unformed 0 #26 August 30, 2004 Oh yeah, add On the Road and Kool-Aid Acid Test to the list, After reading those been itching for a road trip ever since. I also read strictly Hunter Thompson for about a year, he's got some entertaining stuff....This ad space for sale. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shotgun 1 #27 August 30, 2004 One other book I want to mention... "Self-Coaching" by Dr. Joseph Luciani... I've never been a fan of self-help books, and I'm usually reluctant to talk about depression on a public forum... But since depression seems to be a problem for a lot of others on here too, and since this book has been such a big help to me, I thought I would at least mention it... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Darius11 12 #28 August 30, 2004 The Power of Now I recommend it for all.I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not." - Kurt Cobain Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
reggie 0 #29 August 30, 2004 the celestine prohecy (fiction!).....i think by redenbach.....great book.....9 insights into life..... the road less traveled by m. scott peckPlay with your children.....it's the best investment you'll ever make. www.discoverytoyslink.com/amysbluesky Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 212 #30 August 30, 2004 Hmmm - biggest impact - I won't go into detail - but the book with the most interesting effect on me was the Old Testament.I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
marcandalysse 0 #31 August 30, 2004 heheh....we have some 'old hippies' on dz.com after all!! My favorite Kerouac was 'Dharma Bums'....I knew that's what I wanted to be in this lifetime!! Thich Nhat Hahn, the Vietnamese Zen master has many short and easy to understand books on Buddhism... Japanese Pilgrimage by Oliver Statler described a 1400km (850miles) ancient pilgrimage in Japan. I managed to walk that pilgrimage in the early 90's...dharma bumming it in japan! Island by Huxley, I vote for that one too! Masked Gods, or anything by Frank Waters about the Pueblo Indians...I moved to Taos and 10 years after I read the book I met him and he autographed it.The Phenomenon of Man by Teilhard de Chardin opened up new perspectives, as did anything 4th way (gurdjieff group) and can't forget Calvin and Hobbes!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vallerina 2 #32 August 30, 2004 Thanks for the input, everyone. I'm adding a few books on my "to read" list. I've read some mentioned, and all I'm going to say is, "Huh??? That influenced you?!?!?" There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IMGR2 0 #33 August 30, 2004 My ex-girlfriend got me to read "Jitterbug Perfume". by Tom Robbins Changed my whole outlook on life and love. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
meltdown 0 #34 August 30, 2004 Probably the biggest ones are: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter Thompson) Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shotgun 1 #35 August 30, 2004 Funny, I just re-read your original post... QuoteThe book that I love is "Feeling Good" by David D. Burns. I'm a logical person, and I love this book because he just uses straight-up logic to help people. His basis is that feelings come from our thoughts. Sometimes our thoughts are distorted. To change our negative feelings, we have to change our thoughts. He gets you to practice challenging distorted thoughts which cause negative feelings. It just makes sense to me, so I was able to identify with it so well. and realized that this sounds remarkably like the book I mentioned ("Self-Coaching"). It is all about how to change your thought patterns to overcome negative feelings. Guess I'll have to check out "Feeling Good" too... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Vallerina 2 #36 August 30, 2004 And when I read your post, I thought the same thing....I'm generally not all about "self-help" books. I was just browsing around Borders, and I picked that one up, because I had no clue as to what to get. It turns out that it's a great book that's highly recommended by people who know more about that stuff than me! I put yours on my "to read" list! There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites tkhayes 126 #37 August 30, 2004 The Culture of Make Believe http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1893956288/qid=1093889750/sr=ka-1/ref=pd_ka_1/104-0781112-9538326 shocking and brilliant Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites skiskyrock 0 #38 August 30, 2004 In no particular order Illusions -Richard Bach Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig Naked Lunch -William Burroughs Neuromancer - Wiliam Gibson The Lord of the Rings -J.R.R. Tolkien The Cuckoos Egg -Clifford Stoll A Fire Upon the Deep -Vernor Vinge The Monkeywrench Gang -Edward Abbey Homage to Catalonia -George Orwell 1984 -George Orwell Farenheit 451 -Ray Bradbury Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Shotgun 1 #39 August 31, 2004 QuoteFear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter Thompson) So did this one make you decide that it was a good idea or a bad idea to take lots of mind-altering drugs??? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites floatnfly 0 #40 August 31, 2004 "Letters from the Earth" - Mark Twain "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" - Robert Pirsig "Atlas Shrugged" - Ayn Rand Anything by Bill Waterson or Gary Larson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites neoteng 0 #41 August 31, 2004 the celestrine prophecy baseclimb 2 by heather swan not a big reader but both these books rock! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites pa2themd 0 #42 August 31, 2004 The Power of One - Bryce Courtney The Alchemist - Paolo Coelo The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet I have also added some of your books to my Read List - Thanks for the awesome thread Vallerina Blue skies Sheri "Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else!" Ivern Ball Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites jumpy 0 #43 August 31, 2004 Quotedienetics...... by l. ron hubard........ okaynot really but wondering for so manyyears when i was little whatthe hell the book was with the valcano on the comercial did change me.... only took me like 8 years to find out what it is about...... and i still don't reeally know..... lol!! Trust me they don't have a clue what the stupid things about either. The most complicated money making sceme i've ever heard of! lol Not sure any books have really changed me that much but the greatest book i have ever read is the hobit. Not exactly the most mature book but i like it just as much ever time i read it.. which is quite a few times.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites skymama 35 #44 August 31, 2004 QuoteFour Agreements. Thank you for posting about that book. I'm enjoying reading it.She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man, because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Dumpster 0 #45 August 31, 2004 "How to Win Friends and Influence People" - Dale Carnegie. Reading for anyone in a sales posistion. (I'm not in sales anymore, but still good reading) The Celestine Prophecy (get me on spelling here-) The Bible - Read a good portion of both testaments. MAD magazine. Anything by Hunter S. Thompson The Bloom County Chronicles. (Berkley Breathed - You know the guy-!) Easy Does It Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites kbordson 8 #46 August 31, 2004 Anam Cara by John O'Donohue with respect to life, death and philosophy. Mr. God, This is Anna by Fynn for learning and friendship and living life entirely. Hitchhikers Guide (all of them) by Douglas Adams to learn not to take any of this seriously cuz we could be instantly destroyed any minute to make way for a hyperspatial express route. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand to understand the need to stand up and be responsible for yourself. Children of the Earth... Remember by Schim Shimmel for innocent perspecitve -back to lurking Karen edited to add: and who could forget the SIM and how that changed so much!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Zenister 0 #47 August 31, 2004 Quote The most complicated money making sceme i've ever heard of its called Religion, and its also one of the most successful money making schemes ever invented...____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites srg 0 #48 August 31, 2004 I can't believe no one's mentioned "Unintended Consequences" - that's the one that got me skydiving. WWHD? Spencer "Be braver -- you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites unformed 0 #49 August 31, 2004 I dunno about old hippies; I'm just 22, but I dig the old hippie culture. This ad space for sale. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites unformed 0 #50 August 31, 2004 Quote Naked Lunch -William Burroughs I read that; Interesting, but they guy was really whacked when he wrote it. 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Vallerina 2 #36 August 30, 2004 And when I read your post, I thought the same thing....I'm generally not all about "self-help" books. I was just browsing around Borders, and I picked that one up, because I had no clue as to what to get. It turns out that it's a great book that's highly recommended by people who know more about that stuff than me! I put yours on my "to read" list! There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tkhayes 126 #37 August 30, 2004 The Culture of Make Believe http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1893956288/qid=1093889750/sr=ka-1/ref=pd_ka_1/104-0781112-9538326 shocking and brilliant Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skiskyrock 0 #38 August 30, 2004 In no particular order Illusions -Richard Bach Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig Naked Lunch -William Burroughs Neuromancer - Wiliam Gibson The Lord of the Rings -J.R.R. Tolkien The Cuckoos Egg -Clifford Stoll A Fire Upon the Deep -Vernor Vinge The Monkeywrench Gang -Edward Abbey Homage to Catalonia -George Orwell 1984 -George Orwell Farenheit 451 -Ray Bradbury Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shotgun 1 #39 August 31, 2004 QuoteFear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter Thompson) So did this one make you decide that it was a good idea or a bad idea to take lots of mind-altering drugs??? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
floatnfly 0 #40 August 31, 2004 "Letters from the Earth" - Mark Twain "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" - Robert Pirsig "Atlas Shrugged" - Ayn Rand Anything by Bill Waterson or Gary Larson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
neoteng 0 #41 August 31, 2004 the celestrine prophecy baseclimb 2 by heather swan not a big reader but both these books rock! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pa2themd 0 #42 August 31, 2004 The Power of One - Bryce Courtney The Alchemist - Paolo Coelo The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet I have also added some of your books to my Read List - Thanks for the awesome thread Vallerina Blue skies Sheri "Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else!" Ivern Ball Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumpy 0 #43 August 31, 2004 Quotedienetics...... by l. ron hubard........ okaynot really but wondering for so manyyears when i was little whatthe hell the book was with the valcano on the comercial did change me.... only took me like 8 years to find out what it is about...... and i still don't reeally know..... lol!! Trust me they don't have a clue what the stupid things about either. The most complicated money making sceme i've ever heard of! lol Not sure any books have really changed me that much but the greatest book i have ever read is the hobit. Not exactly the most mature book but i like it just as much ever time i read it.. which is quite a few times.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymama 35 #44 August 31, 2004 QuoteFour Agreements. Thank you for posting about that book. I'm enjoying reading it.She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man, because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dumpster 0 #45 August 31, 2004 "How to Win Friends and Influence People" - Dale Carnegie. Reading for anyone in a sales posistion. (I'm not in sales anymore, but still good reading) The Celestine Prophecy (get me on spelling here-) The Bible - Read a good portion of both testaments. MAD magazine. Anything by Hunter S. Thompson The Bloom County Chronicles. (Berkley Breathed - You know the guy-!) Easy Does It Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kbordson 8 #46 August 31, 2004 Anam Cara by John O'Donohue with respect to life, death and philosophy. Mr. God, This is Anna by Fynn for learning and friendship and living life entirely. Hitchhikers Guide (all of them) by Douglas Adams to learn not to take any of this seriously cuz we could be instantly destroyed any minute to make way for a hyperspatial express route. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand to understand the need to stand up and be responsible for yourself. Children of the Earth... Remember by Schim Shimmel for innocent perspecitve -back to lurking Karen edited to add: and who could forget the SIM and how that changed so much!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zenister 0 #47 August 31, 2004 Quote The most complicated money making sceme i've ever heard of its called Religion, and its also one of the most successful money making schemes ever invented...____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
srg 0 #48 August 31, 2004 I can't believe no one's mentioned "Unintended Consequences" - that's the one that got me skydiving. WWHD? Spencer "Be braver -- you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
unformed 0 #49 August 31, 2004 I dunno about old hippies; I'm just 22, but I dig the old hippie culture. This ad space for sale. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
unformed 0 #50 August 31, 2004 Quote Naked Lunch -William Burroughs I read that; Interesting, but they guy was really whacked when he wrote it. It made no sense to me at all.This ad space for sale. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
