From books you've read and movies you've watched are there such which left significant impact on you; any that perhaps helped you in hard times by replaying directly to your needs or those which appeared in order to turn your points of view upside down the moment when you believed that nothing could surprise you...
Are there such titles which you would like to share with others, want them to learn about...
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The Life of Pi is an excellent novel.

Diet Plot: (NO SPOILERS HERE)

A boy named Piscine Patel, born and raised in India, has to immigrate to Canada because the Zoo his father owns was sold so he could escape the revolution of India. On the cargo boat bringing the animals he could not sell, Pi sleeps... awakens... and finds himself overboard next to the sinking ship. He's now stuck with a Hyena, an Arang-utan, a Zebra, and a 450lb Bengal Tiger in a lifeboat fit for approx 32 people. When the other three animals are dispatched of, Pi and the tiger are all that's left. Will Pi survive until help comes? Will the tiger make mince meat of him? What will come of this incredulously ludicrous predicament?!

Why did I recommend it? It touches on animal rights and nature. It definitely touches on some of the harsher as well as not so harsh aspects of what humans and animals are...

The author is Yann Martel, available at Borders or a local bookstore for $15 American.

So called books of wisdom have always been a testimony that knowledge is in a constant living circle; open to let in everyone willing to dig into the matter of the sense of life.
That is what I always believed in.
And nothing has changed in this respect eventually, regardless of intensive, drastic lessons being in power to convince me to think otherwise.
Nothing makes one appreciate something more than awareness of futile efforts to grasp something they're loosing.
By the same way however, it teaches one to give a chance to works of another.
Without any confirmation of the rightness of one's hopes there is only madness or death awaiting a human.
Sometimes dust on the shelves happen to attract more attention than it usually does, in no other moment than the one it was meant for without knowledge - even - of the owner...


The theme can be a tricky one. The matter is already enough worn out to let it slide out of the sight and place eyes on some more attractively sounding positions. I alone, was on the best track to omit it and give a wide berth to it. And this is the first time I have a contact with this author, knowing nothing about his perception of life. The more so going deeper into precise subject, especially of this kind carries a risk in putting the book back with annoyance of another idiotic trial of taking up difficult matter with the result of assuring everybody around of what is already commonly noticeable and mindlessly repeated. Despite the high possibility that my acquired tendention could have deprived me of discovering other just as much intriguing points of view, so far it successfully managed to retrieve when it was somewhow needed.

Actually, the content is about common dilemma between perspectives in which life should be dealt with in order to serve its role. What can truly make one feel freedom as well as any other aspects which have reasons for giving them multiplying meanings.
You will know whence the reason for this title throughout reading.
In search of reasons for human tendention to create false images of values he reaches the very cores of human's existence. And he presents this incredibly complex ground with such an ease. What's more the author associates himself with a receiver through the book, showing each aspect like a personal possession of every human, helping one to make sense of it.
The reach of his knowledge made huge impression on me.

Still, in spite of clear form language, and neatly formed sentences, it doesn't change the fact that author writes about difficult to understand aspects of human life. I wouldn't like anybody discouraged too soon though but frankly invite to open to what the content of this book has to offer. Each page carries a valuable source of information.
My belief that everything can become clearer if only one defeats obstacles getting them away from understanding, draging back to the regular order of life isn't groundless.
Should it create difficulties then finding a peaceful gap in time which won't be reminding you of being bound to do something else instead and a place where you could feel unrestricted can help thoughts with focus.

As for group of receivers, I don't like the description of "thinkers" instead I would call it people curious of life's mysteries, eager (or at least considering themselves ambitious in this respect) for personal development.
The book inhabits the section of personal growth shelves in bookshops for a reason.

I found two interesting quotes of his, apart from additional information that he was a psychoanalyst, does not come from this book, yet gives some presentation of his creations.

"To have faith means to dare, to think the unthinkable, yet to act within the limits of the realistically possible..."

"I believe that man is the product of natural evolution; that he is part of nature and yet transcends it, being endowed with reason and self-awareness."

So far it seems that more attention is paid to his "Escape from Freedom", something I think is equally if not more worth interest as well, which I haven't read yet but hopefully won't find obstalces to do it in the nearest future.

Books of Paulo Coelho