2009 Omlet cube and run for sale

[Ziggy]

I like this thread...

 

One book that made me think was 'My Sister's Keeper'... I read it quite by chance, not sure how I came across it, and for those who don't know it, it's about parents whose eldest child has leukemia, and they have another baby in order to use her for donations of blood, bone marrow and what not, to help keep their eldest child alive.

I heard other people talk about the book and it seems this concept of having a baby with a purpose is quite outrageous, and it was my first thought too... then I got thinking, I have four daughters... if one of them (god or anything else that is sacred in the universe forbid) got a disease, which could be helped by a new baby growing to give blood or blood marrow, would that not make sense? Instead of seeing this as 'making a child for a purpose', I thought of it as 'getting one more wonderful child to love, and at the same time giving a previous child a lifeline', and it made it a completely different thing... made me think I shouldn't really ever judge things, as often it's not as clear cut as it first appears...

[snowberry]

All of Jodi Piclout's books are thought provoking!

[Plum]

The book that has made the most difference to my life and really made me consider things differently was when I first saw the Omlet Brochure. Rest is history.

[counturchickens]

I agree with lots of these, but for me We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel shriver. So thought provoking, nature vs nurture. I don't have children so I guess sympathised with the mother a lot, but changed my mind about a lot of things and had completely reversed my view by the end.

Am sticking to hens and the cat though, just in case!

[Egluntyne]

The book that has made the most difference to my life and really made me consider things differently was when I first saw the Omlet Brochure. Rest is history.

 

Brilliant, Plum, and the same goes for me I guess.

[Willow]

Lots of good books here and several of those already mentioned have changed my views for just the reasons mentioned. One book not already mentioned that impacted me was Nelson Mandela's autobiography 'Long Walk to Freedom'. When I was at university the students union would get fired up about various causes but were rather superficial in their followup and one thing they did (this as back when Nelson Mandela was in prison obviously) was vote Mandela to an honorary position at the university. At the time I felt this was rather silly that a gesture like that by a university in England was somewhat irrelevant to the struggle in South Africa as well as being too remote and meaningless. In the Long Walk to Freedom there is a point where he talks about these gestures by students at universities and how much that meant to him That brought it home to me that we may not feel as individuals we can make a difference to the world but that it's always worth trying as sometimes just sometimes our actions will make a difference.

[WarrensWorld]

I read The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist by Robert Tressell as a teenager.

 

It opened my eyes wide to the working world I was about to enter . Wonderfully powerful book.

What a brilliant book indeed. My 1962 edition fell apart now I have a 2002 edition thanks to Eileen.

 

"Being the story of twelve months in Hell, told by one of the damned and written down by Robert Tressell."

 

'Future Shock' by Alvin Toffler, made a deep impression on me, and it's all coming true.

 

'Knights of Bushido' and 'Scourge of the Swastika' both by Lord Russell of Liverpool. Well reading them made me so sick, and very angry that I can't take them down off the bookshelf anymore. I've no idea why I keep them at all I get upset just thinking about them..... The thought that people actually did those things to other people.