I received an email from Amazon saying that my Kindle has been shippped.
Last night when I got home there was a "delivery notice" in my post box from UPS but no package. Soo... I figure it is the kindle that got hit with some sort of duty. Otherwise they would have put the package in the electronic package storing section of our apartment.
I have to start considering new electronic books to purchase and "download within 60 seconds on the whispernet". Not all books on Amazon are available in my area.
If you could do me a great favour, I would love to collect a list of "life-altering reading", books that really changed your life over the years. These are the kinds of things I want to read. Would you mind writing in the comments section, one or two of the books that truly made a HUGE difference in your life? Maybe add a little blurb letting me know WHY you feel the particular book you chose had such a huge impact? (i.e. personalize the choice for me).
Once I receive that list I will start to look through Amazon and see which ones are of interest to me, and which are downloadable...
Gotta run; Life as a cog calls...
Thanks a lot!
I love you!
Have you read The Way of the Peaceful Warrior? It was life altering for me. Maybe it came along at just the right time in my life. I've others I can suggest but will think on it first
ReplyDeleteThough i don't read a lot these days i have read an awful lot in the past.
ReplyDeleteBut ... i don't know.... I can't say i've read anything that's been "life altering".
I might come up with something if i go through my memory banks.
Oh... i did like how my high school teachers made us read really challenging books (challenging to read and readily understand)like Shakespeare and Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.
The language was so different than what an average American teenager was used to, But i loved the challenge of trying to understand it based on the context rather than checking the glossary of terms.
Maybe that turned my curiosity and love of "different" up more than it already was.
Have a great at work, my little Droogie!
drooone... drone... drone.... drone....
ReplyDeleteNot drone, which you're in danger of becoming(?).
ReplyDeleteBut Droog.
One of the malcontent youth who reeked havoc in the Kubrick tome.
The Song of Bernadette
ReplyDeleteok, ok, ok
you might not want to read this one
i read it because it haphazardly fell in my lap at a strange time
it was written by a non believer about a catholic saint,
it is a story about a girl who lives in a tough situation. she sees a vision of a beautiful lady (it is implied, but never said, that she is the catholic version of the virgin mary)
no one believes her and the church wants her punished.
the story is interesting because it is a true story and takes such a dramatic turn in the end.
it was life altering for me because i grew up a little catholic gurl and i realized at the age of 16, when this book fell in my lap, that the church really was full of shit, and adults didnt always know what they were talking about,
which if you grew up a catholic, puerto rican oldest daughter, you would understand how liberating that moment is for a person
ok you asked about life altering
lol
all my other life altering books are from latina authors about cultural things and would bore the heck outa you
ReplyDeletei will mull this over. i read a lot. a crazy amount. my problem is I don't remember titles. perhaps it's all the babies I have had that have drained those memories out of me. regardless, I have kept some of the more moving (not sure about life changing) ones upstairs. I will look tonight or tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteNot life altering but a real eye opener, "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe. It dramatizes traditional Ibo life in its first encounter with colonialism and christianity at the turn of the century. It is rich with African culture and traditions and rife with the tragedy that occured with the coming of the white man to this African village bringing about the breaking up of the old ways.
ReplyDeleteAnother good one is "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom with John and Ellizabeth Sherrell. A true story of Corrie ten Bloom and her family who during the Nazi invasion and occupation in Holland became leaders in the Dutch underground, hiding Jewish people in their home in a specially built room and aiding their escape from the Nazis.
Hey, She,
ReplyDeleteI remember Colin reading things Fall Apart in high school... wonder if it's still up in his room somewhere.
If so i'll definitely check it out.
Oooo I loved Corrie ten Boom when I was younger!
ReplyDeleteIs a kindle one of those electronic books? Ugh. I love technology... but... I heart books! The smell, the feel, the way the pages fall open..... you can't get that on a screen....
but... I suppose it's ... sorta cool... ish. maybe.
P.S. I miss you. I love you!
It's a new-ish release, but you might find Matthew B. Crawford's "Shop Class as Soul Craft" illuminating. It gave me a lot to think about....
ReplyDeleteYou? A lot to think about, Rob? Why, YOU ARE the internet!!!
ReplyDeletep.s. still at work.
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ReplyDeleteThere have been some books that i find personally enthralling and can’t put down, but i doubt others would find them so. Many have been woman-centric, and many just very light hearted fun, not so heavy but they stick with me the most.
Once, on a vacation in the north woods of Vermont i read the book, Brothers And Sisters from after dinner til 4am. Then finished it the next night.I think it was like 400 pages or more…
That’s why i tend to resist big heavy reads, because i get obsessive and… these days i just don’t have that kind of time.
And if i wait til bedtime i’m good for about two paragraphs and…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…
I couldn't resist the technology!
ReplyDeleteMy Kindle was waiting for me when I got home at 0:30 tonight. I should be in bed but I just had to open it up.
I tested it out, and it reads like a charm. The font is perfect, the contrast is amazingly soft and easy to read.
I bought my first book: "The Way of the Peaceful Warrior" by Dan Millman (because Ken has mentioned this book before and I like reading stuff on spirituality).
The Kindle cover I bought snaps on and the entire Kindle is about the size of a Daily Planner, and the thickness is about that of a Sharpie Market. It is awesome. I can hardly wait to take it on the train!
Night!!!
Oh, and to top it all off, there was an email waiting for me telling me that the International Edition is so popular immediately, that they have offered a $20 rebate instantly to our CC! Talk about a great way to start a new way of reading!!
ReplyDeleteI hope I don't go poor buying books...
I hope you enjoy Millman's book. It started me on a great quest I have never been able to finish. You live in the perfect country to get close to the goal line.
ReplyDelete"I couldn't resist the technology!"
ReplyDeleteLOL... No you couldn't delay gratification... ya big kid!
Hmmm... lately this screen has been getting to my eyes, especially at night so i'm wary of reading on an even smaller screen.
ReplyDeleteHave to get to the eye dr. and check out my eyes.
Night, Mou!
Yes, Cam. But surely knowing me these many years has shown you that between knowing a bunch of facts and actually having some teeny amount of wisdom are not the same thing....
ReplyDeleteRob - You're not convincing me with the "self-deprecation tactics". Now go and read some interesting book on Economic Conspiracy Theories And Global Domination By The US Government.
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