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books that changed your outlook on life

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    #32
    Day Lewin
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    Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver.

    Entertaining true story about living for a year on locally-grown food. By a biologist, famous author and family woman....revelatory. Read it, it will change you!

    Guns, germs and steel by Jared diamond

    Changed the way i look at history....it's not just a random series of events: there's a REASON why the Incas didn't invade Spain, but the other way about....very organic and satisfying, though it is a long and fairly serious read. Kept me going for a three-week holiday with long flights!


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    Acacia
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    Never really understood the big deal with ''Catcher in the Rye''. For me it was ''Fight Club'' or ''Trainspotting''.


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    LiamMc
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    Acacia wrote: »
    Never really understood the big deal with ''Catcher in the Rye''. For me it was ''Fight Club'' or ''Trainspotting''.

    You've answered your own question.

    Demian - Hermann Hesse
    I was the same generation when I read it.


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    #35
    Acacia
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    LiamMc wrote: »
    You've answered your own question.

    :confused:

    I don't really get what you mean. :)


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    LiamMc
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    Acacia wrote: »
    :confused:

    I don't really get what you mean. :)

    "Fight Club" and "Trainspotting" are different books to "Catcher in the Rye".


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    DoctorGonzo08
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    The Power of One by Bruce Courtney. Telling you anything about it will just spoil it. It is a must read and very easy to do so as it is the best page turner I have come across.

    If you haven't read Pride and Prejudice, start with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. It tricked me into wanting to know how Darcy and Elizabeth would turn out. (Elizabeth is a Highly trained orient assasin whose sole purpose is to kill all Zombies in the Name of Her Majesty!)


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    patsman07
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    Utopia-Thomas More.
    I used to think that any Socialist/Communist or anyone who stood about giving out about the world and didn't get on with things was a clown. This book opened my mind, after reading it I couldn't understand why we are living the way we do when there is such a brilliant blueprint for a far better society already in existance. Its a bit dated but absolutely ingenious


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    Silversudz
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    The faraway tree series by Enid Blyton

    Must have read each one a thousand times between the age of 8-12.

    They have a lot to answer for- I still daydream about that bloody magical tree :D


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    scriba
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    'If this is a man', 'The Periodic Table' and 'The drowned and the saved' by Primo Levi completely changed my outlook on life when I was fifteen or sixteen. The Lord of the Rings, when I was in primary school taught me not to be daunted by 'big' books. Eco's 'Name of the Rose' and 'Foucault's Pendulum' gave me my love of medieval thought.


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    GiftofGab
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    Acacia wrote: »
    Never really understood the big deal with ''Catcher in the Rye''. For me it was ''Fight Club'' or ''Trainspotting''.

    Is it worth reading these books if you have seen the film first? Im not a big fan of seeing the film then reading the book afterwards. It totally spoiled the Godfather book for me. I knew what was going to happen before I even read it.


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