Topic: BOOK
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Sun 05/18/08 01:03 AM
Edited by itsmetina on Sun 05/18/08 01:03 AM
What book would you recommend for us to read and why?real answers people please!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Sun 05/18/08 01:07 AM
I SEE WE HAVE READERS IN HERE

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Sun 05/18/08 01:07 AM
The Mark of Cain: An Anatomy of Jealousy
by Willard & Marguerite Beecher



Because it's a good book! It's pretty small, 188 pgs... talks about how people with jealous mindsets have a really hard time focusing on goals, concentration skills, and lots of other things.

The goal of it is to realize how jealousy bleeds into every facet of someone's life, unknowingly.

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Sun 05/18/08 01:08 AM
im an avid reader but im off to bed...i'll come back in the morning for this one...too many books to recommend..

flowerforyou drinker


night tina

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Sun 05/18/08 01:12 AM
Temples on the Other Side by Sylvia Brown Because its about what to expect in the afterlife and teaches meditation.I'm still reading it.I think even for non believers it has alot of things you can relate to.

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Sun 05/18/08 01:16 AM
Songs of innocence and experience
William Blake 1775
I don't think it would be your cup of teaflowerforyou

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Sun 05/18/08 01:27 AM
The Mark of the Lion series by Francine Rivers

Just about anything by Orson Scott Card, but especially "Ender's Game"

I heard Isaac Asimov wrote a terrible book once. I looked and looked and looked and never found it. All he has is a plethora of amazing ones...oh well.

Anyting by Terry Pratchett, especially his Discworld series

I actually thought Jane Eyre was good, and my sister insists almost everything else Jane Austen wrote is good too.

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Sun 05/18/08 01:37 AM
underboss.......about sammy the bull gravano..........by ahhhhhhhi had to look.......peter maas........good book ......real ****

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Sun 05/18/08 01:38 AM
oh is that sylvia brown the one on montell???????i beleive in reincarnation.........so whatever......but i saw her and is she for real?

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Sun 05/18/08 01:39 AM

oh is that sylvia brown the one on montell???????i beleive in reincarnation.........so whatever......but i saw her and is she for real?
i think so

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Sun 05/18/08 01:43 AM
she knows all about everything and morelaugh

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Sun 05/18/08 01:44 AM
I'd like to meet her

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Sun 05/18/08 01:46 AM
flowerforyou Dianetics by L.Ron Hubbard flowerforyou

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Sun 05/18/08 01:47 AM
laugh laugh laugh mirrorlaugh

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Sun 05/18/08 02:57 AM
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco if you want that's something historical and philosophical. It's a better read than Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code. As for something that is romantic, what popped in my head was this classic, A place in the sun. It's a good read.

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Sun 05/18/08 03:54 AM
Paulo Coelho's The alchemist is quite good too, bit inspiring

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Sun 05/18/08 05:16 AM
The Brain That Changes Itself.
Siddhartha, or just about anything by Hermann Hesse.

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Sun 05/18/08 06:38 AM

flowerforyou Dianetics by L.Ron Hubbard flowerforyou


I read that -- it was, uh, interesting....

A bit dated, because it was written in 1950; and it seemed odd to me that Hubbard believed so many people's problems (resulting in their "engrams") came about because their mothers had unsuccessfully tried to abort them.

I actually preferred Hubbard's "Battlefied Earth," a very long sci-fi novel later made into a movie that unfortunately featured John Travolta.


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Sun 05/18/08 06:49 AM
Edited by s1owhand on Sun 05/18/08 06:54 AM
Well there are way way too many to list here but here are a few
suggestions...

The Essential Rumi translation by Coleman Barks - or similar,

The Robot series or Foundation series by Isaac Asimov

Jeeves and Wooster stories by P.G. Wodehouse

The Rumpole stories (start with 1st Rumpole Omnibus) - John Mortimer

Smiley's People - John LeCarre

Words That Hurt, Words That Heal: How to Choose Words Wisely and Well (Paperback)
by Joseph Telushkin

http://www.amazon.com/Words-That-Hurt-Heal-Choose/dp/0688163505

The Power of Logical Thinking: Easy Lessons in the Art of Reasoning...and Hard Facts About Its Absence in Our Lives (Paperback)
by Marilyn vos Savant

http://www.amazon.com/Power-Logical-Thinking-Lessons-Reasoning/dp/0312156278/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211118124&sr=1-1

Check them out from the library. Why not?
I also patronize the used bookstores.

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Sun 05/18/08 07:27 AM
Edited by ddn122 on Sun 05/18/08 07:29 AM
i liked The Dali Lama's...."The art of Happiness"


and my friend wrote

Sixty-five Roses....(a sisters memoir).H.S Cariou...

just got optioned for a movie


oh yea and why......first one helped me view the world in a "different way " than what i was used to....beneficial to me personally.....


the second, can't put i down ...you experience a wide range of emotions when reading and realize how precious life is....