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MaryMagdaline

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1. The Caine Mutiny

Mon Apr 30, 2018, 10:16 PM

Apr 2018

Not on the level of great works of art, but truly an eye opener as far as human behavior. The absolute best lesson on loyalty and group bullying.

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Name one book that helped to change your life. [View all] Eko Apr 2018 OP

The Caine Mutiny MaryMagdaline Apr 2018 #1

I'll check it out. Eko Apr 2018 #4

Not hedging, but I had to read in 9th grade and never forgot it MaryMagdaline Apr 2018 #12

it is a great book. Herman Wouk is 102 and is still publishing. grantcart May 2018 #56

The Day of the Americans and "Nigger" by Dick Gregory grantcart May 2018 #57

The c programming language unblock Apr 2018 #2

Kernighan and Ritchie book was awesome thbobby Apr 2018 #18

most intimidating thing I ever did lapfog_1 May 2018 #152

How about: "IBM System/360 Basic Programming Support Basic Assembler Language" AJT May 2018 #110

good one! stands the test of time! unblock May 2018 #112

IBM 360/30 RPG, my first language! USALiberal May 2018 #192

Ahhh, that ended up being the coding language for the old system/36, AJT May 2018 #194

Now writing iPad apps. An amazing 42 years of technology. nt USALiberal May 2018 #196

I was a mainframe systems programmer for 35 years. AJT May 2018 #198

Berlin Diary by William Shirer. thucythucy Apr 2018 #3

Great one. Eko Apr 2018 #6

Never read Berlin Diary thbobby Apr 2018 #21

Horton Hears A Who ret5hd Apr 2018 #5

A person's a person no matter how small. An elephant's faithful, 100%. Hekate May 2018 #103

That is a great one! trixie2 May 2018 #174

7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey. oasis Apr 2018 #7

To Kill a Mockingbird. Lint Head Apr 2018 #8

That book is the first one I remember reading that really Upthevibe Apr 2018 #15

I am still moved when I see it. Lint Head Apr 2018 #16

My choice as well. n/t phylny May 2018 #60

great great book Demovictory9 May 2018 #138

Recently reread "To Kill a Mockingbird" in my book club womanofthehills May 2018 #233

Trout Fishing in America Brother Buzz Apr 2018 #9

Any life shaped by that book has got to be an interesting one. SomethingNew May 2018 #40

I remember that book. I was in college. nt leftyladyfrommo May 2018 #68

I loved it as well. skip fox May 2018 #123

The one Brautigan poem I always remembered, ended with.. dixiegrrrrl May 2018 #170

I enjoyed his occasionally injecting haiku into his writing...sometimes with a bit of wry wit Brother Buzz May 2018 #187

Second Serve ryan_cats Apr 2018 #10

Yoko Ono's Grapefruit Grassy Knoll Apr 2018 #11

Just saw a PetSmart commercial using Yes, I'm Your Angel. greyl May 2018 #36

A Wrinkle In Time RainCaster Apr 2018 #13

The ones that did that for me were "Half Magic" and "The Phantom Tollbooth." Squinch May 2018 #127

loved all of the Edward Eager books! musette_sf May 2018 #202

"The Peg-Legged Pirate of Sulu" by Cora Cheney . . . Journeyman Apr 2018 #14

Sami Michael's Refuge ProudLib72 Apr 2018 #17

Get Shorty TeamPooka Apr 2018 #19

Catcher In The Rye. edbermac Apr 2018 #20

I reread that not long ago. leftyladyfrommo May 2018 #69

Yes, I Can justgamma Apr 2018 #22

The Bible Snake Plissken Apr 2018 #23

I Was Thinking The Same Snake ProfessorGAC May 2018 #70

BINGO! Ligyron May 2018 #177

The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments. hunter Apr 2018 #24

+1 jberryhill May 2018 #126

Letters to a Young Poet royable Apr 2018 #25

most of all the books by dweller Apr 2018 #26

And didn't he end up in a pshychiatric facility? Capperdan May 2018 #153

I always treated it as fiction. alfredo May 2018 #197

Don't know about changed my life but Huck Finn inspired the crap out of me Quixote1818 Apr 2018 #27

Nods - I think it's one of the most important books in American Literature. nt el_bryanto May 2018 #225

All books by Gibran and Hesse randr Apr 2018 #28

Yes, The Prophet! usedtobedemgurl May 2018 #92

"Jitterbug Perfume" by Tom Robins... Dr Hobbitstein May 2018 #29

Yes, I have read this out loud for several special friends randr May 2018 #105

Love all Tom Rob Robbins books - he definitely has a way with words womanofthehills May 2018 #231

Still Life With Woodpecker is one of my favorite books Dr Hobbitstein May 2018 #237

Generations PoindexterOglethorpe May 2018 #30

Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee. ismnotwasm May 2018 #31

Yes! mountain grammy May 2018 #64

Awesome one. Eko May 2018 #157

I was reading through the list........ MyOwnPeace May 2018 #176

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. BlueTsunami2018 May 2018 #32

I'll drink a pan-galactic gargle blaster to that! n/t lapfog_1 May 2018 #154

The Elements of Style lapfog_1 May 2018 #155

My favorite books ever. Douglas Adams' writing introduced me to Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, Grown2Hate May 2018 #189

So many books in a lifetime of reading, but Living in the Lap of the Goddess by Cynthia Eller... Hekate May 2018 #33

Hiroshima, by John Hersey, nevergiveup May 2018 #34

That book and a a few on Germany need to be required reading in high schools today Hekate May 2018 #104

Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson Miles Archer May 2018 #35

I'll second that one! Squinch May 2018 #86

Emerson had a huge impact on me as well. smirkymonkey May 2018 #98

Yes, exactly! Squinch May 2018 #102

Helped shape me in my 20's tons. Eko May 2018 #158

A Sand County Almanac Mendocino May 2018 #37

Absolutely! pandr32 May 2018 #141

Autobiography of Malcolm X ALBliberal May 2018 #38

I read that in my early 20s and it was stunning. He was not long dead at that point... Hekate May 2018 #84

I also read in my 20s for a U.S. History class. Incredible account of a black man growing up and ALBliberal May 2018 #93

It was assigned reading when I was in high school musette_sf May 2018 #203

Excellent thanks for posting. Nt ALBliberal May 2018 #211

Catch 22 RGinNJ May 2018 #39

The Hobbit Crutchez_CuiBono May 2018 #41

I'm trying to get my 13 y.o. grandson to read Earthsea.I finally gave him book 1 last time I saw him Hekate May 2018 #109

A surprisingly good trilogy. Crutchez_CuiBono May 2018 #169

I read a ton of Sci Fi as a kid. My dad would bring home a box at a time from his co-workers... Hekate May 2018 #171

Very interesting! Crutchez_CuiBono May 2018 #173

Hekate, Tucker08087 May 2018 #210

Thanks! He reads for pleasure, but his dad is heavy into dark fantasy, I think... Hekate May 2018 #213

The Grapes of Wrath eleny May 2018 #42

I Agree, Elena peggysue2 May 2018 #130

I read it between junior and senior year of high school eleny May 2018 #132

Sounds familiar peggysue2 May 2018 #133

I should have written to him since he was still alive in 1963 eleny May 2018 #135

The AARL Amateur Radio Handbook. KY_EnviroGuy May 2018 #43

It's Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL) dumbcat May 2018 #72

Healing Back Pain marlakay May 2018 #44

Vagabonding In Europe and North Africa, by Ed Buryn subterranean May 2018 #45

John Robbins's area51 May 2018 #46

To Kill a Mockingbird rusty quoin May 2018 #47

Isn't this more of a Lounge post? oberliner May 2018 #48

Apparently not. Hekate May 2018 #100

Sorry, probably should have been in the lounge. Eko May 2018 #159

Never apologize for starting a book thread, any time, any where. Look how many ... Hekate May 2018 #216

Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer." betsuni May 2018 #49

Ha! I was composing my response while you posted yours... davekriss May 2018 #51

Heh. betsuni May 2018 #55

I liked The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, too davekriss May 2018 #136

One book? Not possible! davekriss May 2018 #50

Treasure Island Cicada May 2018 #52

Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture, by Abbie Hoffman. byronius May 2018 #53

Steal This Book Ligyron May 2018 #180

Woodstock Nation! byronius May 2018 #190

The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing. A white Rhodesia woman in the applegrove May 2018 #54

The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm, and ... CaliforniaPeggy May 2018 #58

A Wrinkle in Time... n/t Stand and Fight May 2018 #59

Lord of the Flies. Nt NCTraveler May 2018 #61

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa Rainbow Droid May 2018 #62

yes handmade34 May 2018 #120

The best first-person account of the Pacific Theater hellscape. VOX May 2018 #179

well, a 1903 encyclopedia britannica was so good, i stopped reading fiction. pansypoo53219 May 2018 #63

I love that old stuff. It's a window into a whole other world... Hekate May 2018 #214

The Jungle, Upton Sinclair mountain grammy May 2018 #65

My first science book around age 11 Runningdawg May 2018 #66

Naked Came the Stranger Dave Starsky May 2018 #67

You've *got* to track down Stranger Than Naked by one of the authors! The story of how it came to be Hekate May 2018 #115

Yeah, I heard about all that later. That's pretty funny. Dave Starsky May 2018 #137

But of course, and I would not take away that young experience for anything. Hekate May 2018 #139

No! I'm glad you mentioned that. Dave Starsky May 2018 #144

Time Enough For Love from RAH Blue_Adept May 2018 #71

And also "I Will Fear No Evil" dumbcat May 2018 #73

That was one of the reasons that I did read a lot of his stuff Blue_Adept May 2018 #219

I only read that twenty or so times. byronius May 2018 #168

I reread it every few years. Each reading has me finding new things about it Blue_Adept May 2018 #220

Fast food nation. Javaman May 2018 #74

"On Walden Pond" by Henry David Thoreau MineralMan May 2018 #75

Classic, one of my favorites. Eko May 2018 #160

The first time I read it, I was a sophomore MineralMan May 2018 #167

I got into Thoreau Eko May 2018 #188

I studied that in school trixie2 May 2018 #178

The Magic of Believing by Claude Bristol mtnsnake May 2018 #76

Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar IluvPitties May 2018 #77

The New Testament. Even though I am an atheist, the stories of Jesus have influenced me more Doodley May 2018 #78

I am an Atheist as well... handmade34 May 2018 #125

Diary of a Mad Housewife no_hypocrisy May 2018 #79

"Future Shock" by Alvin & Heidi Toffler PJMcK May 2018 #80

My Side of the Mountain MattBaggins May 2018 #81

Gone With the Wind. Croney May 2018 #82

Yes, GWTW also changed my life Raine May 2018 #90

GWTW changed my life. Lifelong Protester May 2018 #207

Trying to read it now. Do not know if I will feel a need to finish it. Freethinker65 May 2018 #111

Different groups do speak with distinct differences in real life. I don't know about GWTW... Hekate May 2018 #121

Taran Wanderer (by Lloyd Alexander, the 4th book in his Chronicles of Prydain series) 0rganism May 2018 #83

"Overshoot" by William Catton Jr. The_jackalope May 2018 #85

Jane Roberts' The Seth Material OxQQme May 2018 #87

bible, I'm an Athiest now! yortsed snacilbuper May 2018 #88

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins NastyRiffraff May 2018 #89

Several of Wayne Dyer's books Sugarcoated May 2018 #91

The Dreyfus Affair by Peter Lefcourt LonePirate May 2018 #94

The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan. Codeine May 2018 #95

Anything by Sagan. Eko May 2018 #161

Little House on the Prairie - Wilder elfin May 2018 #96

I was obsessed with the Little House books. betsuni May 2018 #222

Dick and Jane Have Fun jalan48 May 2018 #97

I loved Dick and Jane. N/t Blindingly apparent May 2018 #107

The Burgess Books were great too later on. "Reddy, the Fox", "Blacky the Crow" and others. jalan48 May 2018 #114

Johnny Got His Gun Dyedinthewoolliberal May 2018 #99

This message was self-deleted by its author Freethinker65 May 2018 #113

read it for first time this year. Same reaction Freethinker65 May 2018 #116

"A Tale of Two Cities"...Charles Dickens (1859) Tikki May 2018 #101

The Captain's Verses -- Neruda fierywoman May 2018 #106

Silent Spring DemoTex May 2018 #108

To Kill a Mockingbird EffieBlack May 2018 #117

The Greening of America was the first. CanSocDem May 2018 #118

The Women's Room by Marilyn French AJT May 2018 #119

I just was having a conversation about this one with some women friends. Squinch May 2018 #129

Same here. musette_sf May 2018 #204

Donald Allen's The New American Poetry skip fox May 2018 #122

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance LastLiberal in PalmSprings May 2018 #124

The Four Agreements HopeAgain May 2018 #128

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn Exotica May 2018 #131

Probably not what you had in mind but The Starch Solution by John McDougall MD Doremus May 2018 #134

The Devil's Chessboard, by David Talbot. librechik May 2018 #140

The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran. I read it again once or twice a year and discover another nuance Atticus May 2018 #142

The bible. JNelson6563 May 2018 #143

The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise -R.D. Laing 1967 Tom Rinaldo May 2018 #145

Long ago. No book has come close since. Blue_true May 2018 #146

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir lanlady May 2018 #147

"The Peculiar Institution" by Kenneth Stampp (1956) Paladin May 2018 #148

What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality by Daniel A. Helminiak, Ph.d MotorCityMan May 2018 #149

River of Grass, by Marjorie Stoneman Douglas. cwydro May 2018 #150

Breakfast of Champions Eliot Rosewater May 2018 #151

"Invisible Man." yallerdawg May 2018 #156

Lies And The Lying Liars by Al Franken PaulX2 May 2018 #162

The Awakening by Kate Chopin...amazing book...read it in college. Demsrule86 May 2018 #163

Night Falls Fast by Kay Redfield Jamison dreamland May 2018 #164

The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene and all the other Nancy Drew mysteries. Sampan May 2018 #165

Time Enough For Love by Robert A. Heinlein Ferrets are Cool May 2018 #166

Forever by Judy Blume from my mother (1974) trixie2 May 2018 #172

All great choices! Tucker08087 May 2018 #209

The Voyage of the Beagle. Darwin's travels journal. GulfCoast66 May 2018 #175

Hard to pick just one, but I'll go with "Peter Pan" 50 Shades Of Blue May 2018 #181

The Necronomicon Ligyron May 2018 #182

The Bible is the popular choice at Free Republic's thread on this Kaleva May 2018 #183

They haven't read it, they just feel it is the right answer. FSogol May 2018 #224

The 1957 World Book Encyclopedia, A to W-X-Y-Z VOX May 2018 #184

Something of Value-Robert Ruark-n/t marked50 May 2018 #185

The Iliad (Robert Fagles translation) RockRaven May 2018 #186

Ohhhh, The Iliad. Eko May 2018 #191

Twelfth Night lkinwi May 2018 #193

Fahrenheit 451 alfredo May 2018 #195

Chilton's Repair Manual - 1976 Toyota Corolla jberryhill May 2018 #199

I have two - Curious Wine by Katherine V Forrest and Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. OhZone May 2018 #200

Our Final Invention...Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat farmbo May 2018 #201

So hard to choose... Tucker08087 May 2018 #205

Where The Red Fern Grows. Snackshack May 2018 #206

So Many Possibilities Progressive2020 May 2018 #208

Message auto-removed Name removed May 2018 #212

Way at the bottom of the thread is a Message Auto Removed. How does someone manage that... Hekate May 2018 #215

Perhaps he transgressed elsewhere... dembotoz May 2018 #217

Theory of conspicuous consumption.by veblin and the poor pay more dembotoz May 2018 #218

One more: Sartre's "Nausea" betsuni May 2018 #221

Rene Dumal's "Mount Analogue" n/t FSogol May 2018 #223

The Autobiography of Malcolm X H2O Man May 2018 #226

1984. Now, more than ever, its message is vital. n/t Decoy of Fenris May 2018 #227

The Back Handed Johonny May 2018 #228

A book by Ruth Bennett, don't remember the name Thirties Child May 2018 #229

I remember the day I became an agnostic too - after reading a Bertrand Russell book of my dad's. womanofthehills May 2018 #235

The Ugly American by Eugene Burdick. Chipper Chat May 2018 #230

Harry Potter. tavernier May 2018 #232

A Course In Miracles MoonRiver May 2018 #234

The Butterfly Kid...Chester Anderson (1967) Tikki May 2018 #236