This isn't necessarily the same as what is your favorite book(s).
These are books that changed how you act, think, or perceive the world. What are they? Why were they the most influential?
Let's hear them.
This isn't necessarily the same as what is your favorite book(s).
These are books that changed how you act, think, or perceive the world. What are they? Why were they the most influential?
Let's hear them.
Once a Runner
Once a Runner
Once a Runner
If Once a Runner changed your outlook on the world than you need to read more. It was a good book, but come on...
I'd say Whitman's Self-Reliance influenced me the most--followed probably by Hemingway's short story "The short happy life of Francis Macomber".
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If Once a Runner changed your outlook on the world than you need to read more.
I'd say Whitman's Self-Reliance influenced me the most--
You're an idiot...and you're not even cognizant why.
Autobiography of Malcolm X.
Dead Man Walking.
The Bible
the Tao of Pooh, seriously a great book on life through winnie the pooh.
Night by Elie Wiesel
I wanted to see myself in the mirror ... I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me
I heard it was Atlas Shrugged, but I haven't actually got around to reading it yet. ;-)
Super Crunchers and Freakonomics.
Similar books. The ability to use data to shed great insight into areas previously deemed unquantifiable and dominated by experts and conventional wisdom. It's cool to see that a simple algorithm can predict Supreme Court cases decisions or Bordeaux wine scores better than experts.
Guns, Germs, and Steel.
Interesting perspective on how people got to where we are today and why there are differences.
I am reading the fountainhead and it is very very good.
Troll rating: 3/10.
An obvious attempt to start a fight. You know someone will say the Bible, which you hope will start the inevitable religion debate. Nice try.
The Bible
Rater of Trolls wrote:
Troll rating: 3/10.
An obvious attempt to start a fight. You know someone will say the Bible, which you hope will start the inevitable religion debate. Nice try.
Nope. Nice try. You read too much into things and as a result your rating is wrong. Someone has already mentioned the Bible and it hasn't started off a firestorm yet.
This shouldn't start a huge debate. It's about what books are most influential to someone. This isn't a someone is right or wrong thread. I'm sure it's the Book of Mormon for some people on here. It sure as hell isn't for me, but who am I to say it isn't for that person? If I had said "What is the most important book ever written?", then I would have been asking for trouble.
I'm looking for books that have made people stop and think. I imagine there will be a few listed on here that I may be interested in reading.
"Cities and the Wealth of Nations" by Jane Jacobs.
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now i stay at home and watch oprah&phil all day instead of traqining