what life changing books have you read and why?

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Reading a book at the moment called Secrets about life every woman should know by Barbara De Angelis. I am finding it really interesting and wondered if anyone else has read a book that has changed thteir life and way of thinking?

hyperventilation by dinah bradley..dont laugh, it was given to me by a physio after being told that i had been breathing incorrectly for years, until i read that book i had never heard of chronic hyperventilation syndrome..i thought i was dying a lot of the time.

award for shortest thread then?

Will watch this thread with interest-not managed to find one yet!

Read the Cinderella Complex when I was younger, made me realise that I needed to sort myself out financially although didn't put much into practice.

Have read other self-help books which talk about taking risks and doing things that challenge you - I suppose they made me a bit braver.

Pray tell,what it is about?

Well basically it's about how many women have this subconscious belief that a man will come along and look after them financially and how this belief is really naive, so it talks about how women need to work, develop a career, organise a pension etc.

Not for me!

Lucy's Story My son is 6, non-verbal and very very like Lucy Blackman (who despite writing this book is non-verbal pretty much and requires full time care). This book has given me more insight into ds1's world than anything else

When I was in my late teens I read a autobiographical book called 'Wonderland Avenue' by Danny Sugarman, it was all about life in LA in the late 60's/early 70's with The Doors - I was a tad obsessed by them at the time and it just made me think a lot and in fact still does - the excesses of rock n roll........

Not since my teens, then I was very impressed with books like Richard Neville's "Power Play" and Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet"

In the name of love by Jill Tweedie.

Made me realise that love=shmove. Too many excuses are made in the name of love and too many people use the word "love" to justify abysmal behaviour.

The Women's Room Marylin French (when a teenager became interested in feminism) and more recently Gary Zukav - The seat of the soul (getting old needed some spiritual guidance)