Recommend me a good book

[MX2]

I am tired of reading all the stuff I usually do. I would really like to read something about self-fulfillment or bettering myself, or something that gives you ambiton, etc. I dont really need "self-help", but some of those books I have found interesting in the past.

Last book I read of this nature was Lance Armstrongs book..."Its not about the bike..."

Anything else similar out there?

 

[UglyCasanova]

Be Here Now by Ram Dass. Amazing book, despite whatever preconceptions you may have about it.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach. Excellent book, and you can probably read it all in an hour or two.

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach. One of my favorites. This guy meets a messiah and they fly around cornfields in airplanes and talk about life.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

"I Feel Great and You Will Too!" Pat Croce (Former President of the 76'ers)

Ghey title but a good book.

 

[MX2]

Originally posted by: UglyCasanova
Be Here Now by Ram Dass. Amazing book, despite whatever preconceptions you may have about it.

I think I will pick this one up It has its appeal for me

Heck I think I will pick up "I Feel Great and You Will Too!" as well. Looks like a good one also.

Thanks guys:lips:

 

[Dragoon42]

Ender's Game

This isn't a feel good book, just a kick @ss book. I felt better after reading it.

 

[Mo0o]

Ishmael. Quick read, very interesting

 

[wvtalbot]

Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot

by Al Franken

inspirational to the max

 

[chuckywang]

Godel Escher Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter.

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.

 

[TheChort]

Try Paulo Cohelo's The Alchemist
its different from most things you've read. Pretty short read too.

 

[compuwiz1]

The Art of War.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Lust : The Seven Deadly Sins (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities) (Hardcover)
Simon Blackburn is the author of the Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
Anger : The Seven Deadly Sins (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities) (Hardcover)

Another book from the series, but these two are my favorites out of the seven so far.

Now, if you want to be really sobered up about war, not as a soldier, not as an American, and not as a victim, read Waris a Force that Gives Us Meaning; that had to be one of the most depressing books I've read.

 

[ailetlvo]

See No Evil. Robert Baer. I think that's the author.

 

[InlineFour]

Originally posted by: TheChort
Try Paulo Cohelo's The Alchemist
its different from most things you've read. Pretty short read too.

i just read that book for class and hated it.

 

[neegotiator]

the kite runner by khaled hosseini

 

[ThePresence]

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[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: TheChort
Try Paulo Cohelo's The Alchemist
its different from most things you've read. Pretty short read too.

Not bad. My GF made me read it.

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
The Art of War.

Ha... Everyone should read that once. The world's first self-help book.

Originally posted by: ailetlvo
See No Evil. Robert Baer. I think that's the author.

Great book. You should also read his other book "Sleeping With the Devil". That one is the real eye opener.

 

[Shadowknight]

For "bettering yourself", how about being inspired by a fantasy book about conquering a kingdom?
A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin

 

[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
You should also read his other book "Sleeping With the Devil". That one is the real eye opener.

Good book.