Which book changed your life and why?

Question

I have been searching for that book apart from Bible or Koran or Torah, that can impact significantly the life of a human being in life for better.What book can you recommend that has done that for you?. Serious answers please

Answer 1

The Great Gatsby.

Answer 2

"The Cosmic Trigger. Volume II" , by Robert Anton Wilson. I bought it in the discount bin and read it during a particularly hopeless period of my life. A lot of the book is hokey, but several times he talks about 'the 23 conspiracy', a supposed connection about how the number 23 shows up more often than it should in everyday life. The author went on to tell how he would 'find' messages on page 23, or the 23rd line of a page or the 23rd word into a paragraph. Silly, I know. However, the next book I read was the first edition of "Generation X". Still having the '23' thing in my head, I opened the book to the 23rd page, which coincidentally enough was the start of a new chapter entitled "Quit Your Job". That struck me like a bolt of lightning. I was in a dead end job, waiting for life to happen. About a week later, I quit my job, never looked back. Life is good, now.

Answer 3

A book that did a lot for me was called I Dared To Call Him Father, which is about a Muslim woman who became a Christian through visions and dreams. Um, it's a bit of a farfetch for some, but the holy books you mentioned are littered with the same material. I have a hard time believing that God is intimate with people, and this book is a personal look at how a woman was changed.

Second to that book would be either Travelling Light by Max Lucado or If Not For The Grace Of God by Joyce Meyer, which both cover the same subject of not believing myself good enough for a God to care. These two are mostly concerned with anxiety issues, so they may not apply to you.

Answer 4

For me it was Carlos Castaneda's "Tales of Power," which is the fourth book in a series. Or maybe I should add the earlier three: "The Teachings of Don Juan," "A Separate Reality" and "Journey to Ixtlan." On the surface, the story is about an anthropology student who becomes the apprentice of a wise-man/shaman--first as research, then ultimately to become a "warrior," or "man of power." Beneath the surface, there is an amazing amount of wisdom, which comes from his teacher, Don Juan. This wisdom is unprecedented and, in my opinion, totally empowering and pragmatic. If you make the effort to see beneath the rather bizarre and unbelievable goings-on, you may be able to glean enough wisdom to completely change your life, as it did mine. I was at a turning point in my life, when I abandoned traditional expressions of spirituality and was looking for something "real." While the fictional drama is unreal, the wisdom was reality-based--even a guidebook into reality and became, for me, a replacement for religion. Reading the four books is a vastly entertaining journey, but also a challenging one. Not for everyone! While these books were all interational best sellers in the seventies and eighties, they are still in print and available at Amazon.com.

Answer 5

The Bible first of course. After that, any of the books by the lady psychic, Sylvia Browne. I was very skeptical when I read her first book but then the things she said began to make sense. She speaks of Christian reincarnation. It seems that there were books that spoke of this in an early version of the Bible and those books were taken out by Constantinople around 543 A.D.
Sylvia speaks of her spirit guide and the things that she has revealed to her about Heaven and the fact that some things she cannot reveal at all. It's very interesting reading if you have an open mind.

Answer 6

There are many books that have touched me...that have left an emotional impact on my life...some of them are Holocaust books...and another one is called The Girl With The White Flag by Tomika Higa. That book is incredible. I don't know if it's still in print or not, but I picked it up by accident at my library one day...took it home...read it...and was just amazed by it. I really recommend it. It is nonfiction, by the way, a biography of a young Japanese girl who is writing about her memories of the last days of World War II.

Answer 7

If you want a non-religious book to chang eyour life try Jonathan Livingston Seagul, which is a bout individuality and choice, or any of Richard Bach's Books they're all good. If you want a religious scripture try reading the Book of Mormon that change my life for the better 30 years ago and I've never looked back

Answer 8

There are three:

Dr Suess's Green Eggs and Ham b/c it was the forts book I learned to read on my own

The Ugly Duckling by Hans C Anderson b/c it is the firts book I ever checked out of the "liberry" at age 6.

The Murder of David Ackeroyd by Agatha Christie b/c it showed me that I could enjoy reading more than harlequin Romances and Phyllis Whitney/Victoria Holt type novels.

Answer 9

I know you wont find any Thing out of These books but i did.
The harry Potter Series-I never read,all The way to 6th grade,and The books I read, i COMPLETELY didn't understand it was like reading a different language,i simple read words,I though HP was geeky,stupid, and i though basically fantasy books in general were stupid,unreal,UUGGGGG i just hated Them.Then just last year The 6Th HP book came out and i was at camp at the time, and everyone got mail from parents(of the book) and everyone even adults(thew camp councilors) read them etc.I still felt good, but a little left out.Then i got back from camp and had a month(august) left of summer, and I just well i do not know what hit me i just read them,in a month(which for my reading skills is great!), I wouldn't put Th books down(yeah i know then why a month well it takes me 3-5 minutes to read one page and I'm 13 well 12 at the time), and we went to Hawaii)as usual in august) and i just read..read..read...read.Know I'm obsessed, and realize Fantasy books are the only books i enjoy!
love/dee

Answer 10

Silly but still serious: The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne. This was the first book I ever read (4 years old) it opened the door to a lifelong love of reading.

Answer 11

Please Understand Me by David Keirsey. It is about temperament types and the subtypes within. Incredibly accurate (a 70 question survey in the book). Even the most cynical people I gave it to (who always turned out to be Guardian or Rational types) were blown away by it. Helped me understand myself, my kids, relationships I've had - and made me very aware of what my tendencies are and how I should (or should not) change my behaviors to make my life more effective.