Books that have changed your way of thinking.

oddfellow · Post by **oddfellow** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:16 pm

Diss04 wrote:'fear and loathing in las vegas' by hunter s. thompson - made me realise how boring my life actually was

I saw the film when I was younger and that definately had a big effect on me.

slothrop · Post by **slothrop** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:25 pm

kidlogic wrote:
Mr Hyde wrote:Nothing spiritual or philosophical like most mentioned, but reading 'On the Road' when I was about 16 definitely made me think about travel and work in a different way.
this along with "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"

Brilliant, brilliant book, but do you read it as an endorsement of Kesey's philosophy? Because it seems to me like he's actually subtley undermining it by leaving in all the minor bullshit and asshattery and the power games that go on even in a group that claims to have opted out of power games. The genius thing being that he does this while simultaneously being about the first writer to really get inside that philosophy and understand it.

BLZDub · Post by **BLZDub** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:25 pm

The BFG.
That book made my little child imagination buzz.

nesslei · Post by **nesslei** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:33 pm

BLZDub wrote:The BFG.
That book made my little child imagination buzz.

oh saaame here!! and matilda and james and the giant peach and the witches.

kins83 · Post by **kins83** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:42 pm

nesslei wrote:
BLZDub wrote:The BFG.
That book made my little child imagination buzz.
oh saaame here!! and matilda and james and the giant peach and the witches.

And the Twits, and Georges Marvellous Medicine!!!

oddfellow · Post by **oddfellow** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:46 pm

kins83 wrote:
nesslei wrote:
BLZDub wrote:The BFG.
That book made my little child imagination buzz.
oh saaame here!! and matilda and james and the giant peach and the witches.
And the Twits, and Georges Marvellous Medicine!!!

Fantastic Mr Fox!

oddfellow · Post by **oddfellow** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:48 pm

Roald Darl deserves his own thread methinks. Is he still popular with kids today? His books should be mandatory reading in schools.

psyolopher · Post by **psyolopher** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:12 pm

blk plague · Post by **blk plague** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:24 pm

the satanic bible and all things related.

nesslei · Post by **nesslei** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:34 pm

Tomity wrote:Roald Darl deserves his own thread methinks. Is he still popular with kids today? His books should be mandatory reading in schools.

seconded!!

__________ · Post by **__________** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:42 pm

Jostein Gaarder - Sophie's World/Solitaire Mystery
Bertrand Russell - A History of Western Philosophy

best philosophical books i've read

back in the day:
history books, roald dahl (yes!), philip pullman, arthur ransome, shit like that.

I used to read the map/atlas a lot when I was young. gave me a good understanding of geography, but i'm not sure it changed my way of thinking

mumble · Post by **mumble** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:54 pm

Simulacra & Simulation - Jean Baudrillard

Deep

dj cal cutta · Post by **dj cal cutta** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:09 pm

Franz Kafka's "The Trial" and "Description of a Struggle"

Arthur Rimbaud's "A Season in Hell"

Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" and "Beyond Good and Evil"

Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment"

Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States, 1492-Present"

Robert Bresson's "Notes on a Cinematographer"

Niccolo Machiavelli's "The Discourses"

boomphat · Post by **boomphat** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:51 pm

bellybelle wrote:The Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita for certain

Bhagavad Gita : Krishna
Tibetan Book of the Dead : Buddha
Book of the Beast : Aleister Crowley
The Modern Antiquarian : Julian Cope

jackieboi · Post by **jackieboi** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:23 pm

most of irvine welsh's books have made me very cynical about the world i think.

The Viz for making me constantly sit thinking of craking one liners and puns to use next time i'm in a social situation.

misk · Post by **misk** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:29 pm

stanton wrote: Lots of Lovecraft's work too.

how could i forget? definitely. especially the dream quest of unknown kadath.

Whistla · Post by **Whistla** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:15 pm

Drunvalo Melchezidek - The Ancient Secret of The Flower of Life Volumes 1 & 2

The Ancient Secret of The Flower of Life Volume 1

The Ancient Secret of The Flower of Life Volume 2

datura · Post by **datura** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:19 pm

Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene
Albert Camus - The Outsider
Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake

slothrop · Post by **slothrop** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:40 pm

£10 Bag wrote:arthur ransome

Classic oldskool kids books, and about the only ones from that era that you can go back to and not find that they're full of racism, sexism, class bias and similar stuff that you didn't notice when you were a kid.

He also lead a fairly interesting life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ran ... nd_Amazons

You don't find Enid Blyton going out to buy a bunch of books on military strategy to help Trotsky figure out how to run the Red Army. Or getting into russia during the civil war by walking slowly towards the red army trenches carrying a suitcase and smoking a pipe, on the grounds that the russians are a naturally curious people and if they see something that odd will ask questions first and shoot later...

tempest · Post by **tempest** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 4:47 am

Tomity wrote:
kins83 wrote:
nesslei wrote:
BLZDub wrote:The BFG.
That book made my little child imagination buzz.
oh saaame here!! and matilda and james and the giant peach and the witches.
And the Twits, and Georges Marvellous Medicine!!!
Fantastic Mr Fox!

fark these are all the books i read as a lad, haven't heard the titles in sooooo long

Books that have changed your way of thinking.

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