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Cervantez
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 5:51 pm |
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This is a simple topic. As you probably have deduced from the topic name I want to hear of books that have completely altered the way you think or at least thrown a wrench in your wheels.
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:03 pm |
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The Zahir by Paulo Coelho
Rana
_________________ 'One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.'
~Sophocles
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jennyp716
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 2:56 am |
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The Gay Science by Nietzsche (in particular, the section "The Heaviest Weight"
_________________ Scroll buttons, never looked so good!
Scrollin' up and down, like you knew they would.
-Vocal stylings of Strongbad
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cheGuevara
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 12:38 pm |
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1984 by George Orwel, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach and Le Petit Prince by Antoine de St-Exupéry.
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Kujo
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 5:02 pm |
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for the time being by annie dillard
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Phaedrus
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 8:22 pm |
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Any books by Anthony DeMello particularly Awareness.
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Airball
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Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:00 am |
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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bright-shadow
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Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 12:55 pm |
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The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown and Party of One by Juliet Waters
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tasha1989
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Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:49 am |
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The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, and Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
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Barb L
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Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:28 pm |
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The Tao Te Ching by Lao T'su
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Shakespeare
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Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:17 am |
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ooh!
the little prince - antoine st.exupery
little women - louisa may alcott
to kill a mocking bird - harper lee
atlas shrugged - ayn rand
1984 to an extent
_________________ To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
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raven_jch
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 6:48 pm |
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For Whom the Bell Tolls : Hemmingway
MacBeth: Shakespeare
The Oddesy: Homer
Twilight Eye's: Dean Koontz
The Great Gatsby: Scott Fitzgerald
All Quiet On The Western Front: Erich Maria Remarque
too many to name... lol....
_________________ "A closed mind errects stubborn barriers, but against such barriers, words are formidable weapons" Brian Herbert, Keven Anderson
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cherrypi
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:05 am |
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WALDEN by Henry David Thoreau
A cynical view, but the dude knew how to scrape away the fat of life and get to the marrow! 
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:04 pm |
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To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
Uncle Tom's Cabin- Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Boys' War- Jim Murphy
All the ones I can think of right now, I know there's more. . .
_________________ "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."~J. R. R. Tolkien
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Insanity
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:42 am |
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Anything by H.P.Lovecraft
Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
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