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Books that have changed your view on the world...

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well, no single book has had any huge influence. Really my views have been formed and then I go and find the book that is most similar and read it. If I had to pick one book though I would sayBeyond Good and Evil although at this point in life I disagree with more in that book than I probably agree with, but as a high school kid VERY closely resembled my beliefs on a great many things, and it was nice to see I wasnt the first one to think the same way. I am a utilitarian though from an ethical standpoint So the book Utilitarianism would probably be applicable if it werent for the fact that I didn't learn anything from the book I hadn't already coem to believe on my own.

Personally I think you must have pretty weak beliefs if reading any single book will cause any major change to the way you view life.
 
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Family Happiness by Leo Tolstoy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
Paradise Lost by F. Scott Fritzgerald

That's all I can think of now, but I'm sure many more of the books I've read have altered my perception on what the "real" world is.
 
With regard to writings on politics and governance...

Thomas Paine's Rights of Man and Common Sense.
The United States Constitution
All the President's Men
 
The Bible
Atlas Shrugged
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Time Enough for Love

Just a representative sample.
 
Originally posted by: BrownTown
well, no single book has had any huge influence. Really my views have been formed and then I go and find the book that is most similar and read it. If I had to pick one book though I would sayBeyond Good and Evil although at this point in life I disagree with more in that book than I probably agree with, but as a high school kid VERY closely resembled my beliefs on a great many things, and it was nice to see I wasnt the first one to think the same way. I am a utilitarian though from an ethical standpoint So the book Utilitarianism would probably be applicable if it werent for the fact that I didn't learn anything from the book I hadn't already coem to believe on my own.

Personally I think you must have pretty weak beliefs if reading any single book will cause any major change to the way you view life.
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As opposed to forming an opinion and then searching for a book to validate it?
That is laughable....
 
Originally posted by: Oceandevi
Originally posted by: BrownTown
well, no single book has had any huge influence. Really my views have been formed and then I go and find the book that is most similar and read it. If I had to pick one book though I would sayBeyond Good and Evil although at this point in life I disagree with more in that book than I probably agree with, but as a high school kid VERY closely resembled my beliefs on a great many things, and it was nice to see I wasnt the first one to think the same way. I am a utilitarian though from an ethical standpoint So the book Utilitarianism would probably be applicable if it werent for the fact that I didn't learn anything from the book I hadn't already coem to believe on my own.

Personally I think you must have pretty weak beliefs if reading any single book will cause any major change to the way you view life.
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As opposed to forming an opinion and then searching for a book to validate it?
That is laughable....
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its laughable to come up with your own opinions in life instead of just copying others ?😕
 
Originally posted by: BrownTown
Originally posted by: Oceandevi
Originally posted by: BrownTown
well, no single book has had any huge influence. Really my views have been formed and then I go and find the book that is most similar and read it. If I had to pick one book though I would sayBeyond Good and Evil although at this point in life I disagree with more in that book than I probably agree with, but as a high school kid VERY closely resembled my beliefs on a great many things, and it was nice to see I wasnt the first one to think the same way. I am a utilitarian though from an ethical standpoint So the book Utilitarianism would probably be applicable if it werent for the fact that I didn't learn anything from the book I hadn't already coem to believe on my own.

Personally I think you must have pretty weak beliefs if reading any single book will cause any major change to the way you view life.
Click to expand...


As opposed to forming an opinion and then searching for a book to validate it?
That is laughable....
Click to expand...

its laughable to come up with your own opinions in life instead of just copying others ?😕
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So being receptive to ideas from the 5.9 billion other people in the world is "copying"??
 
1984 - George Orwell
Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham
Art of War - Sun Tzu
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Law and the Long War - Benjamin Wittes
The Best and the Brightest - David Halberstam
 
Jim Garrison, On the Trail of the Assassins. written by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison.


the Warren Commission Report (official US government report on the JFK assassination.)


George Bush, the Un-authorized Biography. by Webster Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin
http://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm


Lost History, by Robert Parry
http://www.consortiumnews.com/

R. Parry was and is an investigative journalist. he sunk his teeth into Iran-Contra
before his employer knew what Iran-Contra was. when they told him to let go,
he said, "no."


Crossing the Rubicon, by Michael Ruppert. About 9-11 and oil.


For Those I Loved, by Martin Gray.

Martin Gray was a 15 year old Jewish kid in Warsaw when the German troops walled it off like the Gaza strip. He lost his family & survived Auschwitz by hiding in the latrine, among other tactics. When he moved to New York he started out selling pencils door to door, which was ridiculously easy compared to what he had been through.
 
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