Mine was Awareness - Anthony de Mello. And of course PB not long ago.
Getting that feeling now of wanting to curl up with a good book...
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Mine was Awareness - Anthony de Mello. And of course PB not long ago.
Getting that feeling now of wanting to curl up with a good book...
If I keep it to the life-changing ones, the last one was the PB. Although, technically, this website got to me first and I read the book to be thorough.
The MDA website converted me also. I read the book a few months after I went primal. The book that really, really changed my thinking is [I]Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It[/I] by Gary Taubes. He explained so much stuff that I had been wondering about for years. He is such a great writer, able to break down complicated ideas so that anyone can understand them. But I like science a lot.
[URL="http://perfecthealthdiet.com/"]Perfect Health Diet[/URL] - 2nd edition. The first was good also, but I really like this 2nd edition. And a great section on fasting with info I don't think I have read before, at least it didnt sink in if I had.
Mark wrote the forward for this book.
Good Calories, Bad Calories. Just re-reading it now. Total perspective reversal, especially for a health care professional.
I wouldn't say life changing but... lets see the best books I've read this year in no particular order...
Modern/fantasy
The Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne
Sci-fi/space opera
Star Force series by B. V. Larson
Troy Rising series by John Ringo
The Way series by Greg Bear (I'd read Eon over a decade ago, but read all of them last month)
Looking Glass series by John Ringo , Travis Taylor
Footfall by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Starswarm by Jerry Pournelle
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
The Void Triology by Peter F. Hamilton
Commonwealth Saga by Peter F. Hamilton
Spin series by Robert Charles Wilson
Mote in God's Eye series by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Military non-fiction
No Easy Day by Mark Owen, Kevin Maurer ( The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden)
We Were One by Patrick K. O'Donnell (Shoulder-to-Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah)
House to House by Staff Sergeant David Bellavia with John Bruning (first-hand account of 11 days during second battle of Fallujah)
Roberts Ridge by Malcolm MacPherson (About an encounter on Takur Ghar Mountain, Afghanistan)
American Sniper by Chris Kyle , Scott McEwan (Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History)
Outlaw Platoon by Sean Parnell, John Bruning (account of the U.S. Army's legendary 10th Mountain Division's heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan)
Joker One by Donovan Campbell (A Marine Platoon's Story )
Tech fiction that could easily become non-fiction in the next year-10 years
Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez
Daemon series by Daniel Suarez
Auto-Biography/Biogarphy
Gorwing Up Amish by my friend Ira Wagler
The Elephant to Hollywood by Michael Caine
God, No! by Penn Jillette
Up Till Now by William Shatner, David Fisher
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
iWoz by Steve Wozniak and Gina Smith
Misc
Last Templar series by Raymond Khoury
World Without End and The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Millenium Triology by Stieg Larsson
Sorry, I can't, just can't read non fiction.
Right now I'm 120 pages into Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I got it after reading somewhere on this forum that reading the novel has been a life changing experience for them.
Unfortunately so far I can't really get into it. It's a huge volume, so maybe it will grow on me, eventually.
[QUOTE=Graycat;1043368]Sorry, I can't, just can't read non fiction.
Right now I'm 120 pages into Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I got it after reading somewhere on this forum that reading the novel has been a life changing experience for them.
Unfortunately so far I can't really get into it. It's a huge volume, so maybe it will grow on me, eventually.[/QUOTE]
Atlas is hard to get into, there is a good audio version of it which might help, the production value is pretty good. It's something you really need to read/listen to a few times too to appreciate it... which makes it even harder to suffer through.
[QUOTE=Graycat;1043368]Sorry, I can't, just can't read non fiction.
Right now I'm 120 pages into Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I got it after reading somewhere on this forum that reading the novel has been a life changing experience for them.
Unfortunately so far I can't really get into it. It's a huge volume, so maybe it will grow on me, eventually.[/QUOTE]
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You can stop reading.
Okay, seriously...
Those Terrible Middle Ages! by Regine Pernoud
Stupid title. Is translated from the French, and for some reason American publishers thought the book needed a snappier name. Basically, everything you were taught in school about the Middle Ages was completely wrong. Puts all of world history in a different perspective.