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By *asual777 OP Man 2 weeks ago
i travel all over |
What books have influenced the way you think and behave ?
I will go with thinking fast and slow
A lovely wiki summary says ‘people often overestimate how much they understand about the world and underestimate the role of chance in particular. This is related to the excessive certainty of hindsight, when an event seems to be understood after it has occurred or developed’ |
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4 agreements and The Secret both still resonate.
Current, and totally different, The Screwtape Letters. Written nearly a hundred years ago but think about social media and messaging. Wierd how its still the same in a different world. |
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By *og-ManMan 2 weeks ago
somewhere |
Peig ....The reason I still hate the Irish language
The Bible...even though it's a fairy tale I try to live my life according to at least a few of the commandments
The magic faraway Tree because I still remember the characters and the adventures they had and it gave me my love of reading
The story of O
Because I read it as a teenager and had my first ever wank afterwards
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The Magic Tree was one of my favourites and all the Terry Pratchets.
As for what influenced me, The Ethical Slut was really helpful as I embarked on a sex positive journey and tried to shed all the years of slut shaming.
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By *alvin.Man 2 weeks ago
Cork/Dublin |
Peig has come up twice... That's mad 
Peig, life changing and not in an Irish language way
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. Made me stop and think as a young man
Juno and the Peacock (play) the name will stay with me forever
There's others but 3 will do |
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"Peig has come up twice... That's mad
Peig, life changing and not in an Irish language way
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. Made me stop and think as a young man
Juno and the Peacock (play) the name will stay with me forever
There's others but 3 will do "
Ah here.. my reply was sarcastic!! Can't imagine that book having a positive influence on anyone. |
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By *adbobbilMan 2 weeks ago
Wicklow, Carlow, Wexford, Kilkenny |
"The bible 
It hurt alright when the mother hopped it off our heads when we were bold  "
I had a nun in school used to throw then at us to get our attention. And they weren't those little ones either. And she had an amazing aim |
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By *alvin.Man 2 weeks ago
Cork/Dublin |
"Peig has come up twice... That's mad
Peig, life changing and not in an Irish language way
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. Made me stop and think as a young man
Juno and the Peacock (play) the name will stay with me forever
There's others but 3 will do
Ah here.. my reply was sarcastic!! Can't imagine that book having a positive influence on anyone."
A rich piece of our cultural hertiage to some. A piece of endured torture for the young people of Ireland to others. Its probably neither.
But it set me on a journey, and I hated the bloody thing. Good aul Peig eh. |
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"Peig has come up twice... That's mad
Peig, life changing and not in an Irish language way
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. Made me stop and think as a young man
Juno and the Peacock (play) the name will stay with me forever
There's others but 3 will do "
I read Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance as well as a teen. It was a fashion then (you were cool if you read it...but probably cooler if you understood it)
I read it with a mix of 'wha?' and 'OMG my life has changed forever'. It was at my limit of understanding of the concepts though. Mix of a immature mind and maybe lack of brain cells. |
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I love reading. I love books that make me think in new ways and explore my own views of the world and how I can think differently, be a better person and share the world in more meaningful, caring ways. This list isn't exhaustive.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
All the Colours of the Dark - Chris Whitaker
The ALCHEMIST - Paulo Coelho
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
The Infatuations - Javier Marías
On Writing - Stephen King
The Big Short - Michael Lewis
Normal People - Sally Rooney
Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
High Fidelity and About a Boy - Nick Hornby
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
The Beach - Alex Garland
The Tao of Pooh Book - Benjamin Hoff
The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg
The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley
Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
Das Capital - Karl Marx
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett |
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"I love reading. I love books that make me think in new ways and explore my own views of the world and how I can think differently, be a better person and share the world in more meaningful, caring ways. This list isn't exhaustive.
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Some great ideas for Christmas Presents there! |
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"I love reading. I love books that make me think in new ways and explore my own views of the world and how I can think differently, be a better person and share the world in more meaningful, caring ways. This list isn't exhaustive.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
All the Colours of the Dark - Chris Whitaker
The ALCHEMIST - Paulo Coelho
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
The Infatuations - Javier Marías
On Writing - Stephen King
The Big Short - Michael Lewis
Normal People - Sally Rooney
Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
High Fidelity and About a Boy - Nick Hornby
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
The Beach - Alex Garland
The Tao of Pooh Book - Benjamin Hoff
The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg
The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley
Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
Das Capital - Karl Marx
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett"
I recently listened All the Colours of the Dark - adored it and felt alll the feels!
Years ago I got a gift The Tao of Pooh book. I stupidly lent it to someone and never got it back  |
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The Bible
I have learned reading perusing the book called The Bible for Believers and Nonbelievers. It is a funny, though rather childish, book highlighting the absurdity of religious zealotry and beliefs. I had to read the original Bible after that of course, and it didn't disappoint! Such hilarity, much smiting and oh! The letters! When people had to think before putting their insults on the paper and then waiting for months to get a reaction, the trolling and putdowns were more inquisitely crafted than in this age of instant gratification. |
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Tuesday’s with Morrie
The 5 people that you meet in Heaven
The War of the Worlds
The Wasp factory
Dune
The Padre
Through a Mirror Darkly
Dracula
Interview with the Vampire
A Time to Kill
Exquisite Corpse
1984
Animal Farm
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"I recently listened All the Colours of the Dark - adored it and felt alll the feels!
Years ago I got a gift The Tao of Pooh book. I stupidly lent it to someone and never got it back "
I loved All the Colours of the Dark. Fantastic read. I was going to DM you but I don't fit your filters 😂 |
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I was much more influenced by books when I was younger but off the top of my skull..
Less Than Zero - Brett Easton Ellis
Ablutions- Patrick De Witt
Daemian - Herman Hesse
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Post Office - Charles Bukowski
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
We can rebuild you - Philip K Dick
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
From Hell - Alan Moore
The list goes onnnnnn..... |
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By *asual777 OP Man 2 weeks ago
i travel all over |
7 habits of highly effective people
Great part on South African golfer focusing on a red spot on his hand . Letting go of his errors
Use it every time I play soccer . Doesn’t matter about the error . Focus on the next moment
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"I recently listened All the Colours of the Dark - adored it and felt alll the feels!
Years ago I got a gift The Tao of Pooh book. I stupidly lent it to someone and never got it back
I loved All the Colours of the Dark. Fantastic read. I was going to DM you but I don't fit your filters 😂"
Oh that can be rectified easily  |
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We can rebuild you - Philip K Dick
The list goes onnnnnn.....
"We can rebuild you, we can make you stronger" -- Six Million Dollar Man "
Gah! Yes, it's 'We can build you'! But I love Steve Austin too so it's all good  |
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The Catcher in the Rye
When the hero is in the hotel in New York he's see a man dressed in women's underwear.
Later in life , I realised that I couldn't be that weird, that is a old book 😀 I think written in the 1950s.
When I grew up there was no such thing as bi gay even straight
You were either Normal or Queer!
So reading about a transvestite sorted by accident ,made a big impression on me , eventually! |
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