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11-01-2007, 03:01 AM
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Most Significant Book?
What is the most significant book[s] you read?
Me: Trinity by Leon Uris. Opened up my eyes to the fact that my parents and grandparents weren't full of it when they were talking about Ireland. The Gilded Age by Twain and someone else. The Bible by unknown authors. It seems kind of funny, but as a Catholic I was NOT encouraged to read it, and I took a Bible as Lit class with a Ph.D that had examined the Nag Hamedi texts and was also a Presbyterian minister. She was amazing, and had not deconstructionist attitude towards the bible. So, heritage, politics, and religion/spirituality. Have driven me my whole life. 
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11-02-2007, 04:14 AM
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Re: Most Significant Book?
well of course ill say the Bible too-the screwtape letters-alice through the looking glass-a clockwork orange-1984-a brave new world-Solzhenitsyn had a profound effect on me really-though it wasnt a single work-i plowed through Cancer Ward and the Gulag-but it was really the man that impressed me..
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11-02-2007, 04:29 AM
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Re: Most Significant Book?
Most Significant Book?
Singularly..that would have to be the Bible! Other books that changed my life.. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair The Microbe Slayers The Brethren Cosmos To Kill A Mockingbird War and Peace ULYSSES BRAVE NEW WORLD THE GRAPES OF WRATH ALL THE KING'S MEN The Killing Of Bonnie Garland And..many others.........
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11-02-2007, 06:37 AM
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Re: Most Significant Book?
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11-02-2007, 03:09 PM
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Re: Most Significant Book?
There have probably been too many to name.
Two from childhood: Frederick Douglas Fights For Freedom Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman Later: Atlas Shrugged To Kill A Mockingbird Stranger In A Strange Land Brave New World Fahrenheit 451 Letters From the Earth Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady The Prince of Tides
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11-02-2007, 03:29 PM
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OMG!!! CF? You've read Farenheit 451 too? I don't know which was better...the book or the film myself.
And if I had to say what book was the most significant that I've read... That one is deffinately on top of my list. And I hate to say this...But perhaps that's why the way our nation is like today, has me concerned... Although the story itself was fictional and about a completely 'blind' society...Some of what we see going on in today's society of 'just blindly following', of avoiding information to fit in and keep the peace... We see that today in the political arena, the laws that are being made and passed, and how the nation has adopted the mentality of 'if you're not with us, you're against us and you will be destroyed/cast out.'
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11-04-2007, 10:08 AM
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Re: Most Significant Book?
I too, being honest, would say The Bible.
Though there are to me, many incongruent positions stated in it's context, it has truly influenced how I live and inspired me to believe for my entire lifetime. Even when I question it's merit or become skeptical about it, I recognize it's impact on me. Also Slave by Mende Nazer. Though this too is another book that is questioned for it's validity! But the story, whether true or not, brought to me so many emotions, entering into the pain of another and glad at her triumph! I also studied the plight of the Nuba People after that. Also the Little House on the Prairie books gave me a sense of roots, since I grew up in Wisconsin and Daddy was born in Minnesota. And the books offered the story of a young girl who knew and valued family and simplicity. The way the story unfolds, how could one not value the same? Tulip Tree
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11-04-2007, 10:34 AM
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Re: Most Significant Book?
OD!!! ((((((((((HUGZ))))))))) Well hello there Sis!
Except for the bible, the other books you've mentioned would be interesting to discuss...So please if you would, add 'Slave' and your favorite 'Little House on the Prarie' in our suggested books to read thread. That way perhaps they'll be added to the next poll we take, for the group to consider reading?
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03-25-2008, 08:43 PM
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Re: Most Significant Book?
Just out and worth reading is IMHO a book by B.Y. Times writer David Cay Johnston. The title is FREE LUNCH. I'm not sure if I mentioned it or not here.
Read this from: TaxProf Blog: David Cay Johnston's New Book, Free Lunch December 7, 2007 David Cay Johnston's New Book, Free Lunch David Cay Johnston's next book, Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and StickYou with the Bill), will be released on December 27, 2007. Here is the publisher's description: How does a strong and growing economy lend itself to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy, and economic fear for a vast number of Americans? Free Lunch provides answers to this great economic mystery of our time, revealing how today’s government policies and spending reach deep into the wallets of the many for the benefit of the wealthy few. Johnston cuts through the official version of events and shows how, under the guise of deregulation, a whole new set of regulations quietly went into effect—regulations that thwart competition, depress wages, and reward misconduct. From how George W. Bush got rich off a tax increase to a $100 million taxpayer gift to Warren Buffett, Johnston puts a face on all of the dirty little tricks that business and government pull. A lot of people appear to be getting free lunches—but of course there’s no such thing as a free lunch, and someone (you, the taxpayer) is picking up the bill. Johnston’s many revelations include: How we ended up with the most expensive yet inefficient health-care system in the world How homeowners’ title insurance became a costly, deceitful, yet almost invisible oligopoly How our government gives hidden subsidies for posh golf courses How Paris Hilton’s grandfather schemed to retake the family fortune from a charity for poor children How the Yankees and Mets owners will collect more than $1.3 billion in public funds In these instances and many more, Free Lunch shows how the lobbyists and lawyers representing the most powerful 0.1% of Americans manipulated our government at the expense of the other 99.9%. With his extraordinary reporting, vivid stories, and sharp analysis, Johnston reveals the forces that shape our everyday economic lives—and shows us how we can finally make things better. Buy it here cheape rthan I got it for: Amazon.com: David Cay Johnston: Books
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