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Wink

Monday, July 07, 2003 - 12:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
When Bad Things Happen To Good People and When All You Ever Wanted Isn't Enough by Rabbi Harold Kushner.

Texannie

Monday, July 07, 2003 - 12:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wink, I have heard good things about those books..what was it that struck you the most?

Sia

Monday, July 07, 2003 - 01:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
{{{Gidget}}} Best wishes to you.

Karuuna

Monday, July 07, 2003 - 01:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Jonathon Livingston Seagull. I read it when I was a geeky young teen, who didn't fit and didn't think the same way most folks my age thought. I always thought there was something wrong with me. JLS not only thought like me, but gave validity to those thoughts and being different, not part of the crowd. It was an emotionally life saving book for me!

Gidget

Monday, July 07, 2003 - 01:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thank you Texannie and Sia!!! long time no see. I'm really nervous about now. I haven't been on a "date" in a long time and I feel like this is the "first" time. Really weird. I have a little more than an hour and I barely think I can survive!

Hermione69

Monday, July 07, 2003 - 01:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
You can do it, Gidget! Positive thoughts!

Reiki

Monday, July 07, 2003 - 02:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
A movie that change my view of politics and journalism was "All the President's Men". I became politically aware during the Watergate years and seeing this movie can still make me angry about the lengths our elected officials have gone to cover-up wrong doings. It also made me aware of the importance of investigative journalism and the value of a free press.

Hippyt

Monday, July 07, 2003 - 02:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh, 'A Fine Balance' really,really shook me up. An excellent book,taught me a lot.
Lori,I stumbled around for a week thinking about 'American History X.' That movie was just almost too hard to wrap my brain around. I remember when it was over I sat on the couch for about a half hour,just crying.

Twiggyish

Monday, July 07, 2003 - 06:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The Diary of Anne Frank. I was a preteen when I read this book. Anne's story touched my life completely. The ending shocked me and made a major impact on my life.

At that age, I related to her feelings regarding the other people in the house. I could well understand her frustrations and feelings. Thus, when I reached the end and learned of her fate it shocked me.

I'm still horrified by the magnitude of the book. I've picked it up and reread it many times, and I never fail to cry at the end.

Gidget

Monday, July 07, 2003 - 06:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hi Hermione, thanks for the encouragement.

We talked. Probably for the first time in too many years. We belong together. I have no doubts and I don't think he does either. The devil is in the details but I think we made a good start tonight.

Azriel

Monday, July 07, 2003 - 07:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Like Hippyt, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee had an impact on me. I read it when I was about 12 years old. The book is set in the Depression era, but the story did not seem so far removed from the reality of racism in the Deep South where I grew up in the 60's and 70's.

I was also affected by Scout's encounters with Boo Radley. It made me very aware, as I grew up, of people that were picked on because they were handicapped or just different.

Wink

Monday, July 07, 2003 - 08:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Texannie I read them both at times when I thought I was literally at the end of my rope and was surprised to find that I had a lot more inner fortitude than I ever gave myself credit for. Both those books opened my eyes to some basic truths about living and cherishing each day that seem to get totally obscured when there's nothing but mountains to climb.

Texannie

Monday, July 07, 2003 - 09:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks, Wink..I have skimmed that at earlier time, but I just may have to re-read them.

Melfie1222

Monday, July 07, 2003 - 09:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm with some of the books already mentioned...

The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran... simple, perfect, beautiful

The Diary of Anne Frank

For myself, I would add Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

I'm also with Curiouscat on the movie The Joy Luck Club... I read the book, but the movie got to me more. I didn't think I had much of a complicated relationship with my mom, until I saw this movie.

Bigd

Tuesday, July 08, 2003 - 09:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
One book that had a tremendous affect on me and brought about a wonderful change in my attitude is Forgiveness by Charles Stanley.

As an adult I had forgotten about reading just for pleasure and I picked up Robert B. Parker's book Pale Kings and Princes and I was reminded what a great escape reading a book can be.

Not1worry

Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 07:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well....I sort of joined the army from watching too much M*A*S*H*. My mom and dad loved that show and watched it faithfully. Imagine my surprise to learn that I didn't get to hang around in a bathrobe and play practical jokes.

Books- Jan Karon's "In This Mountain" deeply affected my life. Another called "Because I Said Forever" about marriages was a big one too.

Sweetbabygirl

Wednesday, July 16, 2003 - 08:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
An Officer And A Gentleman - This beautiful film taught me about loving someone and letting them love me. The scene where Richard Gere and Debra Winger make love, then share their vulnerabilities and insecurities with each other always bring me to tears, it is so touching and romantic.

Can't say that a book changed my life, but one that has moved me deeply is Yes, I Can, by Sammy Davis, Jr. It should be mandatory for today's young black entertainers to read this wonderful biography of "Mr. Entertainment", so that they can understand that what they take for granted was made easier for them by people like Sammy, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, the list goes on and on.

Danzdol

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 09:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
How about PAY IT FORWARD.

I thought it was very clever and it made you think twice about the way we are all so involved in our own personal problems that sometimes we don't realize that a nice gesture can make someones day, etc.....

Calgaryperson

Friday, August 08, 2003 - 05:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
'LIVE FROM NEW YORK'. A lot of interesting stuff has happened in the history of Saturday Night Live.

Nonconformist

Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 11:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Dear God It's Me Margaret--Read it in the sixth grade, really helped me get through that awkward growing boobs and starting your period time.

The Road Less Traveled and Men Are From Mars and Women Are From Venus both helped save my marriage.

Shakespeare In Love--It had an impact on me because of issues that I was going through in my life.

Jan

Monday, August 25, 2003 - 08:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Abra by Joan Barfoot

Weinermr

Monday, August 25, 2003 - 08:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Big Brother

Because it eventually brought me here.