What is one book that you feel has significantly changed the way you think about the world and why? [Serious]

Source.

Bible

@sweetnspice: You should read The Shack by William P. Young......good insight into the relationships between the Trinity and us....and an entertaining read as well.

I'll check it out!

Besides the bible (that is a given to me), it wld have to be Louis L'Amour's "The Gods must be lonely".

Its a shame that when it came to the possibility of making it into a movie the author got into all the money and fame of it and forgot the true meaning of the story.

This is a relatively new article....1/31/2014 so idk

"" Forest Whitaker is to direct, write and star
in an adaptation of William P Young's
bestselling novel The Shack, about a father
trying to come to terms with the death of
his daughter who was abducted and killed.
Whitaker has previously directed Waiting
To Exhale and Hope Floats, but this will be
his first time he will also write and star in
his own film. While Whitaker has acted in
a wide variety of roles, from spiritual
hitmen to Idi Amin, his films have both
been traditional dramas laced with
sentimentality and romance.
The Shack will be a high-profile project for
Whitaker, given the success of the book,
which has sold millions of copies since its
publication in 2007. It was self-published
by former hotel night clerk Young, who
eventually got a deal with a division of
major publisher Hachette, and its
popularity is partly down to its explicitly
Christian subject matter. The protagonist
receives a mysterious note telling him to
return to the shack where his daughter
was taken to, where he experiences a vivid
vision of the Holy Trinity who help him
understand his grief.""
Link.

@WalkSoftly: Sweet. This movie needs to be made. When Young denied the whole christianity part of the book it kinda destroyed the message as a whole. I recommend the book on "playaway." It's the mp3 in it's self contained player.

Thats quite a stretch....link? Its a book. And far be it for a bunch of dyed in the wool, fundemental Christians to expect a novel to word for word with the Bible .....a book thats been interpretated MANY different ways. Sour grapes gonna sour....js. I, on the other hand, am intelligent enough to take the good from the book, and run with it....despite (as Jessie Duplantis wld say) what a bunch of theological, philosophical, denominational folks wld say lol


Its a good book.