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What are some truly mind warping books?
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What are some truly mind warping books?

Have you ever read a book that truly affected you or even changed the way you live your life?
01-16-2009 10:10 PM
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Re: What are some truly mind warping books?

It's in my sig.

Another one is "Excuse me, your life is waiting". That one really changed the way I think.

P.S. Also, reading The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy series @ 3am while you're half asleep is really trippy.

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Re: What are some truly mind warping books?

The Dan brown books can kinda get weird like the da vinci code Angels and Demons you know

the stuff that make you Cuckoo

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Incidents are needed for revolution
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01-17-2009 03:18 AM
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Re: What are some truly mind warping books?

angles and demons is very good
01-17-2009 03:40 AM
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Re: What are some truly mind warping books?

Snow Crash FTW. And 1984.

I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins.
The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.
01-17-2009 05:44 AM
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Quote:1984
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01-17-2009 05:57 AM
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Re: What are some truly mind warping books?

"The Phantom Tollbooth" Isn't exactly mind-blowing, but might make you reflect and change the way you feel about things. sure did for me.

"After 2001, the only Bush I trust is my own" - Bumper Sticker
"In my world, everybody's a pony. They eat rainbows and poop butterflies. AHHHHHHH" - Katie
"In my world, everybody's a computer. They eat Ethernet cables and poop USB drives" - Sick Silent
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Re: What are some truly mind warping books?

Read All these and you'll think differently Biggrin


"David Deangelos Ebook" (DYD)

"Why men are the way they are"

"The Fall of The Roman Empire"

"The myth of male power"

"Lies My teacher told me"

"Holy War"

"Feel the Fear and do it anyways"

"The South Was Right"

"Rules of the Game"

"Women can't hear what men don't say"

"Blink"

"The Tipping point"

"The mating mind"

"The Red queen

"Te wizard of ads"

"Sperm wars

"radical honesty"

"Magic Bullets" (Mystery)


"mind lines"

"Selfish gene

"The origins of virtue

"The dangerous passion

"half empty half full"

"mans search for meaning"

"The Paradox of choice"

"The Gift of Fear"

"Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich"

"Mastering your hidden self"

"Build For Show"

"The power of now"

"John Taylor Gatto's Underground history" Book!

Who am I? That is irrelevant.
What am I here for? That will become apparent.
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I'm amazed some sheep hasn't come along and said "Zeitgeist"
01-17-2009 12:18 PM
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Re: What are some truly mind warping books?

Mind Warping?

The Sun Also Rises
~Ernest Hemingway

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Re: What are some truly mind warping books?

Something by Mitch Albom probably. Try

The Five People You Meet In Heaven
or
Tuesdays With Morrie

" This is a story about a man, and it begins at the end, with him dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with an ending, But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time. "
~The Five People You Meet In Heaven.

" I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. " ~From the television show The Wonder Years
01-18-2009 06:49 AM
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Five people you meet in heaven is very good. That's the one with the old guy who works at that amusement park right?
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thought criminal Wrote:Five people you meet in heaven is very good. That's the one with the old guy who works at that amusement park right?

Correct.

" I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. " ~From the television show The Wonder Years
01-18-2009 07:13 AM
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