I am Looking For A Good Book to Inspire Me

Hey man I have a good book I'd recommend, it's not a story book it's more of a self esteem book. It's called "Feel the Fear and Do It Anyways" by Susan Jeffers. This book is great dude, I read it when I was in need of a change myself and slowly I have been making changes. It deffinetly puts life in perspective in a way that you can really relate to it. It's a very easy book to read only like 200 pages fairly normal size print. It has little excercises that you can do to help improve your selfesteem. But it's deffinetly a great book I would recommend it to anyone who wants to change their life and feels stuck. Good luck bro.

How to make a bird is a great book. It was written by Martine Murray

Everyone should read a book called Illusions written by Richard Bach. It's a short simple book that if you have the time you can read in a day. It altered the way that I view life and the world around me.

Reading is my favourite pastime, I have read a lot of books. thereforeeee I find it hard to choose one among the books I have read. However, one that I really loved is 'The Secret Life of Bees' by Sue Monk Kidd. It's a moving, very well written story of loss, hope and redemption.

Maybe this book might do...

Extract from Keeping The Faith

Fighting back that once with such anger made the Shire Middle School decide to move me to another school. A couple of months after the fight I moved into Hurdling School. I knew there would be more bullies like Gary and Keith. What got me distracted from the bullies for a while is my new friends. I met some Yemeni friends and their parents would come and visit my mother and father. That’s how I got to meet Waqas, Saleem and Sudqi. There were other Yemeni youths I made friends with but they really didn’t play a major part in my life than these three. When I met these three Yemeni guys, I wasn’t seen much especially in the house and my father didn’t complain about it either nor my mother.

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Have you read Cats Eye (Margaret Atwood)?

To add to the list...

actually, I wonder how the orignial poster got on with choosing and reading a book? The alchemist came travelling with me and gave me advice when I needed it - it`s more like a portable monk than a book because it tells you something different each time lol

Along the lines of Les Miserables (which, apart from the difficult part fits the criteria), I would recommend:

The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, if you haven`t already read it. It`s about a white boy growing up in South Africa, learning through the black people who nurture him, other various amazing and rotten people that enter his life , what it feels to live among racism. It traces his growth from childhood as he lives through tragedy, challenge, anger, friendship and wins respect. The book wrenched up a myriad of emotions like no other, and you find yourself experiencing, not reading.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon. It's a "murder mystery" written from the perspective of a 15 year old autistic boy. Kind of like Hemmingway meets Holden Caulfield in terms of how it's written. It's not necessarily as "deep" or "life-changing" as some of the books suggested here, but it is about over-coming challenges in life, regardless of what people say you can and can't do. I was inspired.

I also heard it's being made into a movie!

Many lives many masters

Kuhl

"The Kite Runner"

1) Inspiring:

- a book about a boy who puts a friendship before all else and makes a great sacrifice it

- a book about his friend who goes to great lengths to repay that sacrifice many years later

- a book about fathers and sons

2) Fascinating read about Afghanistan and it's culture before war ripped it apart

 

In technical terms: unputdownable!

 

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that is one of my favorite books of ALL time!!!

As others have posted, the 5 people you meet in heaven is amazing.

His new book, For One More Day, was so great too. I read it in a couple of hours. Not only are his books easy to read, they make you feel good. Very touching.

I just read a great book -- it's really different. Often when scientists try to write, they come off a little too earnest -- a style I believe is called "populist." It's easy for them to slip into being hokey, but this guy makes it all palatable. He can't actually write, but no one's told him that, and he is a great conversationalist. The book is called We Are Not Afraid, by Homer Hickam. It's not a great book because he's a great writer; it's a great book because he led a great life.

Way of the Peaceful Warrior - Dan Millman --- very inspiring for me

hi ho,

just wanted to say that following some recommendations fromt this forum i read the five people you meet in heaven. im giving it 6.5 out of 10.

my review: if you are unsure about the afterlife, or the meaning of life, then it`s a pretty great read adn will provide you with another way of seeing how life works. if you`re already pretty happy about those things then the book is very average.

sorry if you love the book...just adding an honest opinion

Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb

Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body by Armand Leroi

Well written, packed with easy to understand science, and with just the right amount of side-show voyeurism.

heyho.

The Diving Bell and The Butterfly recommended here. Wow. That`s a one-of-a-kind book. 5 for content, but an overall 8.5 just because, when are you ever going to hear from someone who`s basically totally paralysed who can tell you their thoughts? He sounds like a courageous man.

Along a similar vein is `My Life` by Marc Chagall. You get to see into the odd and romantic mind of a personable artist. Nice short read.

THE WINNER STANDS ALONE is a masterpiece: it talks about values lost and never found again. It looks like a thriller, but it is not - the characters are trapped and manipulated by the people Coelho calls "The Superclass". Once more Coelho made it. And I also believe Coelho is one of the few writers that are always exploring unknown seas, instead of repeating the same plot over and over again. Kudos to him.

I'm reading a book right now called: "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" Its by Mitch Albom. The book is about a person who thought they led an insignificant, and ordinary life on earth, and then he meets five people in heaven who show him that he did indeed lead a significant life...etc. So far, I like it, It is definitely thought provoking.

I liked this one as well. Also "A Separate Peace " by John Knowles.

anything by Paulo Coelho

oh and also The Last Lecture

The Shack, by William Paul Young. I know it's a book about God, but it is truly an amazing discussion on love and on the nature of human life. I'm not religious, but I found it to be an incredibly inspiration book that really strikes a chord deeply in my sense of humanity and the way the world should work.

The Magus - John Fowles. Long book but if it's your style, it will keep you in. Everyone agrees first read is hypnotising. It actually changed my life, it inspired me to turn 180degree some of my decisions. Basically I was sad to see how it ended, and it inspired me to turn things on their head and go against the grain, against myself at times, to see how it is 'on the other side'.