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soberdrunk


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I'm thinking about picking up a good book to read and I'm open to suggestions. I was kind of looking for something that is inspirational that you people in here have read that has some how impacted your recovery. Something to enjoy. I would appreciate any suggestions and comments. Thanks and have a great weekend!

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The Lord of the Rings.

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I've always enjoyed the writings of CS Lewis--read them as a young person, and every few years re=read them. I believe that the Chronicals of Narnia are out on video now, but movies rarely are as good as the books themselves. Have a good weekend, snuggling down with something good to read. I enjoy alot of spiritual  fiction, but find them hard to get in this area. Perhaps something by Marion Zimmer Bradley ( Mists of Avalon). She has scores of sci fi books that touch some of my inner spaces.... Wren

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

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All good choices!  Inspirational - I got a lot out of The Confessions of St Augustine.  I am very encouraged by some books on healing, as I Believe in Miracles, by Kathryn Kuhlman, The Healing Light by Agnes Sanford,  Miracles Do Happen by Briege McKenna. I know not everyone is interested in such books, but I am listing them as options.


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Good Morning Justin,

"The Road Less Traveled", by Scott Peck, M.D. was the book that I read and re-read so many times in my 1st, and 2nd year. He has a Chapter on Dicipline, and a Chapter on Grace, that I still find in so very Complimentary to all of the A.A. material.

It is a very inspirational Book, all about personal transformation, he goes into his private sessions with individuals that come in for help to him, as a phyciatrist, and speaks of them and their own personal transformations, of course anonymously, shedding all previous "learned" beliefs, and discovering a deep personal relationship with a Higher Power, that he chose to speak of as God.

All of his Books, followed the theories, of Dr. Carl Yung, the Doctor in the Alcoholics Anonymous BB.

I had purchase this book years before my own Recovery began, and always felt it was possibly the one book, that opened my eyes and heart to believing that I too might have a chance at my own personal transformation, and it sat on my shelve next to the Alcoholic Anonymous B.B., and in the depths of my own illness, Disease,
and both of these books, turned on that oh so little at the time, a light inside me, in all of that darkness.

I lived for most of my life in Marin County, California, the home base of so many Self-Help authors, and Healing Centers and 12 step Programs were so popular at that time, if you were not in a 12 Step Program, you were not considered a real Marin Resident. haha.

Hope you have a really great week-end.

Toni



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deprends if its a self help, or non fiction or what.


win friends and influence people and Harry potter.



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I have a good book by Ben Orr I can post to you, which I have read and finished with..



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well Stephen King is always a winner in general...if you're a reader. as far as non-recovery.

as far as inspirational OG Mandino has a set of books that follow a story about inner personal changes that puts a spin on life .... new way of looking at things....pretty light reading.....and have been read by lots of people in the rooms...all up and down the eastern coast of the US anyway.

have a good one....

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Thanks for all the ideas everybody. I think I have a little research to do now. LOL! I would appreciate that post Robert. And jersey, I am a huge Stephen King fan, read a majority of his stuff. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend and happy Mother's day to all of you moms in here!

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'Covenant with death' by John Harris is a fantastic book. It's an almost true account of the big battle of World War 1. (1st July 1916) Really glad I wasn't there, greatful for the people who were!


 


May be hard to get hold of now, out of print for years. If you want to read it, and can't get one, email me.


Best wishes


 


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battelfield of the mind by joyce meyers is good I just started reading that

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I think for inspiring one to live correctly and beautifully, nothing can surpass Plato's Republic. It changed my life, how I look at myself and the world. It is hard to put into words how brilliant a text this is. The call to a virtuous and noble life is so well elucidated, so intelligently discussed in the dialogues, and the patterns of human folly and error so poigniantly addressed. Though it is over 2000 years old, it is a truly timeless classic and one of the high points of human expression, and I think everyone should read it more than once.

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Thanks everyone. I couldn't get to a book store so I pick up The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown. Looks like a winner. They just made a movie out of it.

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It would be interesting to read Brown's 'DaVinci Code' and then a book about the fallacies that it contains.


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Oh, Good Justin! I just loved that book. I know that much of it was fiction--the page that is headed "FACT", I believe, is written after the title page, making it part of the novel itself. It certainly did cause an upheavel in the church! And they've made numerous specials on television about it. It is a great great read, and opens up some very interesting speculations. Holy Blood, Holy Grail is another book that follows the main theme of Brown's book, but is more of a study of the theory, along with some history and facts derived by scrolls found later, things taken from the Nag Hammadi, and maybe from Pistis Sophia (another one that I enjoyed, but so very hard to read). A passage that I may have saved from the Pistis is called Perfect Thunder, and it makes goosebumps rise when I read it. Dan Brown's book tho, really captivated alot of people, and I love books that can stretch our imagination to view other possibilities. There's good action! Enjoy! Wren

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I also enjoy reading some of the Jewish classics, and things that are by Orthodox Jews about the mystical meanings of traditions, and explanations of them...  the Passover, and Maimonides...  stories of the Hasidim.


well,,,  I guess all this is enough to keep you busy for awhile.


                                                           



                                                      


 


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I recommend :

Off the Rails in Phnom Penh: Into the Dark Heart of Guns, Girls, and Ganja ; by Amit Gilboa

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