arnuld
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Hi all,
I have just started this thread to have a list of top 10 books love most or that changed the way of your thinking and the ones that will remain on your mind all of your life bcause you read thme once and never forgot them. These are the books that you will want to gift-wrap to your best friend on his Birth-Day
Please also include a brief or a very brief description of these 3 things:
1.) what was the book about ?
2.) what you liked in it ?
3.) what did you learn from it ?
or just include the relavent links like I did down here. Though it is about top 10 but you can post a list of 20 books if you love them so much
. Hers is my list:
Zen and the Art of MotorCycle Maintenance - Rober M. Pirsig
Free Software, Free Society - Richard M. Stallman
The Man Who Sold the Moon - Robert A. Heinlein
Sorry for a small list but I have just developed the habit of reading books. All these 3 books did not change my life, they just had a lot of impact on way I think about life. Richard M. Stallman's books changed my way of thinking about doing my present job as a computer programmer. There is some common-pattern between first and last books. Both books have shown me my death, like I was lying on my Earthy [1] and many other people were stood around me and I did not know who they were and they were just looking at me and were just ready to burn me [2]. At some specific page, my throat was choked for some seconds when I read that page, for I felt the death first time. How will it feel when I will carry my Father's or Mother's dead body and after 5 years of that I will be forgetting about it and living my life the way I am living. I will have a back account, I will be posting questions on Book & Reader Forums - Powered by vBulletin. I will be alone, just doing a 9 AM to 8 PM job that I am doing now. Is this what we people call life ?
I have put this post into the recommendation forum becase this post will act as a base of some high-quality books so that newbies and experienced users alike will have something important to read. They will just need to look at this post before they ask for any recommendation, as this post, if it grows like the way I am thinking, will become the extract of many years of reading experience by folks from different cultures and of different ages, which again will put light onto the large amount of facts people use to ignore in their everday lives. I hope my mission of gathering collective-knowledge and a desire to help people will make folks of this thread to put their precious time and valuable skill here. I hope everyone here will help me.
Thanks to all those who are still reading my post
[1] A thing made of bamboo-sticks, which looks like a long stool without legs. This is what Indians use to carry the dead body from the dead person's home to the cremation-site.
[2] In Hindu religions, we do not have graveyards, we burn the dead body because ancient intellectual people of our religion thought that a dead body must not take any piece of land. It was their belief that that piece of land can be used by a poor man as his home or can be used to build some place like non-profit hospital where hundreds and millions of people will be medicated for the good. They even donated their body organs, an important thing that my cullture has forgotten
I have just started this thread to have a list of top 10 books love most or that changed the way of your thinking and the ones that will remain on your mind all of your life bcause you read thme once and never forgot them. These are the books that you will want to gift-wrap to your best friend on his Birth-Day
Please also include a brief or a very brief description of these 3 things:
1.) what was the book about ?
2.) what you liked in it ?
3.) what did you learn from it ?
or just include the relavent links like I did down here. Though it is about top 10 but you can post a list of 20 books if you love them so much
. Hers is my list:Zen and the Art of MotorCycle Maintenance - Rober M. Pirsig
Free Software, Free Society - Richard M. Stallman
The Man Who Sold the Moon - Robert A. Heinlein
Sorry for a small list but I have just developed the habit of reading books. All these 3 books did not change my life, they just had a lot of impact on way I think about life. Richard M. Stallman's books changed my way of thinking about doing my present job as a computer programmer. There is some common-pattern between first and last books. Both books have shown me my death, like I was lying on my Earthy [1] and many other people were stood around me and I did not know who they were and they were just looking at me and were just ready to burn me [2]. At some specific page, my throat was choked for some seconds when I read that page, for I felt the death first time. How will it feel when I will carry my Father's or Mother's dead body and after 5 years of that I will be forgetting about it and living my life the way I am living. I will have a back account, I will be posting questions on Book & Reader Forums - Powered by vBulletin. I will be alone, just doing a 9 AM to 8 PM job that I am doing now. Is this what we people call life ?
I have put this post into the recommendation forum becase this post will act as a base of some high-quality books so that newbies and experienced users alike will have something important to read. They will just need to look at this post before they ask for any recommendation, as this post, if it grows like the way I am thinking, will become the extract of many years of reading experience by folks from different cultures and of different ages, which again will put light onto the large amount of facts people use to ignore in their everday lives. I hope my mission of gathering collective-knowledge and a desire to help people will make folks of this thread to put their precious time and valuable skill here. I hope everyone here will help me.
Thanks to all those who are still reading my post
[1] A thing made of bamboo-sticks, which looks like a long stool without legs. This is what Indians use to carry the dead body from the dead person's home to the cremation-site.
[2] In Hindu religions, we do not have graveyards, we burn the dead body because ancient intellectual people of our religion thought that a dead body must not take any piece of land. It was their belief that that piece of land can be used by a poor man as his home or can be used to build some place like non-profit hospital where hundreds and millions of people will be medicated for the good. They even donated their body organs, an important thing that my cullture has forgotten
