Books that changed your life?
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- formed0
- My wife's reading the power on now. Have any of these helped you in any quantifiable way?_niko
- +1 for tollejaylarson
- I get so cynical, like that book from Napoleon hill and the like. I always assume the big reveal is write a book about getting rich and make millions_niko
- _niko the first, I can say, is an amazing read.notype
- that book from hill was flipping boring.neverscared
- My folks used to run a bookshop and every one of these was a best seller, I particularly remember people raving about Tolle.BuddhaHat
- _niko0
What’s the best book on sales that you’ve read?
- wordssssss4
- I was going to purchase this yesterday! Nice to see it here. I wasn't convinced, but what'd you like about it?notype
- teaches disciplineuan
- Yes the discipline aspect. Also it was nice to hear someones perspective on running - parts of which I share. Great writer too.wordssssss
- thanks. i'll pick it up. reading so much lately though. the cover that i saw DID NOT look like that.notype
- Yeah the cover I have is different and looks like it was designed in 1997.wordssssss
- black and white landscape with red sun, was the cover in mineuan
- If you’ve ever read As a man thinketh — finding it is so similar.notype
- It’s gooooooooooood!!notype
- notype4
Holidays are coming up kind of soon. Hitting me hard where I was this time last year. In a far better place today.
A friend of mine years ago said, “there’ll come a time where you will not be thinking of when the last time you had a drink was”, didn’t believe that could ever be true. Thank to “This Naked Mind”.
The days are now too short to get done all of the things I desire :)
- exador11
- ok. total junk mystical new age stuff here. but what the hell. everytime i read it, i find it makes me feel good about life.exador1
- i read this in my early 20's, i dug it at the time, i also thought it was a true story lolLMFAO
- after reading the first 3 books, i become vegetarian. for no real good reason at all. now i have 4-5 good reasons to be a vege. ahh to be impressionablejaylarson
- good life lessons that I still use like not bullshitting your kids._niko
- ^ yeah. I'm a practicing occultist (queue abuse) and fucking hate the new age but that lesson about kids really has helped memugwart
- mugwart0
Hard to follow on from some of these, dont want to look like I'm mimicking scarab but here were some key books that helped shape me, for better or worse.
Loved these two so much I carried them when I would hitchhike places. Nothing more tripping then reading Heart of Darkness on top of a Vietnamese mountain top:
Discovered this as a child and it really help establish the fact I was not a normal kid from Watford!
Read loads up on the occult as a child as well, trying to work out what my fore-fathers were into. Not sure if I like Crowley or not to put in here.
- exador10
- 1st read it when I was 15...totally blew my mind. great story.exador1
- love this bookplash
- I read this when I was probably 9-10 years old. Left a deep impression. Especially the shower scene where he bashes a kids nose up into his brain and kills him.monospaced
- sine0
- R_Kercz2
- this book seriously fucked me up for months after finishing it. so depressing.futurefood
- one of those novels i can only reread after about 5 years, when my mind has properly prepared itselffuturefood
- fadein112
Ha I made this thread.
Scoff at these if you like but two of the best books you will read on the phenomenon.
Both books treat the subject intelligently with zero tinfoil hat nonsense, just looking for answers and/or raising questions.
Highly recommended.These did change my life in that they made me realise there was way more to this stuff than first meets the eye.
- And I posted the wrong image. A.D. is great but this one is better:
https://images-eu.ss…fadein11 - david foster wallace (in the original post) is awesome.plash
- i love it.notype
- think I'll have to check these out...exador1
- And I posted the wrong image. A.D. is great but this one is better:
- futurefood1
- seeing some lovely titles in here, great threadfuturefood
- Loved this bookcanoe
- drgs0
No book will change your life
- Nothing will, if you aren't open to change. No teacher can teach a pupil unwilling to learn.
- Some Dudejagara - so philosophical drgs.notype
- oh cmonmonospaced
- Nothing will, if you aren't open to change. No teacher can teach a pupil unwilling to learn.