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post #81 of 111
8/3/07 at 11:52pm
Atlas Shrugged-about individualism
http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged...6195498&sr=1-1

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance-about interconnectedness.
http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Motorc...6195541&sr=1-1

Punished By Rewards-anti-behaviorism
http://www.amazon.com/Punished-Rewar...6195632&sr=1-1

Pat
post #82 of 111
8/4/07 at 8:26am
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"
"The Lovely Bones"
"The Secret Life of Bees"
post #83 of 111
8/4/07 at 8:34am
I can't think of one book that has changed my life, but I sure have read a lot of books.

I read 'Atonement' by Ian McEwan (I think I spelled that correctly!) last year. And the ending will probably stay with me forever. It's an amazing book, imo.

I also have to admit that I have read 'Gone with the WInd', oh about 50 times. I should read it again some time, as it's been years. I found the story fascinating on many levels.
post #84 of 111
8/4/07 at 3:26pm
I can't believe no one has mentioned my favorite book!!!

Hands down, no contest, have read it almost every year since I was in highschool....Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. Of couse I've read and loved just about everything he's ever written. I love the worlds he creates that are so free.

Other favorite authors:
Kurt Vonnegut
Douglas Adams
Anne Rice
Frank Herbert
James Patterson

and so many more...just wish I had time to read now that I have a 7 week old
post #85 of 111
8/4/07 at 5:01pm
I thought SIASL was a little weird, even for Heinlein. And I didn't like the ending. I'm the kind of person who only likes happy-hearts-and-flowers endings though. I loved Have Spacesuit Will Travel though. I started Time For the Stars but I don't think I finished it. I think I liked as much of it as I read, though. But then, I liked the first half of Stranger too.

Love Douglas Adams.
post #86 of 111
8/4/07 at 5:41pm
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Originally Posted by addiemom'07 View Post
I can't believe no one has mentioned my favorite book!!!

Hands down, no contest, have read it almost every year since I was in highschool....Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. Of couse I've read and loved just about everything he's ever written. I love the worlds he creates that are so free.


Yup. Just wish they would find different cover art for his books.


One of the things when I met DH and how we knew we were "it" ... we both used the word "grok" in our normal vocabulary, IYKWIM.
post #87 of 111
8/5/07 at 2:27pm
I don't have a single book, but here are some books that are on my "favorites" list:

Harry Potter
Perfume: Story of a Murderer, by Patrick Suskind
Jitterbug Perfume, by Tom Robbins
Jean De Florette and Manon of the Springs, by Marcel Pagnol
Sans Famille, by Hector Malot
The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant
post #88 of 111
8/6/07 at 9:25pm
Outlander (and the rest of the outlander series) by Diana Gabaldon

Love it Love it!!!

I've been having a hard time finding a replacement for this series. I miss those characters!!!
post #89 of 111
8/8/07 at 3:39am
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"The Lovely Bones"
I think based on the OPs criteria, this would be mine as well. It was the first book I read in my life where I was sobbing and couldn't stop.

I read Bean Trees and the sequel this summer by Kingsolver and found them to be very powerful, and I cried, but not to the depth of my sould that Lovely Bones did.. I would much prefer to teach Bean Trees, though, for obvious reasons..
post #90 of 111
8/8/07 at 3:41am
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I don't have a single book, but here are some books that are on my "favorites" list:

Perfume: Story of a Murderer, by Patrick Suskind
This is a great book. Very original. I believe there will be a movie soon? Anyway, this book made me really QUESTION things.. my assumptions, my safety, etc etc.. deep. Dark. Smelly.
post #91 of 111
8/8/07 at 4:26am
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I thought SIASL was a little weird, even for Heinlein. And I didn't like the ending.
I didn't like SIASL either. :

I do like some other books of his that I read, but for reason SIASL just rubs me wrong.

Quote:
Love Douglas Adams.
Not me, I don't like his stuff.


post #92 of 111
8/8/07 at 5:14am
The books I read that changed my life, five-ish years ago, were The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ and The Holy Bible (though I had read -- and discarded -- that one in high school)

As far as fiction goes, I love:

the Harry Potter series
the whole Valdemar series (a bunch of trilogies, with some one-shots), by Mercedes Lackey
Illusions and Jonathon Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach
The Crystal Singer Series, Tower and Hive series, and Petaybee series, by Anne McCaffrey (but oddly enough, not the Dragonriders of Pern series)
Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka

There are many, many more, but that's just what's on my mind at the moment!
post #93 of 111
8/8/07 at 2:39pm
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Originally Posted by abimommy
Not me, I don't like his stuff.


Yeah, I can tell from your avatar.

post #94 of 111
8/8/07 at 3:45pm
I just picked up Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein.

Thanks for the author recommendation, Stormbride!

The weird thing: the guy who reads the audiobook of Stranger in a Strange Land is the same guy who reads Atlas Shrugged. Christopher Hurt.
post #95 of 111
8/9/07 at 2:20pm
Alice in wonderland/lewis carrol
the catcher in the rye\JD Sallinger
Franny and Zoe\JD Sallinger
Demian
Siddharta\herman hesse
The metamorphosis\Kafka
Lord of the rings\Tolkien
All books by Julio Cortazar, an argentinean writer
All books by Jorge Luis Borges, another argentinean
Poetry by Alejandra Pizarnik, Baudelaire, Artaud, Eluard, Breton
Everything Eduardo Galeano writes, an uruguayan
very eclectic rading here, these people show me another world
enjoy!
post #96 of 111
8/9/07 at 2:32pm
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3- I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb. I didn't care for his other book, but this one was incredibly moving for me. And I am so interested in psychology, it was interesting to take this mans voyage with him.
this was an awesome book.
post #97 of 111
8/9/07 at 2:37pm
My favorite life-changing book is "The River Why" by David James Duncan. It blew me away the first time I read it. I have an autographed copy!!! His "The Brothers K" is amazing too.
post #98 of 111
8/9/07 at 3:05pm
I loved the way heaven was portrayed in The Lovely Bones. I am not particularly religious, but that is now my vision of the afterlife.

I LOVED The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx. What a story!
post #99 of 111
8/10/07 at 12:39am
I loved the Bean Trees.
post #100 of 111
8/10/07 at 7:12pm
Island of the Blue Dolphins and The Beans of Egypt Maine
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