Bible(only 2 people were changed by this book?)
Atlas Shrugged
Animal Farm
Unintended Consequences
Nineteen Eighty Four
Playboy ;)
Robinson Cursoe
Swiss Family Robinson
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
These are the books I remember the most so I guess that has meaning
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Some thought provoking selections, JMJ.
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Bible(only 2 people were changed by this book?)
Actually, I have been changed by these books (it's commonly understood that the Christian Bible has two books; The Old Testament and The New Testament ;)). However, my life was changed by my rejection of these works and not by reading them, so I couldn't really include them in my selection!
Well, strictly speaking Playboy is a magazine, although Playboy Enterprises have published some interesting books (if nude women are your thing) in the past.
The others are good choices, although I'm not familiar with Atlas Shrugged or Unintended Consequences. I am certainly not surprised by your choice of 1984 :)
Originally Posted by JMJSelect
Robinson Cursoe
Swiss Family Robinson
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
These are the books I remember the most so I guess that has meaning
Ah, the classics! I confess that I prefer Dickens, but any of these are excellent choices.
GASP!!! I am utterly shocked at that grossly inaccurate statement... lol
Atlas Shrugged is a really good book, definitely a must read. But its kinda scary now that I think back on it(but this was a long time ago so the story is foggy in my mind). It's about America's economy going down the tubes and the brightest of innovators and industrial leaders and ... disappearing. Looters(criminals) and Moochers(democrats?!?!?) getting more and more powerful... Theres alot more but It's a massive book 1000+ pages. It touches on alot of stuff; politics, philosophy, ethics, relationships,...
Unintended Consequences is the unofficial bible of the gun crowd. Its the story of a boy who grows up loving guns and shooting and than gets targeted by the government which leads to... well I'll leave that up in the air if you decide to read. The first half to 2/3rds of the book touches on the history on government encroachment on the 2nd amendment wrapped around the stories of the boy's family/friends. And the rest is where he goes rambo...
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Oh and I forgot 'Contact', that changed the way I looked at the cosmos.
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I started this thread wondering how many of the books on my to read pile would change my life: it seems that I have a partial answer. :)
In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat (John Gribbin - Black Swan) is definitely a life-changing book. It's about quantum theory and it's much stranger than any fiction that I have ever read! The book is a fascinating read (one that will benefit from repetition) and, for those of you in Aximsite land interested in theoretical physics, it's a must read.
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But if you read it, then won't your observation affect other readers' perception? And as you have already read it, then haven't you already done so?
LMAO, maybe not their perception but almost certainly their reality. I hope that, by reading the book and recommending it, I haven't collapsed the wave function or changed the spin direction. :rolling:
Oh my god !!! Help!!! There is a Wormhole forming in my bookshelf!!!!
I have that problem frequently, but that's largely from the density of books on my several bookshelves.
Speaking of which, while doing some home reorganization for the arrival offspring-to-be Number 2 (a home experiment in ontogeny), I came across my first chess book a college friend gave me that changed my naive outlook on chess, Fred Reinfeld's How To Be A Winner at Chess.
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Originally Posted by breley
I have that problem frequently, but that's largely from the density of books on my several bookshelves.
Speaking of which, while doing some home reorganization for the arrival offspring-to-be Number 2 (a home experiment in ontogeny), I came across my first chess book a college friend gave me that changed my naive outlook on chess, Fred Reinfeld's How To Be A Winner at Chess.
Ah, my first chess book was The Game of Chess by Siegbert Tarrasch
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I hope that, by reading the book and recommending it, I haven't collapsed the wave function or changed the spin direction. :rolling:
