Books that changed you...

[floridaorange]

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Jane Jacobs: The Death & Life of Great American Cities

This book provided a lot of reasoning behind my infatuation with cities and pushed me into my chosen career path.

fascinating! what is your chosen career path?



The Death & Life of Great American Cities: Best Books of the Twentieth Century and was #39 on National Review's list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the century.

*How to win friends & influence people" is another good one to read imo

[CND]

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Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

[djguillermo]

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Paul Auster, Irving Wallace, Isaac Asimov, Gary Jennings, Margaret George, Vladimir Navokov, Erich Fromm, Bram Stoker, Paulo Coelho,Isabel Allende, Juan Rulfo, Gabriel García Márquez, Jose Agustín,etc,etc,etc

[Krystyan]

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rayuela (hopscotch) by Cortazar
100 years of solitude by garcia marketing.
the unbearable... by kundera
the aleph by borges
fight club by chuck palahniuk

and many more. these are the ones that come to mind now.

[AntonyM]

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Flow My Tears The Policeman Said: Philip K Dick
The Sheltering Sky: Paul Bowles
The Colossus of Maroussi: Henry Miller
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Hunter S. Thompson
1984: George Orwell
Journey to the End of the Night: Ferdinane Celine
Collected Works of Antonin Artaud

[nicomax]

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This has to be one of the most interesting threads I've ever found in this board. I'll actually take sometime to post mine. Seems like some people are listing books that they liked, or perhaps really liked. But having a deep impact in ones life is something else. It would be good if people would expand a bit on how the books have changed their lives.

[Duff McKagin]

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The Rape of Nanking (the forgotten holocaust of world war II) by Iris Chang
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Persing
The Electric Kool Aide Acid Tests by Tom Wolfe
The Oddessy by Homer

[pdowney]

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This has to be one of the most interesting threads I've ever found in this board. I'll actually take sometime to post mine. Seems like some people are listing books that they liked, or perhaps really liked. But having a deep impact in ones life is something else. It would be good if people would expand a bit on how the books have changed their lives.

This thread inspired me to get On the Road from the library today. Something I've always wanted to read, now I will.

[floridaorange]

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This thread inspired me to get On the Road from the library today. Something I've always wanted to read, now I will.

Word! Thats the idea...great shares so far.

[gjg21]

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fascinating! what is your chosen career path?



The Death & Life of Great American Cities: Best Books of the Twentieth Century and was #39 on National Review's list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the century.

*How to win friends & influence people" is another good one to read imo

I'm on the design side of urban planning, still often fighting the status quo that was the source of much of Jane's ire. We were all a bit sad when she died earlier this year.

[Lorn]

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I'm on the design side of urban planning, still often fighting the status quo that was the source of much of Jane's ire. We were all a bit sad when she died earlier this year.

Great quote. Good writing jumps at you off the page instilling both thought and feeling. Nice.

[Vaquita]

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There's this book in particular that has the amazing quality of changing your mood on every single chapter, it's never borring, u can read it a million times in a million different ways... just great... and well that would be Rayuela, by Cortazar (Hopscotch).
Nosotras que nos queremos tanto (We loved so Much), by Marcela Serrano is sooo important to me, i've read it so many times... it doesen't seems to be an outstanding book at the beggining, but if u try to go further u'll see there's so much these writter has to give. All of her books are amaizing.
Roverandoom by Tolkien is also great, as Juan Jose Saers short sotries, and a alottt more, but this is too long already.

[gjg21]

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Thanks Lorn, just saying how it is.

Now if I could come up with about 6,000 more sentences and finish this fucking paper that's due tomorrow, I'd be much happier.

[stencil_cp]

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White Noise - Don Delillo ... "i have trouble imagining death at that income level." so glad i found an author who can use language the way Delillo does, and bends our daily routine behavior into surreal mania...

The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle ... i ain't no zen master, but since i read this book i've never looked at friend's, colleagues, or my own petty drama the same way. definitely gave me perspective.

Magister Ludi - Hermann Hesse ... journey into the life of the mind with Joseph Knect. this is fiction tackling spiritual issues on a whole other level.

[Krystyan]

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There's this book in particular that has the amazing quality of changing your mood on every single chapter, it's never borring, u can read it a million times in a million different ways... just great... and well that would be Rayuela, by Cortazar (Hopscotch).

chapter 7!!!