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Your Three Most Influential Books
June 11, 2015 at 9:51 pm (This post was last modified: June 11, 2015 at 9:52 pm by Whateverist.)
Not your three favorite books.  Not the three books you think are the best written.  Not the ones you enjoyed the most.

What three books have had the biggest influence on your world view and who you are?  I suspect the time in your life you read a book probably will have a lot to do with its influence.  All of my most influential books -as well as my one honorable mention- were read in my mid to late twenties at a time of crisis and transition.

In the order I read them, here are mine:

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - by Robert Pirzig
The Wisdom of Insecurity - Alan Watts
Six Non-Lectures - e e cummings

With honorable mention going to: 

Re-Visioning Psychology - James Hillman

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Your Three Most Influential Books - by Whateverist - June 11, 2015 at 9:51 pm
RE: Your Three Most Influential Books - by Mudhammam - June 11, 2015 at 10:54 pm
RE: Your Three Most Influential Books - by SteelCurtain - June 11, 2015 at 11:46 pm
RE: Your Three Most Influential Books - by c172 - June 11, 2015 at 11:53 pm
RE: Your Three Most Influential Books - by Whateverist - June 12, 2015 at 12:04 am
RE: Your Three Most Influential Books - by vorlon13 - June 12, 2015 at 1:08 am
RE: Your Three Most Influential Books - by SteelCurtain - June 12, 2015 at 1:14 am
RE: Your Three Most Influential Books - by Minimalist - June 12, 2015 at 1:37 am
RE: Your Three Most Influential Books - by Whateverist - June 12, 2015 at 1:51 am
RE: Your Three Most Influential Books - by Minimalist - June 12, 2015 at 1:57 am
RE: Your Three Most Influential Books - by Alex K - June 12, 2015 at 4:01 am
RE: Your Three Most Influential Books - by Whateverist - June 12, 2015 at 8:53 am
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RE: Your Three Most Influential Books - by vorlon13 - June 12, 2015 at 8:58 am
RE: Your Three Most Influential Books - by Mudhammam - June 12, 2015 at 9:27 am
RE: Your Three Most Influential Books - by Whateverist - June 12, 2015 at 9:47 am
RE: Your Three Most Influential Books - by Nope - June 12, 2015 at 10:45 am
RE: Your Three Most Influential Books - by Mudhammam - June 12, 2015 at 11:31 am
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