Have you ever read a book which significantly changed your life?

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If so what was it and why did it change you so?

My most recent is John Holt's "why children fail" and a close second comes Alfie Cohn's "Unconditional love".

yep touched with fire and another of her books the u nquiet Mind

bible for me too! changing my life on a regular basis... well as regular as i let it

Well Dante's Commedia changed my life quite dramatically, in that I changed my original degree course in order to study it more, did a PhD on it and still write on it today. But I am guessing that its appeal is slightly limited.

'Today' being some 22 years after I first discovered it. I probably read a bit of Dante nearly every day and am constantly amazed and gobsmacked at it and am pretty sure that I'll still find it interesting another 22 years from now.

The Glass Bead Game

changed everything

I love you snafu, and moony

Maybe not life changing but made me wonder and a delightful little read....5 People You Meet In Heaven. Can highly recommend.

The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer clarified that I was a feminist.

But then my other choice would be The Little Princess by Frances Hodgeson Burnett which is all about being rescued from poverty by rich exotic men. So not a completely clear message then.

Oh, and I loved The Bitch Rules by Elizabeth Wurtzel, which I read at just the right moment - not sure I'd love it so much now though.

The Comforts of Madness

By Paul Sayer

I read this during my nurse training.
It was an amazing read.

whats that about then sound sonteresting

...it made me change my nurse training to RNMH...which took me down a different career path and installed a different perspective on the job i was doing.

here...well worth a read

the second sex god kathy yes. massive impact.

anais nin delta of venus

germaine greer the whole woman too.

you can heal your life louise m haye (kooky but made me really think about mind/body link)

there was a tv series or a programme which was intriduced by a guy who had written w book about his experience of depression was on tv in 1999...i saw the programme and in it he showed a neat empty bedroom in a hospital or a clinic where he had been treated for his depression...

i was on my own watching about 10 mor 11 at night and i had an overpowering urge to go to that room so i left the house in my bare feet no coat or anything and walked to the hospital about 4 miles away and as i went i had a bottle of pills in my pocket and every couple of steps i took a pill and i had in mind that it was like in hansel and gretel when he leaves a trail of breadcrumbs to find the way back

i thought that each pill i took was going to help me leave a trail back to my real life again when i had finished being in the room i was going to find in the hospital

i later bought the book but i cant remember what its called at the moment

ive found it now it was this book malignant sadness

hope i havent driven u all away

The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller has transformed every single aspect of my life. Would highly recommend it together with all of Alice Miller's other books.

PYBF I loved The Peppermint Pig!

The book that changed my life was the Oxford English Dictionary.

I am a pedant.