I've got a strange mixture of choices I've read but the one that do make one ponder are "The Will To Power" by Friedrich Nietzsche and "The Holy Bible" by God. >

The Turning Point by Fritjof Capra. Laterd turned into the movie Mindwalk.

Kama Sutra? *sp*
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The Art of War - SunTzu

Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche

The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri



The last two are a bit difficult to read but worth it, if you can manage.

Being and Nothingness- Jean-Paul Sartre
The Tacit Dimension- Michael Polanyi
Meditations- Descartes
The Enchiridion- Epictetus
The Prince- Machiavelli
Easy Journey To Other Planets- His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Freud And The Problem Of God- Hans Kung
Elements of Theosophy Lilian Edger
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah- Richard Bach
Journey To The East Hermann- Hesse
Magister Ludi: The Glass Bead Game- Hermann Hesse
Frontiers of Healing: New Dimensions in Parapsychology- Edited by Nicholas M. Regush
Many Mansions:The Edgar Cayce Story on Reincarnation- Gina Cerminara
The Incredible Story Of Edgar Cayce 'The Sleeping clairvoyant' Venture Inward-Hugh Lynn Cayce
The Remarkable Birth of Planet Earth Henry M. Morris
Future Shock-Alvin Toffler
Contemporary Philosophy: A Book of Readings-Edited by James L. Jarrett and Sterling M. McMurrin
Meta-Physics: New Dimensions of the Mind- Anthony Norvell
Oedipus Rex- Plato, Socrates
Dante
Stigma:Notes on the management of Spoiled Identity- Erving Goffman

Piers Anthony- Bio Of A Space Tyrant (1-5)
Stranger In A Strange Land- Robert A. Heinlein
The World Inside- Robert Silverberg
The Martian Chronicles- Ray Bradbury
1984- George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451- George Orwell
The Illustrated Man- George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess
Watership Down- Richard Adams
Shardik- Richard Adams

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest- Ken Resey
A Separate Peace- John Knowles

To Be Free!- Ron Martin

The Red Badge of Courage- Stephen Crane
The Red Pony- John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men- John Steinbeck

Angela's Ashes- Frank McCort
Frank and I- () McCort

Lowell
Canterbury Tales- Chaucer
Walden Pond- Henry David Thoreau

I have read the book Johnny Got His Gun, IPlural...very disturbing book...there was also a film made...but as usual skips over alot of the 'internal dialogue' of the narrative...

Whew! Looking at your list I 'see' an imminent trip to the library!

John and Betty....

Whew! Looking at your list I 'see' an imminent trip to the library!

I've been found out

"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck moved me more than any book I have ever read and I'm an avid reader. The ending is the most touching scene I can fathom.

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

...another one.

Memnoch the Devil - Anne Rice, almost any Anne Rice book leaves me touched, moved, bedazzled etc.

But I think the rest that have really left an impression have already been mentioned, Dante's The Comedy would prolly rank up there in the very very top on my personal list.

Om om by Stefan Stenudd left a very big impression on me in my childhood.

Portnoy's Complaint....

Earth Abides (I forgot who wrote it)

Unsolved Problems in Astrophysics-John N. Bahcall, Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Unconventional Flying Objects, a scientific analysis-Paul R. Hill,NASA scientist

A book called:

"We are not the first" by Erich Von Daniken

Very interesting reading

#13 by Aleatoric - 6/15/2004 12:28:09 AM Douglas Hofstadter - "Godel, Escher, and Bach"

o yes, read this one years ago - my recollection of it is a little fuzzy but I remember having my mind well and truly boggled

#20 by Mrs _footsie_ - 6/15/2004 7:34:51 AM Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah- Richard Bach

one of my all time favourites - this, along with it's predecessor Jonathon Livingstone Seagull, had a major influence on how I was to engage with the world around me

a couple of others:
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran. I had tried to read this a couple of times but it was a little esoteric for me. Then one day I picked it up and it must have been the right time because it clicked. Wow
Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance - same thing, tried and failed a couple of times...then...clickage

The science fiction of Iain M. Banks - Immensely rich and detailed vision of an advanced "culture" (to coin a phrase)

And of course The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The idea that anyone capable of getting themselves elected as leader of the universe must be entirely unsuited for the job is priceless
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Ah Jafo!!! Yes!!!

Tiggz funny book Hitchhiker's Guide!!!

I forgot to mention the Dune Books by Frank Herbert...incredibly intricate...

I love Isaac Asimov books although he is so very very dry in interviews

Plato's The Republic
The Last Gasp- Trevor Hoyle
Exploring the Unseen World- Steinour
Slan-A.E. Van Voght
The God Project- John Saul
The Unicorn Affair- James Frithand n Frank Glicksman

a really funny one is Emile and the Dutchman-Joel Rosenberg

The Bell Jar....

I think the first books I ever really loved though...

No laughing k???

Beautiful Joe
Harriet The Spy
Swiss Family Robinson

The Pokey Little Puppy
Clip Clop (about a little pony that wanted to wear all kinds of shoes)