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PrintableCan't say these books changed my life, but they had an impact. I read each them long ago before I was 16, and though I really need to go back and read them again I remember certain things about them to this day that make me wonder. So they definitely have impacted how I view the world.
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I was SO pissed when I finished reading Waiting to Exhale  I love my fellow women, but I don't wanna run into those ladies portrayed in the book.
Ok, since you guys mentioned the autobiography of Malcolm X and Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"(Slow read @ the 1st few chapters, but it hits you hard after that), I'll try to avoid the repetition. 
Didn't "change" my life, thats abit extreme,,,,but they def expanded the way I see the world. | |
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Bury my heart at wounded knee-Dee Brown
The Art of Happiness-the Dalai Lama  [Edited 8/5/09 18:50pm] | |
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Big brother is watching me...  | |
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A lot of the books already mentioned are great but the greatest and most influential book that has changed countless lives is the Bible.
It is still the number one best seller bar none  1 U.S. Dollar = 34 Bahts
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SirPsycho said:  As I clicked on the thread I was thinking Alchemist. However, this changed and directed my whole life...other books are mere drops in the ocean and of passing consequence. 
It continues to do so, NOW, I start to co author the sequal. Total  Happy is he who finds out the causes for things.Virgil (70-19 BC). Virgil was such a lying bastard! | |
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A unique thinker on the human condition. Truly one of a kind. | |
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SirPsycho said: 
I can add this to my list now thanks to you  merci beaucoup! 
i intend on reading it a second and third time over for sure... i look at my potential as an artist quite differently now  [...i think i can, i think i can, i think i can...] | |
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Aelis said:  AMAZING BOOK! AMAZING WOMAN! I LOVE HER! I had a the opportunity two years ago to meet her and have a chat. She's truly inspirational. I bought copies of "Infidel" for all the women in my life... 
"...literal people are scary, man literal people scare me out there trying to rid the world of its poetry while getting it wrong fundamentally down at the church of "look, it says right here, see!" - ani difranco | |
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I can't say they changed my life, but each one definitely expanded on issues that were in the back of my mind for as long as I can rememeber but just couldn't explain/verbalise myself with such depth...
    *R.I.P MJ*...*And Thank You SO Much!* | |
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TheResistor said: Aelis said: AMAZING BOOK! AMAZING WOMAN! I LOVE HER! I had a the opportunity two years ago to meet her and have a chat. She's truly inspirational. I bought copies of "Infidel" for all the women in my life... Wow. Have you read The Caged Virgin maybe? |
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It's not so much that I am a subscriber to this philosophy, but simply that I read this book to impress a girl, and it not only got me to start thinking, but to start reading, and for those two things I will be eternally grateful.
 My Legacy
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novabrkr said: The usual gang of idiots is one of my favorite authors! My Legacy
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Aelis said: TheResistor said: AMAZING BOOK! AMAZING WOMAN! I LOVE HER! I had a the opportunity two years ago to meet her and have a chat. She's truly inspirational. I bought copies of "Infidel" for all the women in my life... Wow. Have you read The Caged Virgin maybe? Yup!
"...literal people are scary, man literal people scare me out there trying to rid the world of its poetry while getting it wrong fundamentally down at the church of "look, it says right here, see!" - ani difranco | |
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