Tons of books have changed or help build my outlook on life. In some ways I think all good books do that. Most notably (in no particular order):
* Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
* The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
* East of Eden by John Steinbeck
* The Choice by Dr Edith Eger
* Man’s Search for Meaning by Dr Viktor Frankl
* Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
* Being Mortal by Dr Atul Gawande
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The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
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*Too Loud a Solitude*, by Bohumil Hrabal
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Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi. I’m 35 and shot to shit after having two kids right after marrying and moving away from my home, physically and mentally. The book’s message gave me a new outlook I desperately needed – helped me to see the value in reading and imagination at a time when I’m so limited by health problems and the needs of little children.
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The Other Side by Alfred Kubin. Still the weirdest book I have read. Written in 1908. It was the first time I realized as an adult that, thankfully, people have always been weird and will continue to be.
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Tons of books have changed or help build my outlook on life. In some ways I think all good books do that. Most notably (in no particular order):
* Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
* The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
* East of Eden by John Steinbeck
* The Choice by Dr Edith Eger
* Man’s Search for Meaning by Dr Viktor Frankl
* Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
* Being Mortal by Dr Atul Gawande
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
*Too Loud a Solitude*, by Bohumil Hrabal
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi. I’m 35 and shot to shit after having two kids right after marrying and moving away from my home, physically and mentally. The book’s message gave me a new outlook I desperately needed – helped me to see the value in reading and imagination at a time when I’m so limited by health problems and the needs of little children.
The Other Side by Alfred Kubin. Still the weirdest book I have read. Written in 1908. It was the first time I realized as an adult that, thankfully, people have always been weird and will continue to be.
Viktor Frankl – Man’s search for meaning