My Top Favorite Books to Read... of all Time.
I love to read and I love to write. One day I hope to write a book, or perhaps many. I think that would be the one thing I would want to complete in my lifetime... Even if nobody reads it. I would want to capture even just a glimpse of the mystery of life we so easily forget about. We forget we are only around once on this Earth and that we have one shot of making something great with life. Anyway, this page is still in the works but I wanted a place to share some of the books that inspired me in hopes of inspiring others. I'll keep at this page until I have done some write ups about why I love each of these books... So check back soon!
Guns, Germs and Steel | By Jared Diamond
From childhood on we are engrained with an underlying sense of ethnocentrism that this book completely destroys between its cover and the epilogue. Guns, Germs and Steel is a massive undertaking that explores the fates of human societies. This book looks into what factors determine why certain races came into the possession of guns, germs and steel, and how those possessions lead to the militaristic conquest of Earth and the cultural extermination of so many... Though this book is not the first of its kind, it has made its way into mainstream culture and enlightened the millions who have read it. Prepare for your world view, your politics and your belief system to be radically changed when you embark on the adventure of reading this book. Overall, it is a prolific explosion of recognizing how connected we humans are with one another and how important that awareness really is.
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Walden | By Henry David Thoreau
My mother gave me a small copy of Walden the day I was leaving for Italy. I had enrolled in a University overseas and was off on a great adventure of exploring Europe. I opened it on a train somewhere in south of France and immediately was enchanted. To this day that small hard back book with gold fringe, torn pages and scribbled notes is never far. Walden is a document of Henry David Thoreau’s experience of living on bare necessities in a cabin for a little over two years. The overall theme of Walden is the idea of simplicity.. and in our age this could not be any more relevant. Thoreau documents his experiences of living self-contained and challenges that subjective satisfaction that is derived from material pleasure. Walden writes of solitude, politics, nature, and living with purpose. Each time I reopen the pages of this book and I am reconciled with the connection of identifying what is truly important in this world. This book is a must.
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The Prophet | By Kahlil Gibran
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The Lemon Tree | By Sandy Tolan
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The Way of Man | By Martin Buber
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The Kite Runner | By Khaled Hosseini
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Cold Mountain | By Charles Frazier
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Dharma Bums | By Jack Kerouac
Though this book isn’t as relevant to me as it once was, it holds a special place on my top books of all time. Dharma Bums is a sequel of some sort to Keroauc's On the Road
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The Hidden Messages in Water | By Masaru Emoto
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Stalking the Wild Pendulum | By Itzhak Bentov
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Grapes of Wrath | By John Steinbeck
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Lolita | By Vladimir Nabokov
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Leaves of Grass | By Walt Whitman
To the endless interconnectedness and vastness of all life, Walt Whitman's thousand-page Leaves of Grass is an almost stream-line consciousness banter of rhetoric poetry on a magical scale. This book will make you want to strip your clothes off and run wild along a bank by the woods. It is an empathetic masterpiece that dives into the endless intricacies and sheer mystery of everyday existence. Vehemently it declares − from the rheumatic to the wealthy and powerful − that none is better than the other and all are greater than measure. Leaves of Grass will inspire you to find worth, to stand up for your convictions, and fearlessly leap into that underlying mystery of life that is all too often masked with normalcy... This book is a celebration of identity, love, wonder, community, and of every living thing on Earth. Everyone should have this book.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel | By Francois Rabelais
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The Agony and the Ecstasy | By Irving Stone
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Ishmael | By Daniel Quinn
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Life of Pi | By Yann Martel
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