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09-27-2007, 02:28 PM
|  | thrillho | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Positively 4th Street
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| | | Books That Change Your Life
Don't tell me the Bible.
My friend is a bit of a negative nancy. I try to rationalize with him that he has to be more positive about things, he has to get ambitious, he has to start taking things more seriously, etc, etc. He really enjoys reading. I really just want a recommendation on a book that is REALLY positive and makes you want to live again.
A good example would be the equivalent as "Amelie" (the film).
Plz Halp.
Signed,
Worried friend 
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09-27-2007, 04:39 PM
|  | KR: gay pms | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: almost there
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| | | make him read Atlas Shrugged. i don't know if it counts as super positive but if it does "change his life" it might make him a more interesting/amusing person. |
09-27-2007, 05:00 PM
| | thrillho | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Positively 4th Street
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| | | He's very intelligent and interesting. He is just the most cynical and depressing person I've ever met.
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09-27-2007, 05:06 PM
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| | | the year of magical thinking, joan didion |
09-27-2007, 08:45 PM
| | annoying y'all since 1962 | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Sunken City
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Originally Posted by jonfromsweden  the year of magical thinking, joan didion | Agreed. That book is AMAZING, and so is she!!  |
09-27-2007, 09:11 PM
|  | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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| | | Matilda. Sort of.
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09-27-2007, 10:57 PM
|  | with CLUB SAUCE | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: your pants
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| | | tuesdays with morrie
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09-28-2007, 12:37 AM
| | yourexloverisdead. | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: teenland
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| | | Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut..well almost anything by Vonnegut, really. |
09-28-2007, 02:04 AM
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Originally Posted by TheProudHighway Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut..well almost anything by Vonnegut, really. | cause that'll totally turn anyone optimistic...
I'd say he should read Being Peace, by Thich Nhat Hahn, but that stuff can be viewed as hokey-pokey buddha shit. depends.
Someone from this site sent me a book that changed my life a bit. The Little Prince. It's beautiful. |
09-28-2007, 03:52 AM
| | with CLUB SAUCE | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: your pants
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| | oh and the velveteen rabbit
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09-28-2007, 09:06 AM
|  | The Queen Of All Ive Seen | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Warsaw, Poland
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| | | The Magus - Johns Fowles
Lots of great books/poems by Polish authors from the 19th century
Crime and Punishment - Fiodor Dostojewski |
09-28-2007, 09:48 AM
|  | Lets stay up | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Australia
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| | | Jackie Collins. Totally makes you think yo. |
09-28-2007, 04:38 PM
|  | The March Hare | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by Silly Stanker Someone from this site sent me a book that changed my life a bit. The Little Prince. It's beautiful. | I second that motion! It's magical 
Another option could be The Broke Diaries by Angela Nissel, because it's funny and optimistic and she's broke and going through all sorts of shit in her senior year of university, but her attitude is inspiring without trying to be. It didn't change my life, but it changed my attitude a little.
There's been several important books in my world, from Harriet the Spy to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn to L'Stranger (Camus) to Whitman poetry to Langston Hughes... I'm really boring about it, but I have a Master's in English, so I read... often. |
09-28-2007, 04:45 PM
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| | | Lauri Notaro, definately thinking books. |
09-28-2007, 06:45 PM
|  | irony maiden | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: denny's.
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| | | i think Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood changed my life in a way, in that i'd been through so much of what Elaine went through and it changed my way of looking at my life and my childhood friendships. i always knew that they'd shaped me but Cat's Eye kind of made me realise that while it's really hard to let all that stuff go, i had to forgive them because i was probably as bad to them as they were to me. it also made me realise that some friendships just aren't meant to last forever. |
09-29-2007, 04:23 PM
| | annoying y'all since 1962 | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Sunken City
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Originally Posted by no_ones_song Lauri Notaro, definately thinking books. | She rocks!! I just read the one about the Sewer Pipe Queen contest. I wish I knew her in real life, she seems so funny and like just a cool person. |
09-29-2007, 08:15 PM
|  | repose most louche | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: feasting with panthers
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| | | Anything by Khalil Gibran. He's like the Lebanese literary equivalent of the Dalai Lama.
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10-05-2007, 08:32 AM
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| | | The Plague by Albert Camus
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10-05-2007, 08:35 AM
|  | pull me out of the lake | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: soho
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| | | douglas coupland makes me feel energised
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10-14-2007, 11:05 AM
|  | ya basta | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: shallow grave
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| | | wouldn't atlas shrugged just make him greedy and materialistic?
id say testament of youth by vera britain, its about depressing subject matter but the overall message is uplifting and inspiring. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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