24 books that change lives (part 1)

Books can possess incredible power. They swallow us, drag us into adventures and influence the way we think. Books can be teachers who teach us many things, as motivators to step forward, bring us new perspectives and shape people. The greatest strength that books bring is the ability to change our lives forever . I asked my colleagues at Business Insider about a book that greatly influenced them and below is a list of answers.

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1. "The Road" - Cormac McCarthy (Path)

"This book gives me the most honest feeling about my death. I often feel very grateful for it but not all the time. It also makes me appreciate my time as a father" - Nicholas Carlon, editor-in-chief of Insider.

Book summary of Amazon : A father and his son roam the United States after a fire battle. There is nothing moving in the deserted landscape with the dust fly in the wind. It was cold to cut the skin and turn gray when it fell. The sky is pitch black. Their destination is the coast, although they themselves don't know anything, if there is indeed one thing, waiting for them there. They had nothing but a pistol to protect themselves from the wild animals in the forest, the clothes they were wearing, the food collected on the way and their companion.

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"The Road" is a moving story about a journey. The book makes the reader imagine a future without any hope but there, his father and son, "each is the world with the other", were able to overcome thanks to love. The "The Road" is wonderful because of the wide-ranging vision that it brings, to ponder frankly about all the best and worst things we can have: destruction to the extreme, steadfastness while has lost all hope and kindness. It all helped two people survive when faced with a complete disaster and destruction.

2. "The Tao of Pooh" - Benjamin Hoff (Pooh's religion)

"I read this book when I was in college and it really changed the way I saw the world. It was a funny book about Taoism - a branch of Eastern philosophy - and broadening the horizon. For everyone (like me) to always try too hard, not knowing that they will live better when they know how to relax and follow nature, I always remind myself that nothing is really good or bad, It's just an interesting thing in a day that we should be grateful for, "- Jenna Goudreau, associate editor.

"This book gives me the idea that simplicity is not an enemy of feeling of satisfaction, but it is the core. The presence of lovely and familiar characters also helps the idea to stay forever. my head "- Christina Sterbez, weekend editor.

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Amazon book summary : How is Pooh? Whose religion? Pooh's religion? The book reveals that one of the greatest Taoist figures in the world is not Chinese - or any respectable philosopher - but Pooh who is always calm and thoughtful - the Winne character -the-Pooh (aka Pooh bear) by author AA Milne. While the comment Eeyore always worries, Piglet is always hesitant, Rabbit bunny is always calculating, the Owl owl always looks wise, Pooh is just like that. And that is the clue to the Taoist secret wisdom. "

3. "Anna Karenina" - Leo Tolstoy

"This is a rare fictional literary work that can make me change the way I see the world. It makes me want to be more moral, a better person" - Paul, entertainment editor .

Amazon's book summary : Supposedly one of the greatest novels ever written, Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" is a classic love fairy tale and an affair with a social setting. saved in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

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"A masterpiece that brings a lot of value, this novel tells the story of Anna's unfortunate love story - an incredibly beautiful woman married to Crount Vonsky - a wealthy soldier in the army. At the same time, Tolstoy also cleverly weaves the lives of many other characters, bringing a vivid world to the context of the late 19th century Russian society. Matthew Arnold remarked in his memorial article Tolstor: " We don't see "Anna Karenina" as an art piece but consider it a piece of life. "

4. "Where the Sidewalk Ends" - Shel Silverstein (End of the sidewalk)

"This is one of my most favorite books. I like it when I was a child and still find it when I turn on every page when I am an adult. Silverstein really knows how to pull rolling children and making them interested in reading (and also reading poetry) - that's not a small achievement at all "- Ellen Hoffman, commercial editor.

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Amazon's book summary : This collection of really fun and really great classic poems is the most beloved work of Shel Silverstein through every generation.

At the end of the sidewalk, the world of Shel Silverstein began. There, you will encounter a boy who turns into a television screen and a girl eating a shark. There are beasts 1 horn Unicorn and wild boar Bloath, also Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout - who never dump garbage. That's where you will wipe your own shadow and plant a diamond garden, where flying shoes, auctioned sisters and crocodiles must also go to the dentist.

5. "Love Is a Mix Tape" - Rob Sheffield (Love is a cassette tape)

As a genuine teen musician, "Love Is a Mix Tape" tells you that there is no problem with listening to recordings and knowing more about music than what ordinary people can know. This is also a story about love, sharing love and music with others. I borrowed it so many times (friends) that I could find it in the Barnes & Noble library without opening my eyes "- Brandt Ranj, technology reporter.

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Amazon book summary : Cassettes - just sit in one place and you'll be taken to another time in your life. With Rob Sheffield - of "Turn Around Bright Eyes", time is one of unbelievable love and pain. A period of 7 years, starting when a boy met his dream girl and ended when he saw her die in his arms.

Using his list of the 15 most favorite cassettes, Rob shows us the power of music with the ability to bridge people to people and possess power greater than death. You will read these words, and perhaps surprisingly, with a feeling of excitement in your heart and a song that pops up in your mind - the song suddenly comes to your mind when you think about the love of life.

6. "Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" - Douglas R. Hofstadter

"This is a great book about math, art, physics, computers and the nature of intelligence. It is difficult to summarize content in a few lines but reading this book at high school has created exerted tremendous influence on my decision to study mathematics at university afterwards "- Andy Kiersz, a math journalist.

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Amazon book summary : Everything is an icon and symbols can be combined to form patterns. The samples are very beautiful and reveal bigger facts. That's the central idea in the thoughts of Kurt Godel, MC Escher and Johann Sebastian Bach, there are three greatest minds in a quarter of a century ago. In his humanistic work, Hofstadter combines the works of Godel mathematician, graphic artist Escher and Bach composer.

Godel, Escher, Bach is the Pulitzer Prize-winning precious work on geniuses, explores the work of the genius of these geniuses with the help of historical examples and brain training puzzles. This is not a book for people who are vague or lazy, it will show more clearly than any other book, the idea of ​​recognizing symbols and patterns while others only see the universe. Touching math, computers, literature, music, artificial intelligence, Godel, Escher, Bach is a potential life challenge work.

7. "The Woodlanders" - Thomas Hardy (Forest resident)

"Hardy is not famous for novels like" Tess of the d'Ubervilles "and" Far From the Madding Crowd "but" The Woodlanders "is the first book that I really love. Hardy's technical edge absolutely didn't surprise me, but the very power of the last few pages remained in me years later, this is the most beautiful and doubtless Victorian novel. It is also underestimated by its value. Like other great works, you will think of "The Woodlanders" long after you've read the book. It will haunt you. "- Adam Payne , Digital Fellow at Business Insider UK.

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Amazon Summary: When the rural girl Grace Melbury returned home from a middle-class school, she felt she was in a higher position than her fiancée, also a man living in the forest. normal name is Giles Winterborne. Although the marriage between two people was agreed in advance, Grace found herself attracted by Dr. Edred Fitzpiers, a sensitive person who moved to their area - this is a relationship that ambitious father had. Her high social position is highly recommended. The novel about Hardy's betrayal, disappointment and moral agreements paints an isolated community and harmful external influences. Through the portrait of Giles Winterborne, Hardy points out a man who reacts deeply to the effects of the natural world and thinks that they eventually betray him.

8. "Tuesdays With Morrie" - Mitch Albom (The third day with Mr. Morrie)

"I read this book in my senior year and my senior year. This is the perfect book to choose when you want to start a new chapter for your life. It brings a new worldview and is written with A lot of love, really fresh. It helped me prepare to receive new challenges and beginnings. " - Lauren Browning, co-editor of special projects.

Amazon book summary : Perhaps it is grandparents, teachers or a colleague, someone older, patient and wise, someone who can understand you when you are young and looking for something what. This person can help you see the world as a deeper place, giving you useful advice to walk through that world. With Mitch Albom, that person is Morrie Schwartz - a professor at his university nearly 20 years ago.

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Perhaps, like Mitch, you are losing your mentor on the road of life, the meaning of life is fading away and the world seems to become colder. Would you like to see that mentor again, ask him big questions that still haunt him, get wise advice for today's busy life as you did when you were young?

Mitch Albom had a second chance. He met Morrie again in the last months of his life. Knowing that he was dying, Morrie decided to meet Mitch every Tuesday, as they were in college. This relationship seems to turn into a final class with a lesson about how to live. "Tuesdays with Morrie" is a wonderful chronicle about their time together, so Mitch shared Morrie 's last gifts to the world.

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Author: Jacquelyn Smith