Influential books? Recommendations?

• loveukaykay Posted : 5/29/2006 1:16:21 PM I really liked the book The Road Less Traveled   And the chicken soup 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
• loveukaykay Posted : 5/29/2006 1:18:29 PM Hey I just got an idea - if its dumb I can handle it lol[]   We could all decide to read a book, whether some of us already have or not... we could make a list, read them at the same time, then talk about them like a book club thing.  Ive never been in one or anything but love to read and love to discuss.  [&:] 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 2:06:05 PM I'd love to do that but I don't know if I could.  I go for months where I just have no time to read at all.  Then all of a sudden I will read a book in 3 days.   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
• loveukaykay Posted : 5/29/2006 10:13:51 PM lol same here, I dont read nearly as much as Id like to! 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
• t__m Posted : 5/29/2006 11:40:25 PM must read:  "The five people you meet in heaven"   for fun: Uncle John's Bathroom Readers....any volume... good trivia and fun quick reading...   dogs:  Holistic guide for a healthy dog...Wendy Volhard & Kerry Brown, d.v.m. 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
• cyclefiend2000 Posted : 5/30/2006 10:16:40 AM on the road - jack kerouac desolation angels - jack kerouac junkie - william s. burroughs ecstasy - irvine welsh anything by brett easton ellis (except for glamorama; also havent read his newest lunar park) under the tuscan sun - frances mayes the hills of tuscany - ferenc mate to live in tuscany would be divine! 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 : 5/30/2006 12:56:54 PM Jean - that is a great site, thanks for sharing it with us!   I also agree that a book review on here would be fun...however, I agree that I may have difficulty keeping up with the schedule due to my own commitments. But I say feel free to start a thread about any book - whether you have read it, or want to read it, and get others' opinions! 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
• inne Posted : 6/2/2006 10:34:55 PM Some of my favourite books: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison Hotel World by Ali Smith Here In the World by Victoria Lancelotta Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion The White Album by Joan Didion And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts Veronica by Mary Gaitskill 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
• georgie4682 Posted : 6/4/2006 5:57:42 PM I agree with everyone who said The Five People You Meet in Heaven Not really influential, but... The Harry Potter series are the most exciting books I've read...they really hook you in and you just want to keep reading. I am reading the Chronicles of Narnia now.  I love them! Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul I love  James Herriot books too.  I love the stories about animals that he tells! 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
• ron2 Posted : 6/4/2006 8:29:25 PM Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead   I've read both, which seemed to have similar themes. It was interesting as an outsider's view of capitalism. The heros were all about making gobs of their own money and then living like spartans. But we do see in our world today the effects of what she forecasted. As more and more mediocrity is promoted to levels of importance, the basic services are crumbling.   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
• ron2 Posted : 6/4/2006 8:41:00 PM I did a high school book report on 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance."   I've read everything ever written by Robert A. Heinlein (science fiction.)   "The End of Physics" by David Lindley was neat. It shows the free-for-all craziness of people pursuing a unified field theory in particle physics and quantum mechanics. 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
• Benedict Posted : 6/4/2006 8:41:34 PM I like books that force me to truly examine my own emotions/reactions.  So...(apologies, I can't remember all of the authors and my net connection is being weird, so can't look them up.)   We Need To Talk About Kevin Tully - Paullina Simons An Equal Music - Vikram Seth Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor Beautiful Losers - Leonard Cohen The Mists of Avalon The Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny Anything by Kafka Perfume   Kate 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
• cc431 Posted : 6/5/2006 12:56:41 AM The Godfather   Did 67 weeks straight weeks on the NY Times Best Seller List.  Incredible...a must read. 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
• cyclefiend2000 Posted : 6/5/2006 8:48:28 AM ORIGINAL: ron2 I did a high school book report on 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." read it in a college philosophy class. i really liked it. i tried to read one of pirsig's other books (lila: an inquiry into morals) and didnt like it as much. edit: i would like to add that i am also a fan of charles bukowski. 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
• pumaward Posted : 6/5/2006 10:08:37 AM The Inner Tao of Healing She Said Yes 100 Ways to Simplify Your Life   I know, their not real profound or anything, but I don't do much reading in the serious book department.   For books I just like: The Redwall Series by Brian Jaques is one of my favs; I just finished Salamandastron and The Bellmaker Battletech/ Mechwarrior Series (various authors), my favorite being Path of Glory   For dogs, I found The Other End of the Leash to be touching... I cried and laughed while reading it. Culture Clash has profoundly changed the way I view Maddi's behavior.   One of the books that has affected me the most, though, is A Sand County Almanac, with sketches here and there by Aldo Leopold. It really makes you think about the way we treat animals, plants, and our enviroment. 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