posted August 31, 2009 08:08 AM         

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posted August 31, 2009 02:24 PM         

Is there a particular subject your interested in?

Do you want to read fiction, non-fiction, self-help, history, what?

Books usually find me when I am supposed to read them.
Maybe take a stoll in your library and see what catches your eye?

But as for books that transform??

I have to say Wally Lamb. This Much I Know is True is about the best book I've ever read, but it is about a man who has a schizophrenic brother and his grandfather was from Italy, so I can totally relate.
Maybe that sort of thing would be of no interest to someone who doesn't have a schizophrenic brother and family from Italy.
So it is subjective, you know what I mean?

posted September 02, 2009 01:56 AM         

For a much easier read, though, you might try this (but getting the printed book has a bunch of comics and other odd stuff in it enhancing it):
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/

posted September 05, 2009 12:42 PM         

Have any of you read 'The Lord of The Rings' books??

I ask this for a really serious reason. My little brother loved them. So one year on xmas I bought him the set, leather bound, really beautiful looking. anyway, he has a breakdown, and long story short, one of things he left behind was that set of books with my name written in them. He told me that the answers to everything is in there.

posted September 05, 2009 12:47 PM         

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What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~

posted September 05, 2009 05:43 PM         

I love love that Trilogy that Zala recommended by Mary Stewart on Merlin! The asteroid Merlin is right on my ASC so it's not a surprise to me that any story or tidbit of info on him is fascinating to me.

I also really enjoyed The Return of Merlin by Deepak Chopra. I was surprised that Chopra was interested in Merlin.

The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav.

So many more, but this is a good start hehe.

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GW I've read The Lord of the Rings books. Although these movies are very well done, no movies ever compare to the books in my opinion!

I think you'd have to read them (no matter how long it takes you it is worth your time) to figure out where his head was at. Only because you know him better than any of us. Any descriptions we gave you would be colored with our own points of view. My instinct tells me that the 'work' it would take you to get through these books would be worth it in figuring your brother out a bit. Your connection to him would allow you to intuit what he was thinking better than any of us.

I don't mean to be rude and i'm not trying to taunt you, it's just I would not know where to begin with this book. Tolkien is an amazing writer!!

A few LotR quotes:

"PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.
GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.
PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what?
GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.
PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad.
GANDALF: No. No, it isn't."

"All that is gold does not glitter
Not all those who wander are lost
The old who are strong do not whither
Deep roots are not reached by the frost..."

"The Road goes ever on and on
Out from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
Let others follow it who can!
Let them a journey new begin,
But I at last with weary feet
Will turn towards the lighted inn,
My evening-rest and sleep to meet."

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`Who are you?' said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, `I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'
~Lewis Carroll

posted September 05, 2009 06:18 PM         

Ironically, I tend to find the essays and documentaries about the series far more interesting.

posted September 06, 2009 04:30 PM         

*Sigh* Maybe it just isn't time for me yet.
I try to read them, and I keep going back to the inside cover where he wrote my name in his terrible scribbly handwriting, and I get distracted, lost in memories.
I think maybe it is just too emotional for me.

And I SO agree with you, books are always better than the movie version. It never fails.
Me watching the 'Lord' movies was just me being lazy and trying to get out of reading the book, which is just silly cuz nobodys standing here with a gun to my head, saying read it now! lol. I'm a dork.