Name the Books That Impacted You The Most.

by XJW4EVR 68 Replies latest jw friends

  • XJW4EVR
    XJW4EVR

    Outa, you are banned from all future book review clubs.

  • OpenFireGlass
    OpenFireGlass




    'secially the chapter on masterbation...

  • daniel-p
    daniel-p

    Fiction:

    The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    One Hundred Years of Solitutue - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    Light in August - WIlliam Faulkner

    Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak

    Non-fiction:

    A Pattern Language - Christopher Alexander, et al.

    The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs

    Collapse - Jared Diamond

  • XJW4EVR
    XJW4EVR
    "Your Youth, Getting The Best Out Of It" (The Youth Book)

    'seciallp the chapter on masterbation...

    Here I thought it would be the latest edition of High Times.

  • OpenFireGlass
    OpenFireGlass
    Here I thought it would be the latest edition of High Times.

    Nope... I quit reading that, like 9 years ago.... That Rag is for Pot-heads... I'm Not a Pot-head, I'm A Cannabis Smoker...

    On that note: "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", By: Jack Herer.... A great book on the many uses of (industrial)Hemp

  • lawrence
    lawrence

    On The Road, Dharma Bums, Satori in Paris- Jack Kerouac

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Great Shark Hunt - Hunter S. Thompson

    Blood of Kings, Forest of Kings - Linda Schele

    30 Years Watchtower Slave - Schnell

    On the Holy Spirit - St. Basil the Great

    Java Swing - Robinson

  • XJW4EVR
    XJW4EVR

    lawence, great books & authors there. Thompsnon & Kerouac. I need to crack some of those open again.

    THis is what I love about books. You get reminded of the books you read but didn't impact you at the time, or the books you never read.

  • solo
    solo

    "Your Youth, Getting The Best Out Of It" (The Youth Book)

    'secially the chapter on masterbation...

    spooky, this is word for word what I was going to say, we studied this with our parents and we were not youths, much younger. An interesting idea to introduce children's mind to this practice years before they would naturally find out for themselves. We also had to have homosexuality explained to us, my 4 year old brother thought it was hilarious - as did the rest of us. We fell about the place laughing and meanwhile my father's plan of a serious discussion about sodom and gomah dissentigrated before him, ha ha ha

  • gumby
    gumby

    "Hustler", when I was just a boy.

    Ok....seriously ....it was "The Jesus Mysteries" ( besides COC)

    Gumby

  • JWdaughter
    JWdaughter

    1984

    Farenheit 451

    Little House on the Prairie

    Shakespeare(funny insightful sonnets-read them sometime:)

    Crisis of Conscience

    The really old WT books (OPENED my squinty little WT stunted eyes!)

    Revenge of the Middle Aged woman (I like the title!)

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