpy cats books of memes and musings

[penwash]

- Musashi (Eiji Yoshikawa)

Didn't quite chance my perspective, but great book. Read it at least a couple times. Had a very hard time finding it the first time. Think he also wrote Taiko, which was pretty good.

This book changes my perspective through relating with the characters.
Like Musashi, always trying to be stronger but find that there is always a mountain higher than the next one he defeated.
Or like Matahachi, who are always too afraid to challenge himself and finds temptations to be a regrettable refuge that he can't escape from.

[gbryal]

I've never read Atlas Shrugged, so don't have a strong opinion about it, but this makes me laugh anyway. http://www.angryflower.com/348.html