that you are really glad that you read, because they made a significant impact on you, or changed the way you think about something? For me it was The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, because I read it right after leaving the mormon church and it told me exactly the opposite of what I had been told my whole life. What about you?
2007-07-01 13:21:34 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"The problem that has no name". I really liked Friedan's analysis and conclusions, but, by the time I read it, she was preaching to someone who was already converted, and it was a tedious read for me. Excellent and critically important book, though. Can I reccomend "Woman, Race, and Class" by Angela Y. Davis?
I can't cite just one single book that has made a similar impact on me, but I'll mention a documentary that impacted my worldview greatly: "When the Levess Broke - A Requim in 4 Acts", the HBO documentary about Hurricane Katrina. If people are still not enraged at our government for that debacle, then not enough people have seen this film.
2007-07-01 13:35:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Life and Death of Planet Earth
The Ancestors Tale
The Universe Next Door
Hyperspace
More Than Human
Nightfall
2007-07-01 20:42:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would have to put Will the Saints go Marching in? by Floyd McElveen and the Mormon Papers by Harry Ropp at the top of the list. It helped me see the truth about Mormonism.
2007-07-02 08:48:02 · answer #3 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Garcia Marquez
The Female Eunuch - Greer
Life: A User's Manual - Perec
Guns, Germs and Steel - Diamond
2007-07-01 20:45:30 · answer #4 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I was 17 I read "Return to Manzanar" as it was assigned by my HS English Lit class and it had a great effect on me. Up until that time I did not know we put our own citizens in interment camps just because they happened to be of Japanese descent. It really opened my eyes to how history is swept is under the carpet or changed to suit the needs of ideology.
2007-07-01 20:29:40 · answer #5 · answered by genaddt 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Feminine Mystique is a great book... I read read MANY great books. Keep up the good work.
2007-07-01 20:36:12 · answer #6 · answered by Invisible_Flags 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes Echart toll The power of now,Ithink it was a kick in the head to wake me up straight from god. love and light
2007-07-01 20:31:25 · answer #7 · answered by Lightworker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Holly Quraan ,
Shakespeare plays
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2007-07-01 20:35:34 · answer #8 · answered by Tess 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Like Rolling Uphill: The Honesty of Atheism" In my opinion, one of the best books on a person's journey through religion to reality.
2007-07-01 20:24:32 · answer #9 · answered by Ũniνέгsäl Рдnтsthέisт™ 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
women who run with the wolves
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2007-07-01 20:27:03 · answer #10 · answered by Night Nurse 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋