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In reply to the discussion: Books that impacted your worldview? [View all]Kid Berwyn
(22,563 posts)117. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
The motorcycle we are working on is our selves and the ultimate direction is toward Quality -- and the more we understand it, the easier it is to understand how to get to where we deserve to be.
Two more works to share:
Space-Time and Beyond: Toward an Explanation of the Unexplainable by Bob Toben in conversation with Fred Alan Wolf and Jack Sarfatti
Considered science fiction when published in 1976. Seems freaking groundbreaking now.
Collected Fiction of Jorge Luis Borges
Borges shows us how important our imaginations are for where our futures will be.
PS: Most importantly, thank you to Heidi whose friendship means the world to me.
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I first read it when I was in the marines in the early '60s. I laughed my ass of. Then I read it again.
Ping Tung
Aug 2025
#11
Ben And Me, a children's book that made me curious about looking at history a bit deeper for what I may otherwise miss
Attilatheblond
Aug 2025
#34
It IS a very cool introduction to Dr Franklin for kids. Lawson also wrote Mr Revere and I
Attilatheblond
Sep 2025
#76
When I was in grade 8, I read Frankenstein, then Rifles for Watie, then 1984 in the first month of school
Swede
Sep 2025
#77
It's kind of devastating. I had to read it in sections and put it down at times.
Scrivener7
Sep 2025
#109
My high school English teacher had us read Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Catcher in the Rye
KitFox
Sep 2025
#86
Red Planet by Robert A. Heinlein. I was in grade 6, 7, or 8. "Beginner's Mind, Zen Mind" Shunryu Suzuki in my 20's
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2025
#92
So many. Against Our Will - Susan Brownmiller; Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown;
LoisB
Sep 2025
#104
Oh so do I. Baldwin should be required reading in every high school. You are very kind, thank
LoisB
Sep 2025
#142
Also: EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN!
Heidi
Sep 2025
#133
I can't really think of a book that impacted my worldview and I feel a little weird about it.
betsuni
Sep 2025
#115
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
Kid Berwyn
Sep 2025
#117
I received--as a gift--my late high school American literature teacher's desk copy of "Huckleberry Finn."
Heidi
Sep 2025
#160
Hobbes - and I don't mean the stuffed tiger (though I do own the boxed C&H)...
sir pball
Sep 2025
#161
Have three favs. First is The Ugly American by William Lederer and Eugene
allegorical oracle
Sep 2025
#164