Comments on: Life-Changing Books: Your Picks http://www.openculture.com/2007/08/life-changing_books_your_picks.html The best free cultural & educational media on the web Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:51:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: MF http://www.openculture.com/2007/08/life-changing_books_your_picks.html#comment-27508 MF Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:40:11 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/2007/08/life-changing_books_your_picks.html#comment-27508 The Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho. I could relate to the story and the messages. The Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho. I could relate to the story and the messages.

]]> By: David Fowler http://www.openculture.com/2007/08/life-changing_books_your_picks.html#comment-27228 David Fowler Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:58:16 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/2007/08/life-changing_books_your_picks.html#comment-27228 What a superb list! It reminds me of a few books I've long been meaning to read. Actually, reading this prompted me to head over to Amazon and buy Viktor Frankl's 'Man's Search for Meaning'. I'll be honest, I've been avoiding it thinking it would be too 'heavy going', but it's such an important book I can no longer put it off! I can't wait to get stuck into it now! Thanks. What a superb list! It reminds me of a few books I’ve long been meaning to read. Actually, reading this prompted me to head over to Amazon and buy Viktor Frankl’s ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’. I’ll be honest, I’ve been avoiding it thinking it would be too ‘heavy going’, but it’s such an important book I can no longer put it off! I can’t wait to get stuck into it now! Thanks.

]]> By: phill joyce http://www.openculture.com/2007/08/life-changing_books_your_picks.html#comment-27202 phill joyce Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:11:24 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/2007/08/life-changing_books_your_picks.html#comment-27202 Well I'd have to say Luke Rhinehart's "The Dice Man." read it in my teens and have been hooked on reading ever since. Will Self's "Great Apes" is fantastic and I'll always be greatful to the old man in the pub who caught me reading "Slaughterhouse 5" when I should have been pulling pints and recommended Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow." I mentioned these three because no-one else has and because each in their own way had an impact on my life and understanding of my role within in. Well I’d have to say Luke Rhinehart’s “The Dice Man.” read it in my teens and have been hooked on reading ever since. Will Self’s “Great Apes” is fantastic and I’ll always be greatful to the old man in the pub who caught me reading “Slaughterhouse 5″ when I should have been pulling pints and recommended Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow.”

I mentioned these three because no-one else has and because each in their own way had an impact on my life and understanding of my role within in.

]]> By: Lenia http://www.openculture.com/2007/08/life-changing_books_your_picks.html#comment-27109 Lenia Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:57:13 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/2007/08/life-changing_books_your_picks.html#comment-27109 I would say the four hour work week. It is a different style of book than the books listed here. But this book really changed my life. I read it one year ago and after that I decided to travel around the world for 6 months. I would say the four hour work week. It is a different style of book than the books listed here. But this book really changed my life. I read it one year ago and after that I decided to travel around the world for 6 months.

]]> By: Eddie http://www.openculture.com/2007/08/life-changing_books_your_picks.html#comment-26322 Eddie Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:02:01 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/2007/08/life-changing_books_your_picks.html#comment-26322 HUCKLEBERRY FINN: My first great reading experience- 10 or 11 yrs old, read it in one big gulp. I felt like I was Huck. CATCHER IN THE RYE: 15 yrs old. I felt like I was Holden. discovered Bob Dylan around same time. spent summer in Manhattan, 1965, all 3 changed my life. DHARMA BUMS ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS NEST GRAPES OF WRATH BOUND FOR GLORY, Woody Guthrie So many more! HUCKLEBERRY FINN: My first great reading experience- 10 or 11 yrs old, read it in one big gulp. I felt like I was Huck.

CATCHER IN THE RYE: 15 yrs old. I felt like I was Holden. discovered Bob Dylan around same time. spent summer in Manhattan, 1965, all 3 changed my life.

DHARMA BUMS
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS NEST
GRAPES OF WRATH
BOUND FOR GLORY, Woody Guthrie

So many more!

]]> By: ettemad http://www.openculture.com/2007/08/life-changing_books_your_picks.html#comment-25983 ettemad Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:04:01 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/2007/08/life-changing_books_your_picks.html#comment-25983 also the book of : seven cities of love from Attar-e Neishabory was a good life-change book... also the book of :
seven cities of love from Attar-e Neishabory
was a good life-change book…

]]> By: David http://www.openculture.com/2007/08/life-changing_books_your_picks.html#comment-24897 David Sun, 06 Nov 2011 08:58:20 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/2007/08/life-changing_books_your_picks.html#comment-24897 Songlines by Bruce Chatwin; dragged me from my English chair which led to 20 years wandering & I now live in Australia Songlines by Bruce Chatwin; dragged me from my English chair which led to 20 years wandering & I now live in Australia

]]> By: LaraP http://www.openculture.com/2007/08/life-changing_books_your_picks.html#comment-24750 LaraP Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:43:27 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/2007/08/life-changing_books_your_picks.html#comment-24750 Excellent choices, particularly Love in the Time of Cholera (my personal favorite and yes, it changed my life). I'd add To Kill a Mockingbird as my second - one of the few books I was 'forced' to read in school that I truly, truly loved and couldn't get out of my head. My personal list comes pretty close to this one: http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/books-that-changed-my-life Excellent choices, particularly Love in the Time of Cholera (my personal favorite and yes, it changed my life). I’d add To Kill a Mockingbird as my second – one of the few books I was ‘forced’ to read in school that I truly, truly loved and couldn’t get out of my head. My personal list comes pretty close to this one:

http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/books-that-changed-my-life

]]> By: karl koch http://www.openculture.com/2007/08/life-changing_books_your_picks.html#comment-24399 karl koch Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:51:40 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/2007/08/life-changing_books_your_picks.html#comment-24399 People. Huck Finn. Come on now. People. Huck Finn. Come on now.

]]> By: gunay http://www.openculture.com/2007/08/life-changing_books_your_picks.html#comment-24358 gunay Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:25:45 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/2007/08/life-changing_books_your_picks.html#comment-24358 i liked gone with the wind best of all.it touched me very much i liked gone with the wind best of all.it touched me very much

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