Books That Changed My Life


	Books That Changed My Life

wildcat

6-15-2008 4:12 AM

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What's your list of Books That Changed Your Life?

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6-15-2008 5:41 AM

Fast T friend

Zelazny's 'The Amber series'. first close encounter with the idea of metaverse and the thought about making a reality; and Theodore Sturgeon's More Than Human that introduced me to the thought of interesting union unlike anything i heard of before.

6-16-2008 2:48 AM

hitchhiker08

'Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand heads my list, followed by 'The Prophet', Kahlil Gibran, 'Illusions' Richard Bach.

6-16-2008 7:33 AM

abailart

The Magus - John Fowles
Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas de Quincey
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
The Odyssey - Homer (tr. Fitzgerald)
Confessions - St Augustine
The Uses of Literacy - Richard Hoggart
Tamar - Robinson Jeffers
Moby Dick - Herman Melville

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