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List the books and/or movies that provoked thinking that lead to a life change or a change in thought processes, and why?
Real simple and just be yourself and state the book title with the author or just the movie title and you don't have to be sexy, flip, or attempt to be funny just post the title andauthor on books and the title on the movie. And no text speak or bs huggle and muah bs.
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1984 - George Orwell (Eric Blair)
Was a look at the way things might be and the general conformity of all and had me think to becoming an individual
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Slaughter House Five - Kurt Vonnegut
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Jillicious wrote:Slaughter House Five - Kurt Vonnegut
I thought for sure you would have named some physics text book...never mind... 
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A clockwork orange - Anthony Burgess
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Anything by David cronenberg. Crash, History of Violence, or Eastern Promises
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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Most profound book I've ever read. I learn something new every time I read it.
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Shotgun011 wrote:List the books and/or movies that provoked thinking that lead to a life change or a change in thought processes, and why?
Real simple and just be yourself and state the book title with the author or just the movie title and you don't have to be sexy, flip, or attempt to be funny just post the title andauthor on books and the title on the movie. And no text speak or bs huggle and muah bs. I'm going to chalk this up partly to me having a RAGING headache and also please note I would rather shoot myself in the foot than huggle anyone, but telling me exactly how I am allowed to post/speak on a public forum is sitting wrong with me right now. Yes, I know I could also choose not to post, but I keep seeing more threads that read like this. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver Made me really think more about the US government's interference/involvement in other countries.
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Johnathon Livingston Seagull ~ Richard Bach
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Catch 22 - Joesph Heller
Anything by James A. Michner
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Hmmm... I've thought about this and there are just too many. I readily confess I am a book junkie. 
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The Art of War - Sun Tzu
The Tao te Ching - Lao Tze
Go Rinh no Sho (The Book of the Five Rings) - Miyamoto Musashi
The Legend has it the the reading of these three and adapting to your life will have be invincible in all you attempt. And so far find new ways to look at things
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 the BIBLE
'..May the Lord watch between you and me when we are absent from one another..' Gen31:49 
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The War After Armeggedon - Ralph Peters
Opened with the dedication of:
Dedicated to;
Those who have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution of The United States,
Against all enemies foriegn and domestic,.....So Help Me God!
Was a work of fiction yet too many parallels were brought forward in thought of what he put on the page and stuff in the book and outside of it were too close to comfort.
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Movie: Soldier with Kurt Russell
The final remake and adaptation of Harlan Ellison's short story of same name and had one think if the program shown would one day be set in motion, and drew a parallel in part of how the Vietnam Veterans were treated with part of the movie
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Movie- Loose Change
A documentary about the events that hapened on September 11th 2001. It can be seen on youtube.
The decisions we make dictate the life we have.
Follow your dreams, for those that do not will only try to discourage others.
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Movie(s) - W and Farenhieght 911
Raised questions about Bush administration and immediately after seeing W, Colin Powell denounced bush. 911 raised thoughts of again bush administration and the real possibility of conspirisy and the war. And both been fuel for debate since seeing them
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I have to think about this, right now it is between Friedrich Nietzsche and Marvel Comics. I'll get back to you later...
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Flowers For Algernon - Daniel Keyes which became the basis for the movie Charly.
Was a look at how science was used through surgery to cure retardation and other forms of mental illness and was ground breaking in causing thoughts of what Crighton later made mention of in the Terminal Man which process he made mention of is now being used for controlling Epilepsy and Parkinson's Disease.
(Which is sadly now out of print and very hard to find anymore)
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Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Explored the idea of creating a perfect society and a caste system of the mass produced "new humans" in what was called hatcheries which the author a noted biologist took and wrote this book and in a way showing that conformity to all things was desired by the new society. Which might have had some bearing on the film Gattaca. Which also dealt with genetic manipulation to create a conforming and "new breed", as well as a new society.
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The Holy Man written by Susan Trott 
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My copy of the 1900 to 2000 has no spine cover, it's been used so much .... though the new one (below) looks pretty good still! 
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The boy with the stripe pajamas.
It's a story set in a concerntration camp during the second world war. A young Jew boy becomes friends with a german officers son.
Anything about the holocast is always thought provoking but this had me in tears.
Sophies choice is another one. I must remember not to wear eye makeup before watching war type films! lol
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Last Lecture
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Last 2 years: Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda -- Romeo Dalliare
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Movie: Blue Valentine
Absolutely amazing performances by Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams.
Very erotic without showing too much skin
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Movie - Garden State
Book - Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeanette Walls
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (also a movie)
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (also a movie)
Running with scissors by Augusten Burroughs (also a movie)
The five people you meet in heaven by Mitch Albom (also a movie)
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (also a movie)
What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson (also a movie)
I choose books that have movies based on them for my book club, so that we can also watch the movie together :)
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crash course is on my list about the air traffic controler strike in 1981
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