Books that changed your life-

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  • HappyDad
    HappyDad

    I'm an avid reader but I must say reading Crisis of Conscience at the time my mind was swirling with doubts is the one book that most influenced me.

    HappyDad

  • Xanthippe
    Xanthippe

    The Last Days of Socrates, Plato

    The Highly Sensitive Person, Elaine N Aron

    More Astral Projections, Robert Crookall

    The Naked Ape, Desmond Morris

    The Odyssey, Homer

    Totem and Taboo, Sigmund Freud

    Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Carl G Jung

    Games People Play, Eric Berne

    The Complete Essays, Michel de Montaigne

    The Story of Art, E H Gombrich

    Families and How to Survive Them, Robin Skynner, John Cleese

    The Annals, Tacitus

  • JeffT
    JeffT

    "The Truth that Leads to Eternal Life" Note: not a positive change but a big one.

    "Crisis of Conscience," "The Kingdom of the Cults" and "Jehovah of the Watchtower" both by Walter Martin, "The Four Major Cults" by Anthony Hoekema

    (this batch undid the damage caused by my first listing)

    "Principles of Accounting" Not an exciting read, but it started my career

    "Alcoholics Anonymous"

    My first college degree was in English with a history minor, the rest of my list would be too long to include much here. I need to mention The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, "1984" "Brave New World" "Lord of the Flies" and just about anything by Hemmingway and Faulkner, and if I get my sci-fi novel published, Robert Heinein, Larry Niven, and Jerry Pournelle.

  • Oubliette
    Oubliette

    TTATTelder, I am about halfway through 1984. I read it when I was about 13 years old. It has a completely different meaning for me now!

    We should compare notes; or maybe we should start a thread on it!

  • TTATTelder
    TTATTelder

    Oubilette,

    Count me in!

    PM me and we can put something together.

    One idea - a thread for each chapter so it can be enjoyed progressively as people read it and/or add their observations.

    -TE

  • EdenOne
    EdenOne

    Crisis Of Conscience - Ray Franz

    1984 - George Orwell

    The Fear Of Insignificance - Carlo Strenger

    The Gentile Times Reconsidered - Carl Jonsson

    Eden

  • Iown Mylife
    Iown Mylife

    How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World, by Harry Browne

    CoC

    ....i'm going to take these suggestions

    Marina

  • TTATTelder
    TTATTelder

    If JWFacts.com was a book then I would list it.

    Also I would like to add:

    JWFacts.com should have a book.

    -TE

  • Oubliette
    Oubliette

    TTATTelder, you have a PM!

  • Comatose
    Comatose

    Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet

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