babypinkcandygirl Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 i know lots of books can change the way you think and feel about a subject but have any fundamentally changed your life? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oblomov Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Yes. After I read Alfred Draper's The Amritsar Massacre about 20 years ago, my entire outlook about the Eastern & Western cultures changed and the outcome of that has remained to this day. The book made me realise that no matter now "small" the world becomes, certain basic cultural differences & prerogatives will remain in place, as they should. The book helped me to recognise and understand my own comfort zones and to cherish certain common grounds in people from my part of the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laramie Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 first of all; I want to laugh at the fact that this thread comes up as "have you ever read a book":lol::lol: secondly; I'm not sure if i've ever read a book that's changed my life. i suppose if i hadn't read the harry potter books i wouldn't have gone to tesco at midnight twice, but i don't think that's what you mean somehow! I can't think of any... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 When I read And the Band Played On, I was astonished. The book chronicles the early years of the AIDS epidemic and the efforts to stop it. It also exposes a lot of government hypocrisy in their indifference to the loss of human life. I've read it a few more times, and I always find myself feeling surprised and angry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathleenMacIver Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Well... the Bible, definitely... on a continuous basis. Otherwise... This might sound kind of strange, but I'm thinking of Lynn Kurland's romance novels. This wasn't an earth-shattering change, but a gentle slight one that I believe God used to show me other things. Her heros are fantastic heros, not because she's given them fantastic abilities (they're only slightly better-than-average in the world they live in). They're fantastic because she portrays them to show how wonderful the love of a sometimes-grumpy, often-stubborn, very normal MAN... can be. AND she portrays quite well, in some of them, how much the strongest of men still need a woman to stand by them. They changed my life in how I look at my husband and my own marriage. Now I am better able to see the romance and the love that's under my own husband's prickly exterior. Now I can see more easily how my husband's over-protectiveness is nothing more than the modern version of the protective instinct, prompted by a desperate love, that the knights of old felt when they'd do anything to protect their women. I love it in the books... why didn't I love it in modern life? Just because I don't perceive modern life as being as dangerous, doesn't change the fact that MY man is protective because he's not sure how he'd go on living without me. It was just little tiny things like that, that helped me look at my husband in a new way, and that's really enhanced my marriage and made me appreciate the manly things that used to drive me nuts. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottishbookworm Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 the john gray book "The man from mars woman from venus" that gave me good advice on how to communicate with males Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 I have read books that really made me think or try to see things a different way, but nothing life altering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maureen Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 not life altering, but some books have made me see things in a different way (which is a feat, as I am quite stubborn!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talisman Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Loads of them - for starters Feel the Fear and do it anyway - Susan Jeffers Conversations with God series - Neale Donald Walsch Emissary of Light - James Twyman Mystery of the Crystal Skulls - Chris Morton and Ceri Louise Thomas The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle A Course in Miracles plus of course my own book ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 An encyclopaedia changed my life... HERE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Andrea~ Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Loads of them - for starters Feel the Fear and do it anyway - Susan Jeffers I read that one and yes it probably did change my life too in a way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitty_kitty Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 I read that one and yes it probably did change my life too in a way. Me too, it changed the way i think and handle challenges i have read some good Buddhist books too Wuthering Heights changed one of my friends lives, it made her realise she was not happy in her marriage and leave her marriage and embark on finding a passionate love!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oblomov Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 Wuthering Heights changed one of my friends lives, it made her realise she was not happy in her marriage and leave her marriage and embark on finding a passionate love!!!! Did she? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 That's what I was wondering, Oblomov. Don't leave us hanging Kitty! Give us some hope that these things happen in real life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitty_kitty Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Did she? No but she is blissfully happy single and does not regret it one minute she will be 70 soon and mad as a box of frogs!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oblomov Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 No but she is blissfully happy single and does not regret it one minute she will be 70 soon and mad as a box of frogs!!! I guess that figures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icecream Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Books that have changed my life The Bible Teaches me daily how to be a better person. Susan Howatch's - The Heartbreaker Made me realise that a deep emotional pain I had desperately needed healing, and sparked a very difficult journey of recovery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsecorset Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 I know it's a cliche but On The Road by Jack Kerouac affected me in a profound way -it gave me a far less serious take on life which I badly needed. After I read it I was insatiable, I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, one book leading to the other, links tenuous or not. My life is a happy dream now (with direction). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenmck Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 I don't know why, but "Dune" by Frank Herbert changed mine. It was the first book I chose for myself in the adult part of the library. I was thirteen. I stayed up late reading it, fascinated by his characters. "Fear is the mind-killer". I still love that book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrij99 Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. It was the first time I was ever swept into a book and if I hadn't read it when I did, at the age of eight or nine, I don't know if I would be reading a quarter of a century later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
z10 Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 on the road by jack kerouac it changed me before it changed my life though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nox Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 No, never. I don't need books or anything else to tell me who I am, I changed thrue my actions and expiriances, life changes me, not people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 No, never.I don't need books or anything else to tell me who I am, I changed thrue my actions and expiriances, life changes me, not people. So all these life-changing experiences you have never involve other people, then? /sarcasm off. ^^^That was sarcastic. ^^^That wasn't though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icecream Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 on the road by jack kerouac it changed me before it changed my life though That is a wise statement. The book that set me on a path to changing my life, ended with me actually changing myself first, and it took a whole year to complete the path (but I also had other help). No, never.I don't need books or anything else to tell me who I am, I changed thrue my actions and expiriances, life changes me, not people. Good for you. It doesn't work for everybody though:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nox Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 So all these life-changing experiences you have never involve other people, then? Thank you, I do know when you're sarcastic, it's the rest you should point it out to. It involved me, I suppose it also involved how I treated other people, but that's as far as people involvment goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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