Have You Ever Read A Book That Changed You/Your Ways or Inspired You?

[Big Willy]

A View from Above by Wilt Chamberlain. Epic stuff.

[YngiweRhoads]

 

[Necrosis]

Yes,

The book that changed my life was road to reality by Penrose.I was able to formulate the formula for the "secret".

[jr]

[phreak]

Hey phreak you like A Song of Ice and Fire?

Overall yes. Though not all books are equally good. I am positively surprised about the TV adaptation, I didn't expect it to be this good.

Personally I think Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy is even better to read, but opinions may differ. Too much sex in A Song of Ice and Fire for my tastes. If I want big tits I go home to my wife.*






* or fondle my own moobs.

[calfzilla]

Walden by henry david thoreau.

changed the way i saw life, thereby allowing me to change mine.

Teh awesome. I really liked the part where he talks about instead of working for months and months to save for a vacation just walk there. (Paraphrasing of course).

Also cool itemization of the cost of his building materials. 

[no one]

Teh awesome. I really liked the part where he talks about instead of working for months and months to save for a vacation just walk there. (Paraphrasing of course).

Also cool itemization of the cost of his building materials.  

ya man!

what really hit home for me was that eventhough he's  attempting to find absolute freedom he realises in the end what he really did was create his own prison. he was imprisioned w the life he had created.

that's what we do here in this life.

everytime I go backpacking I buy a copy at the used book store and re read it. then I'll leave it at the last hostel or place I stayed in the hopes someone else will pick it up. I actually found and read my first copy in Thailand. I figure someone else as clueless as I was about life might pick it up and hopefully get the same things out of it I did.

[Kahn.N.Singh]

Arthur Fleeber’s Guns N Provolone, which draws from Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, and the Lake Tahoe scene from Godfather II for the sake of providing an Archimedean paradigm that strips uncanny (Unheimliche) elements from existence to fashion a stable foundation upon which to feel at-home (zu Hause) in the world.

[240 is Back]

3. Win Forever: Live, work and play by Pete Carroll

LOL!  Come on, do you consider Pete Carroll to be a wise person?  Would you call him a role model?