Re: Is there a book that changed your Life
Actually it was a series of books that changed everything for me. Having suffered with anxiety and depression (including panic attacks) periodically throughout my life, and many years of research to find some answers, I stumbled upon a book written by Dr. Wayne Dyer that set the changes into motion. I don't even recall how I came to pick the book up, but it seemed to me to be an unlikely source for what I had been dealing with almost my entire life.Re: Is there a book that changed your Life
Like others on here, and the person who started this Thread, I have to say that when I read the title of the Thread, the book Ragged Trousered Philanthropists immediately sprang to mind. I was already involved in socialist politics when I read this, but it confirmed everything - and has remained with me since that time. For a film I would cite 'All Quiet on the Western Front'. saw this about same time as I read Tressells book, and this also had such a profound impact on me on the total senslisness of war.Re: Is there a book that changed your Life
The book that changed my life was, The Celestine Prophecy by James RedfieldRe: Is there a book that changed your Life
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach. I was 21 working in the audio-visual supply section in a public school headquarters. A guy I worked with loaned it to me. I read it on my lunch hour...yeah it's that short. I learned that I wasn't just a little country bumpkin with no talent. I learned I could fly. I was miserable in the life I had made for myself. It was because of Richard Bach's little seagull that I started college a few years later, something I had never been interested in doing before. It set me free to find me. I learned I had value. I now write books, to "pay it forward". "Each one, teach one." Years later Richard Bach was responsible for me getting my first literary agent. He walked his talk.Re: Is there a book that changed your Life
The book that changed my life came along when I was a child of ten. At that time there were really no usable computers, we had no technology in our schools for blind children, and I read everything in braille. I read braille when I had to, but I did not like to read. I was not what you would call proficient, books did not give me any pleasure. And then we heard on the radio a dramatized adaptation of Watership Down by Richard Adams. My imagination was fired by this story, I dashed to my school library at lunch hour and demanded it from the librarian. He did not want to let me have it, telling me it was in six bulky volumes, and anywayit was too old for me and I would never finish it. I was equally firm that I would.Re: Is there a book that changed your Life
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