Influential books? Recommendations?

• Influential books? Recommendations? lgoetz Posted : 5/28/2006 7:36:41 AM I've gotten into the habit of asking people what their favorite books are - books that have changed their lives or influenced them in some way. This has consistently caused me to read some very interesting books that have even changed the way I think, such as Innumeracy or Freakonomics. The Culture Clash is a book I picked up based on this site (can't remember who recommended it), and I'm glad I did.   Anyone else have book recommendations? Books you think are "must-reads"? Dog related or not... LIKE 31 REPLIES 1924 VIEWS LAST POST LORIB Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• mrv Posted : 5/28/2006 7:38:29 AM General life:  The Prophet  Kahil Gibron   Dogs:  Purely Positive  Sheila Booth 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Debbie R Posted : 5/28/2006 7:59:41 AM Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breaknach Culture Clash and Bones Would Fall From the Sky but pretty much every book I've ever read, give me something. I LOVE books! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Debbi Posted : 5/28/2006 9:19:59 AM Five People you Meet in Heaven. It is a really profound book. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• jeano Posted : 5/28/2006 12:03:24 PM I have a book review blog that you might enjoy. [linkhttp://inktrails.blogs.com/northern_book_review]Northern Book Review[/link] There are too many great books just to mention one or two! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• sillysally Posted : 5/28/2006 12:55:48 PM The Color Purple The Awakening Jurassic Park Congo (MUCH better than the movie) Wifey (can be a bit sexually explicent) The Other End of the Leash 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Mic Posted : 5/28/2006 1:05:40 PM My personal favorite is One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.    No other book has given me such great perspective on my life.  After reading and studying a book like this you truly end the experience as a different person.     0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• lgoetz Posted : 5/28/2006 5:35:06 PM I'm so glad to have all the recommendations. I shall add them to my list... 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• spiritdogs Posted : 5/28/2006 6:43:32 PM Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Black Elk Speaks     Dog related: The Culture Clash The Rosetta Bone Aggression in Dogs 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• griffinej5 Posted : 5/28/2006 7:35:07 PM All of Temple Grandin's books are very good in my opinion. Donna Williams is pretty good as well, but I didn't like her's as much as I liked Temple Grandin. Freakonomics, although I haven't read it , bothers me, because of the car seat thing. They only used data on deaths, and not data on injuries. One of my professors told me he thought I would like Ayn Rand. I bought the book he recommended, but I haven't read it yet. I'll have to let you know once I actually do get in to it. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• marlania Posted : 5/28/2006 9:14:44 PM Not necessarily influential, but some of my favorites are:   1984 Brave New World The Color Purple Fahrenheit 451 A Clockwork Orange   And completely unrelated:   The Joy of Work: Dilbert's Guide to Finding Happiness at the Expense of your Co-Workers   Sorry, but I love Dilbert books.[sm=lol.gif] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• calliecritturs Posted : 5/28/2006 10:08:54 PM "Beautiful Joe" by Marshall Saunders (written 1874, first American book written in 'first person' as tho by the dog, and Marshall Saunders was a woman). Read it as a child.  Still makes me want to crusade for animal welfare.   "Lord of the Rings" JRR Tolkein "Chronicles of Narnia" CS Lewis (all of them) "New Testament in Modern English" and "Your God is Too Small" by JB Phillips (Tolkein, Lewis & Phillips were drinking buddies at their local gentlemen's club!)   Any and all of the Sherlock Holmes books by A. Conan Doyle   "The Ship Who Sang" by Anne McCaffrey   "Karen" by Marie Killella (you asked for influential -- it's the book that made me want to teach/work with handicapped children)   "The Dog Who Loved Too Much" by Dr. Nick Dodman   "Second Hand Dog" Carole Lea Benjamin   "How to Speak Dog" Dr. Stanley Coren   "K9 Kitchen" Monica Segal   "Herbal Dog Care" Dr. Randy Kidd     0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• mrv Posted : 5/29/2006 6:14:31 AM Ayn Rand is incredible.  One of those authors that can write the same theme but with good result.  It is a toss up whether I like Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead more.  0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• magilacudy Posted : 5/29/2006 8:33:49 AM Angela's Ashes......really made me appriciate more.   Arg!! my minds gone blank....... Harry Potter ( kidding but I do love the books)   I Love Love Chicken soup books. The best was For the mothers soul. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• huskymom Posted : 5/29/2006 12:52:51 PM Right now I am reading the Earth Children Series again by Jean M Auel.  I believe its the 5th time.  I don't know how its influenced my life, but I'm pretty sure I could now start a fire with 2 stones, raise a cave lion cub, hunt a giant reindeer and perform major surgery in a cave with only some clover and bit of sinew.  I did name a dog Durc after Ayla's baby because he was a mix. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login