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Lot of Medieval lit changed my view of the world:

Egil's Saga - Toughened my skin for the cruel world out there

Other books: Once and Future King - Politics of the world.

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Very cool thread.. will need to make a list of some of these books posted. Theres too many to mention.. but the one I read recently was [B]They Caught you Plotting Murder by[/B] Andrew Schuab.. just excellent.

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Reminices of a Stock Operator..[/quote]

i'll second that :!:

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[QUOTE] Reminices of a Stock Operator.. [/QUOTE]

WIll check this out, thank you.

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[QUOTE] Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman

[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the tip, I bought the audio book and found it very useful:!:

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mines: Osho "life, love, laugh" Reha Powers "lightworkers beyond" Barbara Ann Brennan "hands of light" Stephen king "The dark tower" and "hearts in Atlantis" :roll:

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Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand The Way of the Superior Man - David Deida 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins Sex, Drugs, & CocoPuffs - Chuck Klostermann Capitalism and Freedom - Milton Friedman

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as much as i hate contributing to the rebirth of a thread . . .

the anarchist cook book

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1984 Bertrand Russell's - Power Spencer Wells - Journey of Man Charles Wheelan - Naked Economics E=MC2 - Einstein's bio Essentials of Jung

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[QUOTE=rainman;500913]as much as i hate contributing to the rebirth of a thread . . .

the anarchist cook book[/QUOTE]

as good a thread as any to bump ;)

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The Invisible Man- Ralph ellison Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickinson

How to make love like a pornstar- Jenna Jameson, you could include her in "videos that changed me"

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great thread :bump

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"The curious incident of the dog in the night-time" - Mark Haddon

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The Dancing Wu-Li Masters by Gary Zukav A New Model of the Universe by PD Ouspensky The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

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Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts

I read this amazing book recently and recommend it very highly. Without spoiling too much it's about an aussie who escapes from a maximum security prison in Australia, gets over to New Zealand for a few years and then ends up in India on minimal funds, which is where the book starts.

From there he ends up living in the slums (by choice), starting up a free health clinic, becoming involved in the Bombay mafia, running a movie extras scouting business, and finally fighting in Afghanistan.

All of this is based on a true story, and it's being turned in to a movie with Johnny Depp playing the lead role.

It weighs in at 933 pages, but it's a gripping read from start to finish. I wish it never ended. His outlook on life is amazing and the things he gets up to are extremely inspirational.

You won't regret it.

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^^checked that book out on amazon, it looks really interesting

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had Shantaram recommended to me by tons of people. going to pick it up one of these days for sure

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Where the red fern grows... damn I wish the dogs didnt' die..

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[QUOTE=runningman;501316]Where the red fern grows... damn I wish the dogs didnt' die..[/QUOTE]

no need to read it now then... :lol:

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^^what they made a book outta that movie??

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Stranger in a Stange Land - R.A. Heinlein

Caves of Steel : - Isaac Asimon

The Freedom of Morailty ; C Yiannaras

Orthodox Spirituality: Dimitru Staniloae

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the prophet - kahlil gibran zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance - robert persig many lives, many masters - brian weiss

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[quote=SyntaxTerror;501161]Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts

I read this amazing book recently and recommend it very highly. Without spoiling too much it's about an aussie who escapes from a maximum security prison in Australia, gets over to New Zealand for a few years and then ends up in India on minimal funds, which is where the book starts.

From there he ends up living in the slums (by choice), starting up a free health clinic, becoming involved in the Bombay mafia, running a movie extras scouting business, and finally fighting in Afghanistan.

All of this is based on a true story, and it's being turned in to a movie with Johnny Depp playing the lead role.

It weighs in at 933 pages, but it's a gripping read from start to finish. I wish it never ended. His outlook on life is amazing and the things he gets up to are extremely inspirational.

You won't regret it.[/quote]

Read it last year..is an absolute epic.

Salman Rushdie - 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet' Alain De Buton - 'The Art of Travel'

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The Myth of Sanity: [SIZE=-1]Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness[/SIZE] - Martha Stout

Book is one of the 5x7 size and maybe like 150 pages long. I am a major bookworm, and this was a very hard read for me. Not technical-wise, it's the way she explains the stories of her patients. Very emotional. I needed to take a breather every chapter or so.

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[QUOTE=TheMightyGreg;501543]Salman Rushdie - 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet'[/QUOTE]

excellent

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[quote=cheshirepk8;501615]The Myth of Sanity: [SIZE=-1]Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness[/SIZE] - Martha Stout

Book is one of the 5x7 size and maybe like 150 pages long. I am a major bookworm, and this was a very hard read for me. Not technical-wise, it's the way she explains the stories of her patients. Very emotional. I needed to take a breather every chapter or so.[/quote]interesting. hope it was translated to slo

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[B]Because of Romek: A Holocaust Survivor's Memoir by David Faber. (Mr. Faber came to my high school and told his life story, i immediately bought his book and devoured it.)

Journey of Souls by Michael Newton PH.D. [/B]

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The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins made me go from being an atheist who didn't care what other people thought to an atheist who wants to explain to people the damage that even moderate religiousness does to our civilisation. Was funny when some Mormons came to my house the other day, I invited them in, listened to them talk about their book a bit, and then said "now you can listen to me talk about my book." They didn't like it much..........

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The ones that I wrote. :RockOn:

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[quote=beanzncheez;502110]The ones that I wrote. :RockOn:[/quote]

Titles?:what

Here is the running list so far, wow!

[B][COLOR=sandybrown]Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Terence Mackenna - Foods of the Gods[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 100 a?os de Soledad[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Jeremy Narby - The Cosmic Serpent[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Jack Kerouack - On the Road[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]William Burroughs - The Western Lands [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Jose Arguelles - The Mayan Factor[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]tom brokaw- the greatest generation[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]dennis smith- report from ground zero[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]spanking the donkey - matt taibbi[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]brave new world- huxley.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]The Bible[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]history from the other side- i forgot the authors name- but it was a history book written from the loser's point of view in all major historical wars. [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]- the metaphysics club (excellent history on the evoultion of pragmatisim and american academia)[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]- The Quantum Brain [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]- The Origin of Wealth ( throw traditional Economic Theories to the trash can and open your self to complex adaptive economics, a must read for anyone interested in comprehending the markets).[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]-Fooled by Randomness ( Do we have control?) [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Jane Jacobs: The Death & Life of Great American Cities[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Dale Carnegie - How To Stop Worrying & Start Living[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Ernest Nightingale - Lead The Field[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Women - Charles Bukowski[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]What the Bleep Do We Know or read stuff like The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Conversations with God - Neale Donald Walsch [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Dan Millman's Peaceful Warrior series[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Max Weber: The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Harrison & Huntington: Culture matters, How values shape human progress [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Moby Dick by Mellville[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Tale of Two Cities by Dickens[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Story of Civilization by Will Durant[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]The Bible[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Elliot Wave Principle by Frost & Prechter[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Dune by Frank Herbert [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Macbeth by Shakespeare[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Heaven & Hell by Swedenborg[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Great Expectations by Dickens[/COLOR][/B] [B][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Doors of perception - Aldous Huxley[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game and following series[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Viven! [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences - Edward Tenner[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Ender's Game[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Lord of the Rings[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Exodus - Leon Uris[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Rayuela (hopscotch) by Cortazar[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]100 Years of Solitude - Garcia Marketing.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]The Unbearable-by Kundera[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]The Aleph - Borges[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Flow My Tears The Policeman Said: Philip K Dick[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]The Sheltering Sky: Paul Bowles[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]The Colossus of Maroussi: Henry Miller[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Hunter S. Thompson[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]1984: George Orwell [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Journey to the End of the Night: Ferdinane Celine [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Collected Works of Antonin Artaud[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]The Rape of Nanking (the forgotten holocaust of world war II) by Iris Chang[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Persing[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]The Electric Kool Aide Acid Tests by Tom Wolfe[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]The Oddessy by Homer [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]White Noise - Don Delillo[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Magister Ludi - Hermann Hesse[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]The Cornelius Chronicles by Michael Moorcock[/COLOR][/B] [URL="http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=6&q=http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/%7Elridener/DSS/Mead/MINDSELF.HTML&e=14905&ei=Mbv1RMiLO6Xa2AKl_PG2BA&sig=__uCzp4GobLWv_qG9uWqXH5053oCw="][B][COLOR=sandybrown]George Herbert Mead - Mind, Self, and Society[/COLOR][/B][/URL] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Herman Hesse Siddhartha [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]The sane society by Erich Fromm[/COLOR][/B] [URL="http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=4&q=http://danny.oz.au/anthropology/notes/mutant-message.html&e=14905&ei=Tr_1RL_FCZqaigKmsJXCCg&sig=__BJIVElZCem9hVUdkzl8cO_aO0do="][B][COLOR=sandybrown]Marlo Morgan - Mutant Message Down Under[/COLOR][/B][/URL] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Collected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke(translated works by Stephen Mitchell)[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]The Catcher in The Rye - J D Salinger [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Noam Chomsky - Deterring democracy [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Marshall McLuhan - The medium is the message [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]The diary of Anne Frank [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Muhammed Ali Al-Hashimi - The ideal muslim man [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]"the warrior within" bruce lee[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]the stranger - albert camus[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]the metamorphosis - franz kafka[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]The Tipping Point[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Rich Dad Poor Dad[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Biography of Edgar Cayce[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]The Three Pillars of Zen; Teaching Practice and Enlightenment [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Reminices of a Stock Operator[/COLOR][/B] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegant_Universe"][B][COLOR=sandybrown]The Elegant Universe; by Brian Greene[/COLOR][/B][/URL] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Missed Fortune 101[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Imre Kert?sz-Fatelessness [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Primo Levi- Survival in Auschwitz[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Albert Camus - The Stranger[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Thomas Mann- The Magic Mountain[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]J.D. Salinger- Catcher in the Rye[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Stephen King - IT[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures - by Mary Baker Eddy[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Egil's Saga [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Once and Future King.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]They Caught you Plotting Murder -Andrew Schuab[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Osho-life, love, laugh[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Reha Powers -Lightworkers Beyond[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Barbara Ann Brennan - hands of light[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Stephen king - The dark tower and Hearts in Atlantis[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]1984[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Bertrand Russell's - Power[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Spencer Wells - Journey of Man[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Charles Wheelan - Naked Economics[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]E=MC2 - Einstein's bio[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Essentials of Jung[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]The Invisible Man- Ralph ellison[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickinson[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]"The curious incident of the dog in the night-time" - Mark Haddon[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]The Dancing Wu-Li Masters by Gary Zukav[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]A New Model of the Universe by PD Ouspensky[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Stranger in a Stange Land - R.A. Heinlein[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Caves of Steel : - Isaac Asimon[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]The Freedom of Morailty ; C Yiannaras[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Orthodox Spirituality: Dimitru Staniloae[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]the prophet - kahlil gibran[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance - robert persig[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]many lives, many masters - brian weiss[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Salman Rushdie - 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet'[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Alain De Buton - 'The Art of Travel'[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]The Myth of Sanity: [SIZE=-1]Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness[/SIZE] - Martha Stout[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Because of Romek: A Holocaust Survivor's Memoir by David Faber.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=sandybrown]Journey of Souls by Michael Newton PH.D.[/COLOR][/B]

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^^christ you must be alot smarter than i am

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^^floridaorange...all those books changed you or is that your entire reading list?

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do you keep a laminated copy of that list in your wallet too?

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[quote=rubyraks;502822]^^floridaorange...all those books changed you or is that your entire reading list?[/quote]

I think its the list from this thread. ;)

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[QUOTE=Lorn;502825]I think its the list from this thread. ;)[/QUOTE] Oh, now I get it...impressive list.

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[QUOTE=Lorn;502825]I think its the list from this thread. ;)[/QUOTE]

at least one other person on here isnt retarded :lol:

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Dan Milliman - Ways of the Peaceful Warrior Dan Milliamn - Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

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I have a few book snobs in my family and wanted to see which of these they had read before. I was a little suprised to discover that my Dad had read (and recommended to me) at least 25 of them:shock:

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I feel like a dipshit compared to some of these posters. But here goes, don't laugh...or laugh with me, not AT me

Lord of the Rings The Sandman Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing Superfudge Freckle Juice A Wrinkle in Time The Chronicles of Narnia The Art of Happiness Some Greek Mythology book my mom had from her college days The Atlas (I love looking at maps)

But mainly Lord of the Rings...I didn't even know it was a book until the movie came out,. After seeing the first movie, I had to know what happens so I came across the book and I was hooked.

The Sandman was the first graphic novel I read and it changed my perception of the world. I know, it's basically a comic book, but seriously, it's so good. I've read the series over and over and every time I find something new.

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[quote=Gatz;364705]Books have not changed me people have.[/quote]

i totally agree with you.!