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bakedjake
Apr 1, 2003, 7:59 PM
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Well for one I grew up in a small community, population 30,000 and the whole earth catalog brought up many different subject matters that I was otherwise ignorant of. Everything from alternative lifestyles to Buckminster Fuller.
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phaedrus
Apr 1, 2003, 8:41 PM
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In reply to: OK, now all of you made a great list of books, but could you explain why they changed your life??? especially this one Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance :lol:
The Bach books helped to crystallize a lot of what I already believed and thought, and even though it's not a book, Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay, "Self Reliance," has also been a huge influence on me.
The Pirsig book has had similar impact. The book isn't all that much about Zen or about motorcycles; it's more about the search for Quality in our lives and the process by which we make our decisions and journey through ourselves into our own realization of the Self.
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Apr 1, 2003, 9:09 PM
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anything by the late Glenn Gold, essays on solitude and individualism in general, for example
The Glenn Gould Reader
Glenn Gould: Musical Individualist
Portraits of the Artist: Glenn Gould
The best however is, The Idea of North, by Glenn Gould
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superbum
Apr 1, 2003, 11:48 PM
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Das Energi by Paul Williams
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aimeerose
Apr 2, 2003, 1:55 AM
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Brave New World ahhh, soma, gotta love it
Clockwork Orange
Lucky Man by Micheal J Fox
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iamthewallress
Apr 2, 2003, 2:24 AM
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The Stranger Albert Camus
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera
La Maladie de la Mort Margaritte Duras
Danny the Campion of the World Roald Dahl
THE VIEW FROM THE EDGE: The Life and Landscapes of Beverly Johnson Gabriela Zim
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madriver
Apr 2, 2003, 2:54 AM
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How to Steal This Book Abi Hoffman
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