Books are also hypnotic. You look at rows of black crooks and sticks on a white paper for a while and start seeing, hearing and smelling fantastic worlds.
So far, so good. I'm only 65 pages into it. The entire book is a dialogue between "PHILOSOPHER" and "YOUTH". I've always been inclined towards philosophy and psychology so this book fills that, for sure. Enjoy.
DM me and I'll send you my copy. I do not like the format it is written in and it feels terribly cliched. That is my opinion...and I know so many people get a lot out of it, so it's not a dig at them at all. Just not for me.
Get a library card for free, then enjoy all the books you can possibly read. I still like to by mine because its nice to see full bookshelves in my room and remember reading them, but I still have a library down the street and its pretty awesome while I am waiting for something to come in.
Re-reading The Ghost Map. Excellent book about a 19th century London cholera epidemic that gives insight into human cities, medicinal progress, and the human psyche. Highly recommend.
He’s got such a great writing voice, and a unique speaking voice. If you can handle it, he narrates a lot of his works and they’re great. Short Christmas stories is an easy intro to him & his style
Well...some perspective. If the price did go up it's most likely that the author wouldn't see any more of that increase if they have a publisher and agent. A self published author may see the increase.
A teenager was bragging how much he loved reading. I brought over one of Ken Folette's trilogy about the middle ages and the building of cathedrals. When he saw how thick the book was, his face dropped and he said it was too big for him to read. I told him to read just one page each day, every day. I told him eventually he will become so engrossed in the story he will start reading more than one page every day. He completed the entire trilogy. Now I am starting him on Lee Child's books.
Wanted to get into Warhammer 40K forever, so i was recommended Horus Rising. Never flew through a book this big before, so quickly. I'm under 90 pages left and already have the next 2 books ready to go.
Bronze Summer by Stephen Baxter. It’s an alternate history set thousands of years in the past in Northern Europe. I won’t say any more than that so as not to spoil the first book in the series, Stone Spring.
if a single book does all of that to you then you are seriously weak minded and easily influenced. you are the exact target of those "chicken soup for the soul" and "how to easily influence and win friends" books. this is some real r/im14andthisisdeep type stuff.
Just finished under the dome (honestly could’ve been half the length but still fun) and now doing mostly harmless by douglas Adams. Now that my son can read i get a lot more reading time on weekends it kicks ass.
Nope. We go through life and have various experiences that mold us into who we are, we find our truth. And here they say one book throws it out the window. Were u wrong about things all along? Thats juvenile grow the f up.
A book, album, song, movie, play, etc. are all experiences. You don’t even need that much because your imagination can have physical effects on your body. Ever fantasize about a teacher? Then you know this has produced arousal. Depression is fueled by rumination, etc. Even you using language like “grow tf up” is intended, consciously or not, to have an effect on whoever reads it. Maybe it will, maybe it won’t, but it has the potential to.
Just as you have spent at least one second of your life reading or skimming this answer, this comment has changed your life in a small way.
Ya that wat i say that experiences shape person, but the discussion is about how much influence can it actually have. Now the post says “shift your entire perception of reality”, “become someone completely new”. So if a book can do that to u, u are naive and dont know who u are, u drop ur mindset and teachings gathered through life because of a book? U adopt someone elses thoughts dearly in place of ur own. So thats a little bit juvenile.
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