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10-03-2003, 05:42 AM
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anyone read this book? It's awesome! I just finished it yesterday and man was that inspiring!
It's a story about a little shepherd boy that finds and pursues his Personal Legend on his way from Andalucia(Spain) to the great pyramids of Egypt.
Anyone looking for inspiration and the importance of keeping your focus on your goals, should get this book!
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
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10-03-2003, 09:30 AM
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sounds like an interesting book, I will keep that book in mind when im done with the one Im reading right now.
this is also a good book TP.
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10-03-2003, 10:42 AM
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on that note, llemus - of course there's always the classic "richest man in babylon"
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10-03-2003, 10:51 AM
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TP...Paulo Coelho wrote other books than the Alchimist...The Pilgrimage and Manuel of The Warrior of Light are great...You should read them if you liked the Alchimist!
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10-03-2003, 11:04 AM
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okay, i didn't want to say anything dissenting - but, i read the alchemist, well, enough to know i didn't like it - for me it was a little too similar to "tuesdays with morrie" - kind of self-helpish // of course we are all entitled to our opinions though, but i got enough of an idea on what that book was about to know that "siddartha" by herman hesse is a much more spiritual (and for me truly inspiring) version of that same story. maybe i'm crazy.
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10-03-2003, 09:14 PM
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anybody else read castile soap bottles while taking a poop?
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10-03-2003, 09:35 PM
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Well, I don't think that it was a spiritual book as much as it was a "focus on your goal" kinda book.
Easy reading for sure.
"The richest man in babylon," is one of my all time favorites! As are, "The greatest saleman in the world," by og mandino, and "the 7 habits of highly effective people" by stephen covey.
llemus, I'll look for that. I'm also reading "multiple streams of internet income" by Robet allen. It's helped me a lot. I read and did his "nothing down" course about 10 yrs ago. Anyone looking for creative solutions that can be applied to any aspect of life (not just real estate), "nothing down" will help you with that.
Tui, I just pop open the adult entertainment section, of the yellow pages, while on the shitter
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10-03-2003, 09:39 PM
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POP IT OPEN! what ya got it bookmarked? fukin hilarious :D
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10-06-2003, 08:01 AM
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yes, tp - for sure - siddartha was very easy reading.
and, tui - it's so rad for you to mention dr. bronner's labels!! those things are a trip! i've always thought that maybe dr. bronner had some weird cult up there in escondido - shit, it's damn near where those heavens gate (was that their name, the cortez wearer's) people did their thing. anyway, good call - and great travel item - toothpaste, soap, faec wash, shampoo...
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10-09-2003, 02:10 AM
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never had dr Bronners stuff, but I'm familiar with the heaven gate nike wearers scared o' dat !
Tui-ha! The good ol days when the bra section of a JCPenney's/Sears store catalogues were porn to me
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10-09-2003, 04:06 AM
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Moc,
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Paulo Coelho wrote other books than the Alchimist...The Pilgrimage and Manuel of The Warrior of Light are great...You should read them if you liked the Alchimist!
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I'll jump on those! Thanks for the recommendations
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11-13-2003, 01:16 AM
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Oooo Books books! Well not a self-help book or a toilet book but I gotta say it anyways. "A Clockwork Orange". Nothin funnier or more twisted than that sucker...and better than the movie, like all books are, unfortunatly. HEY thats right! thats where my signature's from. Well whaddya know!?
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11-13-2003, 01:19 AM
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I was strongly considering renting clockwork orange the other night but I knew I would be watching it sober and that just wouldnt work :P
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11-13-2003, 01:55 AM
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Ha! Nah it's a cult movie, watching it sober will turn you off it and make you scared. Best peet away at that vodka (or rum or brandy or shwishky, ya shwishky) and it'll all be so much...hmmm...better.
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11-13-2003, 06:46 AM
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To get me in the proper spirit, I always like to bring along a historical fiction novel set in the place I'm on my way to visit. Some recommendations:
Going to Rome: "First Man in Rome" series by Colleen McCullough
Greece: Any of the historical fictions by Mary Renault..."Last of the Wine," "Funeral Games," etc.
Going to Cornwall or Britain: "Firelord" by Parke Godwin.
Scotland: Any by Nigel Tranter
Ireland: any by Morgan Llewyllyn
Turkey: "Creation" by Gore Vidal, or "Belt of Gold" by Cecilia Holland
Middle East: "The Haj" by Leon Uris
Israel: "Exodus" by Leon Uris
..and so on...
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